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01901.

Brand Development & Direction for Grit

branding

With the new hottopbest design, we always feel compelled to somehow make an effort to mix and match with the grid design. It's quite fun and challenging. To keep this momentum, I wanted to share the work from Sabbath . and the brand direction project they developed for 'Grit' which is a marketing studio that focuses on strategy, content, e-commerce, and ads.

01902.

The Monster Project Gallery 2021

illustration

Kids draw monsters. Then artists from all over the world re-imagine those monsters in their own unique styles. The Monster Project (TheMonsterProject.org) teaches children about the power of their imaginations and encourages them to pursue their creative potential.

01904.

On the road of 100 Ethereum Icon Renderings — Crypto

crypto art

Taoliang Wang is a visual designer based in Changsha, China. He has been creating and on the road to conceptualize 100 variations of the Ethereum (ETH) icon renderings for Vuesax. For those who don't know what is ETH, well it's the 2nd most popular cryptocurrency conceived in 2013 by programmer Vitalik Buterin.

01905.

Siili Making IT Real - Branding and Visual Identity

branding

BOND Creative Agency shared a branding and visual identity case study for the technology powerhouse Siili, which was in need of a full re-imagination of their brand to reflect a sharper, more international attitude, while not letting go of their no-nonsense, hands-on and human driven approach. In addition to putting the new growth strategy

01906.

Command — Keycaps Designs by MVKB

offices

This set is an homage to the sci-fi books, TV shows and movies we all grew up with. It takes inspiration from a bunch of them, and adds its own little twists. Every single legends is custom designed, including the made-up alien-overlord language. The name "Command" comes from "By your command!", the Cylon battle cry from Battlestar Galactica.

01908.

That Painful Necessity of Thought

graphic design

Following my new passion of posting about things that show light refraction or holographic type of effects. For this one I bring this old but quite beautiful graphic design project created by the amazingly talented folks over at molistudio ™ in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

01910.

Blender 3D Inspiration

blender 3d

At hottopbest, we are on this 'rampage' to learn Blender 3D which is an amazing 3D tool and it's free! Fabio has been doing lots of cool stuff and me I am more learning the ropes at the moment.

01911.

Wallpaper of the Week

wallpaper

One of our most popular series is back. The Wallpaper of the Week is happening again due to the incredible demand and pressure from myself and Francois hah! Jokes aside. We have been seeing some really great work, plus taking some good pictures that we think might be great for your phone, tablet or computer wallpapers.

01913.

Cubic Quilt — 3D Art

3d

When I stumbled across the cover image, I remembered since my kid has been asking for a cubic for the past week. They are hard to find in Switzerland! Five Three Five Design has paid a wonderful personal experiments inspired by the craft of 'quilt making'. First, there was the pattern creation and then stylish turning them into 3D.

01914.

3D Inspiration featuring Danilo Gusmao Silveira

3d

I keep bumping into Danilo Gusmão Silveira work while browsing Behance. It’s funny because I always think to myself, I need to post about him. But for some reason, or just a billion tabs open, that thought gets lost. Not today. Today, after I saw the awesome dune image, done entirely in 3D I went straight to write the post.

01915.

Making Kinetic Motion Posters From Home

motion design

Nawaz Alamgir had some down time and wanted to experiment with some motion design and text animations in After Effects, his plan was to mess around and maybe make one or two designs but he kept finding out new styles and methods and just kept making more and more posters..I stopped at 10 posters... but then 20... 25 okay 30 - he mentions.