Design and digital culture NEWS // July 2004
Use
the microphone to collect 6 city soundscapes, record them, download and
mix! You've gotta see A Break
in the Road. The intro movie is awesome and so are the different
section animations!
Massive
offer from Union Fonts: buy
any fonts before August and get a free book and just not any book!
BURNKIT
v3 launched with a new entirely XML driven flash site complete
with a video about their Design Process in the Design Lab section.
Ever
heard of a project so successful that millions have watch the story unfold???
Ever heard of a story that lasts 12 hours which will be all remastered?
A story that has received rave reviews from all over? That a DVD is in
the work???
Watch the Broken Saints trailer.
The
Creative Group asked this question in a recent survey: When making hiring
decisions, how much do you rely on your intuition or gut instinct? 46%
of respondents said they rely very much on instinct when making hiring
decisions; 49 % follow their gut at least some of the time.
On-going!
The 8. edition of International Street
& Open-Air Theatre Festival (FETA) - an event held in Gdansk.
Cool site btw.
.:.
FOLD .:. nice & neat Ts and site! Simple and to the point is
the way to go - why attempt to whip foam! Just neatly show your stuff.
Some
trail for Kevin Low who educated in the West returning with lots of degrees
back to Malaysia! He's lectured (Harvard) and now consults and design
unusual houses for unusual clients! Too bad the screen captures are tad
bit too small but his wide range of work definitely stands out in small
projects!
TMP001 is
another explorative navigation site! Oh boy lots of boxes each to output
a project! Fun!
Pick
from Slide, Pure, Biz, Warp, Urban, Room to view Schech excellent portfolio
and design prouesse in presenting so many different options (not all
functional but indicative of what they can do)! Can't wait to see it
all!
Tam
Mei Sim is an architect with lots of flare and taste that err on
the side of post modernist mix with traditional / classic / urban!
Just LUV the work he has done!
Attempting
to mix a better world with milkxhake which
combines portfolio projects, experiments and interviews.
When
will they ever learn?!?!? Reported by Jarek. Someone's just got ripped
big time!!!
Now
talk about a genial idea! Wonderful project! Des
Animaux dans l'Ordinateur (Animals in the computer) is a website
created during a workshop with a group of 15 french children (age : between
7 &
11). During a walk into the forest, each child was asked to look around
to find some tracks of animals or other signs of life... After the walk,
a website was created to tell what had been observed.
Click “Allons-y” to explore!
Basit
Khan from motion to print! He has a minimalist, pop collage superimposition
with end of the 60s feel with an urban twist... Making sense? Check
his illustrations.
Something
to think about! Ms Adriana de Barros has
designed and produced “Freedom
of Expression in the Copyright Era” music by Digitaria;
presented by k10k.
kaleida* relates
to digital branding - the site interface is intriguing... you can't really
locate it geographically (although domain extension points to Chile)
and the pictures looks like oldies... anyway they know their trade and
projects span wide and large.
Although
we have seen a lot of those virtual inner space designs, where you have
the impression that walls are sliding and there is somewhat of a 3D perspective
produced by line art and opaque fills, I strongly suggest you visit this
recent project Galerie Baer to
see an interesting design!
That
is always the best news when a site that has been in netdiver directories
for a while to hear that they are doing fine... well in this case doing
really well in 72dpi and 300dpi flavors: Diseco has
got a brand new face!
Want
to refresh your desktop? Some wallpapers I designed are available for download.
themilkfarm they
turn heads... new site!
“We
hope to provoke thought, discussion and maybe even action towards changing
the status quo. This world is what we make of it, and we all must do
our part.” from Düusee Collective (read
Do you see).
Thriving
and improving all the time check KVAD.v6 updated
portfolio!
Ouch!
That's a touchy one! When
to fire your client? by Kevin Airgid
TYPO
magazine (print) has got .pdf downloads of back issues! Cool!
VOICE is
AIGA Journal of Design with a compendium of online articles! To keep
as a reference!
To
describe Matthew Curry's style is challenging. Think grungy meet cuttingedge
with an inclination towards using a palette that is mostly red, black
and cream and related gradients! NinjaCruise is
a terrific illustrator whose proficiency of works can get you easily
lost. Many different areas all worth visiting!
Kold
Kut Productions has no tag soup in their code (css layout only!)
but has a tag style logo! LUV the color palette!
Tychomusic just
launched their album preview Sunrise Projector! Hear it!
Very
much in the tradition of boutique hotels a la Standard (Hollywood, CA)
which I had the privilege to visit the 25hours
Hotel is a cool enclave! Whoever came up with that name is a genius!!!
My
First Wild Week with Fahrenheit 9/11... by Michael Moore
“Each day this week I was given a new piece of information from
the press that covers Hollywood, and I barely had time to recover from
the last tidbit before the next one smacked me upside the head... How
can I ever thank all of you who went to see it? These records are mind-blowing.
They have sent shock waves through Hollywood – and, more importantly,
through the White House...”
Well
done Tommy Vee DJ! Cool remixes and pix in the gallery!
How
do you want you website? All CSS please! Infosion is
breaking away from the the 2 / 3 boxy column model! Finally!!! Bring
me more!
Corporate
goes classy! Just LUV the illustrations and layout! Vestel claims
to be a growing leader in manufacturing TV! Interesting how they convey
this through their web site. Usually using a color chart for identifying
areas (changing the color of each section) is a tricky decision.
Oftentimes it becomes a rainbow like confusing visual experience. Well
how they've done it is by leaving a lot of floating white space! A smart
detail: check the left side thin color bar!
Must
read! The father of Smart Mobs and co-founding member of the now bygone
era Well.com, Howard
Rheingold delivered this speech to a finishing class:
“If your passion is to create culture – if you are a writer,
a film-maker, a musician, a creator of video or videogames, a programmer
of software, an instigator of online community, a student of media –
you face a legal, political, and technical assault on your right to innovate.
But at the same time, you have the use of the most powerful tools for
cultural production since the Gutenberg revolution.”
III
Mutador has a double featue set of projects - illustrations and
photography! Check the Mutador Team photography section - they DO have
this attitude! WOW promising agency!
Coudal goes
wild! I mean wide! One of my fav site! From smallish and minuscule fonts
to mega commanding attention... now! BIG and WIDE and new!
A
bity late... One thing that I'm surprised of is why didn't all request
for .ca domains not verified?!?!? CIRA’s
on a witch hunt, and the first casualties are the wave of multiple suspended
.ca domains dropping off the internet this weekend
_ _ _ _ _ _
via Mezzoblue
When
you have a passion for everything architecture mostly in urban environments,
this is where the likes of Plasmatic
Concepts 
a
multi-disciplinary research and design firm, come into play! Now this
dynamic duo has a long trek record of fantastic projects! Oh and by the
way, return of the horizontal / right scrolling site?
This one, done with no scroll bar in a quick and efficient way with
no flash! Worth visiting from top to bottom!
If
you think information overload could not get worst, when you hit the
Newsmap project which “is an application that visually reflects
the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.
A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of
information gathered by the aggregator.”
Make sure you read the concept brief!
We've
seen that metaphor of the rocket exploring space over and over in ref
with describing what the Internet is (virtual space) or the depth of
one's talent (unlimited)! Prepare to see it in a complete different and
new way via Finger
Industries.
I
know we've seen that metaphor of the rocket exploring space over and
over in ref with describing what the Internet is (virtual space) or the
depth of one's talent (unlimited)!
When is it that an almost worned out and seemingly out dated metaphor
worth revisiting???
When absolutely capable of delivering a new one! Simple? Well maybe
not!
Someone just met that challenge and took it far beyond! Finger Industries
purveyors of quality goods - 2D animation, character and concept design
for 2D and 3D, plus editorial illustration include a really slick logo
aka cute avatar takes you within a large spectrum that sweep their imaginary
space.
They are in the same top quality lineage as Moccu!
The scenes are three dimensional but carried without a flaw throughout
although even if evident that every vector illustration is 2D!
The panning of the different plans gives a sense of movement and each
sequence either getting to a section or out of a section, everything
is special and operating smoothly. They sure know about storyboarding!
All animations makes each click to a section a complete visual delight!
There is even a comment that says 'admire the view' to 'see' a different
perspective!
Don't miss the accompanying site Fingertees!
Rarely
seen this! First the talent as illustrators is just fabulous, the site
design is original and... when you pick either 'vector chic' or 'minimal'
whereas minimal often means (unfortunately) a lesser quality version,
stay tuned for a surprised! Outstanding performance all around for Lo
Zoo Di Venere! Sweet smell of working hard people here!
Vector
Brigade claims to be undefeated since 1976... although vector animations
were certainly a futurist dream then. Watch their mini-movies! Their
capacity to storyboard is wonderful. Well done!
A
new portal on the block that claims to be a daily pit stop for all of
your creative needs: Digital
Refueler.
Get
2 for 1? Why not! Swifty designs! Typomatic... well... does fonts! Voilà!
You have Swifty Typomatic! I like
the retro mix with grundge within an elegant palette!
A
consumate web designer! Some of his mockups and projects are simply awesome:
Precision Art articulated and professional!
The
Designer's Guide to Brand Strategy - get 72 pages worth of thinking!
Includes hand-drawn illustrations - brought to you by MDN studio.
Better
and improved! Archinect was founded
by Paul Petrunia a wiz kid all around nice guy with a background in architecture!
This site has been around for a long time and now presents a new design!
ANDY
FOULDS Design updates his site and url! Check out the cool mouseovers!
Who
said blue and red are best in a flag? Although this is a blog with a
2 column css layout - the chromatic palette is just that, blues and red...
but mostly blue... lots of blue and it doubles as a portfolio site! Want
to see a master in layering content areas and links with colors? Wanna
see beautiful graphics in mini-banners that you wish to frame? And the
mini icons?
Luv Justwatchthesky ) I heart you too.
Via
idem, don't miss the AIGA
Symbol signs to download free! Goodies!
A
simple but striking fotostudio site, Orion displays
consumate talent! WOW!
Fun
keys!!! Source creative is an agency that uses well-known visual metaphors
with a twist. Sometime I am just amazed at much time we spend trying
to differentiate ourselves!
What a marvelous bunch we are!
Well
this is an interesting way of showing photography! Oniram uses the images
as background and nav as links to view. Mouseout of the area to see full
picture! Creative!
Tangy
colors with an edge for flash site comounaseta.
Luv the background illustrations! Promising talent.
s
Completely
far out furniture design at Aqua
Creations! Now that's imaginative power!
Kitchsy
parnaphelia of the bygone '70s? Check Againstbcn!
Circa50 if
you're into designers furniture at a rebate price!
TGSNT
launches a Flash-based Foosball game entitled Miniball.
It features the cavedudes as they square off for a friendly game of foosball,
caveman-style.
A
tight and cohesive concept for AFRICA
Propaganda agency! The text is way to little but the navigation and
loading sequences are stunning! Would have been even better is some of
the clients' work had more space allocated in the visual real estate.
Worth seeing!
An
interview with talented illustrator Justin
Degarmo by Taxi.
For
your ears only! Fresh from Spain now you've gotta hear Solina latin
/ disco / eclectic groove mixed with some electro pop! The video tribute
will show this year at OFF04 conference!
As a musician, I can fully appreciate the arrangements, the lovely voicing
and originality of the material!
Watch The
Corporation trailer on Apple! This is a must see movie!
When
the designing the outside is what it's all about! TIERRA
Design showcased portfolio is all black and white and the rest is
left to your imagination. Multi-disciplinary and international firm exploring
the relationships between culture, nature, building and land. Landscape
architecture done with brio!
Visual
Focus 1 and Visual Focus 2 must reads to understand better how an audience
reads an interface and how to design accordingly by DesignDojo.
An
outstanding illustrator, Jon Burgerman has
lots to offer in his excellent portfolio. Don't miss the sticker and
animation sections! His style looks like child like doodles... with an
edge. The little characters are somewhat weird, cute and totally original.
Upcoming
talent to watch for Louise Torp has
already start building a strong personal signature, especially in her
editorial design. For those interested she wrote a white paper (150 p)
on the “intersection of brand and design”.
Have
a look: a collection of completely nutz Geek
Toys!
You've
gotta see this very realistic 3D animation used as a navigation for wireframe
c.o.m. section!
The
new website of the Rubin Museum has
just been inaugurated! Get a wealth of information on the unusual life
and work of Reuven Rubin, painter.
XHTML
: CSS : 508 = _markWyner. Simple,
blue and to the point with big bold fonts for navigation. How to do a
nice layout with no tables ma'!
JOYN:DESIGN has
updated with new DIALOGUES regarding the topic of independent publication.
Explosion
of colors and quirky cute comic strip like doodle illustrations! Dizzying
fun and widgets. Return to innocence on a Steamboat
baby!
Sebastian
Villa has a slick little site. What is a big surprise is the 'template'
area... can you count to 134?! There are some pretty amazing interface
design! So I guess, that amply states his expertise.
The
Artic Transect 2004 is now completed! An incredible journey! An incredible
resource for teachers and children to learn about extreme polar conditions.
Complete with video, blog, pictures and tons of valuable information.
Congrats to team for completing the trip!
New
studio on the block Invitro uses
a furry metaphor with lots of red accents. Talent to watch for.
Awesome
illustrations brought to you by DuprezDolores!
Their portfolio is rich with different styles, colorful and meaningful.
Luv the moving animation!
Tokyoplastic?
Animated and upcoming toy dolls, drums, weird plants, automatons and
vector animations stemming from a white square with a round dot!
BTW DuprezDolores is
part of the Cocoe Conspiracy. You
need to watch their video! Absolutely brillant work. Check the one for
'Gloria'.
Architecture
for Humanity promotes architectural and design solutions to global,
social and humanitarian crises. Because architecture is not only about
building nice digs!!!
An
exceptional assemblage of graphic design that range from campaigns, visual
identity, corporate and cd design that I'm sure, will blow your mind: HORT
<ISSUE NR.01> + HORT
<ISSUE NR.02>. Impressive and professional. This a rare occasion
where the content throughout is of such quality!!! Hats off!
Jerzovskaja is
an illustrator with a truly unique and unusual style!
Day14 shop
has an ever expanding collection of exclusive artwork from a variety
of exciting artists.
ColorFrag is
a visual and sound experiment - use your mouse to accelerate the process.
Looking
for a design studio? A job? Check Coroflot.
Seems
like our 'log files' may have jammed all our disk space - for netdiver.net.
Gosh - can you say 1.9 Gb?!?!? Which explains why the 'news' section
was down most of the day. We have moved recently to a new server and
the DEL log files daily was not checked. (mt) our hosting provider added
some disk space. All is back up now.
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