Design news | May 03
Isn't there a place where impromptu discussions, chats and rumors are started? Introducing the virtual Watercooler, a QT video work-flow tool for production and post fully customizable. Check the demo and view videos, download/share documents, get profile info and update content... and more is brewing for collaborative functions like bbs, user tracking, etc... Revival of push technology?
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What a compelling and original concept for Gert Brenner. As a painter he displays his work *in context*. View a painting and choose a different setting!
The Demise of Certain Conduits for Talent: A Ripe Opportunity for Publishers, Recruiters, and Employers! Post Peer-to-Peer demise, review a list of authors available!
Hilarious! This restaurant boasting gourmet burritos and tacos has got salsa. Meet Chipotle!
An outstanding site that displays beautiful head graphics: URAHARA.org
Exploring the world via pictures + WOPISOMO +
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Beautiful illustration talent for First Quarter Moon. The textures in the montages gives depth and visual treatment takes you into a field of dreams.
Remix 8.1 is live at Horizon Zero. Produced by the Banff New media Institute in collaboration with the Department of Canadian Heritage. Expect to explore the different areas: the projects are meant to be a deep interactive experience.
Well Vetted #9 is out.
You will notice changes in the list of participants:
Substitud has merged with Computer Love.
Swikiri will be representing the African design community.
group94 is a new Guest.
spearedpeanut who steps in to cover the K10K links.
Funky explosion of colors with very good portfolio projects: Crablike//
Step inside WORLDS and visit a talented designer!
Setting up a KALIFORNIAREPUBLIK in Brooklyn? Why not!
Phase 3 by ++URBAN9++ an immersive and explorative photographic experience. When art becomes a compelling social message, be ready to think.
The power of imagination at your service - Tom Roch photography
How about clean-clean-clean interface design with the right touch of visuals? Visit D2S Visual Technology. Excellent graphic integration!
Catch a sign navigation on designnowgraphic.
If you know how to wash your will be ok while handling Rough.54
You've gotta see this - a really convincing PIPERfresh™:Xpresspost package is awaiting. Every now and then, each of us needs a little help from his friends. This is such a time for Edvin.
If you like his work, why not contact him for freelance gigs or even propose a job if you are in the grand Toronto area. Proficient designer, flash, as well as illustration?
Have a look at a 3D software looking experiment with objects: Alessi is more.
Eric Meyer is THE industry reference on CSS + ultra kind and friendly person. He comes across as one who is truly webevangelizing for the advance of the web. He shows a genuine interest on how designers will master CSS to deliver compelling sites for clients... with hard to resist arguments.
He walks the talks by having setting up a hugely popular discussion list where in his word *you ask one question and get 10 working answers* and where he learns a lot. A highly successful author and speaker, through his call to action, he makes learning fun again!
Read his close-ups* interview.
A OS looking site using functionalities that are familiar to some: ::: Agentur Paul :::
Want to fix the "blank" target and still validate your XHTML? by Todd Dominey.
Another explorative experience: piece together the different windows and see what happens on browserdays.mobile!
From the maker of Director || Phil Brown who was my SOTY02 (site of the Year) comes a new astounding flash site for Made | in | Munich a production company.
Tight and imaginative storyboarding! Exquisite illustrations and fresh interactivity.
Another brillantly executed and conseptually strong portfolio, this time for Marc Montplaisir an incredibly talented photograph. I have particularly enjoyed the products and portrait gallery! All sections illustrations are wonderful and the palette very neutral so the pictures keep central attention! Hats off Orange Tango!
.:bonsami:. is an absolutely brillant pixel based site which illustration style is similar to FutureFarmers yet the personal slant is definitely unique!
A pixel base site where the navigation is built around the capital letter F as in :: :: filu.net :: home of Karol Filas. Attention to details!
An interesting essay for fans of science-fiction on GLITCHES IN THE MATRIX . . . AND HOW TO FIX THEM by Peter B. Lloyd
Peter-Paul Koch (read his close'up interview) wrote two keep it simple articles that are good overview of:
“Copywriting and especially graphic design are creative occupations, not only in the eyes of the writers and designers themselves, but also in the eyes of the outside world. Hence, these jobs have a high status.”
Stock.XCHNG version 4.0 is live! 100% free stock photography! Make sure you read the FAQ to know how to use these in your design projects. Some of my pictures are available for download!
A cool agency site _transporter* with visual transitions for all the different areas that shows their abilities.
T36 : Archives to the Everyday Design of Business is an excellent resource about branding.
One of the first explorative sites listed on netdiver has had a complete facelift subakt - still kicking strong!
This is what a call a creative concept Mélodie lounge mixes a fab interior designed environment and the site displays complementing sections from CDs, patrons' pictures, etc. Minimalist illustrations don't compete with the real location; they entice to want to go there for real!
Need some brushes to use with Photoshop? Visit Grungy (psd) brushes.
The navigation of eye | magazine is astounding.
Songs in the Key of Steve by Devin Leonard
Steve Jobs may have just created the first great legal online music service. That's got the record biz singing his praises.
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Review of Apple's iTunes Music Store by Todd Dominey
Mosaic Blows Out 10 Candlrs by Michelle Delio
Nice flash site for ntamedia with slick layer over transitions for content and splendid pictures.
MTM conversation with Marty Neumeier, founder of Critique magazine and author of The Brand Gap. What is the relationship between a company's brand value and its actual market value? What a brand gap is?
Visual explorations by srgarcia, a voyage into an uncharted creative land using strong analogies.
The C-Channel or (Creators International Channel) is available in Japanese+English is an interesting community concept.
Need '70s furniture and design references? Visit the Room Service site.
A professional portfolios repository: Altpick.com
New Design Forte recipient: Boring3D! Anything but boring! ...some creatures are ugly and gooey, others whimsical and beautiful...
Although the site is a bit boring the work is jaw dropping.
Always been fascinated by animators in the caliber of Walt Disney whereas superior and immersive places were made available to our imagination. These animators are capable of such feat when looking at their work - we are taken to where they would take us. One look to one of Boring3D dailies and you will understand what I mean.
The diversity of personaes. The sheer imaginative factor whereas daily life objects, fruits, human parts are showned and are inducing a complete different way of looking at them...
The perspective throughout is brillant and each vignette is like looking into a different world... where incredible things can happen. Where the smallest can become the tallest and vice-versa.
Some make us laugh others make us think others make us sad... some creatures are ugly and gooey, others whimsical and beautiful, others square and others still, really weird... but all feel tangible! They look *real*!
The staging and storyboarding is simple but effective. The illustration talent is superior... and the 3D vision and tools are mastered throughout. That's not taking into account what is available in the galleries.
Immerse yourself!
I love the palette of the site - the very slick graphics and the flash presentation for * Northwind.
Mark Ulriksen illustrates strong statements with minimal ingredients.
Meet our new powagirrrl: Fiona Hewitt her illustrations are visual delicacies!
Recent winner of the Annecy 2002 award for the best animated feature from CICA (Centre International du Cinéma d'Animation), My Beautiful Girl, Mari is an absolute visual delight.
See previews (trailer and music video) of the exquisite illustrations available from the index page; the first web site image gallery is still available on main page as well.
Avis aux passionnés de standards web découvrez Openweb et leurs efforts pour promouvoir l'adoption des standards du Web.
Tune Out, Turn Off, Drop Offline by Kristen Philipkoski
“The digital divide is not just about the haves and the have-nots. It's also about the yawning gap between those who are comfortable using technology and those who fear or despise it.”
Interesting mix of color for the portfolio of Jamie Collins; the layout is simple yet you want to *see* all that is displayed. Good work!
soksok.jp: Not only this service is caching thousands of sites, upon their users request they appear as legit *referrers* on Google. Make a search for James Widegreen with whom we made an interview - and check the second page of results, you will see 2 other referred links to:
1) Peter-Paul Koch interview
2) Rene Barsalo interview
Pointing back to??? soksok.jp!!! NOT netdiver which is the content originator! In fact, netdiver is NOT even showing up as the *source* for this content.
A most offending fact that they appear in Google as referring to a site whereas, they are copying *others* content and appropriates it as if it was their own! On top of that, there have been numerous mentions on the web that they are replacing links in our content and pointing them instead... to porn sites!
A link was previously showing netdiver's content from soksok site! GONE! They can't access our content anymore! Needless to say I'm elated.
For those who have qualms, proxy caching - in this case for users requesting pages through a cell phone, reroutes and deprives us of legitimate traffic.
Thanks to Nels Lindahl from which I got the code to write the .htaccess and prevent access to netdiver's content:
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Use this code, copy it exactly and paste it into notepad and save it as .htaccess (exactly that extension no name just that, remember the period):
<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 210.224.177.59
deny from 210.224.177
deny from soksok.jp
allow from all
</LIMIT>
Upload it in ASCII format to the main folder of your website or another folder if that is where your blog is located.
Don't worry unless you have the ftp program set up to view all files you won't see it b/c it is invisible.
One of the most active site promoting interactive design was redesigned: Ars Electronica
How to get a good introduction to a web technology through practical examples and small tests to verify what you know?
Visit W3Schools.
