Sunday, May 24, 2015

Wallpaper of the Week - Space Invaders

Wallpaper of the Week - Space Invaders

The wallpaper of this week is a photo I took in Hong Kong of one of the Space Invaders artwork. The exhibition was titled WIPE OUT and there were several amazing pieces from this legendary French artist. Invader is internationally known for his pixelated mosaic “space invaders” which he has placed in over 60 cities around the world for almost 20 years. In January 2014, the artist launched the third wave of his “invasion” in Hong Kong 13 years after he first hit the city.The works showed a significant evolution, displaying characters from local culture and classic cartoons, but still in the artist’s immediately recognisable pixel aesthetic.

I define myself as an ULA, an unidentified living artist. I chose Invader as my pseudonym and I always appear behind a mask. As such, I can visit my own exhibitions without any visitors knowing who I really am even if I stand a few steps away from them. Since 1998, I have developed a large scale project, code name: Space Invaders

For more information visit http://www.space-invaders.com/home/

Abduzeedo's wallpaper of the week - Space Invaders
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Abduzeedo's iPad wallpaper of the week - Space Invaders
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Monday, May 18, 2015

Wallpaper of the Week - Hong Kong

Wallpaper of the Week Hong Kong

The wallpaper of this week is photo that I took from my trip to Hong Kong last weekend. The image was taken at night when it was raining. The shutter speed was set to 5 seconds and the outcome was a very Blade Runner style image. I love the colors of Hong Kong at night and this photo gives you a little glimpse of that.

Abduzeedo's wallpaper of the week Hong Kong
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8 awesome gadgets made with wood

We all love gadgets and the great functionalities that they have brought to our lives. However, most gadgets have a quite cold look-and-feel as they are most of the time made of plastic and metal. In this post we take a look at some cool gadgets that are made of wood and have a more natural look-and-feel.

1. Bamboo Multi-Charging Station, Without Power Strip

This gadget has a room for a laptop, tablet and up to 3 other devices. You can keep all your portable gadgets charged and organized with the Multi-Charging Station. You can get it here.

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2. Wood iPad Cases

These iPad cases were designed to look like a notebook using renewable South Asiatic bamboo cane which is naturally strong to protect an iPad from the daily grind. Get more info here.

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3. Miniot wooden iPad and iPhone cases

Miniot’s cases use the most beautiful wood and the cases are astounding. Get more info here.

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4. Wood keys for the Macbook

This product uses 3M adhesive to attach the keys and it is easily removable and leaves no residue behind. Backlight feature is integrated as well as support for all international languages. Get more info here.

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5. Modo – Modular Desktop Organizer

Modo is a simple and fully customizable solution for your desktop chaos such as iPad, iPhone, pens, clips, chargers etc. for more detail, click here.

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6. Natural sound for your mobile life

This is a compact, powerful Bluetooth sound system with a hand crafted, solid wood cabinet that perfect for iPhone and iPad. Get it here.

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7. Bamboo USB 4 Port Hub

Bamboo USB 4 Port Hub is a polished genuine bamboo hub body, with four USB ports. This USB splitter is a hip way to keep all of your devices connected and charged. For more info click here.

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8. Grass Wood Co.

The Grass Wood Co. is a newly established company specialising in bamboo-based products available for the Macbook Pro, Macboom Pro Retina, Macbook Air (13 inch), iPad 2 and the iPad 3. Get more details here.

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Design deals for the week

Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals.

Vintage Fonts and Shapes Bundle

These 4 Vintage Fonts and Shapes Bundles from graphic designer Agung Gumilang are as different from each other as they are fabulous. This set includes: Lakester Font Family, GRIBA typeface, Authentic Vintage Labels, and Vintage Vector Elements and Textures.

$19 instead of $90 – Get it now!

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Lifetime access to 46+ amazing WordPress themes

This Mighty Deal from Themes Kingdom includes life time access to all current and all future professional WP themes to use on your personal or client sites. All include a responsive design and easy-to-use custom admins to change up the look and feel of your site.

$49 instead of $329 – Get it now!

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Bundle Storm V2: The Bundle of Bundles

Bundle Storm is back with another humungous bundle of awesome content. Introducing Bundle Storm v2. This is one of the biggest bundle for creative professionals, jam packed with icons, textures, fractal images, patterns, characters, stock photos and so much more.

$37 instead of $149 – Get it now!

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8 cool and free typography apps for designers

Yes, you can use your tablet or phone for social media stuff and games, that’s what most people use it for. As design professionals, we should also be aware of all the awesome apps that can help you with our work or passion. Check out the apps before for anything related to typography.

1. Fontest

Want to know how your favorite fonts are rendered on Android? Then get familiar with Fontest. It’s a developer and typography tool with six high quality fonts for free.

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2. FontBrowser

Use FontBrowser app for browsing Unicode fonts and keystrokes. It’s for free and you can search the symbols by type, saving precious minutes if you’re frantically looking for a particular arrow symbol.

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3. Fontroid

Fontroid is a world’s first social font service that creates best handwriting font with people all over the world. Get it here.

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4. PicLab

Make it easy to add typography to your photos with PicLab that offers lots of fonts and full control over size, positioning, opacity, rotation, and color.

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5. Tiff

Compare the fonts with this visually contrast tiff app. This app will let you know how the letters look in different typefaces.

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6. Paper by FiftyThree

With the slogan of “Ideas begin on paper”, this app offers a tactile experience via a bunch of bolt-on modules for sketching and coloring, which are useful for getting down font-design notes and ideas. Get this app here.

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7. Quark DesignPad

Quark DesignPad app enables to rapidly wireframe grid-based designs. It’s a necessary tool for people who deal with typefaces and fonts on a daily basis. Get this app here.

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8. WhatTheFont

If you are surfing the internet and found some amazing font on certain website, but do not know which font is it exactly then WhatTheFont is an app for you. You can simply take a picture, upload it and the app does the rest.

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Sunday, May 10, 2015

Wallpaper of the Week by Ink Studio

Wallpaper of the Week by Ink Studio

The wallpaper of this week is the beautiful image created by Ink studio. That's their yearly paper design project an in 2015 they were inspired by nature for their project. As we can see the result is quite beautiful.

Abduzeedo's wallpaper of the week by Ink Studio
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Abduzeedo's iPad wallpaper of the week by Ink Studio
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Abduzeedo's iPhone wallpaper of the week by Ink Studio
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Sunday, May 3, 2015

Wallpaper of the Week by ABDZ

Wallpaper of the Week by ABDZ

The wallpaper of this week is the image I created last weekend for the tutorial of the week. The tutorial was titled Playing with Lines in Photoshop and Illustrator and you can check it out at http://abduzeedo.com/playing-lines-photoshop-and-illustrator. The work was inspired by similar projects I saw on Pinterest and Behance. The idea was just to learn how to achieve the same effect..

Abduzeedo's wallpaper of the week by ABDZ
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Abduzeedo's iPad wallpaper of the week by ABDZ
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Tired of Lorem Ipsum? Here are some cooler alternatives

Using Lorem Ipsum has become so common for graphic and web designers that the word itself is now synonymous with filler text. It is used to fill in text that is not yet available in order to get a better graphic presentation in mockups.

The text itself is a classic from Latin litterature that most designers don’t understand anyway. It is rather boring and can easily be replaced with something that makes more sense in context, or just with more entertaining text. Here are a few alternatives to Lorem Ipsum.

1. Fillerati

Fillerati is one of my personal favorite. With a good presentation, the website offers the possibility to choose texts from the classics. You start with your text, choose some simple markup and the length you need. Simple, but effective.

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2. Fillerama

Fillerama works a bit the same, with a live preview of your text. Choose whether you want headers or not, how many paragraphs you want, and you are all set.

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3. Blind text generator

A more general fake text generator that also includes Lorem Ipsum, but not only. You can choose between several texts in Latin or other languages. Choose your amount of words or signs needed, then generate. Too easy.

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4. Beer Ipsum

The is the fake text generator that you shouldn’t use before you drive. Beer Ipsum lets you generate some Lorem Ipsum text with the amount of paragraphs you want, but add some beer flavor to it.

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5. Samuel L. Ipsum

The generator with the best design and the coolest idea, but also some NSFW language, as you could have guessed from the name and the person involved. Make your fake text looks like it comes out of a motherf***ing movie now.

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And there is more…

The Internet being what it is, there are still dozens more of fake text generators available freely. I will not list them all here as it would be pointless, but you can easily find other with a quick search.

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10 cool office gadgets for the well-organized designer

Productivity specialist like to say that a clear desk reflects a clear mind, thus it will make you more productive. I tend to agree with them, but keeping your desk organized is not as easy as it seems. You need the right tools for the job, and as a designer you will probably want some good looking gadgets, which is exactly what I share in this post.

1. The mark brothers

Every time you need to unplug your desktop computer, or pretty much anything in a maze of cables, you think that you should get one of these. The mark brothers will hang on your cable and tell you what it’s connected to when you need it most.

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2. Keyboard pirates

We already know that the word “pirate” can be used to talk about someone who shares files online. Now it can also be used for these little guys who cheer you up and remind you things around your computer.

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3. Grid-it

A very cool and well-designed case to organize your gadgets and carry them around. Much needed by all people with too many gadgets, which means pretty much anyone nowadays.

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4. Business cards filing cabinet

This is for the freelancers who didn’t forget to do their networking homework and end up with tons of business cards that they don’t know how to store. I just pile up business cards, so this may very well be for me.

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5. Wall garden organizer

Perfect to keep an open desk and still stay organized. These wall gardens will also add a touch of green to your working environment, which is always nice.

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6. USB flower hub

Give your USB hubs a Dutch look-and-feel with these cute tulips that will power your gadgets.

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7. Space bar

If it wasn’t so expensive ($100), I would already own one of these space bars. The way it helps you to stay organized just matches my way of ordering things.

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8. Helicopter Mechanical Paperweight

German designer Hervé Houplain’s Desktop Helicopter features four different colored ballpoint pens (black, red, blue, orange) disguised as the rotor, and a magnetic cockpit for collecting paper clips (five starter paper clips included).

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9. Modo

This is the ultimate desktop organizing accessory. It combines several storing capabilities for all the little annoying things that tend to sit randomly on people’s desk: cables, notes, pens,…

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10. SOTO II Mobile Caddy

Last in this list, this mobile caddy is probably what I need the most. Every time I take my notebook to the office, I get the bag in my feet, no matter how well I put it.

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