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- Daily Inspiration #799
- Mysterious Photography of Mikko Lagersted
- National Tasty Flags
- The Perfect Office #84
- Case Study: Mux Mool Poster
| Posted: 18 Apr 2011 02:27 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/abduzeedoIf 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.comAdam
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| Mysterious Photography of Mikko Lagersted Posted: 18 Apr 2011 08:42 AM PDT
Mikko Largested is a designer from Finland who felt in love with photography in 2008 and is still in love with it. His photos are astonishing and have many feelings to it, not to mention that they are very mysterious in a way that will keep you waiting for more. Enjoy!<!--break--> For more from Mikko visit mikkolagerstedt.com/photography.html Winter Night Dream Alone About the authorHi 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! Sponsored Links:
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| Posted: 18 Apr 2011 07:20 AM PDT
Inspiration comes from everywhere! And this is a great and fun example of a really creative ad campaign inspired by food for Sydney's International Food Festival. The National flags were recreated by popular local food of participating countries of the festival.For more information about Sydney's International Food Festival, you can visit their website at Cravesydneyfoodfestival.Com.Au . Bresil
Australia
France
Italia
India
Greece
Lebanon
South Korea
Japan
Switzerland
Spain
Great Britain
China
Indonesia
Vietnam
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| Posted: 17 Apr 2011 10:03 PM PDT
We've seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we'll assemble a perfect office, and we'd like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?<!--break--> Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture, sound system, gaming stuff (for lunch time!). A designer is totally allowed to dream with the perfect office, and that's what we're gonna do here! Also, tell us your suggestions, or even better, you may tell us via twitter (mine and fabio's), using #abdz_ofc so we can check it. Alright? I hope you guys enjoy this brief selection. Cheers! ;) Giant Flip Clock tells time in a retro fashion This clock is basically a flip-calendar that tells time. A total of four cards will display your time, with the hours and minutes literally cut in half very slightly noticeably in the middle. There are am and pm on the bottom left cards to let you know if your clock is set for the right time. (at Red Ferret) Sushi Memo Block A pack of four blocks of fresh Sushi ingredient served as sticky notes. Great for writing down quick notes, as well as adding color to your desk. (at Holy Cool) Bookend Knowledge in the Brain black Karim Rashid's creative mind is an endless source of ideas and innovative designs. In fact, his own head model for this, from Steinresin made?with rubber-based, bookends stood. (at 7 Gadgets) Sony MDR-570LP Headphones Style and sound quality are usually mutually exclusive in the realm of cheap earphones, but not with the Sony MDR-570LP Headphones. Available in orange, green, or black, they sport a distinct round ear cup and seductively slim bands, as well as urethane cushions for comfort and 30mm drivers to provide ample sound even in noisy environments like buses, trains, and the inside of your local coffee shop. (at Uncrate) Mobee Magic Bar This inductive charger allows you to replace the batteries in your Apple Wireless Keyboard or Trackpad. The charging bar sticks into your devices' battery slot and when you slide the entire thing into the Magic Bar things get charged automatically. No more Apple-branded batteries to buy! (at Crunch Gear) Acer Iconia Dual Screen Notebook The Acer Iconia dual screen notebook feature two 14 inch touchscreen display, each one has a resolution of 1266 x 768 pixels, and one screen can be used with a virtual keyboard and they can both be used with a range of multitouch gestures. Processing is provided by an Intel Core i5 processor, and it comes with Windows 7 and features a new interface which has been designed for the dual screen displays. Other specifications include a range of hard drives from 320GB up to 750GB, there is also Bluetooth 3.0, two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, VGA and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi.(at Geeky Gadgets) |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2011 09:11 PM PDT
Today I'm going to show a case study of a personal illustration I did recently. Having the will to experiment some new techniques, I found out that I should try more to include my drawings on my artworks, as artists like Sara Blake, Ian Macarthur, Gabz and others already do.Mixing manual and digital medias can be really handy, since at the same time that you got a unique trace on the original drawing, you can also erase the errors you did on the computer and enhance the details. Also, I thought about a tip that James White once said, about making a fan poster of a artist that you like. So I decided to do a series about it and the one I'm gonna show you is the second one poster, a tribute to the electronic musician Mux Mool, non commercial purposes, of course. So in this case study I will show you my creative process, from the first sketch all the way until the end. SketchingOk, I must admit, my project sketches are horrible, I use it just to get a preview of what I'm going to do, but isn't that what a Sketch is all about? Don't worry guys, I put some subtitles so you could understand it better hehe. My initial concept was to make a joke with the name of the music, "No black crayon", using a carachter with many crayons on his hands, but I suddenly though that it would be more rad with I drew a more remarkable carachter and so I came out with this eyed old and dry tree. I also thought to use a Black Metal inspired typography for the name.
OutlinesI know this may sound obvious, but even if I'm doing a drawing in Photoshop, I always begin with the outlines and shapes and after I do the fill and shading. I'm just saying this because some people tend to think you should do the three steps at once. What may happen is that one will lost the proportion of things, so you better do first the outline before making the fill.
Shading - irisIsn't that hard to make and iris, you just got to know how to fill it with dash in a circular direction, also add some reflects.
Shading - bodyAchieving this type of wood texture it's about practicing and observation, later I will enhance the wrinkles on PS to give some depth.
Adding colorI've always found always better to add color on photoshop, but this is about my way to do things, of course, everyone has it preferences, I like because you can commit mistakes and experiment a lot of things. After I finished the drawing, I scanned it with 1200 dpi, it's a good resolution to get a lot of details and print it in a large scale, but you still can get great results using only 300 dpi scanned pics. Back to the coloring process, I basically make a layer above the drawing layer, I use some soft brushes to make the gradients and blends and use Multiply to apply it to the drawing.
OutlineAgain, first i did the outline of this typography, I really wanted to give a strong lookto it, so I got inspired in some Black Metal Band logos.
Dot SadingDot shading isn't a new technique, but it's quite awesome and I must admit I'm quite addict to it lately. Basically, you make the shades and create depth by the distance of the dots, yep, this takes some good time to achive, the video bellow exemplifies this step.
Dot Shading from Marcos Torres on Vimeo.
Adding color
Outline
Dot Shading
Adding color and gradients
Final ResultWell, there were some few experimentations till the final result, but the focus of this case study was about the drawing process, If don't got a good drawing, Photoshop won't save you probably. Some may say I should have used the white background instead of the black, but the idea was to make impossible to have a black crayon in there, If there was one, you wouldn't see it heheh just kidding. Hope you enjoyed and learned some quick tips.
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