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Best of the Year / 14

BOTY 14 - Netdiver Best of the Year reboots its tradition - and the great news? It's a stellar listing. Every year I revisit past year of design news and choose projects that strikes for their originality, quality and inspirational value.

I hold a long-standing passion for discovering amazing talents.

After 5 years hiatus. It's back!

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If you wonder who is behind? Check this interview Kuvva recently published.

/ The Typographic Circle

/ Nichole Sloane

/ Pik Nik

/ Brendan Dawes

/ Tsto

/ Loretta Lux

/ TTMM

/ Chrissie MacDonald

/ Canefantasma

/ LIE

/ Happiness Has A Hole

/ Johnny Express

/ Skidmore

/ Christian Taglianivi

/ Unerdwear

/ The Writing's On the Wall

/ TAVO

/ StudioKxx

/ Brian Rea

/ MADE Publishers

/ Rodrigo Corral studio

/ Justin Mezzell

/ Camp and Furnace

/ Andric

/ Dear Miss Modern Market

/ Elliott Golden

/ karlssonwilker inc

/ IWANT

/ Rilke

/ Anastasia Kolesnikova

/ Michael O'Neal

/ Vancouver Design Week

/ Satellites mistaken for stars

/ V.K. Rees

/ For Office Use Only

/ Josep Puy

/ Nigel Buchanan

/ Adam Ferriss

/ Dvein

/ PRPL

/ The Agency Survival Kit

/ Reasons to be Creative 2014

/ Andrew Rae

/ Good Morning, Sunshine

/ MUTI

/ The Bakery

/ Non-Format

/ Ryann Ford

/ Susi Sie

/ SD/ Socio Design

/ 12 Thoughts by Berger & Föhr

/ Scott Listfield

/ Elise

/ TXOKOSI

/ A million times

/ Co-Effect

/ QOS

/ Joslyn Reid

/ Suan.fm

/ Tanaka Tatsuya

/ Cast Iron Design

/ Monument Valley

/ Mario Wagner

/ Stapel Design

/ Ello - social network - find me :))

/ Camille Walala

/ HUM (creative)

/ Character

/ Michael Byers

/ WHY, HOW, WHAT by Brosmind

/ Plenty Reel 2014

/ Windows93.net

/ Erik Söderberg

/ The Retroviral Collection

/ Words Brand

/ Peter Judson

/ Mogollon

/ Superposition

/ Beatrice Heydiri

/ Peter Bankov

/ Atipus

/ Benjamin Alexander Huseby

/ SOFTlab

/ Meagan Cignoli

/ Cory Staudacher

/ Bartosz Kosowski

/ Jessica Svendsen

/ Bees & Bombs

/ Haus

/ KuoCheng Liao

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DuckDuckGo?

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We use it everyday.

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Obsidian app

Obsidian

This private (free) app I use daily for taking notes or writing. Back up to the cloud for multi-devices access. Runs locally.

Deep and complex.

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Carole's Instagram

I paint abstract with pretty colours ~ I play with mobile apps to create unique generative art.

Look 'Ma no AI.

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Communication Arts

Communication Arts 24-25—calls for entries.

Interactive — October 25/24
Illustration — Jan 10/25
Photography — March 7/25
Design — May 2/25

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Smashing Mag

The Smashing Conferences explore real-life projects, workflows and hands-on insights.

SmashingConf - Antwerp
Upcoming: Oct 28-31/24

SmashingConf - Workshops
Online: check dates.

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AIGA

AIGA call for submissions

AIGA’s competitions celebrate exemplary design and demonstrate the power of effective design.

50 Books | 50 Covers: February 26 / 24

365: AIGA Year in Design February 26 / 24

 

Alt Summit

Alt Summit 2024.

It is a conference and a community of thousands of women influencers and entrepreneurs in creative fields.

Upcoming: March 17-20 / 24

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YWFT

YouWorkForThem — Good design needs good fonts! YWFT is privately owned and run by designers.

Rocking it since 2001.

/ Highlighted talents

 

They LUV design! #13

Mind-blowing visual feats and original designs I recently discovered.

Previously: #12 - #11 - #10 - #9 - #8 - #7 - #6 - #5 - #4 - #3 - #2 - #1

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They LUV drawing! #3

Illustration is probably the largest creative area to express (mostly without words) a message.

Previously: #1 - #2

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A type of Show #5 – I love typography - these projects caught my eye.

Previously: #4 - #3 - #2 - #1

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Moodboards #1 – Branding collaterals staged and served with conceptual brilliance.

 

/ About us?

 

A little (www) Story. In 1995, JF and I started a little project — Netdiver mag.

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Editorials by Carole Guevin

Editorials. Design topics or issues that have impacted me and/or our creative industry. .

Over 50 articles.

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Kuvva interview

Kuvva interview

A short interview on how to build a strong portfolio + self-promotion.

 

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Carole Guevin

Carole Guevin is a founder + editor + design curator ∞ culture creator + online pioneer ∞ featuring the creative culture since '98.

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Vast array of drawing styles
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/ Motion

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286 reviews

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/ Photography

Some of the sharpest eyes shooting today
210 reviews

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/ Portfolios

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552 reviews

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/ Powagirrrls

Women who rock the design scene with _more_ than pink design
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Visual Brain Gravity is a producer and developer of concepts, products and brand experiences.

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Special Feature issues

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Netdiver Best of the Year

Best Of The Year (BOTY)

Netdiver Best of the Year is a yearly compilation of projects / talents who made a lasting impression the previous year.

/ 2016 edition

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Netdiver Vintage

Netdiver Vintage edition

What was new in design worldwide—sort of a very unofficial record of web history as captured from {1998 - 2007}.

Over 2.3k+ projects.

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Walk down memory lane: hand-coded news in design from 1998-2008.

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