Upcoming events to check-out:
QVED 2015 – International Editorial-Design Conference – a 3-day overview of contemporary editorial design. Big magazines, small magazines, corporate magazines, independent magazines. Print, digital and the many combinations of media.
Upcoming: February 26-28, Munich
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Communication Arts call for entries.
Photography competition
Deadline: March 13
Design + advertising competition
Deadline: May 1
Typography competition
Deadline: September 4
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Wonder why F5 Festival exploring the intersection of design, art & technology, is sooo awesome? Look no ad + no sponsors = unbridled passion for us – creatives.
Upcoming: April 17-18
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FOWD – Future of Web Design is a conference for web designers & developers aims to keep you on top of your game and pushing the web forward.
Upcoming: April 27-29, London
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International Design Talks: TYPO Berlin. Experts in design, communications, typography and psychology will present ‘strategies’ for creating ‘character’.
Upcoming: May 21-23
Eyeo brings together artists, creative coders, data visualizers, open source instigators & makers for an extraordinary festival. Converge to Inspire.
Upcoming: June 1-4
The Smashing Conferences explore real-life projects, workflows and hands-on insights that we all can learn from and use right away.
SmashingConf – Los Angeles – 450 seats available.
Upcoming: April 27-30
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SmashingConf – New York – 400 seats available.
Upcoming: June 15-18
ADC Awards Season 2015 – call for entries. ADC is the first global organization to celebrate and award leaders in creative communications.
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ADC 94th Annual Awards
Design, Motion, Illustration & Photography — January 16
Digital — January 23
Student — January 30
Advertising — February 2
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ADC Tomorrow Awards 2015 — February 2
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ADC Young Guns 13 (30 or younger) — February 28
European Design Awards 2015 celebrates the best of graphic design, illustration and digital design in Europe.
Submisions open on 1 December 2014.
Deadline: February 15 / 15
AIGA/NY invitation to a conference by Lance Wyman: Coming and Going
While he is best known for his designs for the 1968 Mexico olympics, Lance Wyman has become an unquestioned master of transforming space through branding and wayfinding over his 50+ year career as a designer and teacher.
Lance will be talking about his experience designing urban icon systems.
Q & A to follow.
Where: Parsons The New School for Design 66 Fifth Ave, New York, New York 10011
Upcoming: October 29 / 18h30
ADC Young Guns 12 – professionals 30 years of age and younger winners announced. Previous years winners.
Ceremony + Exhibition Party
Upcoming: October 9
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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
#ISSN 1911-866X
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
Reach my inbox °
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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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Terrific product or service or event and wanna reach a fabulous international audience?
Advertise with us
Coming soon
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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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Terrific product or service or event and wanna reach a fabulous international audience?
Advertise with us
Dates soon.
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