Best of the Week #208

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

Nice Showcase of Clean & Bright Blue Websites

Nice Showcase of Clean & Bright Blue Websites

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.124

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

25 Cool Lighters For Everyone

25 Cool Lighters For Everyone

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4 Ways to Tweet as a Visual Brand

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Companies that rely on a visual or photographic web presence often find it difficult to convey their media on Twitter. Take, for instance, apparel brands that need… read more

Daily Inspiration #1048

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

7 Tips for Planning a Wedding on Pinterest

1. Join

If you haven’t already, sign up for a Pinterest account. There’s a waiting list to join now… read more

30 Beautiful One Page Websites For Inspiration

30 Beautiful One Page Websites For Inspiration

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Beautiful Houses: Villa BH – Netherlands

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

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #138

I will be posting some fresh free fonts 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#138 and make sure to comeback… read more

Book Suggestion: One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com

The book suggestion of the week is about Jeff Bezos and the history of Amazon.com. One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com is a really good book, very inspiring and motivating especially about believing on what you are doing and focus on the long term when doing things…. read more

73 Links and Photos That Will Make Your Photography-Loving Head Explode

It’s been a truly wonderful week online in the world of photography, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy collecting the best set of links to tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This is a really great list highlighting wonderful work by some of the best… read more

Daily Inspiration #1047

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

Romney and Obama Go Head-to-Head in Online Donation Drives

Mitt Romney dropped the gloves on Barack Obama Tuesday night by launching an online-only donation drive. The goal? Collect $1 million to make Obama a “one-term president.”

“The inspiration was President Obama,” says Romney digital director Zac Moffatt. “It’s three years ago to the day that he should be held… read more

36 Exhibition Stands for Design Inspiration

36 Exhibition Stands for Design Inspiration

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Worldwide Photography #56: Hobart

Worldwide Photography is a series of posts where every week we’re going to show a city or location around the globe bringing the coolest photography samples of it. The photographs authors are all credited right above their pictures. Today feature: Hobart, Tasmania.

For the next week we’re going to feature Honolulu,… read more

What makes a design RETRO? and Retro Style graphics collection for your inspiration

What makes a design RETRO? and Retro Style graphics collection for your inspiration

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Stunning 3D Interior Design For Inspiration

Stunning 3D Interior Design For Inspiration

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Intriguing Graphic Design Illustrations By Billy Bogiatzoglou

Intriguing Graphic Design Illustrations By Billy Bogiatzoglou

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Daily Inspiration #1046

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

Oscar Ramos: Artist Of The Day

Oscar Ramos 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 and… read more

Typography Mania #117

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

Click here to check out all the previous Typography… read more

Architect Day: Studio Gang Architects

Alfred Wong born ind Hong Kong and educated in Melbourne is one of the most important for the Singapore architecture. He founded his own firm in 1957 and since then has been working between projects and committees of the Singapore government.

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Founded in 1977 by Jeanne Gang, Studio… read more

How To Shoot 360 Degree Panoramas While On The Road – With Audrey Scott And Daniel Noll Of Uncornered Market

It’s worth your while to click on the image above to be taken to the full sized 360 view of the Shah-é-Chéragh Mosque taken by Audrey Scott and Daniel Noll of Uncornered Market.com. As DPS evolves, we’ll be adding in the ability to see these immersion style Shockwave files on… read more

Best of Tuts+ in January 2012

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials

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Beautiful Editorial Illustrations by Luciano Lozano aka. Ilustrista

Luciano Lozano it’s a self-taught illustrator based on Barcelona, Spain working mainly with magazines and books. He got a quite distinctive style, since we cannot simply label it as retro as sometimes he works with traditional methods getting some really fresh results.

You can know more about Luciano at his Website.

About… read more

Photoshop CS5 Tutorials: 30 Must Have Creative Tips

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful Adobe Photoshop tutorialsfrom around the web from the month of Jan 2012. You’ll find everything from creating a… read more

30 Creative Website Designs Showcase For Your Inspiration

30 Creative Website Designs Showcase For Your Inspiration

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60 Creative And Brilliant Logo Designs For Your Inspiration

60 Creative And Brilliant Logo Designs For Your Inspiration

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Daily Inspiration #1045

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

Experiments II the 7th Exhibiiton of Cosmosys

The group Cosmosys is a creative community focused around different forms of art, composed of artists from around the globe and they recently released their 7th exhibiiton with a beautiful gallery of different stunning pieces. I hope you will enjoy them!

Our goal is to provide artists with a community… read more

Chris Sanders – Photographer Spotlight

This commercial photographer spotlight features Chris Sanders. Sander’s lifestyle and travel work developed out of a film background. His client list includes publications such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Esquire and Conde Nast Traveler as well as companies such as Bank of America, Microsoft, Reebok and Starwood Hotels. He lives and works from… read more

Marvelous Graphic Design Illustrations by Quentin Leblanc

Marvelous Graphic Design Illustrations by Quentin Leblanc

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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: February 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 – January 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 mixing vector techniques with photography, we learn how to create vintage style lettering that has a grainy retro style, dive deeper into… read more

50+ Creative Examples of Websites Designed With HTML5

The web is constantly evolving. New and creative websites are being created every day, pushing the limitations of HTML in every direction. HTML4 has been around for nearly a decade and now its time to move forward. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, HTML5 is proposed as the next… read more

Michael Oswald: Artist Of The Day

Michael Oswald 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 and… read more

70 Showcase of Creative Booklet and Catalog Designs for Your Inspiration

70 Showcase of Creative Booklet and Catalog Designs for Your Inspiration

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Clear To Do App Has Some Surprising Design Inspirations

It’s increasingly difficult to build buzz around new mobile application studios, especially when the first app on deck is something thousands of others have attempted, like a “To Do” app. Yet that’s exactly what Phill Ryu and David Lanham, the two masterminds behind Impending, Inc. have managed to do.

Ryu and… read more

Daily Inspiration #1044

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

Stunning Aerial Photography

Photography is great and amazing in and of itself, but aerial photography takes it to another level of beauty by capturing these incredible shots only few people are able see without these photos. I hope you all enjoy and get inspired from this!

Hello everyone! I’m Mackenzie, a graphic designer out… read more

20 things from 2011

20 things that happened on the internet in 2011 is an amazing image illustrating 20 facts that happened last year on the internet and you have to guess what they are. You can also check the step by steps of how it was done, and see detailed shots of this… read more

Send in the Toons: Collection of Creative Cartoons

For most of us whether it was the Saturday morning programming, the Sunday morning comic strips, more, or all of the above cartoons have been a major part of our adolescent and adult lives. For whatever reason, we seem to be drawn to the often exaggerated drawings of cartoonist’s pens…. read more

21 Inspiring Examples of Dark Colors in Web Design

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We all know that color is a key aspect of web design, and here at WDL we like to show you how designers are using colors in their projects. We’ve already showcased lists showing colorful websites and sites using white, so today, to keep you inspired… read more

Create a Creamy Ice Cream Poster on Illustrator

Hi everyone, before someone say it’s winter on the north pole, I gotta say it’s damn hot here in Brasil, so I though a tasty and frosty illustration would be a good exercise to do.

This is a step by step tutorial forwarding some of the previous tutorials. The idea is… read more

Daily Inspiration #1043

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

Pinterest Becomes Top Traffic Driver for Retailers [INFOGRAPHIC]

Pinterest, a two-year-old social bookmarking site that lets users collect and share things they like on the web, is driving increasingly significant amounts of traffic to retailers’ websites.

The service enables users to create online bulletin boards, or “pinboards,” for popular categories such as home decor, food and wedding inspiration. Members… read more

20 Excellent Tribal Butterfly Tattoos

20 Excellent Tribal Butterfly Tattoos

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30 Dandy Shoulder Length Hairstyles

30 Dandy Shoulder Length Hairstyles

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35 Groovy Harley Davidson Tattoos

35 Groovy Harley Davidson Tattoos

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35 Great Logos Inspired By Cats

35 Great Logos Inspired By Cats

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30 Clever Logos With Hidden Messages

30 Clever Logos With Hidden Messages

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Our favorite tweets of the week Jan 23-Jan 29, 2012

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Wallpaper of the Week 188 by Sebastian Andaur

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Sebastian Andaur an young visual artist and graphic designer from Chile. Sebastian loves colors since he was born and when he got his first computer at the age of 12 he started to play with Photoshop.

Today, Sebastian works creating graphics,… read more

Sound Design: Audio Branding: Airela Case

What is audio branding?

“Audio branding describes the process of brand development and brand management by use of acoustic elements within the framework of brand communication. It is part of multi-sensory brand communication and holistic corporate design. Audio branding aims at building solidly a brand sound that represents the identity and… read more

20+ Colorful & Cute Websites Designed for Kids

20+ Colorful & Cute Websites Designed for Kids

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Best of the Week #207

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

Stunning Photo Manipulations By Romel Belga

Stunning Photo Manipulations By Romel Belga

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.123

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

Elvis Benicio: Artist Of The Day

Elvis Benicio 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

Web Design Inspiration – Texture Must-haves

Web Design Inspiration – Texture Must-haves

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60+ Latest Logo Designs for Design Inspiration

60+ Latest Logo Designs for Design Inspiration

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Create a Post-Apocalyptic Photo-Composition – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Mark Mayers will create a post-apocalyptic photo composition that will take inspiration from movies such as Planet of Apes, where an astronaut finds himself marooned on Earth thousands of years in the future only to find scattered relics of mankind. This tutorial is available… read more

Daily Inspiration #1042

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

IV International Advertising Festival ‘White Square’

IV International Advertising Festival ‘White Square’

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30+ Single Color Logos Design For Designers Inspiration

30+ Single Color Logos Design For Designers Inspiration

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Surprisingly Beautiful Escalator Photography

A photographer can actually get to take some beautiful pictures out from the most common things, like escalators. I find this particularly fresh and quite nice, considering the amount of beauty found in these photographs.

If you got your own escalator pictures, we’d really love to see it. Drop us a… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #137

I will be posting some fresh free fonts 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#137 and make sure to comeback… read more

40 Negative Space Logo Designs

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In this post we have collected 40 well design negative space logo designs. Enjoy!! If you like these logo designs you might also want to check out our previous posts below.

40 Creative Logo Designs

28 Clean and Creative Logo Designs

24 Clever and Unique Logo Designs

Australian wine

Ignite

biobuddha<br… read more

15 Icon Design Photoshop Tutorials

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Icons are a very important element of web design and play a big role in a website. Designing the perfect icon is definitely a challenge and is always good to have resources and tips in this matter. Today we decided to gather a few Icon Design… read more

30 Awesome Typography Designs

30 Awesome Typography Designs

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Beautiful Houses: Weteringschans Apartment in Amsterdam

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

Mind Blowing Illustrations by Alexis Marcou

Mind Blowing Illustrations by Alexis Marcou

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Daily Inspiration #1041

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

7 Ways to Follow ‘The Hunger Games’ Movie on Social Media

1. Capitol Couture

The newly launched Capitol Couture blog is dedicated to the styles featured in the upcoming film…. read more

Alexis Marcou: Artist Of The Day

Alexis Marcou 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

20 Outstanding Poster Design For Inspiration

20 Outstanding Poster Design For Inspiration

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Logo Design: Games

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 butterflies, and today it’s all about game logos!

Every week we search through… read more

Creative Uses for QR Codes

Nowadays we look around and all over the places see QR codes embedded into the ads, buildings, billboards, newspapers, cups, clothes and even into the roads.

The usage of QR (Quick Response) codes in promotional marketing is a great idea and just one more awesome way to engage people… read more

Worldwide Photography #55: Tijuana

Worldwide Photography is a series of posts where every week we’re going to show a city or location around the globe bringing the coolest photography samples of it. The photographs authors are all credited right above their pictures. Today feature: Tijuana, Mexico.

For the next week we’re going to feature Hobart,… read more

20 High Quality Free PSD Icon Sets

20 High Quality Free PSD Icon Sets

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10 Designs Inspired by Microsoft’s Metro UI

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Since Microsoft first unveiled the Metro UI on Windows Phone 7, the rollout has been gradually taking place across every Microsoft product and website. It is the cornerstone of the Windows 8 interface and one of the most notable official uses of Metro UI available now is… read more

Monday Inspiration #10 Light and Minimalist Websites

Monday Inspiration #10 Light and Minimalist Websites

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Daily Inspiration #1040

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

Inspiring Art by Kumi Yamashita

Inspiring Art by Kumi Yamashita

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The Incredible Universe of Phlegm

Years ago, when I was starting out with illustration and stuff, most experienced artists told me that I should not worry about find a aesthetic and theme, that would simply come with time. Well, when it comes to street art a lot of artist mostly can get random about themes… read more

Creating Social Media Logos: 20 Great Examples

In this fast-paced world of competitive business, internet is undoubtedly the fastest medium of promotion to the masses. One of the most revolutionary contributions of online media is the advent of social media and social networking. The power and influence of blogs and social media platforms have a significant impact… read more

Facebook Ad Service – Your Questions Answered

Facebook Ad Service – Your Questions Answered

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13 Important Resources for Learning How to Design Typefaces and Full Fonts

If you’re serious about creating a typeface design, then you’ll need some solid resources to get started. Learn effective typeface design workflows, how to take an initial spark of an idea from sketch, through Illustrator, into Fontlab, and then work your creation into a complete and custom font design. Here… read more

60+ Latest Logo Designs for Logo Design Inspiration

A Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors,… read more

20 Beautiful Retro Poster Vector Illustration

20 Beautiful Retro Poster Vector Illustration

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A Showcase of Typography in Webdesign

Functional web typography is, of course, key to the usabilty of any website. But functional does not mean boring.
Big, loud and attention grabbing typography does have the presence and magnificence to truly grab the attention of your visitors.
It does not quite shout at your… read more

Awesome Light Effect in Pixelmator

Pixelmator is a really cool tool for image manipulations and editing. It is a really versatile tool for some photo manipulations and the new version of the tools, the 2.0 has a brand new text tool with more options. So I decided to create a light effect using Pixelmator.

In this… read more

30 Awesome Black And White Website For Inspiration

30 Awesome Black And White Website For Inspiration

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Instagram Co-Founder, Jobs’ Widow Join Michelle Obama at State of Union

The prom king and queen of Silicon Valley will be attending the State of the Union address tonight at the U.S. Capitol as guests of First Lady Michelle Obama.

We’re referring to Mike Krieger, co-founder of rapidly growing iPhotography app Instagram and Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of late Apple co-founder… read more

20 Most Inspired Graphics – Daily Inspiration

20 Most Inspired Graphics – Daily Inspiration

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One Page Website: 40 Fantastic Examples

One of the latest trends in website design is one page websites. I really love these kinds of sites. I find that the designers use these websites  like an artist or painter would use their canvas. They apply all of their artistic works on this one page to tell a… read more

Daily Inspiration #1039

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