Exotic Destinations On Earth is a graphic design project created and shared by JIMMI TUAN and Bratus ™. The idea was to create a calendar and gift for students to get confident for an ESL english test. The restult is a set of beautiful illustrations about the most exotic destinations in our planet. From the desert to rout 66, there are many well-known and not so popular places, but the style and composition of the graphic design pieces are top notch. Below you can see them all. 

Project description

Premium IELTS is an online English preparation course, helping Planet’s student take the IELTS test with confidence. Bratus was asked to come up with an idea for the Calendar as an Appreciation Gift . These special presents will be gratefully handed to each students when they enroll in the course. Live. Study. Explore. In collaboration and discussion with clients, Bratus come up with a concept of opening opportunities to students successfully achieving high scores in future IELTS examination . Exotic Destinations on earth is a collection of various Minimal Illustrations. Through Geometry, in combination of lighting and shadow, We would like to take readers on a Journey of Mystery Places, from the immense dessert to the deepest cave

Graphic design

Credits

• Creative Director / Art Direction: Jimmi Tuan 
• Project Lead / Senior Graphic Designer: Trang Pham
• Illustration: Trang Pham, Tonbui 
• Support Designer: Huynh Co
• Account: Thanh Diem, Hien Nguyen
• Client: IELTS Planet
• Design Agency: Bratus 

Mobile photography seems to be easy task because you are using your smartphone, that you carrying everyday but it’s not. Finding the right perspective, light setting, subject are all part of what goes through your mind before the shot. What if you’re using a 23 megapixels smartphone, would it help? Well, that was Mikael Buck‘s task during his latest traveling to London, Paris and Dubai for which we are featuring today with the Burj Khalifa. The world’s tallest building at 828 meters high, where Mikael explored Dubai for Sony’s #NewPerspectives campaign.

This photo series has been shot by Mikael Buck who is a photographer based in London, UK. We have featured his work before on ABDZ and you should definitely check out his site for more of his work.

The idea was to photograph the world’s most Instragrammed landmarks in a unique way to show how you can break out of tired cliches. I was lucky enough to get sent to cover Big Ben, The Eiffel Tower and the mighty Burj Khalifa (the world’s tallest building at a mere 828 meters high).

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More Links

• Check out Mikael Buck’s Site: mikaelbuck.com
• Follow Mikael on Behance

What is the best prototyping tool out there? We have asked that question to ourselves and between us many times. The answer is simple, there isn’t one. All the tools out there have their own advantages and disadvantages, the question is which prototyping tool works the best for you? One thing though, we are living at an incredible time and grateful to have so many great tools at our disposal to increase our workflow, achieve better results and collaboration. Maybe it’s just about having your own list of criteria to tackle down.

I’ve tried a lot of prototyping tools and still haven’t touched the surface of what’s out there. During the past couples of years, I have tried Axure, Marvel App, UXPin, Atomic and more. Let me breakdown three prototyping tools that worked pretty well for me and my design needs. Remember there isn’t such thing as one “best” tool that rules them all. Ask yourself questions on the pricing, what it could do on short terms and long terms, what platforms you wanna work on and even what is my workplace is currently using.

Remember there isn’t such thing as one “best” tool that rules them all.

Sketch + InVision

InVision

I love InVision! For many reasons too, but I feel where InVision shines is the fact you can do-it-all under one roof when combined with Sketch or Photoshop. For my case, I use it with Sketch and combined with their plugin Craft. Together into a very powerful tool for the mood-board, prototyping, syncing, free hand (neat!), user-testing and more. Along with their tool, they are pretty active within the community with their blog, announcements, and famous newsletter! They keep adding new features for us to discover which makes them a game-changer in the industry.

Price

• Free

Principle for Mac

Principle for Mac

Another tool that I really do enjoy and it’s Principle for Mac. Right off the bat, I love the fact that you’re off a pricing of a monthly plan, you purchase it once and it’s yours forever. What’s neat with Principle for Mac is that you can record your prototype then export it as a video or animated GIF. We know how important it is and cool to be able to share your process as a GIF! Another thing that I feel work pretty well with Principle for Mac, you don’t need an internet connection to work on this tool. Being offline can increase your productivity instead of relying on a fast connection.

Price

• $129USD

Framer

Framer

We have recently featured Framer Design on ABDZ and they highly have the potential to change the game in the near future. Their latest integration of a smart graphics tool and now simple code editor together combines into a very powerful tool. From the auto-layout functions on the interface design to the power of code-based prototyping to the masses. I ordered my copy and I’ll play with it and shares my thoughts on the next article.

Price

• $15USD/per month

Voilà! Cheers to another quick roundup, hope this will help you to refine your design process. We all have the same goals to achieve greatness and still enjoy ourselves too. Also, it’s never too late to learn new things and discover tools that change your workflow for the better.

More Links

• Follow my tweets @aoirostudio
• Follow my pictures on Instagram

Let’s take a look at this editorial design & branding project for Tokyo Metropolitan Government by Nosigner. There’s a high importance of user friendliness in Japan, this might a good subject for another article but let’s not derail for now. This book has been created to help citizens to be prepared in case of a disaster and has been distributed to 7.5 million households. Two things I love about this design, first the colour to make very distinguishable and the manga comic illustration approach to be super easy to follow. What do you think?

Behind this project, we have the work from Nosigner who is a design firm based in Yokohama, Japan. I love the definition of their name who means: “professionals who design intangible things”. You should definitely follow their Behance.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has compiled a manual for disaster defense called “Tokyo Bousai” (English title “Disaster Preparedness Tokyo”). NOSIGNER is in charge of its design and edition collaborating with DENTSU INC. In order to help households get fully prepared for an earthquake directly hitting Tokyo and other various disasters, the book is distributed to 7.5 million households. The stripes with color Yellow and Black as a warning icon will help you to find the book easily even in the case of emergency. Also, illustrated with a manga comic which will give you a simulated experience and easy-to-understand information on how to prepare for and respond to a disaster, it helps to get the attention even from people at the low level of consciousness for disaster defense.

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Credits

• Art Direction: Eisuke Tachikawa (Nosigner), Ryosuke Sakaki (Dentsu Inc.)
• Graphic Design: Kaori Hasegawa, Andraditya D.R.(Nosigner)
• Edition: Ryosuke Sakaki (Dentsu Inc.), Eisuke Tachikawa, Kaori Hasegawa (Nosigner)
• Illustration: Okamura Yuta
• Client: Tokyo Metropolitan Government
• Collaboration: Dentsu Inc.
• Photo: Kunihiko Sato (Nosigner)

More Links

• Check out Nosigner Site: nosigner.com
• Follow Nosigner on Behance