Summer days are shortly coming in a few months. It's hard to believe that some of us are reliving the same scenarios from the past year. Seeing those 'social highlights' on how confinement was last year. On the bright side, YAllenRa Shaw is giving us a glimpse of his take on the beauty of summer in the countryside.
Nouran Zedan shared a 3D and motion design project titled Organic Series, a collection of abstract botanicals with some loops that show it’s subtle movement in its natural environment. Each of the Images have subtle lights, showing the translucency of the petals and stems.
Chen Wu shared a colorful collection of simple but awesome animations in an endless loop. They range from smoke, to shadows, all very subtle but quite well executed. Work like this give an even longer life for the GIF format, one of the few things that have really endured the test of time.
ooo Studio, Linh Tran, Linh CT, Olivia Truong, and DESAI shared a branding and visual identity project for Oko, a newly established agency specializi
Anna Bárdy shared a beautiful editorial design project titled Buildings with cour d’honneur in Budapest (Franciaudvaros bérházak Budapesten). The book is the result of a massive research of 7 years.
Mathieu L.B and Matthieu Braccini have shared their collaboration project with Microsoft Design on the Office 365 Suite. They had the amazing task to produce a series of 3D illustrations and the results are mesmerizing.
This feature is for all the beer fans out there and graphic design. Studio Blackthorns is a branding & packaging design agency and they have shared with us their '366CansChallenge'. An everyday project where the challenge was to design a can per day, that happened during the infamous year of 2020.
Roberto Warner shared a set of distortion experiments with typography. Titled Kinetic Typography Case Study 03 Roberto uses different ways to animate by using distortion, reflection, bulging and others. The result is a quite beautiful set of animated posters, all with a simple black and white theme.
Chateau is a typeface inspired by the legendary Hollywood hotel Chateau Marmont. In the autumn of 2019 Carl-Emil Storm Gabrielsen and Jesper Uttrup of Astrae Studio travelled from Copenhagen to Los Angeles for work.
Johann Lucchini shared a really awesome project mixing architecture, illustration and typography. Titled Architype Alphabet Poster, this project explores a simple concept, combine typography and architecture to create a custom typeface.
LOOP shared a motion design project full of awesome 3D work For Döcke, one of Russia's leading suppliers of building materials for suburban housing construction. The team at LOOP came up with a concept of advertising the products using visual techniques that are common for cutting edge phones,
Daniel Medeiros and Maria Fonseca shared the branding and visual identity project they created for Quero Educacao, a company that aims to connect people to educational institutions.
As we kicking ourselves into the year 2021, I truly believe that Covid-19 has been part of our discussion topics on a daily basis for the past year. Our habits have changed, we had to adapt ourselves to new ways of living. And we are not the only ones that had to adapt as well, brands have been shifting their strategy in regards to the situation thoroughly.
SkyFill is an internal project made by the amazing folks at Trinetix Creative Studio. Based in Ukraine, they’re living with the consequences of the nuclear plant disaster at Chernobyl. So ecological problems, pollution and consumption – things that’s always on their minds.
A couple weeks ago, we have been discussing about Glassmorphism on abdz. As usual, we are starting to see more and more the same visual style being applied on interfaces but also iconography. This 'glass graphical' style does a pretty decent job at pushing its purpose through icons.
We have featured before Scott Biersack's work on creating 'sticker collection' for Snapchat on abdz. I think they are creative and bring a variety to the social platform.
Studio NinetyOne is a creative studio based in London, United Kingdom.
Lumen is a series of illustrations Mike Karolos created back in 2018 based on the form and shapes that light can create in a dark place revealing what is hiding in the shadows.
Kwaku Amuti is a creative director and illustrator based in New Jersey. He has been producing, more precisely building a cool series of sneakers made of Lego. Yes! Kwaku is that cool! The series is titled 'Bricks Kicks' and you will recognize models like the infamous 'Nike Air Mag' originally seen in the movie 'Back of the Future II'.
Jarosław Dziubek shared a branding and identity proposal for European Union Space Programme Agency (EUSPA). If you are fan of clean and beautiful typography with a classic usage of a grid system you will love what Jaroslaw proposed here for client, which was the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS).
