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Daily Inspiration #542

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 01:57 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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Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #542

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Ásbel Torres

Cofap - Chacoalhando from Estúdio Romeu & Julieta on Vimeo.

Cofap - Pula-pula from Estúdio Romeu & Julieta on Vimeo.

Calixto Júnior

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December.ly

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Dennys Tormen

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Eddlo

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Eugene Kim

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Fabiano

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Fabio

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1MD Showreel 2010 from 1MD on Vimeo.

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Felipe Gomez

Gisele

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Juliana

MTV Rockgol from Animatório on Vimeo.

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Michale J. Lopez

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Tom Bloomfield

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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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Tuesday Total Textures #24

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 07:25 AM PDT


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.

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Free Textures for Download

Leather


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Seattle Grunge


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Jeans


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Fabric


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Silky


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Broken Glass


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Shutter


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More Bricks


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Old Wood Texture


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Blue

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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Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 04:29 AM PDT


SlashTHREE, one of our favorite collectives out there has a new exhibition, their 14th to be more precise, and it's called "Le Cirque Des Couleurs". The theme invited the artists to not only to explore their brighter and more vibrant side but also to create free flowing, abnormal, 'circus' like imagery. They also created massive typographical collaboration in which volunteers from the collective created pieces of art based around a letter of their choosing, which is called "Le Grand Cirque Des Couleurs".

The featured artists for the "Le Cirque Des Couleurs" was the mighty Erik Schumacher a Physics student from Germany and a Photoshop crazy artist in his free time. You can read the whole interview with Erik Shumacher by Saad Moosajee here.

For more information and to check out all images of the exhibition visit http://www.slashthree.com/artpacks/14/

Some people say it's the apocalypse... by Kire

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

Tale of the Hidden Orchid by Kire

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

Masque du Caprice by Bechira

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

Psychecellia by agiaco

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

AIN SVP AVR

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

atomic circus

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

And then, they invented color, and gave it to people by kacperspala

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

slashTHREE is on the verge of a new era. With major projects in the pipeline such as slashTHREE Version 4, we aim to change the face of this collective and make your experience even better, this truly is the place to be in the future. For now, though, we are extremely proud to present our 14th exhibition, "Le Cirque Des Couleurs".

Cirque du Freak by bechira

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

Couleur Espace

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

Colour your reality by r2on

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

Color Universe by edlo

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

Discodance Dissonance by apom, agiaco

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

Reach For The Sky by freekilly

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

polychromasia by Ignite

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

Platform 3 by Logix

Le Cirque Des Couleurs by SlashTHREE

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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Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 03:48 AM PDT


John Denton, Bill Corker and Barrie Marshall founded this magnificent Australian office with headquarters in Melbourne, Jakarta and London who have already completed projects in 20 different countries. With a distinct architectural language they became one of the most sought after offices in the world.

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Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

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In 1972 in Melbourne, John Denton, Bill Corker and Barrie Marshall initiated a joint career, establishing a partnership that became one of the most sought after architectural firms in the world. The office Denton Corker Marshall believe that its distinctive architectural language is derived from the operation of a fusion between art, architecture and tectonics.

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall
Melbourne Museum, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall
Melbourne Museum, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall
Australian Embassy Tokyo, Japan

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall
Australian Embassy Tokyo, Japan

The Australian firm won over the world with projects in Europe, Middle East and Asia with a reputation for producing dynamic and innovative design solutions. In addition to the founding members, over 10 principals and 120 architects work together throughout the three studios: London, Jakarta and Melbourne. After winning many awards, Denton Corker Marshall continue to develop excellent designs, beautiful urban insertions and volumetric balance.

Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Manchester, UK

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Art and Design Building, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Brisbane Square, Brisbane, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Webb Bridge, Melbourne, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Wilson House, Medhurst Yarra Valley

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Marshall House, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Cape Schanck Residence, Victoria, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Sheep Farm House, Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Harbour Lights Apartments, Cairns, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

South Bank Arbour, Brisbane, Queensland

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

East Building, AWM, Canberra, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Sensis Building QV, Melbourne, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Sydney Water HQ, Parramatta, Sydney

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Euro-City Plaza, Nanning, China

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Zhengxu Apartments, Beijing, China

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Chongqing International New Town, Chongqing

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Bluewater Events Venue, Kent, UK

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Sentul City Convention Centre, Jakarta

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Museum of Sydney, Syndey, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Computer Science Building - Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Zhongkun Tower, Beijing

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Sunshine 100 Beijing, Beijing, China

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Verge, Melbourne, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Chinese Consulate Melbourne, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

No 1 New York Street Development, Manchester, UK

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Manhattan Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Entertainment X'Enter, Jakarta, Indonesia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

222 Exhibition Street, Melbourne, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Liuzhou City Plaza, Liuzhou, China

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Central Bus Station, Adelaide - Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Monash Citylink Westgate Upgrade, Melbourne, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Department of Trade, Jakarta, Indonesia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

UOB Plaza, Jakarta, Indonesia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

HWT Office Building, Melbourne, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Milson's Point, Sydney, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Rupert Myers Building Uni of NSW, Sydney, Australia

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Bank Slaski, Katowice, Poland

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Liuzhou Classic Times, Liuzhou, China

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

Architect Day: Denton Corker Marshall

About the author

My name is Marcelo Seferin, I'm an architect from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the chief architect at Seferin Arquitetura, an office that works with architecture, interior design and sustainability projects. You can check our work at http://www.seferinarquitetura.com.br and you can follow me at twiiter http://www.twitter.com/mseferin.

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Psychological Study of Web Designs

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 03:11 AM PDT


A website is the window to the soul of an Internet business as well as the people behind it. It may have a positive or may be a negative effect on your end result. If you take the time to think about what your visitors want and how they want to get it, then you're already on the right track to creating a site that will tap into the psychological drives of your target audience.

There are somethings more important to a successful website than its design. A good website is noticeable to not just designers, but to everyone who will visit your website. When you see a website for the first time, you tend to make an instant judgement on its quality and relevance. Even if it is done subconsciously, we are able to take a fairly accurate impression very quickly. Web designs busy with too many elements fail. In that, they attempt to express too much, confuse visitors and make interaction stressful. On the other hand, those which are too barren or sparse fail to build trust or convey purpose.

Important Factors in Website Designing:

There are some factors which act like determinants for making a good website. These actually contribute a lot in enhancing the usability and experience of the visitors on the website. The factors are listed below:

  • You need to be very particular about images that suit your website the best.
  • The focus of the page— the area where your eyes tend to look when you visit a page for the first time.
  • Be particular about the object you tend to focus on— a single wrong move can ruin the expected traffic
  • Get a hold of your competitors— what their website look like.
  • Simplicity is the best policy and there is a need to create a balance between quantity and quality— be concise and qualitative.

This is where psychology helps you!

Psychological principles are either looked upon as unnecessary, or too complicated. The human mind is able to recognize a combination of general human psychological and website design factors in the same way where you are able to recognize several letters jumbled together as a specific word and assign meaning to it. When you break it down, web design is simply the manipulation of content and images on a website to appeal to the perceptions of a target audience.

When you are trying to make a website that stands out amongst the rest, that has a high conversion rate and performs well, you need to get more specific with your designs. To help you with all this, here we load you with some of the best psyches of humans, which can actually help you to create not only a website that stands out but, the one which leaves a deep impression in the minds of the visitors.

Don't let them think that they have landed up in a Wasteland

There are certain things that someone naturally, or to put it in other words, have already made a perception that they would see certain things right away when landing to a page. The only things that people expect is the purpose of the site and the form of navigation menus.

The designs compliment and reinforces the message. They even expect certain things to be at certain places. People expect blog posts on the front page of a blog. They expect products on the front page of an e-commerce site. And in most cases, they expect some kind of "about" information and a contact page.

Trust, is What is In Demand

Trust doesn't come easily, especially in this age of scams, schemes, and unsavory characters, which are readily available online. No matter how recommended the website is, one becomes really suspicious if they visit a website and then, it asks for any personal information.

Psychological Study of Web Designs

Internet is often considered as a black hole of personal information and creates a terror in the minds of the users, be it clients or the clients' client.

With this in mind, try and inculcate that trustworthy design in your website by making use of design psychology.

Symbolism of Colours

Colours are the non-verbal communicators and go beyond the limits of ink. It all depends on how our mind perceive and associate meanings with each colour. But the colours have a deep impact on how your visitors perceive your site, reinforcing the message you want to portray, only if the selection of the colours is right.

Red

Fiery and passionate, strength, boldness, excitement, determination, desire, courage. It stimulates people to make quick decisions.

Psychological Study of Web Designs

Orange

Enthusiasm, cheerfulness, affordability, stimulation, creativity, and is highly accepted among young people.

Psychological Study of Web Designs

Yellow

A warm, happy color. It is attention-grabbing, comfort, liveliness, intellect, happiness, energy. It stimulates mental activity.

Psychological Study of Web Designs

Green

Durability, reliability, safety, honesty, optimism, harmony, freshness. Green can sometimes represent inexperience. On the flip side, green is sometimes associated with envy or jealousy. It has been known to drive people away, so in most cases, unless the website is associated with nature, it is better to use it only for website accents.

Psychological Study of Web Designs

Blue

Depth, stability, professionalism, loyalty, reliability, honour, trust. It proves to be calming and cool, but too much can be depressing. It is often associated with corporate images.

Psychological Study of Web Designs

Purple/Violet

Long associated with royalty and wealth. It's also a spiritual colour— power,nobility, luxury, mystery, royalty, elegance, magic are its phenomenal characteristics.

Psychological Study of Web Designs

Black

Elegance, sophistication, formality, strength, mystery, with a bit of chameleon touch.

Psychological Study of Web Designs

White

Cleanliness, purity, newness, virginity, peace, innocence, and simplicity.

Psychological Study of Web Designs

Brown

A wholesome and down-to-earth colour that denotes stability and reliability.

Psychological Study of Web Designs

Grey

Neutral and balanced. Conservatism, traditionalism, intelligence, seriousness depicts "Grey".

Psychological Study of Web Designs

Colours make us feel a certain way, so they can and should be used to support the purpose of a website.

Reinforcing Concepts

Psychological and emotional triggers are the most valuable tools in influencing visitors. The images you use on your sites can either help or confuse visitors. A well-chosen image can put your visitor at ease, making your intensions clear enough. Every page ought to have a focus. Your design needs to put the emphasis on the focal element of every page. Abstract images may prove helpful, and sometimes work quite well if they tend to focus on a vital subject. They may have different meanings to different people. Therefore, their use should be minimal.

That concludes us to by far the most important concept of white space and breathing room. If a visitor arrives on a page filled with every possible thing imaginable, there are possibilities that they are likely to become claustrophobic.

"Whitespace," or "negative space" is the space between elements in a composition. More specifically, the space between major elements in a composition is "macro whitespace." - MARK BOULTON - Whitespace article for A list Apart

Don't let your visitors experience the negative space on your site. Try and encourage your readers to focus on a thing and then, take the appropriate action.

Psychological Study of Web Designs

Incorporating not so essential information within the 'Z' reading zone means your visitors may leave the site before they find what they're looking for. People tend to read in a "Z" pattern on a website, starting across the top from the left and ending in the bottom right corner of their screen. So, try and follow this technique to be able to hold readers.

Now that we are well aware of the psychological approach behind almost each and every website design, it becomes important to avail you with the information regarding incorporating these techniques into your website designs — Its high time that you start figuring out who your target audience is. It can range from a tech-savvy, to a layman who just checks out a website for photos. Being well aware of the target audience helps you to aim right at bulls' eye and nothing can actually stop that bait or in other words, trigger.

Its advisable that you follow and act on customers' advices. Customer's satisfaction should be your soul motto and try and build up a strategy where you tend to interview customers and ask for their feedback and requirements.

A sitemap, is very important so that it gives the reader an idea that every single page consists a single objective and it rules out.

Psychological Study of Web Designs

Try and make sure that you at least have a choice to figure out the best element.

Rather than merely being the production of online decoration, web design is an effort of direction and communication. The main goal of such a psychologically triggered web design is to strike a balance between client preferences, design principles, and trial-and-error tests based on end-user analytics data. It should be an on-going process incorporating all the essentials.

About the Author

Jenny Warner is from PixelCrayons, a creative web design and development agency that specializes in custom web design & development, markup services, CMS & ecommerce solutions.

Metal Makes Everything Better

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:15 PM PDT


We don't do this often, but musical posts are so needed from time to time. For me, music is an essential part of designing, since I just can't work without listening to something. And if you are into metal, it makes your workflow much more badass.

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Yesterday a friend of mine sent me a link to a metal cover of a Lady Gaga song, and it was pretty cool. The guy who did it goes by the alias "bliix" and he has done some unbelievable metal covers from songs that one wouldn't like at all (like some from Justin Timberlake) and he's done others from true classic ones, such as the listed below, and are totally worth checking. Of course, I've saved my favorite of his covers for last. I bet you metalheads will dig it. For more of bliix's covers, go to his channel at YouTube, and you'll find some precious pieces of sweet metal art. Cheers! ;)

Michael Jackson - Beat It

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

Rick James - Super Freak

Eiffel 65 - Blue

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise

And last, but not least... my favorite one.

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.

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