Netdiver Mag

/ Surfacing the creative culture
since '98

Urban shapes

Sebastian Weiss is photo columnist for AD Architectural Digest Germany and passionate about concrete aesthetics and the beauty seen in city shapes.

Superb light and a myriad of elliptical, angled, curvy, triangular architectural shapes soaring or flat.. His keen and artful eye produces a mix of awe and how he dunnit – for us viewers.

Barcodes encore

I always had a weak spot for bar codes: products – desktops – wrapping – and still do.

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Upon discovered attraction – started designing with these back in early 2000 – we even had a website with these. As you can see – the love lingers in my vintage pixel avatar.

Carole Guevin avatar

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He has an exceptional eye for composition – like none other. Geometric compositions. Can I say that? The collision of graphic grid meets architecture head-on is generating extraordinary. The results are splendid. Saturated colors.

Who wouldn’t want those ‘turquoise’ on a wall to look at in the dead of Winter as shown in the Spektrum Eins project?

Matthias Heiderich is a self taught photographer and an outstanding one as that – check his folio out. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Mittongtare?

Mittongtare stunning compositions and vibrant food photography. The staging is kept to essential and deliciously appealing as well as the juxtaposition of two different shots – expands a theme.

Mostly shot in his brightly lighted loft equipped with state of the art kitchenware.

Hello Hel Looks

A unique photo reportage and inside peek into how ordinary people show their street (or not) smart fashion styles: Hel Looks.

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Project is part of the Best of the Year roster in 2005.

Netdiver Best of the Year

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One of the longest lasting street style project – started in 2005 (in Helsinki) and still going strong! Full archives available.

Notice much changes?

circa 2005

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circa 2014

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Factum: One of the project co-founders – Sampo Karjalainen turns out to be co-founder of the Moves app acquired by Facebook in April / 14. Wow!

Sporticus grannies

They are in way better shape than I will ever be! Guess that football has got some fontaine de Jouvence included. Funny + refreshing approach for this ad campaign.

Scoring handiwork by Rogerio Miranda!

Lucid dreaming

Andric is a ND alumni whose photographic skills have become non-short of extraordinary. His people + space collections consists mainly of one subject and an incredible background.

Totally awesome immersive poetic landscapes unsaturated hazy faded colors and expansive horizons draw you in.

Lucid dreaming.

Mid-air suspense

Baby you can drive my car.. or in this case – maybe not! A-m-a-z-i-n-g mind boggling 3d photo montages and typography involving four or more wheels vehicles suspended (or not) in mid-air by Chris Labrooy.

How does one ever get the inner vision and imagination to pull something like this?

Search for inspiration and/or talent in Netdiver Mag.

pinterest / medium / linkedin / X / rss

/ 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

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 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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