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January 5 2008
Three guys with three overdrived imagination make up the collective Venour who just launched their new website that favors humor and silly little animations to take us to the hidden sections.
They dip into new media, illustration, VJ, art, entertainment, own a shop.. busy-busy guys.
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Josh Cochran illustrations seem to always juggle complex information and manages to combine these in interesting concepts avoiding the pitfalls of over designing.
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Hot off the press: Geometric, a graphic art and pattern fonts book. The first ever book published by the talented gals at Kapitza 
it comes with a CD containing 100 pattern fonts which is probably the most extensive pattern collection available from any foundry.
This colorful collection is almost dizzying! How the authors managed to compile such a wide array of patterns underlines how undertaking this task points to a real passion - almost an obsession.
Fantastic, the fact that they supply the CD containing all the fonts and ready to use for your own compulsive pattern designs. Last but not least, it includes a useful font index and a smartly explained tutorial section.
XING by /// Art Directors Club
Art Directors Club 88th Annual Awards Call for Entries is now opened. Winners will be announced at the Gala ceremony at ADC Gallery in New York in the spring of 2009. Winning work will go on a worldwide exhibition tour and be published in the Art Directors Annual 88, the longest-running archive of leading creative work in global advertising and design.
Deadline: January 16
Vincent Van Gogh said:
“I am always doing
what I cannot do yet,
in order to learn how to do it.”
PingMag, the Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” will be taking an extended hiatus, and will not be updated for the foreseeable future.
Refreshment
served! Ideas!
A closer look at creativity!
“One of the most daunting task for a designer is to generate ideas. Sometimes this task is considered a minor undertaking for unknowing people. Why so? Because the results may look convincingly simple. Deceitfully simple. Nada. This is not the case as you may well know.
So how do we in fact become proficient idea generators? First, ideas = creativity. The root of creativity stems from the word creation which is to create from nothing. Nice theoretical assumption. Now what is the practical side?”
Let's finish 2008 in grand style and welcome 2009 with high expectations of discovering new talents. Soooo totally creative, and cutting edge, and sitting (definitely) out of the box are the works of The Rainbowmonkey.
This is the home base and personal playground of designer, musician and artist Markus Hofko. Don't miss his signature work for his main music project Okyo.
Did I say wow! See you on the other side.
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Gotta luv this ultra minimalist one pager website concept that plays literally on a metaphor of black and white to make up for Contrast. They state: We do web apps — We're pretty good.
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Atelier Utopia is “a transversal laboratory of ideas, a virtual container that really joins together the passion for art, design, fashion and everything that can become communication.”
Well rounded pitch isn't? I particularly like these suspension lamps.
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Keep Your (Design) Job Right Now by Greg Huntoon
“There are tough decisions being made in conference rooms and owners’ offices all over the world right now, and your name might be inextricably on one of the cut lists. So, let’s assume, for the sake of this article, that you are on the chopping block, but you are in the gray area.. ”
Yosoh has relaunched a new website. He creates memorable ceramics and design. Maybe an odd match but one he has taken full advantage of.
“In grad school getting my MFA in Ceramics, I met a graphic designer named Larry Geiger who showed me this program called Photoshop. Completely enthralled by all the things he could do, I began to see the computer in a completely different light. That Christmas break, the chair of the art department gave me his building key. But instead of logging studio time, I snuck into the computer lab and spent the next 30 days glued to the screen.”
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XING by /// Netdiver 10 call for entries
Netdiver just turned 10 and we are inviting artists, designers, illustrators, photographers, design studios, collectives, crews, agencies.. to submit artworks for 1 inch button (badge) and 4x6 postcards.
Winners will be be part of the Feed your Eyes limited edition - vintage collection to be released next Spring. Nice huh?
Deadline: February 2
YCN Awards 09, Professional Development, Exhibition, Book, Certificates and more... download the .pdf for the brief. Opened to 30 years or under.
Deadline: March 27
I hapchanced on this book by Rex Ray that compiles pages upon pages of his recognizable motifs and designs. It is one of those treasures I cherish since I have a passion for forms and colors. He has taken his collages and paintings to a new level of visual delight. His style, reminescent of the kitschy 70's is infused with unrivalled candor and playfulness.
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Vanna Bowles creates mostly monochromatic spectacular illustrations usign relief which adds drama to her vignettes and builds emtionally charged mechanical paper sculptures.
Must see!
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Oded Ezer has built quite a reputation has as a progressive and innovative typographer using hebrew lettering, insects, vegetal like textures and other techniques such as 3D, cutouts, shadow to create stunning results.
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Working on a new version of your site, R2 (graphic design and art direction) is a good example on how to keep enough of your work visible till then. The only thing missing - is a title in the document.
Btw this is something that I encounter more and more, it's really important both for search engine catalogs and for bookmarking purpose. How do I know - who is yet another 'untitled document'?
Dan Funderburgh serving patterns on apparel, graphic design, even wallpapers (pretty cool ones indeed) since 2003.
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365: AIGA Annual Design represents the best work across all disciplines
of communication design and strategy. Work in all media that has been designed, produced and used in the marketplace
between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year is eligible. School projects
are not eligible.
50 Books/50 Covers of 2008 competition aims to identify the 50 best-designed books and book covers of 2008 and used in the marketplace between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year is eligible.
Deadline: March 6
Totally awesome WADEZIG! Which name hints at nothing, showing End of the Beginning issue (of?) and I wouldn't know how to pronounce the name - but wait and see. Ah! This is a really rad website - simple interface with kewl scripting tricks and absolutely gorgeous apparel.
See for yourself!
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XING by /// SXSWi
SXSW interactive is the Spring break of the industry and features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties.
Upcoming: March 13-17
Found this new type foundry, NewbauLaden that offers a series of really useful fonts. Nice website too.
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Discover an artist, Oliver Vernon whose style is containing chaos with beautifully complex compositions and forms.
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Pictoplasma - Pictopia is bringing together a growing international community of designers, artists, critics, producers and fans. The worldwide explosion of character design at the beginning of the millennium changed visual culture distinctively.
Upcoming: March 19-21
Designboom interview with Vince Frost.
“.. the harder it is the more challenging it becomes. At the end of the day we're a service. We're just trying to help people. We (designers) are not mysterious people, our work is really straight forward, it just takes a lot of effort to listen really hard and to explore..”
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