Netdiver Mag

Creative Retreat week — publishing hiatus.

Will spend the full week head over heels in master files collated for multiple projects. Will work on a product line logo. Photography tests from Fujifilm x10 / iPad / Photoshop. Explore further the ‘C’ concept. Finish the HappyKamper project. Finish sifting photo archives.

Add pretty colours to on-going 5 x 2.5 and 3 x 3 canvases.

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Netdiver Mag publishing — to resume April 2.

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Meanwhile — Feed you eyes.

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illustration: Pencil Mountains by Brent Coudmann

While visiting the Eye blog which has one of the yummiest eye candy luscious – oh did I just say ‘eye’ candy – well design logo where I found an article showing past ‘covers‘.

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Gave me the idea of doing a little digging to see if any of my fav covers would be archived somewhere. Fav fabs.

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Pay attention to the evolution of their logo. Believe it or not – last visual is the cover of the very first issue! Ohlala.

And they do it again. Relentless – creative – determined the girls at Shotopop have redesigned their website. View some of their latest projects. They keep on being better and better.

The Furnace interior artwork design by Rudy de Wet

All the artwork is hand painted on the walls and floors. There are also laser cut frames which are used to showcase some of their award winning work.

Poppin complete branding and web / packaging collaterals by Apartment One.

Shouldn’t the tools of our trades be as smart and vibrant as the work they help us to produce? Entrepreneurs Ken Seiff (founder of Bluefly) and Chris Burch (cofounder of Tory Burch) saw an opportunity in the marketplace for high-design, affordable office products. And with Poppin, they launched their mission to bring happy back to the office.

Brilliant!

Gray is good – over 50 is awesome. Wisdom – Introduction.

50 of the world’s most inspiring and iconic figures over the age of 65 share their words of wisdom. Wisdom is a multimedia exhibition that features extraordinary large-format portraits and documentary footage of interviews created by award-winning photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman.

Mark Allen Miller uses retro characters jusggling w/ colorful elements in his editorial illustration commissioned by large media publishers.

Simple website w/ thumbnails that always repeat his cool logo.

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Very fond of using a tartan pattern – using a very similar color palette – applied to his illustration as backgrounds or little insert reminders or as stroked elements sorta has become his design signature.

You into infographics? Know about Amazing Infographics? In this era of record short attention span from audience and the expectation of in-real time delivery – data visualization has become one of the fastest growing area of the design sector.

Bookmark.

Northbank is an established, multidisciplinary graphic design consultancy with a strong reputation for producing creative, bespoke and effective solutions for clients in many different sectors.

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The Artolo project is simply awesome. Description: Artolo think they have a great solution to selling your art without you selling your soul.

Choose your color by Mélanie aka Griottes. She had free reign on how to conceptualize a series for Fricote, a food magazine. What she came up w/ is an astounding assemblage of Pantone based mini-tarts.

Must see!

SOLIPSIST by Andrew Huang who is a commercial and music video director living in Los Angeles. A tour de force from a production point of view. The storyboard is somewhat weird and beautiful and disturbing and since it is an experimental short – nothing is spared. Under water themed there is no storyline per se.

Winner at SLAMDANCE 2012 of the Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short.

Hipster Branding project by Dave Spengeler. He reimagined and redesigned popular brands using the current design trends.

Although how m-inspira came to be is quite complicated. Let’s say it started by one studying industrial design – then mastering in graphic design, skipping the annual furniture fair, making friends with others sharing similar taste for nice design..

Clearly seeking their way / voice – never underestimate small beginnings – we were all newbies once.

Love two eye candy projects. The luscious gelatin typography on the index.

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And the Fallas Turis 2012 poster.

Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends by Espen Brunborg

Incidentally, this aesthetic inspires another designer who happens to be working on a website with a global audience, exposing the new approach to a whole generation of designers who, in turn, apply it at will (often without considering the context). A trend is born.

Can’t pass this one up. For once – an article on the ‘design’ part of the web is explained w/ convincing examples.. oh trends..

Visual amusements based on a highly recognizable icon brought to you by Leonard Savage.

What you should know is The Drop is a place for ideas. We work in all mediums and produce all our work from start to finish under the one roof. From graphic design, web design and interior design, to creative direction, art direction, photography, video, installations and everything in between.

Portfolio is varied in shapes, forms and media.

Animal Planet Rebrand by double g studios.

Coinciding with the launch of the HD simulcast for Animal Planet, the refresh of the on-air look is intended to give the brand a more confident and distinctive tone of voice. Sweet!

Able Parris is a designer, art director, and illustrator currently working at Big Spaceship. He has over 6 years experience designing for print and web, and is interested in working with smart people on great projects.

His taste and skills are eclectic and diverse as you will see.

Sid Lee Boot Camp is back. Enroll now!

Are you fearless? … fearless enough to camp indoors for 240 hours straight with 7 other creative recruits? Brief: to mastermind huge ideas for (RED), a worldwide cause dedicated to helping eliminate AIDS in Africa.

Deadline: March 31

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Last year photography (and a peek at the creative camping ground).

And the little people are back! Fantastic logo installation for “Gent Scheppende Stad” (Ghent Creative City). Objective was together with several creative forces/different sectors of society to look for solutions for the urban challenges, so they can shape the future of the City.

Not only constructed in 3d – all letters have interconnected staging areas covering daily activities in a city.

Superb storyboarding / production by Coming Soon.

Now ain’t that a fun job or what?

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Check out the photoshoot installation. Nice gear.

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More: Toy Stories — Liliput land — Little people encore — Strikingly believable — Dot mini anim

A man of convictions and a man of talent – meet Jonathan Ogden. His illustrations and typographic work are both beautiful and inspiring.

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Typographic Verses described as high quality typographic designs of verses from the Bible. Love the ‘crazy’ animated .gif.

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Cat Dunn is a graphic designer she ♥ PANTONE 337C and I ♥ her work. Precious logos and delicious print collaterals.

Graphic identity for Deli by Morey Talmor. An old school American style sandwich shop with a backdoor leading to a suave cocktail bar and mini club, located in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The graphic language is a simplistic contemporary take on 50’s and 60’s American diner aesthetic.

Wish I had designed this.

Montreal Meets 2 / MMTWO – two days event w/ Fabio Sasso, James White and François Hoang, but also Radim Malinic, Shelby White and Scott Hansen as speakers.

Upcoming: April 7-8

See ya there!

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Montreal Meets 2 / MMTWO by Fabio Sasso aka Abduzeedo

A brand advertising campaign for Aviva about financial planning for the future. This is Real Art (is an ideas business) have dramatise aging by combining portraits of different generations from the same families.

Convincing photo juxtaposition and taglines.

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See it in motion! Wow!

Happy International Women’s Day to all the Powagirrrls! We rock!

Celebrate women around you by letting them know what a difference they make daily in your life: Grandma, Mother, Lover, Wife, Partner, Friend, Colleague where would we be without them?

Colorful gradient shades were used for this self-promo print presentation by Studio mw which combines this creative duo Jeanne Moison and Pierre-Olivier Thiriet talents.

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Show us your Type – El Cairo poster.

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Le Collectif Du Vague Locataire / Face au Mur poster.

TOFU stackable sideboard by Andreas Saxer. These would be ideal for a studio space / living to create a low height space divider that can be arrange and re-arranged upon need.

Pretty cool huh?

Fascinating product / object designs some of which are or can be stand-alone sculptures as well. Executed w/ wood plying as paper – the natural tones are so beautiful. Powerful creativity to be able to produce such. Discover the work of Elisa Strozyk.

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Greg Barth is a Swiss creative & director, currently based in Montréal, Canada. He has more than 10 years of experience in design, branding, typography, and 4 in motion design and directing. His about page picture speaks amply of his creative abilities and overall sense of play.

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Gotta love the 7TV Russia Rebranding project with the number ‘7’ only as logo – (that’s simple enough) and communication collaterals which also includes DIY paper sculptures and staging vignettes.

In response to the "What have you enterprised as a personal project lately?" question asked to Featured by group on FB, a designer that I admire, Gregor Žakelj head of VBG answered this:

This was our new years gift to clients. It’s the tangible connection between a designer’s world and the world around the designer. We wanted to show how we see things in pixels…

Here it is the Pixel ruler.

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(Suggest you read copy on project page – inspiring)

Mr. B’s website is what a collection of products should be about. Luxurious expanse of empty mixed in a subdued palette and gorgeous photography.

Love some of their copy – which is probably applicable to design at large as well:

Classic. It isn’t old. It isn’t retro. And it definitely isn’t sentimental for some bygone era. Classic has one foot in then and one foot in now. And always will. Classic evolves but doesn’t age. Classic isn’t a style, yet classic is never out of style. Classic doesn’t suddenly become classic again; classic is forever.

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Beautiful branding and ID by Dry UK, a London base creative agency.

Coöp is the studio of designer Paul Marcus Fuog. Since opening in 2004, a variety of projects ranging from small art-based briefs to expansive design contracts where positivity and experimentation are at the core of the studio’s practise were delivered.

Diversity – creativity – another excellent portfolio.

Even Better Than iPhone 5: An iPhone With The 1986 Mac OS by Mark Wilson

iOS 86, by designer Anton Repponen, is a conceptual mashup of iOS and the Mac OS of yore. And against the odds of time and technology, the old interface still looks stunning on one of the world’s most advanced smartphones.

What have you enterprised as a personal project lately?

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via: Batgirl print by Mini & Maximus

Dinnick & Howells is a design and motion graphics studio located in Toronto. They specialize in the creative interpretation and design execution of marketing and communication strategy in all mediums. Ambitious statement. So do they deliver?

Love the 3D wooden logo.

Mouth watering. Pure eye candy. Literally! Check-out this upcoming new frozen popsicle called, “Nuna” a collaboration between artist and architect Manu Kumar with Stefan Gandl of Neubau Berlin.

Let’s talk about the logo? Oh my superb. And the frozen shape? Astounding. And the communication collaterals..

Top product and branding design.

Edits. Short narratives in film & photography. You MUST see this Issue 1: Voyager. Simply outstanding both in content and the navigation makes the experiencing the online mag a pure delight.

This inaugural issue is a personal retrospective on the ideas of exploration and home. Written by Ian Coyle.

Bon voyage!

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via: Santos Henarejos

Doesn’t happen too often to encounter such high quality output. Really are 4 projects I wish I would have thought about and design these as well as Sants Serif did. His typographic knowledge and logos are knocking my socks off.

Strong portfolio. Promising talent.