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Falling for this beautiful (20th) birthday invitation designed by Lundgren + Lindqvist.

Philippe Starck is a world reknowned meta product / interior designer famous for his slick minimalist style, is on the hunt for new talent in UK.

Design for life — Episode 2.

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Featured: Wireless speakers circa 2008

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via: Frederic Violleau

Striking illustration for the Serafina magazine by Firmorama.

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via: Surfstation

Anna Wolf new work breathes a sense of normalcy that is soothing to the eyes and soul and still drenched with her signature poetic mood. She is such a talented photographer – one of the best and ascending one of her generation.

Her unique signature? Poetic mood.

MARK is an independent branding and graphic design studio who likes to keep things simple. Nice website using large scale background images.. Indeed simple!

They LUV design! It shows! We show it!

The power of communicating with design is as varied in style as in media to show it. Follows an inspiring list of recent finds.

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D&AD Lectures poster by Spin

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The CONNECTED poster (making of) by Barq

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Typeface Classification poster by This Is Tomorrow

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R/GA Digital Revolution (The Revolution will not be televised) poster by Gui Borchert

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Submission for Cannes Lion and Uniqlo by Rob Joe

Wonderland is a compilation of images featuring The Washington Ballet’s landmark productions recreated in mystical places in Washington, DC.

Wonderland is a tribute to the success of community effort, as it was created by people who came together to donate their time and money to make the book a reality. Wonderland was designed by Pum and Jake Lefebure from award-award-winning firm Design Army and photographed by Cade Martin with the help of TWB.

“Design Army is a firm believer in creative before cash” and this project proves they walk the talk.

“Eighteen months ago, we approached TWB to start planning for their 10-year anniversary. At that time, we wanted to let TWB know that Design Army was more than a creative vendor; we were also an enthusiastic supporter.”

Download the creative story .pdf, and be inspired.

Where does the money go? The proceeds from the book will go to funding main stage productions, community engagement initiatives and education programs, such as DanceDC, an innovative program for first- and second-graders that integrates ballet and creative movement into the curriculum of the DC’s public schools.

The money will also support Excel!, an initiative that will provide 50 full scholarships this year to talented young boys and girls who wish to continue ballet classes after second grade.

This is a great initiative and ND is proud to join in trying “to generate a large-scale media buzz”. If so inclined, the book is a keeper, buy it.

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Cover A

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Cover B

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Creative and Art Direction: Design Army
Photography: Cade Martin
Dancers: (Cover A) Corey Landolt, Mary Saludares, Kirsten Wicklund, Alexandra Pera, Christina Schifano. (Cover B) Andile Ndlovu

©2009 Design Army and Cade Martin Photography

This is a heck of an outstanding concept for a one of kind advertising campaign — fun.ctional notebooks — for Arwey. Created by Cern Has. Must see!

Henrike Stahl photographer extraordinaire. He does fantastic photo retouching and montages that are really original. Check the following series. Wow!

Mark Weaver has become a collage master. His MSCED retro kitschy collages series incorporate science artifacts, some of the current mundane preoccupations, even dipping into spacey pix to pass pop-philosophical comments.

Oh these are succulent! Vinyl decals for your laptop (or any surface, think fridge), looking prettiest on a Mac book by vinylville.

Oh the lovelies! In anticipation of the upcoming new design collective, called “Weeneeds”, these illustrations are part of an on-going experimentation for a future advertising by Davison Carvalho.

Featured: WeeNeeds City for Crazy Toys 01

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Featured: WeeNeeds City for Crazy Toys 02

“Before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your parents (and grandparents) were once free-wheeling, fashion-forward, and super awesome.”

Once hip, retro, naughty, young My Parents Were Awesome. Travelling through memory lane photographic project.

Yours were too? Contribute!

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via: Jonathan Rogers

Love what you do poster by Nicole Lavelle. Well that pretty much summarizes why we work in the creative industry, right?

The Hidden Landscapes illustrations by Junior Taxi. Interesting visual exploration consisting of blocking out part of photographs to keep and reveal somewhat abstract compositions.

I was shot by Billy Kidd! Excerpt from the new work series, these photographs are beautiful beyond words. The mood, coloring and geometrical accessories allow for mystery and fantasy.

Magical music video for Eferklang single Mirador by Nan Na Hvass.

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Don’t miss the visual puzzle cards movie, a true coup de force he did for the mini album Under the Giant Trees.

The marriage of Viacom’s BET Jazz and VH1 Soul. Introducing the Centric Network, the Voice of a New Generation, Envisioned by Eyeball. Nice montage!

“Levi van Veluw´s photo series are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers; modifying the face as object; combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object of great visual impact.”

Featured: Landscapes series

Moira Millman (one of the recipient of ND Best of Year 07) has completely restocked her illustration portfolio with new projects.

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Gotta luv her distinctive style!

“Creativity is something you always work on” is a statement that befits what Le Creative Sweatshop do. Most of their projects involve paper. Be it as sculptural details they install in events or exhibits or advertising campaigns mixed with photography for clients. They even have crafted fashion items such as shoes (!!) and bracelets.

Very-very original work.

Excellent example on how to present a case study: the rebrand of Jefferson Sheard Architects by Peter & Paul.

Andy Gilmore visual explorations are such a treat. Eye candy dripping (monthly) archive to visit from top to bottom. Be it swirls or grids or colorful busting geometric forms everything is a spectacular feast (almost) no end.

Priceless indulgence!

Briliant ad spot make.believe by Sony which emphasizes their new branding tag line. Grandiose motion fx. Must see!

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via Fubiz

These moccasins are made for walkin’. The philosophy behind the works of Ken Diamond are simple-high quality leather goods with classic designs, entirely hand made in their Vancouver studio. As leather work is a dying art, the pair work at keeping the traditions alive while using modern techniques to keep their works simple and minimal.

Ordinary Kids designed and developed the Fall 09 campaign for Nike NSW, the pinnacle brand in the Nike Sportswear division. They had to shoot 6 videos and a deep product area showcasing the entire season. New videos drop expected every month.

On being exposed and delivering the creative hooplahs, Jesse Brown and Chad Kouri did it again, the Life Long Work Week. They transformed the Renegade Handmade storefront into their work space for one week, this time in Chicago.

Must have been exhilarating, crazy nerve-racking and fun.

Discover the ‘paper’ toyz designed by Shin Tanaka, an xtra talented.. toy designer. Hardly believable that these are cut, glued and assembled. The intricacy of patterns and seamless details make me scratch my head in awe. How does one envision something like this?

Stunning!

Showing: T-BOY Mini

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Showing: Chibby

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Showing: TTB3800

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via: Thunder Chunky

In reference with recent coverage of the Fair Use or not? and It is or It is not (plagiarism) issues where we cited Shepard Fairey on-going legal battles, here is an update:

“Shepard Fairey admits lying in Obama HOPE image kerfuffle”.

Never lie! Never sacrifice your reputation! Always come out clean.

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via: PrintMag

Zillions of animated frames for the immersive experience of the Shapeshifter (band) website. You are invited to (screen) capture one that you like as a desktop or visit the gallery to assess the sheer inventiness of random frames and what exquisite compositions were rendered.

Insanely creative output brought to you by the one and only Resn.

Fatty Bum Bum is really a sweet little (online) game designed by Hanazuki (a multimedia creative studio) founded by Nico Stumpo which work I discovered years ago.

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He is the one who won our first DAC competition with his Waltz 57 project.

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via: Joshua Davis

Gotta luv the cute toy like Dog lamps created by industrial designer hellokarl.

Heller Design studio is sooo talented, have worked for some of the largest companies and apply their capabilities to a wide range of projects such as architecture and installation design, environmental and events design, web, graphic and motion graphics. They notch it up, for us to aspire to be as excellent as they are.

Excellent portfolio.

It’s going to take a little efforts to figure out what Ariane Spanier does upon first hitting the link to her website. As you’ll see all the black little forms with doodled anim upon mouseover will reveal some pretty cutting edge graphic design and print projects.

Fortunately there are back and forth arrows to browse the projects directly.

FAKE is a design, ilustration, photography and motion graphics production company located in Barcelona. The studio combines experimental and hand built techniques with more complex methods for broadcasting, print and interactive media.

Check their awesome projects.

Visual montage and design for “Party for a Cause (which) is the largest annual event for electronic music aim to donate for “neat” room, to help jung victims of violence” by VBG a visual communication service located in Slovenia.

Extraordinary, beautiful and inspiring!

“Our new site is under construction and management ain’t happy” is the placeholder for Henderson Bas and they came up with a bunch of (videos) excuses. Pretty crafty way to get away with it and catch the attention don’t you think?

Weeee this powagirrrl can design! Jessica Walsh is a graphic designer (and illustrator) living and working in NYC. She has worked with Pentagram Design and Print Magazine, in addition to doing freelance work for clients such as the AIGA, ID Magazine, Kalina mag, and the Borealis Wind Quintet.

Check her portfolio from top to bottom!

A rocking and mind-challenging new information animation that speeds through centuries of social acquisitions to point to where we are going next.

Are you ready for the XXIst Century?

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Above title movie is the head mast for the relaunch of ConstellationW by Michel Cartier and John Husband.

Now that is a kewl idea! Amplichoir aims to generate the world’s biggest online karaoke choir through user generated performances. The site fuses together a creative application with a music experience.

Have a go and be apart.

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Produced by The Rumpus Room, a group of creative technologists who work with partners to create innovative, multilayered and engaging communication through diverse contexts.

Wild Things’ Forts! – BOOOOOOOM! ran this exciting and totally fun call for entries. Winners are now annouced and get a Wild Things Edition XBOX plus a magnificent bus shelter-sized poster not available in stores!

Suggest you take a moment to view the entries – it is good for the soul to revisit one’s fav childhood role-playing game and to see the sheer amount of creativity and fun that was put into building these.

#1 – #2 – #3 – #4 – #5 – #6 – #7 – #8 – Winners

Media Arc is a graphic designer and multi-media designer born, educated and living in Hong Kong. He’s got a thing for pushing the boundaries of web interfaces using big colored and animated pixels that jiggle on the screen.

Mouseover and the projects are revealed.

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Gotta luv what he did for the iPhone.

Forget is an illustrated and enigmatic animation for the song of Vania and the Master produced all in black and white with some surprising twists and turns.

Directed by Michael Fragstein of Büro Achter April.

Newly updated P41 Studios website, an art direction, design & development cool gang located in Chicago.

Sharing founder Patrick Algrim’s explanation in ref with the new interface design: “The Web site is designed around forced stimulation. The moving gif’s actually battle the channel surfing nature people often have online. They look at a Web site for 5 seconds, make their judgment, and decide whether to stay or go. With the gif’s, we over-stimulate, causing them to be force focused. It’s also completely modular and the layout changes with each new project and browser size.”

So, what do you think? Agree or not?

They do design and communication in an array of media and Kvorning website has a really unusual navigation to browse their projects, which are quite excellent by the way.

Can you tell I favor large images to show off projects?

Newest prototype Clock Clock by Humans Since 1982. Upon loading, watch it show the time in your location. Kewl!

Rand Rolls Off the Press by Armin Vit

“Most of us are wired to react negatively to anything that rids the world of yet another (Paul) Rand logo.”

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Yale Press drops distinctive logo by Drew Henderson

“A lot of people didn’t like it,” Gambell said. “A lot of people found it kind of asymmetrical and untraditional and kind of a little bit hard to decode.”

What do you make of these? Paintings? Abstract sculptures? Nope it’s the glass (mind) blowing handiwork of genial Marvin Lipofsky. The psychedelic feel, the curves and the burst of colors defy how we perceive the transparency, shape and flow of forms he creates.

Absolutely breath taking. Literally!

“It’s only through drawing that I look at things carefully” says Milton Glaser. View the movie where’s he’s drawing a portrait of William Shakespeare while being interviewed. Produced by C. Coy.

Instigating that we should all draw to excercise design thinking.

To enter to win free Inspiration Passes to the Motion Graphics Festival, send a quick message to MGFest via this contact form and type “Netdiver LUV” in the message. The first 10 people to send a request will get access to all MGFest Art & Entertainment events. All others will receive 15% off admission to workshops as long as seats are available.

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All free passes have been given away!

Upcoming: November 18-22 in Washington DC

Another one of those crazy long months taking endeavor: Yarn City by MusicID 2 is a stop motion animation produced by This is For Reels.

Workspaces is an initiative by ShareSomeCandy. Take a look into artists creative playgrounds.

Luv this statement: “We are unique and different just like everyone else” by Mikey Burton who defines himself as a creative person with letterpress ink on his collar. He is the one who has created the beautifully simple brand id for 20×200 among others.

Showing: Little Jacket self-promo

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Showing: Spoon (Cleveland) gig poster.

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Showing: Spoon (Texas) gig poster

Imagemaking exercises by Annie Yiling Wang who is a deisgner and maker.

Wonderwall was founded in 2000 by Masamichi Katayama who elicits an uninhibited sense of energy towards design even in Japan, where architecture and interior design is known for being one of the most exhilarating in the world. His interest in design has always been broad, respecting conventional and traditional aspects of architecture, while believing in breaking boundaries.

Talking about breaking boundaries, check the website and mouseover the images. Walking the talk?

Wowie that’s an audacious interface design!

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via: Neuarmy

What he likes to do is pile up and mix and match things, stuff and fonts and artefacts into a suspended ball like form in his paintings and illustrations. Excellent perspective and composition.

Introducing the very nice Cluster series by Michael Steele.

The Forgot Shop offers 6 limited editions (qty 30) of sweet black and white hand painted plates by Emily Forgot moniker of London based Graphic artist Emily Alston.

Showing: Knitting moon

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Showing: Roving shoe

TAR Studio is a multidisplinary design studio. The website recaps the first 21 years of thinking (1986-2008) of selected projects delivered in between those dates. Mostly print and advertising work. Certainly not the greatest usability website ever but not the point: it’s serving to show not tell their design capabilities and avoiding writing loads of copy.

Found this kewl flash intro for the website titled Growing Up with SE plus which is a japanese web design agency. Found the metaphor of ‘dressing up’ a good one. Just let the movie roll.

Although all these vinyl (boy?) toys are currently sold out the Project Squadt serie is mocking war as well as fascination with arms and a reminder that peace is sooo much better.

Scaringly cute indeed.

The Seed is a beautiful short animation of the journey taken by a humble apple seed through the natural cycle of life designed by xtra talented Johny Kelly, produced by Nexus Productions and commissioned by Adobe CS4 Artists showcase.

Don’t we luv stop-motion!

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View the making of movie too!

Well someone most have spent loads of midnight oil into transposing Beethoven 5th in a graphical score animation.

Must see (hear)!

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via: Ryan A. Bednar

Ronald Kurniawan is inspired by ideograms, syllables, letterforms, beasts and heroic landscapes. He continues to create a visual language where the wilderness and civilization could merge happily together.

With the belief that the sublime and nuclear age could coexist, he paints romantic environments and breaks the quiet scene with juxtaposed imagery where wild creatures inhabit fantastically colorful and detailed universes.

Stefan Dziallas is a graphic designer who pilots iconwerk a custom icon and pictogram design service on the ready for your next project for symbol design, system development, custom type design, user interface element design and information graphic design.

Death of Field is a daily photographic journey experiment. Although such may seem easy, it does require discipline and determination to carry a self-assignment through.

.™ is 1/6 of a suite of forthcoming apps from ustwo™, called 48hApps. Each of the apps is created in a 48 hour time period, and each is about simple, stunning design and simple, addictive game play. Collect all 6 games to complete the set.

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Search for ‘ustwo’ on App Store.

Creative Spaces website is designed to help you find a suitable and affordable space to develop, exhibit or perform your work. You will find spaces to hire, to lease, to share or spaces to occupy for a short period of time.

Provides information on spaces across Victoria, Australia.

Mega pixel delicious website for Shaun Inman who is a successful designer. His interest in design gradually shifted to web design and development thanks to many well-documented open-source and standards-based technologies.

Falling for the softies from MySuiteStuff! Hand-made to order of the 12×12 2 letter acronym of known design, illustration, code, flash softwares.

Showing: Fireworks

Can’t get enough of the sweet Zara Picken illustrations who graduated in 2008, worked already with an impressive roster of clients and is most influenced by mid-century modern design.

Freakin’ awesome! App idea (for iPhone)? There’s a page for that. Notepod is taking advantage of the buzz and scores a hit!

Oh my! You’ve never seen something like this. This is the wackiest idea ever: HMF (Hand Made Font). But I mean, you know hand crafted and all. The collection is simply.. lack of words. See for yourself.

Just found the superb new website of House Industries one of the most prolific and creative font house out there who continue to have a considerable impact on the world of design.

Luv the rotating samples on the index. Really inspires to go play with typography. The 2nd level pages are gloriously well designed with a prominent space given to try out their fonts in context.

Must see!

Couldn’t resist this one! ROXIK AS3.0 performance demo.

Well he’s nailed how to illustrate complex messages in a simple, direct and engaging way. Discover the work of talented Dan Page.

Showing: Individual Investor / Paying Taxes

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Showing: Directory Of Illustration No. 25 cover and inside title pages. Theme: Best Face Forward

Time to dress your wall (and wallet) with the SPACETIME Collection co-curated by Poketo and Kitsune Noir. Designed by four world-class artists, Mike Perry, Cody Hudson, Damien Correll, and Andy Miller.

Weee beautiful!

Play on words or true name? Mark Matcho has been an illustrator for 20 years, and has pretty much worked for every dern magazine out there, at one point or another.

His illustrations are evocative of eras gone by (early Monopoly characters?) and 40’s comic strip like drawings. There is drama, there is humor and there is a perfected art of minimalist rendering with a punch.

Showing: Wirtschaftswoche

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Showing: Businessweek Small Business

Luving the Chaos Theory poster designed by Pablo Alfieri.