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Web Design Inspiration: Bacardi Mojito

Web Design Inspiration: Bacardi Mojito
When I looked for artists for the Web Pick's Water article I found this awesome water website but forgot to post it. It's the polish website for Barcardi Mojito.

Inspiration: The Roots Photographs

Inspiration: The Roots Photographs
The Roots, one of my favourite bands, has been a great source of inspiration for me for a long time. They are one of these old school hip hop groups who play live with a whole bunch of instruments, not with dj's. Here are some great pohotographs from their live show in Oslo

Inspiration: moodSwing08

Inspiration: moodSwing08
I've added the "Tigerheart"-artwork in the today's Daily Inspiration. Thats no reason not to mention all the other great designs moodSwing08 has done.

Interview: Stefan G. Bucher (Dailymonster)

Interview: Stefan Bucher (Dailymonster)
After waking up, for a long time the first thing I did was starting my computer and watch the newest daily monster from Stefan G. Bucher. So this time it's even more a pleasure for me to do a great interview with the inventor himsel

Inspiration: Snowblinded

Inspiration: Snowblinded
Anthony Cozzi just contacted me and sent me some of his artworks. He's a very talented artist from Denver. He art is a combination of digital elements and nature's raw and majestic beauty

Inspiration: Vintage Playboy Cover

Inspiration: Vintage Playboy Cover
I personally think that the old playboy broads are much more interesting than the new cover girls. They look more natural and they are presented more creatively. But who cares about what I say, take a look yourself

Web Picks #2 : WATER

Web Picks #2 : WATER
Damn. Im sitting in my room writing this article and i hear loud raindrops falling on my window. A sign to finally post the second article of the WEB PICKS serie. After the success of my last post about smoke I decided to keep on posting WEB PICKS. This time my pick will be: WATER

Video Inspiration: Lakai's Fully Flared Skateboard Intro

Video Inspiration: Lakai's Fully Flared Skateboard Intro
Nowerdays there are tons of skatevideos out there. Skateboard was never as huge as now. And with all the good skaters out there who make awesome tricks you have to come with something new to impress the viewer. Lakai's Fully Flared movie is considered in the media to be the most innovative this year.

Inspiration: Jacek Yerka

Inspiration: Jacek Yerka
To come away from only the digital arts, we won't forget the artists who actually draw artworks. Its much more difficult but you can also make world manipulations. Watch this

Adobe New Creative Suite 4 (Preview)

Adobe New Creative Suite 4 (Preview)
Im so excited. I had a car accident this weekend but it didn't matter when I saw the new features of Photoshop or After Effects CS4. It has awesome new features like the "Content-Aware Scaling" or the "3D painting and compositing" in Photoshop

Inspiration: Lost Paints by DEFCOGRAFIKS

Inspiration: Lost Paints by DEFCOGRAFIKS
Fuck this is an awesome designer/grafitti artist. I'll present you the digital artworks another time, because you'll be amazed by the grafitti design he made. You dont find a lot of these artworks in the streets (or probably not in the streets in Hamburg)

Video Inspiration: HDR time-laps movies

Video Inspiration: HDR movie
We've shown you great HDR pictures and tutorials how to create your own. But this is the first time that we show you a full HDR movie. Chad Richard recorded the sunrise from the Twin Peaks in San Francisco. He is just one of a dozen Photographer in the world, that deals with this effect.

Google/MSN/Yahoo battle rap freestyle

Google/MSN/Yahoo battle rap freestyle
I really like german and american hip hop (but the real one, the roots, tupac, wutang and stuff) and Im always interested in freestyle rap. This is not a real design inspiration but sometimes you have to take a brake from working

Video Inspiration: Suddenly

Video Inspiration: Suddenly
This video is crazy. It's a 30 second short shot by Martin Nordqvist and animated by Magnus Engsfors. Many of you have wanted to see more motion inspiration on Abduzeedo, so I'm giving you what you crave. Have fun!

Interview: Jesar One

Interview: Jesar One
For the first time, there's an interview with a german designer. Heiko Klug, better known as Jesar One, is an awesome 25-year old german graphic designer. Like a lot of artists he also started with doing grafitti and the changed to the digital medium of art. Very successfull as you can see.