I guess everybody on Earth knows what is IKEA, right? It's the home furnishings & furniture company founded in the beautiful country of Sweden. Since 2008, they have been proven to be the world's largest furniture retailer and yet still prove they can innovate.
Simon Kämpfer shared a dreamy, surreal illustration series via his Behance. Titled: 'Summer in Spain', it's a series of illustrations inspired mainly by the architecture of Spain.
Guilherme Asthma is a freelance visual artist from São Paulo, Brazil, he shared a stunning and impressive animal painting studies using Photoshop (for one) and a photograph as a reference. These are righteously fascinating! I took the liberty to share its entire project, my favorite one is actually the 'fox'.
The awesome lads from Mission Workshop have shared with us the release of their latest backpack. Introducing the Rhake WX, a waxed canvas laptop backpack built to hold everything you need for work, play, and the occasional overnight.
Anastasia Genkina is a designer from Moscow, Russia and she share a quite elegant typography and editorial design on her Behance profile. It was created by students during the Editorial Design course at the Porto Design Summer School. We always love and support these types of projects.
Muhammed Sajid is an illustrator from Bangalore, India and he shared a beautiful set of illustrations titled Home on his Behance profile. As the name suggests it's about houses but the cool thing is that he illustrated all sorts of different house styles from classic, to modernist to mid-century to Spanish style, he got them all.
Grzegorz Domaradzki created some stunning illustrations for the Indiana Jones trilogy. They feature all main characters that made these movies, probably the most entertaining trilogy ever. I know there's a fourth movie, but we rather not count that one. There are 2 versions of the poster, in 8 or 6 color screen print with metallic links.
Guy Shield shared an amazing illustration project he worked on for the AirBnb Magazine.
Figma shared their latest updates and I have to admit. They are killing the game! ⚡ I am a big fan and it has definitely sped our workflow at ABDZ. This monthly update includes GIFs in prototypes, Figma plugins (coming real soon!), Text improvements within one click and more.
I don't think I have ever shared a project for Facebook Stories yet, here's to the very first! ? Lucas Wakamatsu shared a cool series of illustrations he actually worked for Facebook and being used on its platform in 'Stories'.
Cuberto . is a UI/UX and development studio based in San Francisco, CA. I might be a little late in the game but they have shared an inspiring and interesting collection of 'open source' of animated micro-interactions for your mobile app design. Trust me, these are great!
I am a fan of simplicity in design. Nothing beats the black and white when it comes to brand identity. I feel that if you can make something work well in black and white it can work with any color, or just no color at all. Just keep it as it is. For this post I'd love to share the brand identity of estúdio arco.
Roman Post is a graphic designer based in Dedovsk, Russian Federation. We have featured Roman's work before on ABDZ and I am totally borrowing Fabio's series 'That 90s Look is coming back' for this one. I totally do agree that the 90s nostalgia is definitely back through TV shows and fashion.
Wanna keep the 'poster design' love today with Mitya Andrievskiy's Everything & Nothing poster series he shared on Behance. First of all, Mitya is skilled at many mediums from graphic design all the way to UI/UX design.
Cuphead is one of my favorite games in terms of graphics quality, animation and aesthetics. My only complaint is about how hard that game is, which in a way blocks me from appreciating the quality of the artwork, animations and compositions created by the game designers. By the way, that game was all hand-drawn I believe.
A new Pure Design Inspiration is up! One burst of inspiration roundup to kick it off. For this week, I decided to go again with 'typography'. We had such a tremendous response from last week's pure roundup that I decided to give it another whirl.
Asawin Tejasakulsin is a Creative Group Head at Ogilvy & Mather and we are sharing a couple of the Lego campaigns he shared on Behance.
César Moreno published an super nostalgic and awesome project on his Behance profile. The project is the licensed screen print poster for "Transformers - The Movie" released during San Diego Comic-Con 2019.
