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Daily Inspiration #751
Red Bull Unveils Awesome New Street Art Viewing Site
Stunning Paintings by Tara Babando
Character-Driven Narrative Photography
Create a Wheatpaste Poster

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 01:25 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

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HERE TODAY GONE TOMORROW (PART 3) from ABOVE on Vimeo.

al b sure

Anderson Tomazi

Arthur Presser

Best Bookmarks

Bram Vanhaeren

coolvibe

designmodo

eugene kim

Fabiano

Fabio

Gisele

HdK

Meng To

Newyorkiz

Steven Medina

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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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Red Bull Unveils Awesome New Street Art Viewing Site

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 10:09 AM PST

Red Bull recently launched a very cool site called, www.streetartview.com. This site allows anyone from anywhere to use google street view as a means of "bookmarking" their favorite street art all over the globe to form one massive online collection. In time, Red Bull hopes that with your help, they can collectively create the world's largest art collection. To which I say, "Damn, sounds good to me!"

(P.S. just in case you're wondering…this is not a sponsored post and I was not paid to say any of that. I just love this idea.)

Featured Artists

Banksy

Blu

Keith Harin

Os Gemeos

Space Invader

Random View

About the author

Hi my name is Nathan Weller. I'm a Columbus Ohio based writer, producer, creative consultant, and all around art/tech enthusiast. When I'm not going on adventures, throwing dance parties, or cooking dinner with my girlfriend - I'm discovering and recommending art, music, movies, books, and all kinds of goodies on my Tumblr. You can also get to know me on twitter where I go by @nathanbweller.

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Stunning Paintings by Tara Babando

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 08:41 AM PST

Tara Babando is an artist based out of Montreal, Canada. She is a fashion designer by day and a painter/ artist by night. Tara finds inspiration in everyday life, in the works of visual artists such as ISO50 and in the beautiful and strong women she surrounds herself with.

I met Tara at the Montreal Meets last January and we exchanged our contact infos. I checked her website and was pretty amazed about the quality of her paintings. Her attention to the details and colors are breathtaking.

For more information about Tara, you can always check her website at TaraBabando.com, her Flickr account or follow her on Twitter @TaraBabando

Character-Driven Narrative Photography

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 04:56 AM PST

These amazing photographs are taken by the photographer Ted Sabarese. His work has such rich creativity and execution. He shoots people. All kinds of people. For advertising, editorial and fine art projects. Check it out!

For more from Ted Sabarese you can visit his website www.tedsabarese.com and check out his blog www.tedsabarese.com/blog/

Creature Couture

A story which juxtaposes fall fashion with the imaginative design of artist nick cave.

Hunger Pains

Each model's clothing in the series was made entirely of real food and depicts a meal that the person was craving. This project was shot in January of 2009 (pre Lady Gaga). 15 designers, led by Ami Goodheart of SOTO Productions, were involved and each garment took hours to cook, create and assemble. The artichoke gown was designed by Daniel Feld and Wesley Nault of Project Runway fame. It took over 6 hours to finish (the model stood the entire time while they attached each, individual leaf).

Evolution

With all the recent, fiery controversy between evolution, creationism, intelligent design, science, religion, the political left, right, etc., I thought it might be provocative to throw my visual two-cents into the ring. The images beg the question, is it really so difficult to believe we came out from the sea millions and millions of years ago?

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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Create a Wheatpaste Poster

Posted: 20 Feb 2011 08:30 PM PST

The Abduzeedo team is always worried to bring to our readers and followers the best content of the creative businesses. And when I mean best content, I'm not talking only about the articles, collections and portfolios that we bring to you, but also about the tutorials.

Other day while talking to Fábio, I found that we really needed to try some more tangible tutorials and by tangible I mean tutorials not so related to softwares. We did a lot of photoshop, illustrator, Fireworks and other softwares tutorials, but when it comes to illustration tutorials, we can't just get locked in a software like illustrator or Corel Draw, we got to expand to other areas. So from now on I will start a new series of tutorials at Abduzeedo and I hope you support us.

So, what are we going to learn today?

Today we're going to learn a pretty simple Street Art technique (I'm not a street artist, before someone ask), some people call this technique Wheatpaste, Big Sticker, Cutout or just Street Art Poster. You may know a lot of Street Artists who used and use this technique like Shepard Fairey (from Obey the Giant), Swoon and D Face. Basically we're going to do all of this without a computer and with less than 10 bucks. Posted some examples of this artists bellow:

Shepard Fairey

May Day with Shepard Fairey from hypebeast.tv on Vimeo.

Swoon

D Face

What stuff I'll need in order to do it?

This is pretty basic stuff, since you probably may already have those tools at home:

1- Masking Tape

it don't have to be a huge one, a thin one can easy handle the job

2- Razor or Scissor

3- Bucket

to put the Flour glue

4- Big brush

5- Posca pen or whatever you wanna use for painting it

6- A4 (11,69 x 8,27 inches) sheets of offset paper

please don't buy it! Get some old or used ones, save trees :)

Step 1

First of all, get the sheets of paper and try to figure out the size of the drawing that you're going to do, then using the masking tape unite them, but do it slowly watching to always get together the borders correctly or it going to end up in a mess.

Step 2

Now this part is really important, after getting all sheets together in one canvas you'll have to see if it fits on the place your going to paste it.

Step3

Now let's cook the glue! Yes, the Abduzeedo team are teaching designers how to cook too hehe just kidding. The glue that we're going to use can be made with just too ingredients:

1- 750 ml of Water

2- Three spoons of Flour

First boil the water for 10 minutes, then add the three spoons of Flour, mix it and dont let it create flour little balls, so stir it really well. Wait 10 minutes and you should get something like these:

(Photo by B Zedan)

Now let it get cool so you can use it, but don't store it more than 2 days, it starts to stink. If you wanna store it for more time, put it on a refrigerator. Some people will suggest you to add some white glue to get more sticky, that's ok, there are plenty of recipes of how to do homemade flour glue, but the one I described is the most simple and it will work well with light things like offset paper.

Step 4

Now that you have all setup let's start drawing, draw in the side without the masking tapes. Feel free to draw wherever you want, but I suggest you to don't create hairs or complex shapes, since you're going to cut the drawing after. For my first wheatpaste I tried to create this little happy worm, bellow i posted some pics of the process.

Step 5

Just a little reminder before we can proceed:

Warning: We know our readers are quite responsible for their acts, but we just advise you to don't paste your artwork on other people property (I mean walls, fences, gates, wherever), use it on your own property or you going to have some big troubles (trust me).Thanks for your attention.

Now with the artwork finished, go for the spot you choose to paste your artwork, I'd suggest you to choose a less texturized wall, it will be better to paste the artwork.

Using a razor or a scissor, start cutting your drawing, this should take sometime depending on the shapes you've made.

Make sure the masking tape on the other side is fixed good, we don't want to paste it the wrong way after all this work, so if necessary add some more tape lines.

Finally, start pasting it by first adding the flour glue on the place you're going to place the artwork, then paste the artwork (do it slowly or the paper may get ripped). Add another layer of flour glue upon the artwork, it should get pretty sticky.

One of the best things about this kind of collage it's that you can think about it as softwares layers and start adding elements, try it and have fun!

Final Result

Well, I guess that if you tried this you had as much fun as I had. Don't get upset if your wheatpaste don't get perfect, remember that street art it's not about perfectionism, but about expression. To make easier the things I posted a making of bellow so you can see that it's pretty simple, hope you like it guys and warn mom before pasting it on the wall :)

Broken Heart Wheatpaste Making of

Broken Heart Wheatpaste - Time Lapse from Marcos Torres on Vimeo.

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.

Senin, 21 Februari 2011