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Daily Inspiration #537
Typography Mania #33
Beautiful and Functional Birkenhead Library via Archoffice
Horizons, Architectural Photos by Bruno Cals
Interview: Max Spencer - Updated
Stylish Movie Illustrations by Justin Reed

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 01:26 PM PDT

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

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A Nice Time

Adrian Piciorea

al b sure

Alan van Roemburg

andrej ?ili?

Antonio Marble

Artur 'Kjá

Belinda

Science World dazzles with 22-karat billboard from Chairman Ting on Vimeo.

Ben Marsh

Best Bookmarks

Christopher Bruce

Danilo C Monteiro

drfranken

Eugene Kim

Fabiano

Fabio

CS15 - Spacecraft Illustration from Super Silo on Vimeo.

Celcom Bear - FIFA Worldcup 2010 from manymany on Vimeo.

jamt

Gisele

MiguelArt

suprman79

Richard SIMON

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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 #33

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 07:27 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

Images

RusholmeRuffians | by JordanBSach

Red and white | by tartandart

Pub signage. Chalk script | by atomicShed

Parents Postcard | by Pedestrian Typography

you're ohkay love. | by origamidon

Ladies Love Cool James | by Lee | Quoteskine

//Clarendon 01 | by The Drawing Machine

Blender Guru | by Michael Spitz

Crosby's Ice Cream Sign | by Angie Naron

go. | by Which Witch

Main St. | by matthileo

Daily Special | by Single-Tooth Productions

TIGER JUMP FURY | by Etienne Chaize

Spain - Spanish Railways Timetable guide, 1929 - Guia General de Ferrocarriles, 1929 | by mikeyashworth

5x7 b-day postcard | by christopher Paul

Mrs.B | by situdhamat

When you reach the impossible dream | by Grooover

BAR | by clicksnappy d(~ t ^)b

Order and Disorder | by manu/manuela

Brick Lane | by Samuel Christopher ™

Lakers | by simran singh

Typography | by javier.:.vázquez

012345678910 | by hier houd ik van

Numbers | by James Green (jag)

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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Beautiful and Functional Birkenhead Library via Archoffice

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 05:01 AM PDT

This kind of materials combination is often a great choice and almost always delivers beautiful result: wood, bricks and glass. Of course that the architects talent has a considerable part on the projects result, but here we have nothing to say. Archoffice did a great job on the Birkenhead Library and Civic Centre, at New Zealand.

The transparency is another element that was very wisely explored in this building. The intention was to allow natural light to come inside all rooms, and they did that by using glass in all the facades and also having a skylight in the center of the library. At the indoors we notice the attention with details common at the projects from Archoffice, using textures, few colors and vertical elements that contrasts with the horizontal line of the building. A sensational place for the piece it provides for a good reading and for the great architectural elements.

Notions of canopy, transparency, solid, void & pattern are articulated in the design, & incorporate environmentally sustainable design principles giving substantial energy savings for cost in use, recyclable materials, night purging in summer and natural rather than artificial light.

Beautiful and Functional Birkenhead Library via Archoffice
Courtesy of Archoffice

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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Horizons, Architectural Photos by Bruno Cals

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 04:52 AM PDT

Horizons, a series of architectural photographs by Brazilian photographer Bruno Cals, will be on view at 1500 Gallery from May 6-July 31, 2010. The six photographs in the exhibition are part of a personal artistic project that Cals, a well-known fashion/advertising photographer based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been working on since 2008.

The photographs in the Horizons series are suggestive of something beyond the record presented. The images of the buildings in São Paulo, Tokyo and Buenos Aires explore the limits of two-dimensionality, and articulate a radically different perspective on a commonplace visual scenario. In expressing this fresh point of view, Bruno Cals has invoked contrasting themes of possibility versus impossibility, presence versus emptiness, and search versus satisfaction.

About Bruno Cals

Bruno Cals was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1967. At age 19, Cals moved to Paris and began a successful career as a fashion model. At age 26 he decided that he wanted to be a photographer and returned to Brazil where he began shooting professionally. Initially a fashion photographer, Cals worked for Vogue and Elle and Visionaire. Since then, he has become a successful advertising photographer, working for the largest advertising agencies in Brazil. He has won several awards, including three at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

Some photos from the exhibition

About 1500 Gallery

Alexandre Bueno de Moraes and Andrew S. Klug founded 1500 Gallery in 2010. The gallery specializes in Brazilian photography and is the first gallery in the world with this explicit focus. 1500 interprets the notion of "Brazilian photography" to comprise photography made by Brazilian photographers, as well as images bearing a conceptual or thematic relationship to Brazil. 1500 represents the work of 17 artists, both emerging and established: 6 of 1500's photographers are represented in the Sao Paulo Museum of Art's Collection of Photography. 1500's collection of images includes both contemporary and vintage photography. For more information, visit http://www.1500gallery.com

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Interview: Max Spencer - Updated

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 03:36 AM PDT

For this week's interview we have Max Spencer, a UK based freelance illustrator and graphic designer also member of the fantastic depthCORE art group. Max sent us a wallpaper for the wallpaper of the week #26, a few months ago, so now let's discover a bit of his secrets to create great designs.

Max has, also, updated his website and portfolio with some awesome designs. We highly recommend that you check it out at http://www.monostation.co.uk/.

First of all we would like to thank you for taking the time to provide abduzeedo.com with this interview. Please tell us more about your art and design background?

I followed the digital art scene for a while before I picked up my first copy of Photoshop. I started playing around, learning from other designers and illustrators, finding out how to create their image. I wasn't a big fan of tutorials unless looking for a specific technique so I ended up teaching myself how to use a lot of the techniques I used today.

I moved on to study a National Diploma in Graphic Design at my local college. Whilst I was on this course I tried doing my own thing, mixing up images, experimenting with different media etc.

I became a member of the art group depthCORE, which has and still does inspire me and push my technical and creative skills. I owe a lot of my progression to the artists there.

At the moment I'm on my second year of a BA(Hons) Graphic Design course at Falmouth university, England.

2. Your work is full of creativity mixing vectors with photos but with a sort of vintage feeling. Where does your inspiration come from and could you describe a bit more about your style?

I don't have a clue what inspires me. It's the oldest cliché but I guess I'm inspired by everything I see/hear in one way or another.

3. Could you describe for us your typical 'start to finish' workflow when working on a design?

I use different processes depending on what I'm working on; I have a structured approach to my graphic design work. I start out reviewing the aim of the project, talk to the client, try and extract as much information as I can to give me as best grounding on the project. Pen and paper is my next port of call; I sketch any initial ideas or thoughts I may have. I would normally have a scan through some of my books or a quick run around the design blogs for any relevant information I can find. I would then start to develop ideas taking in to account, materials, context and the key aims the client has. Many cups of tea later and after talking to the client, I will start working up the final design on to the computer.

My approach to illustration is much more organic, although I still find sketching ideas out to start with and getting images from my head down on to paper the best way to begin.

4. What are your tools of the trade, both hardware and software?

Hardware: Pen & Paper, Mac Pro, Canon 300D, Glue, Spray-paint, anything I can get my hands on.

Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects, InDesign.

5. What, for you personally are the pros and cons of being a designer?

Pros: You get to do something you love and get paid. The moment you get the 'Idea', there is nothing quite like it. The power you have to persuade/change people's minds.

Cons: Impossible deadlines. It's hard for people to take you seriously at a young age. Designers are, by many, under-appreciated.

6. How does your job as an artist and designer influence your life? Do you feel that you see things around you differently for example?

I can't help admiring or criticizing anything I look at when it comes to design, I don't think it's possible to switch this off. I do buy random items from time to time because the packaging is clever or there's a bit of type I particularly like.

All in all it completely changed the way I look at the world.

7. What are your favourite 5 websites, and why?

www.depthcore.com – Great source of inspiration and a great members' community.

www.formfiftyfive.com – Everything inspires me here.

www.itsnicethat.com – The place I go for something different.

www.reformrevolution.com – Another place I check regularly

www.typeneu.com – Everything typographic.

8. What are your favourite 3 serif and 3 san serif fonts?

This is a hard one, I'm constantly changing my favourite fonts.

Serif: Didot, Alinea, Berling Italic

Sans Serif: Frutiger, Helvetica Neue Thin, Lubalin Graph (It's a Slab serif, oh well)

9. Once again , thank you very much for the interview. As a final word, do you have any tips for upcoming artists and designers?

Persistence definitely pays off in this game. I've written too much; if you've made it this far, go eat some food.

I've written too much, if you've made it this far, go eat some food.

Thank you for the interview!

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Stylish Movie Illustrations by Justin Reed

Posted: 15 Jun 2010 08:15 PM PDT

I really love when I find two or more thing I love in a single place. I do love illustrations, and I definitely love movies! Justin Reed mixes those two things and makes some super stylish movie illustrations.

He sure loves some classics like Dirty Harry and Hitchcock films, but it's also cool that he's done pieces for more recent ones such as The Dark Night and Kill Bill... there's also some from the 90's. Anyways, for more of his great work, you might check his website. I hope you enjoy these as much as I did! Cheers. ;)