Design and digital culture NEWS // September 2007
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.
What
Netdiver should have ..
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.
What Netdiver should
have ..
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.”
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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