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Daily Inspiration #694
Abduzeedo's 4th Birthday, Christmas Giveaways & AbductedDeals
Nostalgic Landscape Photography
Glenn Arthur Beautiful and Colorful Paintings
Logo Design: CMYK

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 11:38 AM PST

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

Abizit

al b sure

Alec Schmidt

Anderson Reis

Anderson Tomazi

Arthur Presser

Christian Poschmann

coolvibeblog

Dabsmotion

David Womack

A Social Network Christmas from Igniter Media on Vimeo.

The Paradox of Christmas from Igniter Media on Vimeo.

Estúdio Gato Preto

eugene kim

Fabiano

Fabio

Gisele

Gerrel Saunders

HdK

Jonny César

Jordan Lackey

kay486

Newyorkiz

Ole Anders Karlsen

theycallhim

Yee Wong

zeemp

Via Twitter

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

@trueduck

@Marcos333

@Rodrok

@theroyaltyclub

@daniel_nelson

@lokal_designer

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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Abduzeedo's 4th Birthday, Christmas Giveaways & AbductedDeals

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 07:04 AM PST

As you probably guessed from the title of this post, Abduzeedo is coming up on its 4th Birthday. Which begs the question, "What are you doing for your birthday Abduzeedo?!"

Good question. But before we talk about the future, lets remember the past.

The Founding

Back in 2006 Fabio Sasso, Co-Founder of Zee (a web design studio), went to lunch. While at lunch everything from the Zee offices was stolen. Yes, everything.

From that day on Fabio decided to post everything he was learning about design on a blog so that he would always have a copy "stored in the cloud" in-case something as tragic as the robbery ever happened again. Over time, those tutorials got pretty popular and early readers started asking questions like, "Hey Fabio, what inspires you?"

So Fabio started posting that stuff too. He even had to recruit a team of friends and family to help keep up with demand! Fast-forward 4 years, and now, the Abduzeedo Team posts inspiring stuff, strange stuff, fun stuff, educational stuff, all kinds of stuff! In fact, if you have asked for it, we have done our best to make it happen. With good reason too! We have found that throughout the years, if we respond to the needs of our readers, we are always met with good results.

Which is why for our birthday we would like to once again, collaborate with you our readers, to take Abduzeedo to a whole other level.

The Future

From the beginning Abduzeedo has always been about offering up knowledge, inspiration, and community - FOR FREE. And we have no intention of changing that. In fact, we want to make those offerings even better by re-thinking what we already do, and attempting to do it even better.

Which brings us to the first of several new beta experiments to come...

Introducing, Abducted Deals (beta)

This beta is designed to expand the reach and effectiveness of Abduzeedo Giveaways (and maybe once and for all, make all those annoying ads on our front page, a thing of the past). With all the hub-bub around group buying these days we got to wondering if we could provide awesome deals in the range of 50% to 100% off on stuff you want/need as a designer, in a win-win-win model that everyone from the reader, to us, to our partners enjoys.

That's a tall order, but we think it is at least worth a try. I mean, how cool would it be if your new workspace was on us? Or you got a master creative suite from Adobe for 50% off? Or better yet, what if you gave us a wish-list and we tracked down partnerships that got you those things for free or at a heavily discounted price?

We think it sounds pretty sweet! But what do you think? This next week leading up to Christmas we will be running a series of Christmas Giveaways where we will test this model and invite you to give us feedback on how we can make it better, or if you even like it at all.

If you are interested in learning more and making sure you get a great new deal close to every day next week, head on up to the top right corner and spend a few seconds signing up for an Abduzeedo account. We will be following up with a more in-depth email tomorrow or the day after to give you a teaser of the Christmas Giveaways and explain how the new model will work. Any feedback you can give will be much appreciated and we will definitely take it into account for the next test we run :)

Looking forward to your thoughts!

- The Abduzeedo Team

P.S. Not to be too much of a tease, but signing up for an account now could be a big bonus for you in 2011 - wink, wink... ;) Also! Stay tuned this Saturday for our traditional Anniversary Poster Giveaway! This year's design was done by Rik Oostenbroek

About the author

Hi my name is Nathan Weller, I'm a Columbus Ohio based writer, producer, creative consultant, and all around art enthusiast. I love going on adventures, throwing dance parties, and cooking dinner with my girlfriend. If you'd like to get to know me better, try connecting with me through my Tumblr. Or on twitter where I go by @nathanbweller.

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Nostalgic Landscape Photography

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 06:32 AM PST

Feldauge stands for an area that is enclosed by fields and may resemble the human eye. Most of my photos are the result of trips around Halle (Saale) in Germany. This site is dedicated to landscape and nature photography.

For more visit feldauge.de and Feldauge Flickr

About the author

Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 25 year old web designer from Brazil currently living in Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds. Finding and sharing inspiration has become part of my life. If you have any suggestions or requests just get @ me - pvpcanabarro@gmail.com For some cool stuff make sure to Follow me on twitter!

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Glenn Arthur Beautiful and Colorful Paintings

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 02:21 AM PST

The first time I saw Glenn Arthur paintings I thought they were computer generated, using Photoshop brushes and other resources. But I got really surprise when I discovered it was all acrylic paints, pencil, paper, wooden canvas and other manual tools.

Glenn Arthur is a self taught visual artist from Orange County, California. Born in February of 1979, he grew up in a conservative, religious household with little to no influence in art. Although he constantly doodled and sketched as a child, Glenn did not come into painting until later in life when a friend took him by the hand to a local art store, purchased him a canvas, some paints and a few brushes and told Glenn, "You need to do this!" (Glenn's Facebook Page)

Since then Glenn has been diligently working on creating his own brand of beautifully painted images. Using acrylic paints on wooden panels, he adds in elements and influential symbols of his past and present to each piece. Beyond the aesthetics of his artwork, Glenn brings an overwhelming sense of passion to his paintings. Touching on themes of love, death, conflict and duality, Glenn's art tells stories of strength and hope through emotion and sentiment with his sensual beauties and signature hummingbirds. (Glenn's Facebook Page)

For more details of Glenn Arthur and his work, access his Myspace or his Facebook.

About the author

Hey buddies! I'm Marcos Torres, a 20 years old art director/freelancer from Brazil, I'm here to bring some new interesting stuff to you. You can see my portfolio at http://flickr.com/marcostorres. Any request or jobs opportunities send to marcostorres90@gmail.com, also follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/marcos333 to get in touch with cool design news.

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Logo Design: CMYK

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 07:05 PM PST

The Logo Design series is up and running! We're thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with Mountains... today it's all about CMYK logos!

As usual, we'll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo Faves, Logo Moose, Logo from Dreams, Logo Gala, WS Logos, The Logo Mix and Wolda. We hope you all enjoy our selection! Cheers. ;)

About the author

Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, a 26 year old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I have worked as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobby 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.

Kamis, 16 Desember 2010