Alejandro López Becerro, a designer based in Madrid, works under the name Muokkaa Studio and specializes in three-dimensional typography and illustration. His alluringly rendered letterforms are bright and unceasingly playful—he doesn’t just add depth to the shape of a character; he constructs it out of unexpected parts and in surprising ways.

I think it’s interesting to appreciate the aesthetic quality of this work—which follows the natural laws of light but is so preternaturally detailed that it would be wrong to call it photographic—and consider it as an alternative to the flat design trend of the past several years. I can easily imagine an operating system that looks like one of López Becerro’s renderings.

See more work at muokkaa.com.