Sudden appearances of unidentified spacecraft, investigative reporters, abductions of great artists, and a lot of mystery surround the ANTZ project. It is in this climate of mystery that ANTZ xNFT brings a new way of making NFTs.

Our good pal Wes Cockx has shared with us a beautiful and quite inspiring project he worked with Nando Costa and the mighty team at Microsoft Design. Their collaboration was to explore the next evolution of key visuals for Microsoft's new Fluent UI and be part of their brand visual language.

Diego Tramontin is a super talented designer from Brazil currently working as design lead at Work&Co (probably my favorite design agency). Before that Diego has had the opportunity to work on projects for heavy names like Apple, Chevrolet, Google and many others. He also worked for Globo.com, where many of the best Brazilian designers came from.

The good people from Peak Design is kicking off this 'Black Friday' and the 'Cyber Monday' week-long sale with massive discounts including $60 off their Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod

Facu Labo, Aimar Molero and Reisinger Studio were briefed to create four ideas to promote Tylko's "Organise effortlessly" mantra. The outcome is a beautiful series of 3D animations featuring common forms but in a quite exquisite ways.

Designers, how was your year? How many complex problems did you solve this year? How many times did you have to resize a logo? Have you succeeded in telling your relatives about your work yet? I think we all need a break and how about surfing through 'Black Friday' deals? A little bit less techie, there might be some workstation-related recommendations.

Miles Hellyer shared a quite inspiring 3D project titled Ceramic Therapy. The reason I say that is because it’s a simple example of working with 3D. Not hyper realistic or crazy renders.

Although the world is becoming more digital, it’s still nice to receive something in the mail that you can hold in your hands. I couldn't agree more with that statement.  Anonymous Singapore made a book containing a selection of their work for potential clients.

Marina Goñi Estudio shared a beautiful branding and visual identity  for a digital advertising - programmatic company located in Madrid. The company is at a moment of big growth and national and international development.

Bogdan Dreava has been creating some simple yet beautiful compositions using Blender 3D. I have been doing some Blender tutorials to improve my 3D work and the most difficult thing for me is to grasp the whole third dimension aspect of the composition. It looks like Bogdan doesn’t have the same problem. I might try to follow his steps.

Bruno Canales shared a  new project, this time it’s the branding redesign for Hometime, a residential management company in Dallas, Texas. Their main objective is to be a one stop shop for home maintenance, reparation and remodels.

Beth Brands was invited to create a full branding and visual identity project for "Nossa Coxinha". Nossa Coxinha is a snack Brazilian brand based in Portugal. Besides “coxinha”, which is a popular dish in Brazil made of potato and chicken, its products include kibbeh, churros, and other snacks that are also popular in Brazil. 

DSORDER shared a minimal artwork collection, inspired by the sensitive way that music inspires us. The images are created in 3Ds Max with Corona Render , looking for the incidence of light in the materials. They also have this retro/80s look.

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.

Champ Panupong Techawongthawon partnered with TED Ed in creating this video. For this project, Champ mentioned he had a lot of fun art directing, designing and animating this piece.

It still stunned me how after many years, we still discover new artists to feature on abdz. Introducing Franco Spagnolo, a character designer, animation artist and illustrator from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Spanish branding agency BBRAND shared a branding project that they worked on in renewing Catlike's international branding at all levels. Founded by cyclist José del Ramo in Spain 25 years ago, Catlike manufactures the best helmets for demanding cyclists.

Cream was approached by Wunderman Thompson DC to create an animated TV spot that visualizes the desolate journey of someone suffering with Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD). It aired during a documentary on lung disease and its purpose was to target those who can relate.

Beware if you are a fan of Cyberpunk for this feature. I wanted to share this incredible project by a multidisciplinary designer and director named Luis Torres for Ultra Music Festival / Ultra Worldwide. Everything about this project screams excitement, cyberpunk vibes, and pure graphic visuals at its edge.

Claudio Errico shared a stunning 3D project titled Symphony No. 2.