Netdiver Mag

Gotta luv this packaging solution for Foil designed by Gabriel Morales.

Gneborg work is part installation, live sculpture and experimental photography which mainly based on taking familiar themes and symbols and shifting them to refresh our perceptions.

Eduardo Bertone is doodling and painting on just about any surface and media with bold, extravagant strokes and colors.

Showing Illustrations for Boost Mobile

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Showing Custom sneakers for We Love Sneakers exhibit.

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Showing Mixed media on wood.

Clare Mallison draws continuously from her studio in Bethnal Green London for a broad range of international clients. Her work is a mix of quink ink pro markers and sometimes pencil.

Icecream design is a label, home studio and do visual communication and sport a simple interface with gray blocks hiding project navigation.

Shift calls for entries for DOTMOV 2009 and SHIFT 2010 Calendar Competition.

Deadline: September 10

OHARA design studio floating landscape. They specialize in mostly music related projects.

Shigeru Ito is a Bangkok based Japanese illustrator who previously worked as a graphic designer. Now fully engaged in his art, he has developed a unique set of highly imaginative characters.

Dean Gorissen is what I call a great illustrator. Cannot be missed the quality of his his lines and colors but standing out, his the supremely well thought-out compositions which are cross over between comic doom and editorial satire. Congrats on winning a Emmy!

Showing: Risk City for poster and series of brochure covers promoting the range of Insurance and Finance courses.

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Showing: Supertrain (detail) a personal piece about the saturation of superheroes in contemporary popular culture.

Long Live Analog has spunned another delightful string of retro kitschy collages projects and more.

IAAH (I Am Always Hungry) 7 released! Nessim Higson striking from the forefront – another stimulating and web defying experiment stocked with top notch projects.

Does anyone know who did this illustration of communities into characters??

They LUV design! It shows! We show it!

Eccentric, ecclectic and pushing at the edges of trends, and then some more, fine examples that show how to communicate with design.

Romain Lenancker vectorized Peter Pan

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Andy Simpson ‘E’ letter from Let us cultivate the garden book.

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Blotto Design communication concept for Gildepass

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Martin Plonka aka This Is Tomorrow S&A type

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Jan Pautsch Liliental artwork submission for Semi-Permanent book

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Parris Wakefield advertising campaign for Kilgour

Back in February 09, Michael Paul Young got a call from Catherine Owens, the long time super creative director for the uber-famous band U2. Catherine came across our work and knew she found the team who could help with U2’s 2009 world tour (titled 360). After a quick stint of meetings in New York, we came back to the Bangkok studio and begin work for the following two months on numerous ideas.

It’s a Beautiful Day! How befitting!

Must read list of books that are simply impossible to ignore for anyone who wants to build a solid foundation as to the scope of what the Internet prime directive is about, how the network economy is shaping up, who will be the players and to amass a wide scope of insights as to the true role of design in the near future.

These have clarified and confirmed my early thesis about the future web. They continue to shape my original vision as to why Netdiver exists.. and where it’s going.

It’s really about changing the world.

/// Everyone is a Designer: New and Updated Edition: Manifest for the Design Economy (maybe sign-up for the upcoming revised edition) by Miekke Gerritzon

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/// New Rules For the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (Kindle Edition) by Kevin Kelly

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/// Net Gain: Expanding Markets Through Virtual Communities by John Hagel III and Arthur G. Armstrong

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/// The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual (10yr anniversary edition) by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls and David Weinberger (with a new introduction and chapters by the authors, and commentary by Jake McKee, JP Rangaswami, and Dan Gillmor)

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/// No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs by Naomie Klein

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/// The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan (highly suggest you rent the movie first)

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/// Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff

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/// A Whole New Mind Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age) by Daniel Pink

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/// Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen, Al Gore (foreword) and Stefan Sagmeister (design)

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/// The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida

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/// The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcom Gladwell

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/// The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business by Tara Hunt

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/// 33 Million People in the Room: How to Create, Influence, and Run a Successful Business with Social Networking by Juliette Powell

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/// Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands by Kevin Roberts

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/// Beyond Trend: How To Innovate In An Over-Designed World by Matt Mattus

Living in Beijing, Li Wei impossible art generates one of a kind photography done without any retouching. With the help of mirrors, scaffolding and wires he creates mind-boggling and sometimes down-right dangerous acrobatics and performance yielding astounding compositions.

Balloons #1

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Arrow Love

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Follow Li Wei on set of the Wallpaper* fashion shoot for the Made in China issue to reveal just how he performs his jaw-dropping stunts.

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via: Eric Cheung

How did they arrive to this? FLUID case study of the Hello Digital branding. It’s nice to see that tinkering with the good and not so good ideas, is part of the process.

Ecclectic wild and supremely creative is the work of Fred Butler who styles for events, fashion and window dressing with more knic-knack and kitschy props you can imagine. Showing the navigation keypad. Gives you an idea of whta to expect.

Dean Kaufman is the son of an architect and his photography reflects amply this influence. He has a keen eye for capturing clean lines and the essence of each environment without using any special fx. He has worked with world-reputed magazines.

It’s in the bag! George, Gina & Lucy is a nice interactive peek into this handbag collection. Luv the “Miss You” title to hide or show navigation.

Paper Dolls by Estudio 401

“We dive into a utopian world with futuristic hair and eyes that indicate the end of the world. We finally decide to wear clothes of newsprint and in the name of globalization used, Asian designs. But first, we make a stop in Africa with earth tones and then finish back in the modernization of flowers and geometric shapes cut with scissors kamikaze.

Artistic collaboration project carried out as part of a series of works to promote the idea of recycling and sustainable design.”

Audio d-touch “is a collection of applications for real-time musical composition and performance, with very special user interfaces. The collection includes a drum machine and a sampling sequencer, both are controlled by spatially arranging physical objects on an interactive table surface. Each object represents a sound, and its position with respect to the surface is mapped to certain playback parameters.”

Sci-Fi??? No more! You can actually build it!

“Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath or vibration and the domino effect kicks in.” by Peter Root.

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via: pixblog

The Swatch Young Illustrators Award is a unique competition awarding creativity and innovation in personal contemporary illustration and graphics. Nominees will be invited to Berlin and get the opportunity to exhibit their work at Illustrative 2009 in Berlin. The winners await prizes worth 6.000 Euros as well as publications and illustration agency contracts and will also be featured in future international shows.

Deadline: September 30

TANGRAM is a visual design studio located in Tokyo. Their website falls into the red, black and large white expanse with animated lines criss-crossing over the interface. The real goodies are the embedded media and movies that display their projects! They do web, motion graphics, installations and more.

Very high quality work!

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Wanna see extraordinary? Watch the SturdyStyle White Box movie.

Wonderful! Heiko Waechter has built from the grounds up his foto log featuring street photography from Melbourne, AU and beyond!

Some are serious, some are funny, some even naughty but one thing is a constant, Frank Eidel can shoot amazing portraits.

TDFAward proposes TenerifeDesignParadise, an international prize, which encourages designers to work on the elements that will make up a beach of the future … what better stimulus to let imagination fly?

Call for entries into 3 categories: A. What is? B. What do you carry? C. What do you leave?

Deadline: October 3

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The Tenerife Design Festival (TDF) is an event dedicated to design. During the week, many proposals, interventions, and other activities will be carried out by outstanding designers from different cities around the world, whose work will be based on the island’s natural resources. Thinking about Tenerife through design will turn the island into a point of reference for creativity.

Upcoming: October 19-25

STACK is a unique service that brings together the best independent English language magazines from around the world. Choose the ones you want and voilà! Delivered to your door.

They are able to keep subscription costs low because they sell advertising inserts in the Stack packs.

Very clever idea!

Looking for that extra bit of screen real estate to get you through the busy workday? Mimo Mini USB Monitor!

You gotta see this. The Microsoft Vision of the Future (Parody). Amazing vfx and don’t miss the punch lines!

What is the best way to assess the validity and scope of a trend trend? Blaze through a list of the top 100 books released. In this case, in ref with social media:

Top 100 Best Social Media Books by Jurgen Appelo

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via Mitch Joel

Gerry Wong operates under Floship (surreal love attack), lives in Hong Kong and he’s an ex-advertising agency reinvented as a fantastic illustrator. He is part of MojiZu, a character design community and you can see other fantastic works here.

“He moonlights as the author and illustrator in children books. Extremely focus on the environment, he desires to bring the child a positive attitude in our environmental protection!”

Oh luv the grid of this website – finally something that breaks away from the mold! Studio Lin has a wonderful description for his little agency: “Collaboration is king. Clarity is paramount. All things are considered.”

And the projects? Wowie! Much-much-much talent!

It’s out! YAY! Creative Grab Bag has been published! My task was to design a skateboard – oh what fun it was!

“Where can you find work from Ellen Lupton, Debbie Millman, Carole Guevin, Frank Chimero, BBDK, Xavier Encinas, Ryan Katrina, Mike McQuade, Michael Perry, Nessim Higson, Sean Sutherland, Edvard Scott, Michael Gillette, Ben Frost, Jeremyville, and many others all in
the same place?

Creative Grab Bag is a collection of work from artists, illustrators and designers from around the world. Author Ethan Bodnar created over 30 unique tasks and gave each contributor a task that was different from their typical work.

The book contains images of each artist’s creative task, typical work, and a biography and short reflection on the creative process. Together, they capture the spirit of exploration and innovation and challenge readers to break out of their usual work.

The book includes both well-known and up-and-coming creatives. 101 contributors in total.”

Available now through Amazon.

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via: Neusblog®

Trust Economies: Investigation into the New ROI of the Web by Julien Smith and Chris Brogan

“If You Build It, They Won’t Come What happened to the early days? You built a baseball stadium, a store, a web app, and people flocked to it… now what? We are suspicious of marketing. We don’t trust strangers as willingly. Buzz is suspect. It can be bought. Instead, consumers and business people alike are looking towards trust. We want our friends to tell us it’s good. We want someone we know to say we should look into it. Marketing spend might start at awareness, but in the Trust Economy, communities are king, and ROI stands for Return on Influence.”

If you’re interested on expanding your knowledge as to why ‘Reputation is all’ get this new released book:

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Trust Agents – Using the web to build influence, improve reputation, and earn trust.

The Office of Feltron really digs creating information design and is pretty good at doing so.

Trevore Valensuela is an artist and graphic designer who did all the art on Finde – Mi Última Idea, a stop motion video that incorporates his hand-drawn characters telling the story of the song.

Very pretty pictures by Anna Wolf. Luv the poetic ambiance, the prevalence of nature and how models relax in their pose, the overall perceived elegance.. and not forgetting the slight green tone washing up some of the pictures.

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via Luis Alvarez

Totally vested in the business of capturing life, youth and people in leisure activities, Gerhard Linnekogel photography is extraordinarily vibrant.

You ready to be flipped over? First, meet Teenage Engineering who devise and craft some of the most innovative and amazing products ever. Not only is the website slick and visually appealing the projects and products are jaw-dropping smart!

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So how about the Styrofoam Turntable DIY Kit? Basic idea behind was to design and engineer a low-cost do-it-yourself Turntable kit made out of high density styrofoam!

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And now for the pièce de résistance. How about the ABSOLUT CHOIR? In setting up an advanced framework of speech synthesizers, they created a multi-channel robotic choir, comprising 22 singing dolls in various shapes and sizes.

Now you have got to read, hear and see this! Scroll down to view all 3 pages!

Do you intend to self-initiate and auto-produce merch? You cherishing a DIY project? Then you need to get this book: Made & Sold: Toys, T-Shirts, Prints, Zines and Other Stuff by FL@33

“Artists, designers and illustrators are doing it for themselves! Tough times often lead to greater creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.”

Thrilled! Otterball is back with another packed portfolio of great projects! Wayne Kerr and their studio were part of the Best of the Year 05 compilation.

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“Since 2003, our clients commission us as visual artists, in an effort to best represent their unique identity on the web. We like to think we do that very well.”

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So true! LUV what they did for Josh Wilson one-pager!

Sooo beautiful, minimalist and yet emotional, this poster was created by Emil Ruder “(1914–1970), Swiss typographer and graphic designer, who with Armin Hofmann helped to found the Basel School (Schule für Gestaltung Basel) and a graphic style known as the Swiss Style.”

Thinking for a Living has published A Brief History of Emil Ruder. “To know where we’re going, we’ve got to understand where we’ve been.”

More of his posters here at 80magazine.

Sergio Alves is “a young designer (19 years old) from Porto (Portugal) whose main focus has been on design projects for cultural events – mainly in the creation of large posters where the importance of typography play is evident.”

Say what? 19? Definitely someone to watch!

Grzegorz Kozakiewicz and I first met online circa 2001 in ref with a design award competition. Now thanks to the power of social networks we’re connected again.

Sharing with you the Pencil Rebel 2 video: “The whole idea in this neverending fight between analog and digital is that “Creativity is inside of us, not on the screen” and there are many ways to express yourself.”

Alex Varanese is a designer with a background in 3D and that there isn’t much overlap between traditional typography as he thinks there could be. So hop up over to see the his full Eurobloc typeface getting the 3D treatment!

And as Missy Rogue would say: Noice!

Yes! KOKOKAKA who were the Best of the Year agency of 2007 (BOTY) – have produced this poignant immersive website for Wrangler Blue Bell.

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Draws you right into the story. Bonus? Hi-res images, the full video and music track to download. How awesome is this?

Companies willing to stop the push and start the pull will lead. Watch out for a real 360 in the commercial space. Hats off guys! You rock!

9elements have created this awesome HTML5 canvas and experiment. No flash. Click circles to read tweets. Caption reads: “Internet explorer is keeping you away from this utter awesomeness HTML5 love.”

Infographythm international call for entries. For this new edition, information graphics will be honoured. Selected creations (50) will be exhibited in the EXPO space of the CarréRotondes and gathered within a catalogue designed for this occasion.

Deadline registration: November 1
Deadline submission: November 15

Ryan Carson and I go way back when the web was in infancy (as the creator and founder of BD4D – By Designers for Designers) and through the years, always supported his FOWA (Future of Web Applications) and FOWD (Future of Web Design) as well as his workshops events.

All activities are now unified under the Carsonified brand which so happens to have a spanking new kick-a.. website!

Here’s to you bro!

Ladies and Gentlemen pleased to announce that there is hope for those of us who have toiled under the rule of evil IE6. Check out this screen captured while doing tests (tx JF) on YouTube. The caption reads as:

“We will be phasing out support for your browser soon. Please upgrade to one of these more modern browsers”

Now if mega-sites are determined to kick it out of circulation by no longer supporting it, we can safely think there is true light at the end of this 8 years inferna.

Additional reading: Web citizens trying to kill Internet Explorer 6

Sweet, ecclectic and original Albertus Swanepoel website!

We Are The Distric have hired a new sales director and you must watch the video.

And we’ve got a brand new Kolor directly from Japan! And Oh! not just one more fancy flashy website. It was well-planned, well-code and well-coordinated chromatically (to match the company name I guess).

Luv the muted colors that morph from a horizontal bar code to an equally horizontally animated navigation where you simply pick and choose a particular model to look at.. and then.. wowie, pops a large photograph standing in its minimalist splendor. Previous collection available in the archive!

Sugai! Keigo Anan and team!

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ndlr: Sugai = Super!

Since I have first heard and seen the work of LAb|au| projects and again, visiting their new website today, I can state accurately that they have consistently defy all the rules hence walking the talk of being an explorative interactive experimental agency.

“LAb|au| developed a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach based on different artistic, scientific and theoretic methods, examining the transformation of architecture and spatio-temporal structures in accordance to the technological progress within a practice entitled ‘MetaDeSIGN.”

You’ve been forewarned, the interface does require more than user instinctive reflexes — but worth experimenting.

SenseMaker Dialogs is a new speaker series focused on exploring the rapidly changing hybrid activity of SenseMaking in the 21st century. No longer just focused on data and information visualization, the boundaries of what sensemaking is and what sensemakers do is in a state of rapid transformation like never before.

Upcoming in NYC: August 13

Frank Chimero is an illustrator, graphic designer and writer. Particularly like the The Real World Lecture and The proposed creative workflow posters.

John Davey created these 360 panoramic images for the Crimes of Passion exhibit! You’ve gotta see this! You can see more too.

Andrew Banneker is a collector of old ephemera and just about anything wood and metal and creates beautiful art that captures the imagination and tells a story. He works in a studio in Washington DC, beautifully cluttered with everything from toy rocket ships to vintage glass beakers filled with skittles.

Mark Murphy (a kid who works hard promoting living artists) just launched a new project and he is calling painters, designers, actors, musicians, chefs, models and artistic minded peoples to check out Planetillogica.

Mind-blowing desktops from various artists and designers:

Genesis by Zach Bush

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Froze by Karl Kwasny and Justin Maller

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NSP1 by Loïc Sattler

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Zermatt by David Mascha

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Urban Environment by Craig Shields

DAFFY’S high fashion low prices is a nicely crafted flash website. Quite a tag line and right smack what is needed today. Wanna xtra bonus? Live in Manhattan? Wanna a 7,000$/mth apartment for 700$? Find out how you could.

Another fantastic project the Uniqlo Parka Style – Tokyo Fashion Map! Totally worth the wait! Once loaded just let it roll. Gottal luv this concept of involving people right off the streets!

And so it was! Whuffaoke (or Bust) final destination and party was a blast! Strangers coming together for karaoke, drinks and food and most of all, great mingling! What an experience it has been! If you didn’t know — now you do: MTL rocks!

Nantel has put this little slide show together: LUV U all.

Just finished reading Custom Kicks by (Kim Smits and Matthijs Maat) MAKI

“Customizing is hot. Everything can be customized, from pimped cars to retro furniture. This major trend is especially popular in footwear. Customizing your own shoes is a way of stepping out of the crowd, of showing your personality.

How did it start? What materials do the artists use? There are also tips and tricks on how to create your own unique shoes.”

Highly recommend if you wanna see a good sample of styles.

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Cover + Tim Robot‘s chuck kicks.

Resist fashion and wear dazzling baubbles by Chic&Kitsch (unique pieces) created by Ana Ventura long time lover of trends and fashion..

Awesome! Keep-Us-Busy? A collaboraton between two 3rd year graphic design students, Tom Lovell and Shaun Hughes who made a creative sit-in in a window store for 5 days.

“A shameless self promotion, a way of indulging oursleves in our last 3 months of Uni and having fun. To collaborate, to use words, to interact, not just to design but to create. To be on constant show, to prove to the world that the creative mind is always doing.”