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, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more
In response to a Reddit user asking for someone from Google to do an AMA, which is their version of a Q&A, a software engineer from Google has been answering questions about working for the company.
He agreed to answer questions, but made it clear that he wouldn’t violate his NDA…. read more
The Mac App Store has changed our world. Apps are easier to find, buy and/or download, and upgrade than ever before. Developers can enjoy ease of use for customers, and great exposure with little overhead and minimal web presence if they want to (no need to host the app and… read more
If you thought you’d be happily browsing the web in either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox on that Windows 8 tablet you’re planning on buying, think again. According to Mozilla, Microsoft is planning to restrict the capabilities of third-party browsers on the tablet version of Windows 8, called Windows RT.
In… read more
Top Tips and Tools for Creating an Infographic Resume
How To Create an Outer-Space Themed Poster
Professional and amateur movie-makers have been there before: After you spend hours capturing video, you realize your footage is too shaky. MoveeGo, created by Los Angeles-based engineer Sylvain Lepoutre, is a low-cost solution to a frequent problem.
The Kickstarter project hopes to make iPhone and compact camera footage significantly… read more
Collection of Beautiful Sailing Wallpapers for Your Desktop
Although the initial dream of Bruce Timm was to become a comic book artist, he actually turned into the great animator behind the DC comics animated series for TV such as Batman Beyond, Batman Adventures, Superman and Justice League. Later he would do some comics based on the same series,… read more
Could Facebook become the next Dropbox — or a haven for sharing files without regard to copyright?
The social network has revealed to Mashable that all Groups will now offer the ability to send files. This update rolls out to a small percentage of groups Thursday, and will become available… read more
The English language is constantly evolving. Experts at Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary perennially add words that have been invented and accepted in our daily lexicons. The practice can be controversial, however, since it sometimes involves removing other, older words entirely.
For instance, the term “cassette tape” was recently… read more
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 brains, and today it’s all about logos with sausages!
Every week we search… read more
30+ Step by Step Portfolio Photoshop Tutorials
40+ Best Coffee Company Branding Design Inspirations
25+ Amazing Digital Artwork For Your Inspiration
How Does User-Flow Play a Crucial Role in Web Design?
It wasn’t too long ago that designers didn’t really need to worry how websites looked on mobile phones and tablets. Phones weren’t yet really practical for web viewing, and before the iPad, tablets were more of a novelty than an essential.
Obviously, all that has changed and most tech… read more
With the revised and improved edition of HTML, the authors as well as the web developers have been given some more flexibility and interoperability in order to create more interactive and creative websites. HTML5 has been proposed recently because the community believed that now it is the time to move… read more
An Introduction to Underscore.js – Part 2 Array-like collections
Tomas Muller is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists… read more
Today we will learn how to create text that is located in different planes. One very interesting trick with the Bounding box will let us do it without using 3D modeling. Find out more at the jump!
Step 1
Take the Type Tool (T) and create an inscription.
I used the Impact font…. read more
Is one (or more) of your competitors copying your idea? Congratulations! You are not alone.
As the co-owner of a niche publication, I look at copying as the best form of flattery—I have to! If I spent hours upon hours stressing out about having my ideas copied, I’d go crazy…. read more
How to Create an Video Player in jQuery, HTML5 & CSS3 [Tutorial]
Interaction designers create wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. Originally, these wireframes were primitive shapes drawn to represent various UI elements. Many of us cannot imagine life without them.
There are, however, reasons to consider moving to the cloud to do interaction design. In short, today’s… read more
Keeping track of the time you spend during certain activities can be useful for many reasons. The most obvious one that comes to mind is if you are a freelancer that needs to bill by the hour, and therefore need some proof of how much time you spent doing certain… read more
35 Navigation Menus for Your Design Inspiration
In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, you’ll be provided with examples wood and fabric texture creation techniques. Also we will learn how to render the light play on the objects with the help of the Opacity Mask, Blend Tool and Art Brushes. Studying this tutorial step-by-step, you’ll get to know all… read more
Calendar is one thing every House or Office or software now a day needs. It helps schedule your task and keeps you on track everywhere. Doesn’t matter where you work and what you do.
Every app needs some extra widgets, like calendar for example. Therefore, we decided to offer you one… read more
50+ Hi Res Free Design Element for Perfect Mother’s Day Card
Choosing The Right Fonts: Choosing Your Font
Spectacular Flash Websites To Inspire You – 32 Examples
Despite having interesting topics to write about, there comes a time when whatever I type looks and feels uninspired. When that happens, I visit the online abodes of my favorite artists. The team stumbles upon new sites and artists often, and that’s what You! Be Inspired! is all about! We… read more
Whether you’re a designer, a developer (or both), chances are you don’t have a lot of spare time. With that in mind, here are some of my favorite WordPress plugins that can help you get things done and move on to the next project.
You may also like…
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The new Smashing Books have finally arrived—freshly printed, neatly packed and ready to be shipped to you, our dear reader. We believe this is by far the best book we’ve produced so far. We are very proud and excited, and the initial verdict has been thoroughly positive, yet in the… read more
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The design industry is probably one of the fastest changing and growing. Designers have to keep their eyes on everything, including new trends in visual design, as well as interaction technologies like jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3. Designers are using these technologies to express more creativity in… read more
When we say rock and roll, we automatically conjure images of rebellious and non-conformist teenagers. Of course, that’s what the media constantly shows us, so it stuck. But thanks, too, to media rock and roll and its children reached the right audience – the rebels, the creative fellas, and the… read more
With any development project or something in which bugs are required to be fixed constantly, it can be a real pain to manage what needs to be worked on. Developers need to know exactly what’s wrong to ensure that they can release fixes in a swift turnaround and prevent any… read more
A fundamental difference between programming intensive web-development work and graphic-focused web-design is that everyone – client to business associates – has an opinion and an alternative vision for the latter. The technically-steep learning curve of coding, whether it be the front-end or server-side configuration, tends to elicit few… read more
Today, our computers and mobile devices house many stunning icons that often influence our desire to use a certain application or open a folder. The icons in our machines are practically part of our lives as we see them almost everyday. It is never a bad idea to customize these… read more
Vectortuts+ loves Illustration and discovering new talent, so today we are proud to be showcasing Round 2 of the Vectortuts+ Creative T-shirt Project. The best thing is, you can be a part of it! Find out how to get involved, at the jump.
Create Your Own T-shirt Design, Round… read more
With the familiar humidity beginning to sweep through the streets, we can safely say it’s going to be another scorching summer. But what better way to diffuse the suffocating heat, than to head face first into some ice-cold delectable ice cream? However, how do you choose your favorite? With mouthwatering… read more
With mobile access and tablets, cross-platform media compatibility has become one of the most important features for new web technologies. With Adobe Flash not being supported on iOS and HTML5 not being native to earlier versions of Internet Explorer, the jCS Media Library has arrived just in time.
The… read more
Here is a collection of 25 truly amazing and wonderful Photoshop actions for you. Different types of Photoshop actions are high in demand because Photoshop actions make automating the common sequences easy for the designers and thereby increasing their efficiency and saving their precious time.
In this compilation, we have put… read more
The Web has become increasingly interactive over the years. This trend is set to continue with the next generation of applications driven by the real-time Web. Adding real-time functionality to an application can result in a more interactive and engaging user experience. However, setting up and maintaining the server-side real-time… read more
Websites with full page backgrounds are pretty cool, there’s no doubt about that. Whether you’re using Flash to achieve your full page background, media queries in CSS, or simply setting your height and width to 100% and not particularly caring about the quality of the image, the outcome is usually… read more
It cannot be denied that Facebook is now a large part of most people’s lives. For many of us, its use involves catching up with friends, organising events and sharing our experiences of the world around us. With over 900 million members, there is no doubt that Facebook is the… read more
Our guest today is a famous designer Von Glitschka. Von is also famous because of his books, which are devoted to vector graphics. “The best way to improve your design as a creative is to improve your drawing skills. The more you do it, the better you get” – he… read more
Mac is a dream platform for designers. Depending on how many complex features are needed to get the job done, there are a myriad of apps available for designers. It goes without saying that a designer has to handle everything from an exciting new mobile app interface to a boring… read more
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Maybe this scenario sounds familiar to you: A few years ago I found myself working an office job that was ok. It paid ok, I liked the work ok, I liked the people I worked with ok, and I was pretty ok at what I did…. read more
A career in Freelance Illustration is much more than drawing pretty pictures. While as much as you’d like to spend the entire day sitting in front of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or your other favorite tools, like most freelance professions is is more about selling yourself, keeping your portfolio fresh… read more
There are tons of magazine covers with models, females and males that amaze the onlookers with their bodies or faces. The perfection expressed by these models conducted to deviated behaviors, many young women attempting to look similar to these and many times the effects were disastrous. The tabloids encouraged the… read more
Paper is a very delicate medium, yet it can, as this post proves, create beatiful and powerful art. Originally from Japan, the art of paper folding, as I am sure you will know, is called origami. Over the years its popularity has extended to all corners of the… read more
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Creative Fuel is a periodic collection of design and creativity awesomeness found around the web. Find out about new apps and services, the best freebies, and other significant news from the design community!
Design Goodies: Basic Social Media Icons & Transparent Flip Clock
First up, we have this great… read more
A quick Google search using the term “flourish” gets different types of results. The word can refer to an extravagant gesture that’s meant to attract attention. Sometimes it can also pertain to an ornamental embellishment in writing. We’ve discussed the subject of typography with our articles on movie intertitles and… read more
A Collection Of 41 Fonts With Free For Commercial Use License
Example of beautiful CSS3 buttons with code
1. Nanolet Watch
Keep your Nano nearby with this snug wrist case.
Price: $22.71
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3D printing… read more
In the market for a new SUV and live in California?
Toyota announced the launch of an all-electric SUV at the 26th annual Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles on Monday. It’s basically the RAV-4 in appearance, but runs on battery power with a six-hour charge time and a… read more
Logo Design Inspiration for Moon Concept Series
The media, forever a navel-gazing industry, worked itself into a fever earlier this week after evidence emerged that usage of Facebook’s social reader apps is declining.
In an article designed to further dramatize The Washington Post‘s recent tension between its editorial and financial divisions, Jeff Bercovici at Forbes pulled up… read more
Like many people, my path into photography came from a Soviet SLR, in my case a Zenit 11. For my 16th birthday I had the choice of an Olympus Trip or the big clunky Zenit with lots of buttons and dials. Even in those days I was a budding gadget… read more
35+ Food Drink Concept Logo Designs for Your Inspiration Series
Showcase: Beautifully Designed Landing Pages
20 Beautiful Digital Paintings and Caricatures by Daniel Adel
25 Creative and Awesome 3d Character Designs for your inspiration
21 Professional Fonts for Graphic and Web Designers – Free Download
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, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more
Digital Art Inspiration – 20 Great Examples
In an unexpected announcement, the U.S. and China have announced they will be working together on matters of cybersecurity, despite many cybersecurity experts’ assessments that China is the main source of digital attacks against the U.S.
The partnership was announced after a Monday meeting between U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and… read more
WordPress Plugin Review 03 – Front-end Editor
Zynga will launch its first game in the arcade genre on Wednesday, the social game company announced.
Bubble Safari starts with a story of an adorable monkey named Bubbles (a drop-out from the space program) who is living the good life in the jungle when his lady love and monkey… read more
If you’ve ever dreamed of visiting the Great Pyramids of Giza, you can hold off on purchasing the plane ticket. An online experience now brings Giza to you, transporting you across the world — and through time — to the land of the Pharaohs.
Dassault Systèmes created a 3D model of… read more
Broadcast journalism evolves with every new, emerging medium. Social media has certainly predicated one of those evolutionary steps, and opened the doors to new forms of content and distribution channels. Yet, in the end, it is value, consistency and engagement — as it always has been — that… read more
Responsive Design – Good or Bad for Businesses
Pop culture is the inspiration for many great artists. From music to movies, all of it provide great amount of ideas for people to do great, even witty pieces, like these, by American painter Hillary White.
Hillary came up with these fun pop-reinterpretations of some famous paintings, really worth checking out…. read more
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack (The World’s Biggest User Interface Elements Pack) were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack.
Winners of DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack
Lucy Martin (Developer License)
Matiss (Personal… read more
PDF has become a worldwide document type standard and you no doubt deal with these documents fairly regularly. Because the file tpye is so common there is a plethora of applications available to work with them.
It can be a bit tricky to wade through the large number of choices though,… read more
Atlantic Media announced the name of its forthcoming digital-only business news publication, Quartz, Tuesday.
Quartz is the first publication in the business category designed to be consumed largely via tablets, smartphones and the web, competing against more established entities like The Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek and The Financial Times. Unlike those entities,… read more
WordPress has made it easier than ever for a web designer to setup their own blog. This system allows you to add content into your website and publish in a number of different ways. But with the ever-advancing Internet we are seeing posts transform into articles and webblogs… read more
I love it when two art forms collide and something beautiful emerges. Paper typography is one such type of art that has fascinated me since I was little. Maybe it’s because I learned about origami in grade school, and now also have a love of typography. So when I see… read more
Job Hall is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists… read more
Durham Cathedral Columns – How Do You Draw Buildings?
The new Smashing Books have finally arrived—freshly printed, neatly packed and ready to be shipped to you, our dear reader. We believe this is by far the best book we’ve produced so far. We are very proud and excited, and the initial verdict has been thoroughly positive, yet in the… read more