Capturing the feeling of a period in time, or a decade is not as easy as you might think. Romain Billaud succeeds where some, including me, have failed. He totally deserves the Designer Spotlight. 

Escuro in Portuguese means dark, blackish or closer to black than white., Escuro is also the name of the new set of Lightroom CC presets created with the intent of turning photos of ocean water in its various states into a minimalistic image. Photography has always been a hobby and a passion for me.

Good design for me is all about simplicity. I know that term can be interpreted in so many different ways. For me at the top of the list is simplicity of the function, most inevitably that will result in the reduction of the form.

The global pandemic has upended our work life by altering how and where we do our jobs.

Over the course of 2019 and 2020, Muse & Co., the one-of-a-kind design firm that is known for turning wild ideas into amazing spaces, reimagined Crunchyroll's San Francisco Headquarters into a fully immersive experience.

We have featured Huston Wilson in the past but there’s always more inspiring work to share. For this post we’d love to feature some typography explorations that Huston has shared over the years. I am a fan of the style, the textures and colors in addition to the flawless compositions. 

Jeffrey Ludlow Saenz and Santiago Calixto from the studio POR, a studio specialized in blending graphic design and architecture, shared a super stylish branding and visual identity project for BELLOSOUND, a sound agency  that elevates exper

Formist Editions has released Kris Sowersby: The Art of Letters, a visual feast of letterforms celebrating one of the world’s leading type designers.

Kirill Kim shared a quite beautiful web design and UI/UX project. There’s not much information about the project created for Decoroom, however the vignettes shared highlight the minimal look, the elegant use of photography and typography with one of my favorite typefaces, Inter.

I stumbled across this series of 'brutalist-inspired' posters of Hong Kong and thought it would be a great fit for a feature on abdz. With the shades of blue, red, white, and lots of textures. We are following illustrations of several iconic and controversial modernist architectural pieces in Hong Kong, built between 1950s and 1980s.

Scepter & Sword Wine Co.

Alphabet Design Agency shared an incredible total branding and visual identity for DPI Daylighting, a leader in commercial daylighting systems. By harnessing daylight through dynamic, environmentally friendly solutions, they provide visually and thermally comfortable architectural experiences.

Kapitaal, a screen print studio based in Utrecht, invited Rutger Paulusse for their New Print exhibition in February 2020. For this event a different artist is invited each month, to create a new screen print.

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.