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Let it Shine by Débora Abreu

inspiration

Débora Abreu is a Brazilian singer and composer living in Canada and as most of us, she has been trying to adapt to the craziness of a pandemic world. As Debora describes “since the pandemic started, my anxiety attacks have gotten worse, and following my husband's suggestion, I started practicing  mindfulness  and meditation everyday.

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Monday Motion Spotlight - Javier Torres

3d

Javier Torres shared his first Design Reel with some of the work done for projects in Design and 3D Animation including branding, logo design and graphic design in general during  the years 2018 to 2020. It’s awesome to see the difference in the range and quality of the work.

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ORG-YOU Branding and Visual Identity

branding

Studio Fabio Biesel shared a super elegant branding and visual identity project for ORG-YOU, an organization application for small and medium-sized companies. The folks over at Studio Fabio Biesel had the great task to support ORG-YOU creatively from the beginning.

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#NFTs of the Week

NFT

How you feel about the rise of NFTs? Most of our social feeds have been since submerged with so many digital works that it's getting hard to keep track of it all. Most of them are honestly brilliant, stunning, meaningful, and some others...well, that's why we are here!

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A bedtime story to bring hope and optimism to children’s bedsides

book

Forever Beta is publishing a bedtime storybook specifically written to remind and reassure children that there is hope and happiness to look forward to beyond the pandemic. It comes on the back of a University of Oxford study showing that children have shown increases in negative physical and emotional mental health symptoms during lockdown

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Hiero Experimental Display Typeface

Typography

Scott Newland shared a personal typography project titled Hiero. Hiero is a self-initiated experimental display typeface. The project aim was to create a collection of simplistic, block-like characters whose designs are limited to the use of four geometries: a circle, 3x7 rectangle, isosceles-acute and isosceles-right triangle.

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Foam Reactions in 3D

3d

Ruye is a super talented 3D and motion designer with a rich portfolio of commercial and personal projects. I am a fan of personal projects as you might already know, so of course I tend to get quite excited when I see other folks doing incredible work as a side gig.

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Beneath the Surface — 3D Experiments in Houdini

3d

Ian Frederick shared a 3D project that is an experimental art piece created as a method for him to learn Houdini, specifically its cloth and soft body system called Vellum. “It started out as just seeing if I could model a good looking octopus tentacle.

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Arcade Madness Illustration by César Canseco

illustration

César Canseco shared a beautiful illustration project titled Arcade Madness. The project was created for Nintendo 64 fan-art for the Cartoon Madness gallery show at La Mole Convention 2020 in CDMX curated by GAMA Crea. I personally love the grain added to the illustrations, it added a more refined look, perhaps, a paper feeling to them.

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Neker Mobile and Web Design

web design

Plus X has a connotation of the message that “We Add Experience for Your Brand.” Brand experience design means providing consumers with valuable brand experience through consolidated online and offline designs based on the consistent brand strategy.

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Bureau of Architecture Minimalist Branding

branding

Wayne Season shared a branding project for Bureau of Architecture featuring a simple and minimalist design relying on beautiful imagery and typography to create some inspiring compositions. I am a fan of the style and have been using it as reference for the design of abdz.do for over a decade.