January 07, 2009 abduzeedo's blog

Design Trends for 2009 - Follow or Not Follow

Every new year we get to see articles reviewing the year that has gone and predictions for the one that

Featured Tutorial

Big Up Cover Illustration by Saad Moosajee
Big Up Cover Illustration by Saad Moosajee
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

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week #145 by David Mascha
Wallpaper of the Week #145 by David Mascha
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by David Mascha, a designer and digital artist from Vienna, Austria. David work as freelancer primarily in the fields of art, illustration, fashin, interior design and advertising for clients such as IBM, Hennessy, K2 Snowboards and The New York Times. For more information about David Mascha visit his Web site at http://www.davidmascha.com/ Desktop Version

Book Suggestion

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