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• Daily Inspiration #765
• Artwork Feature #5: Alexander Otto - Solstice
• Typography Mania #70
• The Chapman Graduate School of Business
• The Colorful and Expressive Art of Gianluca Mattia
• Beautiful Illustrations by Charlie Bowater

Daily Inspiration #765 Posted: 09 Mar 2011 12:58 PM PST This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use "Daily Inspiration" in the subject, and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If possible use the HTML code: <p class="imgC"><a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a></p> Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com ABBAN Adam al b sure Anderson Tomazi andimal AoiroStudio Montreal Meets Recap 2011 from Montreal Meets on Vimeo. Best Bookmarks Coolvibe Dennis Henrique Eugene Kim Fabiano Fabio Fase3 Feature Me fksd Gisele HdK Jean-Maurice Damour Jonathan Rober Willis Meng To Newyorkiz seneca Tukoria Via Twitter Send your suggestions via Twitter to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo using #abdz in the end of the tweet. @mariesturges @daniel_nelson @fechnerk @ceciliow About the author Someone with a bachelor degree in Foreign Trade that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. A person 'digging' a new way as a 'geek apprentice', blogger 'wanna be' and a communication lover! Current location: Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil Twitter user: gismullr Sponsored Links:

Artwork Feature #5: Alexander Otto - Solstice Posted: 09 Mar 2011 10:31 AM PST This is part of our new series of posts. Here we feature a selected piece of art and have a little chat with the designer who made it. They give us a bit of background information and details about how the work was conceptualized and created. This week's pick is from german graphic designer Alexander Otto, better known under his moniker "Diftnorm". Mr. Otto sat down exclusively for Abduzeedo and wrote about the background of the image exclusively. Enjoy. Solstice About Solstice This issue was curated by KDU partner, Josh Vanover, KDU Core member, Victor Antonio and KDU Founder, David Gensler. Containing over one hundred original images, it represents our continuing effort to crate the future while resisting the Digital Haze and Hype. Alexander Otto about his "Solstice": After I've gotten the briefing from Josh Vanover and Victor Antonio my mind was blown away. The final magazine contains over one hundred original images produced by top KDU members. So was I pretty aware that my illustration needs to fit into the style of the old issues of Solstice - Also I wanted to develope a new rough dark style and show a range of good quality technical skills in my piece. I've put together some images to visualise the process of the illustration. First I've started with a black hi-res PSB and begun to create the background. I like to play with textures and stocks in the very early beginnig and try to make a nice composition with them - have a look at the only background version for what I was up. Afterwards I started to add more colors and begun with the dark mountain which contains the KDU Logo and a big box on the top. I developed the look with the help of a few stocks and matte painting technics. I than concentrated more on the foreground, I was sure I would need something that matches more the concept and the composition itselfs. I used different stocks and textures to create than the painfull looking girl in the front. In the end I am always going to add tons of adjustment layers, overwork and add details to the main parts on the illustration - in my mind the best part in the process of creating an illustration - and add some more textures. Visit his website at http://www.diftnorm.com/ Details 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 Sponsored Links:

Typography Mania #70 Posted: 09 Mar 2011 06:57 AM PST Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs. <!--break--> Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania Make sure to click on each image to go to original location where you can check out more work from each artist and designer. Submit your Typography work From now on you can submit your typography mania piece by adding your image to Abduzeedo's Flickr Group and use the tag Typography. I will search through and handpick the best pieces every week. Images Submited by Millionaire Hobo Submited by David Tribby Photography Submited by Andreas Leonidou Submited by octaviopv Submited by devgupta86 Submited by Nathan Godding Submited by Bleuruby-7 Submited by pedroarilla Submited by tombrierley Submited by charlotteandfriends Submited by Giampaolo Miraglia Submited by Andreas Leonidou Submited by feedmerobotfood Submited by SmoothSqu4d Submited by heymeca Submited by 55His Submited by Hannes Beer Submited by The Tizzz Submited by ?ri Balázs About the author Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 25 year old web designer from Brazil currently living in Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds. Finding and sharing inspiration has become part of my life. If you have any suggestions or requests just get @ me - pvpcanabarro@gmail.com For some cool stuff make sure to Follow me on twitter! Sponsored Links:

The Chapman Graduate School of Business Posted: 09 Mar 2011 03:41 AM PST This building at the University of Florida was created for the Chapman Graduate School of Business, is a multi-use project which includes faculty, offices, auditoriums, conference rooms and also two large courtyards open to the integration of students. <!--break--> Project by KPF Architects, the identity of the Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Graduate School of Business at Florida International University in Miami merges a strong link to the Americas with the image and actuality of a modern facility. The low-rise, courtyard design opens toward the existing Business Administration building with a strong diagonal pathway that allows east-west breezes to filter through the new complex. © H.G. Esch © H.G. Esch © H.G. Esch © H.G. Esch © Claudia Uribe © Claudia Uribe © Claudia Uribe Oriented to optimize and capture the prevailing winds from the west, the buildings are sliced at their corners to temper and ventilate the landscaped interior courtyards. In conjunction with water basins and dense plantings, the breezeways ensure that the courtyards are comfortable, even during the hottest hours of the day. By night, the open corners reveal the illuminated courtyards to the surrounding campus, creating a welcoming and dynamic environment for the many students who attend evening classes at the school. © H.G. Esch © Claudia Uribe © H.G. Esch © Claudia Uribe © H.G. Esch © H.G. Esch © H.G. Esch © H.G. Esch About the author I'm from Brazil, co-founder of Zee with Fabio. Nowadays I like to play with Fireworks, Photoshop and improve my skills in CSS. If you wanna request some posts, please feel free to contact me or follow on Twitter. Sponsored Links:

The Colorful and Expressive Art of Gianluca Mattia Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:30 AM PST I know we already said this many times, but it's important to repeat that is really nice to receive emails from readers and artists suggesting things for us to write about. When I opened the link to Gianluca's website I got instantly impressed by the colors and style I saw. He sent us an email suggesting a couple images to our Daily Inspiration series, but his characters are so stunning that we decided to write a complete article about his work. Gianluca Mattia has a really cool style, full of colors, beauty and personality. His characters are vivid, erotic, surreal and sometimes innocent, they seem to tell us a whole history in their parallel universe, simply great. I recommend you check out Gianluca's website for further artworks, it is really worth it. ;) Gianluca is an Italian graphic Artist and illustrator who was born in Bari, Italy. Qualified in the Institute of Art with qualifications of Art's Master and architect's designer and interior decoration. After his arts studies, Mattia focused in digital illustration. His illustrations are vivid, erotic, subversive, part-emo, part-punk, between realistic and surreal. They operate in some of the same realms of beauty, utilizing details like tattoos, blood, tears, piercings, band-aids, open wounds, skulls, odd creatures, hot rods and scars. "My style is a mix of various things, I call it a shake of genres. I always loved erotic contemporary illustrators like Luis Royo and Milo Manara, etc... they way they express themselves trough provocative female figures. I also like manga, american comics, low brow art, pop surrealism, etc. All this is poured on my trait, in my style, that is a natural consequence of the things that I appreciate. Also I try to give my vision of things, of colors, shapes and contents. I like to use metaphors, the irony and put them to surreal themes, vivid, erotic, social, sad and sometimes happy" Take your time to browse around the shop section of his website... there are some sweet stuff to buy. =) About the author Someone with a bachelor degree in Foreign Trade that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. A person 'digging' a new way as a 'geek apprentice', blogger 'wanna be' and a communication lover! Current location: Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil Twitter user: gismullr Sponsored Links:

Beautiful Illustrations by Charlie Bowater Posted: 08 Mar 2011 07:00 PM PST We often get to see some fantastic illustrations here at Abduzeedo, and today is no different. Charlie Bowater got an awesome technique and use of colors, that make her work just beautiful. <!--break--> Here's a selection of her work. For more of these amazing pieces, you may visit her portfolio at DeviantART. Also, if you know any more great illustrator like Charlie, drop us a line! I hope you enjoy these! Cheers. ;) About the author Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, a 26 year old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. 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. Sponsored Links:

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