Daily Inspiration #1081

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

‘Bachelor’ Retweets Messages From Outraged Fans

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A tweet referencing the final two remaining contestants.

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The Bachelor‘s Ben Flajnik turned to… read more

What Would You Do as Apple CEO for a Day? [CONTEST]

Congratulations — you’ve been made CEO of Apple. What are you going to do on your first day?

But there’s a catch: you’re only the CEO for one day. You don’t have a lot of time before you go back to being just an average Apple consumer. This is your 15… read more

12+ Top Resources for Beginner Web Developers

Welcome to development 101. If you’ve been eyeing Ruby on Rails or HTML/CSS freelance positions popping up across the web, but don’t have the full skills yet, here are the best resources to help you gain trust, experience and know-how.

Front-End Web Development

Front-end development seems like the early tie in… read more

Daily Inspiration #1080

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

Curvey Facebook Timeline Cover Template (PSD)

Curvey Facebook Timeline Cover Template (PSD)

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Film vs. Digital

A Guest Post by Rebecca Lily

With the comeback of film over the last few years, many digital photographers are questioning whether or not to make the switch.  This is a decision I had to ponder myself as well.  Is it worth adding a Contax 645 to the arsenal and shooting… read more

Google Algorithm Update February 2012 – Link Evaluation

Google Algorithm Update February 2012 – Link Evaluation

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Quick Tip: How to Use Typography to Create a 3D Text Effect

Follow this quick tip and learn how to use typography to create a 3D text effect. It may seem complicated but it takes only a few fonts, the 3D options and some extra adjustments at the end. Let’s start!

Step 1

First open a new web document. Take the Type Tool (T)… read more

Create “Awesome” 3D Style Lettering in Photoshop – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Marcelo Schultz will explain how to create "awesome" 3D-style typography using illustrative techniques in Photoshop. This tutorial does not utilize any 3D apps or tools and relies heavily on a good sketch, as well as your ability to apply proper light and shadow. This… read more

Freelance Freedom #249: Gourmet Dinner

Once a week, we feature a fantastic freelance-themed comic from the talented N.C. Winters. Why not also take a look at our comic archive?

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Tamron 18-200mm Zoom F/3.5-6.3 lll VC REVIEW

A Guest Post by Michael Agliolo.

Lens: Tamron 18-200mm zoom F/3.5-6.3 lll VC – model B011
Review Camera body: Sony A Nex 5k – Digital Camera

Got a chance to take a test drive with the new Tamron 18-200mm zoom F/3.5-6.3 lll VC – model B011 Lens.

I like to think in terms of… read more

Retro Web Background Kit

Retro Web Background Kit

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Mind Blowing Photo Manipulations of Asile

Asile is a photo retouching and 3D/CGI studio based in Paris, France founded by Photoshop Artist, Christophe Huet. Their CGI and creative photo retouching work is some of the best that you will ever see. In this article, we will feature some of our favorite pieces from their portfolio. Let’s… read more

Emma: Communicate in Style

I like email better than any other means of communication. It’s simple, quick and cheap. Unlike a telephone call or a face to face meeting, you can handle emails at your own convenience too. If you take spam and email overload out of the equation, I’m sure a lot of… read more

10 Innovative Uses of Facebook Timeline for Brands

1. Fanta

The soda company’s branded Facebook Timeline page took advantage of the Leap Year by pretending that the… read more

Great Portfolio Designs

Great Portfolio Designs

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Daily Inspiration #1078

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

Collection Of CSS Resets

Collection Of CSS Resets

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The Smashing Book #3 Cover Design

Around the end of October last year, Vitaly Friedman of Smashing Magazine asked me if I would be interested in contributing to the new Smashing Book #3. There were a few options as to how I could contribute to it. But since my days were already filled until Summer 2012,… read more

The Most Beautiful Cg Girls

The Most Beautiful Cg Girls

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31 Amazing Abstract Images

Opportunities for Abstract images are all around you. Here’s 31 examples to give you a little inspiration.

Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.

Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips.

31 Amazing Abstract Images

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40+ CG Robot Artworks

40+ CG Robot Artworks

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25 Wonderful Black and White Countryside Landscapes

Something about getting out into the countryside makes us all want to pull out a camera. The open fields and fresh air are great, but they also allow a lot of opportunity for great photography. These shots show what can be done in black and white with a little talent… read more

Great Photography Links to Procrastinate With!

The Toad has been busy hopping all over the internet this week finding the best links to tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This weeks list showcases a series of really great images and blog posts sure to be enjoyed by the photography fan in all… read more

GE Wants You to Play With Power Tools at SXSW

Ever used a laser cutter? How about a cold saw, ironworker, injection molder or 3D printer? If not, do you want to?

No matter your power-tool qualifications (or lack thereof), GE wants to give you a chance to get some hands-on time with them.

The company is launching a series of pop-up… read more

Behind The Scenes Of Tourism New Zealand (Case Study)

In 2011 we saw the rise in popularity of two relatively new trends: responsive Web design and the use of HTML’s canvas. While some websites had experimented with both, in the last 12 months we’ve seen these trends move from the fringes firmly into the mainstream.

Responsive Web design is more… read more

50 Detailed Icon Design Tutorials for Photoshop

We are visual creatures. As much as we like to think we appreciate the inner quality of things, the reality is that we start off judging every book by its cover. It comes as no surprise then that icons have a huge impact on how we experience the… read more

11 Popular WordPress themes Collection from WooThemes

11 Popular WordPress themes Collection from WooThemes

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21 Creatively Captured Moon Reflections in Water

Nothing can be quite as evocative as the moon for a lot of people (not just photographers). Something about it attracts us. When you combine it with water and reflections, a little visual magic happens. We think this collection of photographs shows that magic. Don’t forget to add your own… read more

Daily Inspiration #1076

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

Shoot Asteroids With Your Eyes — in 3D!

Remember that game we tried out a couple of months ago where you shoot asteroids with your eyes? The company behind the eye-tracking technology just unveiled the next version, which recreates the glorious destruction of atomizing space rocks, only this time in 3D.

Tobii, which developed the original game based on… read more

Freebie: Dark Navigation Menu with Notification (PSD)

Freebie: Dark Navigation Menu with Notification (PSD)

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Itsy: A Less Is More Twitter Client

One of the reasons Twitter is popular is for its simplistic take on social networks. Instead of encouraging users to post as much content as they can, Twitter limits the amount of information a user can put out by limiting the characters in each tweet to 140 characters.

You probably knew… read more

100 Mac Apps To Rule Them All

This post is the answer to the first question that any new Mac user will ask: which apps are the best? The next time someone asks you this question, don’t think twice, just send them here.

We’ve spent hours and hours browsing the web, combing the Mac App Store and wandering… read more

Daily Inspiration #1075

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

Creative Filter Effects for the Indoor Photographer

Indoor photography scares the bajesus out of most photographers, and rightly so.  On-camera flash, off-camera flash, ambient lighting and then throw people into the mix and it’s enough to make a grown man weak in the knees.  Utilizing filters on lenses and flashes can change any photograph, using them specifically… read more

Community Project: Custom Skateboard Jam, Round 1

Vectortuts+ loves Illustration and discovering new talent, so today we are proud to be showcasing Round 1 of the Customized Name Tag Project. The best thing is, you can be a part of it! Find out how to get involved, at the jump.

Create Your Own Skateboard Design, Round… read more

Smashing Email Newsletter Turns Two Years Old: Comment and Win!

Two years ago, we launched the Smashing Email Newsletter. Today, we’d like to reflect on some of the greatest newsletter articles of the past year and celebrate this anniversary with our 100,000 readers with a fabulous book giveaway!

Back then, we planned to launch the Smashing Newsletter only if we had… read more

Themed Engagement Shoots

I love engagement shoots. Having the opportunity to capture a couple’s story in a creative and unique way is absolutely energizing.

Unlike the typical styled portrait shoots, its really important to incorporate elements of the couples story into the shoot. Their interests. Any family history that they appreciate. And of… read more

Tutorial: Create 5 subtle background patterns

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Screeny 2: The Still Beautiful, Newly Updated Screen Recording Utility

Screencast recording and screenshot capture is an interesting space in the application world. There are a lot of selections that accomplish a variety of different things and many of the same things. You have the super robust, every feature you can think of type of application all the way down… read more

Police Drone Crash Raises Concerns Over Unmanned Aircraft [VIDEO]

A police drone made to look like a mini-helicopter crashed into an armored SWAT vehicle after its test flight in Montgomery County, Texas, near Houston. The crash occurred last fall and was revealed on Friday by police officials and Vanguard Defense Industries, who made the drone. This crash… read more

10 Biggest Internet IPOs of the Last 10 Years [INFOGRAPHIC]

Until we hear otherwise, it’s assumed that Facebook is well on its way to the trading floor. The social networking behemoth filed paperwork to go public at the beginning of February, and is on track to be the most valuable public Internet company in the universe.

SEE ALSO: How 9 Tech… read more

Domain Optimization – Facts and Myths

Domain Optimization – Facts and Myths

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Daily Inspiration #1074

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

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor – Gemini: The Duplicate Finder

Our featured sponsor this week is Gemini, a gorgeous and super easy way to locate and eliminate duplicate files on your computer.

MacPaw, the developers that brought you CleanMyMac, have released yet another fantastically useful and well designed Mac utility. Gemini helps you free up tons of disk space by… read more

Small Demons: Enter the Storyverse

I’m a sucker for anything Adam Lisagor is commissioned to make a video for, and Small Demons is no exception. While I was originally drawn in by the internet-celebrity video endorsement, I signed up for the service and have continued to use it because of how awesome Small Demons actually… read more

10 Useful Pinterest WordPress Plugins

10 Useful Pinterest WordPress Plugins

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48 New Digital Media Resources You Might Have Missed

Been away from Mashable for a few days? Maybe you were sorting through hundreds of Oscar memes. Perhaps you’ve been busy working on integrating your brand with Facebook Timeline. Or have you been trying to figure out what the iPad 3 will look like?

For whatever reason you’ve missed our… read more

10 Funniest QR Code Fails

It’s become nearly impossible to leave your house without seeing QR codes scattered everywhere. They’re on billboards, in your newspaper, even on your cereal box — enticing you to scan them with your smartphone, and then leading you to who-knows-where on the Web.

Where will the QR code madness end?!

Two… read more

Beautiful Logo Design Inspiration In February

Beautiful Logo Design Inspiration In February

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CSS Clearing Floats Snippet

CSS Clearing Floats Snippet

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13 Products You Can Make From Your Instagram Snapshots [PICS]

1. Bangles

This Instagram’d bangle on Etsy is made by BuyMyCrap.

“We fell in love with the Instagram process and… read more

Daily Inspiration #1072

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

Lytro: Shooting Matrix-Style ‘Bullet Time’ Video Isn’t Far Away

The Lytro camera, which launched this past Wednesday, takes photos that the user can refocus after the fact. It’s a cool trick — and you can experience it via the photo below — but it’s really just scratching the surface of what the technology behind the camera can do. Soon… read more

Geological Photography: Meteora, Greece

There’s some places in out planet that are truly magical and breathtaking. Meteora, in Thessaly, Greece, is one of those places. The geological formations plus the buildings you can find at the top of these formations are an amazing subject for photography.

Meteora mountains are filled with monasteries in places that… read more

Create a Metallic Type Treatment Using Photoshop and Cinema 4D

In this tutorial we will explain how to use Cinema 4D and Photoshop to create metal textured 3D typography that includes ornate and decorative swirls. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Kingthings Spikeless Typeface Material pack Step 1 – Document… read more

Share Faster with New Dropzone

These days we all have our many ways of sharing content online, be it email, Dropbox, or any number of other services, and it can be hard to keep them all straight. The developers of Dropzone have tried to simplify and streamline the sharing process (and other tasks) through automation… read more

Creative 3D Bar Graphs in Illustrator

Creative 3D Bar Graphs in Illustrator

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How a Mobile Game Dominated the App Store Without Any Press

Draw Something, a Pictionary-like game for iOS and Android, had 1 million downloads before it had a single search result in Google News.

“There was nothing written about us,” says Dan Porter, the CEO of a company called OMGPOP that created the app. “[Reporters] weren’t interested. I tried, but I… read more

Daily Inspiration #1071

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

24 Futuristic Concept Phones

24 Futuristic Concept Phones

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Collection Of Zbrush Tutorials You Would (Really) Like To Learn

Didn’t hear before about Zbrush? Let us define it for you; ZBrush is a digital sculpting tool with which you can combine 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing as well as painting. It is an amazing tool that brings “pixol” technology into play. pixol technology puts in lighting, color, material, as well as… read more

Spectacular Photoshop Designs For Inspiration

Spectacular Photoshop Designs For Inspiration

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Social Networks and Mobile Games Get a Place to Hook Up

Social game distributor Viximo announced a platform called Social Zone that will allow mobile game developers to simply integrate social media features into their games.

Social Zone works with APIs of the players’ social networks, allowing them to instantly plug in to their social address book when playing and find their… read more

How to Animate Your Google+ Profile

We have previously highlighted some really striking animated Google+ profile pages. Now we’re showing you how you can make your own animated profile with a simple online tool.

While some Google+ users have highlighted their methodology, and InMotion Hosting offers an awesome, advanced Photoshop tutorial for professionals, our walkthrough can be… read more

Easily Share Design Work With Clients via MockVault

When you take on a new design project or client, one of the important deadlines will be a day to share the mockups for the project with the client. This has always been a pain, involving countless emails, compatibility problems, miscommunications and more. MockVault realized this issue and decided to… read more

CSS3-Only Tutorials and Techniques for Your Next Design

Today we are showcasing some of best tutorials and techniques that will help you create beautiful and functional designs by using only CSS, focusing primarily on the properties of CSS3. All with absolutely NO JAVASCRIPT. For the most part, the techniques we have highlighted below, can be used… read more

Fascinating and Colourful Photographs of Creepy Crawlies

While they might make our skin crawl, they indisputably offer photographers a heap of opportunities for great macro photography. Creep crawlies are everywhere and with a macro lens, a reversing ring, some extension tubes or a macro bellows, you can get some amazing images. Check out this collection of creepy… read more

Logo Design: Eyes

We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we had a great post about logos with guitars, and today it’s all about logos with eyes!

Every week we search… read more

‘Hunger Games’ Wants You to Tweet for Advanced Screening Tickets

Lionsgate announced a campaign Wednesday for fans of The Hunger Games to unlock free advanced screenings of the upcoming film by tweeting specific hashtags related to their nearby cities.

To generate buzz for the upcoming film, the studio launched the campaign 24 days before the film’s March 23 release. Mirroring the… read more

Daily Inspiration #1070

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

iPad 3 Concept Looks Beautiful — But Would It Work? [VIDEO]

From the makers behind the viral iPhone 5 concept that envisioned the device with a stunning laser keyboard comes a breathtaking new vision for the iPad 3, with an edge-to-edge retina display and 3D multiplayer hologram for gaming.

Now, this is exactly what not to expect to be unveiled at Apple’s… read more

Wicked Illustrations by Nebezial

This one is pretty special. Nebezial’s pieces have been around here for quite some time now, showing up in several illustration posts, but he never got his own feature post, but it changes now. Prepare for some amazing, action-filled illustrations.

Nebezial is Croatian illustrator Stjepan Sejic and he’s been doing some… read more

Edit and Create on the Go with Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad

On Monday, Adobe launched its Photoshop Touch application for the iPad. This long sought after app runs on the iPad 2, and not on the iPad 1, and it requires that you have iOS 5 installed. The app costs $9.99 which is at the high end of the price range… read more

Best of the Vector Web – February 2012

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 photorealistic vector illustrations, drawing with a graphics tablet, designing vector characters, and more. We have loads of tutorials, in addition to… read more

10 Mac Games to Get You Thinking

Are you ever in one of those moods where you want to solve a puzzle, but would rather play a puzzling game? If not, maybe you feel like playing something that will really turn your brain on and exercise it. I’ve been browsing the Mac App Store quite often lately… read more

Infographic: East coast vs west coast designers

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Design before computers ruled the universe

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Jeff Huang’s New Work

One of our missions at Abduzeedo is to help designers and digital artists to promote their work. That’s the reason we are always featuring updated portfolios like the one that we will featured today from Jeff Huang.

Jeff Huang is a multidisciplinary freelance Art Director and Illustrator based in New York… read more

Cinema 4D Tutorials: 40+ Wickedly Fantastic Tips And Tricks

The latest major motion pictures are utilizing 3D animation and motion graphics more and more these days. With movies  like The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man coming to the theaters soon, we have decided to put together a stunning collection of must have Cinema 4D tutorials…. read more

Apple Wins a Treasure Trove of Multi-Touch Patents [VIDEO]

Call it a coincidence: The same day Apple issued invites to a press event to reveal the next-gen iPad (and more?), the company was also awarded 24 patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office for its multi-touch tech.

The patents, revealed by Patently Apple, include the Magic Mouse’s… read more

Interview with Vector Artist Caramelaw

Today we have a special guest here at Abduzeedo, I’m proud to present this interview with Sheena Aw, also known as her illustrator alias Caramelaw. She told us more about her story, her creative process and other cool topics. Check it out.

You can see more of Caramelaw’s work at her… read more

Avoid Translation Mistakes When Designing for Foreign Markets

The process of designing a website can present enough pitfalls at the best of times. A good site presents quality content that informs, engrosses and still delivers SEO, all served up in easily digestible, well ordered chunks. It should be clear and easily navigable, with graphics that catch… read more

Logo Design in 2011, A Case Study

2011 was the year that defined the importance of HTML5 and CSS3 and the best proves are the websites and applications based on these. In spite of this fulminate ascension, many other web design domains exploded or continued the expansion in the previous year. Logo design is one of… read more

NASCAR Driver Tweets From Car, Gains Over 100,000 Followers in Two Hours

When the Daytona 500 ran into a protracted delay following an explosion and fire on the track Monday night, NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski did what any social media addict would: grabbed his phone and began posting status updates to Twitter.

Then he gained more than 100,000 followers in less than… read more

12 jQuery Login Form Examples

12 jQuery Login Form Examples

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25 New Portfolio WordPress Themes from ThemeForest

25 New Portfolio WordPress Themes from ThemeForest

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Daily Inspiration #1068

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

MasterImage 3D Tests Glasses-Free Tech on Qualcomm Tablet

MasterImage 3D is showing off its glasses-free technology at the 2012 Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona this week on a tablet manufactured by chip supplier Qualcomm.

Qualcomm’s MDP Tablet 3D Edition — which boasts a Snapdragon S4 processor — will feature MasterImage 3D’s latest glasses-free technology called Cell-Matrix Parallax Barrier… read more

Niche Media, Gilt to Launch Shoppable Luxury Magazine

Niche Media, publisher of high-end regional magazines including Gotham, Hamptons and Ocean Drive, is launching yet another luxury lifestyle title, this time in partnership with Gilt Groupe and Hudson News.

Du Jour, scheduled to launch this fall, promises to be multi-platform from the get-go, spanning print, web, mobile, social and email… read more

37 Fresh And Free Icon Sets In PSD Format

Here is a fresh and absolutely free collection of Icon sets PSD files for all those designers who are looking for high quality icons PSD files that they can alter in accordance with their own needs. High quality freebie PSD files are the designers’ best friend that always comes in… read more

Tuts+ Premium Pack – Business Icons

Today we have a unique Tuts+ Premium Pack, which is created in Illustrator by Anastasiia Kucherenko. It’s filled with 10 illustrated business icons. Each is completely vector, available in AI and EPS formats. Log in or Join Now to get this exclusive download. Learn more at the jump!

New Tuts+ Premium… read more

9 Ways 3D Printing Can Change the World

What once seemed like something straight out of The Jetsons has become a very common utility across all industries — 3D printing could very well revolutionize the way we manufacture, research and fix things.

Although this new(ish) form of technology is widely recognized as a way to produce mass amounts… read more

The Eclectic Work of Mike Harrison

Mike Harrison is a self-taught, multi-disciplinary freelance art director, designer and illustrator, currently based in London. Through the years of crafting himself and his career he has experimented with almost every style and discipline in the book and still continue to try new techniques and mediums on a regular basis…. read more

Daily Inspiration #1067

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

Sony DEV-5 Digital Recording Binoculars Review

My experience with binoculars has mainly revolved around visits to motor sports, surf carnivals and performances like musicals or opera.

So I can, without fear of contradiction, say that we can safely discount use of the DEV-5 in theatres and the like: for one thing you’d quickly get tired of sitting… read more

New Epson Complete Guide to Digital Printing [Book Review]

Visit any of the retailers who offer user-operated printing of digital images and you’ll think that everyone does it that way. Nup!

Despite the radically cheaper print cost at these sites (10c and lower!) there’s plenty of digital photographers out there who prefer to do it at home on their own… read more

15 Tips for Low Light Landscape Photography

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Capturing scenes in low light remains one of the most challenging aspects of photography, yet the results when executed well can be truly captivating. Whether it’s an energetic cityscape or ethereal seascape the possibilities are endless. Here are a few essentials points to consider before you begin.

It’s a… read more