NEWS // May 2008
CosmicSoda welcomes
you to a new t-shirt gallery where you can submit your designs and of
course get paid for them!
They
are good with concepts and excel at doing so. Recently discovered new illustrators:
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Daniel Lim sweet and emotional characters
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Emptees for the luv of tshirts design community
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Aaron Kraten bold central characters with often mixed artifacts
Grant
Barnhart is a talented illustrator who will have his first oversea
show at Leslie's Art Gallery, Luxembourg
and will be attending the opening.
Ron
van der Ende uses reclaimed timber to create astounding and realistc
bas reliefs which scales, as you will see, can be quite big.
“I
learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..”
– Henry David Thoreau
Made
in Bunch identity adventure has after one year and over 450 contributions
come to near completion.. or has it? They are still accepting new entries
for next the few months…
Have a look at the gallery and published contributors. Some pretty awesome design and concepts are listed.
April
27, is World
Graphics Day which is an opportunity to recognize communication design,
its role in the world and to celebrate Icograda's anniversary. It has
been celebrated internationally since 1995.
Studio/lab is
a design consulting services with offices in Chicago and San Francisco
and they specializes in strategic brand design, information design, communication
design.
Fairspot
interwiew with Tom Muller aka Hello
Muller
“We're here to bring the flavor to your senses, and what better way of doing that than to feature one of the few designers that successfully mixes grid structure with Sci-fi-like style! We're talking about a design icon here, someone that every creative insider has heard of at least once, and if asked to describe in one word, might blurt out orange or classic.”
L2M3 is
a heavy-weight kommunikation design buro experienced in print and environmental
design, a penchant for culture related projects and more. I like the
the black horizontal bars while a project loads.
From Stuttgart with luv.
Abiding
in a class all of his own, John
Malloy is a talented illustrator who has succeeded in porting his
skills to varied projects.
His depictions are somewhat washed out or bold with colors where humans are sometimes distorted by strong inner emotions or turmoils.
Eeeee!!! DesignSpotter brings
your design into the spotlight and now in beta, a spanking new website
and very nice new identity!
This online magazine offers young designers a platform for publication. They publish young designers works and ideas and build up a base for communication among all those people who love and live design like us.
From this..
Are
you in Montreal? Looking for a location to co-share with other indie
workers? Or meet clients? Or do a small gathering? Or even throw an event?
Than Station C offers a range of
plans for a reasonable fee.
“Un coworking, c’est un espace ou les travailleurs indépendants et pigistes peuvent travailler en paix, collaborer, rencontrer des clients, s’entraider et tenir des événements dans leurs domaines. C comme dans coworking, collaboration, communauté, création, code, citoyen, centre…”
It's
time to keep your eyes on Eye Magazine a
quarterly covering design who has officially
gone solo and was released to its present editor, John L. Walters.
via: Icograda
Isle
of MTV 1 and Isle
of MTV 2 show opener ident and teaser with ingenious motion graphics
by Anders Schroder.
Another
kewl campaign by Uniglo who
manage to come with original ideas to promote their brand.
Furnish edited
by R. Klanten, S. Lovell, B. Meyer
Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century
To restore and renew my inspiration — books have always been the main source. Today, to be a well-rounded designer you need to be opened to multi-disciplines contributions to the current state of the industry. As the barrier between art and design narrows, guess we could say that we are indeed in an era where esthetics are an important aspect of modern life from the mundane to the most extravagant.
Furnish is an eloquent, polished and concise overview of the now scene in product and interior design. Each sections is documented with a well researched list of projects. The introductory text which sets the context methodically, is non-verbose, making it an easy and enlightening read. But the best part is the staggering quality of examples that spans the pages.
I was utterly surprised and tickled by the scope of what is going on out there — that I did not know of — and grateful to both fill the void and tap into what the object is or can become. Grateful too, that there is a sizable portion dedicated to experimental, rapid prototyping and questioning why do we need stuff anyway.
Sennep came
up with a stacked of cards to show this long-time running industrial
product design and consulting company profile and achievements. The whole
site has a pared-down and elegant feel. Don't miss the case studies section.
From designing the first cordless kettle in the 80’s to the conceptual interior of Virgin Galactic tourist spacecraft SeymourPowell portfolio is vast and varied.
War
Design Studio is a growing practice predominantly working on branding,
packaging and literature projects and are looking for Senior / Junior
Designers.
From Australia with luv!
Presenting:
Preparation, Process, and Pizzazz by Lea Alcantara
“There is a reason why public speaking is a common phobia; just because someone is knowledgeable about a subject does not mean they know how to communicate their ideas for others to absorb.
Never dive into creating your presentation without knowing the constraints within which you are working, as they can really alter how you present. When I started to prepare for my presentation, I had to ruthlessly narrow down what my goals for speaking were before I tackled the nitty gritty.”
Yolo is
the graphic design studio of Martin Fewell based in Manchester UK. He
has a wide range of experience in television and worked north to work
for The Designers Republic for 2 and a half years. He dabs in font design
as well.
Established
in 1997 by Bryan Edmonson and John Simpson, SEA are
an independent, multi-disciplinary design agency based in London. Nice
print and environmental projects.
Chromatics
have been a taunting challenge since I started playing colors as a teen.
My first painting was an horrible brownish mess and I vouch to decipher
the rules behind.
In The Mod: Color Analytics — A Dr. Woohoo Production — is an ingenious system whereas different paintings are analyzed on the fly producing a color palette that you can download and use in either Photoshop or Illustrator, Flash, Processing and After Effects. You can find similar palettes too and in the menu section, you can read about the process behind the generative engine.
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This led me to discover the deliriously out of this world collection of illustrations by Colin Johnson.
Brian
Willmont likes striking colors and builds unusual installations.
MAGROUND is
a picture agency for landscape-, urban- and background photography. The
high resolution image material is optimized specifically for the use
in advertising and CGI. The range of international locations includes
multi-perspective photography as well as GPS-supported specifications
of location, which make it possible to use the archive also for location
scouting.
Did
you know that Safari 3.1 is available for Windows? We
can't say same from M$ product fallouts for the Mac platform — like
dumping IE5.2.. It claims to be the fastest browser on any platform — Safari
is the first browser to pass the Acid2 benchmark from the Web
Standards Project — and if you like the Mac chrome design — we
window serfs can also own a little piece of it. And of course, available
for the glamorous iPhone.
And that Apple claims their “engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one.” See the kewl interface and also own it as an extra browser to test your in-progress websites. Download the .pdf to see the complete functionalities.
Major drawbacks: the anti-aliasing of fonts, with no options to just say no thanks, the bookmarks open over the browser window instead as a drop down, and the fact that there is no lower chrome which I use all the time to check the URL address of a website before going there.
Rules
for Responsible Reformatting: A Developer Manifesto edited by Luca
Passani
“The introduction of reformatting systems can lead to the disruption of mobile web sites for all of the users in their respective networks. This situation is a concern for mobile web neutrality and has the potential to jeopardize the mobile web as a platform in the years to come.”
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A couple of years ago we encountered exactly the symptoms described of a proxy reformatting, whereas porn advertisement was inserted in the Netdiver content viewed by users of a mobile network in Japan. We sucessfully blocked the network — to detriment of users — so I urge you to read the manifesto and sign it.
