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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, also use "Daily Inspiration" in the subject, and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If possible use the HTML code: <p class="imgC"><a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a></p> Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com 2D al b sure Anderson Tomazi Brukhar Derek Brown Eugene Kim Fabiano Spheremetrical (Here With You) from impactist on Vimeo. Fabio Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo. Logo - La vie moderne from Kadavre Exquis on... This is the short version of our feed. Visit the website to read the entire post. Thanks ;)

James Maher is a professional photographer and the operator of the Maher Fine Art Photography Gallery, his work is primarily focused on New York photography, but also of various travel spots around the world, and we have to agree that he has some classic photos of New York City. For more information about James, visit the Maher Fine Art Photography Gallery at http://www.jamesmaherphotography.com/ Some Photos Couple in Snowstorm, Central Park, New York City, 2003 This photo was taken during the huge blizzard that hit the city in 2003. The snowstorm created such bad conditions that for much of the day I was completely lost in the park. At some point I found this bridge to seek refuge under. It didn't take long before this couple came along with the same idea. Manhattan on Fire, Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, 2010 The sky was white and unassuming until the sun began to set. Then the colors lit up the sky as if the entire city was on fire. Couple in Sheep Meadow during Snowstorm,... This is the short version of our feed. Visit the website to read the entire post. Thanks ;)

Dezign Horizon has added a photo to the pool:

Pictures from the Windward side of Oahu. Follow me at dezignhorizon.com/

Dezign Horizon has added a photo to the pool:

Pictures from the Windward side of Oahu. Follow me at dezignhorizon.com/

Jonathan M. Foerster is an amazing digital artist with such rich style full of colorful shine elements that intricate the eyes as they look for an understanding. I could look at each piece for a long time and still find the details that will change my point of view. <!--break--> To see more from Jonathan visit - atleastwedream.com I have found comfort and serenity in escapism through different mediums ever since I can remember. Always to be a recluse, quiet and in the constant realms of my head. These realms build upon love, fear, death, life and lust that I cannot render through words. My interpretations are of only mere sketches to what I cannot describe inside me. Building layer upon layer, obsessing over detail upon detail, my creations come to life after many months of hard work. Through this progression my thoughts and emotions change, and my work will evolve but in the end its core is still intact. This is just me, attempting to communicate myself through pieces that... This is the short version of our feed. Visit the website to read the entire post. Thanks ;)

Continuing our posts showing you beautiful and inspiring packages, we gathered some really nice examples of food related packages. From catchup to peanuts and honey, we will show a little bit of everything to illustrate that no matter what your product is about, a nice and well designed package always counts for good! Once again we got the images from Lovely Package, so we recommend you to click at the images to go to LP's website to read more about each package and its designer. Also, if you have a suggestion about what kind of packages you would like us to showcase here, comments are open. =) Bakina Tajna Pure Land Michael’s Farm Glace Artisan Ice Cream Prima Luce Student Work – Fran Aldea Gallo Occasions Gran Farina Azada Organic La Sirena Justin’s Nut Butter Sir Kensington’s Gourmet Scooping Ketchup Gail’s Bakery 5 Points Honey Student Work – Kayd Mustonen Student Work – Samira Khoshnood A.O. GLORIOUS! TrueCoffee Hot Dog Student Work – Diego Aguilar Babees... This is the short version of our feed. Visit the website to read the entire post. Thanks ;)

The Logo Design series is up and running! We're thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on 3D logos... today it's all about logos with boats! <!--break--> As usual, we'll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo Faves, Logo Moose, Logo from Dreams, Logo Gala, WS Logos, The Logo Mix and Wolda. We hope you all enjoy our selection! Cheers. ;) PS.: Got cool ideas for sorting? Tell us! ;) About the author Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, a 26 year old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I have worked as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobbie for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! For more cool stuff, you may also follow me on Twitter. Sponsored Links: This is the short version of our feed. Visit the website to read the entire post. Thanks ;)

A ton of great tutorials from august some useful design tutorials to teach you some new useful tip and tricks. Alongside Creative Nerds launching an new design blog, we have featured a few freebies within the roundup of our new site.

Photoshop Tutorials

How To Create The Expendables Winged Skull Poster Art

When I saw the bad-ass poster design for the upcoming movie The Expendables, I just had to open up Photoshop and have a go at recreating it. Follow this step by step guide on how to create the menacing winged skull design for yourself, complete with an overkill of weaponry surrounding a sinister looking skull face.

Create a Cosmic-Inspired Dreamy Scene in Photoshop

In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to use stock photography, 3d elements, and various techniques to create a cosmic-inspired dreamy scene in Photoshop.

Combining Custom Brushes for Wild Effects in Photoshop

Custom brushes can be an incredibly powerful way to add a touch of originality to your work.  By photographing or otherwise capturing given effects such as splatters, drips and watercolor textures, you can easily create your own custom brushes in Photoshop, and apply them to your own work right away to make it stand out.

Create Gold Ornamental Text in Photoshop

Ornamental text can be created in several ways. Today we will demonstrate how to combine several stock images to create some nice gold ornamental typography.

Illustrator Tutorials

How To Create A Very Scary But Cute Monster In Illustrator

Monsters, they can be bad and ugly or they can be nice and cute. How is this monster you decide by yourself. This is a tutorial on how to draw a complex monster illustration, I tried to make it as easy as possible but knowledge of basing drawing tools is advised anyway.

How To Create a Detailed Vector Sugar Skull Illustration

Follow this Illustrator design tutorial to create a super detailed sugar skull illustration made from lots of sweet vector elements. We’ll use a mix of basic and advanced Illustrator tools to build various decorative objects to slowly build up the features until we have an awesome looking skull design that pays homage to the Mexican Dia de los Muertos tradition.

Illustrator Tutorial: Give personality to character art

What’s tastier than an iced doughnut with sprinkles? A whole plate of yummy cakes, that’s what. If you’re looking to create a series of characters based on a theme, what better one to sample than one of Aaron Miller’s delightful confections?

How To Create a Fun Cartoon Style Poster Design

Follow this step by step guide to creating a fun cartoon style poster design. We’ll combine a quick character doodle with some bold and blocky text, then bring it to life with a muted colour palette and a mix of textures to give the poster an old and retro feel.

Web and design  Articles

7 Reasons Why I Choose Fireworks Over Photoshop

My name is Russell McGovern and I use Fireworks to design websites. There, I said it. I could be wrong, but it feels like I’m in a small minority; among web designers, the application of choice seems to be Photoshop.

Some Reasons You Might Not Want To Become A Web Designer

Web design is often an appealing career choice for artistic and creative people. It’s seen as a potentially lucrative opportunity to be creative on a daily basis. But there are drawbacks that many people don’t realize going into the field.

A 6-Step General Process for Producing a Website

When it comes to building a website, it helps to have a process to follow, especially if you are just getting started as a web designer. Good guidelines can help you work better by keeping forgetfulness to a minimum.

15 Great Ways to Secure Your Website

Since there are no point and click software, like an Anti Virus solution, available to secure a website, people just consider the job is done once the website is up. It definitely is not. Protecting a website or webserver is possible only by continued efforts. Unlike a poorly protected desktop in your place of business, a hacked website will reflect poorly on you, your business or brand.

An Effective Marketing Plan: Getting Started

A well-conceived and properly implemented marketing plan is the foundation for your business’ success. You might be the best at what you do, but if nobody knows about you and your offerings, and why they’re of value, then that shingle you hung up is going to come tumbling down

Back to Basics: Keyword/Landing Page Combinations

Starting today, we’re reinstating the Back To Basics series. Each Wednesday, we’ll share a Google Analytics tip, usually something that you can try right away with your own data to gain new insights. This week, we’ll illustrate a quick way to see how many visits you get from different keyword/landing page combinations.

25 Incredibly Useful CSS Snippets for Developers

CSS is no doubt up there with the most important web languages that we use. While html provides the structure it can be inconsistent and unpredictable across different new and old browsers. Css is where the html is styled though, and where we get creative as well as addressing those inconsistencies. Below is a fantastic list of 25 Css snippets that I am sure you will find extremely useful. Whether you are a veteran web developer, or are just getting your foot in the door of css, they are all well worth checking out.

Freebies

Exclusive Freebie Pack – 25 Ink Brushes

Ink droplets are probably one of the coolest types of Photoshop brushes. Mostly because of how intricate they look in use. They are created when you drop ink into water and then photograph them. Today, we have a set of 25 ink brushes to give away for free. Feel free to use them in your designs.

Ornament

A vintage old ornament seamless vector pattern created using illustrator, this pattern can be used when creating a  vintage design to give this design a more authentic look. This pattern is free to be used commercial design projects as well as non commercial design projects, hope you enjoy and fee free to leave a comment to share your feedback.

Cute Folk Seamless Vector Pattern

A vintage old ornament seamless vector pattern created using illustrator, this pattern can be used when creating a  vintage design to give this design a more authentic look. This pattern is free to be used commercial design projects as well as non commercial design projects, hope you enjoy and fee free to leave a comment to share your feedback.

Simple But Sophisticated App Icon Set

A nice simple but at the same time well designed sophisticated icon set which can be used in the interface of an app. This beautiful icon set is available to be used in commercial design project an non commercial design projects

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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, also use "Daily Inspiration" in the subject, and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If possible use the HTML code: <p class="imgC"><a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a></p> Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com 2D al b sure Anderson Tomazi B. Romain Dned Domenico Justo Doretti Nicolas Showreel 2010 Doretti Nicolas from Nicolas DORETTI on Vimeo. Draniu Edward McGowan Emil Karlsson Strawberry from Emil on Vimeo. Eugene... This is the short version of our feed. Visit the website to read the entire post. Thanks ;)

Simon Fernandes is an art director, designer and illustrator from Sao Paulo, Brazil with a really cool style, his portfolio has illustrations with different styles, from the very clean vectors of the Agua Viva artwork to the sort of retro style of the Copo poster. We were really impressed with his work and now we are sharing that with you ;) For more information about Simon Fernandes visit his Web site at http://www.simonfernandes.com/ Planetario MTV Planetário from ODA on Vimeo. Pedaço de coral Plus Ultra Menina Flutívago Agua Viva Copo Paisagem Colorido Buda Doido About the author My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com. Sponsored Links: This is the short version of our feed. Visit the website to read the entire post. Thanks ;)

Dezign Horizon has added a photo to the pool:

Dezign Horizon has added a photo to the pool:

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. <!--break--> Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania Make sure to click on each image to go to original location where you can check out more work from each artist and designer. Submit your Typography work From now on you can submit your typography mania piece by adding your image to Abduzeedo's Flickr Group and use the tag Typography Mania. I will search through and handpick the best pieces every week. Videos iQ font - When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo. Images by jorqe by mil3n by mil3n by cirox by gentlepurespace by mil3n by luklima by arnoKath by Heaven Ideas by Rydog Grafix by Max Dominguez by arnoKath by joewarbie by arnoKath by Andreas Leonidou by... This is the short version of our feed. Visit the website to read the entire post. Thanks ;)

I'm already a big fan and user of Campaign Monitor, the guys managed to build a beautiful and easy to use tool that focuses on using things properly. But beyond that, last week when I saw their new office I was amazed, really, is one of the best places for work that I've ever seen! <!--break--> After software, the most important tool to a hacker is probably his office. Big companies think the function of office space is to express rank. But hackers use their offices for more than that: they use their office as a place to think in. And if you're a technology company, their thoughts are your product. So making hackers work in a noisy, distracting environment is like having a paint factory where the air is full of soot. - Paul Graham, Great Hackers Saying that I would love to work on it would be repetitive, but I need to repeat that to be clear: how I wanted to work in that place! The architects met the needs of the team and managed to make a very cozy space focused on work. Each... This is the short version of our feed. Visit the website to read the entire post. Thanks ;)

In this Photoshop and Cineme 4D tutorial, I will show you how to create a space composition, exploring techniques for creating 3D text in Cinema 4D, a glass effect in Photoshop and a slew of different light effects. Before creating this scene, the concept I I knew I wanted was to have a girl floating unconsciously in space, with two hands trying to get to her and a short message represented in 3D text. You can see in this tutorial what I ended up with. Continue reading...


Continue Reading: Create a Cosmic Scene with Photoshop and Cinema 4D

As many people preach, less is more. Whether in web design or graphic design or illustration or photography or architecture, minimalist composition tend to really make a point. In a visually polluted world, getting some delight for your eyes is really important. <!--break--> So forget element heavy photographs... these minimalist pictures got just the right, few elements in it and they're beautiful. I really like the boldness in much of these, and all I want is to look for more of great examples of minimalist photos. One can't get enough of it... so, for more of these bad boys you might visit each photographer's page by clicking the pictures. I know you'll find some great pieces there, and these guys will appreciate your visit. I hope you enjoy these! Cheers. ;) Giulio Nesi Wilfried Ed Havarti Gary gakout David BlakJakDavy Christian memetic Matthew Redmond Frank Silveira Ryan Bowman Jasmin Cormier Andy... This is the short version of our feed. Visit the website to read the entire post. Thanks ;)

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, also use "Daily Inspiration" in the subject, and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If possible use the HTML code: <p class="imgC"><a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a></p> Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com 2D al b sure alex burner Andi Gola Best Bookmarks Brukhar Conrado Arduini Edu723 Eqairo Eugene Kim Fabiano Fabio Gisele Kyle Kargov Jonathan Miguelus Newyorkiz Via Twitter Send your... This is the short version of our feed. Visit the website to read the entire post. Thanks ;)

ChewedKandi is the name of artist/designer Sharon Milne. She lives in the North East of England and has a passion for vector art. Sharon has been interviewed and featured on a variety of websites. She has recently began writing tutorials for VectorTuts+. Since 2001, she has been creating and appreciating digital art and was even noted as being one of the artists to inspire a new genre of art known as vexel art. For more information about Sharon visit her Web site at http://chewedkandi.net/ or you can also take a look at her DeviantArt page or learn from her tutorials at VectorTuts+ at http://vector.tutsplus.com/author/sharon-milne/ Some Works About the author My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com. Sponsored Links: This is the short version of our feed. Visit the website to read the entire post. Thanks ;)

Dezign Horizon has added a photo to the pool:

A wave breaking at Waimea Bay. Follow me at dezignhorizon.com/

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I'll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week's textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection. <!--break--> Click Here to View all Tuesday Total Textures Resugere Today's TTT is created with texture packs from Resugere which is a Quality Stock and Resources group at DeviantArt. They have the best texture and stock packs of all kinds, to check it out go to http://resurgere.deviantart.com Abstract Experimentals Blaze Package Bubble Package Cosmos Package Fractured Package Ink Package Stone Package Grunge Package X-Ray Package Pieces of Soul About the author Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 24 year old web designer from Brazil currently living in Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds. Finding and sharing inspiration has become part... This is the short version of our feed. Visit the website to read the entire post. Thanks ;)