MadInSpain 08 international design event will take place in sunny Madrid.
Upcoming: September 12-13
Robin
Eley is the consumate portraitist working with oil and acrylics. His
illustrations are often capturing the engrossing featured topic and often
depict subjects in a charicacture of themselves.
Much talent!
Celebrating
an upcoming and promising artist, Reto
Kaul aka gizmodus is a Swiss freelance concept artist / illustrator
who has work experience in concept design, book illustrations, covers
and fashion design. His landscapes are breathtaking, check him out.
Flexing
their creativity, the Patrizia
Pepe is an efficient website that show the company fashion apparel
collections using the latest flex technology. Also the man Autumn collection
is slick and elegant in comparison with the usual too austere or too extravagant
ones.
The photography work is stunning as you will see, I'm a great fan of minimalist settings in such projects.
Thumbs up!
Craig
Phillips is a freelance illustrator working in his studio in the sunny
South Coast of NSW. His science-fi comic book like approach gives way
to depth and exquisitely detailed results.
EULDA
received almost 1000 excellent entries sent from 33 different countries
and their unique three-tier jury has selected 201 logos to be published
in the Eulda '07 annual.
Todd
Proctor has a quirky approach to design and illustration standing
on a one-pager website.
Terranova stands for italian spirit in fashion and the label website demonstrates
this in luscious surroundings and beautiful pictures.
Daisy
Fletcher 
studied Illustration at the University of Brighton, graduating in 1999
with First Class Honours. She went on to complete her MA in Communication
Art and Design at the Royal College of Art.
She now freelances and has done a number of exhibitions. Her style borders on realistic with a touch of surrealism rendered in beautiful lines.
Kanardo
a two headed unit for graphic design, goes black!
170+
Expert Ideas From World’s Leading Developers by Smashing Magazine
What is one thing to do before starting a new project?
What is one common mistake you should always avoid developing web-sites?
What is one device/tool or/and service you can’t imagine your life without?
Sohum
Cosmetics, beautifully designed packaging.
Interview
with Kenya Hara by Maggie Kinser Hohle
Kenya Hara is a fortysomething graphic designer based in Tokyo and the art director of MUJI, the no-name brand agency. “Although he has designed the usual things in that field—posters, packaging, signage, corporate identities—what he’s really good at, and becoming best known for, is looking at the big picture of where design fits into real, modern, daily life.
Hara’s a cerebral designer, but also eloquent and he produces exquisite work..”
50
Designers x 6 Questions by Smashing Magazine
What is one typical myth about web-development (which is not true)?
What is one bulletproof method to get over creativity block?
What is one thing you wish you knew before you’ve started programming/designing/… ?
Apple
Inc. “Get
a Mac” named most successful marketing campaign of 2007 by Effie
Awards. Click the view 'videos' to have a good laugh.
It amazes me no end, how the 'personality' of behomoths competitors comes across without saying anything but clip style fast firing short sentences.
Andy
Ward is all about illustration, animation and character design and
he does so with brio and gusto! Check him out.
914
is a dynamic artworker working on a range of projects including creative
direction, design and illustration for magazines, music, arts & culture.
Stay tuned for the launch of the cute Puppets calculators!
Jeffrey Docherty is a New Zealander art director currently living
in New York. Over the past seven years he's worked with many inspiring
studios in New York, Australia and New Zealand.
Another typography luver!
Task-Focused is Rob Cordiner's,
an Australian born graphic designer with an affinity for typographic solutions,
home on the web.
Zeixs books are out!!! The call for
entries was a great success
and the four books covering graphic design, illustration, logotype and
typography are now available!
The
Dieline claims to be the ultimate package design blog. Although they
only started publishing this year, worth digging for inspiration or submitting
your shiny packaging designs.
ONTOUR launches their Fall
/// Winter Collection! Now if you need fab digs here you go! Their best
till now!
SLEEP
CLUB
is the joint work of artists Dell Stewart and Adam Cruickshank. Sleep
Club is all business, all day. Adam's work has appeared in numerous magazines
and Dell has organised and participated in numerous solo and collaborative
exhibitions.
LIFELOUNGE
brought together 22 artists from around the globe to design a shirt. All
of the profits from the sale go to charity.
To all eye candy luvers now coming to you in 22Flavours!
Must
see! Followig in the Oakley series of promotional mini websites for their
sponsored atheletes, as you will see, they all carry the same luscious
visual treatment, suprise interactions and bits and pieces of their personal
life while competing for world titles.
/ Oli's life is Oli Adams, pro Surfer Champion
/ Vicci's life
Vicci Miller, pro Snowboard Champion
/ Scott and Tyler's life Scott McMorris and Tyler Chorlton, pro Snowboard Champions
Bunker
Design is another portfolio of design and flash goodness.
The results of our mini-poll are in and confirms the new sections we were
considering for Netdiver new website! Thanks to everyone who voiced their
choices on what Netdiver should have ..
Live submissions by users -> 19%
Comments opened -> 7%
Designer rockstar interviews -> 20%
Business of design articles -> 15%
cool design competitions -> 13%
A .pdf or flash magazine -> 25%
Smashing
magazine is ramping up a week-long party for their 1st Anniversary!
Stay tuned for the details!
40+ Books For Professional Design & Development
Three
detailed articles on sketching, inking and coloring illustrations:
The Complete Digital Comic, Part 1: Sketching and Pencilling in Photoshop
The Complete Digital Comic, Part 2: Inking in Illustrator
The Complete Digital Comic, Part 3: Coloring in Photoshop
New on the block: Collect
Project is a collective world wide open source animation project meaning
they'll collectively work on a short animation film. They aim to have
all the best motion graphic artists throughout the world contribute to
a single animation film...
August 31, last day to vote, if you haven't yet! The little poll results
are confirming the new projects and sections we will be launching. If
you've not voted yet, please do, your voice matters to us.
This project was active back in 2003 and fortunately the URL has been
updated so you can see this huge pixel based project having had 400 residents
and standing 2.000m tall.
Welcome to a new kind of building: ~MrWong's Soup'Partments.
This powagirrl sure knows how to pack an immersive experience! Check Prismgirl
new website! Scroll, mouseover, click! Enjoy beautiful!
Steven
Heller honoured by School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City, will honour Steven Heller with the Masters Series Award and retrospective exhibition. He is the author, co-author or editor of over 100 books on graphic design, illustration and political art, was an art director at The New York Times for 33 years and is a columnist for The New York Times Book Review.
“The Masters Series: Steven Heller” will be on view at the Visual Arts Museum, 209 East 23rd Street, New York City.
Upcoming: 22 October - 1 December 2007
He
likes everything print and we luv everything print he does! Check Alex
DeArmond portfolio. Fantastic throughout from books, posters, editorial
design to environmental signage.. The Walker series is quite impressive.
ROJO
is on the move! They've recently opened an artspace in Barcelona, to open
one in Sao Paulo in September and next in New York, Paris, Berlin, Milan,
Rosario, Bucarest, Tokyo...
Looks like the design culture is in rapid expansion!
Didn't
even know these kind of websites still existed! You know, the ones that
would open multi-broswers pages upon request. Anyhow our new powagirrrl
addition, Camille Baudelaire
chose this solution to show her portfolio.
Blew
me socks away! Have a look at Ben's
life, micro-site of pro athletes Ben Grove (Skateboard).
Pleasantly surprising is the fact that on each refresh, a different section of the website loads, and each and everyone of them, has got somekind of interactions that makes it a really good experience.
Even moreso, the fact that it's not a yadiya list of his achievements, but a personal and fun peek where you get bits and pieces of the athlete life and interests.
Henning von Vogelsang aka as core
claims to be an honest interactive brand consultant and I luv his new
website!
CSStux
support the underdog (especially the cartoon) and we're turning the tables
by promoting the little guy on an equal footing with Joe Corporation.
Who
is Troika? A multi-disciplinary
art and design practice founded in 2003 by Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki
and Sebastien Noel, who met while studying at the Royal College of Art.
They develop a variety of self-initiated and commissioned projects that are both engaging and demanding to the user, from printed matter to product design and custom installations.
"You were born an orginal; don't die a copy."
— John Mason
The Beast is Back with loads
of new projects and yummy characters.
You must see Giosimi reel
with enough transitions and cameras movements to make you almost dizzy.
Eye candy guaranteed!
Desktops
wanted! Desktoptopia is a desktop
background manager for the mac that automatically loads and displays designer
desktops on your monitor, as often as you wish.
(: Sentry
Robot is ready for you :) by Parquerama
10 inches limited edition vinyl doll, produced by Kaching Brands. On sale in stores. For more information, please contact info@parquerama.com
Oh rad! Nike
Evolution video! The 30 second Nike Evolution ad features nine different
shoes in transition on a pavement.
Emil
Kozak is from a small town in Denmark, and was inspired to take on
graphic design as a result of his life long passion for skateboarding.
He designs cool merch with a recognizable stamp of the new urban lifestyle
avant-garde.
Adam
Cruickshank art and illustrations have been published around the world,
appearing on t-shirts, sketchel and installations.
At the moment he lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He went to art school in Brisbane in the early 90s and dropped out 6 months short of his degree. He's been practising artist ever since.
Completely
flipping me up! Oh my, look at Ekko
Fest is a website an upcoming festival for electronic music in Bergen,
Norway.
The interface simply blew me away. Ain't flash powerful or what? The panning fx is working perfectly overall due to solid black lines for text . The newspaper layout feel gives way to legible text only when you select an item. Check the semi-transparent widget on the left that includes program and sound.
Original, crisp and holding in a single page! Hats off to Are Bu Vindenes!
How does Netdiver work? The What's new includes daily news and buzz about
freelancers, individual professionals or studios as well as industry events.
An alternate browsing since we cover most design disciplines, these are
gathered in snapshot galleries where you can find loads of inspiration.
In mid-October, Netdiver magazine will be 10 years old and we will launch
a year-long online party bash with cool new projects for you to contribute
to.. leading to the relaunch of a brand new website late Autumn!
There will be no interruption of news about the digital culture and design community, but our RSS feed will go on a temp hiatus. We know there have been issues in regards with it, and we're going to fix this.
The little poll results are confirming the new projects and sections we will be launching. If you've not voted yet, please do, your voice matters to us.
Also stay tune for announcements on the What's new by mid-September. This is when you can join the party! Thanks so much for your support and share da luv for Netdiver around you.
What
I like about Richard Wilkinson
illustrations is this old world feel like the kind of illustrations you
can find in the very early issues of Vogue and the New Yorker. The sparingness
of lines and subdued palette concurs to this air of minimalist elegance.
The
Ekko Festival identity is designed by Grandpeople
who are masters in design and direction. They have an outstanding portfolio
that cuts right through all edges.
Peter
Granser photography captures the mundane and simple life of people
in high contrasting color giving these a surreal dimension.
Luv the dual picture presentation!
Aren't
we lucky, Chris Thompson designs with tenfingers
and he luvs print work and does so well.
Annoucing
the launch of Undoboy
Wall Decals, if you want yummy icons to adorn your walls. cool or
what?
Presenting
Oliver Sieber // J_Subs
portraits collection.
“In 1999 I finished a series of 53 portraits called “Skins Mods Teds”. I was very interested how far there are youth-cultures (or subcultures) existing in my nearby environment which lead back to important groups from the past.
For me it is interesting to see the influence of youth traditions from Europe and North America to the Japanese youth-culture, to find out the differences or coherences, what was changed regarding the style or meaning.”
Recently
updated portfolio of Eoin Stanley
overflowing with lovely characters.
Loads
of very good adverts created by Sägas
Broadcast Planet, a motion graphics company based in Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Their head directors have been involved in film and commercial
productions for the last 7+ years.
Blanka
presents 50 years
of Helvetica where you can see the font useage in selected works through
the years. Interestingly, although this font is probably the most used
and recognizabled and intended for corporate communications, as you will
see in this online gallery, not all work is of equal quality. So a great
font is not enough to make a great.. design.
Some of my favs are:
1963 // ANTOINE+MANUEL / I HAVE A DREAM
1985 // NB: STUDIO / A IS FOR APPLE
Arne
Quinze, Creative Director of Quinze
and Milan, is a trail-blazing, self-made designer. A leading member
of the Uchronia creative community that made waves at Burning Man 2006,
Quinze creates masterful sculptures, installations and productions.
John
Davey invited me to speak at the upcoming Flash
on the Beach. If you plan to be in Brighton next November, let me
know so we can hang out.
Self Promotion by Carole Guevin
“Debunking the myths and other truths. Tall order? Benefit from my unique point view afforded after reviewing upwards of 150,000 portfolios!”
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James Touhey asked very interesting questions and the interview is published on FAIRspot
Unique museum-like thumbnail galleries loaded with awesome links. Pick a category below.
Strikingly original flash based websites
Diverse illustration styles
Outstanding concepts and fresh design perspectives
Products, furniture, toys, wearables, architects and more
Some of the sharpest eyes shooting today
Emerging talents in new media, graphic design and print
Women who rock the design scene.. With more than pink design!
It's all about motion (graphics)
BoTY are more than a yearly retrospective - or a trendy compendium - view our 100 best of the best!
Netdiver Facebook group is the place to get the latest on our upcoming 10th year bash!
The Exhibition Issue issue A growing number of designers these days are in designing exhibitions everything from interior to exterior, print materials to product, identity to fonts… etc.
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