Netdiver Mag

/ Surfacing the creative culture
since '98

Psychedelia glass

What do you make of these? Paintings? Abstract sculptures? Nope it’s the glass (mind) blowing handiwork of genial Marvin Lipofsky. The psychedelic feel, the curves and the burst of colors defy how we perceive the transparency, shape and flow of forms he creates.

Absolutely breath taking. Literally!

Workspaces

Workspaces is an initiative by ShareSomeCandy. Take a look into artists creative playgrounds.

Creative Spaces

Creative Spaces website is designed to help you find a suitable and affordable space to develop, exhibit or perform your work. You will find spaces to hire, to lease, to share or spaces to occupy for a short period of time.

Provides information on spaces across Victoria, Australia.

100% Soda by BBDK

Another packaging tour de force: “When approached by an independent beverage company to rebrand their line of 100% natural, carbonated juices, BBDK responded with a simple question. “Why not call it 100%?” It only makes sense.”

Sans-serif font quest

In my quest for the perfect sans-serif font for a new project I asked if there were tasty typographic knowledge designers who knew some because I really needed help. Follows fonts they suggested that you may want to check out too.

Akkurat — Lineto

Akzidenz-Grotesk — MyFonts

Benton Sans — Font Bureau

DadaGrotesk — Optimo

FF DIN — Font Shop

FF Fago — MyFonts

FF Meta — MyFonts

Fedra Sans Condensed — Typotheque

Fonce Sans Pro — MyFonts

Frutiger — Adobe

GalaxiePolaris — Village

Gotham — Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Italic 2.0 — (lots of them)

Klavika — Process Type Foundry

Officina sans — Adobe

Sans Serif Fonts — Font Squirrel

Swiss font family — FontHaus

Theinhardt — Optimo

Trade Gothic — Adobe

Tungsten — Hoefler & Frere-Jones

NBGrostesk — Neubau. Available at a discount now.

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Thanks you are awesome: Karen Oh, Marc Leza Jasikovic, Simone Catania, Adolfo Correa Nanco, Wilman Guevara, Grey Cremer, Mark Sanders, Luis Vieira, Norman Nimer, Dani Navarro, Sébastien Truchet, Jason Chesebrough, Derek Kinsman, David Snyder, Ian O’Phelan

Cricket Cola?

Cricket Cola awesome packaging and typographic treatment by Neil Powell.

The Courage to Create

Excerpt from The Courage to Create (1975) book borrowed from Sshhh. This is a working library, a project by Mandy Brown is a Creative Director at W. W. Norton & Company, an independent publisher.

“Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the “divine madness,” to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.

They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.”

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/ Tools we use

 

Affinity suite

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

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

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 app

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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Carole's Instagram

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

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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Smashing Mag

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

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

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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YWFT

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 by Carole Guevin

Editorials. Design topics or issues that have impacted me and/or our creative industry. .

Over 50 articles.

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Kuvva interview

Kuvva interview

A short interview on how to build a strong portfolio + self-promotion.

 

Industry news
News from the geek / tech / mobile / design and ethos in the industry
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Netdiver Mag

#ISSN 1911-866X

Carole Guevin

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 review galleries

/ Design inspiration

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

Visual Brain Gravity is a producer and developer of concepts, products and brand experiences.

Driven by vision.

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Special Feature issues

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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Netdiver Mag is sweet

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Netdiver Best of the Year

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

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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Netdiver Mag is sweet

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