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Hi there! I'm Paulo Canabarro, 26 year old web designer - paulocanabarro.com I'm from Brazil currently living and working out of Providence RI, USA. I'm truly passionate about design of all kinds, finding and sharing inspiration here has become part of my life. If you like to know more about me or get in touch visit my website paulocanabarro.com Stock me at Twitter and Dribbble

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Word Paintings by Wayne White

paul0v2 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:07:15 +0000

Wayne White is an American artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer, and much, much more. In this post we highlight some of his amazing word paintings which is a mix of landscape paintings with 3d typography. Enjoy!

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Wayne White is an American artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer, and much, much more. Born and raised in Chattanooga, Wayne has used his memories of the South to create inspired works for film, television, and the fine art world. After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University, Wayne traveled to New York City where he worked as an illustrator for the East Village Eye, New York Times, Raw Magazine, and the Village Voice. In 1986, Wayne became a designer for the hit television show Pee-wee’s Playhouse, and his work was awarded with three Emmys. After traveling to Los Angeles with his wife, Mimi Pond, Wayne continued to work in television and designed sets and characters for shows such as Shining Time Station, Beakman’s World, Riders In The Sky, and Bill & Willis. He also worked in the music video industry, winning Billboard and MTV Music Video Awards as an art director for seminal music videos including The Smashing Pumpkins' 'Tonight, Tonight' and Peter Gabriel's 'Big Time.'

More recently, Wayne has had great success as a fine artist and has created paintings and public works that have been shown all over the world. His most successful works have been the world paintings featuring oversized, three-dimensional text painstakingly integrated into vintage landscape reproductions. The message of the paintings is often thought-provoking and almost always humorous, with Wayne pointing a finger at vanity, ego, and his memories of the South. Wayne has also received great praise for several public works he has created recently, including a successful show at Rice University where he built the world’s largest George Jones puppet head for a piece called 'Big Lectric Fan To Keep Me Cool While I Sleep.'

In 2009, Wayne's life and career were chronicled in an incredible 382-page monograph, edited by Todd Oldham. The book features hundreds of images from Wayne's earliest work as an illustrator all the way to his most recent fine art sculptures. Since the book’s release, Wayne has been traveling the country delivering an incredibly entertaining hour long talk where he discusses his life and work, while making time for a little banjo and harmonica playing.

"Do what you love, it's gonna lead you to where you wanna go"

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #138

paul0v2 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:04:06 +0000

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#138 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

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Almelo

by Floris Voorveld

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Volkhov

by Cyreal

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Exo

by Natanael Gama

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Bemio

by Joe Prince

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Typography Mania #117

paul0v2 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:01:18 +0000

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.

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.

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Sweet Cookies Typography in Pixelmator

abduzeedo — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:24:52 +0000

Playing with text is one of the coolest things to exercise your skills with any software, at least in my opinion. You can try to make fire with the word fire or water effects with the word water. In my case today I will show you how to create a sweet cookie effect using Pixelmator.

In this tutorial we will show you how to create a nice text effect using basic filters and some stock images. The result is really good for the amount of time required to achieve it.

Step 1

Open Pixelmator and create a new document. I am using 1920x1200 pixels for the size. The background is white. After that select the Type Tool (T) and type the word you want. I used "sweet" with Cooper Black for the font.

Step 2

Add a new layer and then with the Brush Tool (B) with black for the color select the clouds preset. Then start painting on the edges to make the word much less uniform. Once you finish the word ad a layer underneath and fill with it white using the Paint Bucket Tool (N). Duplicate these layers a few times and hide them for future use. Select the white layer, the text layer and layer with the brush effect and merge them. Layer>Merge Layers.

Step 3

Add a new layer and group it into a folder. After that holding Command, click on the thumb of the sweet word from the previous step to create a marquee selection. Select the folder and go to Layer>Add Layer Mask.

Step 4

Now let's use some cookies texture. The image I am using is from Bryan Solomon and it's called Three Peanut Butter Cookies Isolated on a White Background. The image is courtesy of Shutterstock.

Step 5

Add the images of the cookies inside the layer with the mask.

Step 6

Delete the areas where the cookies that overlap each other.

Step 7

Select the layer with the word "sweet" and the layer with the brush effects. Merge both and then go to Edit>Stroke. Use white for the color, 10 pixels for the width and Inside for the Position.

Step 8

Go to Image>Invert Color.

Step 9

Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 8 pixels for the Radius.

Step 10

Change the Blending to Soft Light. Duplicate the layer once again and hide it.

Step 11

Select the Eraser Tool (E) and start deleting the top and left sides of the visible layer from the previous step. The idea is create the shadows on the bottom and right only as if the lights are coming from the top left.

Step 12

Make the other layer visible and then go to Image>Invert Colors. Change the Blending to Overlay at 40%. Then with the Eraser Tool (E) delete the bottom right of the layer to create a highlight at the top left.

Step 12

Let's add a background to make the effect a bit more realistic. The image I am using is called Texture Series - Old aged antique parchment manuscript for background use. Reduce the opacity to 40%.

Conclusion

Using the same layer of the Step 2, make sure it's all in black and merged with a white background. Then move the layer so it will be underneath the cookies text. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and use 4 pixels for the radius. Duplicate the layer and apply the blur again with 10 pixels for the radius. Change the Blending of both layers to Color Burn and move them down a little bit to create a really nice shadow effect.

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Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. You can get in follow us via Twitter at @abduzeedo

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #137

paul0v2 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:12:10 +0000

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#137 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

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Carton

by Nick Mccosker

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Asap

by Omnibus Type

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Adele

by Chase

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Kaushan Script

by Pablo Impallari

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Typography Mania #116

paul0v2 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:39:00 +0000

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.

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.

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #136

paul0v2 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:54:07 +0000

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#136 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

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Almendra

by Ana Sanfelippo

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Sail

by Latinotype

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Enriqueta

by FontFuror

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Dynalight

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Typography Mania #115

paul0v2 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:06:00 +0000

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.

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.

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Typography Awesomeness by Sepra 4 Life

marcos333 — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:16:19 +0000

Don't know why, but I'm on a affair with typography and type formation lately and since then I've trying to find some really good references on the subject. Marko Purac aka. Sepra 4 Life is probably one of the best type designers I've seen lately, he can create from 3D look a like type to traditional handmade types, just awesome.

Check more of this awesomeness at his Flickr.

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My name is Marcos Torres, I'm Graphic Artist from Porto Alegre, Brasil. You can get to know more about me by acessing my Personal Website or by following me on Twitter: @marcos333. You can also see some of my last projects at my Flickr.

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #135

paul0v2 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:43:03 +0000

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#135 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

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Flavors

by Sideshow Fonts

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Judson

by Daniel Johnson

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Blanch

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Armata

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Typography Mania #114

paul0v2 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:53:57 +0000

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.

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.

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #134

paul0v2 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:21:01 +0000

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#134 and make sure to comeback for more next week.

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Alfa Slab

by JM Solé

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Inder

by Sorkin Type Co

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Arizonia

by TypeSETit

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Cubano

by C. Van De Water

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Typography Mania #113

paul0v2 — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:21:54 +0000

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.

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.

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