Digital Life: Today & Tomorrow by Neo Labels explores 15 key facts and conclusions to know the future of the Internet in 2015. Such as: ‘More consumers will access the Internet by mobile devices than by desktop or laptop by 2014’.
Have been predicting this for a looooong time: ‘All devices to the network’.
Read it. Watch it!
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Extraordinary 3d illiustrations – great storyboarding.
What a beautiful watch the Ziiiro Aurora! Luv the minimalist design and tutti-frutti colors. Ingenious way to show time: no hands, no markings.
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Found it via MakeWonder a new social shopping project that offers a ‘blind’ gifts store – what an intriguing concept.
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question: Would you buy ‘blind’ gifts? Yay or nay?
Penelope Dullaghan is as versatile as her work. She does illustration, fine art, type, patterns. Her projects are stamped with a dreamy like signature, her palette is often muted with contrasting accents. She has been widely published and her work awarded too.
She is one-half (co-founder) of popular Illustration Friday.
Since repurposing Netdiver Mag and opening Netdiver Mag – I have been quite busy working in kinda of stealth mode to tweak-tweak-tweak how to present new content, production of this FANTA (code name) project which intends to afford a robust and playful outlet for creatives around the world to express and promote themselves. No due date yet.
Curious? Read more in-depth in this just released interview I did for FUEL magazine (for iPad). No iPad? Download as a .pdf which sports one of my illustration on their launch issue cover :))
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Netdiver Mag is all about sharing what catches my eyes both as inspiration and creative lessons that probe and push me to excel in whatever I enterprise. I need the visual stimuli as the air I breath.
Through the years, I realise that I have been very discrete about other passions in my life – apart from everything design – but this is about to change. Like.. now.
Five years ago I took the despotic rule of the CTRL+Z universe out of the equation and started painting large abstract canvas. Why? To play with pretty colors for sure, and keep learning about chromatics. But also to learn about new problem-solving and decision-making processes. By painting would you say?
Well once you’ve applied a spot of paint and don’t like the result – can’t delete it right? So this forces me to think and ultimately, find a way to recuperate the ‘mess’ and make it part of the emerging visual. Sometimes the sum of my painting is just a string of corrections. Sometimes it is pure insight.
Also, since my little bro passed 1.5 year ago, he was a musician and experienced with the music production industry – he admonished JF and I to stop ‘researching’ and start ‘doing’.
We had a band 20 years ago and worked 7 years on our projects. When came the www opportunity – we jumped in and for the best of the past 15 years – it was our main focus. JF became a FED (front-end developer) and I a publisher. We had and still have much passion for what it means to be connected 24/7 to the world via technology. I am in awe every day.
We don’t care so much for technology as we care for content distribution and leveraging the creative industry (all disciplines confounded) through disintermediation and circulation of works like never before in the history of our creative culture.
Throughout the years we composed music / songwriting (and piled up a good amount of sketches), invested in new instruments and in the digital music studio parnophelia required to do a decent demo. All the while JF was (and still is) re-learning the new era way of music recording and production. Michel serving as a catalyst, kind of signified it was time for us to go back to it.
We are currently working on two albums. First one is an ‘in memoriam’ album with lots of instrumental tracks to be freely distributed to people going through the agony of losing someone.
The second is a compilation of new and revisited songs, that dip into what we think is now ‘our’ sound and style.
If you read this far, thank you. You visiting is the reason why I am pursuing everything I’m doing. I am no longer a closet publisher, artist nor songwriter.
Expect that the mix of ‘content’ on Netdiver Mag to include from now on the daily mix of creative inspirational projects plus bits and pieces of what I am doing, such as takes (snapshots) of on-going canvas, design experimentations and music.
You ok with that?
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showing: Take #3 untitled
Gotta luv the Cough series by Andrew Banneker. To view larger visuals of his work – right-click images to open in a new window. Tedious I know.
Olaf Hajek is into a painterly style that attracts a lot of editorial commissions. Often depicts crowded over spaces or sometimes, which I prefer, completely minimalist. Overall is work is strong and bold and yet, can be very detailed and refined.
Alex Varanese is a designer with a background in 3D and that there isn’t much overlap between traditional typography as he thinks there could be. Some of his compositions are pure genius.
Live Now (a community of happiness) is a growing collection of friends, powerfully pursuing the notion of ‘living now’. We’re spreading our message through artwork, literature, relationships, exhibitions and more. This movement cannot be confined, is spilling out, and making history.
The Live Now book is a collection of inspirational quotes and illustrations pursuing the notion of living a happy and engaged life.
Please help spread the word!
SLS2011 Image Spot is the imaginary intro of upcoming summer music festival. The concept was came from the moment an orchestra tuning up. Production by Space Shower TV.
Universal Design studio had one of the best interior design sites I had seen. You could watch the screen changes to display clients’ work. Clickicking on scrolling icons and new background loaded. Clicking on background and navigation collapsed, so you could see the sharp picture behind. That was then.. (2002)..
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This is now.. Guess they’ve chosen to concentrate on doing what they do best which is extraordinary interior design. The website is less impressive – but the projects are! The visual constructs revolve often around geometric forms and shapes, strong architectural balance and repeated patterns.
Still jaw-dropping.
Discover the deliriously out of this world collection of illustrations by Colin Johnson. Read the captions of each illustration to get a scope of his conceptual abilities and imagination.
His are not meant as pretty pictures. But as smart pictures.
Makes you think.
Cover image – The Directory of Illustration #27
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Going Nowhere – Downwards trends in the reall estate market
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China Crisis – Harvard Business Review
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Brain Teaser – Sterling Publishing
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Cities Going Wireless – Vancouver Magazine
And the winners are? ED Awards seek to promote and raise standards for communication design throughout Europe and to properly honour and award people who invest their passion in design.
I had even featured some of the winners previously. Nice!
In this self-portrait photographic essay, she intended to create herself, instead of finding her identity. The human face seems to emphasize ‘who’ a person is, and gives some insight about the individual. The series challenges the viewer’s misconceptions and stereotypes.
I am more than my face :) by Mitsuko Nagone
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via: Sylvain Dumais
Carlos Camp at an early age found his vocation for drawing and design. Declared admirer of Herb Lubalin, Shepard Fairey and Denis Zilber, his inspiration is everything that surrounds him. Be it music, an object, a simple movement. He likes to capture the essence of what we are seeing and bring it into his work.
Digging the retro nostalgia of the Catalog series.
After spending the week-end reshuffling the (music) studio and moving heavy and / or fragile stuff around to and fro that room to another and back, struggling with one table leg that wouldn’t stay levelled for a couple of hours, until we found the solution (ain’t Google essential?), finding the right new place for instruments, mics and wires (lots), hiding an hideous closet door with a black opaque blind and using hardware from another.. whew!
I can assure you – this saying is now true to us (hats off JF):
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The sign is hanging in the Etsy offices in New York City.
And here now, virtually.
Artfully visualizing our humanity by Aaron Koblin (TED talk)
His work takes real-world and community generated data and uses it to reflect on cultural trends and the changing relationship between humans and technology.
Inspiring quote:
19th century culture was defined by the novel,
20th century by the cinema,
the culture of the 21st century will be defined by the interface.
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via: Aaron Koblin
Pino is a market place for unique, functional and innovative design objects. The idea for the concept camefrom the name of the shop, Pino, which means a ‘pile’ or ‘stack’ in Finnish. Luv the logo!
Looks pretty much like my dream store.
pS Arkitektur enhance their clients image and business capacity through innovative architecture and design. Their motto? Architecture for change. They take an overall responsibility for the project throughout the process – from conceptual sketches to finalised product.
See what they did for the Skype offices! We’re talking humongous (over the top?) $$$$$ budget here. Made possible because of M$ recent buyout???
What do you think?
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via: Dezeen
Typfruitography by Garret Steider. Edible alphabet deliciously carved or staged! All in upper and lower cases. What an idea! What dedication it took to set-up everything so nothing would go stale.
Big ideas don’t happen behind closed doors. That’s why they keep their work space and their work style open. For the last 25 years, they’ve applied this informal collaboration to branding.
Hats off to Square One Design and to many more years!
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Even their blog is delicious.
A set of 4 limited edition posters printed in two colours for Baltic and designed by Founded.
Scheltens & Abbenes are the sum total of the unique talent of a still-life photographer and the creative craftsmanship of an artist. Technical perfection added to individual handicraft, strong pictorial clarity in addition to tailor-made styling. Combining their distinct but partly overlapping fields of expertise.
Superb staging and photography by this long time collaborating and real-life couple.
Featured: the Mode Depesche project that looks – from a distance – like modern abstract paintings of sort. One of the many examples of their really original ideas.
Aircrash is a program promo for National Geographic that Vascolo based in Argentina designed and animated for FOX Italy. It just raked a bronze medal at the NewYork Festivals. The storyboard is a little chef-d’oeuvre of efficiency. Watching it – you get it! Illustrations are sweet and generic enough for a wide audience.
Well done!
Totally partial to pixel design which I find immensely challenging and I am in awe of those who can design this way. Such precise attention to details, perspective and storyboarding.
Check out the cute Orange Label background image – free for download too – on index of their website. Luv the presentation of what they do – mostly web related – and the tabs to download .pdf.
What a strange (and believable) cast of characters Ryan Berkley illustrates, who self-describes as: I’m a comics inspired gentleman surrounded by toys and Chewbacca masks.
No wonder, most look like all-dressed up dandies!
Nurturing the love of vinyl and analog music since 2010, iCrates is a global platform for music lovers that are passionate about vinyl records and crate digging! iCrates app 1.1 for iPhone and iPod touch is the ultimate search tool – watch the video to see functionalities.
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An initiative to which a great friend, Laura Weider contributes. Btw she owns a Guinness World record for the longest concert by a solo artist. She played non-stop for.. 40 hours!
I like this!
The transfixing work of Jung-Yeon Min is an alliage of surrealistic and illustrative styles. The patterns and textures that underline the perspective are as beautiful as mind challenging. Sometimes it is even hard to decorticate.
The dreamy-like landscapes whereas nature meets urbania, allow viewers to drift quietly into her fantastic inner worlds.
What’s with this website design? by Brandon Oxendine
First: it is kind of hard to explain. It’s on one hand an exploration in readability and garish pattern combinations. On the other hand, it’s a no holds barred foray into the unknown territory of doing whatever I want and attempting to get away with it.
At the very least, it’s interesting. Hopefully it’s also inspiring and seen as an innovative approach to designing for the web. Sorry if it’s just an eyesore. And no, it in no way prescribes my ‘style’.
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Oddly enough it is innovative, nice, inspiring and compelling. No doubt Brandon is very talented and is someone to watch for.
Curious now? Head-on there and see for yourself.
Please dress-up carefully. Human Being tee by origin68. Read the labels on it! Rad idea! Should be mandatory in schools to empower respect and deter bullying. You know like a ‘uniform’. And then, why not everywhere where human rights are non-existant or crushed?
Sign of intelligence. Not just cheeky design.
Contents may vary in colour? Brilliant!
Minimal is a diversely talented product design hub concentrated mostly around lifestyle and technology brands. Their products are oozing with minimalist curvature and slick shapes that makes you want to have and hold. They epitomize in their approach and project deliveries what everyone else would like to achieve: the oooooh and wooooow reactions.
From this, to this, to that. The success story is one currently being told around the no less than extraordinary funding of the TikTok + LunaTik (watch the movie) watches which raised almost $1 million on Kickstarter.
Pet moto? Do what you think is right and apologize later.
Jaw-dropping paper sculptures double-tasking as data visualization! The intricacy of the Pattern Matters projects such as the one featured, is mind-blowing – almost hypnotic. As being one who cannot see (for the life of me) see in 3D – this is exactly the kind of projects – I wish – don’t I wish – I was capable of.
Go be impressed.
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Oh! And don’t miss the calendars! All different – each with a unique rotation mechanism.
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Found this Wim Crouwel poster in full 1969 regalia on Typetoken, a new online magazine that asks you to join its journey into the symbolic world of typography.
Project is a collaboration between graphic designers Mike Sullivan of Mister and Mark Millic of Modularlab, and web developer David Cole of Mayfield Digital.
10,000 unique digital paintings. Each sleeve features a different view on a hypercomplex sculpture, generated through a process combining generative coding with creative intuition.
Produced and imagineered by Field.
Christian Robert-Tissot has got a deep love affair with typography.. but he does not only show his projects with printouts.. How about he paints type on canvas mostly? Or does on-location installations in galleries or on city squares with metal wiring?
Stickler for perfection and no shaky hands involved here.
Now someone(s) have spent a whole lot of time and gave a whole lot of love to this projects: Stampaxx is a free social media stamp collection to brand your work.
Imagineered by Thomas and Mike.
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via: Jonnie Hallman
Little Planets is a peculiar sort of remapping for spherical panoramas that makes everything look like an illustration out of The Little Prince.
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via: Simon Duhamel
Happy F5. F5 is a cutting-edge creativity festival exploring the intersection of art, design and entertainment. The fest brings together the thinkers and doers that are breaking ground and shaping new standards in media and design, becoming the essential meeting point for future-minded individuals with the power to create lasting change.
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View the video about F5 Ethos! Must see!
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Upcoming: April 15-16
3D holographic fashion show. After shooting with a high speed camera Tim Jockel did all stages of post production, from 3D to motion graphics to compositing. The result? One of the biggest holographic projections ever which creates a complete optical illusion and breaks the rules of time and space on stage.
There are some pretty stunning sequences!
We are in the business of creating the future. Technology unprecedented explosion of advances is shaping the landscape – in fact, preparing the playing field, for us.
But we, creatives of the world, are the ones populating it. Therefore, we must take full responsibility of what we will cast and broadcast.
Only us, can insure that visual media and design culture does not become a huge consumerism wasteland.
Let’s make sure that that one idea at a time, we affect the world, our world.. for the better.
Animalia inspired mostly. João Lauro Fonte is Brazillian who now lives in London, where he fell in love with illustration, apparel, prints and band cover designs and discovered that, indeed, he don’t like tea.
Foma is a Brazilian based art collective and design studio located in the heart of São Paulo. Their website is so simple to navigate, therefore, easy to explore.
Probably one of the best portfolio I have seen so far this year! Luv some of the fruity colors mixed with other palette that are exquisitely elegant. Their illustrations are delicious. The quality and scope of their projects are dazzling – infused with creativity and dripping with mastered skills.
Go enjoy!
The best pitch ever! Frank Chimero a designer I admire, has used Kickstarter to pitch for an upcoming book he wanted to write. Watch the movie and learn. Firstly, finding a creative way to get the message across – read the brief. Secondly, engaging emotionally the viewer – watch the video. Thirdly? Succeeding!
He was asking for 25k and he received a staggering 112,159$!!!
Can’t wait to read The Shape of Design.
Fantastic product design and packaging by Elaine Y.L Fok who is a graphic designer and photographer. She will be graduating shortly and is on the look-out for a job.
Each package has two t-shirts and a tea bag packaged in a cup. 8T5 consists two meanings – 85 degrees and 85 percent cotton. The T stands for t-shirt and tea.
Wow oh wow!
Tokyo.Now is an experimental program about new music and fresh visuals. It’s aim is to show what’s happening here and now, in Tokyo’s vibrant creative subculture, and its influence on the world.
Design and animation by Marek Okon.
A good idea never goes out of style!
Don’t give in to trends – you will succumb.
Total identity package for MOVE3 a film and design conference hosted by the New York chapter of the AIGA by Labour. Craziness of sound editing with stop-motion DIY and motion.
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Opening sequence with the ‘furry’ logo is wow! Watch their latest reel.
Sean McClintock is a freelance motion designer based in New York City. Very rarely so taken by the work of someone that I feel the urge to offer a larger scope of their work! The suggested following are visual jewels and really impressive motion graphics! They exemplify his skills, creativity and sense of style.
Luv his logo that conveys movement.
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Friday Afternoon in the Universe
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Tosom 2 is a standing invitation to cuddle up alone, or with a close friend or a child in your arms! This XL-chair is especially designed for informal seating positions, with plenty of space for curling your feet up.
Frøystad+Klock design sustainable products and furniture with personalities, creates interiors and exhibition design.
Hexagonal grid type design for Hodder & Stoughton book cover designed by Melvin Galapon. Sadly the news back from the publisher was that it wasn’t going to get used.. Showing his favourite of the bunch.
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He is well-known for his geometrical patterns or dot matrix simili or blinding tv lines which he adorns almost any surfaces or canvas. Walls, posters, windows, t-shirts, you name it.
Showing the “Looking Good” t-shirt.
These are not icons nor pictograms but a sample of a cool font named: Palpack distributed by T.26 and designed by Supisa Design. Other ‘picture’ fonts available.
For all musicians out there – this one’s for you. Synthesizer 76 iPad a pplication by Jonas Eriksson. Btw he is looking for a skilled iPhone/iPad developer to collaborate with on future projects.
Jessica Hische, one of my favorite letterer, has launch a new website. “Why do you need a new site?” you might ask. It’s all about user control. Read the why and new tweaks.
Woohoo! Luv the play on words of the domain name which emphasises what she does and like:
jessicahische.is/obsessedwiththeinternet
jessicahische.is/lettering
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Digging her white walled office space – we have similar taste.
How befitting to feature this wonderful close-up Flower Field photography by Bonnie Tsang – since Spring is finally nesting in Montreal.
Search for inspiration and/or talent in Netdiver Mag.
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Our little studio owned Adobe Master Suites—invoking security issues our perpetual licenses were nulled. Undone? No!
I can open all .pdf, .psd or .ai files in the Affinity apps and the UI/UX is so gorgeous!
See for yourself: test the Affinity suite. Works on all platforms + iPad for—6 MONTHS FREE!
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Connected to the internet's origins, building the internet of the future. We’re building ways to help everyone fight for privacy online. I am a big fan of their services.
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What a strange name for an independent Internet privacy company. Contrary to G/ who records every instance of their services useage with DDG, no recording of your data, EVER!!!
We use it everyday.
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This private (free) app I use daily for taking notes or writing. Back up to the cloud for multi-devices access. Runs locally.
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I paint abstract with pretty colours ~ I play with mobile apps to create unique generative art.
Look 'Ma no AI.
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Communication Arts 24-25—calls for entries.
Interactive — October 25/24
Illustration — Jan 10/25
Photography — March 7/25
Design — May 2/25
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The Smashing Conferences explore real-life projects, workflows and hands-on insights.
SmashingConf - Antwerp
Upcoming: Oct 28-31/24
SmashingConf - Workshops
Online: check dates.
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AIGA’s competitions celebrate exemplary design and demonstrate the power of effective design.
50 Books | 50 Covers: February 26 / 24
365: AIGA Year in Design February 26 / 24
It is a conference and a community of thousands of women influencers and entrepreneurs in creative fields.
Upcoming: March 17-20 / 24
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YouWorkForThem — Good design needs good fonts! YWFT is privately owned and run by designers.
Rocking it since 2001.
Mind-blowing visual feats and original designs I recently discovered.
Previously: #12 - #11 - #10 - #9 - #8 - #7 - #6 - #5 - #4 - #3 - #2 - #1
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Illustration is probably the largest creative area to express (mostly without words) a message.
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A type of Show #5 – I love typography - these projects caught my eye.
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Moodboards #1 – Branding collaterals staged and served with conceptual brilliance.
A little (www) Story. In 1995, JF and I started a little project — Netdiver mag.
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Editorials. Design topics or issues that have impacted me and/or our creative industry. .
Over 50 articles.
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A short interview on how to build a strong portfolio + self-promotion.
Carole Guevin is a founder + editor + design curator ∞ culture creator + online pioneer ∞ featuring the creative culture since '98.
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No hype — just beautiful
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Netdiver long-standing mini visuals (200 x 115 px) galleries. Each lead to its review. Happy talent discovery!
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Vast array of drawing styles
404 reviews
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Conceptual designs standing out
358 reviews
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Products / packaging design / spaces +
333 reviews
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Brilliant storyboards / motion / vfx
286 reviews
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Some of the sharpest eyes shooting today
210 reviews
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New wave of design / interactive / mobile stars
552 reviews
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Women who rock the design scene with _more_ than pink design
391 reviews
Visual Brain Gravity is a producer and developer of concepts, products and brand experiences.
Driven by vision.
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Self-curation experiment coupled with minimalist interviews with people in the design industry I admire.
By invitation only
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Terrific product or service or event and wanna reach a fabulous international audience?
Advertise with us
Coming soon
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Netdiver Best of the Year is a yearly compilation of projects / talents who made a lasting impression the previous year.
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What was new in design worldwide—sort of a very unofficial record of web history as captured from {1998 - 2007}.
Over 2.3k+ projects.
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Walk down memory lane: hand-coded news in design from 1998-2008.
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Terrific product or service or event and wanna reach a fabulous international audience?
Advertise with us
Dates soon.
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