Berlin Design Digest is a new design book that showcases work from 75 Berlin agencies. Berlin is a creative hot spot. With its remarkable history, its cosmopolitan attitude, and its many interdisciplinary experiments and trends, Berlin is attracting more and more creative-industry movers and shakers and startup founders from across the globe. 

To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of UNESCO naming Berlin a ”City of Design,” the editors Robert Eysoldt, a strategic and creative consultant, and Raban Ruddigkeit, a designer and editor, have assembled 100 successful projects, products, and processes by 75 Berlin agencies, design labs, public initiatives, networks, and universities, which currently connect Berlin with the world.

This book juxtaposes innovative experiments and trendsetting initiatives with mega-projects that are relevant to business as well. From architecture to humanitarian design and open source projects, via fashion, product, and communication design. In addition, twelve experts in design and communications offer their thoughts on various design disciplines and processes. including impulses from Anita Tillmann (Premium Group, Berlin), Nikolaus Hafermaas (ArtCenter, Los Angeles), Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz, and Thomas Willemeit (GRAFT, Berlin).

The book with 304 pages and more than 300 photos and illustrations will not only inspire readers, but also enable them to exchange, cooperate, and initiate projects with creatives and designers from Berlin that transcend cultures and nations, and that promote an open society and a free world.  

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Game Design is definitely a category we don’t feature enough on Abduzeedo, that being said let’s take a look at what might be a glimpse of Paris in the year of 2084 through the eyes of Paul Chadeisson. These are actually illustrations from a game named: Rememberme, I love the futuristic influence that totally reminds of Blade Runner which is quite interesting knowingly the beauty of the streets of Paris with a modern flair from Tokyo.

Published on Behance, we are following the work of Paul Chadeisson who is a digital artist and game developer based in Paris, France. Paul has also worked on Movie/TV series for Robin Hood, Final Fantasy, Tron: Uprising and more. You should definitely check out his work.

Pawel Kuczynski is a polish artist who creates amazing satirical illustrations. When you first look at the illustrations you think they are funny. On a closer look you actually realize that they are much deeper. Pawel illustrates some pretty serious world problems. He portrays political, social and cultural issues we deal with daily. Pawel certainly uses his illustrations to show us in a pretty straight forward way what is wrong with our world today. Too much social media time, internet, political craziness. It is all portrayed here, take a look. Pawel’s work is highly recognized and the artist has been rewarded with more than 100 prizes and distinctions. His take on world’s problems is certainly thought provoking. Take a look.

Take your time to check each illustration and think about it. Make sure to visit his Instagram for more artworks. And if you want to know more about each image, visit his Facebook. Enjoy!

I was born in 1976 in Szczecin. I have graduated Fine Arts Academy in Poznan with specialization in graphics. Since 2004 I deal with satirical illustration, and so far I have been rewarded with more than 100 prizes and distinctions.

More about Pawel Kuczynski:

• Instagram
• Facebook
• pawelkuczynski.com

Let’s take a look at this architecture series by photographer Raphael Olivier about the booming scene of the architecture growth in Seoul, Korea. After horrific events that happened about half of a five decades ago, the city has been rebuilding their foundation and structure to offer us a world-class urban design with concrete, shapes and bold angles that made Seoul, the world’s fastest developing city.

Published on Behance is the work from Raphael Olivier. Raphael is a photographer based in Singapore, you should definitely check out his portfolio. It’s filled with a wide range of styles of photography from portrait and case studies.

Seoul, capital of South Korea, has a history of 2000 years but was heavily bombed during the Korean War (1950 – 1953) and mostly left in ruins.

From the 1960’s, the reconstruction of the country, led by former president Park Chung-hee, was marked by rapid economic growth and industrial development. Seoul became a major economic powerhouse and its population grew exponentially, while its urban landscape was shaped by notoriously boring public housing.

However, in the past decade the city has been quickly reinventing itself as a super trendy capital and creative urban center with world-class design and architecture. One of the most noticeable trends in construction is a massive revival of brutalist-style architecture, refined with a modern twist. Whether for residential, commercial, institutional or religious buildings, the use of raw concrete, bold shapes and sharp angles is becoming predominant all around the city. Through a personal study on Neo-Brutalism, this photo essay aims to give a small glimpse onto the booming architectural scene of Seoul, one of the world’s fastest developing city and Asia’s rising stars.

Let’s take a look at this interior design by ORBIT of a Virgin Active Fitness located in Central Eastville, Bangkok. You’ll be charmed by a futuristic design and layered into different themes whatever it was for swimming, weightlifting or even intense cycling sessions. I personally loved the play of the neon lights coming from the ceiling. We are featuring the work from Tinnaphop Chawatin who is an architectural photographer behind these beautiful shots.

Published on Behance is the work from Tinnaphop Chawatin who is an architectural photographer based in Bangkok, Thailand. You should definitely follow his work if you’re interested into architecture.

Credits

• Interior Design : ORBIT
• Photographer : Tinnaphop Chawatin and Chakkraphob Sermphasit

Let’s take a look at this interaction design project that is quite interesting that involves UI/UX as well. It’s a concept display named: Caseture that uses gesture based interactions in digital experiences. It could a glimpse that what could be a potential experience in the near future, for the “case” being they worked on a concept through how every human action passes through 7 stages. I would definitely advise to watch the videos as well to completely understand the whole experience.

Published on Behance is the work from Eduardo Marzionna who is a senior art director/designer and Luis Uribe who is an art director, they are both based in Germany.

Caseture is a humanscale screen installation that explores the potential of gesture based interactions in digital experiences. Having emotions at the core of its concept, it’s a journey based on the theoretical basis of Donald Norman’s ‘Stages of Action’ – how every human action passes through 7 stages.

Videos

Credits

• Luis Uribe
• Eduardo Marzionna

Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo. A city I miss dearly! To remedy to my sadness (hah), let’s take a look at the photojournalism project by Stijn Hoekstra. Named Cinematic Tokyo (the project title says it all), I love his approach from a cinematic perspective considering that is also part of his daytime job which makes it even more perfect with Tokyo as a working environment. It’s such a busy city that Stijn captured moments that makes us feel we are in an actual movie which makes it quite interesting.

Published on Behance is the work from Stijn Hoekstra who is a freelance cinematographer and photographer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. If you love his style, you should definitely follow his Instagram for more of his work.