Wallpaper of the Week #116 by Mike Speero

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Mike Speero, a graphic designer and digital artist from Gothenburg, Sweden. Mike has been featured in several galleries, exhibitions, books, interviews, magazines, blogs, websites, prints and the list goes on and on. For more information about Mike Speero visit his Website at http://www.mikespeero.com and blog at http://speero.blogspot.com . You can also find Speero on Twitter http://twitter.com/Speero .

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DesignChat Guest – SamataMason

This week on DesignChat we’re speaking to 2 of the partners from SamataMason, a heavily decorated design firm in West Dundee Illinois. If that name sounds familiar, its because I say it every week on the show. SamataMason is where I broadcast from, and they have been great supporters of DesignChat and what we are trying to accomplish. Dave Mason and Kevin Krueger are going to take us through the history of their shop, and also what motivated them to start one of the most intriguing design conferences today, Cusp .

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25 Useful Videos and Presentations for Designers

    With the huge number of design-related conferences and events around the world, the Web gives those of us who cannot attend them a great opportunity to listen and benefit from their great and talented speakers. To aid in this, here we present some of the best videos, interviews and presentations about design and related topics. Using Design to Make Ideas New Speaker: Milton Glaser Legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser dives deep into a new painting inspired by Piero della Francesca. From there, he muses on what makes a convincing poster, by breaking down an idea and making it new.

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The Perfect Office #47

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have? <!–break–> Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture, sound system, gaming stuff (for lunch time!).

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Beautiful Vector Illustration in Illustrator and Photoshop by Carol Rivello

Hey guys! For this tutorial/making of I created a fun illustration for my sister Stella’s blog. In her blog she writes about funny daily situations and I thought that it would be nice to develop an illustration that expressed that somehow. I hope that this step by step help the new designers and illustrators. So, prepare yourself, and continue reading because even though it is a quite long post I hope it might be useful for your illustration projects.

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Video of the Week #58 – Disruptive

Disruptive is an animation by Bonsajo design studio in Japan. He creates shapes and forms that move and act to the highs and lows of the music. <!–break–> Disruptive by Design from Bonsajo on Vimeo . This is an older movie of him.

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30 Grid-Based WordPress Themes

Grid based layout designs can be very useful for building structured, usable and content rich (not limited to) websites. Grid design certainly has some major benefits for developers (its really easy to to plan where things should go), but its real power lies in what it can do for your readers and users. With a structured grid layout, an everyday user visiting your site can quickly understand and locate the content they want making it very obvious for users to navigate. In this article we have 30 WordPress themes have been developed with a grid framework.

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Daily Inspiration #563

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 2D al b sure deerek conzies Eugene Kim Fabiano 35mm from Pascal Monaco on Vimeo . Fabio Gisele George Lichtenstein hmaxkay jtownboy igo Koning mkamla Michael Ostermann Newyorkiz Phil & Ico Scott Via Twitter Send your suggestions via Twitter to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo using #abdz in the end of the tweet.

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Daily Inspiration #562

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 2D Akomoto al b sure Anand axeone drfranken ev4n Eugene Kim Fabio Gisele FKSD Official Cromoart Trailer 2010 from FKSD on Vimeo . Ian Hutchinson jonnycesar Jtownboy Koning marcelle carmack Newyorkiz Scott Trisme Via Twitter Send your suggestions via Twitter to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo using #abdz in the end of the tweet.

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Top 10 Social Bookmarking Plugins for WordPress

It has been almost two years since we last published a post on WordPress Social Bookmarking Plugins. What a difference that short period has had on user expectations, design trends and overall acceptance and popularity of social bookmarking. Many of the plugins from the previous post are now pretty much redundant and no longer supported, so this post takes a fresh look at the best Social Bookmarking solutions for WordPress. The plugins you see below are not in any order, just a collection of the plugins we love.

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