graphic design

Book Suggestion: New Skateboard Graphics

abduzeedo — Thu, 24 May 2012 04:45:22 +0000

Inspiration is everywhere, I believe everyone knows that but each one of us has some preferences or things that inspire more than others, in my case it's skateboard graphics. That's why the book suggestion of this week is about Skateboard Graphics. It's called New Skateboard Graphics. If you remember we ran a giveaway of this book 3 years ago, but I was checking it out again and had to add to our book suggestion list.

Skateboarding grew from a Southern California hobby born out of surfing to a nationwide trend, which developed into a visual style. While the bottoms of skateboards have always been adorned with graphics, back then only a handful of skateboard manufacturers existed. Today, vast amounts of visuals are created for skateboards, with more than 40 major brands in the market. Because of how the sport has grown, however, many of these graphics are used for only a season, and then are forgotten about - until now. From spreads of full-board designs to detailed crops of patterns and graphics, Skateboard Graphics features the best, most innovative work going on today. Interviews with designers and creators of major brands, like Joe Castrucci of Habitat and Jamie Thomas of Zero, will help elucidate this colorful phenomenon.

Also, I got a copy of the book New Skateboard Graphics book from Mark Batty Publisher to give away. To participate, just leave a comment. We will announce the winners next week.

Images from the book

Inside the Book

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Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. You can get in follow us via Twitter at @abduzeedo

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Big Up Cover Illustration by Saad Moosajee

abduzeedo — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:50:07 +0000

Monday is our tutorial day. We try to post tutorials every Monday showing how to create some nice effects or compositions we like. Today is not different, but instead of a tutorial we have a really nice case study by Saad Moosajee. It is an image created for the cover of the Big Up magazine.

Saad is a great contributor to the blog, always sharing beautiful wallpaper with us. Now we will be able to see how he created the beautiful Big Up Cover Magazine

Big Up Cover Magazine

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Details

For more information visit http://saadart.com/

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Stylish Work of Minetto

abduzeedo — Tue, 08 May 2012 04:34:14 +0000

Éder Minetto is a designer and illustrator from Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is graduated in Design and Artistic Design, was a founding partner of Alice Studio and had already worked for Caixa Econômica Federal Bank, HSBC Institute in partnership with Camiseteria, for Toddy, Petrobras, Sorria Magazine, Runners Magazine, Época Magazine, among others. This year he started a new project: Minetto.cc - developing design and illustration projects.

For more information visit http://minetto.cc/

Poster Minetto.cc

Época Negócios Magazine

Poster Coderockr 2012

My New Jacket

Poster Coderockr 2011

Wallpa Project

Ugly project

Roof Top

Shine on You Crazy Diamond

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Slashthree: Fairy Tales Exhibit

abduzeedo — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:37:17 +0000

In an attempt to recreate the nostalgic memories of childhood, the Slashthree collective selected ‘Fairy Tales’ as the theme of its eighteenth exhibition. The project invited our artistic core to recreate the magic they felt as children when they were whisked off to a land far, far away. Each piece of art in this exhibition is a unique, beautiful interpretation of fairy tales from both popular culture or the contributing artist’s own culture, all of which have come together to create one of our finest exhibitions to date.

Since becoming a member of the Slashthree artist core in October 2010, Rob Shields has been a pillar of consistency both in creating artwork for our exhibitions as well as lending his voice and opinions behind the scenes. Rob saw Fairy Tales as opportunity to push his own artistic limits, producing two of the finest submissions to the exhibition. ‘Fairy Tales’ serves as a landmark in creativity and quality for the Rob and the Slashthree collective.

Some Images

For more images and information visit http://www.slashthree.com/exhibitions/18/

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Jeff Huang's New Work

abduzeedo — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:40:29 +0000

One of our missions at Abduzeedo is to help designers and digital artists to promote their work. That's the reason we are always featuring updated portfolios like the one that we will featured today from Jeff Huang.

Jeff Huang is a multidisciplinary freelance Art Director and Illustrator based in New York who specializes in Creative Design, Abstract Art, Photo Editing, and 3D. He has been creating digital art professionally for more than 7 years now and has produced work for many companies and publications worldwide. He is a proud senior member of international art collective and second home, Depthcore.

Known for his imagination, uncanny eye for detail, patience, and precision in skill & technique, he has a natural ability to develop a good relationship with his clients and other creatives. Jeff always lends his expertise, and loves to get involved in the creative process in order to improve and optimize a project.

In his spare time, Jeff enjoys spending time with his loved ones, shopping, and playing video games.

For more information visit http://www.thefifthorder.net/

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The Eclectic Work of Mike Harrison

abduzeedo — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:41:42 +0000

Mike Harrison is a self-taught, multi-disciplinary freelance art director, designer and illustrator, currently based in London. Through the years of crafting himself and his career he has experimented with almost every style and discipline in the book and still continue to try new techniques and mediums on a regular basis.

He has built up a vast set of skills ranging from graphic design, illustration and typography to motion graphics, 3d, photography and web design. He believes that we are constantly learning, and that his portfolio shows his eclectic mix of mediums, styles and aesthetics.

All That's Left II

NewPage

Hot Pursuit

Time is a great healer

Sink

Veer: Creative Catalyst

Veer: Creative Catalyst Timelapse from Mike Harrison on Vimeo.

Every 2nd Counts

College of Charleston

For more information visit: http://destill.net/

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The London West End Show by Radim Malinic

AoiroStudio — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:55:12 +0000

The West End Show' is an innovative gallery exhibition by Radim Malinic, a leading London graphic designer and illustrator. Malinic explores the magical and bustling part of the capital in a series of elaborately illustrated poster designs, bringing together classic old century design with the dazzling neon future of the 22nd century.

'I wanted to do something that was different, conceptual and intriguing - it’s a place that’s been very inspiring for me. It’s the heritage - the narrow streets, the buildings, the glitz and glamour. It’s got a heartbeat’, explains Malinic. He adds, ‘Once you look behind the history it’s got an enormous amount of legacy. People now take the area for its face value, it's a place to go shopping and getting annoyed by huge crowds at Leicester Square' explains Malinic.

Through a combination of bold typography, illustration and poetry, each piece tells the delicate story of classic design over-shadowed by the limitless offerings of this exciting city.
Malinic interprets his love for London by exploring the true characters of the real life musical that is London's West End. 'The West End Show' offers an inspiring touch of nostalgia for the frenetic capital resident.

The show, cleverly titled West End show, presents ten posters, each dedicated to one West End area, such as Soho, Covent Garden and Fitzrovia. The ornate, bold designs capture the vibrancy of the area, with a healthy smattering of the gaudy neon and glittering lights that festoon its streets.

The show is now open to public at Nancy Victor Gallery, London until March 2. Online store with limited edition prints and merchandise opens on March 3

For more information about 'The West End Show', you can visit theWestEndShow.co.uk , also have a look at Radim Malinic's work at BrandNu.co.uk and follow him on Twitter @brand_nu .

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My name's François Hoang and my alias's Aoiro Studio. I am a self-taught freelance graphic designer from Montreal, Canada. I've been designing for the last 4 years and really have a huge passion for creative work that makes a difference in our world. If you wanna requests some posts; I can be found on Twitter or feel free to contact me.

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La Bastilla Visual Identity by David Espinosa

abduzeedo — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:53:00 +0000

We all love beautiful visual identity work and it is our goal, here at Abduzeedo, to promote inspiring work every time we come across with that. La Bastilla is one of those, it's a great design work by David Espinosa from Bucaramanga, Colombia

For more information visit David's Web site at http://www.davidespinosa.co/

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Visual Identity

Applications

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Nike Laces by Hugo Silva

abduzeedo — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:11:47 +0000

We always say that personal projects is the best way to learn and do what we love. We do that all the time with Abduzeedo in our tutorials and wallpapers and we always admire other designers that do that too. That's the case of Hugo Silva and the brilliant Nike Laces.

Hugo Silva is a graphic designer and illustrator from Lisbon. He works in the design industry for over 4 years focusing on identity, corporate, editorial, packaging and illustration. Hugo has a BA Graphic Design and a Master Design Visual Culture at IADE-Creative University.

Nike Laces is a very smart idea of creating the nike logo with shoe laces. Check it out.

Idea

Final Results

For more information visit Hugo's Web site at http://www.behance.net/yhello

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Insurance Map Cover Remake by Fake Studio

abduzeedo — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:02:47 +0000

Fake Studio worked with a few old maps covers made by The Sanborn Maps Co. edited at the beginning of the twelve century. They found those maps and fell in love with those type compositions so they decided to remake one of this old covers using 3D modern technics.

Fake Studio is a design, illustration and motion graphics production company, located in Barcelona, Spain. Check out more of their work on http://www.fakestudio.tv

Original Composition

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Final Composition

Detail

For more information visit http://www.fakestudio.tv/fake/

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Incredible Typographic Works by Peter Tarka

AoiroStudio — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:15:24 +0000

Peter Tarka is a young graphic designer and illustrator from Wroclaw in Poland. For being in graphic design since 2008, Peter sure knows how to deliver a strong creative typographic works. It's really impressive and I am inspired by this versatility with the different composition of typography and colours.

For more information about Peter Tarka, you can visit his CargoCollective , Behance or simply follow him on Twitter @PiotrTarka.

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New Works of Ginger Monkey

AoiroStudio — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:58:58 +0000

Tom Lane is the man behind Ginger Monkey, currently living in Bristol, UK. Tom has worked with big brands such as Sony Ericsson, Mercedes-Benz, Coca-Cola, BMW, Miller, Computer Arts and more. This is the showcase of his most recent work from his website.

For more information on Tom Lane (Ginger Monkey), check out more of this work on GingerMonkeyDesign.com or follow him on Twitter @GingerMonkey_TL.

I've been chasing the sense of achievement that comes from putting an idea down, seeing it grow, take shape, and have it exist 'out there'. I'm one of those lucky people that make a living doing what they love.

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Illustrative and Surreal Work of Takeshi

abduzeedo — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:27:43 +0000

Emeric Trahand also known as Takeshi is a New York based art director and artist from Saint Etienne, France. Emeric's illustrative work is renowned for its surreal feel, the quality of its photomontages as well as the light treatments and colourful compositions. We also have already feature one of his works for our Wallpaper of the Week.

Although Emeric has had a rather short career, beginning as a freelance illustrator in 2006 in France, he has already been commissioned by a diverse array of major international clients: Ubi Soft, Emi Music, TBWA Helsinki, Adidas, Cacharel, Grimbergen, Toyota, Swatch, Chase Bank, Bank of America, ASICS, Subway, Aquafresh, Lays, Radio Shack, Spike TV, VH1, Asher Roth, the Cool Kids, Cuervo, GrandPrix de Montreal, English National Opera, Société Générale, Maaf Insurance, Groupama Insurance, Ventury Paris, Cacharel, and Sony BMG.

Decembre

Cream

Pigeon

Promotion material for the band

G-SHOCK vs Takeshi

Blind - Depthcore

Cita

NOIR

For more information about Emeric, visit his Web site at http://cargocollective.com/stillontherun

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The Greatest Brandversations

paul0v2 — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:21:49 +0000

This is a project created by Stefan Asafti, a designer from Romania and it's a project is about brands - the great brands of the modern world - which have build quite a history for themselves as the years went by. The branderversations is the creation of each logo using their rival logo. What? I know, check out the post and you will understand and appreciate it better.

There have always existed disputes among the competing parties, divergent opinions, while the fans of each brand were convinced that theirs was the best product. Last, but not least, the rivals have even conducted ad campaigns against the competing brands. This project mostly approaches the visual "conversations" between the company logos and the ways that they influence each other, hence the name of the project, Brandversations. It is a parallel between the modern and the old, some of the slogans dating back to the 40s and 50s.

I have switched the slogans of the brands amongst themselves, the goal of this being to give them further meaning and to create a sort of a confusion. It is surprising how logos can influence other logos. The truth is that each pair of rivals has something in common, that something which has helped them to build one identity upon the other, this way becoming the biggest brands.

Completing this project has taken a lot of time and a lot of patience on my part. Each little bit of the final image has been moved and resized manually in order to maintain a correct and balanced composition and layout of the elements.

For more from Stefan Asafti, go to behance.net/stefanasafti

Pepsi vs Coca Cola

Apple vs Microsoft

McDonald's vs Burger King

Nikon vs Canon

Firefox vs Internet Explorer

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Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 26 year old web designer - paulocanabarro.com I'm from Brazil currently living and working out of Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds, finding and sharing inspiration here has become part of my life. If you like to know more about me or get in touch visit my website paulocanabarro.com Stock me at Twitter and Dribbble

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Corporate and Brand Identity: Taiama by Roger Oddone

abduzeedo — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:42:12 +0000

Corporate and brand identity is much more than just graphics, it's all about the strategy and image a company wants to express to their audience. Creating this type of work requires knowledge on an array of design subjects including, color theory, typography, form and materials. For this post I would like to feature the work of a great friend of mine, Roger Oddone. It's the brand identity for a business called Taiama.

Roger says that Taiama is the name of a bird that flies low over the water surface with the lower part of the beak skimming the water foraging for fish.

The shapes and colors of the bird served as inspiration for the stylized symbol of Taiama.

The typeface was based on circular forms that follow the same visual language of the symbol.

About Roger Oddone

Roger is a branding and graphic design based in San Francisco, California. He is Senior Graphic Designer at Google in Mountain View. His work has been featured in magazines around the world and also he is one of the top Behance users in Branding. For more information about Roger visit his Web site at http://www.rogeroddone.com.br/