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Call for entries

ArtDirectorsClub Awards

Winning work will go on a worldwide exhibition tour and be published in the Art Directors Annual 89, the longest-running archive of leading creative work in global advertising and design. Do you have what it takes?

Deadline: January 22

Motion Graphics Festival

Soon in Washington DC

Motion Graphics Festival 2009 (New Motion + New Sound + New Code) showcases explosive artists and motion picture creators including: Shepard Fairey, Digital Kitchen, Post Panic and more.

Upcoming: November 18-22

SXSW

Submit yours today

The 13th Annual SXSW Interactive Web Awards call for submissions. This year's competition is open to all sites launched or redesigned in the calendar year 2009.

Deadline: December 18

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November 7 2009

Future looking good

:News: Barnaby Coote is a student and aspiring photographer who already belted some remarkable retouching and photo-montages skills. The Slinky Girl won him 1st place in the ADAA competition in the photography category.

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Adam Paterson is another student who (working with Santi Tonsukha) has created this amazing Seed Packaging project which was also awarded 1st place in the ADAA competition in the packaging category.

Got Headict(ed)?

:N*: What are you wearing this Winter? Check the Headict collections. Nice website and cool caps for just about any taste. Gotta luv the fact they have used Renaissance or Middle-Age portraits as head mannequins.

Mickey makeover?

:News: Seriously?!?! It was deemed we need to see Mickey (Mouse that is) darker side! They didn’t ask me.

What do you think of that?

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via nytimestech

Ethics #101

:News: Equality creates atuning. Superiority creates downtuning. Inferiority creates tuningoff.

Hats off to a Powagirrrl

:News: Debbie Millman is Sterling Brands design group president. Got acquainted while supporting early Design Matters radio shows where she interviewed design leaders weekly. She wrote the How to think like a great graphic designer book which I highly recommend. Read the review we did, when it was released.

Hats off to a Powagirrrl who recently got elected President of the national AIGA. You make us proud!

This professional association for design mission is “to stimulate thinking about design, demonstrate the value of design and empower the success of designers at each stage of their careers.”

Same as Netdiver mission since onset: “Welcome to a design and digital culture magazine devoted to tutoring, empowering and stimulating creativity. We champion the LUV of design worldwide, online and beyond.”

Immersive Infinity

:N*: Electrolux Infinity is one of the best immersive and interactive experience micro website I’ve seen this year.

Toggling between the light / dark interface changes is an efficient cue and a smart idea to highlight the little diamond shapes sub-level navigation that takes you to another rich media section.

Picture, design and user experience perfect!

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via Bruno Costa who art directed this project by F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Brazil. Read the brief and other interesting details about the food prep, for ex.

Only going up!

:N*: Featuring a new talent: Martin Sati who is an excellent graphic designer and illustrator and destined to have a fruitful career. What talent he has! His approach and resulting works are downright fresh, original, refined and breaking the mold to open a new level of visual goodness in our industry.

Sweet and melancholic

:N*: Butterfly is a sweet and melancholic fairy-tale like music video by G Dragon produced by Imagebakery with a nice mix of incorporated live action and motion graphics fx.

Experiencing nature

:N*: Gregory Euclide is an artist and teacher living in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. “Discontented with the flat surface of traditional landscape paintings, he began exploring the relationship between experiencing nature with the body and creating art objects that depict that experience. It is in that transfer, where he takes delight, manipulating cultural codes and blurring the boundaries between nature and artifice.”

Check the Relief serie which are technically complex in both execution and composition as well as inspiring in its esthetics.

Custom Rolitoboy

:N*: While doing a research, discovered some of the Custom Rolitoboy vinyl toys by proeminent designers. Aren’t they cute?

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Featured: Small and Rounds

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Featured: Mar Hernandez aka Malota

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Featured: Julie West

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Featured: Mini Rolitoboy French Kiss serie — more images here.

Eco-chic wall stickers

:N*: Hommu produced eco-chic wall stickers. Gotta luv the Paella (one of my fav Spanish dish) and Gazpacho — which surprisingly really look good on walls other than the kitchen.

89th ADC Awards

:Event: Art Directors Club 89th Annual Awards Call for Entries is now opened. Announcements of the winners will appear in national and international advertising and design publications, both in print and online versions. Winners will be announced at the Gala ceremony at ADC Gallery in New York in the spring of 2010. Winning work will go on a worldwide exhibition tour and be published in the Art Directors Annual 89, the longest-running archive of leading creative work in global advertising and design.

Deadline Design: January 22
Deadline Interactive: January 29
Deadline Advertising: February 5
Deadline Hybrid: February 26
Deadline Students: January 29

Sublime Makoto Yabuki

:N*: Must see from top to bottom! Makoto Yabuki original projects and fantastic direction works.

Featured: AS ONE motion graphics

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Featured: Mask paper construction + photography

Kaleidoscopic!

:News: Kaleidoscopic! Josh (Davis) had shown early comps of this app at a conf last Spring and thought it a genial idea. Luv it that he has ported is digital generative art randomness algorithms to the iPhone. You can design (and save) unique wallpapers, view, interact and share your creations.

REFLECT is available for 1,99$ for the month of November.

Wrap it up!

:News: Wrap it up! Protect and adorn your iPhone with designy skins. Wide variety available at Infectious described as “community designed goodness”. Perfect as happy-bday gifts!

Blok Design way

:N*: Another pearl found! Very nice website and portfolio projects for Blok Design who claims to be a “design studio and space for ideas, idealist and intuitive, international in character and scope..” The About text is quite a literary delight.

Don’t miss the Caban, Emigre Film, Evolutiva and Ödün projects. Bottom line, I have enjoyed most of their projects.

Quick note about these taglines: “There is always another way” — “Certainty is the death of exploration” — enough weight in these words to kickstart creative juices.

Doing your bit..

:News: Wanna see a fantasticly well produced and designed project initiated by Lottie Crumbleholme a recent graduate of the RCA (Royal College of Art)? One that I wish would be replicated the world over?

Doing your bit is a campaign designed to give environmentally conscientious people ways of turning their individual actions into a larger form of political protest. This project is based around the idea, “If you are already doing you bit, wouldn’t it be nice to get a bit of help?”

Fuzzco is cool

:N*: Now that’s a really nice website for Fuzzco a creative studio from Charleston, SC specializing in web and graphic design. What I find totally original is the sections headers titles that load as little hinged bars! Cool!

The Monocle series

:N*: Well it is a hard task to take complex information and translating it into simple to understand symbols. Robert Samuel Hanson is a pro at paring down illustrations to the essential. Specially luv these from the Monocle series.

Fresh out!

:N*: Fresh out! Freddy Boo is a new illustrator who lives and works in London. He creates humorous and imaginative graphic digital images.

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