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Daily Inspiration #737
Friday Fresh Free Fonts #86
Matches Series by Pei-San Ng
Sites of the Week #139
Beautiful Houses: Lookout House in Connecticut

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 11:21 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.

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A.J Tello

A Nice Time

acbo

AmidaWeb

Anderson Tomazi

areek

avid971

buio_aloha

braincelsam

Best Bookmarks

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Cosme

creativebite

David Capito

Eugene Kim

Fabiano

Fabio

Fregezechen

Gisele

HdK

janne_vee

Dr. Professor's Thesis of Evil Teaser Trailer from Thesis of Evil on Vimeo.

Koning

linuslundin

Linus Lundin - Showreel 2010 from Linus Lundin on Vimeo.

marco puccini

Oddball Animation

RicardoFX

Steve

Sivioco

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fechnerk

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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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #86

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 05:55 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#86 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts

Lato

by tyPoland Lukasz Dziedzic

Download Lato

Rock Salt

by Font Bros

Download Rock Salt

Josefin Slab

by Typemade Fonts

Download Josefin Slab

Panefresco

by https://www.chank.com/

Download Panefresco

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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Matches Series by Pei-San Ng

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 05:36 AM PST

I want to take you guys through a really cool series I recently came across entitled Matches (pretty self-explanatory) by architectural designer and multimedia artist Pei-San Ng. She was born in Taiwan and raised in Los Angeles and has three different degress from three different universities, including a BA in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UCLA.

Miss Ng's most recent work uses the red tipped match as the module. "In Chinese culture red is a very lucky color, matches evoke danger. I think that by mixing those two messages the audience is forced to take a second or third look. I want to tempt the viewer to destroy my artwork."

Check out more from Pei-San Ng at her website and let me know what you think via twitter!

Heart of Gold

This burning man has a heart of gold. The wood canvas has a light wash of diluted black acrylic ink. The white match sticks form continuous lines that all terminate at the gold heart. I created this piece by imagining if one were to burn it, what pattern would I want them to see…

Crush

This piece is composed of vintage matches that were given to me by my friend, Tanya. These matches are much shorter and their colors varied creating this dynamic piece. Crushes are small, cute, beautiful and there came many in our lives.

Transformation

This hawk piece is partially burned from claws to head to body. I am intrigued and mesmerized by the in-between state and by the fragility of the burned matches. The in-between is where the excitement happens, the point where the red heads turns to white before turning to ash, it's the tipping point.

It's also about the control of the burn. The utilization of the act of burning to create my variance in color.

Dollar

This is the first match stick piece I made and it was made for the Chicago Art Department $200 exhibition. This was a collaboration between Nathan and I. I wanted to make art with balsa sticks, specifically a skeletal framed apple. This idea came from my architecture model making days in school. I love making models out of sticks. With limited resources, Nathan suggested using matches instead of balsa. Thus began my matches series. With every piece finished, came an urge to burn it.

This piece before it was burned, it was called Temptation. Eventually, I lit it and now it's called Burned.

Mookie's Sneakers

This pair of sneakers were made for my dear friend and roommate, Chris Hales, AKA DJ Tapedek, AKA Mookie. He passed away early Spring 2010.

In Chinese culture, we burn paper money so the spirit can take these notes with them to the afterlife. These papers are called joss paper. In contemporary culture, they have included paper cell phone, paper credit cards and paper boats.

I made a pair of sneakers for Chris to take with. He loves his sneakers and he always have the perfect pair to go with his outfit. He was fashionable.

Passion

This piece is made up of approximately 2,500 match sticks and a total of 24 hours. The board is a reclaimed art board / plywood. It was previously used as a glueing surface. The type is hand drawn.

Love on fire represents romance and passion or destructions and jealousy. It is raw and gritty.

About the author

I am Amanda Macedo - a student, photography enthusiast, and lover of life. I eat, sleep and breathe art, and I hope to share with you some of my thoughts and findings here at Abduzeedo as I further my discovery of graphic design. You can also find me on Twitter: @amlight

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Sites of the Week #139

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 02:31 AM PST

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as the new Mailchimp and Chocoladesign. Also we're featuring Readability app 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

Mailchimp - mailchimp.com

We doubled the size of our free plan. Now you can send 12,000 emails per month to a list of 2,000 subscribers—completely free.

Readability - readability.com

Readability is a web & mobile app that zaps online clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view. No matter where you are or what device you use, your reading will be there.

APP / WEB APP

The Daily - thedaily.com

The Daily launched on January 17, 2011 with the mission to provide the best news experience by combining world-class storytelling with the unique interactive capabilities of the iPad.

Rentpost - rentpost.com

Connect with tenants effortlessly, automate rent with online rent collection, organize work orders, tasks, contacts, and much more!

COMMUNITY / PORTAL / STORE

iwearyourshirt.com - iwearyourshirt.com

Engagement on social media is our biggest focus. We don't pretend to be the one-stop-shop for everything, but IWYS does a very good job of holding its own with more traditional forms of advertising.

Loviu - loviu.com

Shop for limited edition screen printed t-shirts. New t-shirt every day. Vote for your favourite designs!

STUDIO / PORTFOLIO / BLOG

Chocoladesign - chocoladesign.com

The proposed of ChocolaDesign is to show how the mind can be creative when we take away our mind what we already know, thus making the act of creation more enjoyable to do. Here you will find tutorials, pictures, portfolios and articles that will help you at some point in your life of designer. (via Google Translate)

Dott - dottshot.com

We want to know what you think design is so we have devised Dott Shot for you to send us a picture of your choice.

TEMPLATES

Topzglow - simplywp.net

opzglow is beautifully designed with sparkling glow effect and colorful floral illustration. Surely grab your readers' attention at the first sight.

WeMagazine - wegraphics.net

WeMagazine, designed and coded by Piervincenzo, is a clean and functional magazine WordPress theme.

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Beautiful Houses: Lookout House in Connecticut

Posted: 04 Feb 2011 01:55 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 Lookout House.

The Lookout House is a project by Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects, a 25-person firm of architects, interior designers, and supporting staff that offers both architectural and interior design services in an established, diverse, design-oriented practice. Located in Fairfield County, Connecticut this pyramid house was renovated to erase the aging, brown vestiges of the 1979 original. A new arm stretches to the east, housing the master bedroom suite and family room on the lower pool level. A sustainable project, this house integrates geothermal heating and cooling systems, renewable materials like bamboo floors and eco-friendly paints and finishes.

This house is pretty beautiful and elegant. The material combinations, the nice mix of stone and glass, the open and wide spaces, everything is unique, creating a cozy and special house. Certainly another place I would live in. ;)

Check out Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects website for further details about this and other projects. See you next time.

We found this house at Contemporist.

Photos by Peter Aaron.

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

Jumat, 04 Februari 2011