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Worldwide Photography #49: Cuiabá

marcos333 — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:11:14 +0000

Worldwide Photography is a series of posts where every week we're going to show a city or location around the globe bringing the coolest photography samples of it. The photographs authors are all credited right above their pictures. Today feature: Cuiabá, Brasil.

For the next week we're going to feature Busan, South Korea so if you want to send your submissions for the next Worldwide Photography, please tweet the tag #wwphoto and the link of the photo(s) on twitter. I'll be wainting for your submissions :)

rosanomauro

schrockinator

Nélio Oliveira

pedrotguimaraes

emanuelle rigoni

Daniel Lucas

sergioazevedophotos

Francisco Aragão

pedrotguimaraes

xiská

Mateus Hidalgo

sergioazevedophotos

pedrotguimaraes

ericrstoner

paulisson_m

chirgy

sergioazevedophotos

Mateus Hidalgo

Bruno Moreira -

Helder Faria

bartholo

Mateus Hidalgo

Flávio Cruvinel Brandão

rosanomauro

Jeff Belmonte

Ordi Calder

Bruno Moreira -

Lucas Ninno

Fabiano A. Arndt

pedrotguimaraes

brshiraishi

soludimper

Paulo Antonio

jc.patricio

Jeff Belmonte

Oigres o Ogro

About the author

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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SAP Labs Brazil, by Eduardo de Almeida and Shundi Iwamizu Architects

fabiano — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:18:23 +0000

I have already presented buildings here on these posts from all around the world, and it is with great pride that I am pleased to present a project located very near where I live, in Sao Leopoldo, it was a contest for SAP Labs Brazil, theproject is from Eduardo Almeida and Shundi Iwamizu Associates Architects.

Built on campus at the Unisinos University and designed to house the software development industry SAP Labs, is a 3 storie building, with simple volume and horizontal character that maintains and respected range of other campus buildings. Use of “brise-soleils” for protection from excessive sunlight, besides of the economic and rational use of energy systems that meet the requirements of LEED Gold Certified, U.S. Green Building Council.

The project adopts a linear scheme along the rear boundary of the lot, which is located via an internal circulation and parking spaces. Consisting of two parallel blocks of 12m wide, the building creates open spaces that create targeted central interior and allow the use of light and natural ventilation.

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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Branding Inspiration by Roger Oddone

abduzeedo — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:05:24 +0000

Roger Oddone is a designer from São Paulo, Brasil specialized in branding identities. Roger Oddone is also the name of his design studio focused on corporate and brand indentity. In collaboration with several partners they also offer brand strategy, naming, package and web design services.

For more information about Roger Oddoe work visit http://www.rogeroddone.com.br/

Corporate and brand identity Taiama

Corporate and brand identity SDP

Corporate and brand identity Recife/Olinda

Corporate and brand identity Grupo Athiva

Corporate and brand identity Szuster

Corporate and brand identity Zap

Corporate and brand identity Amova

Brand identity Roger Oddone

About the author

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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Plastic Cup Art and Sketches by Gustavo Vicentini

abduzeedo — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:02:58 +0000

Gustavo Vicentini is product designer and illustrator from São Paulo, Brazil. Gustavo had this awesome idea of starting drawing on plastic cups in his free time at work, we love that idea and that's why we will share with you some of them as well as some sketches from his sketchbook, which are fantastic as well.

For more information about Gustavo, we highly recommend that you check out his Web site at http://www.gustavicentini.com/

Sketchbook

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Illustration Inspiration by 23Alan

abduzeedo — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:46:45 +0000

Yesterday I came across this beautiful illustration tweeted by a friend of mine and great designer, Everaldo Coelho, and the illustratio was from another Brazilian. I decided to find out more about him and ended up visiting his Flickr page. The guy I'm talking about is Alan Rodrigo Lourenço also known as 23Alan. Alan is a graphic designer based in Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil and his work is beautiful, especially the sketches and illustrations in my opinion, but he also has some great toy arts.

So in this post I will share with you some of 23Alan's illustrations. For more information about him check out his Web site at http://a23alan.daportfolio.com/ or his Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoilustracao/

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Stylish Drawings by Ana Carolina Orlandin

abduzeedo — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:45:24 +0000

Ana Carolina Orlandin is a very young visual design student from Xaxim, Brazil. She's been drawing since she was a little girl and her passion for art, design and all this world of imagination and creativity has growing along with her too as she starts to discover more and more things through her illustrations, which by the away, are awesome.

I always try to express my wishes and they sort of get blended together with this imaginary world in my mind, which is a little bit crazy... some drawings are inspired by music, the psicodelic ones such as the ones from The Beatles psicodelic phase - Ana Carolina Orlandin

For more information about Ana's work check out her Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/heybanana there are more super call artoworks in there.

Some Artworks

Drift

Conduction

Stain

Vice-versa

History of the bogeyman and the ice cream monster

Harvest

Teddy

Blue

Deep Sleep

Part of you

Misc

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Drawings and Illustrations by Eduardo Cardenas

abduzeedo — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:15:21 +0000

Eduardo Cardenas is an comic artist and illustrator from Aracaju, Brazil. His work is pretty much about traditional illustrations with paper, pencil, eraser and ink, or as he prefers to say, his tools of the trade. We really liked his style and that's why we are sharing some of Eduardo's artworks here with you.

For more information about Eduardo Cardenas' work visit his DeviantArt profile at http://eduardocardenas.deviantart.com/

Opium

Postcard From Brazil

witch

Wereworlf

succubus

creature-of frankenstein

Goblin Thief

Mermaid and Triton

Poster EIRPG

Orc

666 Demon

King Kong

Elf Druid

Pocket Machine Girl

Princess Valkaria Free

Robot Jansoft

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Architect Day: Isay Weinfeld

MarceloSeferin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:09:15 +0000

Brazilian architect, working with an architecture needs, from a touching sensibility. Isay Weinfeld works on all levels of architecture, starting with the exceptional residences, passing through beautiful and smart shops, consistent buildings and going beyond, producing film and stage design. The result is an uncompromising quality.

isayweinfeld.com

Isay Weinfeld was born in 1952 in Sao Paulo. Graduated from Mackenzie University, he taught at the same chair, "Architectural Theory" and also "Expression Kinetic" from the Faculty of Communication at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado. His professional activity goes beyond the architecture, which has the numerous masterpieces. He has works of cinema and stage design, further increasing its list of awards received.

Mocotó Bar e Restaurante, Londres, Inglaterra. photo © isayweinfeld.com

His portfolio, with residential, commercial, institutional or furniture, no mater the type, is a masterpiece of architecture, and always a source of inspiration. Isay Weinfeld brings above all, pride and hope for a better future of Brazilian architecture. Today after several awards, the international recognition is already present in his life, with the merits of an architecture with a lot of quality.

Livraria da Vila, São Paulo, Brasil

photo © isayweinfeld.com

Havaianas, São Paulo, Brasil

photo © isayweinfeld.com

Fasano Las Piedras, Punta del Este, Uruguai

photo © isayweinfeld.com

Edifício Racional, São Paulo, Brasil

photo © isayweinfeld.com

Edifício Panorama, São Paulo, Brasil

photo © isayweinfeld.com

Clube Chocolate, São Paulo, Brasil

photo © isayweinfeld.com

Casa Yucatan, São Paulo, Brasil

photo © Leonardo Finotti

Vila Fasano, Fazenda Boa Vista, Porto Feliz, Brasil

photo © Leonardo Finotti

Casa Sumaré, São Paulo, Brasil

photo © isayweinfeld.com

Casa Piracicaba, Piracicaba, Brasil

photo © Nelson Kon e Luiza Sigulem

Casa Iporanga, Guarujá, Brasil

photo © Nelson Kon

Casa Grécia, São Paulo, Brasil

photo © Leonardo Finotti e Luiza Sigulem

Casa Vertical, São Paulo, Brasil

photo © Leonardo Finotti

Casa Pau Ferro, São Paulo, Brasil

photo © Cristiano Mascaro

Casa Marrom, São Paulo, Brasil

photo © Leonardo Finotti

Casa d’Agua, São Paulo, Brasil

photo © Álvaro Povoa

Casa Brasília, São Paulo, Brasil

photo © Leonardo Finotti

About the author

My name is Marcelo Seferin, I'm an architect from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the chief architect at Seferin Arquitetura, an office that works with architecture, interior design and sustainability projects. You can check our work at http://www.seferin.com.br and you can follow me at twiiter http://www.twitter.com/mseferin.

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Beautiful Illustrations by Simon Fernandes

abduzeedo — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:44:47 +0000

Simon Fernandes is an art director, designer and illustrator from Sao Paulo, Brazil with a really cool style, his portfolio has illustrations with different styles, from the very clean vectors of the Agua Viva artwork to the sort of retro style of the Copo poster. We were really impressed with his work and now we are sharing that with you ;)

For more information about Simon Fernandes visit his Web site at http://www.simonfernandes.com/

Planetario MTV

Planetário from ODA on Vimeo.

Pedaço de coral

Plus Ultra

Menina

Flutívago

Agua Viva

Copo

Paisagem

Colorido

Buda

Doido

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Stylish New Artworks by oit8doi2

abduzeedo — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:18:17 +0000

A couple of weeks ago we featured a design by Bruno Borges, AKA Oit8doi2, as wallpaper of the week. That image was called La Pipe and it was part of his new portfolio, which includes some other great pieces and that's what we are doing now, sharing with you some of his other works.

For more information visit Bruno Borges visit http://www.oit8doi2.com/

MTV Notebook

Agora

Vingt et deux

Cosmia

Altar

Mensageiro do Vento

SE

La Pipe

Mentos Aqua Kiss

About Bruno

Bruno Borges AKA Oit8doi2. Bruno was born in Rio de Janeiro but it's currently based in São Paulo. His work is very colorful with a little bit of te 80s influence like this wallpaper.

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Abduzeedo Photoshop Battle Highlights

abduzeedo — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:13:28 +0000

This past July Abduzeedo put on our first offline event. Despite the fact that I was pretty nervous about how it would turn out, it actually went really well. A lot of people showed up and now we're planning to organize another battle in another city, or maybe even another country.

The Photoshop Battle consisted of eight designers battling it out to take home the title of Abduzeedo Photoshop Battle World Champion. We'd draw a subject in which the contestants would have to design a wallpaper in 30 minutes. Even though that's a pretty short time to create something cool, the final results were stunning. After almost seven hours of dispute, we had our first Abduzeedo Photoshop Battle World Champion: Cássio Braga.

Below you can check out a video by John Arlington with the highlights of the event, (in which John was kind enough to include English subtitles for all you non-Portuguese speakers out there.)

Youtube

Vimeo

Abduzeedo - Battle of Photoshop from Alexandre Guterres on Vimeo.

For more information about the event visit http://battleofphotoshop.com.br/

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Beautiful Vector Illustration in Illustrator and Photoshop by Carol Rivello

guest — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:29:09 +0000

Hey guys! For this tutorial/making of I created a fun illustration for my sister Stella's blog. In her blog she writes about funny daily situations and I thought that it would be nice to develop an illustration that expressed that somehow. I hope that this step by step help the new designers and illustrators. So, prepare yourself, and continue reading because even though it is a quite long post I hope it might be useful for your illustration projects. Also, feel free to share your thoughts with comments.

Step 1 - Brainstorming ftw

When I’m creating an illustration for someone, I like to make a brainstorm and write down stuff that person likes, to create a moodboard and capture her personality in the drawing. In my sisters case, for example, Italy, Trips and Pasta were mandatory in the illustration. In this step I also make preliminary roughs, testing new shapes and interesting compositions.

Step 2 - Roughs, Sketches & Drawings

After I pick the elements that will be part of the final illustration, and develop an initial graphic style, I start the rough that will be used as a direct reference for the vector. In this step I like to use a lot of details to simulate strokes and vector gradients. Lots of people ditch this part and go straight to the computer, but I personally prefer to create first in the paper. No only I feel more creative, it’s also a pretty good excuse to leave the computer for a change.

Step 3 - Vector madness

After I finish the rough, it’s time to scan it. (0r take a picture of it, if the paper it’s too big for your scanner). Then, I place the jpg file into a vectorial illustration software. My favorite software is illustrator, but feel free to use the one you like the most. Right now I only care about making the strokes and outlines, leaving the colors and filling for later. I recommend using a color that contrast with your sketch, to help you visualize it. In this case i chose a red stroke.

Step 4

I like Illustrator because it offers you a ton of cool resources to help your vectorizing process. A solution that I often use is called Pattern Brush. Instead of drawing a whole flower, for example, you can make just one petal, turn that petal into a patten brush, create a shape with that outline, and achieve fun results! This tip is specially useful to illustrators that prefers abstract compositions, like me.

Step 5 - Cleaning up the house

After I finally finish the whole vector madness, I spend a little while organizing the file, putting the objects into the right order. All this to help the next step, that I consider to be the hardest part…

Step 6 - Choosing Colors

The moment to chose the colors and paint the illustration is the hardest and longest part to me. In this project I was inspired by the italy flag colors, mixed with the vibrant colors of the brazilian flag, all this with a vintage look and feel. In this step I also develop some gradients and chose the textures that I’ll use later. My tip is to take a look at the patterns from illustrator, hidden inside Swatches » Patterns » Basic Graphics.

Step 7 - Color Groups & Inspiration

A great site to search for color inspiration is colourlovers.com. There you can search between endless palettes developed by their creative users. After I chose my color palette, I find really usefull to create a new color group with the chosen tones.

Step 8 - Almost there

Sneak peek of the coloring process.

Step 9 - Typography

Choosing a font to use in the illustration is really fun! I love to test lots of combinations and to “hunt” for new fonts. The problem is that I get *too* excited in this step, and sometimes I download 30 fonts, and later I simply can’t decide which one to use. For this illustration I imagined a strong, bold and modern font, making a visual contrast with a script font.

Step 10

When you are going to use the same shape over and over again, a good tip is to use the symbol tool. You make a motion clip, and spread the object in your comp, according to your preset. With the tool’s options you can increase or decrease the symbol, change it’s opacity, position, etc. This way you don’t have to duplicate and reposition the object manually.

Step 11 - Blending Modes

After I fill al my shapes with my chosen colors, I like to refine the composition with gradients and textures. Some illustrations look better with solid colors, but in this case I decided to use gradients to create more volume. One secret to a visually rich comp is to test different textures and blending modes. My fav ones are: multiply, overlay and softlight. I also like to play with different opacities.

Step 12 - Photoshop

After I finish the vector process, I export my work for a final polishing in Photoshop. At photoshop I mix the vector with bitmap images, to achieve a more organic feel. I also use the adjustment layers e test some colors adjustments, levels, curves, etc. And use brushes.

Step 13 - Don’t be messy

It’s common to make a lot of layers in Photoshop, and It’s really easy to lose yourself in the mess. Try to avoid that, and keep a file with the layers named in an appropriate manner and use organized layer groups.

Step 14 - Brushes and Scribbles

With the idea to create an organic look in mind, I blended the original vector illustrations with hand drawn scribbles, to create a hybrid composition. I also added brushes, colorful gradients, all in separated layers, preserving the original illustration.

Conclusion

And that’s it. Now It’s time to create the rest of the layout… But thats for another making of. Thanks for reading the whole post! If you want to read more nonsense from me, or for more cool tips and random links, feel free to follow me on twitter: www.twitter.com/carolrivello.

About the Author

I’m Carol Rivello, a graphic designer who loves to work with web design, art direction and illustration. Now I live in Florianópolis, a pretty island located in the south of Brazil, and just started to work as a freelancer. I love pigs, I have more than 300 of them. I also love: Internet, Music, Traveling, Movies, TV Shows, Illustration, Sketch Books, Motion Design, Home Decor, T-shirts, Pigs, Chocolate, Ice cream , Birds, Clouds, Sun, Sea and almost everything from the 80’s. For more information visit my site at http://www.carolrivello.com/

Motion Graphics Inspiration by Vellas & Laga

abduzeedo — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:12:39 +0000

In 2008, a young animator, and a not so young art director, joined forces and started to work as partners, from that idea Vellas & Laga was created and since then they have created, directed, animated, and fought in a lot of films, for TV, Internet and any other interesting form of media.

For more information about Vellas & Laga we highly recommend that you visit their website at http://cargocollective.com/vellasandlaga. But we have selected some pieces from their portfolio to feature here on Abduzeedo.

Reel 2010

Vellas, 2010 Reel from Vellas & Laga on Vimeo.

MTV - TOP 10

Graphic package created for MTV Brazil, for the classic show "TOP 10". We created the open titles, rank numbers, bumpers... Check it out.

MTV TOP 10 Graphic Pack from Vellas & Laga on Vimeo.

MTV Colírios Capricho

Capricho is a teen magazine mainly for girls. They made a partnership with MTV Brasil and produced a reality show where the public will choose the new "boy next door".

MTV Colirios Capricho Montage from Felipe Vellasco on Vimeo.

Metro Newspaper

Metro Newspaper from Felipe Vellasco on Vimeo.

MTV - "Anti AIDS 2009"

MTV Brazil invited 4 artists to create a 15 seconds spot, for their new campaign against AIDS. Thanks to Beto Shibata.

MTV - "Anti AIDS 2009" from Vellas & Laga on Vimeo.

WORK PROCESS:

Boomerang

Queda Livre

Opening Credits created for "Queda Livre", an upcoming program from Turner Channel.

Queda Livre from Vellas & Laga on Vimeo.

Bats

This is a small video that is shown on cinema, before every film created by Ioiô Films

Bats from Vellas & Laga on Vimeo.

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Graffiti Art brings Patriotism to the Poor

paul0v2 — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:45:00 +0000

The graffiti artist "Mundano" painted a big Brazilian flag on this building that for more than a decade, the old Santos Dumond Hotel, in downtown Sao Paulo, was empty. Today, it shelters more than 120 families that have illegally occupied the building. Check out the action video and some photos of the work and process.

The artist was inspired by the kids that live there "I've always painted the Brazilian Flag but now it's the perfect time, because of the World Cup" — Mundano

In Sao Paulo there are more empty buildings than homeless families.

The Artwork

The Building

The View

About the author

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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A Brazilian Architecture Office - M² Arquitetura

fabiano — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:06:13 +0000

I have been writing some articles showing you really nice offices around the world. And for my surprise there is one of this great offices in a brazilian city really close to me. I'm talking about an office called M² Arquitetura. As soon as I looked at it I was impressed and decided to show it to you... and I'm sure you will love it.

M² Arquietura is located in Joinville, SC, Brazil. They are an architecture company that develops projects in many fields: residential, comercial, industrial, corporative, decoration and interiors. The current M² Arquitetura headquarter is a revitalization of an old storage place in the center of the city. The place has several industrial elements, such as apparent wooden structures, and systems of lightening and ventilation in sheds. A really beautiful place. And as I said to them, it makes me want to go back being an architect to work in a place like this!

The main idea that inspired the project was preserving the original elements of the building and make the space bigger, transparent and as much integrated as possible. So to accomplish that they made an office with no walls and the doors are made of glass. All the departments of the company and the steps of the process are open so every team member and even the clients can see it.

In the reception there is a store window. This space is turned to the side walk and is a multi-use area used for exhibitions of artists and stores, besides also showing some of their own designs. The window is a space of transition between the public and the private.