The end of the week is already here, how was yours? I wanted to share this colorful illustration series by Carlotta Notaro, it's the perfect occasion for the season and I just love the style surrounding these illustrations. It's always insightful getting a peek into someone's favorite food and in this case 'Italian Food'!
Estudio Rebu shared a beautiful branding and visual identity project for Inter, one of Brazil’s dearest fintechs with millions of users. It’s kind of a hype really. But they needed a fresher brand strategy, voice & expression. We came up with a full guideline for inter: personality, values, purpose, blablabla.
In November 2019 Stato ® delivered a proposal for the Expo 2023 Buenos Aires branding and visual identity contest. The concept & theme of the event we worked on was science, innovation, art and creativity for human development. Creative industries in digital convergence.
Alex Villarejo shared a branding and visual design project titled “A Visual Identity” - the project represents Alex values as a person and designer through colors and typography: simplicity, usability and conceptuality.
kissmiklos was commissioned to work for Hype&Hyper new visual identity and printed magazine design. HYPE&HYPER is a design and lifestyle magazine covering innovation, urban life and creative ecosystems across Central and Eastern Europe.
Designers tend to put off their portfolio until it becomes a big, looming task hanging over their heads. Carbonmade changes that. If the name "Carbonmade" sounds familiar to you, it's because the portfolio builder has been around since 2005 – but it's a completely different tool now.
New week. Looking for inspiration to kick it off, I stumbled across the work of Shane Griffin, an artist and director based in New York, NY, USA. It immediately stimulated my senses with his short clips full of conceptual art like his piece titled: 'Going Green' where within seconds you understand right away the vision behind.
Cream Electric Art is a production studio based in Sydney, Australia; they have published a clever advertising project for McDonalds.
Time for some Editorial Design inspiration because, first, it’s been a long time since the last post on this topic, at least by me and second because this project I saw on Behance is just beautiful. The author is Sasha Yaguza an he created a full set of visual identity, collaterals and booklet.
We are sharing the work of Naniii with his plentiful lettering goodness. Such a tremendous progression along the years and keeps pushing himself into different styles all the time. One particular reason why this collection is taking the edge, they are all done with the iPad Pro + Pencil.
Ruslan Abasov shared an amazing motion design project playing with lettering/typography and one of the most iconic cartoon symbols, the cartoonish hand (Mickey Mouse). POP-UP: Animated Letterings features fluid and natural animations including the splashes and droplets of ink. The lettering in the end is also quite beautiful.
Happy end of the week! Time to finish up some work, get ready to chill for the upcoming weekend! How about a podcast suggestion from our friends at Wix. Titled:'Now What?', it's new podcast series where they uncover stories from the brightest leaders in business, product development, engineering, design, and eCommerce.
We always enjoy how Leonardoworx LWX takes new leaps with his personal explorations in 3D with this series titled: 'LOST TAPES Spring 21'. He is a digital artist based in the beautiful city of Florence, Italy. On abdz, we have featured his work many times and yet it's always has inspiring through the techniques, and just look at those colours!
At Dot Creative, they are not afraid to put their money where their mouth is. So when it came to the release of their own brand safety solution, they created a product and accompanying website that was true to their principles of service design and excellence.
Water in Switzerland is crucial, has roughly 61,000km of rivers and streams and around 1,500 lakes. And it's quite a stunning view wherever you go up in the mountains with the help of the railroad system. It's everywhere!
Rafael Serra shared an inspiring take on the 36 days of type challenge. Rafael created a series of cards with a retro look that reminds me of badges as well as the work of the incredible Draplin. This is a solid example of simple illustration and graphic design.
Husnain Ijaz and Ahmad Ajmal shared a beautiful branding and visual identity for Salah, which seems to be a platform that helps connect the 1.8 billion muslins around the world.
I stumbled across the work of Seungwon Hong and thought it would be cool to feature on abdz. Seungwon is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Seoul, Korea. His series? It's titled: 'The Sartorial Painting Collection' and it's basically a series of digitally drawn paintings of portraits and people in general that he founds through social media.
GTB agency invited Thiago Steka to help them tell a couple of stories about die-hard football (the real one) fans and their Fords as part of Ford's official sponsorship campaign for Copa Libertadores 2020. The result was a beautiful animation, illustration and motion design project.
Javier Torres shared a beautiful 3D project to highlight different forms of vases, as well as highlighting the textures of ceramic, stone, textile and glass in a "dry" environment, but with an extra energy in colors and textures. All the images were created using Maxon Cinema 4D and Octane Render.
