Public Design Festival during the Salone del Mobile (Milan’s furniture fair and consists of 9 days of installations, projects, meetings and workshops bridge by one red thread: urban design.
Upcoming: April 18-26
F5 is a new festival exploring the intersection of art, design and entertainment. F5 unites the creative leaders who 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.
Four tickets are available as a give-away. You want 2? Ask for them.
Upcoming: April 16-17, New York City
Graniph Design Award call for entries.
Graniph T-Shirt Design Award is a global design competition which is open to everyone regardless of age, location or experience. With over 30.000 designs submitted over the past competitions, it has uncovered some great talents on tees.
Gold prize: 1,000,000 Yen
Deadline: February 28
Pictoplasma – Pictopia is bringing together a growing international community of designers, artists, critics, producers and fans. The worldwide explosion of character design at the beginning of the millennium changed visual culture distinctively.
Upcoming: March 19-21
5th annual Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition (2008/09) launches and you are invited to create and submit lovely, humorous and/or witty artworks for those cute little mobile canvases.
The judging panel includes former competition winners and journalists, writers, designers and artists from around the world – and all of us look very much forward to seeing all those great badge gems.
Deadline: February 18
February 9 (09) 11:39 am
Wanna see more? — #TAG:
furniture
Too beautiful to pass up. Although the Stockholm Furniture Fair just took place and it’s too late to visit on location, the website Under Construction, shows upcoming furniture designers.
Check out the pieces on display!
Presenting the 4 member jury panel who will find the 1″ inch buttons (badges) and 4×6 postcards merch competition selections to be announced early March.
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Erik Adigard is a communication designer who explores the changing dynamics between media, design and culture.
Aside from corporate communications, Adigard takes on teaching or writing assignments as well as commissions from art and design institutions. His creations have been shown in major international exhibits, film festivals and publications, such as the Venice Architecture Biennale, The Sundance Film Festival and Meggs’ History of Graphic Design. Among his many awards, he received the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design.
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Karen Ingram is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Her designs and drawings have been profiled in many books and magazines, including Computer Arts Magazine, Digit Magazine, and STEP inside design. More recently, her work is cited as being representative of Hand Drawn Analog-Style in Fresher Styles for Web Designers: More Eye Candy from the Underground by Curt Cloninger. She’s a member of the IADAS and is a board member of the SXSW Interactive festival
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Snow Mack is a digital artist for the film business and print and a fine artist. Seeking to interpret her dreams and visions, her artistic endeavors focus on surreal narratives. Through deciphering the qualities of dreams and visions, she aspires to capture the timeless mysteries of the soul on canvas.
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Damiano Mazzarella has been in the antique jewellery business for almost 20 years collecting jewels from all over the world and from all the ages (Art Noveau-Deco-1800-Biedermei er-1950-Liberty).
In 2004, he changed profession and opened a bookbar called Salotto42 in Rome. Books of art-design-fashion and promoting artists with exhibitions. He likes most of contemporary art and urban-street art. He is trying to built an italian wooster collective, and hopes that in a couple of months, he will release a new web site-flickr-facebook Street Art Italy.
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Affinity Suite
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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Proton Mail
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.
Try a month free!
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DuckDuckGo?
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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Obsidian
This private (free) app I use daily for taking notes or writing. Back up to the cloud for multi-devices access. Runs locally.
Deep and complex.
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I paint abstract with pretty colours ~ I play with mobile apps to create unique generative art.
Look 'Ma no AI.
feed your eyes
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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 call for submissions
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
Alt Summit 2024.
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.
/ Highlighted talents
They LUV design! #13
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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They LUV drawing! #3
Illustration is probably the largest creative area to express (mostly without words) a message.
Previously: #1 - #2
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A type of Show #5 – I love typography - these projects caught my eye.
Previously: #4 - #3 - #2 - #1
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Moodboards #1 – Branding collaterals staged and served with conceptual brilliance.
/ About us?
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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Kuvva interview
A short interview on how to build a strong portfolio + self-promotion.
Upcoming events
Competitions or conferences you don’t wanna miss!
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Netdiver Mag
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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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/ Illustration
Vast array of drawing styles
404 reviews
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/ Imaginative
Conceptual designs standing out
358 reviews
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/ Industrial
Products / packaging design / spaces +
333 reviews
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/ Motion
Brilliant storyboards / motion / vfx
286 reviews
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/ Photography
Some of the sharpest eyes shooting today
210 reviews
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/ Portfolios
New wave of design / interactive / mobile stars
552 reviews
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/ Powagirrrls
Women who rock the design scene with _more_ than pink design
391 reviews
/ Insider info
Visual Brain Gravity is a producer and developer of concepts, products and brand experiences.
Driven by vision.
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Special Feature issues
Self-curation experiment coupled with minimalist interviews with people in the design industry I admire.
By invitation only
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Best Of The Year (BOTY)
Netdiver Best of the Year is a yearly compilation of projects / talents who made a lasting impression the previous year.
/ 2016 edition
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Netdiver Vintage edition
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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Netdiver static
Walk down memory lane: hand-coded news in design from 1998-2008.
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Dates soon.
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