Netdiver Mag

Just discovered Jack Hughes a mirific superlatively talented designer and illustrator hailing from the UK. His compositions are a joyful eyeful bountiful exepriences. His palette feels like cool modern going on retro. And what about the illustrations themselves?

Oh just that close to perfect.

Check him out.

Are perceptions shifting how we relate to others? Clients? Brands? Perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of the environment by organizing and interpreting sensory information.

So what do you think? Does or not?

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To help illustrate my point (and available for purchase) showing the Monsters, Inc. minimalist poster by Wonchan Lee.

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Showing The Incredibles minimalist poster by Wonchan Lee.

Design By Pidgeon has built reputation for creating unique design solutions for range of clients. For many agencies / studios claim so – but DBP actually do – because there are really ‘various’ approaches and concepts they have delivered.

Enjoy a true claim.

Marcos Chin illustration style has been finetuned for a number of years now. He has one of the sharpest drawing skillset and one of the top out there.

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For years, he’s been trying to take his work and business to the next level. This is such a vague way of speaking – only he knows what the next level is – and it didn’t feel right, until now. His moving to a new studio space is more out of a visceral decision to do so – because he likes to work alone – quietly.

Bravo Company is a creatively led, independent design studio based in Singapore works to deliver considered and engaging design. Specializing in identity and brand development – their print communications and art direction projects are sensational.

Their simple large iconic system serves as base navigation. On mouseover – small descript. The goodies start when you hit a project.

Another terrific portfolio you can’t get enough of.

Oberhaeuser information and interface design. Information is beautiful and life without information is impossible. But it needs someone to filter the mass of information around us and turn it into something read and useable.

Minimal goes a long way. Beautiful website.

Kelli personally sends in a news. Unassuming and oh so very humble – she didn’t ask for anything.. just that I look. Was quite busy then. Told her I would get back to her.. till now.

16 silly-happy-jaw-dropping-inspiring minutes. Ever.

I certainly don’t say this lightly.

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Her website is another jaw-dropping concept using Google map.

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First featured her awesome Paper Record Player project.

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And the pretty cool Tiny colorful buildings she draws.

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She gave this talk at TEDxPhoenix 11.11.11 TEDxTalk.

Disruptive Wonder for a Change by Kelli Anderson

She believes that the world is full of order that doesn’t necessarily deserve our respect.. inspires us to change the world around us by rejecting normal order, messing things up, and causing millions of teeny-tiny disruptions to whatever is sitting in front of you.

Read more about it on her blog.

YOU GOTTA SEE THIS.

Spend your best 16 min ever.

Nothing beats a good designy related quote: Great ideas can’t be tested. Only mediocre ideas can be tested — George Lois. And there are more available as cool tees at the Typographyshop.

Have yours today (currently free shipping).

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The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything — George Lois.

Talented illustrator portfolio of Andy Smith who uses mostly line art likened to children doodles. His work combines illustration and typography to create images that have humour, energy and optimism and all are executed with a handmade, hand-printed, tactile feel.

The exquisitely well crafted and elegant geometric illustrations by Leandro Castelao.

Adobe Creative Cloud will be available at just 49,99$ / month this Spring. And that is.. if you think it affordable.

Well when it rains it pours. Everyone is hopping on Cloud 9 wishful thinking it seems. Nothing irks me more than a megapoly deciding to shove yet another ‘update’ down our studio throats because – there’s no other option left in the market.

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The vision of Adobe Creative Cloud is to turn previously difficult, disparate workflows into one intuitive, natural experience, allowing you to create freely and deliver ideas on any desktop, tablet, or handheld device.

Really? Difficult, disparate? Beautiful admission – best way to push a new product – is to canibalize existing ones.

Well why not fix it?

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While traditional licenses of CS software will still be offered, a membership to Creative Cloud provides more benefits than simply owning desktop software.

What? Traditional licenses. You saying that I am traditional for owning multi-workstations licenses.. Insulting. Working as a living as a ‘creative’ means I’m everything but traditional.

So what do you think? Step forwards or?

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via: Typekit

Microsoft Windows 8: Inside Paula Scher’s design of the new identity.

I admire the work of Pentagram immensely. So much ground breaking ideas were put out there.. BUT this latest project.. redesigning M$ Windows 8 logo is bad.. really bad.. and not even as bad as all the previous renditions. Hit the link to see the M$ visual branding disaster.

There has been a load of press coverage as usual – but not so glowing. Granted M$ is not known for its sense of design, through the years they didn’t have to pay much attention to it – giga-revenues were flowing in..

So what do you think? Works or not?

The new Spring collection by Origin 68. Because we wear cool designy tees made by designers.

Manual is a design and visual communication studio. Their work strives to uncover the intangible essence of a brand and express it through unique visual solutions. Through their process of conceptual design thinking they help businesses and organizations articulate their unique offering, giving them more value and distinction.

Fantastic portfolio. Visit from top to bottom.

Design is not just what it looks like or feels like. Design is how it works. Something to think about.

Things Organized Neatly is a curious assemblage of things organized neatly. Curated by Austin Radcliffe. You can submit yours too – if that’s your thing.

Marie Deroudilhe is an architect who specializes in creating jaw-dropping minimalist spaces in very small real estate or super lofts. Her work is what modern living dreams is made of.

Gorgeous KURRY font designed by Ekaluck Peanpanawate. Follow his blog to see more of his typographic work.

Perky Bros LLC is a graphic design and creative service company located in Nashville, TN, established in 1883 & 2009. This time around by Jefferson Perky.

Check out their website. Nevermindus the cowboy index – a so-so choice. Excellent portfolio presentation.

Carl DeTorres Graphic Design is a multi-disciplinary design studio specializing in the creation of bold and unique visuals for print, web, and branding purposes.

One of the top portfolio I have seen this year.

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via: Ken Kelleher, senior Art Director at Digitas

Peopledesign has partnered with Herman Miller since our inception in 1997, supporting the furniture/design leader in a variety of ways, including strategy, art direction, and award-winning execution.

Nice posters and packaging.

Log / Transition by Keenan Cummings.

I am was an agency-trained, senior-level, print/branding designer & I want to left to work at a start up. Here’s why:

1) I want my work to feel valuable.

2) I want to stop talking about good work and start making good work.

3) I want other people to find value in my work.

4) I want my mom to understand what I spend my time doing.

5) I want to design with empathy, and that means being close to the ground.

6) I want my stamp on the things I make.

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He has since moved into a position as the Creative Director / Co-Founder of Wander.

Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case like his first circuit album (1-Bit Music 2004-05).

Watch the video.

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1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally "performs" its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and assembled by hand—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself.

The album is available from Cantaloupe Music.

Ed-Awards call for entries. The European Design Awards is the comprehensive annual awards organization acknowledging the best of graphic design, illustration and digital design in Europe.

Deadline: February 29

Make. the design and illustration team is made of Jesse Hora and Abigail Wynne.

We design, illustrate, art direct, draw, cut, paste, think, build, photograph, paint and print. Every projects is an opportunity to make something we are excited about. We enjoy making ideas come to life, making work that blows your mind, making a mess and making friendships along the way. We care about being involved in our community, and running our business thoughtfully and responsibly.

Fonts in Use catalogs and examines real-world typography. Effort begins with this blog, a prologue of things to come. Sponsored by MyFonts.

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Very cool concept, website and entries. If you love typography, this one is for you.

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via: Alan Houser

Simply do the best you can.. by Stellavie Manufaktur.

An experimental piece of artwork/home decoration. Precisely cut from 3mm MDF, backed with an unprimed black 300gsm paper, the letters and words appear sunk-in. The run is limited to 100 pieces – engraved, numbered and individually hand stamped on its backside.

Christopher Silas Neil aka C.S.N. illustrations are mostly for editorial purposes. His roster of clients is quite impressive.. and so is his portfolio.

Karim Rashid is an industrial design master. Prolific and eccentric he has his hands in many many pies. Hotel and interior design. Furniture design. Home / work accessories. Music. Books. Illustration. Name it. The list is long – and not about to get any shorter.

Get something to drink. Lots to see in his portfolio.

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Love this quote:

“I don’t believe in r+r. I believe in using the mind always, exercising it. I exercise the body six days a week, and the soul. With perfect balance and harmony you automatically have r+r always and a stress-free existence.”

Different strokes for different folks: Joe Ciardiello has been drawing all his life and is also a musician. He plays the drums regularly with several groups including an all-illustrator jazz band. Huh?

Photography and imagery by Carl Kleiner. His flat – dangling – suspended shots are perfect. Perfect lighting. Perfect staging.

Intercity graphic design and art direction / 49 projects to view. Have fun.

RGB / 3d Type / hand made Self initiated project by Johanna Bonnevier. Very cool!

She is a Swedish art director and graphic designer based in East London. She mainly works with architecture, culture and fashion based projects.

Kidnap Your Designer is the name of a Belgian graphic design agency created in 2006 by Caroline Dath. Damien Safie, a classmate from ERG, joined her in 2008. This studio, based in Brussels, produces creative works with the use of typography and printing techniques for clients from the music, theatre, cinema, design or architecture fields.

Atypical alright. A search box awaits you. You can pick from: random search – most popular – yours and lastly – last search.

Delicious Days has been for years now – one of my fav foodie blog. Exquisitely designed interface – jaw dropping beautiful photography – and as exquisite recipes. Lots of them.

Love both logo and tagline: I eat to merely put food out of my mind – N.F. Simpson.

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Explore w/ joy.

Better fonts for better websites. Preview how websites will look with fonts from Webtype. On the fly tryout and swapper interface for <h1> and <text>. Tried it w/ Netdiver Mag.

Go try it now.

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via: Ben Stott

NOWAY. There’s nothing more to say. They are young creatives, looking at the world with a caleidoscope, pointing it at their passions and constantly renewing their path.

Hand printed t-shirts, meticulously detailed, in limited edition, for those who really dig this way of seeing things.

Yoshii is one of the most acclaimed digital artists in Japan. He freelanced as an illustrator and created various characters for major TV programs, commercials, corporate websites, campaign and events. He specializes in crystallizing characters for his clients’ needs with little direction.

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“My three dimensional characters are created by a harmonious combination of beauty, ludicrousness, and comicality and developing them with strong personality..”

Sawdust rolls out a new website stocked w/ a wonderful portfolio. You can browse / preview each project using the back / forward arrows.

Sujean Rim is an incredibly talented illustrator behind fashion illustrations that are mostly brisk brush strokes with minimal lines, splash of colors breeming with details and elegance.

Looove the shoes!

The Three Rs of Modern Creativity by Iain Tait

I’ve been thinking about what it takes to be a good creative in a modern agency. And it just so happened that 3 things that kept resurfacing began with an R. So here are my Three Rs for creatives:

1 – Resilience – Don’t give up!

2 – Restraint – Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

3 – Respect – You can’t do this stuff on your own.

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poster: My Kingdom by Staynice

4 years of SummerWorks festival projects by Monnet Design.

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via: Overview by Details are not the Details

Creative Week New York posters by Matt Luckhurst.

My Hero Mail. Shaping Heroes of Today by Nireesha Prakash.

As our society weakens the term ‘heroism’ and celebrities become pseudo-heroes in the lives of media consumers, it fails to foster heroic imagination in children.

Toolkit is designed for an after-school program for children aged seven to ten to explore their heroes and examine their traits.

Beautifully packaged. Worthy project. Inspiring.

Superb packaging – exactly the kind I love – minimalist w/ a twist. The Design Trilogy Box Set housing the Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized films by Gary Hustwit (on DVD or Blu-ray disc) in a specially designed slipcover.

250 copies left.

14 years / 41 logos by Mash Creative. All logos have been shown in their most basic state – Black & White. Sensational body of work.

Lauren Thorson is currently working with the Interactive Visualization Lab in researching the visualization of motion for scientific visualizations; specifically creating illustrative rendering algorithms for describing complex motion data.

Hapchanced on her Work Book 03 series. Love the minimalist approach using intriguing symbols and typography.

Confessions of a Designer. Quotes from the world of design by Anneke Short. Funny – and not so funny. Tragic – pathetic – funny.

When will clients ever learn?!?!

Olly is a web connected robot that converts notifications into smells. Created by the research team Foundry.

She is a module that turns your tweets into sweets by counting how many times you get retweeted, then releasing a tasty candy when a number you’ve set is reached.

Fund it on Kickstarter.

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Stack them up! Awesomeness.

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via: Genis Carreras

Check out the outstanding visual concepts and graphic design and different posters series for a film festival by Adela & Pauline.

7 Fresh Film Fest

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5 Fresh Film Fest

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4 Fresh Film Fest

Kern & Burn is an online and print publication that curates discussions, interviews and essays about design entrepreneurship. Also check their 100 Days of Design Entrepreneurship is a list of inspiring tidbits.

You can submit a story too.

Fantastic illustrations and icon designs for the Landing Page Optimisation found on Fish & Rabbit.