Netdiver Mag

This Week’s Breakdown is an experimental visualization of the mood of people in photographs from The Guardian’s 24 hours in pictures as analyzed by the face.com face recognition API.

The range of emotions?

Happy (yellow)
Sad (blue)
Angry (red)
Surprised (green)
Neutral (gray)

Interestingly, there are days without sadness.

Taipei City Museum of Art by Kubota and Bachmann Architects. Located in the south of Taipei city, in between the mountains and Dahan River. The museum minimizes its footprint on the original site in being designed vertical, thus creating an urban totem.

Eye candy supreme! Small environmental footprint too.

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via: Steve Lavi

Sandy aka Cookie Cutter – is a pursuit to be everything but. She is a crafter from sunny Singapore. She handmakes plushies, totes, and paper goods. Handmade plush and lifestyle products. They are cute but in a quirky way. With elements of childlikeness and fantasy to the designs, they are a celebration of forgotten innocence and unrestrained imagination.

View her Fall catalogue or shop now.

Makoto Yabuki works as a director/ art director in Tokyo, Japan. He started his career as a visual designer in 1997, and established Tangram co.,ltd. with companions in 2003.

His works have been presented in international film festivals such as SIGGRAPH, onedotzero, artfutura, ARS Electronica.

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Brilliant motion graphics animation on minimal music scores.

showing: senkyou

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Have a look at the gorgeous SOHO of Garrett Murray, founder of Karbon, iOS designer/developer and award-winning filmmaker who decided to make the master bedroom of this apartment into an office.

Luv the mix of modern furniture, muted palette and splash of vivid colors. Niiiice.

Google Chrome Identity. Simplifying an icon by Office.

Collaboration with the Google team to develop a simple identity that embodies the spirit of Chrome. To maintain the equities of the previous mark, the logo is based on the same interlocking forms and colors. It was stripped down from the highly stylized, Web 2.0, glossy 3-D icon to reflect Chrome’s super-simple, fast experience in a way that’s refreshingly light and modern.

Wow never realized how ‘busy’ the 1st one looked.

Implicitly recognizable character design based on the product itself adds up for a packaging extraordinaire result. Earbudeez (Audiovox) by Fean Kojima and Jerome Calleja.

Always with Honor is a design collectives. Their mission is to create work that reflects their curiosity and pursuit of clarity. They love icon design and illustration so they would incorporate them into their work as much as possible.

When they had a handful of projects they were confident, started a blog, and clients came calling soon after.

Wanderlust is a left-field and totally experimental boutique hotel set to draw madcap voyagers and curious travelers to its doorstep. The hotel is located in Little India, Singapore – a bustling cultural enclave where Indian immigrants once settled, and the building was originally an old school built it 1920s.

Probably the most extravagant eclectic designy over-the-top.

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Interior designed: by Asylum

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More pictures: Homedeco2u

OVG re/developers identity redesign by Studio Dumbar. Not your average logo – and although typographic in its base – the treatment is conveying edge, movement, audacity and innovation.

How about using a simple geometric shape, moving lines, a minimalist palette and animated on a funky track? Check out Gullblyanten animation by Toxic.

Oh! Just sooo cute! What a great interactive and rich media website The Planet Zero is. As you’ve probably guessed – all about environmental information and presented with a sweet character – no other than Plug – the electrical plug.

The 3D fx world is believable and well integrated. The little movies are driving the point to make and overall user experience – surprisingly fresh and fun.

If you have kidz – they will love this.

Quotes are powerful. They are flash passing bits of light that storm and spark our mind with a new thought-path. Talking of which – off to reboot imagination.

Being real is the best aesthetic — Robert Scoble

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot. — D.H. Lawrence

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Poster by: A Lecture by Sulki & Min for Graduate Communication Design of the Pratt Institute designed by Whynotsmile.

Shape Minds & Moving Images is a Berlin based creative production studio who blends live action and animation into one with a love for design and look. They love broadcast design / commercials / online / music videos / post production and feature content. They also produce IPAD APPs in HD from scratch.

The special fx are jaw-dropping and their character design? Impeccable. Watch their reel to see what they mean!

One of the best I’ve seen.

Pixl™ by Innoiz. Explore pixels and colors behind photography. Create countless combinations of fantastic imagery with a simple touch.

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This is a creative tool for iPhone and iPad that let people to (re)explore their pictures. People can play with several settings such as the size of the pixels, the color, the contrast., select some pattern… and then the application will generate a new composition from the original picture.

Result is an infinity of artworks. Each output is unique.

Watch the demo.

V I V I D is an experimental pitch frames for a product launch event using video projection on the surface of a skyscraper that seems to use colored threads as basic texture.

Pitched by Eye Believe – a multi-disciplinary creative content production team set up to experiment and push creative boundaries across the film, commercial, broadcast and new media.

Wonder if it was accepted.

Having lost my brother to cancer – I can relate to the agony of discovering you have the disease. Though not always fatal and great advances are being made, this am finding this poster titled the Memories Project, echoes deeply.

The stubborn (and beautifully shaped) killing cell is a reminder of how fragile we are. I have researched the ‘silicates’ which is the molecule responsible for my little ‘bro cancer. It turned out to be quite beautiful too – but deadly.

In memory of RIP Jack Layton who passed two days ago and who wrote in his final letter:

My friends, love is better than anger.
Hope is better than fear.
Optimism is better than despair.
So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic.

And we’ll change the world.

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via: Edit

Eat thoughtfully is no longer an option (and a brilliant catch phrase – that nails exactly what is the state of mind we should be in – at least for the most of us). What One Iota studio did to brand Sourced Grocer – is simple – elegant and percutant.

Local – familiar – personal – beautiful.

Bravo!

There are kidz photographers and then, there is Jason Lee. He has captured through the years in such an extraordinary luscious candid imaginative anyway possible his two daughters. These two mischevious enthusiastic models – who, it turns out are total cuties, are also consumate comedians.

The props and staging are fantastic.

Refreshing and endearing.

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His professional portfolio: JWL Photography

Sitting tight? Better be. Meet Bram Vanhaeren. He is a 20 year old digital artist and published author. How’s that? He’s been developing his style since his first pen tool experiments in Illustrator about 6 years ago. Agreed!

His work is polished, trendy and already, he’s mastering quite a few tricks of the profession.

Hats off!

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You can preorder his new book.. Reflection. Or check out his other titles.

Fonts of Chaos nice website and presentation of fonts which are available for download and free. Check it out.

The Eight Pillars of Innovation by Susan Wojcicki

As Google’s employee #16, she has learned a thing or two about innovation. Nurturing a culture that allows for innovation is the key. As they’ve grown to over 26,000 employees in more than 60 offices, they’ve worked hard to maintain the unique spirit that characterized Google way back when she joined.

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Digging the EleMenTs collection by Niyi Okeowo. Although these bubbling blobs over personea have been popularized by Non-Format that were using smokey swirls, geometric forms and shapes.

In fact, the opening project reminds me of these.

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I really like the fresh approach and consistancy of the concept.

Gems! From Visual Freaks – supra initiative by Sorin Bechira et al – who felt like there is room for an alternative for the currently available stock and, therefore, decided that art can be packed and delivered to suit your needs.

Get bits and pieces to add to your designs.

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Get fontpacks as scalable vectors.

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via: Meet faces

I’m back! The past two weeks I will remember as the most important and significant in my life. A) Got married B) Took real vacations (had not do without Internet for the past 16 years C) Sorted upcoming projects priorities.

Feel charged-up. Feel focussed. Feel ever so determined.

As I go through my inbox and catch-up – inspiring projects will follow. Proof that I’m rested? Fumbling on the keyboard – photoshop shortcut and cadence of editorial work.

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Illustration by: Mateusz Kolek

Well this is it! Today at 16h – I’m getting married! JF and I will be honeymooning for the next two weeks. So Netdiver Mag updates will be infrequent.

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A quick reminder that if you want to join the ‘virtual’ party – hit It’s About Time around 18h30 ET (-5 GMT). Drop your wishes in the comments. This is where we will reply. We’ve got goodies that will be uploaded just for YOU <3

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Here is a still from the video invitation staging.

3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ….into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films…..

Watch the 3 videos – superb editing – genial concept.

Move

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Learn

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Eat

Watch Banksy Eat Cereal, Take Out The Trash by Matthew Newton

What happens when art imitates art? Honestly, nothing good. Look at Julia Kim Smith’s At Home With Banksy and it reminds you that the art world is always creeping closer to utter hopelessness (and self-referential obsolescence).

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After reading Matthew’s post – I felt so appalled – had to repost. No matter what – the ‘diva’ attitude is impermissible. This is pi-ti-ful! How much ‘pimping’ does he needs.. when you fall prey to ‘public’ life.. you’re done – you have eradicated the true self that got you there in the first place.

As creative people – we shall never forget – that having the need (talent) ‘to express’ goes with an as abyssimal responsibility towards an audience.. even if of 2-3.

Our talent is a gift of influence.

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via: Annals of Americus

V&A Ornamental installation by PostSpectacular.

Keeping William Morris as a loose source of inspiration, the result is a ornamental, laser-cut, 2-panel room divider, covered in 620 hand folded paper cones, mounted on the front surface as projection canvas.

Visitors can create their own pattern using an iPad hidden in a small table (also laser-cut) standing nearby.

Must see!

Mauricio Pierro – hailing from São Paulo, BR – capacity to create expressive yet simply shaped characters is boundless. The humour is unmistakable. Just love his work.

MTV Bin Man by Simon Pike. Freefarm magic once again on sound design and music duties for this ident for MTV Australia. That character capturing junk and stuff is simply irresistible.

Aol Phase 02 by Universal Everything. A second series of reveal films created for AOL and launched at the New Museum, NYC. Used for web video, mobile, digital campaigns and outdoor LED displays.

Eye candy morning!

5 days before our big day and just found someone else who enterprised a creative journey to illustrate their wedding invitation detailing the exploits of himself and his bride, along with details for the actual event.

Beautifully designed and illustrated by Robert Murdock aka Postmammal.

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via: BLDGWLF

Luv the simple placehold on Sean Gaffney website.