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Best of the Week #224

PauloGabriel — Sun, 27 May 2012 00:21:20 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

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Saturday 05/26

Get More Fans: 5 Tips To Promote Your Facebook Page

Artist Makes Creepy Self-Portraits Using His Own Frozen Blood

40 (More) Breathtaking Cloud Photography

Friday 05/25

5 Reasons to Spend Time with Other Freelancers

Samsung Galaxy S III review

Make Your Own Magic Shell Ice Cream Topping At Home and Dress Up Your Desserts

15 Human Cocoons

The FBI Is Now (Officially) Spying on Your Internet Activity

Thursday 05/24

Business Card Design: 7 Essentials To Consider

Coda 2: It’s Here and It’s Awesome

Facebook Camera Is Facebook’s Official Instagram-y Photo-Sharing App

Marvel Creates Deaf Superhero So Little Boy Will Wear His Hearing Aid

Wednesday 05/23

Mujeres y tatuajes

Social Bicycles announces availability by end of summer, we go hands-on (video)

The Huge Difference Between Food in the 1950’s and Today

The Moog Synthesizer Google Doodle IRL

The History Of Usability: From Simplicity To Complexity

Monday 05/21

What Does Your Freelance Office Look Like?

Fold It Up and Move It Around: A Compact Workspace on Wheels

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Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil, born in 1984. I have worked as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobby for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! For more cool stuff, you may also follow me on Twitter.

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Best of the Week #223

fabiano — Sat, 19 May 2012 04:29:27 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

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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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Best of the Week #222

fabiano — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:42:15 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

We want to give a big thanks to our sponsors:
Taste of Ink Studios, Shutterstock, DepositPhotos, W3-Markup, inkd, Site24x7, MediaLab and P2H. A special mention to Media Temple for the excellent service and support with Abduzeedo!

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Friday 05/11

Retrofitted Nintendo Lunchbox

Just In Time For A Facebook IPO Tax Break, Eduardo Saverin Renounces U.S. Citizenship

33rd Street Residence by Rockefeller Partners Architects

Superhero Transformers

Arrinera Debuts 2013 Supercar

Spotify rolls out Instant Search, Play embed codes, and Playlist Radio to desktop apps

Deal With Stress in a Positive Way

James White

Across the Ocean

Thursday 05/10

Facebook testing new 'highlight' feature: pay to promote your posts

Foursquare libera badge “Carioca” para check-ins no Rio de Janeiro

Estrela lança “Banco Imobiliário” integrado com Foursquare para iOS

Bing launches massive redesign, working with data from Quora, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Google+ and more

Assured Labor launches TrabalhoJá in Brazil, its 3rd SMS-based job site in Latin America

Does Samsung's point-and-shoot departure mark an industry-wide shift to mobile?

Instagram Socialmatic Camera

How to Create an Exceptional Workplace

Instapaper Brings New Animations, Gestures, and Sepia Mode to its iOS App

Wednesday 05/09

First Look: SoundCloud Gets an Overhaul

If Facebook ever decides to build its own phone, App Center sets them up for success

Facebook starts App Center beta, readies itself for paid web apps

Design legend Dieter Rams celebrates 80th birthday, releases full 1976 speech

Branded Objects in White

Are you ready for HTML9? Responsive Boilerstrap JS will make your head explode

Amazing Futuristic Digital Art

Illustrations by César Moreno

Google+ adds a better 'notification experience' to your email, saves you a few clicks

Tuesday 05/08

Split View / U Architects

Kuggen Building in Gothenberg

Effective Presentation of a Website’s Navigation

Does the next 'Call of Duty' glorify real-world black operations?

School Yard Superheroes

O memorando inspiracional que a Apple distribui aos funcionários no primeiro dia de trabalho

deviantART updates its HTML5 drawing app with the ability to replay artwork as it’s created

Monday

Evil Simpsons

Modern House 11 x 11 in Germany

Illustrations by Yurex Omazkin

Google investing in Machinima and the future of TV

35 Beautiful iPhone/iPad App Websites

Blue Highway by Daniele Lisi

Posterrrs

Meer.li

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Best of the Week #221

fabiano — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:27:27 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_best in the message.

Friday 05/04

Pin Up Girls by Megafon

Linha do tempo: A evolução das interfaces de usuário

Foursquare launches History page, shows you where you've been

30 Awesome Realistic Illustration Artworks

Minimalist World Cup Posters

How Samsung broke my heart

Photography by Nick Meek

Awesome Illustrations By Matei Apostolescu

The Human Touch: Building User Relationships and Trust In Web Design

Nike Sportswear – What The Max Pack

Student Village / Hawkins\Brown

Thursday 05/03

Assuta Medical Center / Zeidler Partnership Architects + Moore Architects + M. Brestovisky Architects

LinkedIn acquires SlideShare for $119 million in cash and stock

Infográfico serve de guia para o Pinterest

Samsung Galaxy S III owners to get 50GB of free Dropbox storage

Internet TV network Revision3 has been acquired by Discovery Communications

Samsung Galaxy S III vs Galaxy S II and Galaxy S: meet the family

Why You Want Your Competitors To Succeed

Aston Martin DB9 by James Bareham

Illustrations Inspired by Movies

iPhone Blacked Out Military Gizmon Ica Case

Why "Instagram For Video" Apps Will Go Big

Wednesday 05/02

Designer Spotlight: Thiago Barreto

The Camera Collection

Forms can be beautiful too

20 Comic Superheroes Artwork for your Inspiration

Mozilla plans war on fragmentation, reveals unified UI design for Windows 8 and mobile devices

Google Docs adds 450 new fonts, 60 new templates, and more image importing options

Bootstrapping: 5 Tips

Spotify for iPad review

Digital Art by Kitto Zutto

Tuesday 05/01

Twitter’s Discover tab upgrade gives us what we’ve always wanted: Context

iPhone Diorama

Flickr launches deep integration with Pinterest

Small Business Optimism Endures

Instagram’s secret to super-quick photo uploads? Send fast, match data later

Kickstarter celebrates its third birthday with a look back at site designs that never were

Monday 04/30

Fake Kickstarter project 'Mythic' uncovered by internet users, forced to shut down

"Sign up in seconds" ... and then what?

Lifestyle Photography by Robyn Waters

Google Wave is officially dead starting today

Great Leaders Learn to Delegate

Cityscape Photography by Alisdair Miller

Lancia TrendVisions, Pitch’s House by Iñaqui Carnicero

Super Ludico

21 Beautiful Examples of Typography in Web Design

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Best of the Week #220

fabiano — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:35:57 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_best in the message.

Friday 04/27

Terraced House in Casavells

Bionic eyes to be tested on humans next year

5 Tips on Staying Productive While Travelling

Freckle Face

Dropbox for Windows and Mac Updated with Auto Photo Uploading and Up to 3 GB of Additional Free Space

Batman & Superman together?

Even Gulliver would be happy

Thursday 04/26

A Rare Sale: Despite 30 Million Activations In The Last Year, Google Sends SketchUp To Trimble

Musicbox Business Cards

Apple ? Sony: Why Apple Can Succeed Post-Jobs

A wonderful apartment with a brick wall

New work of Pat Perry

Gamification And UX: Where Users Win Or Lose

Black and White Artworks

Kaspersky claims Apple is '10 years behind Microsoft' on security

LinkedIn gets new Android and iOS apps, with a spectacular iPad version

Wednesday 04/25

Flickr outs new Uploadr feature for image uploads: HTML5-based, drag-and-drop UI

Email results in more shares, conversions… And is still good value

How One Startup Managed Its Investment Cash Flow

Play this: 'Super Mario Bros.' tribute re-imagines each level as a single frame

8 Cool Office Spaces

* Prêmio Máquina Multimídia é lançado na web para recrutar talentos *

Seattle Home by Pb Elemental

Create a Professional Home Office

Tuesday 04/24

How Can I Recharge My Depleted Motivation? [Ask Lifehacker]

AIA Selects the 2012 COTE Top Ten Green Projects

Illustrations by Gabriel Moreno

A Closer Look At Font Rendering

Star Wars Heroes

Black Skate Series

Migrating Side Projects into your Work Schedule

Monday 04/23

Tim Cook: Apple focusing more on iPad for enterprise

Google+ gets an official share button

Highly Modern Interior Design by SquareOne

Google explains how it searches the internet in under half a second, if you can find the video

No, Google does not own everything that you upload to Drive

Google Drive vs. the competition: pricing plans and perks, compared

4 Cool Things You Can Do With Wappwolf and ifttt

Stop Working More Than 40 Hours a Week

Art of Charles Williams

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Best of the Week #219

fabiano — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:11:31 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

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Friday 04/20

PicPlz Founder Dalton Caldwell: All This Gossip About The Instagram Sale Is ‘A Waste Of Time’

Incredibox

Timegg

Last Minute Illustration

Faviconize Google Adds Small Icons to Google Search Results for Easier Scanning [Search]

Go Ahead, Have a Beer at the Office

Skull made of tires

id29?s Awesome Office That’s Located in an Old Collar Factory

Sculpture of the week !

Portrait Photography by Roman Shalenkin

London 2012: the anti-social games

Why We Shouldn’t Make Separate Mobile Websites

Water + Subwoofer = One incredible optical illusion [Video]

Thursday 04/19

Mozilla to launch Boot to Gecko phone in Brazil in early 2013

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dyt/~3/n8MqLkS1l4c/

Life Size Nintendo Controller Table

Here's Another Fast-Growing Social Network: Goodreads

The solution to oversleeping

Oreo: Basic instinct

Fake Instagram apps are spreading malware on Android devices

Design on the Go: Designer Apps for Android

Wednesday 04/18

Hand Lettered Chalk Typography By Dana Tanamachi

More Shots of Microsoft Netherlands

The Instagram/Facebook deal: 30% cash, 70% stock at 75+ billion valuation

Three-Volume Residence Resting On A Sloped Property

Spotify and Coca-Cola cut huge deal for ads, app, and Spotify expansion worldwide

How to Lead with Courage

Alexander Fedosov

Can You Share Too Much Online?

The New Google Plus Interface

Taxonomy: Content Strategy’s New Best Friend

Pantone & Covers Album !

Original 'Prince of Persia' Apple II source code released on GitHub

Tuesday 04/17

Famous Vector Portraits

O novo uniforme dos EUA no futebol

ESPN Michael Jordan Commercial

Book Igloo

Internet Explorer is changing, but does it deserve a second chance?

My Name is…

How Color Can Make a Difference: The Inspiration Studio Workspace

Containers of Hope Residence

Monday 04/16

Herman Miller Galore at MSN Mexico’s Office

When’s My Bus? This Twitter bot tells you when your next London ride is due

A New Front-End Methodology: BEM

Foursquare celebrates '4sqDay' with 20 million users, two billion check-ins since launch

Foursquare hits 20 million users and 2 billion checkins, seeing a million new signups per month

Para qual versão do Android devo desenvolver?

Artworks by Leslie Ann O’Dell

Bigger profile images come to Facebook, just days after Google+ did the same

Network Change

Propellerheads unveils Music Making App

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Best of the Week #218

fabiano — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:34:08 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

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Friday 04/13

Illustrator Emiliano Ponzi

Concept Art by Filip Acovic

#23

Instagram Filter Parody

Dollar Shave Club: $1/Month for High-Quality Razors Without the Unnecessary Tech

Inviting Home in Australia Cleverly Combining Traditional and Modern Features

Whitespace Remover for Google Plus offers a cleaner widescreen display

Carsten Jamrow And His Saltwater On The Road Blog

The Illustration of Liz Clements

Thurday 04/12

Let’s make War an old thing

Facebook’s Seattle office has the coolest conference room names you’ll ever see

Tweet where you're going: TomTom for iOS adds Facebook and Twitter support

Kids Photography By Elena Karneeva

Today is Brazil’s first ‘Free Shipping Day’

11 Killer splash page designs to get you inspired before your launch

500px: Enfim, um “Termos de Serviço” que você vai ler até o fim

Sleep Kills…!!! by CranioDsgn

Mass Effect 3 Characters by Patryk Garrett

Old Iconic Celebrity

Canon unveils EOS-1D C and C500 4K Cinema cameras, two new lenses ahead of NAB (updated)

Wednesday 04/11

How an iPad is made: Daisey critic Rob Schmitz gets exclusive look inside Shenzhen factory (video)

Developing for a platform that doesn’t have a public API is risky business

Instagram: De 0 a 1 bilhão em 17 meses [Infográfico]

WordPress completely dominates top 100 blogs with 49% relative majority

Facebook remembers its origins as Groups for Schools expands with new features

Google Designs Augmented Reality Goggles

Now here’s one really Smart use of Twitter

The World’s Thinnest House

Are comments 'bad business' for online media?

Zaha Hadid’s Riverside Museum

Tuesday 04/10

After Instagram: What Should Google Do?

Android Design guidelines updated with best practices for settings and navigation

Instant Flow: How to Train Yourself to Think Creatively

UI Patterns For Mobile Apps: Search, Sort And Filter

Focus On: Social Media Badges and Viral Marketing

Facebook just saved the Instagram you know and love

Monday 04/09

Facebook's Real Mobile Question, Post-Instagram: Can It Challenge Apple and Google?

Montreal Meets 2 Wrap-up

Every time you love a service, it gets closer to being acquired

Big Eyed Political Figures

Google doodle gets animated to honor zoopraxiscope creator

Facebook to buy Instagram

Check Out Samsung’s Bay Area Test Lab

Sweet: If you work for Evernote you get your house cleaned twice a month and unlimited vacations

23 Fantastic Examples of Dark Colors in Web Design

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Best of the Week #217

fabiano — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:48:34 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_best in the message.

Friday 04/06

Toy design by Hiroshi Yoshii

Redesigned Geek Figures

Helping Eastern Eggs

Facebook, Dropbox login credentials vulnerable to theft on iOS and Android

3 Content Marketing Tips for Building Your Client Prospect List

Meet the five companies Twitter is suing for encouraging spam

If PAC-MAN was turned into a real-life movie, this is what it would look like [video]

'Draw Something' sees 50 million downloads in first 50 days

Thursday 04/05

Brazil’s iTunes App Store now rolling out a Games section

É real: já é possível comprar jogos na App Store brasileira!

Don't start a band: why everyone should be making video games

Anonymous hacks Chinese government sites in protest, some still compromised

Phoenix Children’s Hospital / HKS Architects

MTV - Group Hug

Amazon or Facebook phone? 'Major' non-Google Android device coming this year, says Skyhook CEO

How to make more as a freelancer

Interior Grupo Gallegos Office by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects

Hearing the future: a first test of HD voice on Sprint's HTC Evo 4G LTE

HTC And Sprint Officially Unveil The New EVO 4G LTE

Wednesday 04/04

Get Over It: Life Isn't Fair

Startups, é assim que o design funciona

Design Renegade at Montreal Meets

Dreamweaver CS6 sneak peek shows new tools for responsive Web design

Home Office: Bright, Small and Organized

12 Killer Sites that do Parallax Right

Robin Rimbaud Photography

Cool Geometric Illustrations by Liam Brazier

The Flintstones House

Tuesday 04/03

Instagram for Android hits 1m downloads in under 24 hours

Facebook fights back, countersues Yahoo

How Tech Giants Are Forging the Future of the Smart Home

Bivi: Turnstone’s Customizable Table System

Style For Your Dinner Table

A Collection of Amazing Redesigned Movie Posters!

Tips for Planning your own Design Studio

Monday 04/02

Path now hashing and anonymizing contact data to protect user privacy

Oracle and Google get a trial date, April 16th is the start of Android armageddon

X-Men & Super Mario Brothers Mashup

Apple’s iBookstore to reportedly land in Brazil within 30 days

LouLou and Tummie maps illustrations

Why Designers Should Join Software Startups

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Best of the Week #216

fabiano — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:14:31 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_best in the message.

Friday 03/30

Better Than Fine

Nonstartr helps generate startup pitches: “It’s like Spotify, but for geologists”

RIM is not abandoning the consumer market (update: RIM confirms)

New Google Drive Leak Points To 5GB Of Free Storage, Release In Third Week Of April

Jordan Mechner, Creator Of Prince Of Persia, Finds Original Source Code In His Dad’s Closet

Photo of the Day: Mother and Daughter

Free download: “Inspire” Backend Admin Template (PSD)

Turn the page: the book on the making of Flipboard

Friendly Gents

Thursday 02/29

Here we go again: Man sues Path for doing “social things”

Illustration by CROS2 “Hiber Nation”

Predictions: Here’s the tech that the characters of Mad Men would use

Google only makes $183M a year from Android, while earning $2.3B on the iPhone

Rdio continues its plans for world domination, focusing on Europe

Instagram photos are the most annoying Facebook photo trend, and could get you unfriended

Google puts a blind man behind the wheel of its self-driving car (video)

Illustrations by toerning

Google Maps for Android gets bumped to 6.5, new navigation view and higher resolution map tiles in tow

“Dark Shadows” character poster

Wednesday 03/28

Apple CEO Tim Cook meets with China's Vice-Premier to discuss intellectual property and worker treatment

Photoshop CS6 beta sees over half a million downloads in 6 days

From Twitter to toilet: Now you can wipe with your favorite tweets. Genius.

Give Your Website Soul With Emotionally Intelligent Interactions

Villa Midgård – Stockholm, Sweden

The Best Product Doesn't Always Win

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Los Soprano by Pedro Scattarella

Só Ação Solidarity Movement: Book Donation

Oh, That “Pull To Refresh” Thing In iOS? Yeah, Twitter Has A Patent App On That

Tuesday 02/27

Mecano House / Juan Robles

LinkedIn adds even more features to its People You May Know section

Obama campaign joins Pinterest

White Thoughts by Fernando Gomez

Pulp Fiction Action Figures

Daring Modern Architecture in Australia: Hunter House

Ostrich Nap Pillow

25 Awe-Inspiring Fractal Wallpapers for Your Desktop

Fear vs. Greed at Facebook

Google pays tribute toMies van der Rohe

Cool Products Aren’t Enough

Why one OMGPOP developer turned down a job offer from acquirer Zynga

Monday 03/26

Dark Faceted Office Building Exposing An Asymmetric Shell

Apple's 25 billionth app winner profiled, flown to Beijing to collect $10,000 award

Freelance Guidelines for Getting Paid on Time

99dresses Wants To Give Women An Infinite Closet

Inspiration: 60+ Walls That Are Not Boring

Scare Different and Mac iCar: Two Apple references in Pixar flicks you may have missed

Superhero Interview – Andres Romero AKA Blo0p

Square relaunches mobile payments app as 'Pay with Square'

20 Inspiring Examples of Textures in Web Design

Design Trends

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Best of the Week #215

fabiano — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:53:30 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_best in the message.

Friday 03/23

Coca-Cola Beatbox by Pernilla & Asif

Squared Superheroes

Brazil’s Kupz makes it easy for anyone to create custom mugs

No Corporate Website? You Don't Need One. Welcome to the Post-Web era.

Google Play may get movie purchases, says CNET

Finally we have an app where Retina Display support matters, iTunes Movie Trailers

Adam Carvalho

Thursday 03/22

Minimalistic Minimalism

Are You Building A Company, Or Just Your Credentials?

House Reduction / MAKE Architecture Studio

5 Lessons From OMGPOP's Huge 'Draw Something' Sale To Zynga

Facebook takes photos high-def and full screen

Pinterest hires Tim Kendall, builder of Facebook's monetization strategy

Athlon Flex Center Offices For Car Renters

The Economist: ‘Lean-back 2.0 is not the end of innovation in the media industry’

Joy: An Underrated Business Skill

Chrome beats Internet Explorer for a day, usage peaks on weekends

Adobe unveils Photoshop CS6 beta with redesigned UI and 65 new features, download it for free today

Wednesday 03/21

Lego Imagine by Jung Von Matt

Draw Something Sucks, But Here’s Why Zynga Was Smart To Buy and Not Clone It

Why Premature Hype Kills Start-ups

Movie Poster Cliches

Web Critique #8: Abduzeedo.com

Great Illustrations by Alexander Wells

15 Beautiful and Useful Free PSD Files

PayPal exec scooped up by Square to lead international expansion

Dropbox now lets you add Facebook friends to shared folders

From Gmail to FastMail: Moving Away from Google

Don't Build Products. Build Platforms.

Tuesday 03/20

Zombies Artwork by James Ryman

Behance launches redesign for showcasing & discovering talent right from tap

Twitter promoted tweets showing up in your mobile timeline now

Tattoo Branded Babies

SXSW 2012: The year that big data became intensely personal

To Be a Better Entrepreneur, Look to the Past

Monday 03/19

Fractal Collection by Nicole Tomazi

Landscape Photography by Jimmy Williams

Geeky High Heels

Movie Poster Monday 13: LIVE AND LET DIE

Gridpak: The Responsive Grid Generator

Brand New Wall for Your Apartment

This app generates gorgeous and informative infographics about your Facebook usage

Flash-centric misconceptions of HTML5

23 Fantastic Examples of Illustrated Elements in Web Design

Red Cross Campaign

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Best of the Week #214

fabiano — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:36:49 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_best in the message.

Friday 03/16

Who got funded, you ask? This site is going to let you know in real-time

Apple’s new iPad jailbroken on day one

Warplanes Graffiti Arts

Every hotel website should look like this

Fantastic Examples of Package Design

Van Gogh pixel-art by Jaebum Joo

Support This Book: 100 Days of Design Entrepreneurship

Latest Sonic game can be played across Xbox and Windows Phone

Thursday 03/15

The new iPad is a beautiful reminder of how stupid data plans are

Digg and Milk founder Kevin Rose goes to work at Google

PayPal unveils 'PayPal Here' Square competitor for mobile payment

33 creative billboards

Curtain Walls – Literally

Dislike: YouTube considers phasing out “Like/Dislike” in favor of a giant +1 button

Designer Spotlight: Luke Lucas

Avengers in the Style of Ancient Egyptian Artists

Explosions of Color: Inspired Collection of Bright and Colorful Vector Illustrations

House Aboobaker by Nico van der Meulen Architects

Wednesday 03/14

Sparrow takes flight: how a startup built the Gmail app Google couldn’t

Google to use 'semantic search' to add answers to search results, says WSJ

Kevin Rose's Oink iOS app shuts down after less than five months

iTunes movies in 1080p: less than or equal to Blu-ray image quality?

Rdio's Wilson Miner: 'iTunes is just a fancy CD changer'

35 Really Amazing Street Arts

SLASHTHREE X FAIRY TALES EXHIBITION

Facebook, Google and YouTube gain the most from Pinterest’s traffic explosion

Photo Manipulations by Sean Busher

Tuesday 03/13

A Big Idea: Y Combinator Now Lets Founders Apply Without… An Idea

SOVIET SPACE PROPAGANDA POSTERS (1958-63)

Ask and Answer Questions About Adjusting Your Sleep Schedule [Help Yourself]

5 More Habits of Customer-Obsessed Companies

'Draw Something' gets 20 million downloads in just five weeks

Waiting for the barbarians by Ryszard Bienert on thisispaper.com

Not just another About.me clone: Create gorgeous ‘portable’ websites with Sidengo

Bryan Drury Realistic Paintings

As Apple rediscovers its old logo, here’s a colorful stop-motion tribute to the brand

Monday 03/12

With Redesign Done, Dropbox’s Houston Focuses On The Big Picture

Winter of Wells

Twitter has acquired shortform blogging company Posterous, Spaces will remain up and running for now

Private Residence In La Gorce / Touzet Studio

Readability launches on Android as an Amazon Appstore exclusive in the US, at least for now

Photographer Aernout Overbeeke

Apple’s Jony Ive: Our competitors want to be different and appear new, but they are the wrong goals

Finding New Creative Space: The Artist’s Quest for their Niche

Gowalla officially shut down, uses Facebook to check-in at SXSW 2012

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Best of the Week #213

fabiano — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:51:06 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

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Friday 03/09

Google says Brazil’s copyright agency can’t charge bloggers who embed YouTube videos

Montreal Meets 2 / MMTWO 2012

Designer on the road

Animação em stop-motion usa 12 mil folhas de papel

Nike to make huge splash at SXSW by opening up its FuelBand API at Managers Hack

Is anyone actually surprised that Twitter is losing money? Get real

Is Your Whole Team in Sync?

Nano Workout Offers Simple, Easy Exercises You Can Do Anywhere

Photography by Carlos Williams

New logo for Apple ?

Crossing Over: Showcase of Inspired Bridge Photography

Thursday 03/08

Spectacular Thailand Villa Built Around a Central Swimming Pool

Dropbox revamps its Web-service with a more intuitive design and support for photos

Path launches version 2.1 with music match, camera enhancements, new API

Top Ten Most Human Modern Addictions

25 Examples of Parallax Scrolling in Web Design

Top Online Resources for Free Photoshop Scratch Brushes

jQuery Mobile Tutorial: Creating a Restaurant Picker Web App

Skype for Mac gets mild refresh, adds auto updates and improved UI in group calls

Facebook Becomes Location Backbone That Lets Apps Import Checkins From Each Other

Wednesday 03/07

iPhoto on iOS does not use Google Maps, may indicate new Apple maps product coming [Updated]

Apple announces iPhoto for iOS at $4.99, adding new gestures, effects and multi-touch editing

The new iPad vs. iPad 2: what's changed?

Surprising Architecture Displayed By Coastal Residence

Tattoed Divas

Working With Your Spouse: 5 Rules

Font Awesome Icon Font Released for Twitter Bootstrap

How to Be a Freelance Failure in 7 Easy Steps

5 innovations looking to transform cities around the world

Tuesday 03/06

Google Play? What The Hell Was Wrong With Android Market?

Building a Windows 8 Metro app? Bing has a fresh SDK for you

Square is now rolling out to NY taxis with brand new, sexy hardware

3 Easy Ways to Find Work-Life Balance

Cognition & The Intrinsic User Experience

Inside Zynga’s Gigantic Gaming Headquarters

Illustration by Olivier Bonhomme !

Introducing One-Click Content

This app tells you if your web design is accessible to the color blind

192 Shoreham Street by Project Orange

VW Camper Van Tent

The New 2013 Mustang

Monday 03/05

Cool Portrait Illustrations

Cloudy House

Architecture Photograprhy by Joe Brooks

3 Reasons Humor is Good for Business

CyberAgent Ventures Startup Base Camp

Apple Makes 500k Jobs? Cloud Services Could Help Make 14 Million, With Half In China And India

Geeks vs. Hipster

21 Inspiring Design Agency Websites

Why My Exit Strategy Failed

How to optimize your CSS

Fantasy Designs by Katt Amaral

I would personally like to thank Apple for explaining what the “cloud” is to my mom

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Best of the Week #212

fabiano — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:33:26 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_best in the message.

Friday 03/02

Quartier Des Spectacles / Ædifica

Foursquare’s Inflection Point: People Using The App, But Not Checking In

Street-Art by Victor Reyes !

S Mahal Korean Residence by Moon Hoon

Gogobot’s First Big iPhone Upgrade Gives Users A Mobile, Friendsourced Trip Planner

How colorful typography brought beauty and pride to a Brazilian slum

Android and iOS expose your photos to third party apps, promise fixes

The Guardian apresenta o melhor comercial do ano até agora: Os Três Porquinhos

Superbacana’s Art

Thursday 03/01

Fab’s decision to focus on design a year ago was perhaps the best “pivot” of all time

Instapaper ‘read later’ bookmarklet now supports mult-page articles, gets new look

Summerhill Residence by Edmonds + Lee Architects

30 Reworked Harry Potter Book Covers for Inspiration

The Abercrombie & Fitch Headquarters Campus

What Kind of Software Company Should You Work For?

4 Launch Day Survival Tips

An information paradox: How Google’s new privacy policy may harm our discovery process

Banksy on Advertising

Creative Conceptual Photography

AE26: Squeezeboxes

Wednesday 02/29

How Google Search Really Works

Video: The City of Samba / Keith Loutit and Jarbas Agnelli

Google releases design stencils to help Android developers improve the look of apps

CoderDojo Partners with GitHub to Create a New Generation of Hackers

Facebook Timeline For Pages Kills Marketing Feature: Default Landing Tabs

Drawings by Fran Giffard

Manchester United, The NY Times and others load their Facebook Timelines with 100+ years of history

Caution: Your Business Is Not Irreplaceable

Amazing Pixel Art

20 Beautiful Illustrations And Caricatures By Daniel Adel

Blending Ads into your Website Layout

Tuesday 02/28

Illustrations by Jason Behnke

Why Google+ Doesn’t Care If You Never Come Back

The Top Myths About Working From Home

The Health Hazards of Using Mobile Devices (and What You Can Do About It)

Flickr starts rolling out its new design with ‘Justified’ view for your contacts page

Mobile Web users consume more media on their handsets than their TVs, survey finds

Brasil vs. Brasil no novo filme da Nike

Guy Kawasaki's Social Media Secret

21 Examples of Fixed Position Menus in Web Design

Monday 02/27

Vimeo outs new iOS app at MWC, now sporting iPad compatibility

Temple Hills Residence in California

Infographic: The history of the Pritzker Prize

Fewer Job Seekers Want to Be Entrepreneurs

Os aprendizados do Pinterest sobre comunicação digital

Happiness Makes Your Brain Work Better

Outros 90%

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Best of the Week #211

fabiano — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:40:33 +0000

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_best in the message.

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