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Pixel Art

Pixel art drawn on a small grid of square pixels: icons, wordmarks, characters and games.

Pixel art is drawn on a deliberately small grid of square pixels, a style born with early video games and screens that today signals craft and a touch of nostalgia. Designers use it for icons, wordmarks, characters, games and even whole identities. This page gathers pixel wordmarks and icons from brand identities, game and device interfaces, pixel animation and low-resolution studies, by studios and artists such as Fol Studio, Anagram and Jack Butcher.

23 works by 21 creators, newest added 10 November 2026. Each is credited to the people who made it and links to the original.

All 23 Pixel Art

  1. Muse Ember by AutoRouter — The pixel art launch visual for Muse Ember, Meta's smallest AI model, built for the hundreds of small jobs an agent runs, where a block of pixels burns like an ember on a grid.
  2. Slot Field by Yousuf Soomro — Slot Field, a React component for type from the upcoming Kainat library, where one word holds still as real lines of HTML open around it and a field of pixel blocks fills the gap.
  3. Everpure Banknote by ILLO — A 2D brand animation from the Everpure campaign made with Bloomberg Media Studios, where cursor arrows assemble a banknote from slices of pastel colour, then let it melt into pixels.
  4. Base Blocks by Mouthwash Studio — The block motion system of the Base rebrand, where the square at the heart of the brand builds a pixel globe, letters and finally the wordmark, shaping possibility block by block.
  5. Wastetide Poster by Anagram — An animated poster for Wastetide, which treats industrial waste as a hidden financial asset, where red grid cells scan its wave mark like data under the line From trash to cash.
  6. Pixel Head Turn by Jack Butcher — A low-resolution pixel study of a head turning in silhouette, where chromatic aberration splits its edges into colour bands that break into loose pixels as the face turns to you.
  7. Scheduled Task by Szymon Pawlik — The breakdown of a SaaS launch film for Scheduled Task, where a Morning brief card rewrites its serif summary each day, its 1,400-plus layers laid open with the guides showing.
  8. Momentum Album Covers by Oliver Hamrin — Album cover art explorations offered for free to Kuka, an independent Mexican artist found on a Spotify playlist, for his upcoming album Momentum, mixing poppies, pixels and scribbles.
  9. Pattern Generator by Tirth — A generative pattern tool built to make high-quality patterns for a work-in-progress project, growing pixel islands, drifting blobs and meadows out of snippets of noise code.
  10. Blueprint Tool Visuals by Drice Roland — Generative patterns from design tools built in Blueprint, an app that lets designers make their own tools and share them with clients, from pixel tapestries to binary digits and leaves.
  11. Aeonik T-120 by Hawaii Design — A VHS-inspired type specimen for the Aeonik Superfamily of CoType Foundry, where tape markings make a motion poster and T-120 breaks into chunky pixels before rebuilding as smooth type.
  12. macOS Folder Icon Timeline by Raul Dronca — An interactive timeline of the macOS folder icon from 1984 to 2026, where dragging one scrubber morphs a single folder through every era, from 1-bit pixels to Aqua and today’s flat blue.
  13. LED Butter Pan by BB Korry — A hardware experiment in pixel art: a frying pan whose base is an LED grid, where a pat of butter melts, slides and sizzles as the pan tilts, now three times faster than before.
  14. Pixel Workflow Banner by Ayush Soni — A looping brand motion banner in pixel art, where modular blocks of colour snap together, break apart and rebuild in a corner under the line Create incredible workflows.
  15. Focus Music Maker by Shivani Matlapudi — A focus music maker web app that turns doodles into an ambient soundtrack: draw on the dot-matrix screen of a small skeuomorphic device and it plays while you time a work session.
  16. Pixel Bloom by Magnus Atom — A pixel and halftone flower opening from bud to bloom with chromatic aberration on its edges, R&D for Polsia in which an animation director tries a new style before the real work.
  17. DSIRF Logo Animation by Alex Gorbunov — A logo animation for DSIRF, a company building software for communication, privacy and intelligence services, where a terminal prompt spills code that folds into a pixel glyph.
  18. Lo Res by Karan Singh — A looping motion study in pixel art about resolution, where a running figure in glossy lavender tiles never breaks its stride while its pixels grow and shrink from fine detail to blocks.
  19. Skate Handheld by Ruslan Tikhomirow — A 3D modelling study of a retro handheld console in chunky pink, made for fun with a little help from AI, its green screen playing a pixel art skateboarding game over crates and cones.
  20. Paribu Art Icons by Fol Studio — Animated pixel icons for Paribu Art, the platform bridging digital and physical art, part of an identity built on pixels, with outlined pictograms from a clapperboard to a guitar.
  21. Paribu Art Gallery by Fol Studio — Brand motion for Paribu Art, the platform bridging digital and physical art, that makes a collection feel explorable rather than fixed: works orbit the wordmark, then the camera dives in.
  22. Paribu Art Wordmark by Fol Studio — A logo animation for Paribu Art, whose wordmark is drawn from pixels, the building blocks of the digital world, so it can collapse under physics into a heap of pastel crosses.
  23. A Fool’s Errand by IORAMA — A 1-bit pixel art game in dithered black and white, first released on Playdate in 2025 where the crank drives the climb, now on iPhone, its young hero scaling an endless spiral tower.

Featuring work by

Fol Studio, AutoRouter, Yousuf Soomro, ILLO, Mouthwash Studio, Anagram, Jack Butcher, Szymon Pawlik, Oliver Hamrin, Tirth, Drice Roland, Hawaii Design, Raul Dronca, BB Korry, Ayush Soni, Shivani Matlapudi, Magnus Atom, Alex Gorbunov, Karan Singh, Ruslan Tikhomirow, IORAMA.

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