This is the beginning of a new era! On abdz, we have been featuring 'digital art' since the early days of the blog, right around the early 2000s. With time, the 'digital art' scene has shifted and some of us have to focus elsewhere to support a career or even a living.

Gabriel Rocha is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada, currently working as a director at Tendril.ca. With a focus on motion graphics and 3D, Gabriel released recently an NFT series called "The Anatomy of Light" where he explores two of his passions: science and art.

We're delighted to introduce Flying Hotels, a new series of surreal art by Matthias Jung. Jung has held a fascination for collages since childhood beginning in the photo lab of his father. With a simple pair of scissors and glue, he was inspired to create his first fantastic buildings and has been doing so ever since.

Julia Miller shared a branding and packaging design project for Viable, a brand that produces high tech innovative supplements. Viable supplements are made from natural ingredients with the help of innovative technologies. They are used to support healthy body composition.

Zero Posters is an experimental project from Jordan-based Designers and Tariq Yosef and Alaa Tameem .

Slanted publishers, a German based publishing house for various magazines, books and other printed products presenting interesting ideas about design, art, photography, and other pleasures in life, shared a new book project: “Teasing Typography” by Juliane Nöst.   

Lee Griggs shared a 3D project featuring some beautiful abstract compositions. The title of the series is Bifrost Strands 2. There’s not much info about the way Lee created these forms, what software, render engine but that doesn't really matter. 

Mubariz Yusifzade shared a branding (rebranding) and visual identity for OCD+A Studio, a project with more than 10 years, which has several spaces created in the areas of housing, urban renewal and interior design. It was a complete rebranding, which included a new name, a new graphic identity and a new communication strategy.

Apo Genc is a Turkish born self-taught photographer with straight urban focus. Professional videographer since 2013. Former student of Christian-Albrechts-University (CAU, Kiel, Germany) with Magister Artium in Modern German Literature, Psychology and Sociology.Sci-fi inspired street scenes at night.

In doing a little research for an upcoming product launch (more on that later!) I discovered a moving project within the world of fragrance called Pure Sense. Pure Sense, founded by Ekaterina Zinchenko, is a unique, niche perfume brand in that the fragrances created for it are made by blind people.

Walid Aziz, a digital artist based in Canada, shared a set of incredible 3D compositions titled R&D II. I have a hard time trying to describe the 3D images, they remind me a lot of coral reefs and how they grow on objects in the ocean creating intricate forms.

We are featuring the work of Edisonwong7, a visual artist based in Shenzhen, China. There is somehow an explanation on what his project is about but I apologize that Google Translate was not bringing his 'forté' on this translation.

Diego Carneiro shared a branding and packaging design project called Moka Clube - Barrel that hits home for this coffee-loving Brazilian. This, my friends, is real coffee.

VELKRO shared a branding and visual identity project for Accent, a new brand created in 2019 that specializes in image services, such as hair styling and image coaching. It focuses on providing accurate, individualised advice and making every client feel like one-of-a-kind.

Alex Diaconu  shared a new project that he’s releasing as NFT on Rarible.

Meet Garet - a modern geometric sans serif typeface by Spacetype. It is characterized by clean and soft letterforms and a smooth masculine tone. Garet type family consists of 11 weights ranging from quite thin to extremely fat and their corresponding Italics. Plus one variable font that combines all weights in one file.

Trabajo de Campo is a mini book that contains the highlights of the first year of FAENA Studio. It gives a glimpse into the breath of work and different styles that this studio from Mexico produces.

Calling all BIPOC creatives, we're pleased to share COLORFUL: A Prelude to Young Guns 19, a new global grant program to help young BIPOC creatives advance their careers

Antoine Lendrevie shared an awesome photography project titled Day & Night apartments buildings. As the name suggests it’s a photo of apartment building patterns and textures. I don’t know if it's just a photo or a collage, however I really like the color and composition of the day version. 

Otelier—a San Francisco-based studio launching its debut collection of height adjustable tables for the home—reimagines the standing desk from a design perspective in the age of COVID and beyond. The collection consists of a desk and a dining table, both height-adjustable.