A cool looking packaging “packed” with illustrations by Andrew Wagner for Häagen-Dazs. In collaboration with a UK-based creative agency called LOVE, they were in charge of the brand design overhaul meanwhile Andrew was in charge of the illustrated pattern to represent each and different flavours. The folks at LOVE invited artists from around the World to collaborate on this project and Andrew was one of the many lucky ones to work on this project, he has to create a pattern that would represent Vanilla Pecan, and Banana & Cream.

Andrew Wagner is a multidisciplinary designer and artist based in San Diego, CA. He has worked with brands like Adobe, Häagen-Dazs and IBM, also serve as an adjunct teacher at the Woodbury University.

Häagen-Dazs has recently embarked on their biggest packaging overhaul in almost 20 years -LOVE, the UK based creative agency behind the new brand design overhaul, wanted to make the packaging an object of desire, and bring to life all Häagen-Dazs’ extraordinary recipe textures, colours and sensations. As part of the design process, LOVE invited 13 artists from across the world, each with a distinct style, to create a unique illustrated pattern for each Haagen-Dazs flavour. From 3D illustrators to flat graphic artists and textile designers, each was paired with the flavours that felt most connected to their work. I had the pleasure of being one of the 13 artists, and the wonderful flavours I was tasked to visually create were Vanilla Pecan, and Banana & Cream!

Links

• Check out Andrew Wagner’s Site: awags.us
• Check out his work on Behance

Stuart Lippincott has been posting some incredible 3D rendering on his Behance profile. They are part of his everyday challenge and as the name suggest, he has been creating one illustration every day. I particular love the style and I can see that it’s becoming more and more a trend. The surreal mood withe small people or just a small person facing a massive object, usually with strong light effects. It reminds me of the 80s, very abstract and sometimes stark, but with this futurist vibe. Anyway check out below some beautiful 3D rendering work.

Stuart is an animator, motion designer and sound designer from Bentonville, Arkansas, USA. As he mentions on his profile, “he is just trying to do things he loves and hope you enjoy his work” – I do enjoy your work Stuart, I love it so much that I will dust off my Cinema 4D and will try to improve my 3D rendering game. 

For more information and to check out all images make sure to check out his Behance profile at 

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Let’s have a look at a beautiful series of illustration by Jing Zhang about the maps of America. With the summer season hitting its full speed, this series is quite inspiring of your next road tip this year. Jing Zhang has been inspired since this is her second map projects for when she drove across America back in 2016. She will highlight some of the key architectural locations from each state mixed with beautiful colours and of course gradients!

Jing Zhang is an illustrator based in London, UK; as I quote: “who has love for cities, architecture, food, and technologies.” We’ve seen her work before on ABDZ, you should definitely follow her work on Behance.

I’ve spent four exhilarating months in 2016 visiting the biggest village on earth, the Global Village, travelling eastbound around the world with numerous interesting stops. City has its own colour palette, flavour, sound, and personality. The difference between our culture is what makes our cities so wonderful.

Links

• Check out Jing Zhang’s Site: mazakii.com
• Check out her work on Behance

We are taking a look at this interaction design & motion project of the iOS app called: Defind. What is it? It’s an app that will search of word for you by you defining its definition. The concept might be useless to some but I liked about this project is about its execution, flow, motion and overall UI design. Designed by Alex Pluda, the app is taking through different sections to find that particular word from research, synonyms, translation and more.

Alex Pluda is working as general manager at A Maza Inc where he focus his work into interaction design, UI/UX and graphic design. You might have recognized his Barry the Touch Bar project, check it out via his Behance.

How many times it happens we can’t remember that word we need. This time has come ti an end (almost). Defind helps you to remember any word just by typing a definition.

Links

• Make sure to follow the latest from Alex Pluda on Behance

In Photography, you are welcomed to a wide range of a variety of tools to somehow increase your workflow or simply change the game. We’ve seen things from aerial to drones but how about street photography using a car? Volvo Cars has teamed up with Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and artist Barbara Davidson for a World’s First Photo Exhibition using the on-board safety cameras of the new Volvo XC60 to create a special collection of photographs. Connecting art and safety for people to see the benefits of technology such as cameras and on-board sensors in cars. The photographs were first exhibited at Canvas Studios gallery in London’s Shoreditch this week and the exhibition will travel to other countries during 2017.

Barbara Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize & Emmy Award winning photographer located in Los Angeles, CA and former staff photographer for The Los Angeles Times. You can follow her tweets @photospice and her Instagram.

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Copenhagen, Denmark. I had an amazing experience collaborating with Volvo Cars to create the worlds first ever photo exhibition using the #XC60’s car safety camera. The project played out like a film production and all scenes were created for this commercial endeavor. Was really nice to work on a conceptual body of work which is vastly different from my life as a photojournalist thanks to all the crew for this amazing experience!

Over 1.2 million people die each year in road accidents around the globe. Volvo’s approach to road safety is focused on real-life traffic situations which the company has studied in detail since 1970 through its Traffic Accident Research Team. With this matchless set of real-world data Volvo’s safety engineers have set about systematically working to mitigate or eliminate potential life-threatening accidents.

“We take a realistic and practical approach to safety at Volvo Cars. Our vision is to reach a point in time where no one should be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo car. We call it Vision 2020,” said Malin Ekholm, Vice President of Volvo Cars Safety Centre.

Links

• Learn more about Volvo Cars at volvocars.com
• Learn more about Barbara Davidson via Instagram
• Follow along with #XC60Moments

Yuta Takahashi shared an incredible graphic design and editorial design project on his Behance profile titled Erkenntnisweg und Heiliger Geist.  As he mentions in the description, this book, which combines modernity and minimalism, ancient knowledge and philosophical thought, has a completely new, unique design. You can definitely see that right away with the cover that is simple but very elegant because of the paper texture. Below I also added more info I got from the project, but just spend some time checking the images, they are truly inspiring.

We designed Michael Debus’s book “Erkenntnisweg und Heiliger Geist”. The book attempts to use philosophy to unravel the wisdom handed down in the form of myths and legends.

Project description

Through the unique cover art, we represented the idea of multiple layers of doors of knowledge appearing and being opened by thought. On the other side of the door, the letter “I” appears. We represented the reader’s awareness transitioning from darkness to daylight through the use of neutral colors between light and shadow. As a result the book’s appearance is reminiscent of the cloister in church architecture.

Graphic design

Yuta Takahashi is an Art Director, Designer, working on branding graphic design, editorial design and packaging design. His work feature minimal designs which grasp the essence of materials and remove unnecessary elements. For more information make sure to check out and follow Yuta on.

• Instagram
• www.yutatakahashi.jp

One of the many great advantages of doing the Daily Inspirations is to discover talented artists all over. This digital art series by Filip Hodas are part of my findings; his series is entitled: Pop Culture Dystopia. It’s a beautiful series where dystopia goes where the imagined where everything is different and unpleasant. A right insightful perspective to the future if things would go bad, looking forward of seeing more.

Filip Hodas is a freelance 3D artist located in Prague, Czech Republic. Focusing his work in sculting, illustration and digital art; follow the latest of this work on his Behance.

A series showing popular culture icons in realistic dystopian environments.

Links

• Check out the latest from Filip on Behance

Starting off the week with this stunning magazine that is a spread for the Kiplinger Magazine located in Washington, DC. Designed by Pakistan-based Omar Aqil, he used a combination of Phoshop, Illustration and Cinema 4D. The result as you can imagine is right down colourful and you can’t help to appreciate all the details. Make sure to give him some love on Instagram.

Omar Aqil is a designer, art director and illustrator currently based in Lahore, Pakistan. You can follow his work and features from like Behance, Wacom, Adobe and more. I am quite supprised that we haven’t his work ever before.

Kiplinger’s Magazine Spread Illustrations | 2017 August Issue

Links

• Make sure to follow Omar on Behance
• Follow Omar on Instagram