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Daily Inspiration #497
Friday Fresh Free Fonts #46
The World Collabs #1 - with Rik Oostenbroek
Sites of the Week #100 - Giveaway Winners
Beautiful Houses: Sotogrande in Spain
Super Awesome LOST Posters
Abduzeedo Poster Giveaway - Winners

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 01:09 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

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

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ardhian

Baku

The Bad Haircut from Carlos Behrens on Vimeo.

Brad

calebthetechie

Cafundó Estúdio Criativo

Imaginarium - Dia das Mães | animation 3d pop-up from Cafundó Estúdio Criativo on Vimeo.

Cgod

john ribes

kion

E2thaV

Eqairo

Fabiano

Fabio

Binboa Kendi ?i?eni Kendin Yarat Stop Motion Video from Binboa Vodka on Vimeo.

LAMBORGHINI PACEMAKER from Sehsucht™ on Vimeo.

Felipe Mendes

Gisele

jtownboy

Ismail el Desouky

Luke Brabants

K002

Mateus Antunes

Mr Gü

demoREEL 2010 from Günther Gheeraert on Vimeo.

Myskoxe

nevR

pritesh chauhan

Rod Steele

S. Bruett

Seema Shariat

Stéphane

Steven Medina

Superjo

ThirdDesign

Via Twitter

Send your suggestions via Twitter to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo using #abdz in the end of the tweet.

@daniel_nelson

@allrox

@djbennett999

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 #46

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 07:31 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#46 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts

Charlie Brown

by Mohammed Rahman

Download Charlie Brown

Kingthings Serifique

by Kevin King

Download Kingthings Serifique

Quadranta

by Darim

Download Quadranta

Thinfonthin

by Gabriel De Ioannes Becke

Download Thinfonthin

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 World Collabs #1 - with Rik Oostenbroek

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:45 AM PDT

Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.

Today we introduce The World Collabs. Our new cutting edge Abduzeedo collaboration project, which will give you the possibility to collaborate and compete with the worlds leading designers and artists.

What is "The World Collabs"?

"The World Collabs" will give you the possibility to work with PSD files of established artists. TWC gives you a secret in-view in the workflow of the stars and catapults you miles forward in your journey to design heaven. This way you learn to practice with different shapes, backgrounds, patterns brushes and new styles.

Every month we will offer you an unfinished piece of an experienced and accredited graphic designer to the world.

The piece will be unfinished, so you can complete the PSD-file with your very own style. This way every month you can collaborate with the best designers of the world. The final pieces will be judged by the Abduzeedo Team and the artist himself. The three best works will be rewarded with prizes.

Prize

1. $ 100 (send via PayPal) & an approval for an original collaboration with Rik Oostenbroek
2. A Single Version of image editing program Pixelmator (worth 59 $)
3. A Copy of the Logo Book "Lords of Logos" (worth 55 $)

Artist of April: Rik Oostenbroek

I am very proud to present the artists for our first Collaboration post: Rik Oostenbroek. Yet only 20 years old, he is one of the most talented upcoming artists. His ability to create awesome shapes and colors is enormous but still a secret to us. He just updated his portfolio with some incredible pieces.

Design by Rik Oosenbroek

It is absolutely important that you visit his website SecretShowcase.com

Take part at the contest

This is an independent design contest with endless possibilities to finish this piece. There are just three simple steps to take part.

1. Download the PSD-File
2. Push your creativity beyond boundaries and finish the design
3. Upload it to our Abduzeedo Flickr Pool or me send the link to aloa[at]abduzeedo.com or @obstgemuese

Last day of submitting is May 23

Featured Design - May

Download the .PSD file here

Want to be the next featured artists?

You think you are skilled enough to be the featured artist for the next months TWC. We follow some simple rules, when choosing a new piece.

- You are an energized designer with lot of motivation
- Your design has your very unique style
- You only use files which are completely copyright free

If you are interested, please write an email to aloa[at]abduzeedo.com

About the author

Aloa is the moniker of the german/greek graphic designer/filmmaker & musician Alexis Papageorgiou. Im glad to share great artistic work with the readers on Abduzeedo. Contact me on aloa@abduzeedo.com or http://twitter.com/obstgemuese.

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Sites of the Week #100 - Giveaway Winners

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 04:00 AM PDT

As a special edition, our post #100, for this Sites of the Week we have selected a lot more sites for you guys! Also, to celebrate we're anouncing the winners of Flash Filter giveaway. There are amazing sites today, and stay tuned because much more is coming! 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.

Giveaway Winners

Last week we lauched a Giveaway from Flash-Filter.net. Now the winners of 3 Bundle v3.0 packs are:

Nickkyky
Luis Paulo
Odp4tch

Congratulation guys. We will get in touch with you soon! And if you didn't win and want to know their products, please visit flash-filter.net.

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

Sleepover SF - sleepoversf.com

SLEEP OVER is a very earnest attempt to make the world of online publishing better.

O'reilly's - oreillyspub.com

O'Reilly's Irish Newfoundland Pub was established in December 5/1995 in St. John's. Proprietors Brenda O'Reilly and Craig Flynn were intent on capturing, presenting and celebrating the ultimate Newfoundland cultural experience.

@Anywhere - dev.twitter.com

Integrate Twitter seamlessly into your site with just a few lines of Javascript.

24streams - 24streams.com

24streams was started for one single purpose, to help local business's network and get together, we want to empower our community.

O'reilly's - vijufest.ru

In mid-July 2010 two hundred kilometers from Moscow on the picturesque shore of the lake festival of visual arts "SEE:". This area is a four-day turn into a separate world, where everything will be subject to the laws of creativity, freedom and art. (by Google Translate)

APP / WEB APP

Transmit - panic.com/transmit

You need to transfer files. Maybe to an FTP or SFTP server, or the cloud via Amazon S3, or using WebDAV. You maintain a website, do backups, or upload photos. You need Transmit, the #1 Mac OS X FTP client.¹ Now, in Transmit 4, we took everything good about Transmit, and added a dollop of unbelievably great.

NM Quote - nmquote.com

NM Quote is the flexible web based quotation software that lets your team efficiently produce, amend, send and track complex quotations and estimates at the click of a button.

Task This - task-this.com

Task This is an advanced task management application for iPhone and iPod Touch. Manage your tasks in a simple way, Task This propose to organize with projects and categories, but also to create shopping lists to manage your items

Formee - formee.org

Formee is nothing but a framework to help you develop and customize web based forms. Did you use to spend a lot of time aligning fields and calculating margins and paddings in a quest for a perfect form? No more!

Tabzon - tabzon.com

Tabzon is a free online in-out board designed to help you keep track of your co-workers' whereabouts.

COMMUNITY / PORTAL / STORE

Create my Chocolate - createmychocolate.com

Pick a base chocolate and your favorite toppings. Give it a personalized name to be printed on the packaging. Enjoy organic, fair trade chocolate from Belgium delivered to your doorstep.

Futebol na Cabeça - futebolnacabeca.com.br

Trying to understand the reasons of our sucess in soccer combined with its celebration are the reasons that have taken me to built the project Futebol na Cabeça.

Ben Saunders - north.bensaunders.com

In 2008, Ben Saunders' expedition to become the fastest man to walk solo and unsupported to the North Pole was thwarted after two weeks on the ice by a critical failure of his ski equipment.

Thinking for a Living - thinkingforaliving.org

Thinking for a Living: Thought-provoking design content.

Project Fedena - projectfedena.org

Project Fedena is the open source school management system based on Ruby on Rails. It was initially developed by a team of developers at Foradian Technologies. The project was made open source by Foradian, and is now maintained by the open source community.

STUDIO / PORTFOLIO / BLOG

James Deer Design - jamesdeerdesign.com

We believe that building a successful online presence takes far more than just aesthetics. We strive to effectively communicate business goals and create an engaging user experience for our clients.

Weberica - weberica.in

Hello, I'm Weberica, freelance web designer from Zagreb, and this is my portfolio web site. Radim custom web design and web sites for individuals, companies and agencies at affordable prices. (by Google Translate)

Ginger Monkey - gingermonkeydesign.com

This portfolio is intended to communicate the breadth of my capabilities, and to help you understand the environment I live in, one that supports play and experimentation – qualities I find crucial to developing strong ideas and forming new ones.

5tendesign - 5tendesign.co.uk

5tenDesign is a website design agency in Chester, that specialises in design solutions. Our portfolio ranges from website design projects, digital design, branding, logo design and print design, through to online marketing solutions and search engine optimisation.

Digital Labs - digitallabs.tv

Digital Labs is the personal portfolio of Tomas G. senior user interface designer at August Interactive.

CONTEST

Slidedeck - slidedeck.com

Show off your creativity by designing a SlideDeck skin for the Skin It To Win It Design Contest. The Grand Prize winner will receive a free 16GB Wi-Fi iPad!

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: Sotogrande in Spain

Posted: 30 Apr 2010 01:54 AM PDT

Following our the success of Fabiano's article 'One of the Most Beautiful Houses I've Ever Seen' and also some requests from our readers, we are proud to announce a new post series here at Abduzeedo, a series about Beautiful Houses. 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 Sotogrande House.

Sotogrande house is the latest project by A-cero architecture studio, the project is a single-family house situated in a tourist town of the Mediterranean coast. It has been built as a house for holidays. A-cero has chosen the white colour as the main element in the house's decoration in order to provide clarity and luminosity to the interior areas. The house's structure is a cubic volume. It has an area of almost 400 m2 and it is distributed in two floors. The furniture, also designed by A-cero, includes lacquered modern pieces. White and beige woods have a main role in the furniture. In some places there are some details of dark wood which break the predominant white colour.

Well, in my opinion, all the white, the elements, lines, shapes, material... everything matched perfectly and the result was a very beautiful house! To see more about the project go to A-cero's website. See you next time. :)

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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Super Awesome LOST Posters

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 09:59 PM PDT

A few fridays ago we had an awesome post with some sweet illustrations of the Lost characters which everybody loved! Yesterday, I ran into more great illustrations of it, and it totally rock.

These are episode posters that designer Gideon Slife has come up with. I chose to show you the best in my opinion, but at his flickrstream you will find many more until the 4th season. I hope you all enjoy these. Cheers! ;)

4x09

4x08

4x07

4x02

3x22

3x21

3x20

3x19

3x18

3x14

3x13

3x09

3x10

3x01

2x22

2x17

2x15

2x12

2x09

2x10

2x07

2x03

2x01

1x19

1x06

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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Abduzeedo Poster Giveaway - Winners

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 08:14 PM PDT

After two weeks running the Abduzeedo Poster Giveaway we are proud to announce the lucky winners of the 6 posters, courtesy of our friends over at UPrinting. We also would like to thank you all for the comments and great poster suggestions, we will post about them very soon.

The poster is 24x36 inches in semi-gloss paper with the new Abduzeedo symbol.

Winners

Brian O'Meara
Curtis Gaudet
Amy
timmittim
Alexandre D'Agostin
Oliver Edwards

About UPrinting

UPrinting offers a wide variety of products that range from business cards to envelope printing. This means that whether you are a small business owner looking to expand your market with flyer printing or a proud parent looking to create holiday greeting cards or postcards from a photo of your kids, we can help you by offering quality discount printing and online design help. For photographers and photo enthusiasts, we offer a full line of large format printing products including canvas printing, poster printing and window clings. For marketers, we offer mailing services, letterhead printing. brochures and door hangers.

For more information on our products, please link to the following pages:

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PSD Tutorials ..

Friday, April 30, 2010