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Best of the Week #209

fabiano — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:22:16 +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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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 #208

fabiano — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:40:45 +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 02/03

Practice Multiple Skills at a Time Instead of Focusing on One for Greater Results [Learning]

Apple updates iBooks Author to clarify that you own created content

Why Most UX is Shite
Why most UX is shite

Superhero Actors

Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App

5 Steps to Thinking Outside of the Box

Axe Anarchy

Digital illustrations by Lukasz Poslad

The Seven Most Interesting Startups At 500 Startups Demo Day

Thursday 02/02

Glyphs Mini is the best way to get started with type design on your Mac

Digital art by Valp Maciej Hajnrich

Camel Campaign

Children in Maturity

All Super Bowl Commercials 2012

Mona Lisa v2.0

Have you seen this memo on Mark Zuckerberg’s desk during Facebook IPO day?

LEGO Denmark Office – Version 2.0

Wednesday 02/01

Foodspotting relaunches as a discovery app for finding places to eat, rivaling Yelp

Erascan Can Scan!

Turn a Firing Into a Lesson and Use the Experience on Your Next Job Interview [Jobs]

XXX Domain

Explorers of Tomorrow / Process Post

Exploding Food

Creative and Funny Photo manipulations works- White Obama – New Fair & Lovely Ad

And The Crunchie Goes To…Pinterest, Best New Startup Of 2011

Xbox 360 adds Crackle and CinemaNow to list of up and running apps

Tuesday 01/31

How to Live the Life You Want

Age Progression – Adobe Photoshop Tutorial

The Photoshop Team is Looking for Their Next Evangelist

Infographic: The Social Job Seeker

Its real!

Clyfford Still Museum / Allied Works Architecture

Twitter’s Dick Costolo: “We’re Growing Faster Than We Have Ever Grown Before”

10 iconic films that every entrepreneur should see

14 Weird HDR Portraits

Monday 01/30

Here’s why Pinterest is growing so fast

The 5 Reasons Why Facebook Is Worth So Much Money

How Heroes Inspire You To Be Your Best

Adult Mario Bros. Portraits

Dark Knight Rises Titles

20 coisas que aconteceram na internet em 2011 [Poster]

Chalk power

The Matryoshka Parade

“Red and White” by Wilson Hennessy

21 Inspiring Examples of Dark Colors in Web Design

5 Signs of a Great User Experience

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Best of the Week #207

fabiano — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:00:08 +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 01/27

Pictos is like Typekit for your UI with over 650 icons to play with

Facebook Could be the Biggest Tech IPO in History

Illustrations by Mr.Kone

Technology companies, it’s time to kill our hypocrisy

Original & Unusual Door Knob Design by Nikita Kovalev

Want a fancy Twitter brand page for your company? That’ll cost you $25,000

Google Spent Nearly $2 Billion On 79 Acquisitions In 2011

Become an “Anonymous”, made and wear the mask

* Magazine Luiza pretende abrir 10.000 lojas até o final do ano *

Anonymous goes after UFC chief, posts personal details and hacks website again

Ode Couture

Thursday 01/26

Ferris Bueller no Super Bowl, mas é só propaganda

It's okay to peek: phone size comparison tool reveals how your equipment stacks up

O que é Foursquare?

The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love

The Photographic History of Twitter’s Offices

Twitter Bootstrap 2.0

5 Pros and Cons of Freelance Job Marketplaces

QR Codes on the Rise in Print Magazines

Google passes Facebook as the most global-friendly website, Apple doesn’t make the top 10

Street Art by 183Art

The University of Nottingham – The Gateway Building / Make Architects

Forget Hulu and Amazon: What Netflix is worried about is TV Everywhere

Wednesday 01/25

Yes, Apple’s iMessage is killing the text message, and I love it

25 Brilliant Digital Matte Paintings

1000s Of Journalists Now Use Facebook Subscribe, And That’s Bad For Twitter

Keep it fresh for success: Why updating your website is crucial

Temple Of Diana / José María Sánchez García

Could You Ever Love An Ad?

Telefonica’s startup accelerator Wayra and MIT sign a partnership in Latin America

Generation Y: The New Kind of Workforce

Union Jacks by Blacksheep for Jamie Oliver

Astonishing Beauty of Kenya

Tuesday 01/24

Administration Building of the North Shanghai Gas Company in Jiading / Atelier Deshaus

Casa de La Flora by VaSLab Architecture

Typography 2011 by Marcos Calamato

IKEA’s “You Can Get More” Campaign Prints Feature Cardboard Furniture

What Successful Products Teach Us About Web Design

AI SE EU TE PEGO – INSTRUCTION POSTER

The Twelve South PlugBug: What a difference one extra USB port makes

Unexpected Skulls

Monday 01/23

No one’s going to be able to bring down Facebook…not even Anonymous

Facebook Photo Editing App Offers Instagram-Like Appeal

The Bright, Open, Multi-Level Offices of 4c Media

Villa Amanzi by Original Vision Architecture

Streaking Trains

Santa Monica Parking Garage / Brooks & Scarpa

Dropbox CEO: Apple MobileMe team wanted Dropbox-style feature in OS X, Finder team refused

9 Tips for Working While Traveling

Three Sisters Bound by Photography

Isabeli Fontana for Vogue Spain February 2012

Off The Edge

Megaupload case triggers online storage site Filesonic to disable file sharing

21 Examples of Inspiring Typography in Web Design

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Best of the Week #206

fabiano — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:49:03 +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 01/20

New Google Accounts Require Gmail And G+ Account Creation

Steve Scott

Sumatrakontor by Erick van Egeraat

With MegaUpload Down, Who’s Next? RapidShare? SoundCloud? DropBox?

The Chase

Swangle for iPad

SOPA, PIPA Votes Indefinitely Delayed

Start a Company ... & Stay Married

PIPA and SOPA votes pushed back in the face of overwhelming opposition

Lakefront Residence / Moore Architects

Thursday 01/19

Megaupload may be trying to get back online under new domain name

It Only Took One Year For Facebook To Beat Orkut In Brazil

Anonymous Reacts to Megaupload Takedown With “Largest Attack Ever”

Designer’s Confessions

Piracy Wars Escalate as Megaupload Shuttered by Feds, Anonymous Retaliates

CodeKit the missing tool

Twitter acquires social feed summary tool Summify to beef up its Discover section

Custom Dusty Type Treatment

iBooks 2 lets authors set textbook prices in exchange for Apple exclusivity

Illustrations by E. W. Thomason

Public Libraries Stepping into the Future

Wednesday 01/18

This is the full list of apps included in Facebook’s massive new Open Graph update

Google+ Gets Video Status Updates

6 years after its launch, Google finally releases an Orkut app for iOS

Want More Stickiness? Users Logging In Through Social Networks Spend 50% More Time On Site

Zuckerberg comes out against SOPA on Facebook, gets 75k likes in 10 minutes

With Today's Protests, SOPA Becomes a Mainstream Issue

Guide to Building Semantic Web Forms

Michael Weschler Photography

Web Critique Week: SmashingMagazine.com

Color and Inspiration in a Small Australian Apartment Designed by Cassie Potts

Tuesday 01/17

StartupPlays Offers An Affordable (Virtual) Alternative To Startup Accelerators

SOPA Isn’t Dead, It’s Just Sleeping (Until February)

Impress.js – Create presentations with open web standards

Not sure what SOPA is? ExplainSOPA puts you in touch with someone who does

Enjoying life!

Steve Wozniak loves iOS, except when he doesn't

Why the iPad Works For Productivity

Rock Stars Re-imagined as Monsters

Redcliffs Estuary / Stufkens + Chambers Architects

21 Excellent Portfolios and Design Agency Websites

Monday 01/16

Inspiration: Cool Examples of Offices that Use Fake Grass

Patos Locos Mugshots

Quando Oscar Niemeyer mandou o fundador da Bauhaus a merda

Being Awesome: A list of simple things to become a better person

Contemporary Beach Cottage Overlooking Laguna Beach

Inspiring Quotes

Stop teaching our kids to be employees, start educating entrepreneurs

Things Entrepreneurs Should Avoid When Raising Capital

How to make money doing what you love on the Internet

DeLorean DMC-12 EV eyes-on at CES

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Best of the Week #205

fabiano — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:34:28 +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 01/13

Amazing Architecture Pictures By Paul Bica

The Future Of Social TV Is Now

iPad 3 rumored to bring faster CPU, higher-resolution display and LTE this March

The Art Of Duda Lanna

This measuring tool makes life as a Web designer way easier

The Psychology of Home

Art by Hoang Nguyen

This Is Your Brain on Multitasking

Grooveshark returns to the iPhone (and other devices) with new HTML5 mobile app

Thursday 01/12

The Cube / Park Associati

Soul by Ludacris: Dre and 50 Cent get schooled in how to do headphones right

Android Finally Gets Serious About Its Looks, Launches Official Design Portal

Panasonic Skype tablet eyes-on

Tadufeu Animation

Look out Google, foursquare takes its 1.5 billion check-ins to the web with ‘Explore’

4 Tricks To Build Customer Relationships

Facebook launches ‘Listen With’ feature, lets you enjoy music with your friends

Mothers & Daughters by Julia Fullerton-Batten !

Fuelled by emerging markets, Facebook set to hit 1 billion users in August

Nikon D4 Ethernet tethered shooting hands-on (video)

Wednesday 01/11

Digital Art by Elias Chatzoudis

Impressive Beauty Photography by Dmitry Bocharov

Why every designer should start with paper, not Photoshop

10 Things All Entrepreneurs Fail At

Why Samsung Is The Next Apple

OnLive Viewer comes to Google TV, full gameplay capability coming soon

Murmansk in motion

SOPA: Começou a briga do século

Do You Have the Personality of an Entrepreneur?

Tuesday 01/10

Twitter Really, Really Hates Google’s New Google+ Integration

11 Businesses You Can Start from Home

WorkFu taps your Twitter account to help you find jobs

10 Extremely Useful DSLR Camera Lenses

Stunning Ocean Guest House Wrapped in Fiber Cement Panels

I Am Not a Web Designer

Inside the Fight Against SOPA

Why 2012 might be Windows Phone’s breakout year

The Kitzbuehel Mansion

Monday 01/09

Sony Stays Committed To Google TV, Releases Two New GTV Products At CES 2012

Check out this amazing custom Super Mario Brothers lamp [video]

Dieter Rams 10 Principles of “Good Design”

Think small

The Neon Music Studio Workspace [Featured Workspace]

COLOURlovers Announces Creative Market for Mousemade Design Elements

Fraser Residence / Christopher Simmonds Architect

Designer’s Block: A Q&A With Justin Mezzell

Illustration 2011 by Michal Dziekan

QR codes on cardboard? That’s one way to raise money for a UK homeless charity.

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Best of the Week #204

fabiano — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:51:32 +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 01/06

Create a 3D mask of your face just like they do in Mission: Impossible 4

Not Bad, LG Marketing, Not Bad

Three Drunk Monkeys And The Office They Work In

Budi Satria Kwan Beautiful Illustrations

Instagram's Facebook Integration Just Got Tighter

One Week in Japan

5 things about social media you need to stop saying in 2012

Expressive Pictures By Mustafa Dedeoglu

Nikon announces D4 DSLR camera: full-frame 16.2 MP sensor, 204,000 extended ISO, $6,000 price tag

Thursday 01/05

HP:Mercury 3 / Amir Mann-Ami Shinar Architects and Planners

Bay House by Leroy Street Studio

4 Facebook Employees Built A Working Demo Of Timeline In One Night

Betting Big on the Future of HTML5, Financial Times Buys Dev Shop

A timeline do Facebook mais criativa até agora

Facebook Turns Your Timeline Into Moo Business Cards, First 200,000 Are Free

If Logic Tells You Otherwise, Ignore Your Gut [Decision Making]

7 Killer Flash sites that should be remade with HTML5 and CSS3

CloudOn offers Microsoft Office functionality for iPad, your parents will love it

40+ Fresh And Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

7 Ways to Love Blog Comments Again

Why Is Aol Still Charging People For “Email”?

Wednesday 01/04

This designer shows off the future of responsive web design

3 reasons why Yahoo! should buy Instagram right now

Photoshop Quick Tip: Using The Adjustment Brush in Camera Raw

SugarSync updates Android and iOS apps, brings auto sync technology to videos

Dropbox Automator launches with a bet, grabs 10,000 users in 72 hours

Workplace Element: Bar-height Collaboration Tables

8 Strategies to Get Your Business in a Distraction Free Zone

Miss Nat

What 2012 holds for Facebook

Tuesday 01/03

Google: Android 4.0 'Holo' theme to be mandatory on all devices with Android Market

Over 30 Inspirational Workspaces & Office Designs

The Future of Architecture Since 1889

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Fashion photography by Stefan Giftthaler

Toda House

Steve Jobs Action Figure

Is the traditional business card dead?

Gympact iPhone app offers cash rewards to gym-goers, penalizes inattendance

What SoundCloud's Massive New Funding Means

Monday 01/02

Digital paintings by Shane Devries

Brasileiro faz Siri, do iPhone 4S, "entender" português

Signalnoise Studio sign by Andrey Danilov

Goods Shed North Renovation – Melbourne, Australia

What 2012 holds for social media

21 Examples of Subtle Textures and Patterns in Web Design

Design Students: Discover and showcase your work with Student Show by Behance

Tech Comes To The Real World

The Internet Is People

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Best of the Week #203

fabiano — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:29:31 +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 12/30

4 startups prove that technology can bring couples closer together

Ricardo Legorreta 1931 – 2011

Automatic File Conversions and More with Dropbox Automator

3 types of textures you should consider using in web design

R.I.P. The Golden Age of Tech Blogging (2009 - 2011)

The Most Popular Offices of 2011

Express Yourself: Logo Development Best Practices

Thursday 12/29

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater iPad App

Architecture 2011: Top 10 Contemporary Homes of the Year

1,000 Door Building

How to Survive Your First Year As An Entrepreneur

Now May Be the Best Time to Incorporate

Why the Real Secrets of Success Are in Your Past

What Steve Meant Back Then

Wednesday 12/28

This app nails what your Instagram profile should look like

The 10 Best Productivity Apps of 2011

Private House by Rui Grazina

Hobnob Pop-up Party Bins

Amazing Waterscapes

How Google Uses the Keystone Strategy to Stay on Top

Google Engineering HQ by Penson

Amazing Photo-Manipulated Caricature Illustration by Rodney Pike

Tuesday 12/27

How Facebook Mobile Was Designed to Write Once, Run Everywhere

Darth Vader in the real life – Reading Harry Potter

Philippe Ramette

30 Mind Blowing Illustration Artworks | Designsidea

Book Wormhole

Giving Windows Phone A Chance

In 2011: How Technology Shaped Health and Fitness

Quiet Places to Work

Recycled art by Zac Freeman !

The Artists Animation

Google’s Eric Schmidt: The Internet and mobile can “change the world”

20 Inspiring Examples of Colorful Web Designs

30 Cute Infant Photography Examples

Monday 12/26

Work-Less Play-More Notepad

20 Mind Melting Examples of Light Painting

Basque Culinary Center

Kindle Fire Loaded With "Pre-Alpha" Version of Android Ice Cream Sandwich

Start-Up Chile Entrepreneur Responds to Investor’s Departure

Amazing Portraits Photography by Angel Vargas

Distorted Radiohead

The Amazing Photo Manipulations of Erik Johansson

The Future of the Camera

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Best of the Week #202

fabiano — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:30:19 +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, Might Deaks, DepositPhotos, W3-Markup, inkd, Site24x7, and MediaLab, P2H, Photos. A special mention to Media Temple for the excellent service and support with Abduzeedo!

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

Friday 12/23

Square Inc’s New Office Expansion

Square is on a hiring spree and wants to impress you with its new recruiting video

Over 90,000 people have requested an invite to use banking alternative Simple.com

40 Beautiful Street Photography

6 last-minute gifts you can buy right now, no shipping required

Um guia geek para conquistar garotas

Dear Drupal: Season’s Greetings. Love, Smashing WordPress.

Android Jones

Want to blow stuff up? There’s an app for that – by JJ Abrams

Stop Your Business From Ruining Your Health

Seductive Fashion Costumes

Thursday 12/22

Red Bull Cape Town Offices

Decision Architecture: Designing for Decision-Making

Housing Hatert by 24H architecture

BBC moves towards HTML5 for websites, tells Flash it'll still be friends

Futurico – All components for web design in the one PSD file

How Startup Farm is breeding startups across Brazil in 4 weeks

Start-ups to Watch in 2012

Child and Youth Center Helene P. / Kauffmann Theilig & Partner

Illustration by Nikolai Nowolodski

Preview the New Dropbox App for Android with Bulk Uploads, Quick Access to Files Offline, and More [Dropbox]

Wednesday 12/21

National Geographic gives a sneak peek into the technology used by its photographers

Illustrations by Olivier Lutaud

One of Brazil’s most innovative tech firms is finally expanding to Silicon Valley, here’s why

Silicon Valley’s favorite startups of 2011 and who will win social in 2012

"Happiness Is the Best Revenge" [Quotables]

Tuesday 12/20

Funny Tech Tips from a Grandmother!

After A Trillion-View Year, What's Next For YouTube?

BAU.

A Look at Depthcore’s Latest Chapter: Time

Dream scapes

Monday 12/19

Computer Programmer Makes Stephen Hawking and other Famous Faces from Lego Blocks

Why Free Consulting Is a Bad Idea

Charlie Owens Art

Facebook Has More Android Than iOS Mobile Users

Instagram on Track to Oust Foursquare as Biggest Mobile Social Network

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Best of the Week #201

fabiano — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:07:55 +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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Daily Design Inspirations

30 Cute Animals Dressed For Christmas

Friday 12/16

Here are the startups who will get US$40k to join Start-Up Chile

ImGame: Enfim, uma boa e bonita rede social de games

Are You Obsessed With the Right Things?

Workspace of the Week: Way up high, in the sky

A Showcase of Portrait Photography

Android team takes developers to school with Android Training program

Tino School / AAVP Architecture

‘Where is the creativity in Singapore?’, Apple co-founder Wozniak asks

Microsoft takes the wraps off of So.cl, a search-based social network for students

Going ebook: The future of long-form content

AD Interviews: Oscar Niemeyer

Thursday 12/15

4 Principles of Stress-Free Management

New Works of Banksy

Antas Education Centre by AVA Architects

Timeline is Now Available for All Facebook Users [Facebook]

LinkedIn will use our data to offer insights into the professional world, co-founder says

In Mobile Advertising, Does Size Matter?

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Looney Tunes’ Box Art

Delicious introduces new design with greater emphasis on images

It's art, baby: cover your walls in discarded QWERTY keys

Gmail For iOS Gets Painting & Mobile Signatures, But No Multiple Accounts

Wednesday 12/14

Netflix updates its iOS app, now available in Latin America

3D characters by Ojofrito

Illustrations by Jon Foster

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Amazing Illustrations by Isaiah Stephens

Lake House by John Robert Nilsson

A Showcase of Minimal Workstations to Inspire You

How much does Facebook know about your life? This video might scare you

Why games could be coming to Brazil’s App Store on Dec. 16th

Tuesday 12/13

Skype partners with Alice Cooper and more, to offer festive video greeting cards

Apple TV is now available in Brazil

Design the Invisible to Tell Better Stories on the Web

The Best of National Geographic

Oil Paintings Portraits

What I Learned About the Web in 2011

Web Design Trends in 2012

Apple is now offering music, movies and iTunes Match in Brazil

Monday 12/12

Ibaiondo Civic Center / ACXT Arquitectos

How Much Sleep Do You Actually Require (and Why)? [Ask The Readers]

Meet one of Brazil’s top startup scouts, Aceleradora’s founder Yuri Gitahy [Interview]

Illustrations by Vladymyr Lukash

Heineken: O nascer do sol pertence a quem bebe com moderação

Tried and True, the Top 10 Brand-Rendered Logos

Skating in the Streets of Tokyo

Stop Telling Women Not To Do Startups

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Best of the Week #200

fabiano — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:45:48 +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 12/02

Meet Isabel: This 23 year old entrepreneur dropped Google and MIT for Lemon

cc:To Me Is a Dead-Simple Way to Email Yourself Anything on the Web [Web Clipping]

Uma formação mínima ideal para uma equipe iniciar uma Startup

Workspace of the Week: Graphically designed

As novas páginas de marcas no Twitter

Jobs2Web Acquired for $110 Million

Nerf Guns Hold the Line Between Startups and Corporatocracy

An awesome HTML5 interactive music video

Gogobot Partners With Flipboard To Turn Your Travel Photos Into A Digital Magazine

Thursday 12/08

Google Currents is to Social Media as Justin Bieber is to the Beatles

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Google introduces Currents: magazine-like news reader for Android and iOS (video)

Twitter gets a new look: faster, simpler, cleaner

Marissa Mayer, Google’s “De Niro,” Reveals What She Asks Job Candidates

Beauty illustrations by Katarina Sokolova-Latans’ka

UMD Swenson Civil Engineering Building / Ross-Barney Architects

Star Wars (Episode IV) – The Icon-only Version

Eric Schmidt’s Le Web Keynote Video: “Android is Ahead Of The iPhone”

How Evernote, the Company of the Year, Works

Wednesday 12/07

5 Ways to Kick Your Fear of Failure

Vacations

The East Coast’s most FABulous startup just had the best year ever

Facebook's Updated Android App Looks a Lot Like its iPad App

Beautiful, Creative, & Hilarious T-Shirt Designs Turned Into Prints

FLUD 2.0 for iOS: Create your news personality, become a trusted source

Designer’s Block: A Q&A with Brent Couchman

Coca Cola Fanta Sprite Can Packaging Concept

Flipboard Updates, Launches New iPhone App with New “Cover Stories” Section [IPhone Downloads]

5 Sketching Secrets of Leonardo Da Vinci

Awesome Pictures By Jari Mäntylä

SoundTracking’s New Android App Has Spotify And Rdio Integration (So Yes, You Can Listen To Full Songs)

Apple iBooks now better than ever with nighttime reading, full-screen options

Tuesday 12/06

Android Phone Name Generator launches HTC Bionic Plus 3D E, Motorola Vigor Optimus Prime+

Google brings graphing calculator functionality to search, still can't play 'Snake'

Charming Penthouse In An Urban Part of Stockholm

StumbleUpon Rebrands, Redesigns & Reorganizes Topic Features

Rede Infinita

Zwijsen College / Jeanne Dekkers Architecteur

Randi Zuckerberg: Stop using social media to be cool and start building a brand

A Tribute to Drive Movie

Most Powerful Photos of 2011

Ads: The Death of User Experience on CNN, Forbes, Mashable

Top 6 Trends In HTML5 In 2011

Red Nosed /CS

Can We Stop The Copycat Apps?

Hot illustrations by Serge Birault

From ‘Full Beards’ to ’99 Percent Beards’, Competition gets Hairy in New York

Monday 12/05

Why you should pay attention to Brazil’s ‘San Pedro Valley’

Gowalla Versus Foursquare: Why Pretty Doesn’t Always Win

Show Your Coworkers You Care with These Awesome Under-$20 Gifts [Gift Guide 2011]

Gowalla confirms move to Facebook, service to shut down in January

10 Steps To Great Leadership

iPhone App Design – How To Get Started In this New Niche

Not impressed with Wikipedia? Watch all of its activity in real-time

Bortolini Móveis Factory / 4D-Arquitetura

Even if you hate Christmas music, you’re going to love this

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Best of the Week #199

fabiano — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:48:11 +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 12/02

Eye Tracking Could be the Next Natural User Interface

Content Strategy Within The Design Process

Inbox/Spam Mailbox

14+ iconic celebrities made with LEGO

Did Your Parents Make You an Entrepreneur?

Creative Portraiture by Miss Aniela

Spotify says its iPad app is coming soon. So that’s why Spotify Apps are HTML5

O comercial de Natal 2011 do Zaffari

The Smashing Guide To Moving The Web Forward

Thursday 12/01

World AIDS Day 2011

Retrospectiva 9 anos: Aquilo que eu chamo de trabalho

YouTube goes under the knife, new homepage and social integration emerge (video)

35 Funny Pictures Of Animals

Prince

10 of the most beautiful blogs (that run as businesses)

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich review

Your Employees Need a Tree House

Urban Double Exposure Photographs by Doug Keyes

NASA just discovered an Earth-sized planet nearby, but don’t try living there

Wednesday 11/30

Can only startups innovate? A brief history of acquisitions

Path 2 is a beautifully executed pitch for an acquisition by Facebook

TED launches iPhone app, brings spread-worthy ideas to the small screen

Heart of Christmas Printable Christmas Card

Why Brainstorming Sucks—and How to Fix It

Starbucks Christmas Packaging Campaign

The Decked-Out Home Office in a Barn

Surfing and Sharks Trailer

5 Ways To Get Your First Freelance Client

The use of illustration in web design

Tuesday 11/29

How to Identify and Learn from Your Mistakes

Google Opens the Door to Mobile Maps Inside Buildings

Feedly Updates with Tagging, Infinite Scroll, and New Views

Samsung draws in developers with S-pen SDK for Galaxy Note

Reduce Noise to Encourage Flow

A New Google Bar: Black Is Out, Google Search Across Products Is In

Microsoft enables Android and iOS users to experience Windows Phone 7... via the web

Little Printer

Trash Time by Konnectedkollective

Image Festival

3D Issue lets you create HTML5 magazines that look just like Flash

The all new Flavors.me: A social network to unite all social networks?

Flavors.me Heads Into Tumblr Territory With “Follow” Buttons & Plans To Support Content Creation

Monday 11/28

Sweet, you can now use Turntable.fm with Twitter

(Founder Stories) How Michael Bloomberg Got His Start: “I Brought You A Cup Of Coffee”

tattoed pin-ups

Gifts for User Experience Geeks 2011

Jay and Silent Bob Get Old: Canadian Tour poster

Brick Thickness by A2 Architects

Brazilian video service Samba Tech expands to Latin America, aiming for IPO in 2016

Easier Is Better Than Better

4 reasons you still aren’t successful

21 Examples of Single Colored Backgrounds in Web Design

Canon EOS 1000D washes ashore in BC, Canada, SD card reveals it was lost at sea for over a year

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Best of the Week #198

fabiano — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:19:56 +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 11/25

Common Misconceptions of Minimalism

3000 people line up for a smartphone launch…and it’s a BlackBerry?

Why Haven’t We Seen A Rollup Yet in Online Video?

The Kindle Fire, What Is It Good For?

Gifts for Your Foodie Friend

Tribeca Loft Residence

CSS for Babies™ board book

Did You Go Shopping on Black Friday? [Ask The Readers]

Inside Treehouse: Badges

High - Skate Trip

The Cookie Splash project by Siebe Warmoeskerken

Thursday 11/24

Breathtaking Landscape Photography by Craig Easton

Reinvigorate a Failing Business

Music Industry Wants $17 Billion From Streaming Site Grooveshark

Google+ Was Never a Facebook Competitor

Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ review

Kevin Rose explains why he cashed out of Twitter

Modern Residence in Timisoara / Romania : CASA LARA

Shoes by Kobi Levi

We Are All Created Equal

Colorful Wave Photography by David Orias

comic book heroes

National Geographic Photo Contest 2011

Wednesday 11/23

Branding and the importance of consistent design

How to Create a Unique Fantasy World Featuring Your Logo

Wine Country Travel Posters

22 Examples of Brilliant Office Work Spaces

A imperdível exposição “Queremos Miles”

Bring On The Creepy! Faced.me Is Building A New Facial Recognition Mobile App

From Frankenstein to Bauhaus with Studio Fantastico

Coffee Lab

Think Klout is krap? So does Flout

Why I Shut Off Facebook's Spotify Integration

Microsoft acquires VideoSurf, promises to bring better video search and discovery to Xbox Live

360 Panorama app now available for Android users, no gyroscope necessary (video)

Wishbox Lets Your Visitors Complain About Your New Layout With Screenshot Annotations

Google Announces Plans To Shutter Knol, Friend Connect, Wave, And More

The Trend for Using Concrete in Interior Design

Tucked Roofline Sheltering An Outdoor Living/Dining

Perfect Beginner Tips for Branding your Startup

Tuesday 11/22

O futuro vai muito além dos botões de compartilhar

2012 Daniela Hantuchova Charity Calendar

The iPhone Lens Dial

A Beautiful Disaster by Andy Rivera

Traditional Art by Olga Shvartsur

The Game of Phones: How 5 Top Tech Companies Plan to Win

To Build Or Not To Build, That Is The Windows Phone App Dev Question

Arrington Tells Entrepreneurs To Make Their Own Luck, Then Get Lucky

Add some retro flavor to your space with these vintage-camera nightlights

How-to: use Google Music from anywhere (yes, outside of the United States)

Monday 11/21

Artworks by Adam Martinakis

Polygonal Portraits

These gorgeous photos were taken by Google Street View Cameras. Really.

The problem with Twitter’s Activity tab: It’s just not personal enough

Spotify wants to show us 'what's next' on November 30th

Breyer: “It Is The Best Time Over The Past Decade To Be An Entrepreneur”

Creative Objects

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Best of the Week #197

fabiano — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:02:36 +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:
The Sketchbook Project, Taste of Ink Studios, Shutterstock, DepositPhotos, W3-Markup, inkd, Site24x7, and MediaLab, P2H, Photos. A special mention to Media Temple for the excellent service and support with Abduzeedo!

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

Friday 11/18

Your Start-up Needs an Engineering Blog

How Storifying Occupy Wall Street Saved The News

20 Soul-Warming Fireplaces Ideas For Comfortable Winter Nights

PayPal’s Send Money App, and Why Facebook Never Built P2P Credits Payments

Concept Art by Rado Javor

Google Swiffy extension exports Flash to HTML5, ActionScript fans rejoice

LEGO is child’s play. Real geeks build with Nanodots

Brazilian startup EverWrite wins RBS Prize for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

BU Landmark Complex by Architects 49

Olivier Lutaud Illustrations

8-bit heroes

Workspace of the Week: Bright and in the basement

Apple may launch iTunes Music Store in Brazil before Christmas

Thursday 11/17

Do You Need a Business Partner, or Not?

Landscape Photography

Bustin Jieber: The 12-Year-Old App Developer Who Taught Himself To Code Goes Viral [Video]

What Comes After The Kindle Fire? The Amazon Smartphone

How HTML5 Tablet Apps Get a Boost From a New Breed of Publishing Tools

Fanny Wang lets you make your headphones as ugly as you want

Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ first impressions (video)

Lego Man Anatomy

Small World Series

Montreal Meets 2: Speaker Line-up

The Properties of Identity by Alex Varanese

Wednesday 11/16

Web Critique #3: TheVerge.com

Is Technology Destroying Jobs?

Assuming Leadership In Your Design Agency

How Music Cloud Lockers & Streaming Services Are Merging

Foursquare Outgrows Mobile, Wants To Be Your City Guide

Gmail App For iOS Hits The App Store Again

Google’s Android Music Market is Now Live

Cute illustrations by Imaginism Studios

Striking Residence in an Eclectic Streetscape: South Yarra House

Tuesday 11/15

Infographics Are Older Than You Think

Stunning Double Illustrations on Transparency

Photo of the Day: Abandoned Dog

Modern Residence in Delaware Built Around a Central Garden: Lujan House

Is San Francisco the new definition of Silicon Valley?

Brazil: Netflix’s Answer to Negative User Feedback

Is a Social Redesign Enough to Save Grooveshark?

Formspring Launching A “Favorites” Directory, Starts Looking Like A Real Social Network

LinkedIn Matches Business Cards With Profile Data In New Version Of iOS App CardMunch

Back to the Future Part II

What goes into designing the perfect mobile email?

A Showcase of Industrial Photography

Monday 11/14

Estadio Único Ciudad de La Plata / Roberto Ferreira & Arquitectos Asociados

40 sqm Refurbishment / SFARO

Five Years Later, Apple Recalls The First Generation iPod Nano

Evolve Motorcycles shows off $50k Xenon lightcycle, Lithium electric streetbike

Minimalistic retro illustrations by Zara Picken

How to Work from Home Without Going Insane

23 Inspiring Single Page Designs

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Best of the Week #196

fabiano — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:26:07 +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.

This post is brought to you by our friends at The Design Inspiraton, features the best logos, illustrations, websites, photos and patterns from the most talented designers from all around the world.

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Friday 11/11

Bye-bye Flash

60 Examples of Responsive Website Design

Pin Up Girls Photography

Hulu Plus Will Compete With Amazon Instant Video On The Kindle Fire

Beauty in Natural Architecture

5 Incredible Methods to Enhance Your Designs with Light

Genius and Easy DIY Organization: Bread Clips as Power Cord Labels

Meet Apple's Aces: The All-Stars Behind Apple

Dropbox Is Working On Ways To Move Beyond File Folders

In preparation for Timeline, Facebook now lets you change the date on photos

Adobe abandoning Flash Player for TVs as well

Thursday 11/10

The Citizen Office Concept by Vitra

Fantastic fixed gear bike illustrations by Adams Carvalho

Movie Poster Similarity Compilation

Ex-Flash Manager: Adobe Ignored Smartphones Until It Was Too Late

The Numbers Behind the Digital Lifestyle [Infographic]

Job.ru: Fall

10 Smart Logos That Use Renders of Their Name

The His and Hers Workspace [Featured Workspace]

Inpiring Mix of Traditional and Modern in a Refreshing Scandinavian Flat

Wednesday 11/09

12 Design-Differentiated Floors Linked Together in Hotel Puerta América

Firefox 8.0 Out Now, Will Bring Twitter Search to Millions of People

The Consumer Cloud: Your Next Big Home Computing Project

LaunchRock Gets $800K In Funding, Launches

Effortless Sales and Contact Management

6 Tricks to Being More Creative

Google+ launches an official guide for sharing, promoting and measuring Pages

A Masterclass in Twitter storytelling: Man live-tweets story of emotional breakup

Nielsen: Soon-to-be seniors adopting smartphones faster than any other age group

Tuesday 11/08

It's been quiet around here, but not for much longer…

Coworking Is Better for You Than Previously Thought [Productivity]

PayPal for Android Updates to Add NFC Payments and Tablet Compatibility [Updates]

New minimalist packaging by Mehmet Gozetlik !

The work of Firmorama !

Bill Murray

How Entrepreneurs Can Create Their Own Luck

Zuckerberg: Facebook Is Not Going To Build Any Games

Monday 11/07

Asics | Support Your Marathoner

Google drinks its own Kool Aid, launches +YouTube, +Google pages on Google+

3 Key Business Lessons From Steve Jobs: Intuition, Reinvention, Focus

3D Illustrations by James Shepherd

21 Examples of Illustration and Hand Drawn Elements in Web Design

National Geographic - Augmented Reality

Cutest Paw

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Best of the Week #195

fabiano — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:37:14 +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.

This post is brought to you by our friends at The Design Inspiraton, features the best logos, illustrations, websites, photos and patterns from the most talented designers from all around the world.