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Daily Inspiration #545
Friday Fresh Free Fonts #54
Sites of the Week #108
Beautiful Houses: Villa-K in Nagano
3D Typography Book Giveaway
Stunning Illustrations by Enkel Dika

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 02:45 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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Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com

2D

al b sure

Best Bookmarks

brian jaramillo

edgar garcia

Eugene Kim

Exploded Andy / Android

Fabiano

Fabio

Florian Nicolle

Jordan Lackey

Gisele

jtownboy

m.a.Raihan

Michael Ostermann

Ray

ryanfors

Shizo

suprman

TehPaperCut

Via Twitter

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@Marcos333

@Aozan

"Imagine If" from Steelehouse Productions on Vimeo.

@nervo

@djbennett999

@alemdasideias

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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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #54

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 06:40 AM PDT

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#54 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts

St Transmission Condensed

by Stereotypes

Download St Transmission Condensed

Brig Maven

by The Original 19

Download Brig Maven

St Marie

by Stereotypes

Download St Marie

Chocolate Box

by Paul Lloyd

Download Chocolate Box

About the author

Hello! I'm Paulo Canabarro, Web Designer born in Brazil, living and freelancing in the US. Get @ me - pvpcanabarro@gmail.com For some cool stuff make sure to Follow me on twitter!

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Sites of the Week #108

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 05:10 AM PDT

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Hugs for Monsters and Roambi. Also we're featuring the new Hicks's blog called Hickensian and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy to feature your site.

You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_sites in the message.

DESIGN / CSS

Hugs for Monsters - hugsformonsters.com

I'm Joe Lifrieri. I currently live in Central New Jersey but am looking to move…well, anywhere. I switch between a bunch of mediums so I just call myself a visual artist, but here's what I do most often: web design, illustration, print design, and HTML/CSS development. I also do some work with Wordpress.

PixelCrayons - pixelcrayons.com

PixelCrayons is a premier eBusiness solutions partner to small and medium enterprises, and blue chip companies. We are small enough to give you a personalized service and big enough to provide you with the expertise you are looking for.

APP / WEB APP

Roambi - roambi.com

Roambi on your iPhone or iPad connects you to the information you need — wherever you are, whenever you need it — right from the palm of your hand. You can view, analyze, interact with, modify and share the information — and then make smarter decisions, on-the-go.

Spreads - spreadsapp.com

An exciting new way to be well informed.

COMMUNITY / PORTAL / STORE

The Creative Finder - thecreativefinder.com

The website targets to serve our professional membership, our global network of established professionals, including photographers, illustrators, advertising art directors, designers and artists, a more efficient platform to promote their works, and a more user-friendly communication channel for clients and buyers to navigate and contact these professionals.

Where They At - wheretheyatnola.com

"Where They At," or "Wha Dey At," is the title of a song generally recognized as the first bounce release, recorded in late 1991 as a cassette-only release by rapper T.T. Tucker, with the late DJ Irv.

STUDIO / PORTFOLIO / BLOG

Relogik - relogik.com

Relogik.com was created in 2009 as a showcase of Damjan Stankovi?, designer specialized in industrial, identity, interface and concept design. Damjan is currently based in Belgrade, Serbia.

Hickensian - hicksdesign.co.uk/journal

WThe Hickensian is the journal of Jon Hicks, one half of the creative partnership Hicksdesign.

TEMPLATES

Coda - woothemes.com

Coda is an elegant and feature-rich magazine template with a neat home page js scroller, and an otherwise completely widget based home page design. With a custom styled Twitter module, a "Share this" module and a "Like this" popularity-based post feature this theme will surely woo you.

Business Solutions - themeforest.net

Great, very modern and Web 2.0 template for almost every type of business, from small few people sized company to big corporations. Excellent organized PSD files will make very easy to find every element of design and used only non commercial fonts won't give you any additional editing cost. 5 PSD files include home page, about us page, news, blog and contact us page. Please check out other designs in my portfolio.

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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Beautiful Houses: Villa-K in Nagano

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 04:12 AM PDT

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 house and stay tuned for more...

This week, we present you the amazing Villa-K.

The Villa-K is a project by Mutsue Hayakusa Cell Space Architects. The house is located in Nagano, Japan and it is simply amazing. I didn't find many information about the project and its details but I think the house speaks for itself, it's really beautiful. The wide glass windows, the huge interiors spaces, the angled roofs... everything matches perfectly creating a house that looks simple and impressive at the same time.

Well, in my opinion this one is the best until now! I really liked this whole composition, specially the angled ceiling that give the interiors a wide and cozy look. And I also liked the clean and neat decoration. Simply loved it! Check out Mutsue Hayakusa Cell Space Architects website for further details about their projects. See you next time. :)

We found this house at arch daily

Photographs by Masao Nishikawa

About the author

Someone with a bachelor degree in Foreign Trade that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. A person 'digging' a new way as a 'geek apprentice', blogger 'wanna be' and a communication lover! Current location: Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil
Twitter user: gismullr

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3D Typography Book Giveaway

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 03:51 AM PDT

Can you really compare experimental 3D typography – like lettering made of live moss or letter kites that fly messages in the sky – to the work of Gutenberg? If you ask Jeanette Abbink, Emily CM Anderson and the over 100 international designers, typographers and artists featured in 3D Typography, the answer is a resounding yes.

From type crafted of steel and neon, to carefully-cut live moss, everyday items like buttons and sugar cubes, to giant installments of polythene and paper, the work in 3D Typography serves as a bold reaction to the fact that so much of today¹s typography is conceived via screens.

Book Cover

Giveaway

We have a copy of the 3D Typography book to give away thanks to our friends over at MBP publisher, to participate is really easy, just leave a comment with a book suggestion. We will announce the winner next Friday.

Having worked for prestigious media outlets as designers and art directors, Abbink and Anderson have compiled this book as a reaction to the fact that so much of today's typography is conceived via two-dimensional screens. Like Gutenberg and generations of typeface designers who worked with physically shaped and cast lead type, these artists return the literal heft to letters.

Page Samples

Do you want to buy the book? Buy the 3D Typography at Amazon

About MBP

Mark Batty Publisher is an independent publisher dedicated to making distinctive books on the visual art of communicating, showcasing the visual power and innovation of contemporary culture in all of its varied poses. Today, the visual comes at us from more places than ever, and its dissemination is faster and more advanced every year. Books from Mark Batty Publisher capture this acceleration on the pages of every book. Affordable, well designed, thoughtfully created, and produced to last, MBP books are artful products that readers want to hold onto forever.

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Stunning Illustrations by Enkel Dika

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 10:15 PM PDT

Friday is here and I couldn't think about a better thing to post today than my favorite subject: illustration! Some time ago I've found this amazing artist, Enkel Dika, who makes awesome art.

Enkel has come with some of the best T-shirt arts I've seen in a while... these are some truly groovy, psychadelic pieces, and I bet most of you will love it as much as I did. He's done work for Threadless and has won some awards there, so I recommend you to check his portfolio for even more of his stunning illustrations. Cheers! ;)

Pop Culture vs. Art

Rise up

Unleashed Imagination

Renaissance Rocks

Why So Serious?!

Skydiver

Flow of Wisdom

Mr. T(iger)

Ma Chérie Maison

Autumn Breeze

Camouflage

Extraordinary Observer

Melting skyline

Honey Moon

DBH 10K

God of the Ocean

This Sh*t is Bananas

Swinging Away

long journey

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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