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Daily Inspiration #519
Typography Mania #30
The 10 Stadiums of the 2010 World Cup
Giveaway: D&AD 2009, The Best Advertising and Design in the World
Must-See Illustration Tutorials from DeviantART

Posted: 26 May 2010 02:27 PM PDT

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Imaginarium - Vem Brincar Comigo | 3d Pop-up Animation from Cafundó Estúdio Criativo on Vimeo.

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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.

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Typography Mania #30

Posted: 26 May 2010 07:05 AM PDT

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from videos to images everything is full of great design and inspiration.

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.

Videos

Book Suggestion

Lettering & Type

Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces (Design Brief)

No component of graphic design has attracted as much interest or inspired as much innovation in recent years as lettering and type. These fundamentals of design, once the exclusive domain of professional typographers, have become an essential starting point for anyone looking for a fresh way to communicate. Practical information about creating letters and type often amounts to a series of guidelines for executing a particular process, font program, or style. But what makes lettering and type endlessly fascinating is the flexibility to interpret and sometimes even break these rules. Lettering & Type is a smart-but- not-dense guide to creating and bending letters to one's will. More than just another pretty survey, it is a powerful how-to book full of relevant theory, history, explanatory diagrams, and exercises. While other type design books get hung up on the technical and technological issues of type design and lettering, Lettering & Type features the context and creativity that shape letters and make them interesting.

Authors and designers Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals examine classic design examples as well as exciting contemporary lettering of all stripes—from editorial illustrations to concert posters to radical conceptual alphabets. Lettering & Type is ideal for anyone looking to move beyond existing typography and fonts to create, explore, and use original or customized letterforms. This latest addition to our best-selling Design Briefs series features a foreword by Ellen Lupton and hundreds of images and examples of work by historical and contemporary designers, artists, and illustrators, including Marian Bantjes, Stefan Sagmeister, Matthew Carter, Christoph Niemann, Steve Powers (ESPO), House Industries, Christian Schwartz, Margaret Kilgallen, James Victore, Abbott Miller, Sibylle Hagmann, Ed Fella, and many more. Throughout the book interviews with type designers, artists, and graphic designers provide real-world perspective from contemporary practitioners.

Typography Mania

Images

Smith | by alistairh

Typography | by OiD-W

133 | by Six Word Story Every Day

Eddie Vedder | by mico.toledo

Judy Garland | by mico.toledo

Other Vision | by mpnc

Stay Awake | by imjeffbuchanan

Rise Above Defeat | by imjeffbuchanan

I went to a craft show.... | by Heatherjeany

Design 78 | by bfrancesi

ISTD: spread 9 | by michaelcorr1

Noise for the Needy | by MikeGalore

deerohmy | by THEFUNCTIONALFOX

rainy day | by velepav

ISTD: 100 | by michaelcorr1

los angeles, ca. 2006 | by eyetwist

The New Typography at MoMA | by Isaac Viel

iPad Wallpaper Typeface | by FLOP DESIGN

& | by b i r d

Signs & Street Art | by Juan Madrigal Photo

About the author

Hi! I'm Paulo Canabarro and I'm here to post some really cool stuff for you, if you have any ideas or any requests please get @ me - pvpcanabarro@gmail.com you can also Follow me on twitter!

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The 10 Stadiums of the 2010 World Cup

Posted: 26 May 2010 04:54 AM PDT

As a good Brazilian I'm a soccer lover, and as everyone should know I'm also an admirer of good architecture. In this case, as we are getting closer to the World Cup in Africa, I decided to make a collection showing the beautiful stadiums that were built for this event, which is certainly one of the biggest sportis events in the world.

I can say I'm already starting my stock of popcorn and Coca-Cola (and a little beer) to watch the games and of course honor the architecture of the stadiums that should serve as inspiration to us Brazilians for 2014. Many were still unfinished in the photos (taken from the site FIFA ) but they give us a good idea of what we can expect in terms of comfort and technology.

Mapa dos estádios na África do Sul

Now prepare your sofas and warm the mood for the show which begins on June 11. But before that you should check it out where the teams will play in that list that I separated. Oh, be prepared, Robinho and Kaka will bring the Hexa from Brazil!

Green Point Stadium - Cape Town

One of the most artistic football venues in South Africa, the newly-built Green Point Stadium is situated in one of the much sought-after areas in the city of Cape Town. Green Point Stadium is one of the two semi-final venues for the FIFA World Cup™.

Durban Stadium

The newly-built Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban will host one of the semi-finals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. The ground epitomises the architectural innovation on display in South Africa and takes its design inspiration from the South African flag, with its grand arch representing the unity of this sport-loving nation.

Ellis Park Stadium - Johannesburg

Ellis Park Stadium is located in the centre of Johannesburg and has hosted many epic sporting events including the final of the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup between Brazil and the United States. The ground was given a significant face-lift before the Confederations Cup finals and now seats 62,000 fans, increasing its capacity by almost nine per cent from the previous 57,000.

Soccer City Stadium - Johannesburg

The ground's design is inspired by the iconic African pot known as the calabash, and its aesthetic appeal will be heightened when the stadium is lit at night. Soccer City is located in Johannesburg's southwest and is only a short distance from one of the country's football-crazy townships, Soweto.

Free State Stadium - Mangaung / Bloemfonteing

The Free State Stadium was upgraded from a capacity of 38,000 to 45,000 during the refurbishments. The stadium has hosted numerous major football and rugby union matches, and Bloemfontein's natives are renowned for their passion for sport.

Port Elizabeth Stadium - Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth

The Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium will host the match for third place , and a quarter-final amid a total of eight matches during the FIFA World Cup. The stadium has an eye-catching, unique roof-structure and a spectacular view, overlooking the North End Lake.

Mbombela Stadium - Nelspruit

The Mbombela comes as a welcome addition to football life in Nelspruit, and will leave a legacy of the beautiful game for all the people of Mpumalanga. Before the Stadium's construction, Nelspruit had no top football venue to host international matches.

Peter Mokaba Stadium - Polokwane

The design of the largely concrete structure is inspired by the locally iconic Baobab tree, with the steel structure supporting the roof plane gathered together at each corner of the stadium and supported by giant 'trunk' structures which accommodate vertical circulation ramps and service cores.

Royal Bafokeng Stadium - Rustenburg

The Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace is one of the stadiums for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. The stadium is named after the Bafokeng people who live in the area.

Loftus Versfeld Stadium - Tshwane/Pretoria

Since 1948 it has undergone perennial upgrades. It has been used for both rugby and football matches and is home to one of the country's top rugby teams, the Blue Bulls. South Africa's national team, Bafana Bafana, achieved its first ever victory over a European side at this venue when they beat Sweden 1-0 in 1999.

About the author

I'm from Brazil, co-founder of Zee with Fabio. Nowadays I like to play with Fireworks, Photoshop and improve my skills in CSS. If you wanna request some posts, please feel free to contact me or follow on Twitter.

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Giveaway: D&AD 2009, The Best Advertising and Design in the World

Posted: 26 May 2010 04:38 AM PDT

TASCHEN has teamed with D&AD to make its previously exclusive and highly-coveted Annual – featuring the year's best creative work – available to the public. The awards panel judges over 20,000 works from design studios, advertising agencies, branding consultancies, film production and photographic agencies, digital media pioneers, and other creative firms from all over the globe. Winners receive the legendary D&AD Yellow Pencil Award – or in the case of exceptional and outstanding work, the rare Black Pencil Award.

The TASCHEN D&AD Annual is an absolute must-have reference work for anyone interested in creativity, communication, design, or advertising.

For further information visit: http://www.dandad.org

Giveaway

We have 2 copies of the D&AD 2009, The Best Advertising and Design in the World book to giveaway to our readers. To participate is very simple, just leave a comment suggesting us books to read, they could be books about design or any other subject.

Inside the Book

About the editor:

The annual D&AD Awards – the industry's biggest and best – reward outstanding creativity, originality, technical excellence and innovation in design and advertising. D&AD is a nonprofit educational charity that was launched in 1962 by a group of London-based designers and art directors, with iconic and legendary professionals on both its judging panels and winners lists. By celebrating creative communication and rewarding its practitioners, D&AD raises standards across the industry.

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Must-See Illustration Tutorials from DeviantART

Posted: 25 May 2010 08:09 PM PDT

DeviantART is probably the ultimate site for every illustration lover to find great inspiration, from great artists... but, it's not only to see, but also to learn! There are some amazing tutorials avaiable, and these are some great ones.

I didn't have the time to practice these yet, mainly because my focus is web, but I'm pretty sure that all illustrators and amateurs out there will really dig these and try 'em out. Don't forget to show us the results! Enjoy, cheers! ;)

Colors

Hair

Hair / Fur

Hair

Skin

Eyes

Planets

Adonihs' grain

About the author

Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, a 25 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.

PSD Tutorials ..

Wednesday, May 26, 2010