Times are definitely changing, we all live in a pandemic and hopefully soon a post-pandemic reality. Economically things will be difficult initially but eventually things will get better. I know this sounds super grim, but in order to help everyone to promote their work, we will start featuring designers from all over the world in a series we call Designer Spotlight.

Jonathan Quintin, founder and Creative Director at StudioJQ has an incredible class on Skillshare. In his class you will learn how to use Cinema4D & Octane to create super cool abstract graphics to enable you to use for motion and video or poster art. I found out about his class after seeing a beautiful design on Dribbble.

What time we are living in. If we stop and think that a couple of months ago everything was totally different. The world has definitely changed and the biggest question is, what will be the new normal.

We wanted to share illustration digital portraits by Alessandro Pautasso on popular Marvel characters. Titled 'Pop Marvel' you might recognize the iconic Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, and the mighty Wolverine. Alessandro's visual style is super detailed and quite colorful.

Other than this never-ending global pandemic, we are experiencing also a natural disaster in the making. Seeing in the news how nature is raging in all parts of the World. Climate Change.

Studio format shared a super elegant branding and packaging design for ANA Red Wine. A mirror can twist or distort our perception. It can cheat the eye, enhancing or fading some traits. More often than not, a mirror raises interest in the eyes of the viewer.

Marta Veludo Studio shared a branding and visual identity for RAD Makeup. At RAD they believe that the more you do you, the more goodness there will be for all of us. That’s why RAD creates tools for self-expression and brings people together - in real life and in the not so real life.

Times are definitely changing, the bull market which was one of the longest is over and we are all heading to a global recession. I know this sounds super grim, but in order to help everyone to promote their work, we will start featuring designers from all over the world in a series we call Designer Spotlight. For this one brings to you the amazing work of Ranganath Krishnamani. 

When you think of Peter Tarka, it reminds of a true OG of 3D art. One of the pioneers who built this community for a long time and made sure of its longevity to what it is today; with the new era we are currently witnessing evolving. We have featured Peter's work countless times on abdz, it always has been unique and deeply inspiring year after year.

We have received words from the fine folks from Fable about their accomplishment after 3+ years to build a motion design platform that is powerful, accessible, collaborative, FREE, and all possible within your web browser. I opened an account and will start playing with Fable for the next weeks.

If there is one thing that we can say that is positive about staying home is that you can have time to learn new things. On top of that, we have so much information at our disposal that makes learning quite accessible for those who have access to the internet. A good example is if you want to learn 3D using the free 3D software Blender.

Leta Sobierajski shared an amazing installation work for Showfields, a multi-level store highlighting unique, direct-to-consumer brands in wellness, home & design. During the pandemic, they approached us to create an installation that would release once the world had started to "go back to normal".

RETOKA shared a new 3D project as a NFT series. A collection of 45 frames, where each one is a revolution within a one-minute 45 rpm loop. This project represents the digital and technological revolution that we are constantly experiencing. It's like a wheel that doesn't stop spinning, and spins faster and faster.

With the news vamping surrounded the Covid-19, precautions have been taken around the World to hopefully and somehow contain the spread. This has been affecting everything at the moment and when a time of uncertainty comes with a wave of support and kindness to one to another.

Brand Identity design for the artisanal food store and restaurant in Goiânia, Goiás. The founders of the reputed Las Nenas Bistro in Goiania, idealized bringing innovation in the production and presentation of artisan foods, creating Abaceria.

Barbara Olejarczyk shared a beautiful editorial design and illustration project for a book for kids titled “Let's play colours”. As the description goes: the illustrations are in our heads.

Eduardo da Floresta is a graphic designer  inspired by mid-century spot illustrations and design as well as vintage sci-fi, comics, surrealism, DIY art culture, and the textural wonders of degraded print. Eduardo often works with a restricted colour palette, aiming for nostalgia, while trying to create something new.

NFTs are currently exploding! Most of our social feeds have been since submerged with so many digital works that it's getting hard to keep track of it all. Most of them are honestly brilliant, stunning, meaningful, and some others...well, that's why we are here! From the Abduzeedo Twitter account, here are some of the NFTs that caught our eyes this week.

The Lab Saigon and Andree Nguyen shared an awesome branding and visual identity for 6A, an architecture firm with a personal, but indistinctive name.

There’s something about juice packaging that really makes designers really excel at simplicity and pure gorgeous ideas. I’ve posted countless projects here on abdz. about this particular subject but the source seems to be unlimited. For this post I’d like to share the project that Guilherme Vissotto created for Pleno Natural Juice.