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Best of the Week #90

fabiano — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:12:14 +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!

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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 #347

GisMullr — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:02:06 +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: <p class="imgC"><a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a></p>

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

al b sure

Bianconic

Bobby Moon

cxjn

Eugene

Evan Bourcier

Fabiano

Fabio

George

Gisele

Jake

Jaunty

Joannyta

Kimberly Flores

Miguelus

Sibouu

Stéphane

vinny08

Acciona RE from Garlic on Vimeo.

Vitor Mendes

Via Twitter

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

@djbennett999

@Paul_oO

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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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #22

paul0v2 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:43:14 +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#22 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts

Public Gothic

by A2591

Download Public Gothic

Oval

by Font Fabric

Download Oval

UA Squared

by Ben McGehee

Download UA Squared

Contra

by Apostrophic Labs

Download Contra

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 - paul0v2@abduzeedo.com you can also Follow me on twitter!

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Sites of the Week #76

fabiano — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:06:28 +0000

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as the new Authentic Jobs and Wildfireapp. Also we're featuring a great portfolio site for 31three, 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

Fontanel - fontanel.nl

Fontanelle is an online magazine that focuses on the latest developments in the design world with a focus on the young, talented and upcoming generation. (via Google Translate)

Authentic Jobs - authenticjobs.com

Authentic Jobs is a targeted destination for web & creative professionals, and the companies seeking to hire them.

APP / WEB APP

PagerDuty - pagerduty.com

Tired of being the last to know when your systems are down? PagerDuty aggregates alerts from any monitoring tool that sends email and calls you if there's a problem.

Wildfireapp - wildfireapp.com

We're dedicated to developing simple tools that help you promote your organization on the social web. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Wildfire Interactive, Inc. is a privately-held technology company specialized in developing simple tools that enable organizations to engage the hundreds of millions of users of social network sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

COMMUNITY / STORE

2high Festival - 2highfestival.com

Backbone Youth Arts presents 2high Festival. For two days Brisbane Powerhouse plays host to 2high Festival which brings young and emerging artists with interactive displays of art, live music, performance, and everything in between.

New Horizon Youth Centre - nhyouthcentre.org.uk

New Horizon Youth Centre aims to enable young people to gain skills and knowledge to improve their life chances and to help them move from adolescence into adulthood.

FLASH SITE

EKSRTD - eksrtd.com

EKSRTD - Home of a fashion & art inspired design collective.

Gladeye - gladeye.co.nz

Gladeye is a digital creative agency. We produce original interactive work for websites, games, interactive stories, and online advertising campaigns. We also develop online business strategy and web applications that people like to use.

BLOG / PORTFOLIO

31three - 31three.com

As a developer, you're an extremely creative individual. Getting your websites to behave in Internet Explorer is proof enough... you are creative. Even so, you may not have the time or know-how needed to get the design of your site looking as clean as your code.

Kean Richmond - keanrichmond.com

I'm Kean Richmond, a web designer and developer, based in North Yorkshire, UK. I love what I do and getting to not only design but build the websites I create is incredibly satisfying. It also has many benefits such as giving me an understanding of the overall processes involved in creating a website.

TEMPLATES

Headlines - woothemes.com

Headlines continues where our old magazine themes left off. It has tons of requested features like featured area, social bookmarks, author highlighting, flexible layout to name a few. It’s the perfect platform to launch your magazine or blog and reach out to the world!

Clickcloud - themeforest.net

Clickloud is a web 2.0 business software template. It’s mainly directed towards the companies that either produce or administrate web 2.0 software content (cloud software companies) but it may be used for a variety of other things: company portfolio, personal blog theme etc.

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Back to Space Case Study by Patrick Monkel

abduzeedo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:49:55 +0000

Patrick Monkel is the author of the wallpaper featured on this week's Wallpaper of the Week section. His design is a composition blending photos and a few color gradients, producing an outstanding effect. We asked if Patrick could share with us a case study showing how he did that, so, fortunately for us, he was very kind and did that :)

In this post we will show you the secret behind Patrick Monkel's wallpaper of ther week.

My name is Patrick Monkel. I'm a freelance graphic designer from The Netherlands with 7 years of experience. I studied Multimedia Engineering in Amsterdam and interested in all kinds of arts. Take a look around and feel free to contact me...

For more information visit Monks's website at http://www.patrickmonkel.nl/

Walkthrough

Wallpapers

Desktop Version

iPhone Version

For all resolutions visit the Wallpaper of the Week #72 - Patrick Monkel.

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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Great Illustrations from Thiago Pena

GisMullr — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:20:18 +0000

Today we will show you some great illustrations and a small bio from a Brazilian artist, Thiago Pena. For us it is really a pleasure to show artists from our Country, specially artists with great pieces as the ones you will see here. Thiago's illustrations are really unique. They have a different style, and the lines and shades are great. His drawings are a bit dark, they express a whole parallel atmosphere that get our attention immediately.

Thiago's work was actually suggested by his friend Wander to appear in our daily inspiration post, but as I really liked his images I decided to contact Thiago to get more info about him to write this article. So here you will be able to know a bit more about the artist and also check some of his illustrations. I hope you like the images as much as I did!

Don't forget to visit Thiago's flickr page to see more of his pieces. Enjoy the images!

I asked Thiago to tell us more about him and about when he started drawing. So from now on I present you Thiago, his words and work!

Well, I was born in Viçosa, MG/Brazil in 1985 and when I was 8 I moved to Mariana, where I lived until 2005, when I moved to BH to study Fine Arts at the Guignard School, UEMG where I'm concluding my graduation.

I'm not exactly sure about when exactly I started drawing, actually I know that I never stopped. Every kid is a potential illustrator, but when the aesthetic sense starts to appear they abandon drawing underestimating their potential. I probably started drawing non stop when I was 5, before going to primary school. When I was at the second grade I started having concentration problems at the classes. I used to sit by the window and draw parts of the landscape at the outside. Thinking about my concentration the teacher put me at the other side of the room, it kind of worked, but then I started drawing caricatures of her and my colleagues. From this time on the quality of my drawings became better even without knowing technics, which really bother me due to some frustrated creations. Because of that when I was 16 I decided to join the painting class at the FAOP (Fundação de Arte de Ouro Preto) where I attended for 3 years. I studied Drawing, Art History and Elements of the Artistic Language. I've learned the so famous perspective techniques, proportion, light and shadow, color theory and research for the creative process. It was a essential period to me where I had the real feeling about how the life of an artist works.

I already worked with experienced artists such as André Burian and Suely Pimentel, also gave some Art Culture work shops for more than 2 years and currently I work for brands as Hundead and Death Toll Records.

I always liked the Naturalism, Baroque, Surrealism and Hiper realism. I have a few of al them in my pieces but during the creative process I don't stick to any of them. And as for most people of my age, the influence of cartoon is also there. This is an influence that came to me before all other and that still has a big percentage in my creations, together with music influence of extreme metal, which I listening since I was a kid while drawing.

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The Awesomeness of Old B Horror Movies

PauloGabriel — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:00:15 +0000

Retro horror movies posters are pretty sweet, and designing them requires much more than just checking references and all that. The best reference to make a killer horror movie poster is to actually watch some old B horror movies!

I know that Halloween is gone, but we don't need an excuse to design and watch cool trailers, right? So here I made a selection of some really trashy, retro B horror movies trailers for your delight. I really hope you get the purpose of this: inspire the hell out of you. I hope you can still have a good night of sleep by the end of this post. Cheers! ;p

Monster in the Closet (1987)

Gorgo (1960)

Monster from a Prehistoric Planet (1967)

Magic (1978)

The Gate (1987)

Hell of the Living Dead (1980)

The Legend of Hell House (1973)

Deranged (1974)

The Evil (1978)

The House of the Witch (1975)

This one is my FAVORITE.

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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Really Neat Illustrations by Grzegorz Domaradzki

PauloGabriel — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:34:57 +0000

One thing I love about design is the variety of things one single designer does nowadays. Everyone is multi-task, and also does lots of cool stuff, like this one designer, Grzegorz Domaradzki. He's work is pretty amazing.

The variety of styles of his work just assures me of how good this guy is... there's no limitation! Everything is inspiration, how some might say. So, for more of his great work, you should all visit his portfolio at Behance. He'll really appreciate it! I hope you all enjoy it. Cheers! ;)

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Daily Inspiration #346

GisMullr — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:55:43 +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: <p class="imgC"><a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a></p>

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

al b sure

arnel hasanovic

Bromain

David Lee

Made in Rromania - teaser from Matei-Alexandru Mocanu on Vimeo.

Eliot Williams

enrico305

COMBO a collab animation by Blu and David Ellis from blu on Vimeo.

eugene

Fabiano

Fabio

Gisele

ILVOR

Jeroen van Eerden

mackie

maykel

Robby Milo

Sibouu

Shadowtuga

Snooz

Via Twitter

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

@bodimn

@Paul_oO

@pickelweasel

@sevenos

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Amazing Advertising Campaign Designs by Limb

paul0v2 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:18:37 +0000

Liem Nguyen aka Limb is a Art Director from Bangkok, Thailand and it's specialized in advertising design. Every one knows that the key to stay alive in the business you have to remain creative and Liem has no problem being creative. His works are not only creative but right on the dot, sending a clear message that will hit you right the way. Enjoy!

My name is Liem, pronounced "Limb". This leave-behind portfolio was designed to clear up any confusion. And also save me from explaining for the 147, 824th time, how to pronounce my name.

For more visit Limb on Behance and LimbTheTreeStem.com

All of my work is inside this little usb drive, so when I go to interviews this is all I bring with me.

Art Directors Club (ADC) Awards

I developed this concept and worked with photographer, Olaf Veltman, to create these call for entries posters for the annual Art Directors Club (ADC) Awards. The ADC wanted to elevate the status of what it takes to win a coveted Gold Cube so these ads depict hard work, dedication, and lack of sleep.

Pepto Bismol

I developed this concept and worked with illustrator, Hyeondo Park, to create this print campaign for Pepto Bismol. A visual pun was created for the term "Food sits well" using a chicken for poultry, a pig for pork, and a cow for beef. I actually met Hyeondo through Behance and this was our first time collaborating on a project. Hats off to him for some hilarious illustrations.

Ippudo

I came up with this poster for an authentic Japanese ramen restaurant in New York called Ippudo. The tear pieces resemble their egg noodles. The ramen is handmade fresh everyday so each piece says "Freshly cut ramen served everyday at Ippudo" followed by the address and phone number.

VICKS

I came up with this concept and worked with photographer, Chad Riley, to create this print campaign for VICKS. The idea is to make a visual pun of the term "stuffed nose" and how VICKS is there for you if one shows up. Because let's face it, who wants a stuffed nose anyways? I had the actual stuffed noses (felt, fur, terry-cloth) made in Singapore by a prop maker. The props ended up looking freaky and weird which actually helps the idea. All the actors are friends of mine who played each part perfectly.

Bounty

I came up with this concept and worked with Gigunda Group to create these posters for Bounty. The strategy was to focus on the absorbency power of the paper towel... so we literally created big spills. In New York we greeted busy commuters with a giant coffee spill. In Los Angeles we greeted all the weekend shoppers with a giant melting popsicle. It took 24 hrs to melt all the way through.

Coinstar

I came up with this concept worked with photographer, Li-Han Lin, to create this print campaign for Coinstar -- a machine that gives you cash for your coins. I wanted something visually simple and iconic. Thus, showcasing broken piggy banks not full of coins but what the potential inside of them could be. No need for a headline if the visual does all the explaining for you. This campaign is currently in various advertising award shows.

NYC Taxi

I designed this bus shelter campaign, and also wrote the copy, for NYC Taxi. It strategically targets people who ride buses instead of taking cabs. I also know first-hand that waiting for a bus in New York sucks.

Advil

I created these print ads for Advil, head-ache medicine. I wanted to do something simple and polarizing, in effect to give people an actual head-ache. This campaign won a Gold Cube at the International Art Director's Club and was featured in the Graphis Annual, as well as CREATIVITY and CMYK Magazine.

Amazing, isn't it?

For more visit Limb on Behance and LimbTheTreeStem.com

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 - paul0v2@abduzeedo.com you can also Follow me on twitter!

Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials

Best of the Week #90

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 11/06

Thursday 11/05

Wednesday 11/04

Tuesday 11/03

Monday 11/02

About the author

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Daily Inspiration #347

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

al b sure

Bianconic

Bobby Moon

cxjn

Eugene

Evan Bourcier

Fabiano

Fabio

George

Gisele

Jake

Jaunty

Joannyta

Kimberly Flores

Miguelus

Sibouu

Stéphane

vinny08

Vitor Mendes

Via Twitter

@djbennett999

@Paul_oO

About the author

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #22

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#22 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

Public Gothic

Download Public Gothic

Oval

Download Oval

UA Squared

Download UA Squared

Contra

Download Contra

About the author

Sponsored Links:

Sites of the Week #76

DESIGN / CSS

Fontanel - fontanel.nl

Authentic Jobs - authenticjobs.com

APP / WEB APP

PagerDuty - pagerduty.com

Wildfireapp - wildfireapp.com

COMMUNITY / STORE

2high Festival - 2highfestival.com

New Horizon Youth Centre - nhyouthcentre.org.uk

FLASH SITE

EKSRTD - eksrtd.com

Gladeye - gladeye.co.nz

BLOG / PORTFOLIO

31three - 31three.com

Kean Richmond - keanrichmond.com

TEMPLATES

Headlines - woothemes.com

Clickcloud - themeforest.net

About the author

Sponsored Links:

Back to Space Case Study by Patrick Monkel

Walkthrough

Wallpapers

About the author

Sponsored Links:

Great Illustrations from Thiago Pena

About the author

Sponsored Links:

The Awesomeness of Old B Horror Movies

Retro horror movies posters are pretty sweet, and designing them requires much more than just checking references and all that. The best reference to make a killer horror movie poster is to actually watch some old B horror movies!

Monster in the Closet (1987)