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since '98

Laurent Cayla

Céline – Au-delà des Images by Laurent Cayla.

A tale of spectacular recovery from addiction.

Last night we attended the launch of Laurent’s book. Laurent is a long long long time friend of JF (they both attended Le Collège Français) and kept in touch through the years. We wouldn’t have missed this event for the world. A true celebration of his new chance at life.

In fact who is he? For close to 10 yrs, he was Céline Dion official / personal photographer. While leading the high-life, he descended in hell through addiction to drugs and alcohol. This book (fully endorsed by Céline and René) is a testament to the most important quality: LOVE! Portion of sales will go to her Foundation.

The book includes 600 mostly unpublished pictures.

Brilliantly written by Diane Massicotte.

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nota: Book available in French for now. Hopefully in the near future it gets translated in other languages.

Shooting 4 excellence

Brand new work! Don’t miss the awesome Aldo shoot! Digging the concept! Conceptual thinking being one of his outstanding quality (as well as lighting). Brand new website for Simon Duhamel, an extra talented Montreal based photographer.

Sessions XII

Cover album concept and design for the Chillout Sessions XII by Collider. Reflects an homage to Frank Lloyd Wright and Neutra and the lifestyles their buildings accommodated and takes you to a fusion of time periods somewhere between the 50s and the 80s in the filtered light of California.

Splendid miniatures staging (and photography)!

Skunk Anansie

The album artwork for Wonderlustre, the 2010 album by Skunk Anansie is terrific! The band asked Shotopop if they could continue with the animal theme and this time around, tried to achieve it with fabric.

They spent a day in the studio, with the amazingly talented photographer, Jeon Seung Hwan to capture around 4000 photos of thrown fabric. Another day with the band, and then, mixed up the band and the fabric to form the final images.

Staged ingredients

Now that is something! The little collection of staged vignettes are for an upcoming IKEA cookbook shot by Carl Kleiner and styled by Evelina Bratell.

The geometric exactitude and the choice of forms and shapes shot from above give it a 3D like graphic design feel. But all, are actually ingredients!

Jaw dropping!

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via: Daniel Howells

Metz+Racine

Gorgeous staging by Metz+Racine for an advert for Hampers In-House. Digging the lively yellows and shocking pink that makes the each vignette pop.

Korphee is 18

Aspiring photographer Masha Sedykh aka Korphee is fast-tracking towards her dream coming true. Russian born and living in Switzerland, she is 18 years old tall and photography is her passion.

No doubt whatsoever about that!

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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.

 

Photography {c/y}
Gifted with an eye for capturing or staging life. Some of the sharpest eyes shooting today.
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Netdiver Mag

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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

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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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