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Facet - Daily Image project by Justin Maller
Our friend Justin Maller started a really cool project this year, it's called Facet and it's quite a challenge because it's a daily image project. Justin will create a piece a day for 365 days. He has put together 25 already and as you can see in this post, they are simply awesome. FACET was born out of a desire to just play and experiment as I did when I first started making art. Over the decade plus I've been creating work, I had evolved to a place where I was obsessed with refining my pieces, pouring more and more hours in to them, tweaking and picking and murdering any chance of having any fun. I missed simply making something, enjoying the process and then releasing the result in to the world without losing my mind trying to perfect it. I made the first few with no real end game in sight, just for pleasure. I began to think I could create an exhibitions worth of material when my girlfriend Ting challenged me to make it a daily project for a full year. Perhaps unwisely, I accepted, and thus the quest for 365 began... For more information visit: http://facet.la/
Run Your Jewels: Round 2 Submissions
RunYourJewels is a very fun digital media remix competition where every two weeks, a different artist (provider) uploads a high resolution of an original piece. Everyone can download the source, then one week to remix and submit. Afterwards voting opens and the best wins! Curated by design collective Depthcore Founder Justin Maller, RunYourJewels surely is a design challenge and also amazing opportunity to learn from the masters! For the Round 2 of remixes, RunYourJewels is collaborating with Orlando based designer known Joshua M. Smith aka Hydro74. Here are some of the submissions and to learn more about Hydro74, check out his website at Hydro74.com. To know more about Run Your Jewels, check out their website at RunYourJewels.com, follow them on Twitter @runyourjewels and follow the man behind RunYourJewels as well @justinmaller. Submitted by Andrew Abello Submitted by Brian Tafoya Submitted by Devine Lu Linvega Submitted by Fernando Lacerda Submitted by Francisco J. Millan Submitted by Igor Scekic Submitted by James Butler Submitted by James Zwadlo Submitted by Joey Camacho Submitted by Matthew Benkert Submitted by Nicolas Monin-Baroille Submitted by Richard Davies Submitted by Robin K Nilsen
The World Collabs #7 - with Justin Maller
This is our seventh 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 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 DepositPhotos.com is your #1 resource for buying and selling Royalty-free photographs and vector images. Our vast library of imagestock coupled with our wide variety of flexible purchase options makes us the most convenient and profitable tool for designers, artists and photographers. Artist of November: Justin Maller Justin Maller is a freelance illustrator and art director based in Melbourne, Australia. He has been creating digital art for over eight years, and has produced professionally in both a private and studio based capacity for the last three. Justin has had the pleasure of producing illustrations and concept art for a diverse array of companies and publications worldwide, and enjoys a cordial collaborative relationship with several prestigious international design studios. Work aside, he is an inner core member of the Keystone Design Union, an avid sneaker collector, occassional tweeter, and a mild force of nature on the basketball court. Justin is also the Creative Director of The Depthcore Collective, an international modern art collective established in June 2002. http://www.justinmaller.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 Sunday, November 28th; - 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 - November 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
Inspiration: Superlover Updated Portfolio
We've already posted some articles about Justin Maller, but it's never too much, specially when he has just updated his online portfolio, Superlover.com.au with some crazy cool images. If you don't know him yet, Justin is a free lancer illustrator and art director based in Melbourne Australia. He's also the creative director of depthCORE. Justin has had the pleasure of producing illustrations and concept art for a diverse array of companies and publications worldwide, and enjoys a cordial collaborative relationship with several prestigious international design studios. He is an inner core member of the Keystone Design Union, an avid sneaker collector, a savvy blogger, occassional tweeter, and a mild force of nature on the basketball court. Justin is also the Creative Director of depthCORE, an international modern art collective established in June 2002. This role sees him direct and interact with many of the worlds most talented and prodigious young artists, musicians and designers as they illustrate and orchestrate the thoughts, hope and dreams of all corners of the globe. Without further ado take a look at some of Justin Maller's new artworks:
Inspiration: Justin M. Maller
Justin Maller has just released his new portfolio at superlover.com.au/ with some very really cool designs. Justin is a member of the The KDU and DepthCore collectives and he was the first designer we interviewed on Abduzeedo. Also he featured our 10 Photoshop Masters article. I believe it’s not necessary to say anything else. Justin Maller is a freelance graphic artist based in Melbourne, Australia. He has been creating digital art for over seven years, and has been producing professionally for the last 24 months. In July 2007 he released his first Solo Exhibition, which opened to a warm reception in Windsor, Australia. Justing is also the Creative Director of depthCORE, a world renowned international digital art collective established in june 2002. Below we list some of his designs. For more information visit his website at http://superlover.com.au/ ,