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🏙 Yazid is Creating Simple, Minimal and Artificially Imperfect NFTs

Get a quick glance of the artist behind Hashed Cities

Kaloh
5 min readMar 4, 2022

If you are into minimalistic and abstract designs that still resemble physical objects or scenes, then you will love Yazid’s work. Like many other creators, the generative artist started his journey on the Tezos blockchain in April 2021 through the hic et nunc marketplace. His work in professional services led him to crypto and eventually into NFTs. That’s when he decided to get his hands dirty by minting to grasp all the concepts behind this emerging technology.

Hashed Cities #95 by Yazid. One iteration from Yazid’s most famous work.

I work in innovation for financial services and around late 2020 I started to notice a few trends which were starting to converge, such as more mainstream adoption of crypto, and the emergence of new groups of investors and asset classes (such as art, collectibles, or fractionalized assets). My research led me to NFTs and I eventually decided to do what I usually do whenever I want to get a better understanding of something technical, which is to get my hands dirty and actually try it. The fact that I was already familiar with crypto and comfortable with both technology and visual design made it slightly less daunting for me.

You could say Hashed Cities is his most popular generative collection until today. With a total volume of…

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