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Daily Inspiration #360

abduzeedo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:23:50 +0000

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use "Daily Inspiration" in the subject, and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo

If possible use the HTML code: <a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a>

Do you want to see all the images from all the Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com

al b sure

Caio

Based on the idea of the movement and the light reacting to the music. A video directed by Scott Altman, produced by Videobeast and label EMI/Kitsuné.

Digitalism - Jupiter Room from scottaltman on Vimeo.

Carbon Night

Eugene Kim

Evan Bourcier

Fabio

main road|post showreel 2009 from Arman Yahin on Vimeo.

"Spacious Thoughts" NASA feat. Kool Keith & Tom Waits from Fluorescent Hill on Vimeo.

Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.

Garo

Gisele

James Dolan

JenC

La Cause

Remonte tes chaussettes from lacause on Vimeo.

LuXo

Milko Melian

Plyroot

Rafa? Wysocza?ski

Romen

slayyou

Sergio

Inspire The World from Man Zanas on Vimeo.

Steven Medina

Tarek

Via Twitter

Send your suggestions via Twitter to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo using #abdz in the end of the tweet.

@MateToth90

@linuslundin

@djbennett999

@JustRaindrops

About the author

My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com.

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Wallpaper of the Week #75 - David Mascha

abduzeedo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:13:40 +0000

The wallpaper of this week is an amazing design create by David Mascha, a artist and designer from Vienna, Austria. David is part of the DEPTHCORE collective and he has been working since 2005 for several design studios from Viena and other international projects.

For more information visit David Mascha's website at http://www.davidmascha.com/

Desktop Version

iPhone Version

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Best of the Week #92

fabiano — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:53:21 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

We want to give a big thanks to our sponsors:
Wix, ShutterStock, Reflex Stock, Taste of Ink Studios, W3-Markup, P2H.COM, Harvest, VectorStock™, 2large2email , Flash Menu Factory, Billings, Carbonmade, Chorus and SiteGrinder. A special mention to Media Temple for the excellent service and support with Abduzeedo!

You can send me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_best in the message.

About the author

I'm from Brazil, co-founder of Zee with Fabio. Nowadays I like to play with Fireworks, Photoshop and improve my skills in CSS. If you wanna request some posts, please feel free to contact me or follow on Twitter.

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Daily Inspiration #359

GisMullr — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:15:08 +0000

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use "Daily Inspiration" in the subject, and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo

If possible use the HTML code: <a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a>

Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com

Ahmed

al b sure

alex tass

ecrocks

eDsanca

Fabiano

Fabio

fksd

Gisele

KingsleyNebechi

Linus Lundin

Teaser. Nov 09 from Linus Lundin on Vimeo.

Miguelus

Tiago Bernardes

Via Twitter

Send your suggestions via Twitter to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo using #abdz in the end of the tweet.

@djbennett999

@lenaraaa

MTV International / Sweetheart from Universal Everything on Vimeo.

@oscarhoglund

Battery Love from Oscar Höglund on Vimeo.

About the author

Someone with a bachelor degree in Foreign Trade that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. A person ‘digging’ a new way as a ‘geek apprentice’, blogger 'wanna be' and a communication lover! Current location: Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil
Twitter user: gismullr

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The Future of Newspaper Design

Francisco — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:32:12 +0000

I saw this post today on core77 and I thought it was a great story to share it with our Abduzeedo readers. I'm sure you've all heard the notion that "print is a dying medium." Advertising in print is down, and seems to continue declining, because more people are going online to read content.

So what do we do? Do we just write Print's obituary and sit around remembering it fondly, or do we try to salvage it? A brand new daily publication in Portugal, simply titled i, is trying something new and they are getting positive results. i's circulation had increased from 11,000 in May to 16,000 in August.

So how are they doing it?

i is not structured like a traditional paper. The paper's team worked with media consultancy Innovation to come up with a new way to organise the product. "Our feeling was," said Figueiredo, who came on board at an early stage, moving from Diário Económico, "that people were not concerned about traditional sections any more. Traditionally, journalists have to fill a politics section even if there is nothing relevant going on in politics. We wanted to come up with something different." So the team came up with five key needs that they wanted the paper to address, with five key words.

A New Design

Apart from restructuring the content, they've also broken away from the traditional minimal design of a newspaper and they have gone for a more magazine-like approach.

Nick Mrozowski, i's American art director, said that "I think the overriding concept, not just in the design but in the newspaper as a whole, is that we want to try to set out to produce a magazine every day." The 56- to 64-page paper is tabloid size and stapled, so looks as much like a magazine as a newspaper.

A huge amount of work goes into designing the paper every day. At first, Mrozowski explained, the idea was that the paper would have a template that would leave some pages fixed each time, meaning that some pages would require no design work on a daily basis and that editors would simply put their content into the pre-designed format. "But from day one that strategy fell apart," he said. "We realised that the sort of paper we were making had a lot of very specialised content and each page would have to be custom-made to the needs of a reporter or editor."

Of course this appeals to me as a graphic designer but I wonder if this can become too much work to keep up with. By restructuring their content areas they were able to alleviate the need to fill up whole sections with worthless news, but now I feel that the pressure to deliver has been transferred over to the design aspect of the newspaper. Only time will tell if this proves to be the case. I really hope this newspaper continues to be successful. I hope it inspires other newspapers.

Read the full article on www.editorsweblog.org

This video is in Portuguese with English subtitles.

About the author

Hi readers!
I'm a Graphic Designer in New York City (Brooklyn!). NY is a hub for design and my posts will try to focus on, but will not be limited to, design related things happening in NY, such as museum exhibits, architecture, events, local artist interviews, galleries, etc. I'm very much into technology and art and how they intersect to make multimedia art installations. Hope you enjoy my posts!
My site: www.franciscog.com

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #24

paul0v2 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:06:10 +0000

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it's awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#24 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts

Champagne & Limousines

by Nymphont

Download Champagne & Limousines

Copper Penny

by M.G. Adkins

Download Copper Penny

Oloron

by Michel Bujardet

Download Oloron

Will & Grace

by Harold's Fonts

Download Will & Grace

About the author

Hi! I'm Paulo Canabarro and I'm here to post some really cool stuff for you, if you have any ideas or any requests please get @ me - pvpcanabarro@gmail.com you can also Follow me on twitter!

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Sites of the Week #78

fabiano — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:07:59 +0000

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as the new Design Fruit and Poccuo. Also we're featuring a great app called Bidsketch, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy to feature your site.

You can send me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_sites in the message.

DESIGN / CSS

Poccuo - poccuo.com

It's a Thursday in November. We're growing curious about the perpetually broken escalators at the north exit of the Dupont Circle Metro.

fsdsign - fsdsign.com

Hi, F$ dsign is mainly composed by Alan Balcázar and Jorge Pinedo. Collaborating agencies and work on my own.

APP / WEB APP

Bidsketch - bidsketch.com

Design Proposal Software made for designers.

Buzapp - buzapp.com

Started as a side project, Buzapp was created as a fun part-time gig. Some people decide to play a sport; others might learn how to play an instrument. We decided apps were going to be ‘our’ thing.

COMMUNITY / STORE

Hive Awards - hiveawards.com

If you’re here to enter, you can skip this paragraph entirely. But if you’d like some background, the Hive Awards are designed for “the unsung heroes of the internet.” That means all the coders, programmers, user experience designers, content strategists, information architects, planners and the like who rarely get any credit. It also means we give awards for different industry groups, so that a b-to-b insurance site is not competing with a site like MTV.com.

Design Fruit - designfruit.com

Designfruit provides high-quality digital and real-world designs in the form of Photoshop brushes, vectors, vinyl wall art, prints and other design goods in a range of themes including foliage, patterns, borders, vines, and tattoos; all royalty-free.

FLASH SITE

Wallzo - wallzo.com

Wallzo Projects

Haunch of Venison - haunchofvenison.co

Haunch of Venison

BLOG / PORTFOLIO

Toopi - toopi.in

Welcome to my portfolio. as you can see i am interested in all things creative and totally obsessed with design and interactive media. i hope you really enjoy looking at my work as much as i have enjoyed creating it.

NBM - nbm.com.au

Does your business need a world class website? NBM provides products, services and online marketing solutions to cater to your business's unique needs.

TEMPLATES

Elemental Theme - prothemedesign.com

A clean & powerful blog framework for WordPress packed with options for customizable layouts, typography, navigation, widgets, page templates and more.

Digital Farm - woothemes.com

This previous, vibrant blog design of Mark Forrester’s personal site was well received and showcased in many CSS galleries so boasts a solid track record. Bundled with a fully customizable header space, optional sidebar slider and a dedicated portfolio page, together with some minimal corporate alternate styles this theme caters for a wide market.

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Picasso Superheroes by Mike Esparza

abduzeedo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:11:55 +0000

We love comic books and superheroes and it's hard to explain why, however we could say that it's one of our first contacts with art, even though they are commercial. Now imagine if a famoust artist like Pablo Picasso were alive and decided to paint about superheroes? That is what Mike Esparza decided to play with, he created a superhero series with the Picasso's Cubist style.

I get a lot of my inspiration from comic books, movies, music and observing other artwork. When I paint, I tend to bend the rules a little, but try to keep my subject recognizable so the audience can still connect with it. Pablo Picasso is a great influence, I’ve always wondered if he were alive today, what would he paint? This past year I’ve had a lot of fun creating a superhero series with a Picasso style twist to them. I do have some super plans for creating more superhero artwork in the near future.

Do not forget to check out Mike's website, there are tons of inspiration.

About Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. - Wikipedia

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25+ Super Useful Paper Textures

PauloGabriel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:00:16 +0000

After working a while on a project that I need some textures, I remembered how important it is to have good resourcers at hand. I went looking for some paper textures, and it took me some time, so I thought it would be a good idea to make a selection of the best I found.

It's amazing, but some of the greatest textures sites I know don't have paper textures, so I ended up going to DeviantART as usual... and geez, I wonder if there's something I can't actually find there... what a great resource! So here are the texture I found, and I really hope you enjoy them. Don't forget to check out DeviantART for more (but really, these are the best in my opinion). Cheers! ;)

About the author

Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, a 25 years old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I work as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobbie for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! For more cool stuff, you may also follow me on Twitter.

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Daily Inspiration #358

GisMullr — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:33:09 +0000

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use "Daily Inspiration" in the subject, and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo

If possible use the HTML code: <a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a>

Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com

al b sure

alex tass

amp368

B.Romain

Conrado Arduini

DannyWalkman

eugene kim

Evan Bourcier

Fabio

fksd

Gisele

jacoaf

Jeff Osborne

Linus Lundin

Monday from Linus Lundin on Vimeo.

Moulay_dodo

Paradoxchild

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Send your suggestions via Twitter to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo using #abdz in the end of the tweet.

Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials

Daily Inspiration #360

Do you want to see all the images from all the Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com

al b sure

Caio

Carbon Night

Eugene Kim

Evan Bourcier

Fabio

Garo

Gisele

James Dolan

JenC

La Cause

LuXo

Milko Melian

Plyroot

Rafa? Wysocza?ski

Romen

slayyou

Sergio

Steven Medina

Tarek

Via Twitter

@MateToth90

@linuslundin

@djbennett999

@JustRaindrops

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Wallpaper of the Week #75 - David Mascha

The wallpaper of this week is an amazing design create by David Mascha, a artist and designer from Vienna, Austria. David is part of the DEPTHCORE collective and he has been working since 2005 for several design studios from Viena and other international projects.

Resolutions:

About the author

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Best of the Week #92

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

Friday 11/20

Thursday 11/19

Wednesday 11/18

Tuesday 11/17

Monday 11/16

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Daily Inspiration #359

Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com

Ahmed

al b sure

alex tass

ecrocks

eDsanca

Fabiano

Fabio

fksd

Gisele

KingsleyNebechi

Linus Lundin

Miguelus

Tiago Bernardes

Via Twitter

@djbennett999

@lenaraaa

@oscarhoglund

About the author

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The Future of Newspaper Design

I saw this post today on core77 and I thought it was a great story to share it with our Abduzeedo readers. I'm sure you've all heard the notion that "print is a dying medium." Advertising in print is down, and seems to continue declining, because more people are going online to read content.

So how are they doing it?

A New Design

About the author

Sponsored Links:

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #24

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it's awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#24 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

Champagne & Limousines

Download Champagne & Limousines

Copper Penny

Download Copper Penny

Oloron

Download Oloron

Will & Grace