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Design and digital culture NEWS // July 2007

She likes editorial design and he likes type and patterns. They both are illustrators and under Gina & Matt they accept either in solo or in collaboration assignments.

Auke Vleer's work is soo intense! Just the look of those eyes on the opening picture is almost unsettling. Luv the light in the photograph below and some of his stills, contain stunning light tricks that shapes the overall composition.

What is this UNIQLOCK at the bottom of our right side column of the What's new page? It's a music dance clock geographically distributed across the Internet and produce by UNIQLO a very popular casual wear brand from Japan.

Netdiver is located in Montreal, Canada and the clock shows local time ticking in real-time! Ain't that cool or what?

Quiet Structure by Andy Rutledge

“When content is of paramount importance and you want to facilitate visitors spending time reading the content rather than just looking at it, using quiet structure helps to create the right kinds of affordances.”

bugaboo daytrips is an exceptional concept flash website! Pick a location and get a walking map, all of which illustrated by a different artist. When you have chosen a location, click on any of the numbered dots to see a snapshot of the area and a short description.

Nice!

Flurina Rothenberger culturally rich and diverse photography. Don't miss the precious mess, chez les chères soeurs section.

Paul Barbera can dispense vibrant photographic refinement and stunning lighting in his work!

Build’s Get Involved poster, returned via CR Blog

“When Build designed a poster for monthly musical shindig Get Involved that invited people to quite literally get involved – with the poster – he probably never expected he’d get to see the results of other peoples’ involvement..”

View the 40+ posters that have been returned far.

How to describe Yvonnne Brandwijk photography style? Realistic with a dash of poetic ambiance.

FETA have launched a new website and I think the overlayed diagonal bars fx over the typo gives it an edge. Although the keyboard navigational system is not that simple, granted there are loads of info, once you get the hang of it, it's pretty straightforward.

Samia Saleem knows about design, and is fluent about web design. Amongst her recent projects, the overall look and feel of the Live Earth MSN website and print collaterals.

Her portfolio website kick..a.. big time! She uses flash smartly to integrate, animate and present her work!

Way to go girrrl!

If you could is an annual publication set up by designers Will Hudson and Alex Bec aiming to showcase the best in design and illustration, contributions are welcomed from both established and up and coming artists.

Each publication is launched alongside an exhibition, showing every single contribution received, meaning nobody's work goes unseen.

Designklub is a meeting place for design, style and craft. If you're into the product side of design, cool stuff they post.

Networking = The Circle of Trust by Steven Gordon

“Tell the truth. What does your network do? How many times do you actually plug into your so called network?

Networking is a much a social art as it is a business necessity..”

Read the 6 Real Networking Tips.

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ndle1: via Graphic Define which focuses on the business of
running a design studio.

Tea please! Irana Douer lovely hand painted cups!

LOVEPIXEL or pixel madness? This huge canvas (fetch a drink, it takes a while to download) is probably the biggest pixelbase design completed.

Always be careful at what you laugh at, it might just come back to hit and bite you hard! Wonder after the phenomenal success of the iPhone launch (and sales!!! Can you believe these numbers?!?!?) I don't think Microsoft CEO Ballmer laughs at Apple’s iPhone anymore.

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ndle1: via aiAlex

Fantasmagoric and dreamy illustrations by self-taught artist Amy Sol which depicts lovely creatures and beautiful landscapes. Interestingly, a lot of them are painted on wood.

ParkInk is a sharp portfolio for a graphic designer! Luv the photoshoot designs.

d.Construct designing the user experience tickets are go and going quickly!

He's good with people! Ian Phillips-McLaren has got an eye, and as you will see in his photography portfolio, his portraits are widely different in mood and settings, indicating a high level of talent versatility.

Lace your shoes, strap your belt, get ready for lift off! Sony Ultrium is one heck of a motion graphic and visual fx marketing movie!

Directed by Marc Fouchard and designed by 3e-Oeil.

It's simply fulled of monsterism! IMAKETHINGS illustration portfolio.

If sounds were visible, Magnetosphere ambient film by Robert Hodgin based on the music of Trentemoller, would be a nice beginning.

James Jean is another stunning illustrator whose realistic characters are featured and set-up most of time, in otherworldly (scary?) backgrounds.

LCS or the Little Chimp Society just turned 1 and to celebrate they're giving away some really cool gear!!!

Julien Pacaud can be defined by one word: collages designed across different media, mostly print, editorial and book jackets.

The Clayton Brothers are.. well.. two brothers who do with brio quirky surreal illustrations densely populated with cultural references.

Mark Stuckert is a semi-attractive artist and designer from Vancouver and you're invited to view a sample of his work.

Hamza Aytac operates from Istambul his bureau of art direction and photography and just released his July issue portfolio.

FIVe 3D is an open source code for the conception of interactive vector-based 3D animations. The classes are written in ActionScript 2.0 and based on the ActionScript 3.0 structure.

Offered by the fantastically talented Mathieu Badimon.

Dynamic Abstraction: “I finally had the 2 words that described a process that I was using to create my work for several years.”

Joshua Davis is a New York based artist, designer, and technologist producing both public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions.

Thought Leadership by Design: Inspiration for Designers, Businesspeople and Design Evangelists compiled by Nate Burgos.

Here are a couple of my fav quotes:

“Design is that competitive advantage that sets a company apart in the global market. Within the global economy, the highest performing companies see design as a strategic asset. It becomes the core to their businesses. For those companies, design is more than aesthetics—it’s competitive intellectual property.”
—Monika Conway

“Designers are not highly paid cake decorators.”
—Spencer Murrell

“Design is a method of action.”
—Charles Eames

Charuca Shop is now opened. Cute things for Kawaii princesses!

Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006 exhibit ends July 29 at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

Start a revolution for under 20 bucks by Chris Baskind

“Imagine a $3 device that will keep a half-ton of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere during the course of its life..

.. this simple change would save enough electricity to light 2.5 million homes for a year and cut greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to nearly 800,000 cars.”

Have you heard of Commonwealth? Not the regime but the product architects duo Zoë Coombes and Francisco David Boira, two New York architects whose digitally-oriented agenda pursues two mutually supportive modes of design: the collaborative and non-collaborative.

Have a peek at this slide show!

They have done numerous exhibits, a couple at Maxalot gallery which holds some of the most cutting-edge shows. Their work is very original and craftmanship is extraordinaire.

Sanderson Bob is an art director who “whether you are looking for a huge pink and lime polka dotted monagon or a small yellow triangle will approach your project with the same passion, motivation and commitment. Ideas are the source of new creations.”

See how he delivers.

Saelee Oh illustrations are just the right balance between simplicity and delicate details and all her work is finished by hand rather than the computer. Sweet.

You gotta see the B Street Gallery project by ziba design, where art sells real estate!!! Who would have thought of it?

If you like Portland, they have a couple of job openings too!

glue London is looking to expand their pool of talented Freelancers across the following areas:

Flash Designers / Animators with Advertising experience. Flash Programmers with strong action script 2 skills and a good design eye. Illustrators. Copywriters. Designers with After Effects / 3D Skills. Web Designers Usability & Information Architect experts. Navigation & Site Layout gurus Developers with ASP, PHP, .NET

POTIPOTI is a graphic fashion agency that I've been following for a number of years. Urban and wild, sweet and edgy, all items are a mix of them all.

On-going? Summer collection sale starts July 2!

If walls could speak.. goes the saying. What if they would check the quality of air by breathing and listening to your habits so you would get the just right amount of fresh air in your home? Far fetched???

Well, the thesis project of Joakim Oscarsson is just about that. Read and see images of a spatial presence of thoughtfulness.

Probably one of the most original photography portfolio I've seen. Kuba Dabrowski has a knack at catching almost surreal pictures.

His portraits composition are an explosion of human density and staging the palpable difference between all subjects.

Single minded over one particular market? Then why not? Soap Design soaked up in music cd sleeve design and doing it great.

Your sitting tight? Get ready to be blown away! Found this gem! Presentingenvironments reel that show small glimpses of blue and green screen captures, meshed wires

Check the whole 'reel' sections for more incredible visual fx!

Simply awesome!

Crispin Porter employee hand book offers these tips in order for the agency to run smoothly.

WE ASK THAT YOU DON’T: Throw sand. Be selfish. Disparage others. Talk sh... Duck responsibility. Play the busy card. Leave others hanging. Make excuses. Disappear. Make promises you don't keep. Say it can't be done.

Funny and serious at the same time, don't you think?

Fresh out and ready to hit the design world! Storming through, make room for Curt! This fresh rookie with an outstanding talent has a knack for moving images and is up for grab!

Imagine what he can do.. Watch his reel and see for yourself.

From Berlin with luv.

Oh the lovelies! Take-g toys are all made of wood and taking the craft to an all new level. For kids and grown-up kids!

Scholz & Volkmer is a multi-awards winning web agency that has been serving the corporate world since '94... which means it has some serious experience under its belt and loads of people on payroll (can you count up to 85 plus project based freelancers).

They have numerous job openings... so if you're in Wiesbaden (DE) or around, check them out.

Recycled! Redesigned for a new purpose, check out the Container City an innovative and highly versatile system that uses shipping containers linked together to provide high strength, prefabricated steel modules that can be combined to create a wide variety of building shapes and adapted to suit most planning or end user needs.

Wow! If you think being boxy delivers bland! Think again.

Eloisa Iturbe has over 10 years experience in design and art direction for TV. Her studio specializes in televison branding and broadcast design: from the complete (re)design of a channel's graphics package, to id's, promos, main titles, and everything in between.

From Argentina with luv!

No end in sight to their creativity Straightinyourface is a young design bureau who luv street art, 3D, illustration, type and web while pushing their way up. Loads of promising work.

Stock Exchange of Vision has got some thoughtful insights to offer about the future. Read what Al Gore, Bruce Mau, Amy Franceschini and others have got on their mind.

Welcome to the bountyfull world of Ronald Kurniawan which is filled with letter looking characters some strange animals on mostly surreal landscapes.. it's like capturing some of your weirdest dreams..

Probably one of the best illustrator I've ever seen.

We are what we do and Plastic ain't my bag!

“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.

A wise man once said this. Right before he grabbed his canvas jute and dashed out the door. Our ‘Plastic Ain't My Bag’ campaign is We Are What We Do’s nationwide appeal - to those brains and these arms - to help rid our shores of the plastic bag. It’s a good dream.

With your help we can make it our best idea.”

Dear Mr Barnbrook… is a Creative Review interview..

with designer, typographer and all-round tweaker of the nose of corporate irresponsibility, Jonathan Barnbrook.

His Friendly Fire show is the current exhibit of the Design Museum.

Circulo Creativo is a meta portal for the most important publicity awards in Mexico and in this new website, you can browse thru almost 1,300 awarded pieces, in radio, TV and print.

And watch almost 850 awarded tv spots.. check the archivo.

All done in flash, is easy to navigate and fast loading!

YPNY stands for Your Planet Needs You a website around green issues. Now is the time to change the World for the better... Project was initiated by two blokes on a mission: Phil Turner and Jon Symes.

They collaborated for a year to write a book (proceeds from the sale of our books are going to worthy causes) and launch the website.

Take a stand and support!

Luv the pretty Good on Paper birthday (note)books designed by Lisa Wong Jackson.

Incubator or the art of regal design by IGLOO

Incubator, brand building. Digital branded environments. Design. Dream. What do 10 years of agency projects lead to?

What does 10 years of hard work afford you? What do make with 10 years of creative processes?

This is not your usual agency book compilation! Ooooh you will be delightfully surprised by the sheer quality of the work they have done and while going through their decades worth of archival material, backups and hard drives.. it seems that the book evolved into becoming more than a parade but a studio tell-all.

How about creating a book to give back. They begun to pour information onto the pages and exhibits how the work came to be, revealing ideas on ideas.

Splurge on the complete design process from sketch to completion providing tools to unleash our creativity.

The layouts are gorgeous page after pages, it is concise and well written and companion website is offering additional downloads making this book, the best in this genre!

Remains about 353 copies, get yours today!

Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo. Check this outstanding link about the future of images on the web... it´s amazing what this guy just did...

Underwater World is a fantastic advert movie. See how socks, shirts and more interact within a washing machine. cool concept!

And the lovely Equipo, that renders in pictures how nothing is impossible.

These are two of the 86th ADC competition winners and I'm pleased to see that the Happiness Factory got some well deserved recognition too.

Peeking into the valley of giants. Very recently, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were paired up in a series of interviews where candid questions and answers were given. It's a rare view into the reality and behind the myth of these two techno pioneers.

Cannot provide a direct link, so I suggest you check out All Things Video and pick the DS tab and scroll down to pick and choose.

Tal Gliks had a fantastic masters program assignment. He did all work, direction, photography, animation, compositing, 3d and music editing for the Offf 2007 opening credits, in collaboration with Offf director Hector Ayuso and the festival art director Aimee Campos.

What I like best is the fact that Barcelona and unique cityscape is part of the film.

And we've got colors! The Q Collective website departs from the minimalist to the exploding colors version but as you will see in sub levels, I think the information architecture rocks.

Neat spacing, nice thumnails and good use of white space!

To Sandie Maxa and crew, hats off!

See and hear what Neville Brody thinks of the Helvetica font! Great insights from a type master.

Excerpt from Helvetica a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.

Animated or still critters cannot get any sweeter either when shown in a Meomi movie or in The Octonauts, who premiered their first adventure past Autumn.

Beautifully produced by talented Vicky Wong and Michael Murphy.

Leitwerk is a Büro für Kommunikation and have decided that a multi-thumbnail presentation for their portfolio would work best. Although it may look busy, pick and choose to visualize a larger one accompanied with a description.

Wonderful to see her illustrations and designs getting better and better, Clementine has graced the Powagirrrls section since 2004, and has completely redesigned her webiste.

A must see!

The flash website for VIEW is showing contextual visuals for the different projects they've completed. Seek for the little arrow or text icon in the portfolio menu section.

From Portugal with luv.

IWAMOTOSCOTT exemplifies pinnacle science-fiction so out there design it's almost like a vision of the future architecture. Be ready for lift-off!

Kakugoshiiya is the art spot for Agnieszka Futa who happens to be 19 years old. Somewhat tackling darkish topics, her talent is promising. Someone to watch for.

May1st Reboot Afterphase is published. Read the judges reviews and meet the winners! It was a very good year indeed!

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