We Love Brisbane – Website Design

The wallpaper of this week is an amazing image created by our friend, Glennz Jones. Glennz is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Auckland, New Zealand. Glenn from NZ = GLENNZ. He’s worked in the design industry for over 20 years focusing on packaging, corporate identity and illustration. After success designing tees on Threadless.com he started my own range of T-shirts at. He was also feature on the Abduzeedo book last year.

For more information visit http://www.glennz.co.nz/

Desktop Version

iPad Version

iPhone Version

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• 2880x1800px
• 2560x1600px
• 1920x1200px
• 1680x1050px
• 1440x900px
• 1280x1024px
• 1280x800px
• 1024x768px
• iPhone
• iPad

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s going on out there!

We want to give a big thanks to our sponsors:
Shutterstock, W3-Markup, Site24x7 and P2H. A special mention to Media Temple for the excellent service and support with Abduzeedo!

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

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Friday 08/23

Ben Affleck is the next Batman

Via: The Verge

5 iPhone Accessories You Can Buy Now—And Won’t Regret Later

Via: ReadWriteWeb

5 Ways to Build a Better Team

Via: Inc.com

IFTTT makes nice with Twitter, brings back tweet triggers and actions

Via: Engadget

25+ Digital Portraits of Woman

Via: Ddesignerr

Conceptual Portrait Photography by Ekaterina Belinskaya

Via: Cruzine

Beautiful Digital Art by Erik Schumacher

Via: Cruzine

Aplicativo promete reinventar a experiência do futebol

Via: Brainstorm #9

Nike – Just Do It Campaign

Via: Fubiz™

The Five Mistakes That Can Ruin Any Handshake

Via: Lifehacker

Thursday 08/22

Casa Gomez by Sostudio / Sergio Orduña Architects

Via: Homeadore

Illustrations by Saskia Schnell

Via: Freeyork

12 Sets Of Recently Released Free Icons

Via: Designbeep

Learn Digital Painting

Via: Keenjar

Cook Strait House by Tennent + Brown Architects

Via: Homeadore

Soft Light

Via: Inspirationist

Brilliant Concept Art by Matthew Stewart

Via: Inspirefirst

Game of Thrones Illustrations

Via: Trendbump

Facebook ignored security bug, researcher used it to post details on Zuckerberg’s wall

Via: The Verge

Wednesday 08/21

Apple likely to offer next iPhone in gold, according to multiple reports

Via: The Verge

Microsoft unveils ID@Xbox program to lure indie developers to Xbox One

Via: The Verge

After buying Waze, Google adds realtime incident reports to mobile Maps apps

Via: The Verge

Wacom apresenta caneta especial para iPad sensível à pressão

Via: Blog do iPhone

The Internet: We’re Doing It Wrong

Via: TechCrunch

Startups Apparently Do Not Care That Android Is Better

Via: TechCrunch

Instagram Cracks Down On Connected Apps Using “Insta” And “Gram”

Via: TechCrunch

7 Things Leonardo da Vinci Can Teach You About Creativity

Via: Inc.com

Tuesday 08/20

Want Happier Employees? Send Them Home

Via: Inc.com

Xbox One launching with 23 games: Battlefield 4 and Watch Dogs lead the charge

Via: Engadget

Vine more than triples user base to 40 million, shrugs off Instagram competition

Via: Engadget

Zuckerberg’s Internet.org plan hinges on more efficient apps, starting with Facebook

Via: Engadget

28 of the most beautiful typefaces released last month

Via: The Next Web

I’m now convinced Google+ can succeed as the ‘social spine’ for all-things Google

Via: The Next Web

Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business. Really.

Via: Inc.com

Does Bootstrapping Make You More Disciplined?

Via: Inc.com

Monday 08/19

18 Examples of Beautiful Image Usage in Web Design

Via: Web Design Ledger

Five Best Paper Notebooks

Via: Lifehacker

Cracking suicide: hackers try to engineer a cure for depression

Via: The Verge

Kinect app that turns any surface into a ‘touchscreen’ debuts for $149

Via: The Verge

Who needs Kickstarter? Projects look outside the box for new crowdfunding

Via: The Verge

Steve Wozniak says ‘there were a lot of things wrong’ with ‘Jobs’ movie

Via: The Verge

How to present screenshots of your work

Via: Webdesigner Depot