Netdiver Mag

All your base belongs to me. Nice product designs by Jonathan Sandridge as proof.

Toko is a multi-disciplinary design studio based in Sydney, Australia, working for national and international clients in a broad range of fields. Their web portfolio holds in a single one-pager of carefully selected grayscaled snapshots.

No colors, no project information, nor presentation, nor additional visuals. That’s confidence. Works or not?

What happens if someone commences a 2.5 yrs journey of soul searching and reinvention process by creating murals inside his home? 189 Pineview owner (Plasmosis) did, and this is his project. Quotes abound and some are really good:

“I just want to feel wanted”
“Artists have more fun”
“The American dream was just a dream”

LUV-luv-luv the about page snapshot.

Soviet-era poster propaganda deconstructivism fx (you must see to understand) style of Crash Karma video Fightis quite amazing – really like the transitions between 3D to 2D flat illustrations as well.

Brought to you by Guru Studio.

1-UP is the moniker and freelance umbrella for the Swedish graphic designer Joakim Jansson who doubles up as a Soda Popinski, his dj-name. Featuring whimsical LP cover designs he did.

The Gradual Disappearance Of Flash Websites by Brad Cooper

“With the recent announcement of iPad’s lack of Flash support and the continued lack of it on the iPhone, the debate has reached beyond the development community to include Adobe and Apple themselves.

The list of websites that are ditching Flash in favor of Web standards is growing every day. Even if these decisions are driven by the iPad and iPhone’s lack of Flash, they’ll soon reap the other benefits that Web standards bring.”

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Flash and Standards: The Cold War of the Web by Dan Mall

“Both the standards community and the Flash community are extremely good at sharing knowledge and supporting the people within their respective groups. The relationship across communities, however, isn’t nearly as cordial. Two things are happening: either the people within each camp stay to themselves, or one ignorantly hurls insults at the other.”

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via: Smashingmag

If Grupow a world rocking Mexico based agency is behind any project, you can bet the bank on it. It will be advanced flash based, fully interactive and with joyfull miam eye candy to boot. So what next? Another commercial project? Nope. How about launching a design school? Done! Meet the Digital Invaders.

That is beautiful design and creative art direction by James Warfield who likes to entertain and compel with an elusive mix of big ideas and bold design. Objectives attained.

Featured: Peter Werth

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Featured: Dazed & Confused

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Featured: Lee Cooper

Copying is copying. Period. Pls don’t give me any of the <fair use> arguments.

Folk art, funky round edgy characters, fascination with staging thinking heads, emerging talent Federico Jordan does these all.

Dang don’t want any of my <stuff> be linked to by and for companies or friends on social networks. Simple Help has made this very brief tutorial available that will show you how to disable Facebook’s latest “has some privacy issues” service, Open Graph.

What is the meaning of opt-in baby? You know, you ask me and I get to choose. Not discovering this after the fact. Made some quick research, to discover that these companies just want to make it easier for us to connect and share.. which they will track with mega server parks.. and a full new wing of tallying geeks to crunch meaning out of our activities.. and all that for nothing?!?!

Because they want to SHARE on the web.. Since when share has become synonymous with profit?!?!

We’re NOT 2 yrs old being taught not to cross the street on the red light here.

Dang. Bang-bang.

The song HAT by Max and Laura Braun presents an enigmatic story of love, discovery and loss, a sense of home and growing up. This music video was designed and produced by Büro Achter April in Stuttgart. I feel it holds a lot of the same visual direction and perhaps a bit too much semblance to FORGET which was featured a little while ago.

What do you think? Agree or not?

ADC Young Guns 8 is an international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creatives (30 and under).

Deadline: May 12

TYPO Berlin 2010. 50 designers and creatives will show how in addition to craft and creativity, bringing passion to the job is the key to success. Passion gives us the power to act. It is the foundation of change and of progress.

Upcoming: May 20-22

Tom Lane, commonly known as Ginger Monkey – a right brain thinker and maker of things just relaunched his website. Nice!

Found this (circa 2000) Netdiver index splash page screenshot. To those who have been following since then, or prior, this may pop a rapid eye visit down our communal memory lane. Version 5.2.. Oh my, happy to have come a long way. Those were the days.. no regrets.

Do you remember that?

Extreme Graphic Design Plagiarism by Chris Burns

This is insane! The list of displayed (increminating?) items is simply.. staggering. Picked a couple that gives you an idea. Way more to see.

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via: BuroDestruct

You turned 20. What do you do to underline this special moment? Check out what Bulldog did:

“Over the years, our company has been very comfortable with presenting a witty face to the world – from our choice of name to the imagery that people associate with us. We developed this visual pun to commemorate our 20th anniversary on February 10th, 2010. The piece fuses a crossword puzzle with our logo to create a playful visual short-hand for what Bulldog has done over the last 20 years.”

Way cool concept!

Erin Scime who is a senior content strategist currently working at HUGE. She arrived to the discipline through parallel studies in curatorial studies and information science. If you design or planning to develop for mobile, your must read these selected presentations.

Mobile Content: The Return of Shovelware

“Content strategists must think like designers.”

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Value and Pricing Strategies For Mobile Operators

“The whole world in my hands = the device is me.”

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via: hugeinc

Mark Andresen is a “New Orleans refugee illustrator designer looking for newly expanded horizons, meeting amazing visionaries and connecting to projects in the new internationally exploding digital and post-digital universe. I believe in getting out there right NOW.”

Eclectic range of styles, best described as a versatile talent.

Julien Ducourthial studied audiovisual media and the project Ilbm short for Interleaved Bitmap in reference to the Amiga computer picture format, was created with artworks inspired by low-tech, graffiti and abstraction.

Kinda cool huh?

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via: if (internetfancy)

Good50x70 /// 2010 the project that helps social communication.

The 2010 contest will be confronting earth conservation issues with briefs by Greenpeace and Wwf; and discriminatory policies with Emergency and Lila briefs.

Posters upload opens: May 12
Deadline: June 12

What a great idea Yaron Schoen and Trent Walton came up with: Designswap. What is it? “We want to bring the web community together by encouraging people to show the ultimate sign of creative respect – letting someone else design on your website.”

Got what it takes to participate? Don’t be shy :))

Graduation day is one of the best days of your life. Nice tribute and video invite to UQAM Graphic design finishing students show – loosely translated – Packing-up – Plier bagage.

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Les finissants en design graphique de l’UQAM plieront bagage le 5 mai prochain. Soyez du voyage!

Vernissage: 5 mai 18h. Centre de Design de l’UQAM 1440, rue Sanguinet. Exposition du 6 au 9 mai 12h à 18h

Who wouldn’t like pixel based illustration especially designed for a good cause? My Green Box is a short one minute animated film that do just that.

Planes or Volcano? What’s emitting the most CO2 per day? Data visualization illustration by Information is Beautiful.

Live Now a community of happiness is a growing collection of friends, powerfully pursuing the notion of living now. Communicating through artwork, literature, relationships, exhibitions and more. Engaging their participants (and looking for more) to live conscious and happy lives!

This initiative came about as founder Eric Smith is fighting cancer. As you know, having shared the last leg of my lil’ bro life who had cancer – I can totally related to this.

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via: ambushu

What are they looking at? The same thing you will too, in a few, because you’ve gotta see this. If these don’t give you the incentive to jump, run and dance, don’t know what will.

Nike Music Shoe reviewed by Filip Visnjic, an architect, lecturer, writer and a new media technologist born in Belgrade currently living in London.

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via: Derek Kinsman

JESS3 (founded by Jesse Thomas) is a creative agency that specializes in web design, branding and data visualization. They are behind producing very popular projects, such as the State of the Internet (which we featured recently), Mashable iPhone app and Unsung Designers.

What kind of brain does it take to be able such complexity?

Aestheticode is a machine readable and human readable aesthetic encoding system. It is similar in function to a barcode, except it looks like anything but. Its complexity is similar to that of morse code and is open-source for dissemination. Its core purpose?

Go see the movie. Aaaaamazing!

“The concept prototype was built on the Arduino Lilypad platform and used a variety of sensors including flexible sensing and conductive threads that are flexible, sewable and washable. The wireless capability was built using the Lylipad Xbee.”

Although the female mannequin (why not male, pretty sure they are the target as early adopters?) is showing too much boobs/sexiness to my taste. But I get it — need to convey the high fashionable glamour of this new-cool-must-have garment-device. Don’t misread me though, I am impressed.

Ping a social networking garment developed by Electricfoxy.

Rocking from Moscow, Sicksytems is Aske home on the web. He takes a no-limits approach to experimenting with different art forms, and boasts a number of interesting collaborations with both large companies and small independent brands.

He started out as a graffiti artist to evolve to a full-fledge graphic design, illustration and typgraphy meta-skills one man show.

Next generation of flash based personal portfolio website? Go ahead pick a color! Even mouse pointers change color. Drilling down towards every minute detail it seems. The only reservation is my mousewheel for the up and down scroll go a bit crazy. Check out Oriol Bèdia aka 2otsu, who thrives on visual communication assignments and delivers awesome.

Weee LUV it!

Found another pattern maker who goes by the handle of As Art Up. Andrea Schreiber’s work is incredibly vibrant, reminesent of pop-art with a penchant for magenta (mostly) and cyan tints.

Some digging to do but worth it.

New Graphic magazine, a professional journal edited and planned by Seecoo Culture Communication was founded in 2004. Since, the magazine has achieved good reputation and become a representative and one of the most influential design journal (several hundred thousands readers) in China.

New Graphic is the organizer of the Hiiibrand 2010 logo competition opened to both professional graphic designers and students.

Deadline: October 31

Her talent has manifolds. Suz Sanchez has got a fiery passion for repeated patterns and geometrical illustrations, which lead to have Skunkfunk use her illustration work and lavishly print and shaped apparel for a modern girl’s dream closet collection.

(Jeffrey) Zeldman features the Powagirrrls No. 20.

“Netdiver Magazine does a superb job of surfacing talent. Powagirrrls is their long-running series showcasing designing women. You could lose many hours here.”

And we luv you too.

Fast and furiously paced, talented TY (Thank You) shows off their abilities. To the power of a showreel.

Patrick Stewart – Captain Picard from Star Trek gave him his diploma – a Master’s Degree in Creative Imaging from the University of Huddersfield in England on full scholarship. After graduation he worked at a legendary brand consultancy for a while which was a painful yet brilliant learning experience.

Brilliant advertising series for ALS (Lou Gehrig disease) designed by Ben Weeks.

Official Classic stepping up to the next step. Started off the website with a collection of 500 vectors in the end of March 2009. Since they’ve doubled up and today reached 1000!

ED Batista is a Brazilian and freelancer designer, illustrator and art director producing illustrations and concept art for print design, motion graphics, music videos, TV commercials. He has been creating digital art for over seven years.

Irma Gruenholz is blowing me away with her poetically staged little figurines. Superior execution. All made of clay!

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via: Eric Steuten

Two outstanding motion graphics videos, storyboards and concepts you must see:

Design Currency: Icograda Design Week in Vancouver advert

via: Alberto Villarreal

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Over 1 million viewers in less than 24 hours. The invasion has started! Retro Games Destroy NYC by One More Production.

Couldn’t pass up revisiting the delightfully well designed Andy Ward new website, a Rich Brown handiwork. Luv the preview pane, complete will just enough animation to grab your attention, use of ample negative space and perfect navigation.

Recipient of a BOTY (Best of the Year) in 2007, he is all about illustration, animation and character.

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Nice portfolio website and projects presentation for Rich Brown who is an interaction designer, digital creative and front end developer.

Joakim Oscarsson believes that design has unique potential in terms of engaging people in activities and conversations. His profession spans multiple creative fields and he’s passionate about design narratives and people-centered, experience-led, innovation across disciplines.

As an example check Bye bye pianotie a digital tie and a track from the new TJNSQ album Transparent for you all. Wear it, hear it and share it.

So what’s with The Beard project? An idea of Scot Taylor to grow a beard and shoot a picture everyday. For what reason? Visit and find out.

Nolan Cavana one part of Cavana said: “Your site makes me smile in my deep innards where my creativity bubbles up from just wondering how one can get their portfolio listed?”

To answer that question, it takes superlative originality and talent.. oh, and large typography. Just kiddin’. Since you meet all criteria there ya go.

Don’t miss their Studio tour section, pretty cool pres.

Cute minimalist designs by pen pencil stencil. The toys are awesome too.

ArchNow!, currently under development, was founded by a group of graduate architecture students in San Francisco, after realizing that numerous hours put into reading online architecture and publications could be more efficient if combined with writing and publishing of their own magazine.

This is a really slick blog and the content promising if you want daily news about contemporary architecture, design and lifestyle.

Kivart is a Japanese graphic designer who offers free fonts and wallpapers as part of showing his portfolio. I’ve chosen the Stiches font to download.

Proof enough that information design and data visualization compressed into simple animatics can cross language barrier.

Japan – The Strange Country (Japanese ver.) by Kenichi

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via: Fubiz

Scott Belsky and I were introduced by a mutual friend, and right off, I was taken by his passion and pragmatic approach to a project then in infancy: Behance (Network).

After a long conversation, I was thinking that he had launched the project I wish I had thought of – since such a void in the creative community was begging to be filled. Since then, everytime we exchanged – he pried my mind for honest positive or negative feedback in order to finetune and exercise critical assessment of where he was at, in making his ideas happen.

Now after 5 years in the making, he is just about to release a book that encompasses the core problem of all walk creatives: taking their ideas from inspiration to execution. My review copy is starting to look like a barriolage of highlighted-not-to-be-forgotten-tips-and-insights, it is just that relevant. Just the table of contents is enough to salivate in anticipation.

Please support someone who will make a true difference in how you approach both career and projects. Pre-order the book now.

Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

Located in Korea, Mashroom Mash drawing abilities are extraordinary and his conceptual qualities, mastered. The splendid illustrations are organized in small essays.

Who needs fonts? Typedifferent is the complete font archive (from 1995) designed Buro Destruct.

Welcome back 2004 via Freaky Facets. No clue of how ‘edgy’ design looked like then? Hit the work section. Wowie these days are sooo gone. Cool little dude though.

Valentin Adam aka SPVZ does nice typographic works.

Smart!l Lava graphic design based in Netherlands, has set up an interface familiar to most. That of many creative blogs using small vignettes to display news, projects, etc. The only variation is the logo that changes font.. Was most impressed by their 89 sec video pitch. See it.

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have been working together for some ten years. Their collaboration is a permanent dialogue nourished by their differing personalities and shared perfectionism. They have designed for numerous manufacturers, notably Vitra, Kvadrat, Magis, Kartell, Ligne Roset, Issey Miyake and Cappellini.

Modern and audacious.

What is the creative favored biz suit? DesignByHümans has an all tees at $15 sales going on, ending April 11. If you like, you can also participate and submit your artwork to their ongoing Shirt of the Day, Week, and Month contests.

Promotional collaterals, beautiful editorial design and advert movie for Raleigh Paper by Moffitt.Moffitt.

What happens if you build your website that is so task intensive, requiring too much of your puter resources that original intention is defeated? I think Kenjiro Harigai idea was probably to offer a quick-view portfolio. But the constant animated scrolling, should have been provide an on/off option, and the poorly lit navigation makes it hard to have a good experience.

If you dream of working within digital media. If you want to learn from the world’s best digital agencies, the possibility of getting an internship placement or work abroad – then take the opportunity to be part of Hyper Island today.

Deadline: April 30

Would I declare typo/graphic posters the ultimate resource? Almost. You could easily spend multi-hours checking the displayed projects. Showing a tiny tasty preview of favs. Bookmarked.

You know how much I luv colors and circles, Monens website is using so as navigation and content transitions. The circles also serve as hot spots on products to get more info. Nice! Oh and their products pictures are fantastic.

Digging this Disobey desktop wallpaper brought to you by Design is a good thing.

Strange name. Even stranger product looking shape. And what is Erez Bar-Am doing? Demonstrating Radio-Active analog radio. Huh! There is a video that explains how it works!