Design and digital culture NEWS // October 2007
How
about starting the week with a stunning reel from Imago!
These guys know about how to pull an all punches presentation and of
course, about design, 2D, 3D and motion graphics.
From Turkey with luv. Enjoy!
Recently
was looking for world's flags icons and I found a lovely collection on famfamfam.
Check out the other lovely collections too.
Splendid
colors and composition for Larry
Sultan photography portfolio.
POL
Oxygen magazine has won the best design in show at the Folio Show
Awards in New York. Add to this golden achievement, a Gold medal for
best one-shot for our special issue Stretch, and Silver medals for
Best Typography and Best Feature Design.
Just
discovered this experimental motion and animation graphics reel 2005
from Nanika! He's into beautiful
pictures of flowers and some pretty amazing visual fx.
For intense eye goodness, have a look.
MediaStorm
Wins Emmy for Outstanding Broadband Documentary! Congrats to Brian Storm
and team!
“Kingsley's Crossing is
the story of one man's willingness to abandon everything—his family,
his country, and his friends—in the hopes of finding a better life
abroad. Award-winning French photojournalist Olivier Jobard documents
the passage.”
After
being employed at different studios and branding and strategy companies,
in 2005 Cristian Vargas decided to create typozon,
a design studio that develops projects of design, illustration and art.
Get ready for an explosion of imagination, colors and conceptual brilliance!
Definitely someone to watch for.
From Bogota with luv!
On
the power of a dream, here is a touching animated short, named Shelly by
Johnny Kelly.
Campaign
for real beauty from Dove launches another critical and oh so real movie
called Onslaught that
grippingly shows how young girls are exposed and bombarbed with unattainable
beauty canons.
“Talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does!”
For the sake of self-acceptance, this is a must see!
Say
hello to web standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
“There's something new at Apple’s
online store: web standards and accessibility.. But while its beauty
and usability have always run ahead of the pack, its underlying source
code has not always kept pace.”
Someone
dropped by and suggested that TYPISM be
listed on Netdiver. Oh my gosh, talk about an upcoming design rockstar.
(Almost) Everything he does is of top quality and shows this indisputable
trait: an understanding of what communication design is about.
Fresh! Type treatment, graphic design, characters, photography... Indulge!
Heidi
Romano 
is
another upcoming talent. She is a Melbourne based art director / fine
art photographer and as you will see, her photography work is outstanding.
Don't miss the calendars series!
From Australia with luv.
Applied
Projects is a visual angency Rune Høgsberg (formerly adoptdesign.com)
and Michael Mandrup (formerly bandage.dk) have joined forces.
It pays to be two and two heads are better than one! Scroll to the right
to see their excellent portfolio.
One
of our Best
of the year 2006 photographer Pawel
Fabjanski updated his web site with new works.
You,
like I, obsessing about eating right? Well the The
Good Fight delivers all the punches and facts in an incredibly fun
experience.
Wanna see the power of flash delivering a virtually flawless interactive
game? Try it and have a healthy laugh!
For more outstanding concepts visit the Imaginative directory!
Milligram is
an architectural firm based in Japan. The choice they made for their
interface, having to show a lot of project is like a vertical bar code,
much ressemblance to their signature.
Although it may feel overwhelming on first load, each of the projects
are well orgranized containing both information and pictures.
Bright
LED experimentation and innovation on the theme of LED lighting.
The results are in! See amazing design proposals and working prototypes.
Trollbäck
designed a mega sized projection on a 30' x 7' foot display for the recent Wired
Next fest. Check it out!
The
Octonauts & The Sea of Shade by Meomi
I've been a fan of Meomi for a number
of years and it's not surprising that her acquired craft as an illustrator,
her attention to details and the passion shown to illustrating sweetness
would take the form of children books.
The characters have each a compelling personality and the story is a
voyage in the realm of a very fertile imagination and the plot unfolds
with page after page of visual goodness.
THE OCTONAUTS are a
crew of cute critters who love to explore the big blue ocean. From their
undersea "Octopod"
base, the eight talented animals are always ready for fun and excitement.
In their second adventure, all the shadows in the world have gone missing!
Mind you, if you're a serious illustrator, her books are
a must have for study and reference. Published by Immedium.
Diesel
Marketing rebrands under Sid Lee!
cool opening video about their creative process and first class projects
in their portfolio.
Feed
your eyes! New sights to learn and portfolios to
be inspired from! Siedemzero new
portfolio website includes animations and print design.
Yama+Mar is
an architectural firm with a cool flash website.
Windows
Vista Too Slow? ReadyBoost Can Help
Have a Windows Vista preloaded on your laptop, but the
system is too slow? If you have Windows ReadyBoost-capable USB flash
memory, you can speed up your PC in just a few steps.
Photoshop
Secret Shortcuts
Here are 30 secret Photoshop shortcuts that Nick La has
learned from years of experience.
Well,
message on screen is pretty straightfoward isn't it? Check the post QBN
Sessions website for videos of Shepard Fairey, Joshua Davis and Michael
Muller and loads of event pictures.
A
well-ronded graphic design portfolio for Berlincut!
Mostly print work!
Karl
Escritt is a UK-born designer who became one of Japan’s hottest
young talents during his four year stay in Kyoto, gaining acclaim from
the national and international press.
The
power of imagination! You must see this amazing video of six
drummers using ordinary home objects to create extraodinarily in-sync
rythms.
It's
been a while since I've not been impressed by the talent of a photographer:
check out Sean Murphy portfolio.
Steven
Knodel is a freelance designer based in California and he's the
one who designed Sean Murphy website.
Looks
like the set of a science-fi movie? Well this is one of a series of 360
degrees panoramic pictures called More
London taken by Will Pearson.
Signal7???
They design taylormade solutions in the areas of content, knowledge and
digital asset management ranging from company intranets over publicly
available media databases to web content management systems.
And they've got a gorgeous and simple interface which is like an infinite
horizontal wrapping picture. Check it out!
They
are Claire and Olivier .
They are graphic designers. They like nice colors and nice people. They
live and work in Lyon, France.
Form
and Motion 04 is a short animated exercise with simple form and
basic colors designed by Leandro Feuz who is upcoming and talented
designer from Buenos Aires.
Build has
just relaunched their new website which is a minimalist per excellence
exercise.
Have a peek inside the studio with the Print
with love video.
Bildmekanik deconstructed
interface and navigation wears pink and gray which offsets perfectly
this illustration and animation portfolio.
From Sweden with luv!
NODE
Berlin Oslo — Graphic Design Studio has got a minimalist
site.. where lines serve as navigation. Some will decry the non-usability
issue, but I think that for a print portfolio (mostly) website it works.
Lovely work too.
Presenting Gastón
Caba a freelance illustrator who currently lives and works in Buenos
Aires, Argentina. His work featured worldwide in many exhibitions,
websites, international magazines, plus some books.
He's the one behind the Ping-Pong Remix project, a collaborative project
in which +70 of the best illustrators/designers around the world remixed
his ping-pong characters into original artworks.
Paprika (a
multi-awards agency) now offers more than fabulous communication and
advertising services. Just discovered a lovely set of wrapping paper
sheets... which can probably make pretty blank empty space in a studio
or home.
Check out the fast-scrolling gibberish text that leads to each section
on their website. That's a first!
David
and Goliath: interview with David Gensler who is the founder, president,
editor in chief, visionary behind TheKDU
“They say people like him come once every decade; the one that
goes agaisnt the grain of society's opinions and instills change regardless
of public opinion.. It's about 'He' talking to 'them' to rise above the
mediocrity and question all things wrong in this culture..”
Playtime? Readymech are
free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to
fit on an 8.5"x11" page and printed with any printer. You’ll
need double-sided tape, thick matte paper, and 10-15 minutes for build
time.
Now that's a cool project, brought to you by FWIS.
Ideacodes is
an award-winning strategic design consultancy in San Francisco who create
social applications, concept-driven websites, web products, integrated
marketing, and sustainable technology solutions and was co-founded by
Emily Chang and Max Kiesler, a multiple-listing Netdiver alumni.
If
you are encountering issues with Photoshop
CS3/Windows VISTA being incredibly slow. We found this remedy. Check
it out.
And
the Pixel Awards
nominees are?
HL2 whimsical
line art animations will appear after picking a heart chamber and setting
stage in an all too inoffensive approach to the beefy design chops this
agency offer clients.
20
Trusted AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Tool Sites by Max Kiesler
“My question is always who can I trust for tested
quality scripts and tools? While there are probubly hundreds of trustworthy
sites out there these are the ones I go to when I'm looking for ideas
and inspiration.”
What's
Going On (WGO)? This is a non-profit piece created to help stimulate
thought, educate and promote discussion surrounding New Orleans and
its people. It's purpose is to ask a simple question.
Photomontage and graphic design on a tragically appropriate song.
See for yourself.
Oh
no for me (don't particularly like winter) and oh yes for winter sport
luvers. Presenting, the new Elan
Snowboards website.
Slick, funky and urban with just the right touch of line art feel, well
organized and ready for the fans.
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