I always enjoyed featuring projects that are well-thought-out and completely out of the ordinary. Judging by the title, you can tell right away it's cool, thankful to share the work of Ilya Lyakh who is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Moscow, Russian Federation.

I have been digging into some 'branding' projects during the summer. It's such a change in the pace rather than focusing on crafting core experiences. It definitely brings your creativity through fulfilling the client's needs. While surfing for inspiration, I stumbled upon this cool branding project by Tugg Studio.

Hussam Eissa shared a motion design project featuring a retro look mixed with clever use of 3D. If I’m Honest is a music video made for DJ Gem that takes the viewer through a magical summer journey.

As a fan of sci-fi and the space subject it is always awesome to see other designers sharing the same love. For this post I would like to feature the work created by Flavio Montiel using Cinema 4D and Photoshop. The project is titled Astro Metal Front and as you can see it's beautiful.

This just in from the talented team behind a new, award-winning mobile app developed to ease the process of design decision making. For all creative people, the color decision process can be as exhausting as it is exhilarating. What colors for my living room? What colors for my branding? What colors for my textiles? 

Thought & Found is a multi-disciplined design practice based in Melbourne, Australia, with a methodology built on the unexpected, the importance of meaningful, intelligent outcomes and the occasional happy accident. Through challenging typical conventions of branding, the practice seeks to generate unique and engaging outcomes for each and every project.

In doing a little research surrounding an upcoming functional fragrance launch I stumbled upon the bold and beautiful work of Andressa Meissner, a Brazilian illustrator who is passionate about mixing colors and textures inspired by her own daily life.

Newly established Athens based architecture agency, entrusted faze design studio with their identity design. Faze’s team were assigned to design the logotype, stationary, identity system and online portfolio website. "Morphe" means form in greek. Light, color and perspective is what makes form visible.

Over the past year, roller skating has taken over. Be it physically seeing professionals and amateurs alike in city parks and open spaces or on social media with mesmerizing choreographies and music, skating culture is finally getting the attention it so deserves.

Background screens for the TV show Snowpiercer mostly used as part of the Engine Car systems. Designed by Bruno William in collaboration with Seth Molson, additional UI screens were made by Zeis Lentz.

Ilia Hor shared an UX, UI and illustration project for Answhere, a educational platform for self-learners that collects and stores free resources from the web, so you don't have to blindly search for them. Just select the topic you need and find useful information.

Anastasia Salazar shared a branding and visual identity project for YOGO — a company that makes yoga mats and accessories out of eco-friendly materials in an ethical, transparent process — truly walks the walk when it comes to sustainability.

Rhox _ shared another motion design series of their project WAVES, a concept-driven playlist hub and a visual celebration of all things music. Each artwork is dedicated to a song, an album, or a playlist. Here you will find a selection of the shots published between June and November 2020. 

Ana Andreeva shared a branding and visual identity project created for Celebration Union, an event design studio based in New York. The visual language is built on research into the history of celebration - weddings, events, gatherings, and parties, to find the essence of what makes our special days special. 

AR2 is a construction company that arises from the need to fill a gap in the market, giving the customer a detailed monitoring of each project. The vision is born from years of experience in a stagnant market, where it’s urgent to communicate truth to the client, clarifying all phases and the process behind a construction project.

Derek Elliott created a series of 21 3D animations inspired by user interfaces. They all stick to a theme of white and orange, with simple, machine-inspired animation. The work was done in my newest favorite tool, which I am trying to learn, Blender 3D. 

Illusion CGI Studio created a powerful retouching campaign for Simple Green, a heavy duty BBQ & grill cleaner which is powerful like a beast. I think it deserves a Photoshop tutorial. What do you think?

Never Been Done is an exploration of the adaptable nature of skateboarding created by Sebastian Marek using 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Vray. Sebastian takes the viewer through a surreal journey by experimenting with design and form. As a fan of skateboarding, I had to post about this :)

The third installment of Ditroit Studio collaboration with Malaki concerns the Molasses essences.

Xtian Miller is a designer from Detroit, MI, USA and he is back another typographic poster studies, I really dig his style and his sense of graphics. Having featured his work before on abdz, you just can't help to appreciate his creative senses and his willingness to constantly keep exploring through discovery.