I haven’t posted any editorial design content in quite a long time, which is quite surprising. I love editorial design, I think it’s a crucial skill to have if you are trying to communicate a powerful message.
Let's take a deep breath of pure inspiration with the work of Meni Chatzipanagiotou, an illustrator and graphic designer from Thessaloniki, Greece. She has just released this beautiful set of lettering illustration hand drawn with pens and acrylic paint. The results are just stunning to look at.
I would like to share the work of Artem Solop who is an art director where's work are quite loving where pop culture is the main characters of his art. Having grown into this culture and it's nice seeing Artem bringing it up with flair, style though vector graphics filled with punk, robots and pure loving madness.
We have published some posts in the past about the perfect match that Augmented Reality (AR) and Typography make, so when we saw the amazing work that Alex Slobzhenino shared we had to post it here.
How good are your paper cut skills? Mine are terrible. I won't do a good job even if I just need to cut a straight line on a marked paper. So I'm always amazed when I see how good artists out there are with paper cutting. It is incredible how simple pieces of paper are transformed into intricate and realistic shapes. It is all about creativity, talent and cutting skills.
Design Systems, a term that is easily misunderstood among many of us or within the industry. Why? Well, it's because we all have our own conclusions about what is a Design System. I don't personally think there are any right or wrong ways of creating a DS (Short of Design System).
BEWARE of a tasty Pizza picture in this article. On the serious side, I do miss making brand identities. The feeling of going to the printer to proof a print job for your client was a lot of fun. Somehow there "this" creative freedom where I am keep searching whenever I work on digital projects.
Shrenik Ganatra and Ninad Kale shared a beautiful editorial design project on their Behance profile. It was commissioned for a design event called Design Fabric Fest.
Product designer Moe Slah have shared with us a concept for Facebook AR. Moe is doing an excellent job at creating these concepts especially in a way to bring ideas and experiments together. Starting off with the branding with an interesting logo concept and cheers on pulling its multiple use cases.
Gustavo Perg shared a beautiful set of illustrations that he has created in 2019 so far. If you scroll down to the end of the page you will be able to agree with me that 2019 has been an incredible year for Gustavo because the quality and style of his illustration work is off the charts.
Continuing my efforts on sharing 'automotive design' projects entirely made of CGI. Here we are with the Lamborghini Aventador by Praveen V S, an artist from Kottarakara, India.
A few weeks ago, or I’d say months, I shared a collection of designs that used a quite common pattern, very rounded corners. I went a bit further and said that those images represented what I called a new design trend for 2019. So why are you coming back with this, you might ask.
I stumbled across the work of Aline Houdé-Diebolt and felt she would be a great feature on ABDZ. I wanted to share her project for Parmigiani Fleurier which is a Swiss brand of watchmakers.
Book are always a great source of inspiration, there’s always something new to learn. I believe we all know that, but there are books that are truly special, and the book I want to share with you today ranks at the top of my list.
Giga Tamarasvili is a designer based in Tbilisi, Georgia and he has been sharing some very inspiring web design projects on his Dribbble profile. They all feature a very simple and highly editorial style. There's a great typography contrast, which helps with the hierarchy of the page as well as an always excellent imagery selection.
Cuneyt Sen shared a really cool project on Behance for an app design presentation as well as brand identity for Bonarego, a tourist guide application with video & audio targeting today's independent travelers. The reason I like this project is of course interface design but also the way it is shows the features.
Pedro Veneziano shared his collaboration in 3D & Motion of the massive global campaign for Spotify Pride. Paying homage to the LGBTQ+ movement, its Pride rainbow flag. It's filled with colours and it has been shared through a series of dimensional visuals, static and motion assets in playlist covers, street posters, billboards and more.
Let's mix things up a little with this feature as we are taking a look at the Art Direction and Set Design for Korean Air campaign: Go Korean. The agency behind this client is Ogilvy Shanghai but we are admiring instead the work of the production team which was L'Éloi Productions.
Watercolor is such a beautiful and intricate technique. I'm always taken away by the subtlety of watercolor pieces. It is like artists have a magic wand and create these beautiful stories with their work.
