Beautiful Houses: Paraty House in Rio de Janeiro

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…

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Web Design Checkmate: Using Chess For Success in Web Design

    The business of building websites is one of constant change, adaptation and strategy. The way designers and developers build websites is often informed by the methods of others and their own trial and error. In light of this, we can draw a number of parallels — some philosophical, to a certain extent — between Web professionals and one of the oldest and most popular board games of all time (counting traditional and digital games). This game is chess .

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Daily Inspiration #604

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 Anderson Tomazi Brukhar Derek Brown Eugene Kim Fabiano Spheremetrical (Here With You) from impactist on Vimeo . Fabio Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo .

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At Least we Dream – Digital Art

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.

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25 E-Commerce Websites for Your Design Inspiration

The success of an e-commerce website is defined by sales, not by design. However, that doesn’t mean that design does not matter. In this post we’ll showcase 25 well-designed e-commerce sites from a wide variety of industries. For more on e-commerce sites please see these posts from the archives: 50 Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs 25 Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs – Part Two 35 Excellent E-Commerce User Interface Designs 25 Creative E-Commerce Website Designs WordPress E-Commerce: 30+ Resources 37 Shopping Cart Options for Developers 9 Characteristics of Well-Designed E-Commerce Websites Best Buy United Pixelworkers Vera Bradley The Greeting Farm Layla Grayce Rip Curl W + K Studio Chicago L – Shirts Wheels & Dollbaby One Village Coffee St.

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Daily Inspiration #603

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 Anderson Tomazi B. Romain Dned Domenico Justo Doretti Nicolas Showreel 2010 Doretti Nicolas from Nicolas DORETTI on Vimeo .

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Beautiful Illustrations by Simon Fernandes

Simon Fernandes is an art director, designer and illustrator from Sao Paulo, Brazil with a really cool style, his portfolio has illustrations with different styles, from the very clean vectors of the Agua Viva artwork to the sort of retro style of the Copo poster. We were really impressed with his work and now we are sharing that with you ;) For more information about Simon Fernandes visit his Web site at http://www.simonfernandes.com/ Planetario MTV Planetário from ODA on Vimeo . Pedaço de coral Plus Ultra Menina Flutívago Agua Viva Copo Paisagem Colorido Buda Doido 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.

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The Totally Amazing New Campaign Monitor Office

I’m already a big fan and user of Campaign Monitor, the guys managed to build a beautiful and easy to use tool that focuses on using things properly. But beyond that, last week when I saw their new office I was amazed, really, is one of the best places for work that I’ve ever seen! <!–break–> After software, the most important tool to a hacker is probably his office. Big companies think the function of office space is to express rank. But hackers use their offices for more than that: they use their office as a place to think in.

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One Hundred Project

The ONEHUNDRED Project is an experiment from the German Kid Grandios that started back in 2009 with the idea of creating posters that would include landscape and grunge elements. One Hundred posters later the project is done and it’s amazing, check it out! <!–break–> ONEHUNDRED Project I started the project in fall 2009. The idea was to create a poster which includes landscape and grunge elements. Therefore I commenced collecting some images.

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Wallpaper of the Week #115 by Ee Venn Soh

The wallpaper of this week is an awesome design created by Ee Venn Soh, a self-taught designer, digital artist and illustrator from Johor Bahru, Malaysia. This design is one of Ee Veen’s personal work and it’s called THE BEAUTIFUL PEEPHOLE. I thrive under pressure, love working in a fast paced team oriented creative environment and have the ability to collaborate and build consensus across teams. I am a self-motivated problem solver with a strong creative vision and impeccable attention to details.

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