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Shapes & Pattern Photography

paul0v2 — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:58:28 +0000

These Shapes & Pattern photo selection was taken by one of my favorite photographers of all time Philipp Klinger. He has traveled the globe and taken the most beautiful photos one has ever seen but on this selection I picked a different side of his photos, the geometric and repetitive shapes that you will see.

For more from Philipp Klinger visit klinger-photography.com

About the author

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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Incredible Work of Charis Tsevis

Daniela — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:18:44 +0000

Charis Tsevis is a graphic design from Athens, Greece. His work has a lot of influence from the Gestal Psicology, which he studied in College. His work is full of mosaics, portraits and images formed by thousands of tiny little photos of objects. Sometimes it reminds a bit of pixel art, simply awesome.

My name is Charis Tsevis and I am a visual designer, living and working at Athens, Greece. I run my own studio under the name “Tsevis Visual Design” with my beloved wife Eva and our colleagues both for domestic or foreign projects. Since April 1st, 2008 I am working for Adobe Systems. I am the Channel Manager for the Mediterranean region. This is real fun as Adobe occupies the center of the creative software industry.

What we do mostly is providing our creative services at the publishing and editorial industry and at the same time, we enjoy being active in illustration and multimedia. I could say that we are specializing in book and brochure design. My wife and me both love fiction and non-fiction and that giving us the ability to successfully meet the needs of our clients, trying to deliver the best we can to support any product or service of them.

Below you can see some examples of Charis' work, but we, as usual, highly recommend that you check out his Flickr Charis Tsevis or at http://www.tsevis.com/

About the author

My name is Daniela Zatti, I'm a graphic and product designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil . I Love art, music and colors, currently working with surface design for products. You can contact me at danielazt@yahoo.com or follow me on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/danielaz

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Rad Pattern in Illustrator that Makes you Dizzy

abduzeedo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:44:30 +0000

Yesterday I was checking a book I have about skateboard decks design called New Skateboard Graphics. It's a super cool book and we have even given a copy away here on Abduzeedo. So while I was flipping through the pages I found this beautiful design that was a crazy pattern. It was a deck from Element, and I decided to try to do that in Illustrator.

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a rad pattern in Illustrator that will definitely make you dizzy. We will use basic tools such as Rectangle Tool, Ellipse Tool and the Blend Tool.

Step 1

Open Illustrator and with the Ellipse Tool (L) create a circle. Use black for the Stroke.

Step 2

With the Direct Selection Tool (A) select and delete 3 segments of the circle, leave just the bottom right one.

Step 3

Duplicate the segment and the rotate it. Use the image below for reference. With the Direct Selection Tool (A) select the 2 vertices and then click on Connect Selected End Points. Choose Corner for the the Join Points option.

Step 4

Duplicate the object and bring it down a little bit. With the Direct Selection Tool (A) connect the points to create an object. Use the image below for reference.

Step 5

Again with the Direct Selection Tool (A) move the points in the middle of the object. The idea is to make the area of the object a bit thicker.

Step 6

Fill the object with black and remove the stroke. After that duplicate and flip the object horizontally. Position them like in the image below.

Step 7

Duplicate a few times and group them. Then duplicate the group and move it down at the bottom of the page. With the Blend Tool (B) select the first group and then click on the group at the bottom. Double click on the Blend Tool (B) icon to open the Blend Options. Change the Spacing to Specified Steps to 55. You will have the texture done.

Step 8

Create a new document, use 1920x1200 pixels. With the Rectangle Tool (M) create a rectangle and fill it with #394A5F.

Step 9

Copy the Blend objects from the other document and paste in this one. Duplicate it untill you feel the whole screen with the texture. Also fill them with white.

Step 10

Select the Blend objects and go to Objects>Expand. Then with the Direct Selection Tool (A) select some elements and delete them. Use the image below for reference

Step 11

Select all objects except the blue background and to to Effect>Stylize>Drop Shadow... Use Color Burn for the Mode, 40% Opacity, 0 for X Offset, 1px for the Y Offset, 2px for the Blur and Black for the Color.

Step 12

Place an old paper texture in your document. The one used is courtesy of Shutterstock and you can download it here. After that change the Transparency to Multiply.

Conclusion

Using basic tools in Illustrator and an old paper texture we can create very nice patterns with that vintage feel, in this case we have even created a crazy optical illusion. This tutorial as I said was inspired by skateboard deck design from the Element team and It's great to practice with Illustrator.

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Download the AI file

Click here to download the Illustrator file used for this tutorial

About the author

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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24 Masters of Modern Patterns Design

abduzeedo — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:51:57 +0000

I'm a fan of patterns and textures applied to graphic design, and it's a trend that is becoming quite popular in web design. The coolest thing is that patterns give a very unique style to your design, sometimes sort of crazy, sometimes very elegant and classic. Because of that, as I was looking for refrences for a design project I'm working on, Ie've selected 24 super talented pattern designers with incredible examples.

Stacey Marsh

MASA

Igor Duibanov

Alex Trochut

Jared Nickerson

Jonathan Calugi

Filter017

Kate McInnes

VanilaBCN

Kale Hagman

Nadia Flower

Tatiana Plakhova

Ralph Karam

Alan The Gallant

Zhishi

Stig Tafto

Mat Gigliotti

Brian Reddy

Kristina Collantes

Philippe Intraligi

Slimaq

lenancker Romain

Sophie Henson

Steven Harrington

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"Wandering Off Into Space" by Chuck Anderson Book Giveaway

aloa — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:54:19 +0000

Freelance artist and designer Chuck Anderson just released his new book "Wandering Off Into Space". He is giving away one hand-signed copy of this tome just for Abduzeedo.

Chuck Anderson from NoPattern recently released his second book "Wandering Off Into Space". It contains 64 pages of his finest illustrations and designs made between 2005 and 2008. You can get the book for just 25 dollars in the NoPatternStore.

For those who can't affort to buy it there is a chance to win one copy of it here on Abduzeedo.
How? Just leave a comment on why you need this book. The most creative comment will get the book. The winner will be notified in one week. You have to be an Abduzeedo-member to take part at the giveaway.

www.NoPattern.com

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

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Pattern Inspiration: Daniele De Nigris

Daniela — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:00:06 +0000

I really like patterns and I use them a lot in my designs, that's why I want to share with you some very cool images from Daniele De Nigris. An italian designer that has a very cool style, reminds another great artist Andy Gilmore.

His latest works are the ones I like the most, the repetition of symbols and different colors gives an incredible depth to the the patterns. Take a look at some of his designs below and visit his Flickr page at http://flickr.com/photos/denigrisdaniele/

Some Works

For more information visit his website at http://flickr.com/photos/denigrisdaniele//

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30 Color and Pattern Inspiration Bikinis

PauloGabriel — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:12:44 +0000

I'm sorry to the all the people on the north hemisphere, but downhere is summer time, baby. And it's time to get some inspiration from sweet bikini models.

(Focusing...) Ok, so... ahn... i was talking about inspiration, yes! There are great bikini designers here, and as most of you must know, Brazil is a major bikini exporter. We got it all. So, guys, get inspired! I know i did. (And I'm pretty sure no one will read any of these lines i wrote.)

Color

Flowers

Futuristic

Geometric

Patchwork

Stripes

To check more bikinis (and I know you all will), visit these sites:
http://www.seille.com.br/
http://www.marrio.com.br/
http://www.pokopano.com.br/

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About the author

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.