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Whooli Chen illustration
Whooli Chen illustration
Whooli Chen illustration
Whooli Chen illustration
Whooli Chen illustration

What an amazing illustrator Whooli Chen is. Hailing currently from Taiwan, she earned a MA degree at the University of the Arts London. Her delicately sketched elements are always coloured with a subdued and calming palette.

What about her masterful compositions? This is a skill that is essential for all illustrators: from editorial process to concept.

Eskimo + heat?

A long time alumni Eskimo Design Studio have retained their original ethos—passionately dedicated to saving the world from the ugly and impractical saboteurs of interior design. Oh gotta love this quote!

They love making heat! A bit obscure? Not at all if you know they are product designers who specialize in heat systems.

Powagirrrls Day

Powagirrrls logo

International Women’s Day was created by the United Nations. Hugs and high fives mandatory today for all the women in your life.

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Women who are my heroes in the creative industry? View a collection of the ones I have gathered over the years.

Rocking it still today?

Designboom
Designboom
Designboom

Designboom has been around since 1999. Birgit launched it just a year after us. It has been striving and gathering not only quality content but a large readership as well. Its appreciation keeps on growing.

Well deserved too imo.

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Jealous Creator book cover

The Jealous Creator was launched in 2009 by Danielle Krysa. Her self-depracating jealousy has led her to featuring projects fuelled by her phenomenal curiosity. A published author—her seriously in your face advice and sharp eye are uncommon qualities.

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Swiss Miss

Swiss Miss is in Tina’s words: a design blog/studio she started in 2005. I actually discovered her portfolio right around then, and was taken by her different approach in presenting her design work. Her tentaculous projects are immensely successful.

Creative Mornings logo

One of her well-known project is the Creative Mornings which expanded the world over: not a small feat for a swiss girl in NYC.

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ndlr: Know a powagirrrl? Are one?

Submit your portfolio.

Netdiver Mag relaunch °

I love Design!

People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.
—anonymous

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Curation is my passion—after investing 10 years on the now defunct Ello platform—where I curated the Design community..

Ellodesign profile

.. and a personal profile where I featured a mix of design projects and abstract art..

Ello cgwarex profile

I am coming back to my baby: Netdiver Mag!

See ya soon. xo

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I’m always on the lookout for new projects: submit yours to be featured.

Building a (new) beginning

I am currently head over heels in preparing my very first art portfolio and because of iOS way of cataloguing the camera roll – (I work with 3 devices each with its own directory) – I collated new work in individual folders as back up..

Leaving me with a massive task to do: reconciling, sifting and deleting all duplicates.

From 55k down to 10k just for my iPad Pro. Still got 7k+ from iPhone + iPad mini to sort after the 10k are done. View my art feed.

So for now – I am minimizing my editorial activities to a strict minimum.

Netdiver Mag is on hiatus.

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Meanwhile – don’t wait – be inspired via podcasts to kickstart your creative or art projects:

40 best creative podcasts to liven up your commute via Sarah McHugh

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The Best Art Podcasts to Listen to in Your Studio via Stef Thiele

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My Top 5 Favourite Agency Podcasts via Lucy Snell

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Must read – sneak peek via .pdf:

Company of OneWhy Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business) by Paul Jarvis

Helps you determine enough (instead endless chasing more).

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Top illustration: Source unknown

Creative success?

Margaret Zhang on the secrets of creative success by Hunger

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Margaret Zhang is an Australian-born-Chinese director, photographer, consultant and writer based between New York and Shanghai.

She models, styles, writes, directs in front and back of cameras, made her film debut – There’s no Space in C # Minor – in which she plays the piano brilliantly.


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She also earned double degrees in commerce and law and is widely recognized as one of the most influential millenial – though she is not fond of the naming..

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Her intelligence and depth of thought have comforted me while going through a tough spot in my art career:

“That’s near impossible when you bare your soul, nake and vulnerable in an oversaturated and harsh terrain of judgment.”

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photographed by: Luis Monteiro

Terrific UX/UI

Teresa Wójcicka is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Gdansk, Poland. And a terrific UX/UI designer. Love love the Saga Map simplicity.

Search for inspiration and/or talent in Netdiver Mag.

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/ Tools we use

 

Affinity suite

Affinity Suite

Our little studio owned Adobe Master Suites—invoking security issues our perpetual licenses were nulled. Undone? No!

I can open all .pdf, .psd or .ai files in the Affinity apps and the UI/UX is so gorgeous!

See for yourself: test the Affinity suite. Works on all platforms + iPad for—6 MONTHS FREE!

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Proton Mail

Proton Mail

Connected to the internet's origins, building the internet of the future. We’re building ways to help everyone fight for privacy online. I am a big fan of their services.

Try a month free!

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DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo?

What a strange name for an independent Internet privacy company. Contrary to G/ who records every instance of their services useage with DDG, no recording of your data, EVER!!!

We use it everyday.

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Obsidian app

Obsidian

This private (free) app I use daily for taking notes or writing. Back up to the cloud for multi-devices access. Runs locally.

Deep and complex.

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Carole's Instagram

I paint abstract with pretty colours ~ I play with mobile apps to create unique generative art.

Look 'Ma no AI.

feed your eyes

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Communication Arts

Communication Arts 24-25—calls for entries.

Interactive — October 25/24
Illustration — Jan 10/25
Photography — March 7/25
Design — May 2/25

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Smashing Mag

The Smashing Conferences explore real-life projects, workflows and hands-on insights.

SmashingConf - Antwerp
Upcoming: Oct 28-31/24

SmashingConf - Workshops
Online: check dates.

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AIGA

AIGA call for submissions

AIGA’s competitions celebrate exemplary design and demonstrate the power of effective design.

50 Books | 50 Covers: February 26 / 24

365: AIGA Year in Design February 26 / 24

 

Alt Summit

Alt Summit 2024.

It is a conference and a community of thousands of women influencers and entrepreneurs in creative fields.

Upcoming: March 17-20 / 24

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YWFT

YouWorkForThem — Good design needs good fonts! YWFT is privately owned and run by designers.

Rocking it since 2001.

/ Highlighted talents

 

They LUV design! #13

Mind-blowing visual feats and original designs I recently discovered.

Previously: #12 - #11 - #10 - #9 - #8 - #7 - #6 - #5 - #4 - #3 - #2 - #1

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They LUV drawing! #3

Illustration is probably the largest creative area to express (mostly without words) a message.

Previously: #1 - #2

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A type of Show #5 – I love typography - these projects caught my eye.

Previously: #4 - #3 - #2 - #1

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Moodboards #1 – Branding collaterals staged and served with conceptual brilliance.

 

/ About us?

 

A little (www) Story. In 1995, JF and I started a little project — Netdiver mag.

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Editorials by Carole Guevin

Editorials. Design topics or issues that have impacted me and/or our creative industry. .

Over 50 articles.

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Kuvva interview

Kuvva interview

A short interview on how to build a strong portfolio + self-promotion.

 

Netdiver Mag

#ISSN 1911-866X

Carole Guevin

Carole Guevin is a founder + editor + design curator ∞ culture creator + online pioneer ∞ featuring the creative culture since '98.

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No hype — just beautiful

Reach my inbox °

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Netdiver review galleries

/ Design inspiration

Netdiver long-standing mini visuals (200 x 115 px) galleries. Each lead to its review. Happy talent discovery!

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/ Illustration

Vast array of drawing styles
404 reviews

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/ Imaginative

Conceptual designs standing out
358 reviews

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/ Industrial

Products / packaging design / spaces +
333 reviews

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/ Motion

Brilliant storyboards / motion / vfx
286 reviews

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/ Photography

Some of the sharpest eyes shooting today
210 reviews

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/ Portfolios

New wave of design / interactive / mobile stars
552 reviews

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/ Powagirrrls

Women who rock the design scene with _more_ than pink design
391 reviews

/ Insider info

 

Visual Brain Gravity

Visual Brain Gravity is a producer and developer of concepts, products and brand experiences.

Driven by vision.

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Special Feature issues

Special Feature issues

Self-curation experiment coupled with minimalist interviews with people in the design industry I admire.

By invitation only

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Netdiver Mag is sweet

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Coming soon

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Netdiver Best of the Year

Best Of The Year (BOTY)

Netdiver Best of the Year is a yearly compilation of projects / talents who made a lasting impression the previous year.

/ 2016 edition

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Netdiver Vintage

Netdiver Vintage edition

What was new in design worldwide—sort of a very unofficial record of web history as captured from {1998 - 2007}.

Over 2.3k+ projects.

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Netdiver static

Walk down memory lane: hand-coded news in design from 1998-2008.

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Netdiver Mag is sweet

Terrific product or service or event and wanna reach a fabulous international audience?

Advertise with us
Dates soon.

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