Beautiful Houses: Paraty House in Rio de Janeiro
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful house and stay tuned for more…
Tags: architecture, digital-art-121, houses, Inspiration, interiors, interview, photography, Photoshop, studiomk27, Typography, wallpaper
Do You Need a Degree to be a Designer? (and more!)
Sep 3, 2010 General, Resources, Tutorials
In this week’s Question Time video post I give some rambling answers about taking on more than you can chew with client projects; things that help me find more freelance clients; whether a degree is important to be a designer; and I show off my fluent Spanish. This week’s questions How do you deal with a client’s needs vs your technical skills – Do you charge less for a job where you have to learn new skills because it might take longer to complete? How did you create the outro at the end of your video clips? How much time do you spend each week divided between client work and blog stuff?
Tags: answers, Design, illustration, image, interview, questions, Resources, time, Tutorials, video, videos, Web Design
Awesome Watercolor Illustrations by Dmitriy
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Watercolor is definitely one of the most awesome techniques of illustration. I find truly amazing of how much control and precision artists have over their watered inks to form precise art. <!–break–> And I’m probably overwhelmed by it because I have no idea how to do it… but yet, I know something beautifully done when I see it, and that’s just the case of the work of Dmitriy Rebus Larin, an Russian in illustration that has done some great pieces of watercolor illustrations.
Tags: Design Inspiration, fireworks-tutorials, freedom, illustrator tutorials, Inspiration, interview, iphone wallpapers, kolomenskoe-art, Photoshop Tutorials, Tutorials, wallpapers, watercolor
Beautiful Photos of New York City by James Maher
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
James Maher is a professional photographer and the operator of the Maher Fine Art Photography Gallery, his work is primarily focused on New York photography, but also of various travel spots around the world, and we have to agree that he has some classic photos of New York City. For more information about James, visit the Maher Fine Art Photography Gallery at http://www.jamesmaherphotography.com/ Some Photos Couple in Snowstorm, Central Park, New York City, 2003 This photo was taken during the huge blizzard that hit the city in 2003. The snowstorm created such bad conditions that for much of the day I was completely lost in the park. At some point I found this bridge to seek refuge under.
Tags: black-and-white, central-park, fireworks-tutorials, illustration, interview, iphone wallpapers, new-york-city, photography, Photoshop Tutorials, pixelmator-tutorials, some-photos, Tutorials
At Least we Dream – Digital Art
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Jonathan M. Foerster is an amazing digital artist with such rich style full of colorful shine elements that intricate the eyes as they look for an understanding. I could look at each piece for a long time and still find the details that will change my point of view. <!–break–> To see more from Jonathan visit – atleastwedream.com I have found comfort and serenity in escapism through different mediums ever since I can remember.
Tags: architecture, fireworks-tutorials, gimp-tutorials, illustration, illustrations, Inspiration, interview, photo manipulations, Photoshop Tutorials, Resources, Tutorials, wallpaper, wallpapers
35 Inspiring Food Packages
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Continuing our posts showing you beautiful and inspiring packages, we gathered some really nice examples of food related packages. From catchup to peanuts and honey, we will show a little bit of everything to illustrate that no matter what your product is about, a nice and well designed package always counts for good! Once again we got the images from Lovely Package , so we recommend you to click at the images to go to LP’s website to read more about each package and its designer. Also, if you have a suggestion about what kind of packages you would like us to showcase here, comments are open. =) Bakina Tajna Pure Land Michael’s Farm Glace Artisan Ice Cream Prima Luce Student Work – Fran Aldea Gallo Occasions Gran Farina Azada Organic La Sirena Justin’s Nut Butter Sir Kensington’s Gourmet Scooping Ketchup Gail’s Bakery 5 Points Honey Student Work – Kayd Mustonen Student Work – Samira Khoshnood A.O.
Tags: architecture, daily, Design, flowers, images, Inspiration, interview, pattern, Photoshop, Tutorials, Typography
Logo Design: Boats
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on 3D logos… today it’s all about logos with boats! <!–break–> As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond , Logo Faves , Logo Moose , Logo from Dreams , Logo Gala , WS Logos , The Logo Mix and Wolda . We hope you all enjoy our selection! Cheers.
Tags: architecture, boats, Design Inspiration, fireworks-tutorials, illustrator tutorials, Inspiration, interview, Logo, logo-design, Photoshop Tutorials, pixelmator-tutorials, Tutorials, wallpapers
Interview with Tim and Bram Vanhaeren from Into1
Aug 28, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Tim and Bram Vanhaeren, belgium based artists, run a creative studio focused on graphic design. Read how the brothers get along working together 1. First of all we would like to thank you both for taking the time to provide abduzeedo.com with this interview. Please tell us more about your art and design background and what made you become artists?
Tags: daily-inspiration, facebook, illustration, interview, Photoshop, Photoshop Tutorials, wallpaper, work
How I Find Client Work as a Designer (and more!)
Aug 20, 2010 General, Resources, Tutorials
Last week I introduced my new little Question Time video series . This week I run through a bunch of viewer submitted questions, including why designers use Macs, how I find my clients, how often I trim my eyebrows and what camera I use to record these things. This week’s questions Why do designers tend to use Macs over Windows PCs? How do you find your clients?
Tags: answers, articles, Design, eyebrows, facebook, follow-chris, freelance, interview, news, online, Photos, Tutorials, video, week, windows
Best of the Week #132
Aug 14, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
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! <!–break–> We want to give a big thanks to our sponsors: Wix , Taste of Ink Studios , Shutterstock , Sketchbook Project , W3-Markup , P2H.COM , VectorStock™ , Site24x7 , BigStock , iStockphoto and SiteGrinder . A special mention to Media Temple for the excellent service and support with Abduzeedo! You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo , and include #abdz_best in the message. Friday 08/13 Friday Fix August 9 – August 13 Weekly Vector Inspiration #83 8 No-Bake Summer Cakes Get a Dropbox File’s Public Link Instantly with Quicksilver McDonald’s cria ação com pessoas que dormem no metrô 50 Stunning 3D Car Renders Reeder is coming to your Mac desktop CineCrop adds cinematic quality to your iPhone photos.
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