Wallpaper of the Week #92 – Carmelo Di Lorenzo
Mar 21, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
The wallpaper of this week is a beautiful illustration by Carmelo Di Lorenzo, an art director, designer and illustrator, from São Paulo, Brazil. Carmelo worked with Adhemas Batistas, one of his greatest influences, a few years ago and now he is working as Senior Art Director at Wunderman. For more information check out Carmelo Di Lorenzo portfolio at http://www.casadedesenho.com.br/ Desktop Version iPhone Version Resolutions: 2560×1440px 1920×1200px 1680×1050px 1440×900px 1280×1024px 1280×800px 1024×768px iPhone 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.
Tags: architecture, cool-wallpapers, Design, gadgets, illustration, Inspiration, iphone, Photoshop Tutorials, wallpaper, wallpaper-of-the-week
80+ iPhone Inspired Website Designs For Your Inspiration
Mar 19, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tips & Tricks, Tutorials
It’s not a secret that for years, Apple has had a huge impact on designers across the globe. Apple has always able to found an extremely effective way to deliver its message via their products to a wide audience and their design is often a key source of inspiration for everyone who is related to design field. It’s very easy to find that many designers often use the key design elements of apple’s product in their artwork which are simplicity, readability, presentation and accessibility. So no wonder that no other company has managed to come up with such a brilliant appearance on the web via their products.
Tags: apple, Design, Design Inspiration, Designs, Fonts, Inspiration, iphone, itunes, readability, Tutorials, Web Design, website-designs
One Shelley Street, The Macquarie Group Offices
Mar 18, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
One Shelley Street is an impressive place. Planned to break all kinds of space composition paradigms, Clive Wilkinson Architects implemented the project for the Macquarie Group, creating a modern environment to a investment company. <!–break–> Placed in Sydney, Australia, the project was conceived as a small villa, One Shelley Street abuses of enormous and flexible spaces with many functions, common areas are integrated to work environments and meeting rooms with panoramic views. A place with simple and modern lines, white in its majority but mixed with vibrant colors.
Tags: australia, gimp-tutorials, illustration, Inspiration, interview, iphone, macquarie-group, offices, photography, Photoshop Tutorials, pixelmator, Tutorials, Typography, wallpaper, Web Design
Kill Procrastination – Tomorrow…
Mar 18, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
But first you need to commit to a life audit to forever change the way you do business. Will you share with me a few minutes of your precious time? I guarantee you’ll be glad you did. Today is a very special day.
Tags: articles, creativity, Design, Inspired, iphone, life audit, tomorrow, week
CSS 3 Tips by Nick and Jim from Doctype
Mar 16, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Doctype is the show for people who make websites. Every episode, Nick and Jim, break down the latest topics and trends in web design and web development, from CSS3 and iconography to jQuery and web security. Whether you’re a designer that wants to learn some coding or a developer that thinks everything they make looks like crap, Doctype is the show for you! They have some very useful episodes with tips for those, like me, are trying to improve their CSS 3 skill, using rounded corners, text-shadows and columns. That’s why we’re sharing these episodes with the Abduzeedo community.
Tags: doctype, gimp-tutorials, Inspiration, iphone, photography, Tutorials, Typography, Web Design
Must Read Inspirational Blogs & Websites for Creatives #5
Mar 16, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Here we are again, showcasing some 10 cool new blogs & websites we come across lately aka Inspired Websites. Feel free to leave a comment and suggest other interesting stuff for the creative community. MIX Online An opinionated group of designers and developers providing thoughtful, relevant articles & opinions that encourage friendly dialogue. A must-follow! Web Without Words A visual playground.
Tags: creatives, creativity, Design, facebook, inspect-element, Inspiration, Inspired, inspired release, inspired-websites, iphone, lounge, Resources, Web Design, Websites
Western Spaghetti Movie Posters
Mar 15, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Today I’m going to post some cool Western Spaghetti movie posters in the blog. For those who are not familiar with the genre, Western Spaghetti it’s a kind of western made in late 70’s by italian directors, in italian locations. The most memorable characteristic of Werstern Spaghetti is the long and dramatic scenes during the duels, creating an unique atmosphere that the american western movies never were able to get, even closer. About the Author Hey buddies! I’m Marcos Torres, a 19 years old art director from Brazil, I’m here to bring some new interessant stuff to you.
Tags: fireworks, gadgets, Inspiration, iphone, pixelmator, Tutorials, Typography, week, western
Wallpaper of the Week #91
Mar 14, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
The wallpaper of this week is the image I created for the last week’s tutorial here on Abduzeedo, the Playing with Vectors in Illustrator . I have been using this wallpaper for more than three weeks already and it’s beautiful, I hope you like it too. Desktop Version iPhone Version Resolutions: 2560×1440px 1920×1200px 1680×1050px 1440×900px 1280×1024px 1280×800px 1024×768px iPhone 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.
Tags: fireworks, gadgets, Graphic Design, interview, iphone, photography, Tutorials, Typography, wallpaper, wallpaper-of-the-week, Web Design, week
Logo Design: Animals – Part 2
Mar 11, 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. Today, it’s all about animals. I gotta say that this is probably the listing with most matches ever… <!–break–> There are so many that we had to break it and we had do it in 2 parts.
Tags: daily-inspiration, Design, gimp-tutorials, Inspiration, interview, iphone, logo-design, Photoshop, Photoshop Tutorials, pixelmator, Tutorials, wallpaper, wallpapers, Web Design
Why Losing Everything is a Winning Move for Designers…
Mar 10, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
Our guest today – Dave Thackeray fuels ordinary people with extraordinary ideas to be the best. He’s a pen for hire and a higher pen you’ll never find. Join him on his quest to write a blog post of note every day until 2011. If you’re a web designer – should I say, if you’re not , what the hell are you doing here?! – then let’s join hands and pray that our next project doesn’t end up like this .
Tags: articles, client, communication, Design, Inspiration, inspired-talks, iphone, minimalism, the art of success, Web Design, winning-move
