Every other week we roundup some of the highest quality articles and resources that benefit freelancers from across the web. We present these articles here on various helpful topics. This week we have articles on pricing ecommerce web projects, creating remarkable guides, pushing past fear, and more.
Pricing Ecommerce Web… read more
It’s hard to believe that all of these beautiful pictures are pencil drawings and not digital. Pencil, paper, creativity and a heck of a lot skill are the only attributes of these masterpieces. Check them out:
Gurn Drawing
Christopher Reeve
FuFu
What a Lovely Picture
Karlstadt Watermill
Snow White
Broken Heart
Yendos Nature
Pencil art by Rupak… read more
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Interface Design for Restaurants and Recipes
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The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Alecio Calixto and it’s called The Crow. Alecio is an art director and digital designer from Brazil. The image was a suggestion from Alecio himself to us via email. You can also suggest us wallpapers. Just email them to abduzeedo@abduzeedo.com… read more
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25 Beautiful Digital Paintings and illustrations from Loopy Dave
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Charmeleon
By Michael Myers
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“Gotta catch ‘em all!” Well, in a real-life game of Pokémon,… read more
Researchers have discovered a way to make glass that is not only glare-free, but is also anti-fogging and can clean itself.
The glass is created by depositing thin layers of material on the surface of the glass and then selectively etching that material away. The end result creates tiny… read more
Have you spent the past week studying the nuts and bolts of the new Gmail interface? Or have you been preoccupied with the space shuttle Enterprise‘s final flight to New York City (and the absurd memes that came along with it)? For whichever reasons you missed our latest digital media… read more
Apple’s iconic iPhone was almost released with a physical keyboard. Apple reportedly considered the phone design before finally deciding on the handset’s touchscreen-only form factor.
Tony Fadell, who was previously Senior Vice President of the iPod division of Apple, talked about the early days of the iPhone during a recording of… read more
Awesome digital illustrations by Art3sano
Sharlyn Lauby, SPHR, CPLP, is the HR Bartender, whose blog is a friendly place to discuss workplace issues. When not “bartending,” Sharlyn is president of Internal Talent Management, which specializes in leadership training and human resources consulting.
Since paper applications are going the way of the dinosaur in favor of digital… read more
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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
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The Vanguard designers thought of everything when they designed the Heralder Series. My first impression, when I took mine out of the box, was that it was probably the most padded bag I had ever used. Even the anti-slip shoulder strap is so padded and comfortable, you could almost use… read more
30 Coffee Logo Inspirations – Warm Up Your Imagination
Understanding Color Standards in Graphic Design
Collection of Free and Popular Sci-Fi Fonts for Designers
If you create apps in addition to using them, then you know that it can be a real pain to optimize your artwork for various devices. Prepo is a free application that aims to make the task of converting retina display artwork to ‘normal’ app artwork less tedious.
Does it… read more
This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.
Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only… read more
Managing a group is almost always a nightmare, and it doesn’t help if you’re stuck using a low-quality web app to delegate tasks. Whether you’re creating the next best-selling mobile game, coordinating a rebranding exercise or putting together a yard sale, it’s important to be able to communicate clearly and… read more
When we had an interview with JP Cuison he shared how he does his prints through screen printing and painting. We go so hooked up to printmaking that we decided to do another interview with a group of print makers from the Philippines. If you’re into printmaking, make sure to… read more
Here’s our second installation of our design news series! There’s something that’s making me hungry (in a very creative, graphic design sense as well as in a literal sense) in this roundup so I’ll get right to it so I can attack the fridge afterwards!
– As always, there… read more
Kites.
Happy Kids Kites by Cuba Gallery
Kite Sky by Martdump
Kite Flying by Praveen Vijayan
Kite by Daniel Kelly
My Rokkaku Kite and Nina's Camera by Victor
Dances of the Kites by Ting
New Zealand Post Kite by Cuba Gallery
Kites by Mishal Almesfer
Kite by She
Kiting by Photowork… read more
Create a Professional 3D Twitter Icon in Illustrator
Had enough of machine-based online translation services such as Babelfish or Google Translate?
Ackuna is a crowdsourced translation project, connecting individuals around the world with human translators who can give you just the right phrasing. The free-to-use site is a side project of Translation Services USA.
“We’re building a… read more
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When the Space Shuttle Enterprise made its final landing at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, it was greeted by a special guest: Leonard Nimoy.
The Star Trek actor and director gave an emotional speech to welcome the spaceship, which bears the same name as the starship that was home… read more
Totally Unique and Creative Business Card Designs
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
As AMC prepares for the premiere for its new original series The Pitch, the network faced a unique challenge — how to develop an ad campaign about a TV show about ad campaigns.
We spoke with Linda Schupack, EVP of Marketing at AMC, about pitch process for the key art around… read more
Mice-a-Palooza
More Microsoft mice than I’ve ever seen in one spot.
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Microsoft has been making… read more
1. Display Density
An easy fix, head to your Settings button and select a display density. “Compact” makes your… read more
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A new Facebook app, Circle of Support, provides a rare support community for people living with metastatic breast cancer (MBC).
This secure Facebook community allows people suffering from MBC to share their struggles and receive support from their friends and family. Recent research by Genentech, the company that created the… read more
CSS3 Structural Pseudo-class Expressions Explained
Typography is the most important aspect of any design project that cannot be overlooked. There are different types of fonts and typefaces that are available on the net and majority of the designers are using them. Among them one is Script fonts that are gaining huge popularity among the designers… read more
Red Bull is known for making the energy drink, but also for organizing and promoting absolutely awesome events, such as the Soap Box Race, Air Race and the one I just got to know: BC One, a break-dancing fight. Awesome.
And to promote this amazing contest, Sehsucht, a creative agency from… read more
These days, there’s literally an app for everything: keeping recipes, managing projects, invoicing customers, and managing one’s finances. Money management is an especially popular app category now that people can simplify budget tracking and analyze both earnings and expenses all in one window.
We’ve reviewed some of the popular Mac finance… read more
Thumbtack Press: Authentic, Affordable, Art
1) Justin Bieber on Klouchebag
While Klout measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Foursquare to assign its… read more
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Friday fresh free fonts is a series of free fonts posted every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#150 and make… read more
A few days ago, Google added another weapon to its arsenal – Google Drive. Simply put, Drive is Google’s version of cloud storage – say, Dropbox meets Google Docs.
As with any other cloud storage service, Google Drive lets you store your data online, edit/modify it as per your… read more
How to Add ‘Pin It’ Button With Images To Your WordPress Blog Without Plugin
Welcome to the first in a new series of interviews called “How I Work”. These interviews revolve around how thinkers and creators in the Web world design, code, and create. The goal is not to get into the specific nuances of their craft (as that information already exists online), but… read more
Writing In Style – 10 Great Fonts For You
Creative Sticker Label Inspirations In Package Design
We all love Macs. Otherwise I wouldn’t be writing here and you wouldn’t be reading. I especially love my 27″ iMac with its shiny and huge display, which even lets me display all my Photoshop work including an insane number of palettes. It’s awesome, but there’s one drawback: sometimes, I… read more
Email marketing is the most popular trend of today’s business world. It is one of the simplest, yet most successful, ways to market your business. The core aim of email marketing is to reach out to the maximum number of customers and market your business. This helps you reach many… read more
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Working as a digital professional in any field is tough. You have to constantly push towards gratifying clients and rushing through deadlines. Managing tasks in a team allows you to divide up the work much more evenly. However this also means it can be difficult getting… read more
Vectortuts+ is all about helping people turbo charge their skills, and today we have another special community post that will help our readers take their images to the next level. The best thing is, you can be part of it too! Find out more at the jump.
How to Participate:
This workshop… read more
While some WordPress designers don’t give a second thought to the security of sites they design, others turn to a variety of plugins they hope will keep hackers at bay. Others, as you’ll see, have taken a more fundamental approach to security concerns. The world’s most popular content management system… read more
A newly launched site has dubbed the upcoming EU Cookie Law “ridiculous,” echoing the sentiments of a growing number of voices across the internet. As these protests grow louder, No Cookie Law aims to raise awareness of the EU cookie law and hopefully increase the chance of changes… read more
The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful… read more
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Nature has proven to be one of the greatest inspiration sources of all times for artists. Logos inspired by “Mother Nature” bring that rustic, organic, wholesome feeling to brands, allowing them to appear less corporate and more trustworthy. Alternatively, the foods in the logo can be drawn… read more