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Daily Inspiration #731
Friday Fresh Free Fonts #85
Delicious Drinks Illustrations by Fabio Rex
Photorealistic and Highly Detailed Artworks by Iain Macarthur
Sites of the Week #138
Beautiful Houses: Chicken Point Cabin in Idaho
Video Inspiration #5

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 11:10 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

Above

al b sure

Anderson Tomazi

Arthur Presser

bdgiga

Best Bookmarks

coolvibeblog

Diana Izdebski

eugene kim

Fabiano

Fabio

fksd

fyRste

Gisele

Glaux

HdK

Hideall

Jean

jmgarrido

Jonny César

Koning

Kyle Anthony

Newyorkiz

pablo_alvarez

PooshtioO

rafaelpagini

Raid71

shelbywhite

Willian Sanfer

Via Twitter

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

@theroyaltyclub

@vivisektor

@ruudvaneijk

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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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #85

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 06:35 AM PST

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

Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts

Bigmouth

by Timo Kuilder

Download Bigmouth

Hero

by Font Fabric

Download Hero

Vintage

by Flavia Bocco

Download Vintage

Basic Gothic

by FontFont

Download Basic Gothic

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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Delicious Drinks Illustrations by Fabio Rex

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:58 AM PST

I know that everybody loves infographics, but what if an illustrator came up with the most delicious and refreshing of all infographics? Then we would have one of the coolest pieces of work around, and that's just what Fabio Rex did.

Fabio Rex is an illustration from our home town, Porto Alegre. He experiments a lot in various style, but one gotta love his infographic style. Although most of these are in portuguese, the idea here is to present something that guess everybody will understand and appreciate. For more of his work, you may visit his portfolio. I hope you enjoy these! 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.

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Photorealistic and Highly Detailed Artworks by Iain Macarthur

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:33 AM PST

Since I started drawing when I was a kid, I always enjoyed more the shapes than the colors. Maybe that's why one of my favorite illustrators is Iain Macarthur. His works are most black ink and white canvas, many details and a lot of hard work.

Nowadays Iain lives in Swindon, England and work as illustrator, workingwith clients like Nike, MTV and a lot of apparel labels.

"Iain Macarthur was born in 1986 in england swindon.iv became a fanatic of art at the age of eight inwhich i was introduced in art through watching alot of cartoon shows and comic books. first ever comic i looked at was the batman series. since then iv been obsessed with drawing odd fantasy drawings and anime characters.
when i got older i diverted from anime drawings to realistic figures and faces, always striving to make them more detailed and photorealistic, i always do one or two drawings ever since,i also carry a sketch book around all the time on my travels drawing on the bus or in a coffee shop, i enjoy doing it and helps me improve drawing people more better, which shows how motivated and inspired i am in art." (Iain's Carbonmade)

"My work is described as surreal and unique in its own way.Using mostly pencil,watercolours and pigment pens i create portraits of ordinally people but create them in a unusual way by embelishing patterns and watercolour effects into the portrait to give a vivid explosion effect. making there faces from somthing plain to somthing entirly bizzare and wonderful at the same time." (Iain's Carbonmade)

If you want to know more about Iain, you can access his Carbonmade, Behance portfolio or his blog.

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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Sites of the Week #138

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 02:46 AM PST

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as the Marnavi and Forrst. Also we're featuring the beautiful Factoria's portfolio 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

IWC - iwc.com

Welcome to the digital home of IWC Schaffhausen. It is a great pleasure for us to introduce you to the world of watchmaking and our universe beyond. The foundations of watch manufacture in Schaffhausen were laid by an American, Florentine Ariosto Jones in 1868.

Marnavi - marnavi.it

Marnavi Spa (Plc) is a shipping company operating on the world chemical-product and foodstuff transportation market, and was founded in 1910 by Dominico Ievoli, the grandfather of the current president.

APP / WEB APP

mailee.me - mailee.me

Create templates, send messages and monitor results in one place. Email marketing has 2.0 template designer, geolocation, integration with social networks, and more!

Sieve - sieve.com.br

Competitive Intelligence for e-commerce market.

COMMUNITY / PORTAL / STORE

Hungarian Wine Society - hungarianwinesociety.co.uk

The Hungarian Wine Society offers the widest range of the best new Hungarian Wines in the UK.

Forrst - forrst.com

Forrst is a community of passionate developers and designers focused on helping themselves and others get better at their craft, providing thoughtful critiques, and sharing their knowledge to build better applications and websites.

STUDIO / PORTFOLIO / BLOG

visualise.ca - visualise.ca

A micro-blog by Gab Labelle, craftsman digital Montreal - photography, web design, video, concept, and personal stuff.

Factoria - factoria.it

From web design to brand identity, obsessed with the simplicity, intelligence and experience we have made in the middle of our projects.

TEMPLATES

Snapblog - wpbundle.com

As a Photographer you know the power of a good image. SnapBlog uses post images as thumbnails which look great and are used throughout the page to make your content stand out and to encourage people to click through to the main gallery.

Diverse - wpbundle.com

Se've included a basic clean style that can easily be built upon, and we've also included a more "filled" out variation. There's a lot more variations to come, with custom textures, fonts and backgrounds etc all being incorporated. But for now we've kicked you off with a few simple & beautiful options for you to try your hands at first.

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: Chicken Point Cabin in Idaho

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 01:35 AM PST

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 beautiful Chicken Point Cabin.

The Chicken Point Cabin is a project by Olson Kundig Architects, a firm that counts with over 75 employees and works with projects from museums to commercial design, residential designs and interior. The idea behind the Chicken Point Cabin was to create a little box with a big window that opens and integrates with its surroundings, taken advantage of the landscape. The cabin's big window-wall (30 feet by 20 feet) opens the entire living space to the forest and lake. Materials are low maintenance—concrete block, steel, concrete floors and plywood—in keeping with the notion of a cabin, and left unfinished to naturally age and acquire a patina that fits in with the natural setting.

This place is really cool! It is simple, contemporary and really beautiful. The enormous window, concrete/wood/glass combination and wide spaces created a cozy and functional house. If I would live in a house like this? Certainly. ;)

Check out Olson Kundig Architects website for further details about this and other projects. See you next time.

We found this house at ISO50.

Photos by Benjamin Benschneider.

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Video Inspiration #5

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 06:14 PM PST

Video Inspiration is a weekly(ish) post where we either feature a specific artist or show a sort of "best of" list of videos we've discovered during the week. Everything here may not be brand new, but we felt it worth sharing with the community. If you have good finds that you'd like to share, please feel free to send your links to abduzeedo@abduzeedo.com with "video inspiration" in the subject line.

This week I'm featuring some videos I've found around the web that inspire me. Some of them are eye candy and a few others have some really cool storytelling going on. What catches your eye or inspires you when watching videos? Let me know in the comments below or you can follow me on twitter and let me know there.

Next week, I'd like to put together a post of the top ten reader submitted reels. So if you're a video or graphics person, send me your reel this week and I'll put it up against all the ones I've already been sent and post my top ten.

Chevron - Sand from Gentleman Scholar on Vimeo.

Promo Sessão Kids from BEELD.motion on Vimeo.

MAKE IT BETTER from Clim on Vimeo.

I KNOW - DAVID LYNCH [genero.tv] from Sam Pilling on Vimeo.

MONTAGE 2011 rev7 from Transistor Studios on Vimeo.

The Art of Drowning from Diego Maclean on Vimeo.

About the author

Hi my name is Nathan Weller. I'm a Columbus Ohio based writer, producer, creative consultant, and all around art/tech enthusiast. When I'm not going on adventures, throwing dance parties, and cooking dinner with my girlfriend - I'm discovering and recommending art, music, movies, books, and all kinds of goodies on my Tumblr. You can also get to know me on twitter where I go by @nathanbweller.

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