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Valentine's Giveaway from Mighty Deals

abduzeedo — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:00:33 +0000

It is valentines day and we over at Abduzeedo want you to be our valentine. Actually it's not just us but our friends from Mighty Deals too. That's why we put a nice giveaway for you in this Valentine's Day.

The idea of the giveaway is simple, choose one of the offers that Mighty Deals has at http://www.mightydeals.com/all_deals. Then you just add your email address in the widget below and leave a comment in the comment section saying which deal you want.

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You have 7 days to enter your info for the giveaway. My favorite suggestion here would be TextExpander ;) Love that app.

Copyright for the image is to Everett Collection. The photo is called Portrait of woman holding large valentine. Courtesy of Shutterstock.

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Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. You can get in follow us via Twitter at @abduzeedo

Wallpaper of the Week 190 by Abduzeedo

abduzeedo — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:05:54 +0000

The wallpaper of this week is the result of our last tutorial. If you missed it, we showed how to create the poster of the movie The Avengers.

For more information check out the tutorial at http://abduzeedo.com/avengers-poster-photoshop

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Book Suggestion: Visual Complexity - Mapping Patterns of Information

abduzeedo — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:07:08 +0000

The book of this week is a book I just got from a friend. It was in my wish list for a long time. The book is called Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information and as the reviews says, it's about our ability to generate information now far exceeds our capacity to understand it.

Finding patterns and making meaningful connections inside complex data networks has emerged as one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century. In recent years, designers, researchers, and scientists have begun employing an innovative mix of colors, symbols, graphics, algorithms, and interactivity to clarify, and often beautify, the clutter. From representing networks of friends on Facebook to depicting interactions among proteins in a human cell, Visual Complexity presents one hundred of the most interesting examples of information-visualization by the field's leading practitioners.

"A rigorously researched, beautifully designed, thoughtfully curated anthology of the world's most compelling work at the intersection of two relatively nascent yet increasingly powerful techno-cultural phenomena, network science and information visualization.... A powerful tool in your visual literacy arsenal for navigating the Information Age. From the Bible to Wikipedia edits to the human genome, the gorgeous and thought-provoking visualizations in the book will make you look at the world in a whole new way, and the insightful essays accompanying them will vastly expand your understanding of the trends and technologies shaping our ever-evolving relationship with information." -- Brain Pickings

Author

Manuel Lima is the founder of VisualComplexity.com and a Senior UX Design Lead at Microsoft. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was nominated by Creativity magazine as "one of the 50 most creative and influential minds of 2009".

Manuel Lima is a leading voice on information visualization and a frequent speaker in conferences and schools around the world, including TED, Lift, OFFF, Reboot, VizThink, IxDA Interaction, Royal College of Art, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, ENSAD Paris, University of Amsterdam, MediaLab Prado Madrid.

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Valentine's Giveaway from Mighty Deals

It is valentines day and we over at Abduzeedo want you to be our valentine. Actually it's not just us but our friends from Mighty Deals too. That's why we put a nice giveaway for you in this Valentine's Day.

Participate

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Wallpaper of the Week 190 by Abduzeedo

The wallpaper of this week is the result of our last tutorial. If you missed it, we showed how to create the poster of the movie The Avengers.

Resolutions:

About the author

Sponsored Links:

Book Suggestion: Visual Complexity - Mapping Patterns of Information

The book of this week is a book I just got from a friend. It was in my wish list for a long time. The book is called Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information and as the reviews says, it's about our ability to generate information now far exceeds our capacity to understand it.

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