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Daily Inspiration #749
Beautiful Houses: Watergate in Washington DC
Friday Fresh Free Fonts #88
Sites of the Week #141
Stunning Illustrations by Xavier Ramonède
Step-by-step Pieces by Christophe Heut

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 11:46 AM 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

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Anderson Tomazi

Anthony Nguyen

Best Bookmarks

B.Romain

coolvibeblog

designmodo

Eugene Kim

Fabiano

Fabio

Gisele

HdK

Jorrit van Rijt

nagiViTy

nenuno

oxana

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@fixitdesign

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.

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Beautiful Houses: Watergate in Washington DC

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 08:50 AM PST

The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful house and stay tuned for more...

This week we present you the beautiful Watergate Apartment.

The Watergate Apartment is a project by Robert Gurney Architect, a firm with a recognized portfolio that has over 150 awards. The Watergate is actually a complex in Washington DC that consists of five buildings overlooking the Potomac River. Designed by italian architect Luigi Moretti, the Watergate is considered one of Washington's most desirable addresses. This 1,250 square foot unit is located on the fourteenth floor and was never previously renovated.

Wow... this is my explanation for this apartment. This place is modern, clean and super beautiful, certainly another great place to live in. ;)

Check out Robert Gurney Architect website for further details about this and other projects. See you next time.

We found this house at ArchDaily.

Photos by Maxwell MacKenzie Architectural Photographer.

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

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #88

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 04:40 AM PST

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it's awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#88 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts

PT Serif

by Paratype Fonts

Download PT Serif

Architects Daughter

by Kimberly Geswein Fonts

Download Architects Daughter

Puritan

by Reading Type Fonts

Download Puritan

Tinos

by Ascender Fonts Fonts

Download Tinos

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!

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Sites of the Week #141

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 03:29 AM PST

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Tower and Polyester Studio. Also we're featuring the special site for Nike The Chance and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy to feature your site.

You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_sites in the message.

DESIGN / CSS

CreativeIncrease - creativeincrease.com

CreativeIncrease is the digital portfolio of Sim Kolev; A web professional specializing in web, interface, graphic, identity design & consulting.

The Chance - thechance.nikefootballitalia.com

Aspiring talents began to show off building their fanpage on Facebook where they have uploaded video and images by showing what they do, but now you start to really see what you can do. It's time to take the field, it's time to catch The Chance.

APP / WEB APP

Stella - blamestella.com

At that time, the company produced high-strength rivets and railway ties. Under the stewardship of Morton Blamey, the company has entered a new age in the technology industry.

Tower - git-tower.com

Git has plenty of great features. Using all of them can be difficult if you only have your command line at hand. That's why we built Tower.

COMMUNITY / PORTAL / STORE

Dinevore - dinevore.com

Discover, organize, and share the best restaurant advice on the web.

Album Art Collection - albumartcollection.com

This gallery is a collection of Ismael Burciaga's favorite album art designs.

STUDIO / PORTFOLIO / BLOG

Elliot Lepers - viteungraphiste.com

Student, concerned citizen, graphic, video, new media hacker, a manufacturer of good humor. (via Google Translate)

Polyester Studio - polyesterstudio.com

Polyester is a motion design and animation studio in Toronto founded by Bob Zagorskis and Jeremy Dimmock

TEMPLATES

Filtered - themetrust.com

A stylish portfolio theme that will give your work the type of presentation it deserves. On top of balanced white space and typography, this theme includes several tasteful jQuery effects to help impress your visitors.

Bold News - woothemes.com

Bold News is a clean, well defined magazine theme design with a unique featured post slider to highlight noteworthy content. With 4 widgetized regions and the customization functionality of the WooFramework, this theme really paves the way in the magazine theme space.

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Stunning Illustrations by Xavier Ramonède

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 06:18 PM PST

Xavier Ramonède is a French illustrator that comes up with some really nice and witty illustrations. I love to find pieces like these that make me want to draw cute girls.

For more of his awesome work, you may visit his deviantART portfolio. 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.

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Step-by-step Pieces by Christophe Heut

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:49 PM PST

Nowadays some may say Photoshop i really overrated, since everyone knows a bit about it and there's a lot of tutorials on the web explaining how to use this tool. Well, I would say there's a ton of guys using it nowadays, however only a few really can make perfect retouchings and montages as Christophe Heut.

This guy is really out of this world, you probably have already seen a lot of his manipulation thru the web, since he worked with many big clients and famous campaigns. In his Website I found this making ofs of some pieces that he did and after seeing this I kind find I really can do more with less on photoshop. Don't forget to visit Christophe website, he got some pretty wicked works.

Parking Art

Playstation (Morpheus Character)

Nissan

Surfrider Foundation

DDB

Monogram

About the author

Hey buddies! I'm Marcos Torres, a 20 years old art director/freelancer from Brazil, I'm here to bring some new interesting stuff to you. You can see my portfolio at http://flickr.com/marcostorres. Any request or jobs opportunities send to marcostorres90@gmail.com, also follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/marcos333 to get in touch with cool design news.

Jumat, 18 Februari 2011