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Journey to a new world is the final dissertation project by the graduate student Heiko Winter from Germany. Watch four introspective live action mixed with motion graphics essays with nice compositions and colorization.

Heydays is an Oslo-based design studio specialized in printed media, creative direction and graphic design. Luv their website (though find the transparent navigation a bit hard to decipher) and projects presentation.

BlackBerry PlayBook and iPad Comparison: Web Fidelity

Video demonstration comparing BlackBerry PlayBook and iPad tablets in terms of browser speed, Adobe Flash support and HTML5 performance.

Why Twitter matters for media organisations by Alan Rusbridger

The Guardian editor-in-chief sets out 15 things Twitter does effectively and which should be of the deepest interest to anyone involved in the media at any level.

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via: Eye magazine

Enigmatically running under the Here is Mark handle with a phone number that uses the country code 61 which is for Australia, Christmas Island and Cocos Islands, none whatsoever additional info is available.

But what is available, are beautiful photography, design and typographic projects and concepts.

Silestone ‘Above Everything Else’ by Alex Roman is a product advert and the sequencing – concept and motion editing is above most everything else indeed.

The photo montage, the slow organic-like animated objects some identifialble others not convey a fantasy-like alternate reality.

iPad Survey Results by Dan Frommer and Leah Goldman

“Everything You Need To Know About How People Use The iPad Read. Business Insider surveyed 500 iPad owners: The Safari-browser is the most important app.”

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via: Wolfgang Blau

Multi Praktik is a collective based in Slovenia who design, illustrate, do motion and more. Really like the originality displayed in some of their projects. Very diversified styles as well. Sign of a good working collaboration between members? Think so.

NLA Ruling Summary: How PRs Break Copyright Law Online

“The judge argues that in reprinting publications’ headlines or summaries of longer than 256 characters, the service is “stealing” the publishers’ content.”

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via: Jeffrey Zeldman

The Official Manufacturing Co is made of Mathew Foster, Fritz Mesenbrink and Jeremy Pelley. They are thing makers. After having separately worked for some years at Wieden+Kennedy and Ace Hotel, then out on their own freelancing, they wound up in a studio together and realized how much better it could be.

Terrific branding collaterals for the Ace Hotel!

Collections of little happiness from different people in different places by Napatsawan Chirayukool

What makes your day?

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What makes my day? Love. Berries in my Cheerios.

You? Share in comments.

Threading steadily, DOGO is a graphic design, illustrations and communications studio founded in 2005 with the object of combining personal qualities in a creative team.

Newly relaunched portfolio with nice projects.

They have a deep love for design and know from experience that when you love something, you stand a much better chance at excelling at it no matter what the odds are. This is how their project was born.

We love our job is a graphic design studio based in Israel.

“We believe that love is power and that words have a significant influence. We decided to start a movement with the intent to inspire businesses of all kinds to love their job and shout it from the rooftops. Our goal is to change the world and create a worldwide exhibition for every profession out there.”

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The art of branding. Same day, different story by Studio Tab.

Ribbons is a script created in Processing by Anthony Mattox which generates undulating, translucent forms. As the particles are pushed around the screen by various forces, a curve is drawn along them every frame.

Beautiful shapes and colors.

In the wee hours of November 5 there was a freak accident which sent our server into limbo. Due to major server meltdown and unprecedented data corruption Netdiver Mag went to lalaland. Now, honey we’re back on a brand new spanking server!

What’s new? Huh-huh ‘centered’ layout.. and ‘share’ links.

We have missed you. We’re soooo happy to be back!

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Plugging content to rebuild lost database and image directories was crazy. Thank God we had a static back-up. Unfortunately, all comments since July are gone to the ether. And that is a major bummer.

If you find any ‘bobo’ won’t you take a moment to report it pretty please? Subject: Meltdown + copy/paste URL in this form.

xoxo

Alanna Davey is a freelance stylist, reporter, producer, interior consultant hailing from Toronto. Luv her elegant eclectic style and especially her muted palettes in some of her home projects.

Beautiful photography. So important to do so.

André Beato is a Portuguese graphic designer and illustrator, born in Lisbon and currently based in London, who luvs to work in mostly vector based graphics, illustrations, corporate identities and typefaces.

Vinicius Costa is from Brazil. He has updated his portfolio. Get ready to see extraordinarily beautiful artwork and video marvels. He currently works at 1st Ave Machine in NY as a Director and art director creating visual design and storytelling videos.

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In the video gallery, watch the stunning Zune HD advert. Jaw-dropping!

They run a buttons badge competition on one of the smallest and coolest art format ever. The winners for the
6th annual Stereohype design competition are released.

Who wants some?

Nazario Graziano is unrelenting and a top creative who excels at photo-collages that bear his unique signature. He has just relaunched a new portfolio. Check it out.

Take me out by Atomic Tom. Guess what is different in how this band performs? Huh?

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via: Alex Beaudet

Here’s What Next Year’s iPad Will Look Like by Dan Frommer

Have followed my disgruntled rants about the iPad? – guess what? All I said should be part of #1 will be part of #2. Check out the ‘new’ features presentation.

This confirms, the market hack Apple has pulled to secure first entry on the tablet market..

Apple should have known better..

Pablo Alfieri aka Playful has joined forces with Mariano Farias aka Gula and they have set up a new motion and art direction studio called Plenty™. Have a look at their first website and reel. Loads of yummy motion graphics.

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Don’t miss the MTV Cinepop bumpers who won a Promax award.

Nice! Cross-slovenian street TapeArt actions with different artists as part of the new campaign for Orto (Simobil) organized by Multipraktik Collective. View the video collection!

Oh! This is quite a self-promo stunt the Indigo Kids are pulling as their business proposal to generate projects for their small design studio (very small, tiny, only programmer and designer) from Lithuania.. Watch the movie. Good idea or not?

Let me know what you think.

Tough situation requires a tough approach and this is what the Step Up Speak Out website is about: empowering teens about gender issues such as violence, sexual harassment and more.. Short to the point useful help is provided.

Sexually explicit clips (viewer discretion is advised) are offending and unfortunately, it takes what it takes to jolt out of the massive culture anesthesia related to entertainment and it’s blueprint effect on youth.

On a technical side, the interface is clearly intended to be simple to navigate with edgy popping content boxes that are helping charting the information easily.

How does the crisis in the streetwear industry look like? Colors And The Kids aka CATK illustrated an article about it – titled: Bright. Luv the bouncing multi-textured forms.

Imaginary forces at work in the photographic Soup project by Mircea Mocanu. Surreal characters, floating decor and the overall composition to contribute to creating a catchy look and feel.

Urban camouflage against crime. For you it’s a laptop case. For the mugger it’s just a folded newspaper. Everyday objects which make our lives a little bit more fun!

Brilliant idea by MiteMite a two girl atelier from Barcelona who design, create and produce everything themselves.

Literally cool conversation pieces! ICEBLOX ice cube tray designed by Martin Zampach: make ice, play the game, chill out. These silicone mold can be used also for making jelly and biscuits. 100% food grade silicone.

Digging the splendid ad World Upside Down — which Emmy award winner Josh Bodnar, edited. His technique blends the disciplines of design, animation, visual effects and live-action.

Believable clip (for a change) — message driven. Got it.

YouMustCreate or YMC reactive clothing collections which is not about following or imposing (new?) trends but about creating their own style. Luv the idea – hate the animated crawler which appears in sub sections (this is sooo passé).

Original collection presentation with models that are everything but.

Benoit Paillé close encounter with strangers. As he finds interesting people wherever he goes – he asks if he can take their picture. The result is a mumble-jumbo serie that is as eclectic as unusual. He breaks the mold of the serial portrait photographer.

Jacqueline Rabun is a jewellry designer who has acquired an international reputation for her modern, elegant and refined collections. Showing the Beautiful and WE rings who carry her extraordinary sense of aesthetics.

My iPad Magazine Stand by Khoi Vinh

“iPad app version of The New Yorker as a content experience, was an impediment to my normal content consumption habits. I couldn’t email, blog, tweet or quote from the app, to say nothing of linking away to other sources — for magazine apps like these, the world outside is just a rumor to be denied.”

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“My understanding is that a lot of these apps are being actively encouraged and even partially funded by the folks at Adobe.. In my personal opinion, Adobe is doing a tremendous disservice to the publishing industry by encouraging these ineptly literal translations of print publications into iPad apps.”

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“They must translate their print editions into a utilitarian complement to their users’ content consumption habits.”

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“And it’s a no-brainer to me that content consumption is going to be intimately if not inextricably linked with your social graph.”

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Related articles: iPad no more — Experiencing Flipboard

Netdiver Mag is in lalaland. In the wee hours of November 5 there was a freak accident which sent our server into limbo.

Due to major server meltdown and unprecedented data corruption, Netdiver Mag site is out of order until all content is restore. Working on the double to fix it.

We miss you. Can’t wait to be back.

For a night only FIRE 2 group show will take place. Probably the only designer invited, I will be showing a first slice of posters from the AWAY digital series which has a designy-illustrative-photographic approach to result in beautiful eye candy. Great for the soul and for any studio / living walls. Miniature postcards will be available too.

If in Montreal and wanna drop by, come say hello.

Where: ECTO 880 rue Roy E., suite 300, Montréal

Upcoming: November 4 from 17h30-21h30

The Future of the Book by IDEO

Watch global design and innovation consultancy IDEO’s vision for the future of the book. What new experiences might be created? What innovative ways might use to tell favorite stories? Build community around books?

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via: Tomas Trnobransky

Rie Hosokai is a worldy appreciated master balloon artlist. Her significant techhique and exquisite sense of fashion were proven by winning the international balloon dress competition ”Millenium Jam Fashion Award” two years in a row.

Can you believe the perfection of these dresses?

How about using a slide presentation of your latest projects with a contstant large black circle that states who you are and what you do? Check out Sven Kils website! Smart!

Who Are The ‘Influencers’ Influencing? by Matthew Newton

The term itself is absurd: Influencer. Any reasonable person would laugh at such a title, perhaps go as far as classify it as a fairly pretentious way to view one’s self. But it turns out more and more “young creatives” have adopted the moniker as a badge of honor, an indicator of how they perceive their role in life.

Check the trailer. So what do you think?

Have you heard of the recent debacle of Gap croudsourcing their logo redesign? Well the times are changin’ and below a list of must read articles to get a fragmented overview of the core debate.

To crowdsource or not? Guess not.

The Real Lesson of the Gap Debacle: Logos Aren’t Key Anymore by Steve McCallon

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Gap Bows to Outcry, Nixes New Logo and Crowdsourcing by Cliff Kuang

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Gap on Disastrous New Logo: "We’re Open to Other Ideas" by Alissa Walker

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Gap’s Retro Redesign Incites Flaming Logo Rage by Alissa Walker

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via: JF Simard

Uncanny pictures of people with their dogs by David Maupile. See how they are dressed up to match their owners? Weird or lovely idea?

White space rules! Slick, gorgeous and minimalist magazine/book covers of BX22 by Boxhorn.

Might be perceived as over simplisitic, but I really like the boxy approach Drexler took for their website. The news section (middle band) is cleverly inserted. Luv the arrow-based navigation, the color palette and the large visuals with well-written captions.

Good start for this creative collective.