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Video Inspiration is a weekly(ish) post where we either feature a specific artist or show a sort of “best of” list of videos we’ve discovered during the week. Everything here may not be brand new, but we felt it worth sharing with the community. If you have good finds that you’d like to share, please feel free to send your links to nathan@abduzeedo.com with “video inspiration” in the subject line.

It seems like lately the vidoes that I’ve been drawn to the most are the ones that take me behind the scenes in an artist’s life. I enjoy getting to know the people behind the work and observe them going through their own process – or in the case of Chris Rubino in Love Kills Demons – discovering their process for themselves. I found this series to be immensely inspirational and I highly recommend carving out enough time to watch all the videos. You can also head on over to their main website and view the film in it’s entirety as one video.

Love Kills Demons is 12 short films by Jim Helton. Much like Bertrand Russell’s definition of electricity these films are “not so much a thing as a way things happen.” They are a window into the spirit of an artist looking for change. Over the span of one year filmmaker Jim Helton documented New York-based artist Chris Rubino while he searched for a new direction in his work. In the process we see screenprinting, drawing, painting, wandering as well as a peak inside the workings of a studio and an artist’s process. The final 12 part film that is Love Kills Demons takes a look behind the proverbial curtain exposing some of the mystery of creation supported by the otherworldly sounds of Big Blood.

01 | Love Kills Demons | Studio from Jim Helton on Vimeo.

02 | Love Kills Demons | Lightbox from Jim Helton on Vimeo.

03 | Love Kills Demons | Nation of 2 from Jim Helton on Vimeo.

04 | Love Kills Demons | Repurpose from Jim Helton on Vimeo.

05 | Love Kills Demons | Embrace Chaos from Jim Helton on Vimeo.

06 | Love Kills Demons | Answers from Jim Helton on Vimeo.

07 | Love Kills Demons | Breaking Point from Jim Helton on Vimeo.

08 | Love Kills Demons | Breaks from Jim Helton on Vimeo.

09 | Love Kills Demons | Sleeping Time from Jim Helton on Vimeo.

10 | Love Kills Demons | Screens from Jim Helton on Vimeo.

11 | Love Kills Demons | Mountain Tops from Jim Helton on Vimeo.

12 | Love Kills Demons | Title from Jim Helton on Vimeo.

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Since we really like single page layouts and the last time we had them around was back in March, we decided to gather a new list to inspire you! We will show several different approaches to single page layouts – from minimal and clean ones to super colorful pages using parallax scrolling effects – there [...]

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Textures can form a principal element in your designs. They add details to images, giving a great deal of depth to a composition. Textures could come in the forms of high resolution images such as detailed surfaces of rocks, fabric, wood etc or can just be regular pictures. We have produced 7 exclusive free metal [...]

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Spencer, the developer here at Function, has been working on putting together a simple ticket or bug tracking WordPress theme. The theme allows for easy creation of a ticket/support system right within WordPress, for free. Spencer worked on this entire project himself, it was a one man project, and it turned out great, so please [...]

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One of the things I?ve tried to maintain with the branding around here is a building on top of what currently exists. Rather than completely toss out the visuals of designs and previous logos, I like to keep hints to the past. Part of that helps familiarity, but it also maintains a path of evolution rather than revolution.

Last week I rolled out an updated SimpleBits mark and simplified layout. I started tinkering a few months ago over on Dribbble and after some great feedback, settled on hex shape borrowed from the inner cube of the old mark, which was carried over from the original pixel art logo way back when. The new mark should work far better at smaller sizes and applications (which was the reason for the tweaking) and seemed fitting to bring back the original orange from the first (extremely dated) design from years ago (11px Verdana still looks good, no?).

Along with the new logo I made some adjustments to the template here as well. Most of those changes centered on a new typeface: FF Milo Web Pro which is versitle in various sizes, looks great in all caps and can be served up via Typekit (you need to purchase the font from FontFont first, which then unlocks it for use with Typekit).

Here?s to personal sites being a perpetual sandbox.

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Written & Designed by: Raji Purcell Photography by: Pablo Contreras This is the first of many articles to come in a series of write-ups on the talks given at Weapons of Mass Creation Fest: Weapons Declassified. With this series, I hope to distill the essence of each speaker’s talk and give an insight into what [...]

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Go Media is a creative agency based in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides the GoMediaZine, we also work for clients and sell stock artwork and design files on the Arsenal.

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IE9 Beta and CSS3:

Internet Explorer 9 Beta will be unleased in a week. Here?s what it?ll support in regards to CSS3. border-radius, box-shadow, multiple background images, RGBA, opacity, media queries, loads of selectors and much more.

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We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture, sound system, gaming stuff (for lunch time!). A designer is totally allowed to dream with the perfect office, and that’s what we’re gonna do here! Also, tell us your suggestions, or even better, you may tell us via twitter (mine and fabio’s), using #abdz_ofc so we can check it. Alright? I hope you guys enjoy this brief selection. Cheers!

Twig Hangers

Wall mounted Twig hangers inspired by nature. Use them to hang coats, accessories, or even cups and some kitchen accessories. (at Holy Cool)

Oppopet Mouse

A nice wireless mouse designed by nendo for elecom. (at Like Cool)

R2-D2 USB Flash Drive

A new gadget with USB for Star Wars fans: R2-D2 USB Flash Drive 16GB. As the design is typical for R2-D2 with a lot of details, the disappointing come with USB specification: only USB 2.0! For a SiFi fan, a yesterday technology cannot be a good choice even if we are talking about a character from an old movie like Star Wars. Maybe next R2-D2 USB Flash Drive will be a USB 3.0 and a decent 32GB capacity. (at 7 Gadgets)

Headphones Double as Portable Speakers

The Sinus headphones bring on the split personalities. The dished ear cup is a control dial, which transforms the headphones into a set of speakers. Take it a step further and integrate Bluetooth functionality and I?m sold. I want to be able to wirelessly pipe my music to them instead of having to use the 3.5mm jack. (at Yanko Design)

Apple Thunderbolt Display

Connect your Thunderbolt-enabled Mac to the Apple Thunderbolt Display for a panoramic viewing experience unlike any other. This huge 27-inch glossy widescreen display features a cinematic 16:9 aspect ratio and an astonishing 2560×1440 resolution. That gives you more room to work with apps on your MacBook Air. More pixels for your MacBook Pro. And a worthy desktop companion to your iMac or Mac mini. (at Apple)

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Since we really like single page layouts and the last time we had them around was back in March, we decided to gather a new list to inspire you! We will show several different approaches to single page layouts – from minimal and clean ones to super colorful pages using parallax scrolling effects – there [...]

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We’re back with a brand new set of soft and subtle grunge brushes. You can use these super soft and subtle brushes to build up your own textures in your designs with incredible ease, it’s also really easy to manipulate them in your own way to build up unique patterns and textures. Example of Brushes [...]

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