Daily Inspiration #837

June 1st, 2011
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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

LowePro SlingShot 302 AW Camera Bag – Review

June 1st, 2011
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Digital Photography School

The LowePro SlingShot 302 AW fits a niche in the photo bag market, specifically for quick outings with essential gear. This bag is one of three in the line of SlingShot AW (All-Weather) bags and is the biggest brother in the updated line. The SlingShot concept is that, with only… read more

Esquire Challenges iPad Owners to “The Hardest Puzzle Ever”

June 1st, 2011
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Esquire has released an iPad app the publication is calling “the hardest puzzle ever.”

It is certainly very difficult. The game [iTunes link] combines Rubik’s Cube-style puzzles with riddles — including those with and without Google-able answers — of scaling difficulty. After successfully completing each level, users can opt to print… read more

20 Clever Advertisements For Inspiration

June 1st, 2011
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20 Clever Advertisements For Inspiration

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Art Director’s Toolkit: Your Graphic Design Companion

June 1st, 2011
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Mac App Storm

Graphic designers need to consider a number of crucial design elements when creating work – layout, colour, dimensions, typography – you name it, a designer will have to incorporate it into their designs. Although Photoshop can handle most of a designer’s needs, there are many parts of a design which… read more

20 Inspiring iOS Style Icons

June 1st, 2011
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iOS has inspired a whole new style of icon design since its debut, and it is a trend that’s only spreading further as more iPhone apps are developed and more designers bring this style to other platforms.

Let’s take a look at 20 attractive icons designed in… read more

Underwater 3D Text Effect in Photoshop

June 1st, 2011
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Underwater 3D Text Effect in Photoshop

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Daily Inspiration #836

May 31st, 2011
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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

Extended Light GUI

May 31st, 2011
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Extended Light GUI

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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: June 2011

May 31st, 2011
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We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one — desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the… read more

9 Amazing Mac Apps to Help You Learn

May 31st, 2011
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No matter if you are attending school, college or self-teaching yourself, your Mac can be a valuable tool to help you accomplish your goals. We’ve rounded up 9 fantastic apps which will help you to teach and organize yourself better than ever, hopefully getting you on the road to improving… read more

Illustrator Video Tutorial: Create a 3D Spinning Top Toy

May 31st, 2011
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Illustrator Video Tutorial: Create a 3D Spinning Top Toy

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Best of the Vector Web – May 2011

May 31st, 2011
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Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on creating vector portraits, composing character based type illustrations, creating shiny illustrative icons, and more. We have loads of tutorials, in addition… read more

Photography Essentials Full Frame [Book Review]

May 30th, 2011
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I approached this book with a little scepticism: it looked like another coffee table book, large format, stacked with beautifully rendered photographs of exotic landscapes and little else.

But then I skimmed David Noton’s introduction and gathered that he feels digital cameras have opened a whole new world of photographic opportunities… read more

7 Stunning Augmented Reality Business Cards [VIDEOS]

May 30th, 2011
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In the competitive world of business it can be hard to stand out. A creative business card can help differentiate you from others and one way in which we’re seeing people attempt this is through augmented reality.

Augmented reality cards can provide a wealth of information including additional text, images and… read more

New Samsung Galaxy Tab & Galaxy S Are Coming Sooner Than You Think

May 30th, 2011
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Mashable

Looking forward to buying the upcoming Galaxy Tab 10.1? That device might become obsolete sooner than you think: Samsung plans to launch a 4G LTE-equipped version of the Galaxy Tab in 2011.

Samsung’s J.K. Shin revealed details about the upcoming tablet in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires…. read more

HOW TO: Make a 3D YouTube Video With Two Cameras and Some Sticky Tape

May 30th, 2011
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Mashable

3D is no longer exclusive to movie studios. If you can scrape together two camcorders, some sticky tape and access to a hooked-up computer, you’re just a few steps away from making your own three-dimensional cinematic works of art.

This is largely thanks to YouTube‘s free online 3D… read more

Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Hitting Facebook This Fall

May 30th, 2011
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Mashable

THQ has found a way to glom on to Zynga’s popular “-Ville” franchises without impinging on any copyrights with a new social game, Margaritaville Online.

The game, “inspired by the lifestyle of author and singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett,” according to a THQ release, and based on the 1977 hit… read more

How A Shift Lens Can Help Your Stitched Images

May 30th, 2011
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Shift lenses allow the skewing of perspective as the camera sees it and are often accompanied with a tilt feature, as seen in the popular tilt-sift lenses. Shift helps with how lines converge or diverge in a scene by moving the lens elements to one side of camera body opening… read more

Quick Tip: How to Create a 3D Folded Map with Adobe Illustrator

May 30th, 2011
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Turn a simple path into a folded surface, then "map" some artwork to it, using Adobe Illustrator’s 3D Effect.

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Congratulations To The Winners Of Ultimate Designer Toolkit

May 30th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which Ultimate Designer Toolkit (Over 60,000 Premium Design Items) were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these 3 comments to give them free subscription of Ultimate Designer Toolkit with over 60,000 premium design items (worth $99 each… read more

The Perfect Office #90

May 30th, 2011
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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

Create a Test Tube Illustration

May 30th, 2011
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Create a Test Tube Illustration

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Daily Inspiration #834

May 29th, 2011
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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

Most Creative And Responsive Web Designs Of Year 2011 So Far

May 29th, 2011
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Most Creative And Responsive Web Designs Of Year 2011 So Far

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Nikon Coolpix S9100 Review

May 29th, 2011
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I make no apologies for reviewing this humble compact digicam – the Nikon Coolpix S9100 – in amongst the heavy hitting DSLRs and maxi-zoom models. Why?

‘Cos it has a few features the DSLRs do not have.

Nikon Coolpix S9100 Features

To begin with it has a moderate 18x zoom, starting at… read more

Wallpaper of the Week #153 by Abduzeedo

May 29th, 2011
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The wallpaper of this week is the image I created for the last week’s tutorial called Vintage 3D Typography in Photoshop with Repoussé and to celebrate the release of the Abduzeedo book called Abduzeedo Inspiration Guide for Designers

For more information about the book visit http://book.abduzeedo.com

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45 Beautiful Examples Of 3D Female Characters

May 29th, 2011
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45 Beautiful Examples Of 3D Female Characters

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Showcase Of Unbelievably Realistic 3D Artworks

May 28th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

Human eye always get enthralled by 3D artworks because 3D artworks are created with a creative and artistic approach and look extremely eye-catching and attention-grabbing. This is the reason why 3D artworks have become so much popular all over the world.

In this post, we have gathered amazing examples of 3D… read more

Best of the Week #173

May 28th, 2011
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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

QuickCursor: Use Your Favourite Text Editor Anywhere

May 28th, 2011
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Mac App Storm

Have you ever been using a website, or one of your less-than-favourite Mac apps, and found yourself needing to write a long essay, letter or work with some text? Hated being constrained to writing e-mails on gmail.com, or typing your blog post into the cluttered WordPress panel?

It’s a common complaint,… read more

TidyLists: Simple Yet Effective Task Management

May 27th, 2011
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Web App Storm

Task management applications are pretty popular as we crave to organise our lives by putting them online. Our days are crammed full of things to do – business, personal and pleasure – but a lot of the time we have wider, long term projects in the pipeline. You might be… read more

Daily Inspiration #833

May 27th, 2011
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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

Forget Vinyl; Band Releases Album as Location-Based App

May 27th, 2011
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Washington, D.C.-based band Bluebrain’s new album drops Friday, but not in the way one might think. It will be available on iTunes, but not in MP3 form — rather as a location-aware app that only works within the stretch of park in downtown D.C. called the Mall.

“The music changes and… read more

3D Typography Tutorial using Xara3D and Photoshop

May 27th, 2011
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3D typography has become very popular. You can see countless of such artworks in many media. It is largely used for advertisements and many form of entertainment.

There are many ways on how to create a 3D text design and the methods are just accessible to everyone –… read more

3D DNA Strand with Photoshop Extended

May 27th, 2011
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Corey Barker shares a cool 3D trick for creating a DNA strand.

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Sites of the Week #155

May 27th, 2011
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Abduzeedo

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Behance ProSite and Bionic Hippo. Also we’re featuring a nice service called Flvrd, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

Daily Inspiration #832

May 26th, 2011
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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

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2 REVIEW

May 26th, 2011
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If you’re passionate for a mirrorless, interchangeable lens digicam, this Micro Four Thirds model may be your opportunity. World’s smallest and lightest Digital Interchangeable Lens System Camera? Panasonic thinks so.

The review camera was supplied with a 14mm near-pancake lens and an 8mm fisheye. Neither of these lenses have an optical… read more

Google Overtakes Yahoo in Display Advertising [STATS]

May 26th, 2011
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Google, which long ago passed Yahoo in search advertising, now has overtaken the company in display ads as well, according to IDC.

Google claimed the number-one spot in U.S. display advertising in the first quarter, with 14.7% of the market ($396 million), up from 13.3% in Q4 2010…. read more

Will the iPad 3 Have a Futuristic OLED Screen?

May 26th, 2011
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Mashable

Apple watchers at the Asia News Network say Apple’s acting CEO Tim Cook took a trip to Samsung headquarters last week to look into using Samsung’s advanced OLED displays for the iPad 3.

According to OLEDInfo.com, the reports indicate the iPad 3 will launch toward the end of… read more

YouTube Pushes Further Into 3D Video

May 26th, 2011
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Mashable

Lacking some 3D in your online life? You’re in luck, as Mozilla Firefox, YouTube and Nvidia have teamed up to bring HTML5-based stereoscopic 3D video to owners of Nvidia’s 3D Vision-enabled hardware.

Although 3D videos aren’t new to YouTube, the service will now transcode these videos into the… read more

Quick Tip: How to Make a Realistic 3D Cherry in Adobe Illustrator

May 26th, 2011
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A simple and quick way to render a realistic looking cherry using 3D and mesh tools in Illustrator. This basic skill will also help you in become familiar with the 3D and mesh tool functions.

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Start by selecting the Pen Tool (P), visualize and draw half of the Cherry…. read more

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Create a Vector Fighter Jet Using Adobe Illustrator – Vector Premium Tutorial

May 26th, 2011
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Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial, which is available exclusively for Premium members. If you want to learn how to create a fighter jet using 3d modeling techniques, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn how to create detailed object based vector illustrations in Adobe Illustrator…. read more

100+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets

May 26th, 2011
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Noupe

Designers all over the world are on a constant search to find useful Photoshop brushes. This is because they know having a good collection of Photoshop brushes can save them in their time of need. Although there are countless brush sets are available for Adobe Photoshop that make finding Brush… read more

70 Free PSD Web UI Elements For Designers

May 26th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

Nothing can beat the freebies as they not only save your time but also give quality results. These free to download PSD files are priceless and worth mentioning. Every designer and web developer is always looking for free downloadable PSD files that can make their design process easier.

Check this free… read more

Building Credibility with Responsive Website Design

May 26th, 2011
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Specky Boy

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Website traffic is the key component to building any strong community. As web designers we often forget about the user experience and focus on pretty graphics and pixel icons. However without users our websites would turn into bits of redundant data held on servers across the… read more

Logo Design: Watermelons and Lemons

May 26th, 2011
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Abduzeedo

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 strawberries and apples… today it’s all about logos with watermelons and lemons!

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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these… read more

Windows App for DIYers Helps You Design & Build Cool Stuff

May 25th, 2011
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Mashable

123D is a free Windows app from Autodesk that helps do-it-yourselfers design and make their own custom goods, including electronics, lighting, car parts, furniture and much more.

Although the app (which is on the Ponoko Personal Factory platform) is based on the same Autodesk technology used by engineers… read more

Portfolio Launch of Digital Artist Jerico

May 25th, 2011
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Due to his brand new website launch we want to showcase the work of digital artist Jerico. The creative mind from Lanzarote, Spain gave me a small interview to share with the Abduzeedo reader.

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Jerico has worked for several angecies and brands from all over the globe. He has also contributed… read more

YouTube: Two Days’ Worth of Video Uploaded Every Minute

May 25th, 2011
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Mashable

More than 48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

The video-sharing site reports a 37% increase in video uploaded per minute in the past six months and a 100% increase from last year. This is likely due in no small part to increased upload times… read more

Create a Jar Illustration and Splashy, Purple Text Effect

May 25th, 2011
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In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a jar illustration and splashy, purple text effect. We’ll craft this with numerous, layered shapes and with various opacities. We’ll work with paths and the Pathfinder tools to enhance our text, give it dimension, and style. Let’s get started!

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CSS Form Templates, Tools & Services

May 25th, 2011
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Specky Boy

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CSS has hugely improved forms. Where once you had very rudimentary forms that looked plain and un-styled, CSS lets you style your form however you want and create rich and robust forms. Even a simple contact form can look slick and increase readability and user-friendliness –… read more

Your Chance to Win a Copy of Fantastical!

May 25th, 2011
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It’s an application that everyone has been talking about recently, and we ran our own review last week. Fantastical is a menu bar application that provides a simple way of interacting with iCal. You can view your upcoming events, and enter new ones using a natural language engine that works… read more

3D Paper Infographics

May 25th, 2011
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3D Paper Infographics

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Can Modern Mobile Web Apps Loosen Apple’s Grip on Tablet Publishing?

May 25th, 2011
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Mashable

By now there’s little question that the iPad has defined the modern tablet, and media companies have tackled the promising concept of digital subscription publishing with varying degrees of success. We’ve seen impressive offerings from Esquire, Wired, and Sports Illustrated, and new iPad-only products like The… read more

Daily Inspiration #830

May 24th, 2011
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Abduzeedo

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

45 Color Tools And Resources For Choosing The Best Color Palette For Your Designs

May 24th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

Every designer knows how important and crucial color palette is in the success of any design. Knowing how to use color palette effectively is an essential part of a designer’s workflow. Color management and experience of using right color in the right place give a website a unique shape… read more

25 Superb Mac Apps for College Students

May 24th, 2011
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Macs are becoming much more popular with college students nowadays, owing to Apple’s generous student discount (around 15%) upon purchase. But once you’ve bought your shiny new computer, you’ll be wanting to know which are the best Mac apps aimed at college students and which ones to download or buy.

Up… read more

Create a MIDI Drum Machine in Illustrator

May 24th, 2011
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In this fun beginner’s tutorial you’ll learn how to get sophisticated results using a few simple elements and effects. The design is based on M-Audio’s discontinued Trigger Finger Drum Pad Control Surface (see inset). Let’s get started!

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Create a new CMYK document, 10 inches (720 points/pixels) square. You can… read more

30 Examples of Smart Print Advertisement

May 24th, 2011
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Web Design Ledger

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Print ads must be eye-catching and attractive to draw the viewer’s attention. In this post you will see some examples of smart print advertisements and clever messages that these ads present. Most of the ones listed here are funny and unrealistic which are the reasons… read more

70 Excellent Photoshop 3D Tutorials

May 23rd, 2011
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70 Excellent Photoshop 3D Tutorials

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Daily Inspiration #829

May 23rd, 2011
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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 25 coolest tutorials to learn Cinema 4D

May 23rd, 2011
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I LOVE Cinema 4D. Easy and powerful. Enjoy these great tutorials ;)

How to Make A Ribbon Wall Graphic in Cinema 4D

Transformers Titles in Cinema 4D

SLOW MoDynamics

How To Make A Metal Logo Type in Cinema 4D and Photoshop

How To Make The Cherry 7up Look With Cinema… read more

Owl City Adds Life Experience To New Album But Stays True To Roots [VIDEO]

May 23rd, 2011
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Mashable

Each Monday, Mashable highlights an exclusive new video or song. Check out all our Music Monday picks.

Owl City’s Adam Young might have hit the proverbial “big time” in 2009 when his single “Fireflies” started climbing the charts, but the young musician is still undoubtedly a hometown boy.

“I… read more

Create a Detailed Baseball in Illustrator

May 23rd, 2011
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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a detailed baseball from a reference photo with the help of gradients and the 3D Revolve Effect. Enjoy!

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The following asset was used during the production of this tutorial: Baseball Reference Photo.

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Vintage 3D Typography in Photoshop with Repoussé

May 23rd, 2011
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Abduzeedo

Sunday is the day to play with Photoshop and try some new ideas. As usual I went through some books and Web sites to find some inspiration. I am still addicted to the Handy Book of Artistic Printing, it’s a must have book for some old style print references. I… read more

21 Examples of Parallax Scrolling in Web Design

May 23rd, 2011
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Web Design Ledger

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Parallax is a difference in the in the apparent position of an object viewed along different lines of sight. The term derives from the Greek word parallaxis, meaning alteration. In web design, the parallax effect is a relatively new trend. The effect itself has been around… read more

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: Smoke

May 23rd, 2011
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Mac App Storm

This week’s sponsor is a fairly unique application – Smoke. Not your usual graphics editor, Smoke is all about creating unique graphical effects.

It offers a unique type of brush that renders stunning graphics with the simplest mouse movements. Abstract backgrounds, lighting texts, art-house drawings – or anything else – this… read more

Daily Inspiration #828

May 22nd, 2011
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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

Rube Goldberg Machine Goes From Big Bang to Apocalypse [VIDEOS]

May 21st, 2011
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A group of creative scientist/students at Purdue University have created a Rube Goldberg machine that runs through the history of the universe starting with the Big Bang and ending with post-rapture optimism.

They’re calling it the “world’s least efficient machine,” even though it’s bristling with mechanical ingenuity. Why’s… read more

Best of the Week #172

May 21st, 2011
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Abduzeedo

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

Bring Instagram to Your Mac With Instadesk

May 21st, 2011
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Mac App Storm

Instagram is a widely popular, but unusual, app. It has had a huge success on the iPhone, continually improving over the past few years, but you can’t really browse your pictures or view your profile if you are away from your iOS device. The support for desktop and web versions… read more

Free Rainbow Login Form

May 21st, 2011
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Free Rainbow Login Form

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Daily Inspiration #827

May 20th, 2011
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Abduzeedo

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

Skip Flash, Build Animations in HTML5 With Hype

May 20th, 2011
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Mashable

Jonathan Deutsch and Ryan Nielsen left Apple late last year to join Y Combinator’s accelerator program and help designers build animations in HTML5 as opposed to Flash. Friday, the two-man team is releasing Hype, the first product of their startup Tumult, on the Mac App Store.

Hype, which… read more

Sites of the Week #154

May 20th, 2011
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For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Buses at the Brewery and Garden Sales. Also we’re featuring the funny PinosoccerHD game, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will… read more

Introducing Visual Freaks + Giveaway

May 20th, 2011
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The VisualFreaks are in for the long run, providing art-packs of unique elements that designers can use for their art-work. As a special gift for the Abduzeedo reader the creative team put together a little giveaway

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VisualFreaks is a high-end project started by a group of graphic designers.
The group formed… read more

50 Simple Yet Highly Effective Logo Designs

May 20th, 2011
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Specky Boy

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According to the world’s most experienced identity designers, a great logo delivers all the meaning it intends to in just a few seconds. Designing logos that are simple enough to be taken in quickly but still convey the many meanings a brand might depend on isn’t… read more

Daily Inspiration #826

May 19th, 2011
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Abduzeedo

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

Create WordPress Plugins with OOP Techniques

May 19th, 2011
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Object-oriented code, among other things, can help organize and add reusability to your code. In this tutorial, I will teach you the basics of writing a WordPress plugin using object oriented techniques. We’ll be using Dribble’s API as an example for this tutorial. Ready? What We’re Going to Learn:… read more

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Quick Tip: How to Create an On and Off Button in Adobe Illustrator

May 19th, 2011
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In the following tutorial you will learn to create an on/off button. It’s simple to create and you will learn how to make an object that’s perfect as a web element or icon. Let’s get started!

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Create a 200 by 200px, RGB document. Turn on the Grid (View >… read more

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Djay: A Powerful Music Mixing App for the Mac

May 19th, 2011
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Mac App Storm

Perhaps it’s just me and my complete lack of musical ability, but any time I open up a bit of DJing software, I get completely lost – There are far more knobs, levers, sliders, options and timelines than any man could ever want. I do, however, quite enjoy doing a… read more

50 Free and High-Quality Icon Sets

May 19th, 2011
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Noupe

A beautiful and elegant icon set is an asset to any good web design. Creative use of an icon set can help make or break the overall look of the design. Freebie design components, especially beautiful icon sets can be found in nearly every designer’s toolbox, or if not already… read more

Logo Design: Strawberries and Apples

May 19th, 2011
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Abduzeedo

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 pears and grapes… today it’s all about logos with strawberries and apples!

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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these… read more

Industry Options for Entry Level Design Jobs

May 19th, 2011
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Whether or not you already know the career or industry you want your design skills to take you to, knowing your other options can help put the path you’re taking into perspective. To help out the designers who are just starting out or looking for new directions, here… read more

Typography Designs With Great Messages

May 19th, 2011
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Typography Designs With Great Messages

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60+ Must-Have Photoshop Brush Sets For Excellent Grunge Effects

May 18th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

For a designer, having a good set of brushes that he can use with Photoshop, Illustrator, gimp and other editing software is truly priceless. When you need to design something specific, you often search for the particular brush that can be used for the purpose.

Here, A huge list of Photoshop… read more

Quick Tip: How to Create a 3D Sketch Text Effect

May 18th, 2011
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Follow this tutorial and you will learn how to play with the 3D options in Illustrator to create 3D letters and how to transform them into a sketch text using the Scribble effect and the Map Art option. You can create this effect using any color and because of… read more

Graphical Design with OSS

May 18th, 2011
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Noupe

Many designers don’t use graphical Open Source Software. This is not a coincidence: usually they don’t understand it, don’t like or even despise it. Since using the free software requires more time and technical knowledge — it seems easier to pay for a working package from a well-known vendor.<br… read more

3D Soda Can in Photoshop

May 18th, 2011
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3D Soda Can in Photoshop

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$40 Million Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Now Open for Business

May 17th, 2011
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Mashable

Derwent Capital Markets, a London investment firm that has long been touting itself as the first social media-based hedge fund, has opened its doors.

The £25 milllion ($40.5 milion) hedge fund is basing investments on an analysis of 10% of the 10 million tweets sent daily. The firm… read more

Daily Inspiration #824

May 17th, 2011
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Abduzeedo

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

Fantastical: Menu Bar iCal Events in Plain English

May 17th, 2011
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Mac App Storm

It is a rare but welcome occasion when an app is developed to do something I’ve always wanted an app to do. Fantastical is precisely that app. Often, when adding an event to iCal, getting frustrated with date and time fields, and giving up on adding any details but the… read more

Facebook Dislike Button Scam Gets More Sophisticated [WARNING]

May 17th, 2011
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Mashable

Facebook does not have a dislike button, but that hasn’t stopped spammers from trying to use it to scam users.

Online security firm Sophos rang the security alarm Monday with a post warning users about a scam that asks people to enable the dislike button.

Clicking it takes you… read more

Slacker Radio Adds On-Demand Access to 8 Million Songs

May 17th, 2011
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Mashable

At long last, music streaming service Slacker Radio is out with a premium, on-demand service. That puts Slacker in direct competition with MOG, Rdio, Rhapsody and Spotify.

Slacker Radio has been teasing an on-demand offering for a while, and Tuesday users finally have access to more than 8… read more

How HTML5 Will Transform the Online Video Landscape

May 17th, 2011
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Mashable

The Future Web Series is supported by Elsevier‘s SciVerse Application Marketplace and Developer Network. The SciVerse applications platform enables developers to build apps based on trusted scientific content. Learn more.

One of the most exciting — and polarizing — aspects of HTML5 is the specifications for HTML5 video…. read more

Adventures of Tintin Trailer Hits YouTube 7 Months Before Premiere [VIDEO]

May 17th, 2011
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The trailer for Paramount Pictures’ The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn has hit YouTube seven months before the movie is set to premiere.

The movie, a collaboration between director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson, uses motion-capture 3D technology (a la Avatar) to create very realistic computer animation…. read more

Ultimate Designer Toolkit (Over 60,000 Premium Design Items) Giveaway

May 17th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

Ultimate Designer Toolkit is running a contest, where 3 winners will get the free subscription of Ultimate Designer Toolkit with over 60,000 premium design items (worth $99 each subscription). Well, you guys know what they are offering? Lets say it once again for n00bs.

Ultimate Designer Toolkit is… read more

Nikon D7000

May 17th, 2011
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Layers Magazine

A Revolution in the Nikon Line
With the introduction of the Nikon D7000, a new level of camera comes to the Nikon line. The D7000 fits between the D90 and the D300s in product lineup and features.

Nikon has taken some of the best features of its higher-end cameras… read more