The 'raw concrete' of the Web, unconventional, hard-coded, creative? In a few words, these are some of my keywords I have in mind when mentioning 'Brutalism'. If you go on Dribbble at the moment and you start surfing the first few pages, you will see what the community calls it the overall 'design trends'.
It’s Friday, the week is over. A full weekend ahead. Where to go? What to do? So many options. Not today, not this Friday. This one looks like a Tuesday, which also looks like a Monday and a Wednesday, perhaps a Saturday. Every day feels the same for me, for you if you are a designer like me. Not for nurses and doctors. Our last line of defense, our protectors and guardians.
Aside from web & mobile applications, it's not every day that we stumbled across a case study for 'Television Experience'. More specifically for AppleTV and tvOS, even adding to that medium. Imagine designing experience in another language in combination with English, how about 'Hebrew'?
Figma should be part of your set of tools as designers and even as non-designers. They really changed the game in terms of how we work and how they have built (still going strong) a community surrounding the design tool and how you can contribute as well. They have introduced today two small features but quite impactful to your workflow.
Times are definitely changing, we all live in a pandemic and hopefully soon a post-pandemic reality. Economically things will be difficult initially but eventually things will get better. I know this sounds super grim, but in order to help everyone to promote their work, we will start featuring designers from all over the world in a series we call Designer Spotlight.
It’s hard to not follow trends, I struggle, people I know struggle, you probably struggle. That’s okay. The best way to learn is to try to imitate things we like. I am a believer that nothing is truly brand new but more an interpretation of something. I wonder if that is because I am not not talented enough. I can talk about this for hours but that is not what I want to do for this post.
While we are still 'confined'. Hope you are still staying healthy and safe. As I was going through my social feeds, I stumbled across this very cool retro-themed Webflow template made in Webflow. Titled:' Meet Mac', it's a cloneable and fully customizable template you can get and make any adjustments you can to make it yours.
In this time of sorrow and stress there’s nothing better than a boost of pure 80s graphic design inspiration. A lightning of energy directed straight to our hearts to lift us up. Perhaps even get me out of my lazy state and make me open Photoshop and try to recreate that effect.
Andrew Couldwell wrote a book about design systems called Laying the Foundations. The book is packed full of experience and practical advice for creating, documenting, and maintaining a design system.
Open Sauce Sans™ is a typeface that developed for Creative Sauce's internal type system. It is a compact typeface that is optimized for better viewing small text on screen and print. Open Sauce Sans fonts are under the SIL Open Font License and is going to be actively developed, improved and tested.
Times are definitely changing, we all live in a pandemic and hopefully soon a post-pandemic reality. Economically things will be difficult initially but eventually things will get better. I know this sounds super grim, but in order to help everyone to promote their work, we will start featuring designers from all over the world in a series we call Designer Spotlight.
During these quarantine days, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, RETOKA . took a breath and decided to make a series of posters inspired by the most common words and hashtags related to this problem. They have drawn the lines with barcodes of the words themselves. These codes have been generated following the standard Code-39 ASCII.
Imagine if a seer or a psychic told you that the new decade would start with a massive pandemic and that all the non-essential business would be shut down. What would you think? I would definitely think it’s pure bull crap. The funny thing is that we all those things happening, all but the psychic part. The truth is, everything feels too surreal, too much like a Hollywood movie.
How about some 80s/90s Nostalgia to kick off the long weekend ahead. Whatever you are still in confinement or even lockdown, I thought about sharing some art to live up our spirits during these weird times. As you may have heard us saying that before but inspiration comes through many forms, what's important is how does it affect you to stay sane, creative and more.
I have been living in Switzerland for almost 8 months now, it's definitely a slower pace than what I am used to but I am definitely enjoying it. I just love how close to nature you really are and the momentum of stress is almost non-existent. Following up, I love to discover designers or featuring interesting things on the blog.
Hi! I’m Tobias van Schneider. I’m the co-founder of Semplice, a portfolio tool by designers for designers. We’re teaming up with Abduzeedo to share inspiring design portfolios each month.
Photography for me is a hobby and for some reason I love taking photos of the ocean. I have been trying to capture its beauty for a long time and honestly failure has been a constant theme. There’s something about the context, the environment, the magic of nature that gets lost once that becomes static, digital.
Martin Naumann shared an awesome project for the 36 Days of Type is a project that invites Designers, Illustrators and Graphic Artists to express their particular view on letters and numbers of our alphabet.
Rutger Paulusse has been teasing with his new colorful & vibrant series titled: Material World. I just love the fact that Rutger mentioned that these are from unused R&D experiments that happen all the time. Usually, we do forget about it but I just dig how Rutger embraces them and goes beyond deeper.
Fellow Montrealer Thierry Doizon has been cooking up a series that has definitely caught our eyes. Titled: Hovercraft #X, we are following his conceptual and development experiments of Hovercrafts for the Hëll5pit project.
