Somehow, by some absolute Christmas miracle, Stu Ballinger managed to secure an RTX 3090 for his computer. Naturally, with his new-found power, he’s now rendering all the stuff that his old card couldn't, such as super high polygon sliced geometry with a ridiculous specular depth.

Pier Paolo shared an awesome 3D project titled Universal. In times of misinformation and science denial he decided to use his tools to help spreading scientific knowledge and perhaps make more people curious about these topics. "UNIVERSAL" is a self-initiated project exploring concepts of physics and science.

Let me introduce you to Tommy Perez's paper crafting. His papercraft catches my eye where I had to stop to have a closer look at it, won't you? The OCD in me had me smirk to his work, clean, sharp paper cut, and even tho it's just a picture but you can feel the paper texture through it.

Huleeb is a freelance digital artist based in Montreal, Canada creating daily renders in Blender with the use of various image manipulation softwares. Huleeb’s work is simply stunning with an eerie mood and impeccable compositions. We selected a few samples for you to get inspired. Huleeb also takes on client work.

Specialty coffees have made their way to the Polish market, and are here to stay. Jawa Nie Sen is a new brand offering farmers coffee for those who care about quality.

Marcus Chaloner 's most recent work was spurred on by a recent talk Marcus gave to LCC students in the Spring about proceduralism for design. He wanted to create a system that could rapidly generate wooden forms that normally would’ve taken a painstakingly long time manually.

Remember that movie Her starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Spike Jonze. If you haven't seen the movie, please do watch it first. I just really appreciate the direction of photography by Hoyte van Hoytema. It tells the story of a man who develops a voiced AI virtual assistant named Samantha played by Scarlett Johansson.

Grano Santo is a specialty coffee shop located in Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires. Estudio Nuar were summoned to create a brand ​​with a retro, "porteño" and cool identity that would value the coffee process, showing it in a simple and attractive way, to bring closer consumers who are not immersed in the field.

From my early days in art school Ruben Grigorian was fascinated by impossible and unusual things. During his time in architecture school, boring architecture was his enemy. Ruben was fascinated by the works of Wolf D. Prix and Coop Himmelb(l)au, early Zaha Hadid and everyone else from the deconstructivist movement.

I have been digging the work of Martin Naumann and have been enjoying the abstract experiments that we have featured on abdz. Here's to another titled 'Osmosis' which is a series of personal experiments using Filter Forge. I will be honest, this is the first time I have heard of this tool.

Kaio Cezar and Ariel Santos shared a branding and visual identity project for Tera, a law practice that focuses on providing legal advice and executing compliance and corporate governance in order to promote a culture of integrity and ethics in government and business.

AZ Studio is a digital agency focused on web design based in Russia. They created a beautiful  website to showcase their work. It was built using Tilda + code modifications. The outcome is a quite editorial and elegant web design with beautiful contrast of typography and a black and white color selection.

Heading back to school (insert prayer emoji here) and lamenting convenient and healthy options that don’t leave you cookie-cutting animal sandwiches and prepping ants on a log just to ensure your child actually eats something?

We have been seeing more and more related news to crypto, blockchain, DeFi, and beyond. How about Fintech? Well yes, it's still part of the conversations and we have been seeing a shift for some time now of more products into the financial services merging into technology. The world is advancing at a faster rate and be different is now part of the process as well.

We have featured the work of Deep Yellow before on abdz. They are a design studio based in Pristina, Kosovo specializing in visual identities, brand, packaging, and motion. They have shared this massive collection of 3D art and deep shapes for our inspiration titled: 'Deepshape Series'.

The fine folks from Tubik Studio have shared a web design project for Synthesized, a DataOps Platform. Synthesized promotes collaboration between sensitive data for growth and innovation. I particularly love their work on branding where dealing with 'sensitive' in other words 'boring' to transform it into a dynamic brand direction.

BAOV chen shared a beautiful 3D project using Blender. From the description it seems that after learning about a model made in Blender, BAOV started trying to recreate the style by rearranging shape and topology. After that BAOV made some renderings of the effects and what we see here today is that. Quite inspiring.

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.