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

Portfolio Platform Review: DeviantArt

Portfolio Platform Review: DeviantArt

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Facebook Introduces Ads That Appear When You Log Out

Ads will start popping up on mobile News Feeds and as you log out of the site, Facebook announced Wednesday.

Although mobile ads had been reported by Bloomberg in December, the idea of a log-out ad, which will go live in April, is new. Mike Hoefflinger, director of customer marketing at… read more

T-Mobile Predicate Plan for High-Speed LTE Launch in 2013

T-Mobile Predicate Plan for High-Speed LTE Launch in 2013

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Watch Out, Netflix: Hollywood to Reinvent Downloadable Movies [VIDEO]

Two of Hollywood’s biggest production companies want to give Netflix and Hulu a run for their money. Consumers should soon to able to download HD movies and shows directly onto their flash drives to view movies, bypassing traditional online streaming sites.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox… read more

Quick Look: Twusic

Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Twusic. The developer describes Twusic as a Belgian project developed in Brussels by the company… 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

Should You Hire a Social Media Manager?

As a freelancer, you do everything—manage the books, handle the sales, and make the coffee. All this on top of your actual job, be it writing, photography, graphic design, event planning…whatever.

There are some things you can outsource. You can hire a bookkeeper to keep your finances straight. These people… read more

28 Inspiring Typography Examples within Poster Artwork

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Print work can be very challenging and has a growing demand base. Designers are always on the edge following new trends to attract an audience. Poster designs are one such area where art and marketing can really shine through together.

In this inspirational gallery I’ve put together… read more

Challenges In Designing Websites For Different Cultures

One of the wonders of technology is that it has opened communication channels across the world. We are able to compete on a global scale against competitors in every domestic market. While this globalization opens up a sea of opportunity, there are challenges that need to be overcome to reap… read more

20 Modern Stationery Brand Templates Fit for Freelance Identity

Do you need to carry your freelance brand into print? If so, you can hire a professional designer to assist you with creating your identity. There is another option though. If your budget is tight and time is limited, there is no better solution than grabbing a high… read more

Stash Your Files in the Cloud with CX

The cloud storage market is really heating up right now. Previously we relied on these services to have all our files up-to-date on our home and office computers. Now, smartphones and tablets have drastically increased the need for ways to store and sync files between all our devices. And it’s… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2012

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

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

3 Reasons Your Proposals Aren’t Working

Chances are, not all of the proposals you send out hit their mark. Chances are, a good number of them get rejected at the first hurdle and don’t even get read. Imagine, the nerve of some people. 

And there are really simple reasons as to why. There is nothing worse than… read more

50+ Fresh Examples of Creative Coming Soon Page Design

When launching a new web app, or site, it can help to start marketing early. A “coming soon” page has several different purposes. Firstly, it allows you to show a teaser of your new app to people and to start the ball rolling with building the excitement. Secondly, it allows… 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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A Showcase of Great Looking Tumblr Themes

Tubmlr has gained a lot of fans over the last 5 years, and with good reason. Whereas many blogging platforms are striving to add more and more features to their platform, Tumblr has stayed true to its microblogging roots by keeping things simple. This has resulted in one of the… read more

40 Examples of Brilliant Responsive Website Layouts

Responsive web design become a very popular trend in 2011. It’s likely something we’ll see continuing well into 2012 as designers are beginning to support a myriad of mobile devices. Building layouts for the web can be tough, but inspiration is a huge factor.

In this gallery I’ve collected… read more

20+ Useful URL Shortener Plugins for WordPress

URL shortening services have grown in importance with the expansion of the internet. Oftentimes we need to share URLs but the original address can be a bit too long. Furthermore, with Twitter fever gripping the cyber world, long URLs cannot suffice within the 160 words’ limit and thus, URL shorteners… read more

How To Use The jQuery Load Method

How To Use The jQuery Load Method

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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

20 Amazing Examples of Colorful Web Designs

20 Amazing Examples of Colorful Web Designs

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Blending Ads into your Website Layout

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Advertising is the age-old medium which has been transformed via the Internet. Ads can be served on websites in different ways than TV or radio shows. Google AdSense is the most notable company, although there are plenty of alternatives to consider. Not to mention the growing… read more

Pictures of Yellowstone National Park

Pictures of Yellowstone National Park

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36 Awesome jQuery Accordion Plugins and Tutorials

36 Awesome jQuery Accordion Plugins and Tutorials

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Friday Photography Inspiration #47

Friday Photography Inspiration #47

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Be A Celebrity Using Celebrity Wallpapers For Android Devices

Be A Celebrity Using Celebrity Wallpapers For Android Devices

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How to Create and Use WordPress Custom Menus

How to Create and Use WordPress Custom Menus

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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

Meet the Winner of Mashable’s Facebook Short Story Contest

What would you write on Facebook if you had endless space for creativity? Well, not endless, but it seems pretty close. Facebook greatly increased its character limit to 63,206, which is the equivalent of roughly 451 and a half tweets. The increase means you could do more than just blog… read more

Really Fresh Resources For Web Ninjas !

Really Fresh Resources For Web Ninjas !

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15 Must Have Photography Apps – A Great approval For Photographers

15 Must Have Photography Apps – A Great approval For Photographers

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Folisteros Mag Free WordPress Theme

Folisteros Mag Free WordPress Theme

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Now Travel is Pretty Easy For you Using iOS Device

Now Travel is Pretty Easy For you Using iOS Device

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Reaction the SOPA – If That Come to Pass

Reaction the SOPA – If That Come to Pass

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Perfect Chaos Clothing t-shirt designs

Perfect Chaos Clothing t-shirt designs

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30 Fresh and Stunning Website Design Interfaces from DeviantArt

30 Fresh and Stunning Website Design Interfaces from DeviantArt

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Creative Photography by Scott Ferguson

Creative Photography by Scott Ferguson

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Free Flash Templates For Website: Flash Template

Free Flash Templates For Website: Flash Template

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Become A Professional Graphic Designer Using Corel Draw Tutorial

Become A Professional Graphic Designer Using Corel Draw Tutorial

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How Well Designed Landing Pages can Increase Conversions?

How Well Designed Landing Pages can Increase Conversions?

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Get your Questions Answered from 10 best Question Answering Websites

Get your Questions Answered from 10 best Question Answering Websites

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A Comprehensive Guide to the New Facebook Timeline

A Comprehensive Guide to the New Facebook Timeline

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A Nice Dose of Python Tutorials For Professionals

A Nice Dose of Python Tutorials For Professionals

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30 Photographs Reflecting Happiness

30 Photographs Reflecting Happiness

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6 Tips for Better Facebook Parenting

Monica Vila is co-founder of TheOnlineMom.com, an organization that provides technology education to families and helps moms connect with brands they can trust.

Recently, many people chimed in about the “Laptop Shooting Dad‘s” reaction to his 15-year-old daughter’s Facebook posts. Not only is the subject of social media parenting popular, but… read more

Daily Freebie #29: Presentation Shelf

Daily Freebie #29: Presentation Shelf

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Primary Night in Michigan and Arizona: A Social Media Snapshot

It’s primary day in America, folks: citizens in Michigan and Arizona are headed to the polls Tuesday to vote for their preferred Republican candidate to go up against President Obama in November. As we’ve seen in the past, the social web is aflame with posts, tweets and videos from the… read more

Free Tools for Customized Web Development on Mac

Free Tools for Customized Web Development on Mac

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Build a Commenter Community with Disqus

I am a strong believer in the idea that no website would be successful without input from its visitors. After all, those are the website’s audience, and as such, have the biggest opinion on the sort of things that are posted because otherwise. Otherwise, why would they visit? If you’re… read more

35 Outstanding Data Visualization Examples

35 Outstanding Data Visualization Examples

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2012 US Election Campaign Logos – Who Will You Support?

2012 US Election Campaign Logos – Who Will You Support?

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Don’t Want Your Video to Become a Viral Sensation? Givit Controls Who Sees It

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Givit

Quick Pitch: Givit is private video sharing made easy.

Genius Idea: Desktop and mobile apps designed to… read more

Daily Inspiration #1069

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

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

9 Cool Ready To Use Auto Completion Scripts

In this round up, we have put together a beautiful collection of some auto completion scripts that will help you enhance your user experience. An auto completion or suggestion script is a valuable way that can make completing online forms easier for your visitors. It is particularly helpful when you… read more

Quick Apply in InDesign CS5

Incorporate your keyboard into your InDesign workflow and use it to navigate through menus and styles by using the Quick Apply in InDesign.

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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

Mission Transition

Life and nature are one big transition. The sun slowly rises to mark a new day and then slowly sets to mark the end of the day and the beginning of night. We are created in the womb and from small cells we grow, are born and gradually age until… read more

Community Project: Custom Skateboard Jam

Vectortuts+ loves Illustration and discovering new talent, so today we are proud to be launching a new community project that combines both, the Vectortuts+ Custom Skateboard Jam. The best thing is, you can be a part of it! Find out how to get involved, at the jump.

Create Your Own… read more

25+ Professional Resources for Getting Started as a Freelance Editor

Launching into a career as a freelance editor is relatively easy. Unlike our web and graphic design colleagues, editors can start working on their own without too much investment in expensive software or equipment.

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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

Free Quality Photoshop Brushes for Your Design Arsenal

With so many free Photoshop brushes being shared around the web, it can always be a bit tricky to sort through the masses to grab those true quality packs that are available. So we have once again, sought to help out our readers by doing some of the work for… read more

Gemini: Meet The Gorgeous New Duplicate Finder From MacPaw

MacPaw is at it again and has released a brand new app to the world: Gemini, The Duplicate Finder. The folks over at MacPaw are no strangers to the Mac ecosystem, and have released some greats apps in the past, most notably CleanMyMac.

Although not a revolutionary concept, Gemini takes a… read more

6 ways to improve your blog’s design

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.122)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Graphic Design Software & Skills: You The Designer’s 1st Infographic!

If you were with us back when we first launched our Graphic Designer Survey, we’re glad to let you know that we’ve just released the first of a series of infographics we’ve made from the survey’s results! This one is about popular graphic design software we use today, and statistics… read more

12 jQuery Login Form Examples

12 jQuery Login Form Examples

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Booklet: Advertisement Tool for your Business

Booklet: Advertisement Tool for your Business

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Josip Kelava: Artist Of The Day

Josip Kelava 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

21 Examples of Fixed Position Menus in Web Design

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A fixed position menu is that one that is fixed relative to the browser window, not only to the page, which means that if you scroll up and down the fixed menu will remain in the same position – so the user can quickly access the… read more

What’s All The Fuss About Vendor Prefixes?

What’s All The Fuss About Vendor Prefixes?

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Free HTML Templates: Download More Than 50 Superb Designs

If your next design project involves creating a website for yourself, you do not want to miss this article. Sometimes designing your own website from scratch can be a timely and daunting task, and going to the professionals can be very costly. I have scoured the internet in search of… read more

15 Places to Sell WordPress Themes

15 Places to Sell WordPress Themes

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25 Examples of Professional Typography in Web Design

25 Examples of Professional Typography in Web Design

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Introducing Digital Artist Sebastian Andaur

Sebastian Andaur is a young 17 years old self-taught digital artist from Chile of South America. Loving colours since he was born, Sebastian was first introduced to Photoshop when he was only 12 years old. Now he works with a variety of techniques, styles and colours; all coming together to… read more

This Calendar Fills Itself Based on What You Like

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: UPlanMe

Quick Pitch: UPlanMe is an online notification system that filters upcoming events and specials… read more

25 New Portfolio WordPress Themes from ThemeForest

25 New Portfolio WordPress Themes from ThemeForest

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Tutti Frutti Self Portraits By Cristina Otero

Tutti Frutti Self Portraits By Cristina Otero

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Fabulous Pictures of Paris (France) in Black and White

Fabulous Pictures of Paris (France) in Black and White

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20+ Free Photoshop Business Card Templates

20+ Free Photoshop Business Card Templates

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Quick Tip: Enhancing Textures Using Photoshop

Quick Tip: Enhancing Textures Using Photoshop

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Weekly Poll: Which Twitter Client is Your Favorite?

Which Mac Twitter App Is Your Favorite?

The world of Twitter clients is an ongoing obsession of mine. The history of how third party developers have helped push the platform forward and then left the market disgruntled at how they’ve been treated by Twitter is fascinating. Looking back we can… read more

5 Useful jQuery Image Sliders Plugins

5 Useful jQuery Image Sliders Plugins

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45 (More) Really High Quality Free PSD Files For Designers

45 (More) Really High Quality Free PSD Files For Designers

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Photoshop Tutorial: Create A Battery Icon.

Photoshop Tutorial: Create A Battery Icon.

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FBI Shuts Down 3,000 Warrantless GPS Devices After Court Ruling [VIDEO]

The FBI shut down 3,000 GPS-based devices this week in a response to a court case ruling decided on Jan 23.

The U.S. Department of Justice is now dispatching officials to remove the devices, which were not authorized by warrant to be attached to vehicles.

In United States vs. Jones,… read more

10 Great Help Desk Apps for Outstanding Customer Support

10 Great Help Desk Apps for Outstanding Customer Support

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How Startups Can Build Lasting Relationships With Journalists

Dmitry Dragilev is the marketing lead at ZURB, the interaction design firm behind ZURBapps, a suite of apps that helps people quickly design great products through rapid prototyping, iteration and user feedback.

It’s a week before launch and you’re hoping to score some awesome traffic from a well-known publication. Here is… read more

47 Amazing Letterpress Business Cards – Light Color

47 Amazing Letterpress Business Cards – Light Color

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17 Creative Uses of Lens Flare (And How to Get The Effect Yourself)

For many years in photography, lens flare was actively avoided by photographers. Flare, which is basically light scattered within the lens due to unplanned reflection and lens impurities, was considered as something that ruined a photograph. Equipment like lens hoods were invented to help prevent it. But times change and… read more

Free Photoshop Thor Style

Free Photoshop Thor Style

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Daily Freebie #28: Origami Banners

Daily Freebie #28: Origami Banners

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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

Women Pictures: 30 Beautiful Photos Of Female

Women Pictures: 30 Beautiful Photos Of Female

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Camel Advertising Campaign

Camel Advertising Campaign

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Create Some Attraction in your Email For your Clients

Create Some Attraction in your Email For your Clients

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