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".

I recently came back from a trip to Japan, it was my first time there and I was blown away by the culture, especially the visuals. I was familiar with the aesthetics from video-games and mangas, however seeing some of the contrasts of peaceful and minimal to chaotic and colorful is incredible in person.

We’re big fans of Fort Point Beer, a New American brewery founded out of San Francisco by brothers Tyler and Justin Catalana in 2014. Not only are their beers truly unique and delicious, we can’t help but fall for Fort Point's gorgeous bento box brand identity and creative.

Burning Midnight started as a poem, a literary contribution to the Cyberpunk genre—but it became much more. The words inspired a group of us to band together to accompany the text with motion. The goal was to craft the piece entirely in CG, an exercise that we hoped would improve our skill sets in the realm of photo-reality.

We have been featuring Rik Oostenbroek ever since the early days of hottopbest. Rik has been a pioneer at crafting his visual style through all kinds of mediums. His goal is to always pushes the boundaries by experimenting with colors and compositions. By doing so, he has collaborated with Porsche, Apple, Taylor Swift, Swatch, HP, and just to name a few.

Alex Maltsev shared a beautiful 3D project recently. It’s a short film that allowed Alex to experiment with new 3D techniques for creating movements in 3D, full of vibrant colors to create hypnotic effects and gentle vibes as Alex describes. The Music is by Tom Quick. 

I have featured and followed Ekaterina Busygina for a couple of years now, my introduction to her work was through her captures of several cities of Asia. I stumbled across her captures of some metro stations in Moscow and they are so beautiful.

TianChen Deng is an 3D artist from Shanghai, China with a portfolio of quite beautiful 3D visualizations. For this project TianChen focused on further exploring the texture and lighting in compositions using old Sony devices as inspiration. Full disclosure by the artist, this publication has no commercial connection to Sony Corporation.

I stumbled across this very cool film tribute by Ambre Collective, an art and motion design studio from Paris. Titled 'Block 170', it's a film tribute about the first transaction ever on Blockchain between Satoshi Nakamoto (Creator of Bitcoin) and Hal Finney.

We're buzzing over a new packaging innovation by the team at Volley, a clean tequila seltzer brand with a commitment to transparency.