I have to start this review by saying that I am quite biased. I know it might sound weird, however, I have to say it in order to set the expectations for what you are about to read. Also, the reason for my partiality is due to the fact that I've always wanted to have a Wacom Cintiq but it always felt like a distant dream for a couple of reasons.
Last week, we have witnessed an introduction to a new design tool. Yes you have heard me! Whatever you think if it's a necessity or not, I decided to give it a feature and share an introduction. Say hello to Drama App which is an all-in-one design, prototyping, and animation tool.
I am delighted to share the photographs of a fellow Montrealer here on ABDZ, his name is Mustafa Hacalaki. We are following his pursuit of trailing silhouettes of strangers through light, shadows, and reflections. His photographs tells a story within an image and the result is pure street photography at its best.
We created a new series on ABDZ! It's a compilation highlighting what you have been sharing with us using the hashtag #abduzeedo. We have been getting lots of messages on how to 'get your work featured on ABDZ' so we decided to highlight our picks on a monthly basis. What do you think?
I don't speak Russian but I really like this brand identity and web design project that Vik — shared on his Behance profile for ITO. I don't know exactly what ITO is so I will focus my comments to the aesthetics. There are tons of things that make it worth sharing, but I would definitely start from the simplicity and color scheme.
Olivier Pautot is a 3D designer based in Besançon, France with an incredible portfolio of 3D work, especially, in my opinion, the fun and whimsical character design ones. The work has so much personality that is hard to translate how I feel every time I see one of his projects. That’s the main reason I would love to share here with you.
Felipe Mahalem has been working with motion design and animation for more than 20 years. His main focus has been on interactive media, post production and animation.
A couple of weeks ago, we have seen the buzzing news of Jessica Walsh stunning our industry by introducing her new studio &Walsh. She has been rocking our design industry for decades and it's really inspiring seeing her progress along the years and what it means for the next-gen.
Shoeciety is an app design concept project created and shared by Juan C. Fresno. As you might already know, I am a fan of personal projects. The fact that you take some time from your busy schedule is always something to be celebrated.
Let's take a look at this unique project by Hiné Mizushima who is (in his own words) Slow Crafter, Needle-felter and Illustrator based in Vancouver, BC in Canada. We are looking at his Kogin embroidered insect brooches he worked on for a group exhibition happening right now in Osaka, Japan. What is Kogin?
Riffle Shuffle approached Steven Harrison to design and illustrate a deck of playing cards based off his previous personal project titled ‘Go for it’. Evolving the original image to work in this format and further developing this style to work throughout the deck.
Minimalissimo is one of my favorite websites, especially for everything minimalist. I love their logo and for my surprise, I found the brand identity project created by Alessandro Scarpellini for it on Behance. It is really nice to see how the different mediums converge to the same aesthetics.
TwoPoints.Net shared a beautiful brand identity project for the New York City architecture firm Dash Marshall. When designing the corporate identity they realized that architecture acts in the intersection of the old and the new, the static and the flexible, the properties of matter and the lives of people.
There are many ways to find inspiration, especially if you are a designer. We tend to focus on visual inspiration, but when I say visual I mean more than visual design, it goes from branding to motion design. Those type of inspiration posts are good for references but for me the one of the best sources of inspiration is books.
Zeynep Basay and Cem Haşimi shared an awesome brand identity project for Iris & Cole, a luxury artisanal skincare company.
It's been again a little while since our last article on Workspaces Inspiration. Usually, I would find my picks via Pinterest but it's not great. The images are pretty low in resolution and the images aren't well credited for our purposes.
Linn Fritz shared a super cool motion design project she did in collaboration with CNN for their new Parallels series about Alcohol. The illustrations are simple, yet very stylish, add some clever and subtle motion work and you have the recipe for an inspiring project.
Chad Michael Studio has shared such a lovely packaging design for the coffee liqueur titled: Hywilde. Coming with 100% Arabica beans and natural flavors, the client Artist In Residence Distillery must have loved the bilingual typographic approach finish with a 'red-ish' brand logo filled with an accent of gold everywhere.
Pinterest, a social media platform has registered 300 million monthly actives, a 30% increase on a year ago. I personally thought people were not using this platform anymore but they still do, great news for Pinterest.
A new Pure Design Inspiration is up! One burst of inspiration roundup to kick it off. For this week, all the submissions hand-picked from Dribbble are all about 'micro-interactions'. What is it?
