It's that time of the year again, we have been pretty busy with the end of the year coming soon, how are your preparations coming? Are you traveling or simply staying home for the holidays. I can't help to ignore these past few months, with this global pandemic that never ceases to end; has been giving us hardships that we are trying to shift around. Let's stay hopeful and stay safe.

There's something about illustrations and painting altogether, it gives the illustrations another dimension and painting another depth that we have seen and can't stop to enjoy every time.

This week, Pantone announced its 2021 Color of the Year, selected in partnership with Adobe Stock, which includes the hues “Ultimate Gray” and “Illuminating” yellow, expressing how the two different elements come together to represent strength and hope as the world brings 2020 to a close and seeks a fresh beginning in the new yea

I tend to think that craft artists don't have enough spotlight from the industry, those artists definitely need more exposure. That is why I will focus more on craft artists around the world that take their time beside their work to do things they love. Most of them bring their hobbies with so much passion to become their actual work.

Our friends from InVision have released their 2021 Product Design Trends Report that you can download now. It's the perfect time right before the holidays to start diving into their report during the upcoming time off.

Delightful to share about the work of Magdalena Czarnecki, she is a talented graphic designer, art & creative director based in Stockholm, Sweden. We are sharing the collaborative project she worked on for the Kiruna Forever exhibit.

At this moment around the world and during this health crisis, feminism opposition and black matter controversy, when one thing wasn't enough, many things happen together, and hope is on a fine line. Will we ever see this light at the end of the tunnel? As much as I want to say "Yes, very soon!", and the reality of it depends on humanity to be able to unify and look at each other like one.

We love seeing new products coming to life especially when there's a lot of attention on Branding and Visual Identity alongside, of course, the overall high quality of the product itself.

Our good pal Bram Vanhaeren has shared a new Skillshare class and it's about 'How to create a colorful & energetic portraits in Adobe Illustrator'. Bram is an awesome visual artist based in Antwerp, Belgium, I am pretty sure you will recognize his unique style as we have featured his work many times on abdz.

Introducing Spline, a 3D tool for designers and mostly to help us create web experiences. I had the chance to play a little bit before publishing this article and I must admit that it looks promising. Obviously, there are a few things to improve but let’s not forget it’s still the 'preview release'.

Back in October, we have shared the exciting news of the fourth edition of the Unsplash Awards on abdz. For those who didn't know, I was selected as one of the judges and I had the mission to select the final selection for the 'Architecture' category. It was such an honor and it wasn't an easy task at all.

Kati Forner shared a super stylish branding and packaging design for Reach. The whole project is simply beautiful. The color palette, the typography and layout, it’s hard to point at any flaw on the presentation of the work. Truly inspiring.

The amazing people at Bruch Idee & Form love print — so it was quite obvious to summarize the studios work from the past 5 years in something that he can put in their shelves and hand it proudly to their clients and potential ones. This is not a typical portfolio book, it is more a book of elements.

SAWDUST shared an awesome graphic design for a cover and spread typography for Chicago Booth Review about pivoting as a business during a time of crisis. The art director of this beautiful piece is Nicole Dudka. 

Reisinger Studio with Facu Labo and Aimar Molero Music & Sou were briefed to create four ideas to promote Tylko's "Organise effortlessly" mantra.

Polestar 5 is one of the leading companies in the automotive industry in Asia. In partnership with Firstsquad have worked in creating the in-car experience of what would be the future of Polestar 5 and their fully autonomous vehicle. The project provided a mixture of 'service design and also 'pure conceptual vision' of its future.

Ville Oké created the branding and visual identity for Eko Trädvård (Eco Treecare),an arborist in the southern parts of Sweden offering felling and pruning services in accordance with the highest standards of safety.

Petya Harmash and Egor Kostuchénko shared a web design redesign concept of Lufthansa website, the largest German airline which when combined with its subsidiaries, is the and the second largest airline in Europe in terms of passengers carried.

Karan Gujar is an art director based in Mumbai, India. He shared a cool 3D project via his Behance. Inspired by human body shapes, he explored the outlines of 3D, shapes, and lighting to come up with this lovely series titled: 'Contour - Scapes'.

Valery Kasilin is a UI/UX designer based in Moscow, Russian Federation. He shared via his Behance profile, an app design that is a very fitting application for the times we are currently living in. The holidays are coming soon and not everyone has the luxury to spend time with their relatives.