We started the designer spotlight to promote designers across the globe. 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 spread the word about their work.

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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.

Hawk is a new brand of Skateboard, which has a BIG purpose. Equality and freedom are the two words that represent Hawk. The brand is for those who do not carry prejudice, but also for those who believe in freedom of expression, of being.

Jindrich Novak shared a series of colorful 3D compositions titled RND. There’s not much information about the goals or reasons for doing them. It seems to be focused on exploring gradients, colors and light using Houdini. 

KOREA. It's pretty much taking over our lives lately with many incredible TV shows, music, language learning, and more. I think it's really great to make us get out of our comfort zones and just explore.

I think we all have seen at least once a clip or an episode of Astro Boy, a series from the 1950s that has been reprised a couple of times. What's great about these incarnations, they always tried to keep the essence of Astro Boy. Which is a science fiction series set in a future world where robots co-exist with humans.

At Adobe MAX, there are also cool announcements to your favorites Adobe products. Let's go with what's coming to Lightroom & Lightroom Classic.

Adobe MAX is back and it's packed with many cool announcements to your favorites Adobe products. We were very fortunate enough to be part of the communications and the new updates coming to Adobe Photoshop really caught my attention. Photoshop has been part of my toolset for more than a decade and it's always great to see the new features.

For some inexplicable reason, besides, my lack of attention, I missed this really awesome web design and editorial content website project that Rolf Jensen and Daniel Spacek. Created for Cotton in New York. They refer to the work as a  quick little project called Check The Label.

The amazing people over at Abstract Logic shared a really inspiring branding and visual identity project for Dope International, a music group and art company supporting work of high quality , integrity, and individuality. The work that Abstract did is  very thorough.

I have been quite inspired by how light reflects and refracts lights and objects creating quite stunning visual effects. For this post I bring this project designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro , The Tide includes a network of parks and spaces along a flowing pathway that follows the Thames.

Calvin Sprague shared a 3D project using Blender, Octane, Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop for Botanical Glassworks. The project is a selection of personal works experimenting with flat illustrated botanical shapes transformed into a three-dimensional space.

Bornfight Company shared a web design and user experience project for Laborati Ginori. Within the luxury furniture industry, everything revolves around making a statement. That is the thought that guided the designers from Bornfight while they worked on the Laborati Ginori online showroom. 

Mondial has created and shared a quite elegant branding and visual identity project for G.E. Paul.

Robin Chakraborty shared some beautiful 3D illustrations created using my favorite 3D tool, Blender 3D. The first illustration was inspired by the Untitled goose game and the other two illustrations were inspired by Robin’s all-time favorite cartoons Pokémon and Adventure time.

Jhony Caballero shared an awesome illustration for a spooky poster to celebrate Halloween. Jhony has always loved horror and horror movies, especially from the 80s and 90s, so, to celebrate that and Halloween, he wanted to make a tribute poster with some of his favorite characters over the years.

Pánico Estudio shared a beautiful branding and visual identity project created for Holke 79,  a freelance motion graphic designer based in Madrid, Spain. Punk meets Bauhaus, is how he defined the new image Pánico designers developed for him. 

Justin Au shared a really cool branding project for NSYA. Founded by former NASA directors, think tank strategists, and engineers, New York Space Alliance is a public benefit corporation leveraging New York resources and global talents to jumpstart entrepreneurship for spa

Let's take a look at the work from Ladislas Chachignot who is an illustrator, digital painter, and creator of the Citizens of the Jungle Illustration Series. What is it? Well, it's a series of portraits illustrating our lost connection towards nowadays strong resistance of technology and our initial primitive "wilderness".