Netdiver Mag

All he wants to do is play.. well almost. Joris Willems is an extra talented and versatile graphic designer with strong ties to extreme outdoors sports and street culture. Very gifted, as proof, how prolific the editorial assigments completed.

Someone to definitely keep an eye on.

Mike Harrison aka Destill designed this beautiful poster for DACS (Designers Against Child Slavery). Splendid layout and details.

New stationery set draws upon the rich array of eclectic typefaces and colour in Simon Beattie’s books and catalogues designed by Purpose, a brand communications consultancy specialising in brand identity and marketing communications based in the Uk.

As my big day with JF is now 9 days away.. and as we sprint towards it, preparing all the sweet and cool surprises for our guests – I found out about Brittany & Dave’s wedding.

They took their own spin on what being creative is about. Pixel comboy theme for D&B wedding. Beautiful inspiring touching video edited same day!

Well look who’s blowing me away this am: Finnian MacMannus! Why? First and foremost his talent and how he expresses it. His acquired skills are pretty impressive and promising of much more to come in ref w/ projects.

Second, because he’s already socially engaged – such as TRANS (currently a private art community dedicated to anti-misuse of art) statement: We are strongly against economical schemes and the current situation of how money negatively influences art.

Thirdly? He’s 17 years old.

Milleneufcentquatrevingtquatre is a young French brand created by the collaboration Amélie Charroin and Marie Colin-Madan. Its name represents the year both these textile designers were born.

In particular, the Desert Shore collection is designed with stunning art. Defying and redefining what a ‘scarf’ as an accessory can look like!

De Zines tries to reflect what is happening in the contemporary editorial creation on the level of independent publications, how this area relates to the artistic production and social, cultural and current political environment. Around 400 international publications have been gathered from most established magazines in the market until handmade zines and a selection of experimental magazines.

What a great initiative! If that’s not loving design, don’t know what would be.

No.1 on iTunes, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore trailer will give you an idea of what this fantastic iPad little book app can do to teach and entertain small and grown-up kids. Produced and imagineered by Moonbot Studios LA, LLC.

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Outliers, Vol. I: Iceland is a scenic documentary of improvised collaboration. Film and video project in Reykjavik, Iceland by Scenic.

This October, a small group of filmmakers, photographers and musicians are setting out on a journey to explore the remote countryside of Iceland and document their experiences with the landscape, residents and traditions they encounter.

The project is anchored by internationally renowned photographers Tim Navis + Kim Høltermand and aided by film collective Scenic and composer Deru.

View the trailer. Support if you like :))

Digging the SLAM typographic treatment that actually builds the illustration (you feel the character ready for a slam-dunk) by Sergio Alves.

Boy meets Girl self-promo animation by extra talented Ben Mounsey who is an illustrator based in London. The simplicity of the characters, storyboard and script.. gave me a big large smile. So elegantly drawn, he has mastered his style.

So typical a story. When you least expect it – it happens.

Wishing you all? LOVE!

Stop-motion is a pretty time consuming and daunting project to enterprise. Merit goes to Yawn Creative (a recently launched design collective) using the setting up of their studio as subject matter and storyboard.

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Watch: The Rejiggle.

FAB (standing for Free Art Bureau) is is a non-profit association dedicated to artists and designers working with code and open source tools as their main medium. FAB believes in the empowerment of open standards and supports open source philosophy. They believe in sharing, educating, innovating and promoting.

You’ll find a number of articles, links, resources. They recently held a workshop.

A fab initiative by Mark Webster.

Probably not the only one out there, Marcellini studio new website opens on people. Yepp. First and foremost the team is central and presented with a picture (some are quite funny) and little doodled black and white animations which characterize – my guess – each of them.

I’m impressed that such importance is given that.. On the other, no team – no clients – no projects.

The bottom part is a mumble-jumble of information – tad too smallish and perhaps not enough client works. But even the transition to it is a large doodled background.

Well original it is indeed.

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Llaunching their very own Marcellini Magazin – shows how confident they are in their ability for self-promo in view of garnering more client work.

Have got some idle time? Need to reboot your imagination? Spark your creativity? Be inspired? Here are two favorite TED talks:

Stefan Sagmeister: 7 rules for making more happiness

Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off

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Recommend: Things I have learned in my life so far.

Got news! Just finished assembling the Viva mobility! directory and category. Find edgy articles, apps, dev studios and accessories.

Will revisit the apps on my iPhone and write a review for those I use most. Will keep my ears to the ground to see what new developments are happening in the field at large including such as new devices, OS and breakthrough.

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Viva mobility! Netdiver Mag thumbnails.
Viva mobility! Netdiver Mag category.

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Black Diamond is a gorgeous 3D interactive mood lighting iPhone Dock. The free Black Diamond app on your iPhone, mounted in its dock, can deliver 5 different color schemes that will resurrect the semi-transparent black dome to blush with mesmerizing colors.

The design was made by Ken Ouyang, who is an electrical engineer turned designer.

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CKIE is an international funding and ordering platform for product design.

What do you think these are? Black dots structures photo manipulations essay? Nope. How about giants mobiles designed by Xavier Veilhan. Huh!

Have you heard of Kickstarter (a new way to fund and follow creativity)? 10,000 successfully backed projects. $75M were pledged. 100,000 repeat backers.

Project Statistics:
Launched Projects: 26,620
Successful Projects: 10,388
Unsuccessful Projects: 13,113
Live Projects: 3,119
Success Rate: 44%

Read their blog entry for full info.

The Noble Union is a design company based in London specialising in design and user experience. Their aim? To create simple, intuitive and beautiful apps for iPhone and iPad. Fab example on how to put together a low-res presentation for mobile apps projects.

Keeping it simple works.

Space odissey extraordinary photography by Vincent Fournier. First and foremost, having access to the facilities is already a feat – but the ‘inside’ look into an area of activities that is locked behind doors affords quite a lot of value to his essay.

Quality of lighting, compositions are far exceeded and intriguing but not as much as the topic itself.

The Pink and Blue Projects are the topic of Jeong Mee Yoon thesis. This project explores the trends in cultural preferences and the differences in the tastes of children (and their parents) from diverse cultures, ethnic groups as well as gender socialization and identity. The work also raises other issues, such as the relationship between gender and consumerism, urbanization, the globalization of consumerism and the new capitalism.

Alhtough I understand the nature of the exercise – the sheer amount of ‘stuff’ needed for each pictures is throwing me off.

Compulsive? Excessive? Obsessive? All 3.

Wersktatt‘s craftsmen present their new website. Let’s travel through the wheel of time to discover their work, while waiting for the new ones. Although flash websites may be less favourable in view of all the mobile migration frenzy (65% of all devices connecting to the Internet) – this one is a little jewel of interactive achievements.

Well organized, comprehensive nav, smart loading circle sequence which opens up more to reach full screen on hitting 100%.

Have a lookee.

My newest (and cool) finds on MySvpply :))

Black and Yellow pillows by Meninos. Fantastic for the design studio. Because I love CMYK :))

This is a cool iPhone case that doubles up as a DIY project offered by Connect design. You cross-stitch it yourself! Oh!

Welcome to the incredible meta-universe of Mars-1. Psychedelia meets hyper realism meets imagination on warp meets confounding and unearthly beauty.

The kaleidoscopic details and the richness of colors makes his work totally enjoyable. It invites the viewer to venture into awaken-dreams of exploration of the unknown. Great way to defeat any creative blocks and cynicism.

Bon voyage!

Visual.ly is the world’s largest community for exploring, sharing, creating, and promoting data visualizations. Search or browse through a highly organized and curated catalog of infographics and data visualizations (over 2,000 in all). Are you a designer or a publisher of your own infographics? Share them for extra visibility.

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Twitter Visualizer can create a personalized infographic based upon what you tweet. Here are some of my tryouts with two of my best friends.

Tarah Hunt aka missrogue

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Jeffrey Zeldman aka zeldman

Designed by Andrei Bocan quotes to munch over.

Design is everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda and philosophy.

Quote by: Erik Adigard

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Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.

Quote by: Frank Chimero

Kontor Kontur is a design collaboration working with details and concepts in Göteborg. They do graphic design, product design and interior design. The trio met at HDK School of Design and Crafts at University of Gothenburg.

Gotta luv the color-keyed object assemblages on their website homepage. Delicious!

Siggi Eggertsson unique creative approach to illustration has won him many recognitions and wide distribution of his work. Simply amazed by the singular shapes he uses to create tangible and recognizable portraits or objects. There is such a high level of tactile information embedded.

Makes me wonder how he ‘sees’ actually. His a pixel world?

Anatomy of a merger? Check out the Gridplane / Instrument announcement page! For once there seems to be more gain than pain. If you ever have gone through a merger – you know what I mean.

The presentation is imbued by the telltale clean, simple and beautiful JD Hoodge design signature.

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On a side note if you’re interested, they are hiring.

New Adventures in Web Design Conference

This event will be sympathetic to existing and new challenges and opportunities faced by front-end design folks in their day-to-day work and beyond. That said, the content will be beneficial to a broad audience, and a number of attendees and guests represent agencies, organisations, and businesses across varied roles. Ultimately, this event is organised by designers, for designers.

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Tickets on sale July 18 at 2pm (GMT)

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Upcoming: January 19, 2012, in Nottingham, UK.

Pietari Posti is a Finnish illustrator, graphic designer and artist who lives in Barcelona, Spain. He always has been one of my fav. Love his deconstructed elegant style, striking eye-popping palettes and his capacity to deliver serious and playful at the same time.

His work has been published, print over apparel, even furniture.

Just found the Pogo stool and table by Joel Escalona. Ain’t these cute? Can liven up any playroom (or studio)?

Fork and Cream Sauce by Luf Design. The greater part of the profits of this products selling are used to contribute for save the starving children. Not only helping a great cause – but on a way smaller scale – keeps our (iPod / iPhone) wires tidy.

Buy one – feed one kid!

Fully endorsed.

One Day of Design by Emil Kozak

Design is everywhere! When we wake up to when we go to sleep. 24 hours a day we are simply surrounded by graphics and illustrations.

Not only do these graphics apply beauty, life and personality to our objects, but they also create a relationship with us, when they become part of the "visual soundtrack" to our lives.

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Available via Index Book.

It’s not about "Engagement": using social media to make ideas happen by Sarah Rapp

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It’s all well and good to tweet about what you had for lunch, or share party pics on Facebook, but what if you want to use social media to achieve a specific goal? Perhaps to garner support for a creative project, or build awareness about a product you’re launching.

How then do you wade through all the social media speak and interact with people in a way that will make a difference to your mission, not just create more idle chatter?

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Good read! Especially with the rise of Google+

Gorgeously designed app! Powered by Diacarta, the Pitchfork Festival app will allow you to plan out your day by selecting bands from the official schedule and placing them around the clock.

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Free to download!

My SVPPLY shopping playground. See what I’ve found so far. Suggest you join – there are sooo many cool people and stuff to add as (a future possible) wish list.

Faces by Neal Fletcher. Aim — To find a use for those typefaces in his collection. Result — A set of 27 A5 cards, one for every letter of the alphabet and an introductory card.

What a brilliant idea.

Anatomy of a Computer Virus by Patrick Clair. An infographic dissecting the nature and ramifications of Stuxnet, the first weapon made entirely out of code. This was produced for Australian TV program HungryBeast on Australia’s ABC1.

What? An Open-source weapon as that?!?!?

This is chilling me to the bones.

I got miniature little people on my mind today because I just ordered a bunch of them for our upcoming wedding party.

Liliput scenes will appear around our studio as well as incorporated in the jewel boxing design which will contain our video invite – voted to be done in a single take – so expect bloopers – and a few pre-demo songs as a gift to our guests.

If you wish to attempt one yourself, Preiser HO figures are the best and you can find a huge collection here.

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Presenting the hilarious Toy Stories by Aled Lewis available in either 12×12 or 24×24 gallery-quality giclée prints. Extended collection (some not available in print) here. Captions are just so it – locking the staged story as believable.

Enjoy!

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via: seesaw.

Mixing eclectic and structured, Olga Scholten is an Amsterdam based designer, and her portfolio site, shows a thin balance of poetic and explorative. Through the years, she’s holding her own. On show, a collection of graphic design work and personal projects (1999-present).

Keeps it spinning and us, guessing.

Anymade studio (a design collective) specialized in art, dj & vj shows, illustrations, motions, design for music and fashion industries and in other part of planet.. Here is a selection of their work.

Edgy, original, audacious layouts.

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Love this self-promo folded paper piece.

I’m a big fan of Carole Gautier and Eugénie Favre who use to operate under the design collective Polkaouistiti – which is not, as you may agree, a usual studio name.

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Now how about reinventing themselves? Yes, they just did. Pleased to present you: My Name is Wendy (an encore as an unusual graphic design studio name).

Again their new website is eye popping with cutting-edge designs, with a strong inclinations towards bold typography. Not to say the use of the early web blueish tint (now #0439ff) linking (if any of you remember).

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Wish they would have skip on the blinking index.. but their portfolio is definitely worth it.

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It’s been a while since something like the Sold-out project came about. Text only interface – black capital letters with a boxy black underlink, yellow for accent (on mouseover). Simple enough indeed.

How does it works? Title + url + write a description + Submit.

Applied AR, a running project by Marius Bauer

Since February 2011 I lead the creative direction for the world´s best AR Browser (Wikitude) which now comes preinstalled on every new BlackBerry 9900 and is used by millions of users on other systems such as Google´s Android or Apple´s iPhone.

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When you hear about Augmented Reality you might think of things like this great user interface pictured above. (Must read article if you want to learn more about AR.)

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Picture copyright: Jose Ortiz

IYA Studio as you will see operates in mostly the fashion, lifestyle sectors and deliver projects from branding, print collaterals, websites and commercial interior design As a small creative team, and much determined to stay this way, they bring on specialist help on a project by project basis, adapting to fit the brief and the clients’ objectives in the best possible way.

They really do beautiful work.

What Comes To Mind? (associative flashcards) is a deck of twenty-seven 4 x 6" double sided cards. The front of every card features an image removed from its original context. Overlaid over each image is a letter of the alphabet, printed in upper and lower case, referencing early education learning tools.

This form instructs viewers to make connections between the image and the letter printed over it.

An original idea by Hum Creative.

The Party Pass was founded as a new way to connect students and young professionals with the city’s (Vancouver) best restaurants, bars, and nightclubs. With the goal to give its customers a new way to eat, drink, and celebrate in the city, the Party Pass program allowed people to enjoy exclusive deals and privileges when they presented their pass to the city’s participating venues.

Outstanding concept brand web packaging by David Arias.

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The Party Pass website is a little gem. Easy and comprehensive. Focussed strictly on getting visitors to subscribe.

WIG ain’t what you would think at first take.. but a really surprisingly simple idea turned into.. a white porcelain flower vase. Using flowers or leaves determine the look of it. Handiwork of Tania da Cruz who was born in Lisbon (Portugal), grew up in Brussels (Belgium) and finally landed in Italy.

Love the ‘punkish’ arrangement :))

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via: Joel Ng