Netdiver Mag

RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us is a cool illustrated animation that will astonish you. For example, based on scientific research, the “3 factors (that) lead to better performance and personal satisfaction are: Autonomy – Mastery – Purpose.”

Must see!

Kokoro & Moi is a multidisciplinary design consultancy specialized in brand identity and development, creative direction, visual communication and interaction. Their clientele represents commercial players from multinationals to start-ups, as well as various cultural and public institutions, all searching for better concepts and ideas for the future.

Absolutely original and gorgeous website (look ‘Ma no flash) as well as is their project output.

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via: Derek Kinsman

Living and sewing in Singapore, Nico created Plushism, land of all the huggable plushies. This is when her passion became wilder! Every piece of her work are individually made with LOVE and CARE.

Showing: FUJIFILM INSTAX MINI 7S Camera case.

Greeting you on top of buildings, outside shops with a fist raised to the sky and in restaurant windows staring unblinkingly, the Japanese mascot is almost unavoidable. Idle Idol: The Japanese Mascot collects these wonderful characters.

Book initiative and written and photographed by What What which is made up of twins John and Edward Harrison.

Post-FIRE (exhibit) day. If you want to see some snapshots check the album. Showing Fabesko (a totally awesome Parisian artist) who created her version of Captain America holding on to the PILLS artwork. It was a hit at first sight!

It so happens that they are almost exactly in the same color hues. Something huh?

“When buying a new computer most people don’t care about its design. Then we have another group of people. The ones that just can’t live with the thought of being just like the average Joe. They want to be among the select few that stands out in a crowd showing off their designer/manufacturing skills no matter how much money it will take getting there.”

72 of The Most Killingest Modified Computers Ever by Richard Darell

Bet you’ve never seen something like these!

DwellStudio was born in 1999 and founder and creative director Christiane Lemieux, a veteran of the worlds of fashion and home retail, wanted to offer the discerning customer a range of vibrant and modern textile designs.

As nice a website as are the products for home baby and kids. Ample choice for home warming or kidz gifts.

James Braund is a Melbourne based photographer who has under his belt having worked with major publishers and titles before starting his own studio. He collaborates with some of Australia’s largest companies, smallest charities and specialist design studios.

His portfolio is outstanding! This guys know his trades. Really like the fact that he has dedicated an area to show his work books in the personal section.

How long should you wait (or take) from concepting an idea to releasing the project?

“Erik sent me a sweet sketch. I said, “you should post that!” He was like, “where?” So there you go. 8 hours later, at about 4am EST and 1am PST, we are Friends of Type. ”

Oki I’ve seen far out but this tops it all. Drawing audio data with motor oil and a backlight? In cooperation with Intersection Magazine Germany and Smart, is Nils Völker new project. There is a making of video that unveils the concept. The project is also part of a touring exhibition across several european cities – Smart Urban Stage.

Oh my!

Hofstede Design (located down under) “specialises in identity, publication and environmental graphic design. In a time of ‘brand strategists’ and ‘information architects’, we are doers, not talkers.

Our experience traverses the shift from analogue to digital, from the drawing board to the keyboard, and we appreciate that real originality exists in the hand and the head, and not the hard disk.”

How’s that as mission statement?

Jean Julien Pous is a French young aspiring film director and Switch is an awarded short that is a metaphysical thought on the pressure of time on our society.

Reflective non-MTV paced. Worth watching.

Read the case study of an innovative new conference phone (bc conference phones suck) by Kicker Studio aptly named: Kicker Phone. This is one little marvel piece of technology!

The Amsterdam-based graphic design agency Mainstudio has been established by Edwin van Gelder in 2005. They love typography, magazines, identities, illustration and books. Working in the areas of music, theater, fashion and art, they collaborate with photographers, illustrators and copy writers.

Winner Golden Cube Art Directors club NY, MARK magazine 2009.

Have you visited Alex McLeod portfolio of 3D art yet? If not hop on there. Fantastic – just fantastic work and unbriddled imagination.

Now and then pops-up a community based project and Shape the Hive is a kaleidoscopic crystal like making experiment using static visuals or videos to produce unique pods. If you’re so inclined – this one is for you. Have fun!

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via: Eric Steuten

“Design can change the world.” This is what I believe in and why I do what I do. To the hordes of sceptics, please pause to view the following video that recall how Sappi is supporting Ideas that matters and how Emily Pilloton – Founder and Executive Director of Project H Design is using her grant, to do so.

She is former Managing Editor of Inhabitat.com, writer, California girl and unwavering optimist, she has written for ID, GOOD, ReadyMade, taught design theory, and lectures worldwide about new social impact imperatives for the product design industry.

Her book, “Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People,” is a compendium of and call-to-action for product design for social impact.

Groovy! Grove Made laser engraved bamboo iPhone cases by selected artists or design your own! Good for the eyes – safe for the environment.

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via: werdcom

Super Heroes illustrations for a fictitious Adidas campaign in view of reediting their mythical shoulder bags imagined by Nicolas Rouyer.

Lowpop is the tremendous(ly) ear catchy moniker of Lille based french graphic designer and wannabe art director Baptiste Ringot and he’s giving out a sampling of his work on his new website.

Another experimental film based around particle system generated by music and sound and made of beautifully elegant organic forms: Ascension by Chris Lavelle.

A must see (hear)!

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via: Joshua Corliss

SWAP – Montreal. Swapping is the new Shopping! Clean out your closet and get ready to SWAP and PARTY ’til you drop!

Upcoming: May 29

I’m nowhere near being a fashionista — since I’m definitely a artsy-geeky type when it comes to fashion (cool tees, jeans and kicks) — but this is blowing me away: A Matter of Taste was imagined, designed and photographed by Fulvio Bonavia.

Everything you will see has been constructed with edible (or natural) elements.

Oh my gosh! This is awesome!

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via: Fubiz

Jessica Walsh while at Print magazine started an initiative, the Carry Hope design project where twelve prominent designers were asked to design a tote bag for a charity of their choice. 100% of the profits of the bags go to their chosen charity.

Commisioned artists: Christoph Niemann, Geoff McFetridge, HORT, James Joyce, Rick Valicenti, Si Scott, Spin, Ed Fella, Laurent Fetis, Atelier Télescopique, büro destruct, Deanne Cheuk.

Way to go! Run errands and do good.

The Emotion Lab created Moonwatch which was designed to establish a relationship between the moon cycle and a person’s emotional states. It’s a new concept of time based on nature which invites people to reflect upon and gain a closer understanding of their mood and daily life on earth.

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via: Sgustok

Ashwin Patel aka Grid London just released a topical poster The Bare Essentials – a self-initiated project based on the stereotypical ‘must haves’ of the graphic designer from mind set and values to tools and appliances.

Available for purchase too :))

Nomint have released very timely Episode /1 and Episode /2 of the The Greek Crisis Explained. Excellent information design with very well illustrated animated vignettes wrapped in a retro TV anchor feel narration.

Must see!

Kashiwa Sato has probably the best hidden portfolio on the web. Blinnking bar codes kinda of distract you into thinking this is what the website about. Just click one of the series of blocks and opens up, a section to his amazing work: photography, branding, editorial design.

Fortunately you don’t need to come back to index, just use top left arrows to go from one project to the other.

Voyage through spaces. Lee Mawdsley is a photographic virtuose. Be it people, still life, furniture, outdoor, accessories, etc, all pictures are exemplary compositions, some with bedazzling symmetry. Either peeking through an unsuspecting angle or subject, either soaring over or plunding under, you are like him, standing just behind his lens.

Some spend a lifetime amassing a fraction of the quality of his portfolio.

Caroline Selmes is a talented French illustrator currently living in Barcelona. Her style is whimsical, laced with folk art references and overall, her hand-drawn like compositions are loaded with delightful details.

Oh the lovelies! Stefan Dziallas aka iconwerk specializes in custom icon and pictogram design for your next project. Proficient natural metaphor smartness abounds. Gotta luv the opening visual!

That guy delivers premium good. His work is stellar.

Currently guzzle is a verb intimately linked to gazoline and how cars are guzzling down because the electric car was can years ago. So what if Marca Tatem creates a RSS aggregator and names it that way? My first guess would be that Guzzle.it crunches hundreds of feeds every second. Must say I’m quite impressed with the ease of quickly choosing, organizing and prioritizing the information you want which holds on a single-page. Nice.

Watch the screencast for a quick intro and see how it works.

As of today, the iPhone app is available as well.

Just like the having humor popping colors hand drawn like deconstructivism meets psychedelia illustration style of Andrew Joyce who probably ingested at some point, large doses of Yellow Submarine (and similar projects).

The Lobster Font holds 74 subtle ligatures, 37 terminal forms on top of being a contributive project and is free (donating is a good idea). Read on.

Food about you is a sweet stop motion animation movie that punches a couple of stunning visual metaphors and tricks. Created for the Annecy Festival 2010 by Alexandre Dubosc.

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via: jocundist

The Silberfischer label was established in 2004 by Elke (Communication Designer) and André Riethmüller (Programmer) when they acquired a computerized stitching machine. Their experiments resulted in fashionable stitching design for urban people. The label fishes for inspiration from everyday life in Berlin.

Digging da tweetie bird tees!

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via: Design Made in Germany

Recursion is an enigmatic and poetic sci-fi like short film (to watch fullscreen) brought to you by xtra talented Maxim Zhestkov.

Second installment of the Discover Opera Live, a project that introduces us to excerpts of arias while panning around totally awesome hand-drawn illustrations of known or little-known operas.

Concept and creation: Little Miss Robot
Artwork: Wouter de Winter

Just received my daily dose of sanity. Stormtroopers 365 is a photo project starring TK455 and TK479, Stormtroopers in the Galactic Empire Army. The project spanned from April 2009 to April 2010. Each day during this year, a new picture was added to the series. Prints available for die-hard fans.

Now how much fun is that?

Full Creative based in Portland, is a digital creative agency with a neat website that aims to create same for clients.

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via: Designbombs

Curious Generation (events, managing, promotion, booking) has an original website which uses big overlapping and colorful circles as a one-page website. W3C valid html and CSS3 too.

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via: cssbeauty

FREITAG has been manufacturing bags and accessories for women and men since 1993. The materials are used, having seen service on the road. They are well-travelled truck tarpaulins, unravelled seat belts, bicycle inner tubes beyond repair, recycled airbags.

Tough stuff – which makes their products tough, too. They apply the recycled materials in a totally new way, insisting on superlative design and functionality. Every FREITAG product is a one-off.

Now how cool is that?

Adam Rix decided he was going to take full advantage of a full-screen portfolio as well as a full-time freelancer. He came as a designer, and left as a creative head. He’s won over 30 industry awards for his work. Now he’s branching out by himself and looking for assignments. He specialises in design, art direction and branding and has done a pretty good job at it.

The focus of all of his work is ideas. True!

Eyeport is gone! Long live Lee Hasler for endorsing himself as a durable brand. The bulk of his illustrations has impressed me for quite a number of years, he made it to our Best of the Year listing in 2005 and year after year since, he delivers genuine eye candy.

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One of the best pixel based illustrator in the world, his bulky-squary characters are set in top down perspectives (like flying over sorta speaking) are to the last pixel, bundles of joy.

Headless Productions founded by Adrian Garcia, Alfredo Torres and Victor Maldonado, is a small independent animation studio based in Barcelona and they know how to spin great storyboards.

Terrific reel!

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via: Motionographer

Leterme Dowling designed the very-slick-and-stark black and white brand identity and marketing materials for Counter-Print.co.uk. Gotta luv the tongue in cheek reference that mostly, books are printed on white page with black text. And smell terrific.

Sorry for having you break your neck reading – please indulge in the good care advice for books on the tote bag. Delicious read. And that from book lovers as us.

Imagebakery produced this pre-show installation video for the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai, China.

Gorgeous MTV Hidden World SS10 samples on Tee for presentation #1 – #2 designed by Pomme Chan.

CitID, an initiative by Norwegian Ink, invited designers from around the globe to create a visual interpretation of the city closest to their heart. May 1st the project launched with ca. 130 designs. Public submissions are now open!

Why not join and honour your City!

Derek Stenning lives in a world of his own filled with astronauts of surreal, painful and of grandiose attitude and canvas proportions. His drawing and perspective skills are of master class quality and the palette enriched with drama and outwardly light.

As you can see there is this central character Entartete Kunst who appears in most of his projects. The breathing apparel (or what looks like it) is to be likened to a much wanted balloon when you’re a kid?

Featured: ELF

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Featured: Undergangens Arkitektur

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Featured: Peace

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via: Derek Kinsman

Behind the launch of a new publishing house: “When Mandy Brown, Jason Santa Maria and I formed A Book Apart, one topic burned uppermost in our minds, and there was only one author for the job.”

Tagline from the first and newly released title which can be preorder:

“The HTML5 spec is 900 pages and hard to read. HTML5 for Web Designers is 85 pages and fun to read. Easy choice.”

Who would you rather trust? No brainer.

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via: Jeffrey Zeldman

Large or small, with people in or without, from geo location to non-place conceptuals, David Balhuizen photography holds a common thread of beautiful light with vaguely unsettling (unfamiliar?) social references or situations.

Lela Jacobs is a New Zeland based and upcoming fashion designer whose collections photoshoots are as mesmerizing in concept as are the clothes. Fantasy seems to know no boundaries.

Who can resist this little guy? Found on Jason Rapert various Disney projects portfolio.

Sort aim to build long-term relationships with its clients, helping them achieve their goals through market relevant, applied creativity. Nice work! Nice portfolio. Nice website.

Montreux Jazz Café splendid packaging photography by Olivier Pasqual.

What does 3KG stand for? The average weight of newborn babies are approximately 3 kg in Japan. They were just like one of the new born babies full of expectation and fears for future. This is where the name 3KG came from and they do exceptional print projects.

Is it the soothing colors? The shape? Not really sure as to you why I so like this poster by Network Osaka.