Mike Smith opens a Figma file for the recent hotel branding project, which includes a mood board and three different directions. Beautiful work from a local Philadelphia studio Smith & Diction.

That’s a pretty cool demo of how powerful the Generator plugin is. Impressive!

Mark Bennett with an in-depth walkthrough of his process for creating CyberBlade illustration.

I’m a simple guy — if I see a beautiful physical UI redrawn in Figma, it goes into the newsletter.

Cool illustration by Benten Woodring with strong retro ​’80s and ​’90s vibes.

A fascinating story of using Figma to design and craft… quilts! ​“I would say that I design 80% of my quilts in Figma before I even cut the fabric. Other quilters improvise much more than I do, but I think my UX background and experience preparing assets for engineering teams makes me want to go in with a plan. Everything needs to be measured to the quarter inch, and Figma is a great tool for that.”

The beauty of Auto Layout in action by Dmitriy Bunin.

Beautiful illustration by Pawel Olek. Ridd is spot on — we’re entering the ​“circuitry era of web design”.

Beautiful illustration of a Brain turntable made in Figma.

James walks through his process of creating small animated illustrations for the new Clerk website.

Beautiful kick-off of the Figbruary by Vijay. See more by hashtag #figbruary on Twitter/​X.

High-quality maps in different styles and locations. From the streets of Oslo to a bird’s eye view of San Francisco — all in handcrafted vector and with examples of how they can be put to good use.

Beautiful work by Dylan de Heer: ​“a quartet of neumorphic buttons that are all about that subtle, mechanical depth — a touch of the future, crafted with a bit of that everyday rugged charm.”

Fantastic artwork made by Walid Beno in Figma.

A super detailed illustration with complex lighting and textures by Mark Bennett.

Incredible photorealistic illustrations made entirely in Figma by Anatole.

A cool technique of using randomizer plugins like Random Swap Variants and Variants Randomizer to generate a set of unique illustrations from predefined components.

A new plugin to generate free vector globes — spin the globe in the plugin window to update the frame, and then you can customize the result, tweaking colors for countries and more.

Using variables to create a night and day version of the same illustration. Love this approach!

I missed Vijay’s Figma recreations! A great illustration of the Sony Walkman, full of little details and textures. ​“Most of the shapes are created using primitive shapes with shadows and blend modes.”