Creating a visual identity is always challenging, there are values and messages to pass through the logo, colors and all the branding assets. We try to share all sorts of case studies for different branding projects in order to illustrate the subtleties of each project and how designers approach these constraints.

I recently had the pleasure to be invited by Ford to represent Abduzeedo at the 2013 NAIAS - North American International Auto Show. For those not familiar with the event, NAIAS is a huge Auto Show that happens every year in Detroit where the automotive industry amazes us with their new models, concepts and much more.

Following our movie poster inspired tutorials, today we bring to you an image inspired by Oblivion, the new Tom Cruise film we can't wait to check out. The poster has a post-apocalyptical composition of a waterfall with some ruins of old buildings including the iconic Chrysler building in NYC. Of course we loved the poster and we decided to create something similar in Photoshop.

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users.

Movie posters are always a great source of inspiration, movies area always about periods of times, sometimes it's in the future, others in the past. Some are really good at representing some art styles. That's the case of the new movie called The Great Gatsby. It's heavly inspired by the Art Deco movement and it's simply beautiful.

Last week the new Man of Steel trailer was released and it is simply amazing. I remember watching the Superman movies when I was child and seeing the reboot of the movie brings me back to a lot of good memories. The visuals of this new movie are also really something, much darker and realistic than the previous ones.

We are heading to the last weeks of 2012 and nothing better than getting ready for the new year with a Photoshop tutorial playing with the number 2013. The inspiration for this image was, of course, from one of the trends of 2012: chalkboard typography with ornaments.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas and it's time for our holiday tutorial. For this year we will have a very 80s image inspired by the work of Arkuma using Photoshop CS6.

So for this tutorial we will create a image using basic filters and effects to create a nice vinage effect. The fonts used are Avant Garde and FreestyleScrD.

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users.

This is a Case Study based off of the Marvel Villains Series that I just recently completed. The series consists of 8 digital paintings depicting some of the most evil villains in the Marvel Universe. As an avid comic book fan, I wanted to create something that I felt very passionate about and really take my time to try and develop my digital painting skills along the way.

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users.