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Wild or muted, shimmery to icy have a look at the Inspiring Fascination packaging designs by Tommy Li. Luv the logo too. In my view, instant collectible items. You use them until they’re good for the recycling bin only.

Wish there were as cool as these bags for gifting. Hello?

Ooops ooops ooops. On the relaunch of NDV our famous Best of the Year (BOTY) listing which ran from 2002 through 2009 – were moved to a new location on the server and missing all thumbnails. So sorry about that. Fixed.

Now if you want to do a quick retrospective – hit it on.
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Did you know that BOTY (05) edition was listed as 2nd by Google on a staggering 3,640,000,000 results!!!

Typography Deconstructed (TypeDecon) was built out of frustration and concern for the lack of information on the subject of typography in one place. There are lots of resources both online and in books (some very good) that provide helpful information when it comes to learning what a certain typographical term means or visually seeing the anatomy of type.

Typography Deconstructed is a division of 38pages, LLC.

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nota: More typographic / fonts in the toolbox.

Rooting for my hometown boy and ADC Young Gun class of 2009 hero, Sylvay Dumais will be speaking Apple Store, 1321 rue Ste-Catherine Ouest in Montréal.

Upcoming: February 28 – 18h30

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Of course if your in NYC don’t miss Jessica Walsh powagirrrl per excellence now (ooops wrong – interning) the designer / art director at Sagmeister (yes-yes – him!) or in Tokyo, Genki Ito who has e(motions) at heart.

These taglines have punch and made me chuckle. Even if the product has a respectable number of years under its belt, careful, with a smart as that website, it is evidence that so is the LOMO a technically astonishing, gorgeous little Russian compact camera.

Well conceived. Well thought-out. Long-live the LOMO.

Visit Lomography.com to view their fab collection.

For your viewing pleasure and vintage appetite – Netdiver Vintage edition has been replenished! See for yourself.

The sweetest imagination and candid illustrations – check James Yang aka Planet Yang portfolio. Within a few years of entering the illustration marketplace, prestigious trade publications began to show or feature his work.

He has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is in constant demand as a guest lecturer around the world.

From this, to this! Brilliant illo that appeared in the Los Angeles Times on February 22. Happy birthday Steve Jobs! by Charis Tsevis.

Plexman truly shows how a pix is worth a thousand words. Luv their tagline: luminosity latitude clarity. Very professional. Very inspirational. Their portfolio doesn’t skip a beat. From dreamy to steel cold like. Brilliant!

Don’t know what could be called having left a little legacy on the web if not for this fab fonts site designed by Kotaroh Hatano aka Gray Graphics – that was published around 1998. Have a look.

Workthy of your time since everything works fine – including downloading the (free) fonts.

Howard Wakefield worked as a graphic designer with Peter Saville at Pentagram Design during the early 90s. He is currently working with Kvadrat, the leading Danish textile company, responsible for the complete brand identity system from the logo to advertising, web site and the graphic design of all printed materials.

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Kvadrat Advertising 2009 Clouds

New Horizons collages using Helvetica to mask certain areas of vintage images by Stephane Massa-Bidal.

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via: Creative Journal

Nice illustration and in-store installation and set-up for Puma by Axtor Espeluzland.

Claudia Goetzelmann is a globe-trotting visual story-teller and integrated-media photographer, equally at home creating unique images on the beaches of Brazil or on location in Moscow. A native German who has lived and worked in Africa and Asia, she currently splits her time between San Francisco and New York.

Check the LIFE | MOVEMENT section. These kids are in way better shape than us, since they can effortlessly defy earth’s gravity.

Joshua Davis Creates the Face of Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy Supercomputer by John Pavlus

IBM hired veteran digital artist Joshua Davis to create Watson’s avatar, and made a video describing the designer’s process.

(skip to 1:35)

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via: David Schell

Sensational animated opening sequence on the website of Hellohikimori who push their creative bravado steps further. Luv the 3d symmetrical shapes and the grayscale, black and turquoise palette.

Mind-boggling cute pink all over concept and super delicious fingers licking looking! DIY Ice-Cream Parlour! Make your own sundaes buffet concept for a wedding or party by Amy Moss aka Eat Drink Chic.

Must see!

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via: Lois&Me!

Coming to your desk soon – Arwey a new collection of functional notebooks with fifteen models with sixty color combinations.

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via: Burak Kaynak founder of Playwho

Feisty information design illustration based cut-out like animation to present the State of Wikipedia, narrated by founder – Jimmy Wales. Another nice production by JESS3.

Mister is a design consultancy based in Glasgow, UK. They create original, award-winning work that work effectively across a range of applications from online and print to screen and corporate identity. Brimming over with excellent projects (and lots of them).

Their website is a wonderful grid-like example using lots of negative space and black / charcoal highlights.

Whereas males are becoming increasingly portrayed as objects with serious transgenic features – evolution being totally irrelevant here – these kind of portraits convey what exactly? Be pretty and shut-up? Reversal of roles? Why?

Excerpts from Heavy Weight (sic) by Vincent Schoepfer.

I’m not sure this is the way I would like to be portrayed as a powagirrrl – guess there are still loads prejudicial bias hanging out in the ether – there that needs to be corrected.. but why imply violence? Why is it we have to be so tough to be respected?

Freestyle Collective Chicks by Nook.

Let’s break it down – app development strategy from Image Mechanics! Rigorous design? Check! Litteral metaphor? Check! Short to the point? Check!

Why use a blog for news when you can script messages right into the fonts that you are offering for sale? This is what Commercial Type chose to do in more than bold sizes.. Less time consuming and more eye catching? I guess.

Here’s to ingenuity!

Play & Fluo is the exploratory brand and typographic relaunch experiment that Pablo Alfieri enterprised a while back to dress-up his new hd website. Eye catching and original – especially the picture of the model looking at you from upside down.

Digging it!

Pageboy-Alicia is a Japan based brand that offers a line of cross-european-american street-smart clothes with a thumboy edge. Nice diggs – and photography.

Nothing to be blue about. Digging this Qube Konstrukt illustration project and campaign for Merk. The 3D vignettes are exquisite. All elements were hand-made.

Warm Signal by Silke Sieler is a short movie dealing with metamorphosis and transformation, connecting art and science. With a strong emphasis on sound, it’s related to the idea of visual music.

Transform / Generate the object in real time by Jozef Ondrik.

The project deals with exploring the relationships of architecture and its environment. He created an object that has no permanent status, shape or middle. The only part that remains is the building. The object is transformed of basis of passing of data.

Made with Processing.

From A-Z by Valentina D’Efilippo. Beautiful packaging and typographic design destined to children. Don’t miss her previous ABC rendition made with organic elements. Wish I was in pre-school to learn the alphabet all over again.

Imagine your hometown never changed.. Welcome to PinePoint – a northern mining town that closed in 1988, and was subsequently demolished. Under the auspice of the National Film Board interactive section, the project was produced by Paul and Michael from The Goggles.

This is a weird and poignant journey – one that was driven by someone very special.

Get a warm drink – whole experience lasts 20 min.

BUPLA ran by terrific Clémentine Derodit has just launch a new website. She has been a long time resident of our portfolios section and the fact that everything she enterprises, is oh so very professional and equivalent in creative output, makes me a proud Mama – sorta speaking.

Stunning porfolio. Indulge.

The Brand New Awards is a judged competition organized by UnderConsideration, celebrating the best identity work produced around the world during 2010.

Deadline: March 31

Big departure from his old website, James Marshall aka Dalek is probably one of the most prolific in his sphere of art. Every single piece is a dazzling assemblage of geometric shapes intersecting with contrasting tutti-frutti colors. It could be liken to wild psychedelia if it was not for the fact – that through the years – his style remains intact.

Mathilde Aubier is a graphic design who does collages for a variety of editorial assignments. Her characters often sport cut-out eyes that gives each vignette a somewhat Magritte like surreal dimension.

Especially like the ones featured.

Jesse Brown projects are an exploration in geometric forms, pattern, shape and repetition which display a very clean, graphic quality.

New times demand new journalism.. We need to completely reinvent our craft – R. Murdoch. The Daily launched on February 2, 2011 with the mission to provide the best news experience by combining world-class storytelling with the unique interactive capabilities of the iPad.

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James Widegren: Wohoo, The Daily website is live (designed by Your Majesty, developed by Sisu), and the app is featured on Apple!

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Like watching a car crash in slow motion: Video of R. Murdoch presenting his new The Daily — via IA

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Some critics are pretty harsh, but I like ‘pretty’ anyway.

Walking down memory lane. B U B B L E S O A P is one of the oldest running and one of the first flash based immersive and interactive project on the web (circa 2003). It was created by J. Otto Seibold an illustrator of children’s books, as well as some picture books intended for all ages.

Worth exploring still today.

My dreamed space brought to you by Barbara Hill. Stacked in concrete – using the grayscale palette to contrast with white surface, wall and furniture. Digging the chalkboard entrance door.

Ed Awards 2011 call for submissions. The European Design Awards is the comprehensive annual awards organisation celebrating the best of graphic design, illustration and digital design in Europe.

Deadline: February 15

Are You An Armchair Creative? by Mark McGuinness

The armchair takes me into a different space, where my mind can drift and I can see the big picture of the projects I’m working on, notice the patterns that emerge and my gut feeling about the best way forward. When I get up from the armchair, everything is clearer and sharper. My body feels lighter, and more energized.

I have a large pile of old magazines – stacked and ready for future collages. I used them on almost any surfaces, such as some of the desks in my studio and even on the back of bookshelves – to make eye catching room and space dividers.

The Old Magazines typography and poster by RK Estudio is such a genial idea!

Please have a seat. Choose either the Molor chair – or the Break bench or the Ugo sofa – courtesy of Andreas Engesvik and make yourself right at home.

These are the summum in ref w/ modern furniture design.

Your website is under construction? No problem! Peter Mendelsund snapped pictures of his books and voilà – temp placeholder!

Moscow Inside/Outside photography essay by Oksana Yushko.

The city is the people. They just come and crowd around you, make habitations in their own image and likeness, create own problems and then solve them, construct their special world which difficult to reach if you are not inside and from where you can watch the daily life of the city.

Not much information is available in ref w/ Daria Rychkova but I was completely taken by her talent. She draws beautifully. Her line work is impressive and her compositions, outstanding. Can’t wait to see what she puts up on dashaworld, her portfolio website.

Definitely someone to watch for.

Found this strange weird original hair clip made by Humans.

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via: JOQUZ