OFFF is a cutting-edge festival exploring the latest in digital aesthetics and software language and the essential meeting point for the international scene of digital creation.
Upcoming: June 24-26
MIX10 where designers and devs mix to make the web great!
Live streaming March 15th and 16th 9:00 AM-5:30 PM P.D.T. (GMT -9 hours).
Upcoming: March 15-17
Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2010 call for entries. Get recognised for your work on an international stage. Finalists will be invited to attend the awards ceremony at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles and awarded software and cash prizes.
Deadline: June 4
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Design has the power to influence our core values, our identity, our expectations and our worldview. The conference offers designers, business leaders and government the opportunity to experience current design thinking.
Reshape your understanding of the value of design.
Upcoming: April 26-30
The industry spring break! Compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders and an unbeatable line up of special programs.
It's live: March 12-16
Author Ethan Bodnar created over 30 unique tasks and gave each contributor (I was one) a task that was different from their typical work. Jumpstart your creativity!
(30 task cards included)
Designers, illustrators, photographers, design studios, collectives/crews, agencies, students, visual artists... you are welcome to submit an innovative, creative, exciting, personal and experimental artwork.
International designers Network is a publication for creative people on a mission to amplify and unify the design community.
You've got a terrific product or service and wanna reach a fabulous international audience? Looking for a sweet deal?
Free poster to download, print and share. Tx for being a terrific audience!
Sharing this special gift with you. Free to download, share and print.
Introducing the beautifully original work from Oh Yeah Studio 
based in the Netherlands. Ecclectic typographic treatments mixed with hand-drawn illustrations or photography she has established a very strong portfolio. Definitely someone to watch.
Undesign design identities. “Identity is the outward expression of a brand or a company: it includes everything, from the name to the symbol, from the visual aspects to the verbal ones. It is made up of all the elements which combine to create a strong personality and define a characteristic style, thanks to which a brand or a company is recognized and chosen by its clients.”
Their website uses javascript with nice functionalities, like closing part of a section. Like it or not?
Digging the Itty Bitty Trio hand stamped necklace! Nice to share between friends or lovers. Getting two for JF and I. Will replace ampersand with the crown.. Because our LOVE rules!
You have got to see this (watch the video! Julia Tsao project: Curious Displays which functions simultaneously as a form of design research and as a proposal for a new product, a future display technology.
“The project explores our relationship with devices and technology by examining the multi-dimensionality of communication and the complexity of social behavior and interaction. In its essence, the project functions as a piece of design fiction, considering the fluctuating nature of our present engagement with media technology and providing futurist imaginings of other ways of being.”
Not attending SXSWi this year? Here’s a little token of our appreciation for being a fab audience of Netdiver Mag. Sharing with you the full page ad that appears in this year’s program book.
We make you see things poster.
Free to download, share and print.
Can you imagine a world that would be as this? Well Adriean Koleric aka Thinkitem does and expresses so in his ecclectic collages.
Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit of UnderConsideration.
Simple, get the book (hard copy or .pdf) and study it to prepare either your very first portfolio or to weed out and refresh your current one. 41 case studies. 18 experienced designers feedback. Pertinent vendors, services, stores, materials and suppliers to help you find equivalent locally.
As Shaughnessy states: “You should never consider your portfolio finished and you should always be dissatisfied with it.. Your portfolio requires endless work.. This never changes no matter how successful you have become.”
Clever beyond clever! Usually jewellers tend to overcrowd an interface with their inventory, but RINGKING chose an altogether different direction. How about total minimalist, huge RK black letters serving as backdrop for the dropping circles encasing their gorgeous bling? Double-click an item to view large thumbnail.
That’s it! Enough interactivity, stunning products, simple nav and voilà, the recipe for a great website.
Introducing the Beyond Beauty exhibit work of illustrator (and graphic designer) Janine Rewell which is highly influenced by her homeland geographical location: Finland. Her illustrations represent an original mix of Scandinavian design and Slavic folk art.
Boys will be boys will be boys playing with their toys? Silence Television is Gianmarco Magnani space where he sells limited edition digital illustrations printed on premium matte 270 gm photo paper. The quality of his extraordinary realistic and detailed illos are simply jaw dropping.
This boy can play.. and draw!
They luv design! It shows! #8 We show it! Editorial design is a fascinating discipline.
Follow splendid examples to be inspired from.
Sony Qualia Poster by Paul Lee
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Donder en bliksem cover by Our Machine
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Identité Art’Galerie poster by Artisthe
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Intermón Oxfam by Hey Studio
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The Modern Listener’s Guide by Jez Burrows
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AHRC/BBC Knowledge Exchange Programme by Newspaper Club
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Last Bell poster by Jack Richardson
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2º Festival POPular de Cinema – Itapeva by Sebográficos
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Prisma Illuminatio poster by Network Osaka
Hipolito Gimenez Blanco, an argentinian web developer, is in New Zealand trying to get a new job in the internet industry. The Apple Boy is a great personal direct marketing action in order to apply for a job!
View the movie!
Nobody could sustain such an interface design today without seeming passé, but if you were the first one to do it, then I guess, you have royal precedence in doing it again. AgencyNet sure pulled a technical feat, the flying helicopter is unnecessary though.
Why ask your viewers to pick between your blog or full website? Is being part of the blogosphere now more important than potential clients seeing your work right off?
Deconstructed à la Picasso and busting with vivid colors of mostly celebreties illustrations by Pablo Lobato.
Another trend on the rise? Mobile gadgets adorned by talented (or well-known) designers. This one is a smarty little stand named iBend. “Need a little support?” That’s a smart tagline indeed.
Landascape by Michael Bartelos *
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Bloom by Joshua Davis *
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Cute bites by Meomi *
Throwing a party? Check out Snap and Dine a single use three-course table setting that integrates disposable cutlery with traditional silverware.
Designed by Demel Zahill.
Creative Suitcase is a custom web design and graphic design agency. Good nav idea of using semi-transparent clickable content bars to highlight the different sections.
What do you think, works or not?
A portrait of Generation Next: Millennials are 18-29
They are: Confident. Connected. Open to Change.
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They embrace multiple modes of self-expression
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They are more ethnically and racially diverse than older adults
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Love tatoos and body piercing
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Technology use is 24%
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More upbeat than their elders about their own economic futures
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Placed privacy boundaries on their social media profiles
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3rd life preoccupation: Helping others in need
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To become the most educated generation
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Interesting: they sleep with their mobile phone
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A majority say that the older generation is superior to the younger generation when it comes to moral values and work ethic.
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Download the full report.
TheyMakeApps website is part of the new generation that offers more clickable goodness (with alternate nav by mouse or keyboard keys) and useful content for iPhone developers? More than 700 listed to date.
Get listed in the Yellow Pages of the Apps Makers, to secure a spot for our imminent launch and it’s free.
Niiiice interface design!
March 8 is International Women’s Day! Celebrate women around you by letting them know what a difference they make daily in your life: Grandma, Mother, Lover, Wife, Partner, Friend, Colleague where would we be without them?
Respect to all the powagirrrls who rock the design scene with more than pink design.
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View the best of the best!
Strikingly original rich media and flash websites
Large array of drawing styles
Interface concepts fresh or edgy designs
Products, furniture, toys, wearables, architects and more
Some of the sharpest eyes shooting today
Next wave of new media and print design stars
Women who rock the design scene with more than pink design
It's all about motion (graphics)
/ Artists and their Apps by Doc Woohoo!
We are the mavericks. The innovators. The originators. We risk it all to create tools that extend our creative expression.
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/ Girl Power by Liz Wolfe
There are so many talented women blazing trails in design.
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/ It is or It is not (plagiarism)
Worst that can happen to someone’s reputation.
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To celebrate 10 years publishing online we wanted a party. A BIG WEB party!!!
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We show it! Issue #1 in the series.
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Some ways of implementing copyrighted material are considered fair use.
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/ The Design Economy by Valeria Hedman
But how do we address issues of sustainability within our own economy, the design industry?
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Websites that each have a unique approach to their current contexts.
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/ OFFF 09 Sponsor Titles movie
Light touch and spirited movie based on the proverbial mad scientist concept.
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Smart! Minimalist cover by Isaac Tobin titled Piracy for the University of Chicago Press.
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