This weekend I finally finished Robert Iger’s book The Ride of a Lifetime - Lessons Learned from 15 years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. I must confess, I remember seeing a lot of people suggesting this book, including Bill Gates. I was a bit unsure, I don’t know why. Perhaps because I didn’t even know who Bob Iger was.

A Malay Docu series that explores the multi-faceted communities living in the Southeast Asia countries that form ASEAN. Kelly KTKL shared this motion design and 3D project a couple of years ago, but it’s the first time I see it, otherwise I would have featured it here on abdz.

Adrian & Gidi x Adobe AEM is a visual story for Adobe AEM's website. The ultimate goal was to show the transformation from a paper to a digital world. The result is quite elegant. The colors, subtle textures, shadows. It has that “real” look that is rarely achieved in 3D. They achieved this using Cinema 4D and Redshifit.

Chrisb Marquez shared this project called Beyond—Stunning Outer Space Textures by Chroma Supply. Basically, it is  a set of 12 outer space textures in high resolution.

Toby Ng share a graphic design and packaging project he did for Love Without Border for a global initiative formed to combat the COVID-19 outbreak. In response to a mask shortage in Hong Kong, NWD saw the need to support the community by producing and supplying ‘Made in Hong Kong’ face masks.

Kyungrae yu one day got inspired by the word Paradox and made an awesome motion design and 3D work using Cinema 4D and Octane Render. The result is simply beautiful. 

Hugo Santarem is a super talented brazilian photographer with an incredible portfolio. We’ve featured him here on the blog in the past and we will keep featuring his work because it’s simply beautiful. For this post I’d love to share some photos from his collection called Myanmar - Padaung Women.

What if we took another look at technology? Rather than trying to understand how it works, Units Research Review sets out to discover what it feels like to be around it, from fascination to abandonment or devotion. 

Álvaro Studio is a creative studio based in Barcelona, Spain specializing in art direction, graphic design, and illustration. They have shared a logo design folio I thought would be worth sharing on abdz. 'Logo design' has been a little obsession even since I designed a logo for a friend of mine who is starting a business.

Mark Aver is a Sr. Creative Director at Nike based in Portland, OR, USA, he shared a pretty awesome advertising for Nike about sustainability. Featuring the floral art by Manu Torres, the purpose of this ad is to show the Nike Air VaporMax 2020 Flyknit is made from at least 50% recycled content by weight.

Wernersam Studio and Latina Studio shared their beautiful work brand work for MasterCard. The campaign is focused on the message that at MasterCard, they believe in experiences, in the awe of the simple things.

Whenever I stumbled across a dystopian-inspired art series, It gets hardly overlooked and always to pleasure to feature on abdz. Let's feature the work of Thomas Dubois, a visual development artist & architect from Montpellier, France.

What can we say about 2020 so far, let's just put this way. It was quite an eventful year and we are still not done. An outcome though is we saw a strive from many initiatives to raise the bar even during what we can call it 'weird times'.

Tendril * In collaboration with the team at Microsoft Design created this celebratory film to thank all the people who collaborated on developing the new Microsoft icon system.

It’s Motion Design Monday and we would love to share the amazing project that Children Chiu shared titled Carrier of Time. It was done using Houdini and Redshift and it’s simply beautiful. It was created to promote Taiwan. Since the Age of Discovery, Taiwan has been irradiated with diverse cultures.

Bing Zhang shared an awesome branding and illustration project with us for UNI Music Academy, which is the first of its kind music learning academy for kids ages six through teen. They are focused on providing a safe, inspiring, and empowering space for children to identify, develop, and refine their music senses. 

First of all, these are not 'gibberish' but that's how ori toor humorously calls his playful, creative and beautiful illustration & doodle series. At first, I was even questioning why he calls it 'Gibberish' but just by reading his bio, you quickly understand why.

Estudio Nuar shared a beautiful branding project for La Mala Pub. Right in the heart of Palermo, La Mala Pub leads Buenos Aires nightlife. Only a few months after opening, it became so trending that generated the need for more space. In consequence, an extra space was attached and Malita was created.

Italians Who Design is a showcase of the most talented Italian designers out there. It aims to help people find notable and relevant voices to inspire others, increase and diversify their network and (why not?) to find someone to work with.

Drogheria Studio has developed a specific branding project for Baglioni Hotels aimed at emphasizing their special Italian style of hospitality through the free gifts that Baglioni offers to their clients.