Netdiver Mag

A Royal College of Art graduate, her medium is paper and her tool is a scalpel, the result? Delicate and melancholic art. Su Blackwell releases the characters of her beloved fairy tales and makes one of a kind book sculptures.

“I find the materialisation of a flat piece of paper an almost magical process, and am exploring the relationship between two and three dimensionality by painstakingly cutting out the pages of the book and re-sculpting them, thereby allowing the book to be read in a another way.”

SpecialGuest is the sibling outfit of 1stAveMachine, a motion graphics studio based in London and New York. They are a visual storytelling team focused on narrative and concept using available technologies to help drive the story, not for serving as eye candy.

Must see!

Hailing from the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest come the very talented design/illustration team known as Jolby & Friends. Colby Nichols and Josh Kenyon are art directors by day who decided to come together and pool their collective talents on an array of freelance projects.

While still in the beginning stages of their partnership, they have already embarked on a range of identity and illustration projects AND have just finished their first solo exhibition entitled, Home is Where You Make it.

This talented duo is worth keeping your eyes on.

Craig Ward is a London based typographer and illustrator, with sweet taste and great execution! Using materials like fluorescent gaffer tape, glass, hair, ink and why not, his very own little Adana 5×3 printing press, he creates amazing type and visuals.

Josh Keyes is a California based illustrator. His paintings and drawings display a rich, iconic language culled from a blend of suburban and natural imagery. Josh’s site features a staggering amount of work and a great, extended look into his sketchbooks and rough composition work.

Artist, computer scientist, interface designer, storyteller. Jonathan Harris has a mission: designing systems that capture and illustrate human emotions to explain our world.

Hola ik! Rare pearl! Fantastic communication design studio, whose multidisciplinary team is led by Martin Irizar (Industrial designer) and Paloma Kon (Graphic designer) where all the projects are just up there, because of their extraordinary quality. Shining throughout massive ideas, creativity and concepts that are.. dazzling!

From Argentina with LUV!

Mark your calendar! Mad09 is back again! Confirmed speakers: Agency Republic, Alex Trochut, Interbrand, BaseMotion, Antoine et Manuel, La Despensa, Herraiz & Soto, Trevor Jackson, Group W, Antoine et Manuel, DNX group and Pentagram (Domenic Lippa).

Tickets are now on sale!

Upcoming: June 26-27

Today the look of professional photography is very dependent on the process called postproduction. Still the whole fame for the picture goes to photographer, but… we should not forget about “magicians” who spend hours (days!) on improving colors, contrasts and composing together finer details which create the perfect photo.

Christophe Huet is the trendsetter in world-class retouching and postproduction!

FEED is a Montréal-based graphic design studio directed by Anouk Pennel and Raphaël Daudelin. They specialize in printed matter for publishing, events, exhibition and branding. Their approach is content-led, straightforward, and characterized by an ever-lasting love for typography.

Over the years, FEED has won many awards and their work has been published internationally.

50 great examples of infographics by Francesco Mugnai

Information design is definitely a growing sector and those gifted with arranging complex information into simple diagrams is one heck of skill to possess.

Popular Finance illustrations by Maximus Chatsky

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Environment by DensityDesign

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What’s in your mail by Jude Buffum

What the world needs call for entries.

“What the world needs” is an appeal to all designers who think and act with a sense of social responsibility to formulate their concerns and ideas visually, to bring attention to important issues, encourage reflection, take a stand and present possible solutions. The panel looks forward to fresh thinking that fosters a culture of dialogue and critical thought.

Deadline: April 30

Rhett Dashwood over the course of several months beginning October 08 to April 09, has spent some of his spare time between commercial projects searching Google Maps hoping to discover land formations or buildings resembling letter forms.

Here are the results: Google Maps Typography.

In October 2004, London-based design studio FL@33 launched stereohype.com – graphic art and fashion boutique offering limited editions and rare products.

Every year since, they run a buttons badge competition and the winners for the 2008/2009 are now released.

Sandra Cayron is an artist that exhibited her paintings in Mexico and Paris and after returning to France, decided to create an eco-friendly clothing brand. She launched antiphrase whose vocation is to put together under one label, a collective of artists whose signed creations are limited edition collections ranging from 120 to 500 pieces maximum.

Showing Girl by BARBE

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Showing Last minute, by A.Y

Vroom-vroom smashing flash video grungy website for Vision Streetwear produced by xtra talented FL2.

Found this experiment by FL2 where they admit “been obsessing about data and ways to make it look cool. What we’ve come up with is this Twitter Data Visualization – we’re calling: Ooops I tweeted my pants.”

FL2 is an interactive powerhouse — check the nav transition to project on their website. Nice!

Noferin is the collaboration of two parallel minds: that of Candy and Nick who are husband and wife and together by meshing their talent and common passion (graphic design and sculpture), they have developed a world inhabited with the Pecanpals, lovely wood toyz.

I Dream the Clothing Electric by Jori Finkel

“Over the last decade Mr. Cave has become known for making colorful, extravagant sculptures with this kind of double life: they can stand alone in galleries as visually compelling art objects, or they can be worn by dancers as vehicles for sound and movement. He calls them Soundsuits.”

You can see more astounding Soundsuits on Loudreams and a movie, Art in Motion where Nick Cave explain a bit of the process.

Andreas Samuelsson is a Swedish illustrator from Stockholm. Working with cut paper collage mixed with watercolor and computer graphics in sharp colors. His ideas tends to turn into geometric forms, stilistic symbols and handwritten letters.

Jonathan Looman aka Lowman, started in 2007 as an independent designer. His passion and energy come primarily from self-initiated design projects and experimenting with the connotations of existing and past visual languages.

Nice typographicartstuff.

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He co-founded Since Today studio.

Official Classic Dot Com offers EPS Vectors tha range a wide variety of objects. There is a trial version free to download.

Ecclectism guaranteed! Supermundane is the pseudonym of Rob Lowe, a multi-disciplined creative who works as a graphic designer, artist, illustrator, typographer, and art director in London, England.

Poolga is gaga over creating wallpapers to fit iPhone or Ipods, the newest craze. Selected from illustrators and designers across the globe. No media left behind. Sample some favorites.

Jimi Hendrix by Darren Booth

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Colmado by Pancho Tolchinsky

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Promise less by LOV-E

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Ataque sorpresa by Ana Galvan

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Sushi by Dan Clarke

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Meatabolismo by Mariana Fossatti

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Dark sea by Floship

Jeff Canham is a sign painter by profession who does typography based installations by assembling drenched in flower power 60’s feel individually painted blocks together. He’s a groovy man!

No doubt the upscale often totally over the top visually extravagant hotel business is doing very well at enticing.. those who can afford it. Design Hotels notch it up! Way up. How about little videos on how some design luminaries went about doing it?

Beautiful website with stunning interior pictures of selected destinations.

Titan a visual tale of the future is a 5:50 presentational movie which is the complimentary work of David Löhr’s diploma degree in visual communication at the University of Arts, Berlin. It was designed, realised, directed and produced by David solely.

Presenting a photographer collection because they do pretty pictures and make a living doing it.

Tanja Borgschulte moody portraits and simple still life.

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Bryce Meyer sense of parody in quirky or washed out portraits.

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YANGTAN highly stylized and atmospheric concepts.

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Marcos Armstrong conveys the visual impact of designed spaces.

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AORTA cooperative trademark working in advertising and editorial

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Kirstopher Grunert imaging industrial environments.

Jeremy Levine is an architect who not only design environmentally conscious projects but who has invested into making his portfolio website a unique experience with 3D fully rotating models, bouncing balls that highlights construction details, etc.

Wowie!

Well they do it all (illustration, graphic design, motion graphics, 3D visualisation, flash games and multimedia communication) and all is done very well. Pokedstudio eat pixeldust and are committed to creating innovative and creative visual solutions all with a healthy measure of fun.

The secret of doing great daylight photography is when the sky is overcast which allows the grayscale spectrum to create a diffuse glow. Contrary to urban myth, stark clear skies create harsh shadows and contrasts.

Greg White knows and masters this technique: be the projects inside, outside or at night time, he takes full advantage of the possibilities.

Mark your calendar! Mad09 is back again! Some of the speakers: Agency Republic, Alex Trochut, Interbrand, BaseMotion, Antoine et Manuel and more.

Upcoming: June 26-27

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The Magdalena Festival call for entries. Goal of the awards is to seek, present and award the most creative ideas in the field of public communication, created by young authors. (30 yrs and under)

Deadline: April 27

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Sofia Design Week is the first of its kind design festival in Bulgaria. Speaking are Erik Kessels, 5.5 designers, Rudi Baur, Philippe Appeloig, Chris Kabel, Ji Lee and more.

Upcoming: June 5-12

Nice talent up for grab! Vincent Lowe is a young graphic designer from New Zealand looking for a bit of exposure and possibly, an international job opportunity.

Currently working at Resn, as an indication of his skills.

Thomas Brown takes pictures and is very good with creating the right lighting ambience. The still life collections are showing his skills at its best. Showing Still Life – Case Da Abitare – Issue 124 January 2009.

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Styling by awesome Studio Pepe which is the brainchild of Arianna Lelli and Chiara Di Pinto who both graduated in industrial design.

Joshua Gorchov a long time alumni, just expanded his studio and is currently accepting assignments that call upon his distinctive graphic language which is both vivid and conceptually concise.

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He recently launched The Loud Cloud project that represents a select group of xtra talented illustrators.

The naturalistic illustrations of Karen Ingram have been showing in exhibits, postcards and print. Beautifully poetic. Masterfully executed.

Blue Vertigo a design resource broadcasting from Argentina and lovingly maintained by Guillerme Fernandez, has turned 6 today. Feliz cumpleaños a mi amigo!

ADC Young Guns 7 call for entries. The competition is opened to designers, photographers, illustrators, and anyone else working in visual communications, age 30 or under.

Deadline: May 13

When your work has shown in multiple art shows, reproduced in all kinds of print, snowboards and even airplanes, guess a given would be that your career is.. doing very good.

This what is happening to Pepa Prieto and proof enough that the sweetest of design approach, complex delirious forms and juicy colors, can take you a long way.

The next generation of interaction and media design is a reality and one of the spear-heading studio is Italy based ToDo, founded in 2007. Their website serves as proof and when viewing their projects that are presented in little boxes with a sliding open functionality that is pretty cool, you will discover why.

As they say: “While designing near-future projects today, we focus on dialogue, exchange and community through the integration of ideas, interactivity and technology.

The outcome is a steady stream of new experiences that question and redefine the relationship between technology, products, services and smart environments for the twenty-first century.”

Dongyun Lee has worked for a while in Korea and then studied again to complete his MFA. He now lives in NYC while focussing on editorial work and gallery shows.

His signature work is highly recognizable due to the muti-plan perspective often with wave-like ribbons, the somewhat washed-out palette where context and message blur together to give way to fantastic landscapes and characters who are kind of floating or distorting in space.

Atelier Müesli defines itself as a graphic concept and typographic creation design house and was founded in by Mytil Ducomet and Léa Chapon.

They started collaborating while still studying and have grown since, to produce original and carefully crafted projects together.

James Marshall aka Dalek lived his youth moving from place to place and his imagination was his confident. Tumble into the wildly eccentric sharp angled precisely prismacolored world of his.

It has such depth! With solidly grounded concepts that convey sci-fi surreality (or a out of this world pinball machine) – his work marvels the mind.

To celebrate 10 years publishing online we wanted a party. A BIG WEB party!!! Since we couldn’t pack a worlwide audience in one place, we decided to do an online bash and invited designers, artists and illustrators to submit 1? button (badge) and 4×6 postcards to be part of an upcoming Feed your Eyes vintage collection.

384 entries were received from all corners of the world and they make quite a statement on the diversity and the unique creativity of all who participated.

After much deliberations, the 10year Design Bash selections are ready for viewing.

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Showing “ND is a Diamond & Fur on internet. Happy New Hair ! ^^”
by Fabrice “5ive” Bats, Graphic Designer
Oslo, Norway

Rollergirl is a collaboration between 2 graphic designers, Harry Bloch and Jacques Borel. They graduated in Lausanne (ECAL), in 2004 and work since then between Amsterdam and Zürich. They are specialised in editorial design, working mainly in cultural field on both print and screen matter.

Platonic Solids by Michael Hansmeyer is trained as an architect and as a programmer he explores the use of computational algorithms to generate architectural form.

Absolutely gorgeous experiment using processing to generate art. First the choice of the palette to render the fantastic forms is forwarding and reflecting light, making the 3D like shapes tangible.

Suggest you visit his website to view the full extent of his work.

Get ready to be amazed!