December 12, 2011 abduzeedo's blog

Reader Tutorial: Wrestlerish Album Artwork by Chris Valentine

This is a short case study on the album artwork I did for the South African band, Wrestlerish. There were

March 02, 2011 PauloGabriel's blog

Great Album Cover Designs

We often feature lots of album covers here at Abduzeedo, but that happens for a reason: we're all music lovers,

July 22, 2010 paul0v2's blog

Musically Inspired Album Covers

Simon Page is a self-taught designer from the UK. This month he started a project called Musically Inspired Album Covers

August 05, 2009 amanda's blog

65 Examples of Awesome Album Artwork - Part 2

It's time for part two! Thanks for all your suggestions! A lot of the images I'm going to show you

August 03, 2009 amanda's blog

50 Examples of Awesome Album Artwork - Part 1

Following my articles on posters, I received a suggestion from @MateToth90 to try a post with indie CD covers. I

June 03, 2009 abduzeedo's blog

Super Cool Classic Album Arts as Pelican books

Flickr is awesome to find and share photos and designs just for fun or to promote your work. There are

January 12, 2009 aloa's blog

Inspiration: German Hip Hop Album Cover

I am working on an album cover for a hip hop artist right now and looked for inspirations on the

Featured Tutorial

Reader Tutorial: How to create an awesome action picture in GIMP
Reader Tutorial: How to create an awesome action picture in GIMP
This tutorial is a remake from a Photoshop tutorial, that can be found at http://abduzeedo.com/how-create-radical-photo-sequence. It was written by Paulo Canabarro. This tutorial is intended for people that have a general idea of layer masks, as layer masks are a big part of this tutorial. Some things you will need before we get started: A few pictures, that were shot in the “burst” mode of your camera. (See step 1 for more info about this)

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week by  Rik Oostenbroek
Wallpaper of the Week by Rik Oostenbroek
The wallpaper of this week is an amazing design created by Rik Oostenbroek specially for the Abduzeedo 4th Anniversary. If you don't know Rik, he is a 20 year old self taught Dutch digital artist with more than 5 years of experience. Rik has done work for clients such as Mazda, Panasonic, Volkswagen, Palm and others, and we are super happy that he presented us with this beautiful wallpaper, and also a poster, but that is a little secret for another post. For more information about Rik visit his Web site at http://secretshowcase.com/.

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion: The Sourcebook of Contemporary Illustration
Book Suggestion: The Sourcebook of Contemporary Illustration
The book suggestion of this week is all about illustration and it's one of the books we check out when looking for inspiration. The book is called The Sourcebook of Contemporary Illustration. We highly recommend that you check it out. About the book