Daily Inspiration #452
Mar 9, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
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 adomas al b sure decave Eliot Williams Eugene Kim ever Filipe Soares Fabian Rieder Fabiano Fabio Surprise! You won $20,000!!! Bestee Winner reacts! from Threadless.com on Vimeo . Fernando Becker Gisele jackedwar “And Then There Was Salsa” from Frito Lay Dips on Vimeo .
Tags: abduzeedo, daily-inspiration, gimp-tutorials, Graphic Design, illustration, image, Inspiration, interview, pixelmator, Tutorials, wallpaper, Web Design
38 Incredible Digital Paintings by Henning Ludvigsen
Mar 9, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Henning Ludvigsen is a digital artist originally from Norway, now living in Athens, who has been working in the art field since 1993. He has worked on a variety of projects, from MMORPGs to commissioned projects. He has won a variety of awards on CG and art sites, and has been featured in several publications including ImagineFX. In this post, we’ve gathered 38 breathtaking digital artworks from Henning, captured from his awesome gallery located here: http://www.henningludvigsen.com/ Hopefully you like the artworks, and please share this post with your friends! Don’t forget to subscribe!
Tags: Design, development, digital, digital artworks, digital-artist, digital-paintings, henning ludvigsen, Inspiration, Photoshop, presidia-creative, tutorial-lounge, wallpaper, Web Design
Stunning Illustrations by Jessica Oyhenart
Mar 9, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
I was trying to figure out what to post today… so I started to check some old bookmarks I have, and my attention was caught by some awesome illustrations that I couldn’t believe I haven’t posted yet. These are stunning. <!–break–> The girl behind these is Jessica Oyhenart, an awesome artist from Dallas, Texas…
Tags: architecture, gimp-tutorials, Inspiration, Photoshop, pixelmator, Tutorials, Typography, Web Design
Designers’ Confidence
Mar 9, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Guest article written by Paul Scrivens Originally I titled this article Designers’ Ego, but ego seems to have a negative connotation so I switched it to confidence even though I prefer to use the term ego instead. In the article I will use them interchangeably so please don’t think ego is the mean, pig-headed bully that we conjure up in our imaginations. It’s more the voice that picks you up off the ground and dusts your shoulders off so you can try again. Do you ever come to the point sometimes when you are designing and the design is just simply not working so you begin to wonder why you are even a designer or could even claim to be one?
Tags: article, Design, design-cubicle, designer, Inspiration, the-design-cubicle, Web Design
Tuesday Total Textures #9
Mar 9, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection. <!–break–> This week’s Textures are provided by Mayang’s Textures Bubbling Rusty Metal Chipboard Wood Close Up of Sweater Driftwood Pock Marks Gravel Metal Grille Metal Impact Damage Nut Husks Patterned Metal Splatters Thin Sacking Material 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 – pvpcanabarro@gmail.com you can also Follow me on twitter! Sponsored Links:
Tags: download, gimp-tutorials, Inspiration, pixelmator, Textures, Tutorials, wallpaper, Web Design, week
Win 5 Must Read Web Design Books
Mar 9, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Today we have a very special giveaway for our precious readers – five of the best and most popular design books currently available. Just have a look at the line up of books we have, the books are: A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web, jQuery: Novice To Ninja, Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, Digging into Wordpress and finally, Rocket Surgery. Who wouldn’t want these on their bookshelf. Read further on in this post to find out how to enter and, hopefully, win these fantastic books.
Tags: books, browser, Design, design-reviver, freebies, illustration, Inspiration, javascript, rocket-surgery, Tutorials, vintage, Web Design
Daily Inspiration #451
Mar 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
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 avid971 Andre00x Bryce Walhof Cubius Dejah Thoris Eugene Kim Fabiano instrumental video nine from beeple on Vimeo . Fabio Gisele Ian Stokes morgane LICHTFAKTOR LIVE at Lichterloh Festival 2009 from LICHTFAKTOR on Vimeo .
Tags: abduzeedo, daily-inspiration, drawings, gimp-tutorials, Inspiration, interview, pixelmator, Tutorials, Web Design, week
14 Free Mobile Application Development Icon Sets
Mar 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
The gap between the desktop/laptop and the mobile device is becoming smaller and smaller, it has never been a better time for mobile app development – The market is huge, very lucrative and highly profitable. Our ever growing appetite for more powerful and better mobile devices has pushed the demand even higher for ever more powerful and better applications to accompany them. The expectation on the apps UI design is just as demanding. The design has to not only be consistent with whichever mobile OS you are developing for, it also has to be distinctive enough to be unique.
Tags: css, development, free icons, Graphic Design, icons, mobile, mobile-icon-set, photography, Photoshop, token-icon-set, Web Design
Set up Facebook in Order to Promote Yourself Effectively
Mar 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
Today we have the honor to offer our readers a free chapter from a stunning new book – 10 Steps to Powerful Online Self Promotion for Creatives – by Alex Mathers of Red Lemon Club . Hands down the most complete and entertaining e-book about online promotion & social marketing for designers & bloggers. A must read for every creative! I doubt many of you haven’t heard of the use of social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace in building networks and connecting with others. They are of real value in not only this, but in storing, recording and sharing files, gaining access to information, being inspired, engaging in discussion, advertising, receiving advice from experts in your field, making announcements and sharing updates.
Tags: articles, facebook, freebies, Inspired, inspired-talks, network, Photos, profile, Resources, search, twitter, Web Design, work
Keeping Your Web Servers Running Smoothly
Mar 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
As designers and developers we generally worry about the aesthetics and behavior of a website. But what about the server it runs on that has made it all possible for this site to operate swiftly? In order to provide your clients with the best possible service you should ensure that their websites server is running smoothly on a regular basis, and what better way to do so then with intelligently designed tools that can notify you of any disturbances or irregularities that your websites server may encounter. The following tools manage and monitor various levels of quality relating to the uptime and security of your servers .
Tags: illustration, Inspiration, server, servers, tutorial, Tutorials, Web Design, web server, web-monitoring
