Netdiver Mag

Stylized typography, line art movement, simple geometrical elements result in a gorgeous motion graphics design for MTV The Lick show bumper by Monika Rohner.

How do you deal w/ deadline stress? by Carole Guevin

I do pretty colors. One common mistake is to just keep working till the deadline not taking into account the creative overload of both your brain and emotions. To design is a somewhat linear process where information (brief – direction – objective) lead our actions.

Through the years, I kind of always go into the same cycle and I’d like to share how I manage and snap out of it.

I always start with a great appetite and enthusiasm for the approved or nailed concept. For days I will work feverishly, seemingly without never ending energy. Just seeing the blocks falling into place is very exciting (and exhausting).

Next thing I know, the deadline is looming and I stumble into a state of creative paralysis. I’m filled with doubts about the direction. Tempted to can the whole dang thing. Last but not least, fear altogether not getting there..

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Why is it so?

1) I’m tired out of my wit because of the hyper focus given to project.

2) I’m stucked in micro-vision instead of macro. Lost the big picture.

3) I’m placated by it won’t work, worst – that I’m not good enough.

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Of course the whole thing could go south anytime now. Years of experiencing lead to find and apply an (almost) fool-proof solution.

5 Steps for keeping your sanity and getting back your mojo

1) Stop working on the project immediately – you’re useless anyway

2) Leave your desk / office. Go do something else. Totally unrelated

3) Keep away from project till you no longer fear the deadline

4) Don’t think about the ‘deadline’ as your personal ‘execution’ but as what it is: delivery date.

5) When you feel rebooted, go for the finish line, run / rush with all your renewed might and deliver.

Subconscious Pink is a new and intriguing conceptual serie of photographic montages by Nik Mirus who has been recognized multiple times as an emerging international photographic and visual artist talent.

Upcoming exhibit: Nov 2-26 — Galerie Armatta Montreal.

Born in Sweden and currently based in Hong Kong, Daniele Manoli created during his spare time, this self-initiated non-commercial project titled Animated A-Z consisting of totally weird, out-there explorations of the alphabet.

We all need to stretch our creative muscle one way or another.

Sparrow V. Swallow is the collected labors of Phillip Fivel Nessen and also sometimes other people. They currently work in Brooklyn, NY, on computers and with pencils.

Some of the style used in their illustrations reminds me of the pop-art movement of the 60’s – 70’s.

“Smart seasoned people get to better ideas faster..” smart liner by Grip Limited a multi-disciplinarian studio based in Toronto. And they do show their capabilities by using smart captions and visuals.

Luv the typographic treatment, the sliding panels and navigation.

Dutch newspaper The Volkskrant commissioned Lernert & Sander to make an image for their cover to depict the urgent matter of the current right winged government cutting back all money for the arts. Got it?

Seriously messed up here! Who would have thought to shoot table tops full of dishes and food would be so gorgeous? None other than Rachel Bee Porter in her exquisite photography serie titled: The Joy of Cooking.

Probably one of the most promising young painters, Rafael Sottolichio approach is about mixing traditional grand’maître artistry for painting people (superb transparency and white useage) and design based esthetics for background and spatial elements.

His sense of perspective is dazzling (as his palette). Some compositions include both geometric forms and lines which gives a funky modern feel to his art.

Céline – Au-delà des Images by Laurent Cayla.

A tale of spectacular recovery from addiction.

Last night we attended the launch of Laurent’s book. Laurent is a long long long time friend of JF (they both attended Le Collège Français) and kept in touch through the years. We wouldn’t have missed this event for the world. A true celebration of his new chance at life.

In fact who is he? For close to 10 yrs, he was Céline Dion official / personal photographer. While leading the high-life, he descended in hell through addiction to drugs and alcohol. This book (fully endorsed by Céline and René) is a testament to the most important quality: LOVE! Portion of sales will go to her Foundation.

The book includes 600 mostly unpublished pictures.

Brilliantly written by Diane Massicotte.

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nota: Book available in French for now. Hopefully in the near future it gets translated in other languages.

Incredibly fast paced, drenched with dazzling motion effects and consumate techincal skills – watch the Flickafreak showreel by Aras Darmawan.

Since their launch we’ve supported Official Classic kewl vector products and the Mixed Collection they did for YWFT, is simply amazing. Check it out!

Hooked on type? Typeplus is a graphic design atelier and their website minimalist interface is cleverly offering what they do best via using round thumbnails and type animations. Luv the sepia toned treatment with the fine lines grid over each visuals.

Simple yet stunning.

Those were the days my friends, we thought they’d never end. Digging the Hippies vs Mods poster for a 60′ themed party by Sébastien Nikolaou aka Seb Design.

My ORB or My ORangeBox is an art and design practice based in NYC and ran by Lucie Kim who works with a brochette of collaborators. Their work spans across many media, platforms and also includes self-publishing projects.

No coincidence the tangy colored visuals on index right?

Digging the photomontage and the fluid colored elements of the Crazy P CD box design by Richard Robinson.

Between tamed or wild hovers Si Scott illustration style. Using repetitive patterns and curves – lots and lots of curves that is inspired from the Art Nouveau mouvement perhaps?

We could say he is seriously addicted to the serif effect!

Who wants fonts? Freetypography has got loads of them.

Artecnica is a Los Angeles based design company that collaborates with the most established and emerging international designers to create inspiring decorative objects for the living environment.

The infatiguable curating duo tirelessly explores vibrant, colorful ways of expressing compelling ideas.

Brand new work! Don’t miss the awesome Aldo shoot! Digging the concept! Conceptual thinking being one of his outstanding quality (as well as lighting). Brand new website for Simon Duhamel, an extra talented Montreal based photographer.

My first reaction was what? Floor to wall to ceiling shelves of books? That’s insane. Then read what Nema Workshop did for their client d’Espresso: “the space is lined in a sepia-toned full size photograph of books printed on tiles.” What an idea!

Satorisan a new brand of kewl kicks and they invite you to name that sneaker. The website is populated with cute little animated characters and the website itself conducive to interactions. Each section is well thought out. Oh, and they got a nice online store too. The white plush – model #20 – is out of this world!

Art directed and designed by David Navarro.

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via: Mark_Drexler

Adam the Velcro Suit (what an eccentric name!?) is an illustrator who does mostly gig posters with a retro-weird touch. We only know that he is hailing out of Cape Town.

ADC Young Guns Cubed: Choice Cuts

Three (Jessica Hische – Julia Hoffmann – Matt Owens) YG8 judges talk about the judging process and review their favorite work from this year’s competition.

Where: ADC Gallery – 106 West 29th, NYC at 6h30

Upcoming: October 14

Nice gig posters for MGMT for Converse by Gabriel Topete aka Blacksummer studio who comes from an artist-family ranging from architects, painters, interior designers and graphic artists. He spends most of his time exploring art / design and photography.

Triangles were a big fad recently but creatively, these, push ahead of the pack.

Seriously W+K studio TEAZE ain’t for the faint of heart. Apparel, totes, notes and posters made in Oregon presented in a strawberry / cream palette interface. Nice logo.

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via: Siteinspire

Beautiful CGI and visual FX for HBO Unexpected by Umeric.

Naughty, funny, doodling-like optimistic illustration paradise are the Bros Mind studio work, ran and founded by the Mingarro brothers who make quite an eccentric and talented duo.

From Barcelona with love.

Zero Per Zero are hooked on information design related to subway and railroads maps of different cities in the world. This design duo, Kim Ji-Hwan and Jin Sol are based in Seoul, Korea.

Must see!

These figurines are cracking me up. Gotta luv YumYum characters. Ran by the talented duo, Beth Algieri and Jonny Plummer, two directors / designers, they have a common passion for creating new and exciting things.

We want more!

The ‘Pimp My Kettle’ campaign invited youngsters to view and comment on design submissions of kettles by famous celebrities and designers including Ben Frost and Jerremyville.

Handywork of Xtra Shiny and BBDO Adelaide.

What a genial idea this Constrained Ball by Giha Woo.

People not only write with pen. Other than writing, often we draw lines and use a ruler to do so. Hand-drawn often results in anything but. This invention draws a straight line without using a ruler.

I need one of these asap.

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via: Studio 5555

WHIT brainchild of Whitney Pozgay who studied at La Sorbonne and interned at Kate Spade New York. Big type large black on white space for the kewl lookbook presentation of her Autumn 2010 collection.

The Motion Graphics Festival (MGFest 2010) = New Motion + New Sound + New Code will take place in Austin. You can submit your work for inclusion. Check the website for more information.

Upcoming: October 18-24

Brave new app released by Ikea. Kondis aims to make indulging in baking sweets an opportunity to stay healthy while cooking. Watch the demo and appreciate the universality of some communication words (Hey!) and body language. Granny is doing a fantastic job. Enjoy!

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Bright idea brought to you by Kokokaka.

When introducing something new might be met with resistance. But using Tweets as comments is this a good idea?

“Replacing comments with tweets is ingenious? Brilliant? Clever? We disagree.” by Nathan Peretic

“Some first impressions on Cognition the new Happy Cog blog and their effort to suggest a new way of commenting on blogs.”

So what do you think?

It is a well known fact, that boyz have a hard time dressing up and choosing nice coordinated clothes. Now, fear no more, The Suit Co. is providing a simple and elegant solution: pick a shirt, tie and suit fabric and you’re already looking really swell.

Produced and designed by Xtra Shiny who do cool projects.

Redesign from top to bottom of the Design Made in Germany (Dmig) — founded by Christian Hartmann — website which offers jobs, featured projects, a blog and a magazine. A thriving community is contributing meaningful comments.

The black on white grid is successfully incorporating complex information that could easily be overwhelming.

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Also interesting is the Dmig online magazine format with nice functionalities as sharing (hidden behind the heart in a round) and transparent sections that work as seperator between previous and following article.

Issue #5 sports an illustration by André Gottschschalk

Cover album concept and design for the Chillout Sessions XII by Collider. Reflects an homage to Frank Lloyd Wright and Neutra and the lifestyles their buildings accommodated and takes you to a fusion of time periods somewhere between the 50s and the 80s in the filtered light of California.

Splendid miniatures staging (and photography)!

Blowing me away! Conceptual redesign of the US Dollar notes by Dowling Duncan. Must see! Read the caption on each notes! Smart!

Nivard Thoes is an independent graphic design professional and hiw website is really original. Like the bold black on white headers and the boxed-in grid for navigation. As you scroll projects, navigation always stay on top.

Nice work too!

Digging the Normal Estudio placeholder till new website is launched. Theme? Take Away Ideas.

The Iphone has a real fight on its hands by Miguel Helft.

“Android phones accounted for 32 percent of the smartphones sold. By comparison, iPhones accounted for 25 percent of devices sold and BlackBerry handsets for 26 percent.”

Cypher 13 – Rainbow Magic (Installation) Create Denver.

“With David Adjaye’s MCA Denver just across the street from Create Denver Week headquarters, a rainbow intervention was a must. So, the afternoon of the install we spent a little time playing within the space surrounding MCA. The experience was exceptional and the resulting images – magical.”

The album artwork for Wonderlustre, the 2010 album by Skunk Anansie is terrific! The band asked Shotopop if they could continue with the animal theme and this time around, tried to achieve it with fabric.

They spent a day in the studio, with the amazingly talented photographer, Jeon Seung Hwan to capture around 4000 photos of thrown fabric. Another day with the band, and then, mixed up the band and the fabric to form the final images.

IdN 100th Issue Project by Kultnation

From the depths of a graphic canvas a sculpture arises, giving birth to the perfect work of art. The 100th Issue Project is a celebration of design and animation as an art form.

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Sound design: Echolab

Neue magazine online exhibit of Show Us Your Type posters featuring the city of Berlin. Contributors are from all over the world. Showing some of my favs.

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Featured: Jarrik Muller & MrBowlegs / Amsterdam

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Featured: Mario Magaña / Barcelona

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Featured: Andre Maciel / Sao Paulo

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Featured: Aleska Alaska / Bucharest

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Featured: Gosh Hernandez / Guadalajara

One of the best iPhone app created by Creative Review (CR) for their photography annual! Wow!

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One of the best conceptual title sequence, which seems to be the new-new trend for creators to shine, is the recent FOTB titles by Nando Costa. Surreal monochrome ambiance set the tone. Organic matters with bouncing or magnetize elements are strung together in a darkish yet dauntingly beautiful collage.

It won’t disappoint.

Now that is something! The little collection of staged vignettes are for an upcoming IKEA cookbook shot by Carl Kleiner and styled by Evelina Bratell.

The geometric exactitude and the choice of forms and shapes shot from above give it a 3D like graphic design feel. But all, are actually ingredients!

Jaw dropping!

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via: Daniel Howells

Something missing on your studio walls? Get one of the Design propaganda posters by TNOP. Pick the store link in drop-down.

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My favs: Drop Design Trends and Stop Abusing Fonts!

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via: HOWbrand

Where the Cold Wind Blows by Armin Vit

Right at the very top of Europe where, if you were to go further North, you would eventually find yourself at the South of the world. Oslo-based Neue Design Studio created an identity that, literally, reflects the nature of this destination: Visit Nordkyn.

Absolutely brilliant solution! Shape changes to show temperature and other geographic info.

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via: Derek Kinsman

Gorgeous staging by Metz+Racine for an advert for Hampers In-House. Digging the lively yellows and shocking pink that makes the each vignette pop.

What if you took a huge space and transformed it into a pseudo hyper sized instrumental installation? Exactly what was done in the music video for band Klein in collab with Camper using their P87 product.

Extraordinary production by Swing-Swing.

Design42day asked Onur Senturk to create a commercial. He selected quotes from Marcel Duchamp, Rem Koolhaas, Paul Rand, Oscar Wilde and try to integrate in to motion while portraying feelings related to design.

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The Kollektiv asked him to produce a 3d logo animation for their website. As a logo animation on web it was so nice he wanted it to be more than just something done for web. So, he teamed up with Studio Takt and built this colorful transformation.

What is a Browser? You would think by now that it is common knowledge right? View the video and see why 92% of interviewees think otherwise.

Will & the Wheel is an extremely well executed short animation directed by Margherita Premuroso who worked with a great team of 10 people for 8 months. Looks and feels very much like high-times Disney Studio work!

Enter your project in the SXSW Interactive Awards which uncovers the best new digital work, from websites to web applications and beyond, while celebrating those who are building tomorrow’s online trends.

Early entry: October 15

Final entry: December 10

Aaitski! Coolafied clothing and me diggs the Roxygirl tee!

Jim Whittamore (alias Jimbobbin) is a top of class multimedia designer who has worked with the likes of Disney Interactive and LionHead Studios. His quirky somewhat retro characters are the hallmark of a fast becoming prolific illustrator.

Digging the Kenzie story, the Treebeard tees and Yee-haw cowpokes characters!

Blinkart is an eclectic collection of artistic talent exploring the fertile, multi-disciplinary ground beyond commercials and music video. They have produced some stunning projects.

For example, the Window Installations for Selfridges is a must see, using ordinary appliances and turning them into fashion and the Boolean Taxidermy is a 3D personal experiment.