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The World Collabs #5 - Submissions

aloa — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:21:40 +0000

For this contest Abduzeedo provides you with a Photoshop design from an acknowledged artist you can collab with.
For more information about the full contest please visit The World Collabs #5 - with Nik Ainley article.

First of all, my apologies for the delay. We always try our best to post everything in time. However, this time I’m almost a month late with the submission of September’s TWC. But (I can assure you) I have a good excuse. I had a hard time recently and had to stay in hospital for over a month. Now I am back and ready to catch up on everything. Good to be back.

The starting piece by Nik Ainley

Close Up

http://shinybinary.com/

What do you think are the best submissions? Write a comment and talk about it with the community

The Submissions

01 - Derek Morgan

02 - Aleksi Ahjopalo

http://www.ahjopalo.com

03 - Rasmus Holm Sørensen

04 - Dion Rodrigues

http://rodriguesdesign.ca/

05 - Benjamin Wegener

06 - Fehmi Ozdil

07 - Harouth Arthur Mekhjian

08 - David Irlanda

http://www.davidirlanda.com

09 - Bruce Davidson

http://bobbb12345.deviantart.com

10 - Stefan Niesmann

11 - Andreas Leonidou

http://www.behance.net/andreasleonidou

12 - Kristian Eres

13 - Jason Butch

14 - Fabian de Lange

http://www.behance.net/fabiandelange

15 - Mark K.

16 - Alejandro Rosado Rivial

http://alejandro-rr.deviantart.com/

17 - Leena Parvin

18 - Samora Bennett-Gager

http://marzimation.wordpress.com/

19 - Rolando Lorceh

http://hecrol.deviantart.com

20 - Mike Love

21 - Mario Lacroix

22 - Leandro L. P. Paciello

http://leandropaciello.carbonmade.com/

23 - Daniel Mate

http://stigmatan.deviantart.com/

24 - Simon Cogen

http://venetianaphex.deviantart.com/

25 - Stefan Hanreich

26 - Cody S

http://blog.thephilter.net/

27 - Richard Davies

http://turk1672.deviantart.com/

28 - Emmanuel Umukoro

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http://slayyou2.deviantart.com/

29 - Houke de Kwant

30 - Pedro Marin

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedromarin/

31 - Drew Gilchrist

http://www.attis.ca/

32 - Brian Hollingsworth

33 - Rokas Mezetis

34 - Joakim Olaussen

35 - Francois Leroy

http://www.graphic-travelling.com/

36 - Mácsár Tamás

http://t-motion.deviantart.com/

37 - Ahmad Elabbar

http://www.behance.net/AhmedElabbar

38 - Anton Rhoden

http://cargocollective.com/AntonBuild

39 - Dobák Zsolt

http://cargocollective.com/dobakzsolt

40 - Kalisand

http://www.behance.net/Kalisand

41 - David Rodriguez

http://www.behance.net/lnldreal

42 - Paul Cordero

http://www.xdgraphics.com/

43 - Mohamed Haed Hafez

44 - Stephen Lam

http://down-1.deviantart.com/

45 - Rick Trebel

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64568502@N00/

46 - Adrian Alonso

47 - Tundrea Dennis

48 - Jesus Suarez

49 - Nuriza Saputra

50 - Scott Eckersley

51 - Dustin Kemper

http://www.tenfoldvisual.com/

52 - Zola 85

http://zola85.deviantart.com/

53 - Richard Sabatini

http://richardtherough.deviantart.com/

54 - Simon Cogen

http://zola85.deviantart.com/

Perttu Murto

Thanks to every designer who took part at this contest. You keep us alive.

About the author

Aloa is the moniker of the german/greek graphic designer/filmmaker & musician Alexis Papageorgiou. Im glad to share great artistic work with the readers on Abduzeedo. Contact me on aloa@abduzeedo.com or follow my Twitter and Facebook page

The World Collabs #5 - with Nik Ainley

aloa — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:26:12 +0000

Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.

This is our fifth contest for The World Collabs. Our new cutting edge Abduzeedo collaboration project, which will give you the possibility to collaborate and compete with the worlds leading designers and artists.

What is "The World Collabs"?

"The World Collabs" will give you the possibility to work with PSD files of established artists. TWC gives you a secret in-view in the workflow of the stars and catapults you miles forward in your journey to design heaven. This way you learn to practice with different shapes, backgrounds, patterns brushes and new styles.

Every month we will offer you an unfinished piece of an experienced and accredited graphic designer to the world.

The piece will be unfinished, so you can complete the PSD-file with your very own style. This way every month you can collaborate with the best designers of the world. The final pieces will be judged by the Abduzeedo Team and the artist himself. The three best works will be rewarded with prizes.

Prize

1. $ 200 (send via PayPal), an approval for an original collaboration with the artist and a feature on Abduzeedo
2. $ 100 (send via PayPal)
3. A Single Version of image editing program Pixelmator (worth 59 $)
4. A Depositphotos.com account with $40 Credit
5. A Depositphotos.com account with $40 Credit
6. A Depositphotos.com account with $40 Credit
7. A Depositphotos.com account with $40 Credit
8. A Depositphotos.com account with $40 Credit

Sponsor

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Artist of september: Nik Ainley

Nik Ainley is a UK based illustrator who produces both personal and commissioned work. He rather bizarrely taught himself Photoshop in his spare time while gaining a degree in physics at Imperial College in London. He enjoyed it so much he ditched physics and moved full time into design and illustration.

Nik is constantly trying to further his expertise in digital media, and won't stop until he has mastered all the tools he needs to fully realise his ideas. He uses whatever techniques he can get his hands on to achieve the desired effect and is happiest when learning new ways of creating graphics.

http://Shinybinary.com

Take part at the contest

This is an independent design contest with endless possibilities to finish this piece. There are just three simple steps to take part.

1. Download the PSD-File;
2. Push your creativity beyond boundaries and finish the design;
3. Send the link or the final image to aloa[at]abduzeedo.com

By taking part at this contest you give us permission to use your image for Abduzeedo's showcases.

Remember:

- Last day of submitting is september 25th;
- Don't change size, but feel free to rotate the image;
- Leave the logo, so we recognize it as an entry;
- Every artist can submit 1 design only;
- Let us see that it's a collaboration. We will award you for your ability to work with someone else's design.

Featured Design - September

Download the .PSD file

Close Up

Want to be the next featured artists?

You think you are skilled enough to be the featured artist for the next months TWC. We follow some simple rules, when choosing a new piece.

- You are an energized designer with lot of motivation;
- Your designs have your very unique style;
- You only use files which are completely copyright free;

If you are interested, please write an email to aloa[at]abduzeedo.com

About the author

Interview: Nik Ainley (Shinybinary)

aloa — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:31:55 +0000

Nowerdays you'll find Nik Ainley's work (from Shinybinary) almost everywhere in the internet. He worked for great design inspirations and websites like PSDTUTS, Computer Arts, DigitalArtsOnline and Desktopography, just to name a few.

You can watch his art online on Shinybinary.com

1. First of all we would like to thank you for taking the time to provide abduzeedo.com with this interview. Please tell us more about your art and design background and what made you become an artist and designer?

I fell into doing design really rather than through any formal education or training. I was at university about 5 years ago studying physics and happened to pick up a copy of Photoshop. I loved it and soon found myself using it a lot in my spare time, just teaching myself and seeing what could be done with it. After uni I just kept on producing work and it was around then I decided I wanted to do something creative for a living.

I launched my website, www.shinybinary.com in 2004 as somewhere to showcase my work and the good feedback I got gave me confidence that I could make money from it. I then worked as a web designer for a large company for about two and a half years, always producing my own work in my spare time. Eventually just over a year ago I decided to go freelance and have been working as a designer and illustrator on commission since then. Things seem to be going well so far anyway.

2. Your work is pretty unique and full of creativity. Where does your inspiration come from?

I find inspiration in everything around me. Sometimes it's hard to explain where my ideas come from, I'm just glad they do!

3. Could you describe for us your typical 'start to finish' workflow when working on a design?

This can vary hugely depending on what sort of project it is, whether it's personal or professional etc. If it's a photomanipulation picture for instance I can spend a huge amount of time finding the right photos before I even start in Photoshop. Generally though I start off with a fair amount of experimentation before I decide which direction the picture's going in. From there things settle down a bit as I get more and more of an idea of the look 'm going for, and the work gets a bit more precise and technical. Knowing when an image is done can be one of the hardest things to do. I normally think that if nothing I adds to a picture enhances it then it's done.

4. What are your tools of the trade, both hardware and software?

Hardware wise I use a pc as I prefer their flexibility and speed for price over Macs. I have two, one quad core and one dual core as a backup. The usual stuff inside, a lot of RAM, a lot of big fast hard drives and a good video card. I also use a 30" monitor which has been one of the best investments I've ever made. It would be hard going back to anything much smaller now.

5. What, for you personally are the pros and cons of being a designer?

The pros are all about being able to do something creative you enjoy and get paid for it, noone can ask for much more than that. I think one of the big problems with being a designer is that everyone has their own opinion and is quite happy to tell you it, whether they know nothing about design or not. Convincing people that you might know more and that they hired you for a reason can be quite tough.

6. How does your job as an artist and designer influence your life? Do you feel that you see things around you differently for example?

Totally, I often find myself scrutinisg posters or flyers or all sorts of design to see what tricks have been used. I think when your job is so focussed on visuals it naturally changes the way you look at things. I often spot things that give me ideas for things to use in my artwork, from more obvious things like patterns to quite abstract stuff like colours or a particular type of lighting.

7. What are your favourite 5 websites, and why?

Well I'll ignore the ones I visit most as they are probably the same as most people out there (Google, BBC news, Youtube etc) and go for the less obvious ones.

ComputerLove
I browse a lot of news/blogs to do with design and illustration but this is definitely my favourite. Anything visually cool on the net or in the real world will probably turn up here. I can't remember how many great things I've seen on this site.

Snopes
An urban legend myth-busting site. Always a good read when you want to know the facts and how much crap some people can talk.

The Perry Bible Fellowship
Not updated so much recently but still one of the best web comics out there. Quite quirky, quite dark, all brilliant.

b3ta
Very British humour, edgy is putting it mildly.

At Ease
Being a Radiohead geek I like to follow all the related news, this is the best place for that.

8. Once again , thank you very much for the interview. As a final word, do you have any tips for upcoming artists and designers?

It's been a pleasure. I'm not very good at giving really general tips or advice. One thing I will say is back up your work! Losing stuff due to technical failures is very unpleasant, I know, make sure you backup so it never happens to you.

nik ainley

The World Collabs #5 - Submissions

For this contest Abduzeedo provides you with a Photoshop design from an acknowledged artist you can collab with. For more information about the full contest please visit The World Collabs #5 - with Nik Ainley article.

The starting piece by Nik Ainley

Close Up

The Submissions

01 - Derek Morgan

02 - Aleksi Ahjopalo

03 - Rasmus Holm Sørensen

04 - Dion Rodrigues

05 - Benjamin Wegener

06 - Fehmi Ozdil

07 - Harouth Arthur Mekhjian

08 - David Irlanda

09 - Bruce Davidson

10 - Stefan Niesmann

11 - Andreas Leonidou

12 - Kristian Eres

13 - Jason Butch

14 - Fabian de Lange

15 - Mark K.

16 - Alejandro Rosado Rivial

17 - Leena Parvin

18 - Samora Bennett-Gager

19 - Rolando Lorceh

20 - Mike Love

21 - Mario Lacroix

22 - Leandro L. P. Paciello

23 - Daniel Mate

24 - Simon Cogen

25 - Stefan Hanreich

26 - Cody S

27 - Richard Davies

28 - Emmanuel Umukoro

29 - Houke de Kwant

30 - Pedro Marin

31 - Drew Gilchrist

32 - Brian Hollingsworth

33 - Rokas Mezetis

34 - Joakim Olaussen

35 - Francois Leroy

36 - Mácsár Tamás

37 - Ahmad Elabbar

38 - Anton Rhoden

39 - Dobák Zsolt

40 - Kalisand

41 - David Rodriguez

42 - Paul Cordero

43 - Mohamed Haed Hafez

44 - Stephen Lam

45 - Rick Trebel

46 - Adrian Alonso

47 - Tundrea Dennis

48 - Jesus Suarez

49 - Nuriza Saputra

50 - Scott Eckersley

51 - Dustin Kemper

52 - Zola 85

53 - Richard Sabatini

54 - Simon Cogen

Perttu Murto

About the author

Sponsored Links:

The World Collabs #5 - with Nik Ainley

Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.

What is "The World Collabs"?

Prize

Sponsor

Artist of september: Nik Ainley

Take part at the contest

Remember:

Featured Design - September Download the .PSD file

Close Up

Want to be the next featured artists?

About the author

Sponsored Links:

Interview: Nik Ainley (Shinybinary)

Nowerdays you'll find Nik Ainley's work (from Shinybinary) almost everywhere in the internet. He worked for great design inspirations and websites like PSDTUTS, Computer Arts, DigitalArtsOnline and Desktopography, just to name a few.

1. First of all we would like to thank you for taking the time to provide abduzeedo.com with this interview. Please tell us more about your art and design background and what made you become an artist and designer?

2. Your work is pretty unique and full of creativity. Where does your inspiration come from?

For this contest Abduzeedo provides you with a Photoshop design from an acknowledged artist you can collab with.
For more information about the full contest please visit The World Collabs #5 - with Nik Ainley article.

Featured Design - September

Download the .PSD file