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,… read more
Yes, you heard it right. We are giving away a 2 Day Conference Pass for the upcoming FOWD Future of Web Design this November 15-17 in New York. This is one of the best web design events there is, with the best speakers in the industry is a must go… read more
Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration.
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Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania
Make sure to click on each… read more
Today we will announce the winner of the Where We Work book. A book for those who loves offices, who are amazed by the creativity of some companies to create fantastic work places… the book presents a collection of creative offices around the world.
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The author of this collection is Ian… read more
When I was a child back in the late 80′s, I remember the design style back then, very grungy, with eye-popping skulls and booger-spilling skaters. It’s one of my favorite styles of all time.
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I found really nice that designer Derek Deal also digs this style, and makes some fantastic work…. read more
Truly an inspiration, Anselm von Seherr-Thoss is one of the top visual effects and 3d particle artists around. Not only has he spent years within his craft, he’s worked on favorites like James Cameron’s “Avatar” and “The A-Team”.
Visual effects is quite the tough industry. Anselm has worked his… read more
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,… read more
To shoot photos like Nick Brand you must have a lot of patience. His ability to capture the wildlife is enormous, like I haven’t seen before.
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“African wildlife has never looked so regal and mysterious as in Brandt’s grave photographs. His elephants appear as weighty as the pyramids. His rhinos… read more
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 free textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week’s free textures, download the ones you like and start making your… read more
Alterstudio Architects is an office in Texas, United States, formed by the architect Kevin Alter, who has as a partner since 2005, the architect Ernesto Cragnolini. The portfolio shows different approaches to residential projects, all with high quality formal and striking details.
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Alterstudio Architects was founded in 2000… read more
We can’t get enough of comics, can we? Among the great number of illustrators out there, there are those that really kick butt. One of them is Admire Wijaya, an Indonesian illustrator, that has got a super cool style.
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For more of his work, you may visit his deviantART page. I… read more
I really like that part of the day where I stop everything else just to browse around looking for inspiring images. Besides gathering images for the Daily Inspiration series I get to see tons of amazing stuff! Yesterday, while doing this regular research I bumped into Ellen van Deelen’s photos… read more
A few days ago I was looking for some 3D artworks, just for inspiration, and I came across this 3D artist from Siberian town Novosibirsk, Russia, called Denis Tolkishevsk. I was totally blown away with the quality and realism of some of his 3D pieces that I had to share… read more
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,… read more
Yesterday was Halloween and everyone got dressed up to celebrate this crazy date. Here is a fresh selection of halloween portraits, very cool costumes and if you did enjoy your halloween on a costume please send you photo on the comment area.
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Máximo Tuja also known as Max-o-matic is a graphic designer and illustrator currently based in Barcelona, Spain. His work is very stylish pretty much based in callages with a sort of vintage feel. As he says, he tries to create an imaginary world from torn pieces of the real world.
For… read more
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 free textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week’s free textures, download the ones you like and start making your… read more
Jouin Manku is the link between a French designer and an Kenyan architect, who joined two different creative worlds resulting in an interesting interior and construction work. Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku are the minds behind this great office.
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Patrick Jouin was born on June 5, 1967… read more
I’ve been seeing these in the web for some time now. David Jablow has come up with a super simple, yet awesome project called “Do it yourself Doodler”, in which he takes an original, incomplete doodle and starts to make many doodles from it.
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These are a great example of how… read more
Robert Shields is a digital artist, graphic design and illustrator from Phildadelphia, USA. He has been featured many time in popular design magazines such as Digital Arts, Computer Arts, Advanced Photoshop Magazine and others. He is also member of the slashTHREE collective.
Robert has just updated his portfolio with some really… read more
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,… read more
The face behind Astronaut Design is 26 year old graphic designer, Vyacheslav from Almaty, Kazakstan. I’m a big fan of his simple and minimalist approach to design, in particular his prints. His work is clean and to the point and that’s one thing I can really appreciate.
Swing by his portfolio… read more
Check out an awesome collection of coca-cola artworks, these illustrations vary in different styles, they have been designed by different artists and designers with their own interpretation of “The Coke Side of Live” philosophy.
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These images were provided by The Coca-Cola Art Gallery – Check them out for more!
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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?
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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more
In today’s feature film industry, productions are in constant need of digital set extensions or matte painting, the correct term for this type of work. If you don’t know exactly what it is, a matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows… read more
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,… read more
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a really nice light effect using basic filters and tools in Pixelmator. The idea is to create an image with that 80s feeling in it but modern as well.
Step 1
Open Pixelmator and create a new document. The size I am… read more
The wallpaper of this week is a really cool image created by Saad Moosajee and Chris Haines from the latest Slashtree exhibition. Both Saad and Chris have already sent us some wallpaper in the past and now with a collaboration work.
For more information visit about Saad Moosajee visit his… read more
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… read more
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,… read more
For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Estratti.net and A Modern Eden. Also we’re featuring the awesome Designmoo blog and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more… read more
Umeric is a film, design, and vfx studio based in Australia. You can see more of their amazing work at their website: www.umeric.com
Umeric Reel
Umeric ‘Until Now’ 2010. from Umeric on Vimeo.
Royal Elastics ‘Feilfri’
Royal Elastics ‘Feilfri’ – Umeric from Umeric on Vimeo.
Swatch & MTV Playground
Swatch+MTV Playground from… read more
I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#71 and make sure to comeback… read more
The greatest thing about an artist is when his work awes you. This is how I am right now: awe-struck. Made from vintage radios, cameras, telephones and other material, these are represent creativity at its best.
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The best thing about the work of Mike Rivamonte is that it’s all… read more
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… read more
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,… read more
When first exposed to the work of Julien Pacaud I immediately took a liking to it on the basis of the illustrator’s quirky style, vivid imagination, and his ability to stop the viewer in their tracks with dynamic imagery rich with story and emotion. I enjoy this aspect of… read more
AJ Dimarucot is an artist specializing in t-shirt graphics. He has design t-shirts for famous people and has won several t-shirt design contests over at Threadless and Designbyhumans. His designs are truly awesome with a mix of color and light effects that look great on a tee.
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For more from AJ… read more
We have featured David Mascha a few times and also published a full post about him last February, the article was called The Stylish Work of David Mascha, however David has recently updated his portfolio with some new work and of course it is our duty to keep you guys… read more
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 logos with fishes… today it’s all about logos with circuits!
As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo Faves,… read more
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,… read more
Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration.
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Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania
Make sure to click on each… read more
Where We Work is a book for those who loves offices, who are amazed by the creativity of some companies to create fantastic work places… the book presents a collection of creative offices around the world. And fortunately we have one book to giveaway!
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The author of this collection is Ian… read more
Josef Hoflehner is an Austrian photographer known for his amazing black and white landscapes and also for his great and unique way of capturing the simplicity of beauty. With pictures that really get our attention for its angles, contrast and personality, Josef Hoflehner is certainly an inspiration for those who… read more
When Disney bought Marvel we thought we would see some crappy crossovers like Donald Duck as Cyclops or something. But, man, we were sooo wrong. This is better (obviously) than we could have imagined.
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Marvel will be releasing special covers in Tron styles. Spidey, Iron Man, Thor and many others from… read more
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,… read more
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.
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Light… read more
Office of Architecture in Barcelona – OAB, was formed in 2006 by none other than the renowned Catalan architect Carlos Ferrater, gathering all his experience with the power of young architects. The result is unquestionable, adding more quality to Ferrater’s works.
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A partnership between the experience of a… read more
Going through my DeviantART favorites I remembered some great illustrations of The Flash. These are some awesome characters, from the original Flash to Wally West. It’s time for some super-fast stravaganza.
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From various artists, these illustrations are super cool! Of course are a more artists out there with great representations of… read more
Japanese Author Haruki Murakami has made an international name for himself as a strikingly original and relentlessly compelling novelist. My first window into his work however, was through the work of another brilliant artist – John Gall. John Gall is the Vice President and Art Director for Vintage… read more
Japanese Author Haruki Murakami has made an international name for himself as a strikingly original and relentlessly compelling novelist. My first window into his work however, was through the work of another brilliant artist – John Gall. John Gall is the Vice President and Art Director for Vintage… read more
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,… read more
Have you ever wondered what the world would look like if we lived out our lives in a Google Maps world–with icons and everything? Here’s a sweet series of drawings by Spanish illustrator Alejo Malia titled “Google’s World.” Alejo takes signature marks of Google maps and explores one in each… read more
The work of Tariq Yosef is simply incredible, he takes the basics of type and implements it in his illustration transforming them both into one amazing and intriguing piece. A mix of type with surreal and abstract, this is the kind of work that you can stare at for a… read more
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?
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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more
A few weeks ago my brother Eduardo Sasso showed me an idea he had for a little web service that would be perfect for those who travel a lot or simply to keep track of your adventures when you are away from your place. I loved the concept and I… read more
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,… read more
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a really nice effect from mixing a mosaic pattern with a photo. We will play around with masks and other basic filters, but the outcome will be very cool.
Step 1
Open Pixelmator, and create a new document. I am using a… read more
The wallpaper of this week is an artwork created by Magomed Dovjenko AKA Mago, a freelance Illustrator, Graphic Designer and Art Director from Russia but now based in German. In the past years he has established and proved himself as someone who is steady trying to grow and improve by… read more
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… read more
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,… read more
I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#70 and make sure to comeback… read more
For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as When it Drops and Puma Running. Also we’re featuring the awesome Design Intellection portfolio and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will… read more
If you don’t have enough cash to travel to an exotic country and get to know their biodiversity, a good alternative is to learn these things by other people’s experience. In case you’re wondering what animals in Vietnam look like, Brendan Wenzel shows us.
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These illustrations belong to a series called… read more
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… read more
Zakhar Krylov is an art director, graphic designer and illustrator from Moscow, Russia. His work is very coloful mixing traditional illustration with vectors but with a nice personal style on his drawings, you will notice that especially in the Color Illustrations 2010, Personal Illustrations and Drawings, which, are my… read more
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,… read more
In this case study will go over step by step how the masters from Ars Thanea (Peter Jaworowski and Karol Kolodzinski) created this amazing photo illustration for Nike, to be part of Nike’s 2010 t-shirt collection. This just opened my mind to so many ideas, hope the same will happen… read more
We have all seen a lot of projects using containers, but I can say that among all I know this is one of the most complete in terms of architecture, use of materials, location and primarily for the use, a student housing.
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The Cité is the Dock a project by Cattani… read more
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 logos with ghosts, monsters, goblins and witches… today it’s all about logos with fishes!
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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these… read more
Philipp Zurmöhle is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Nuremberg, Germany. He is currently working at Adidas in Germany but is also available for freelance projects.
For more information about Philipp Zurmöhle visit his Web site at http://www.phillennium.com/ or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/philippzm
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Seven Monkeys poster – Submission… read more
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,… read more
Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania
Make sure to click on each image to go to original location where you can check out more work from each artist and designer.
Submit your Typography work
From now on you can submit your typography mania piece by adding your image to… read more
One thing that has always caught my attention are caricatures. They are usually super funny and if you add political value to them, you got yourself a great piece of work. This is the case of Jason Seiler’s work.
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He’s done all kinds of caricatures: politics, music, movies, science… and they’re… read more
Bicicleta Sem Freio, something that could be translated as “Bicycle Without Brakes”, is a collective founded by Douglas de Castro, Victor Rocha and Renato Reno, 3 brazilian artists that besides being very talented, are extremely creative! Bicicleta Sem Freio’s artworks are colorful, illustrative, sexy and really stylish. The images are… read more
A few months ago we featured Sara Blake, also known as ZSO, here on Abduzeedo. For those who do not know who she is, Sara is an interactive art director, designer and illustrator living in New York City. She has just resigned for her full time job at Euro RSCG… read more
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,… read more
Office of Zagreb in Croatia, UPI-2M is led by Danijel Malcic, Berislav Medic and Alan Leo Plestina and received awards for several works carried out, yielding material for many publications at home and internationally.
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Alan Leo Plestina, Berislav Medic and Danijel Malcic.
Photos from site upi-2m.hr .
UPI-2M is a… read more
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.
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Special thanks to… read more
I never knew how big the wedding market was until sometime ago. A single wedding moves the wheel of jobs everywhere… from wedding planners, passing through photographers and coming to us, designers!
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I actually don’t know if this is something new, but a big thing right now among couples is the… read more
Imaginary Forces is a leading independent production company with offices in Los Angeles and New York. They have been creating some of the most compelling titles for films and TV series as well as other types of motion graphics. The core of their business is beautiful conceptual design and great… read more
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,… read more
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?
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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more
Today we have a very special giveaway from a design community darling you’re all likely familiar with. That’s right, Threadless. It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 10 years since they burst onto the scene in 2000, and our ironic t-shirt wearing lives have never been the same…. read more
Sebastien Feraut aka Niark1 is an awesome Illustrator and painter with an incredible style that is hard to describe but easy to fall in love with. His paintings are colorful and very illustrative but so intriguing that the more you look the more you like it, check it out!
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This is my first tutorial ever so bear with me! I wanted to thank Abduzeedo for giving me this great opportunity. I am going to show you guys how to do my own submission for the Abduzeedo World Collabs 3 : James White. First let me warned you, that I… read more
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,… read more
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a very neat lens flare effect in Pixelmator. It’s true: the terrifying lens flare is back, and it can be really cool to use as wallpaper, as I’ve been doing.
This tutorial is part of series of tutorials I have been… read more
The wallpaper of this week is concept art created by Justin Maller for Nike Kobe Bryant. The artwork mixes a photo of Kobe with abstract 3D renders and photos of snakes. It reminds me the Medusa from the new Clash of the Titans movie.
For more information about Justin Maller… read more
Photoshop CS5 Extended comes with 3D capabilities and I believe that is not any news to the majority. We have been publishing some tutorials exploring the 3D tool in Photoshop especially the Repousse in which we can create extrusing and other geometries directly in Photoshop. This video is another super… read more
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… read more
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,… read more
Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.
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This is our sixth contest for The World Collabs. Our new cutting edge… read more
I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#69 and make sure to comeback… read more
For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Alfred App and the new 37signals. Also we’re featuring the awesome Tiago Sá’s portfolio and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will… read more
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… read more
Children’s books illustrations have a special place in everyone’s heart. I bet that every single one of us remembers a good book from our childhood, and when you get to see that book again, the illustrations are very familiar and heartwarming.
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A book’s illustrations are a very important part of… read more
David Fuhrer is a self taught freelance artist born in 1985 in Bern, Switzerland. The 90′s has a clear influence on this work especially because we grew up in that decade and started experiment with computer creating visual art.
With focus on Illustration his work is full of details with some… read more
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,… read more
I’m pleased to announce that I was one of the artists selected for Cow Parade 2010 Porto Alegre, Brazil. My initial concept was to make a customized cow with gears like a engine, but it would take a lot of time and money. Since I didn’t have that,… read more