August 20, 2008 Francisco's blog

Robots Rock!

I ♥ robots! I hope you do too because I have three robot-related things to tell you about. First,

Featured Tutorial

Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography - Photoshop Tutorial
Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography
Last week we published our 10th Wallpaper of the Week. It was an awesome typography/design from Ginger Monkey Design called Compassion. What I really liked about that design was how they mixed some "frilly bits" with the typeface to create an outstanding piece of work. I decided to create a tutorial showing you how to do that as well.

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Wallpaper of the Week #80 - James White
Wallpaper of the Week #80 - James White
The wallpaper of this week is from James White and it is simply awesome. James created this design for a poster for the Abduzeedo 3rd Anniversary. It's colorful and full of light effects, everything we here at Abduzeedo love and have posted about during this 3 inspiring years. For more information about James White's work visit his website at http://www.signalnoise.com/, you won't regret it :) Desktop Version

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion: Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age
Book Suggestion: Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age
The book suggestion of this week is a very inspiring one for those in love with vintage typography, it's called Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age. It's definitely a book for when you need some extra motivation and inspiration. About the book Elegant, quirky, fluid, brutish, ostentatious— a visual resource of cursives and other typefaces that resemble handwriting.