Design news | Sep 05
Plugzine #1 Where to start? a concept and designs publication on contemporary visual culture, that includes work by ParisSydneyTokyo, DHKY, Insect, Saiman Chow, Netdiver, Delaware, Hort, Kam Tang, Friends with You, Hausgrafik, :Phunk, Genevieve Gauckler, Jason Siu, Dimension 7, Toca Me, Scott Rench and Ou Ning.
Published by Joyn: and Qian Qian.
Limited edition of 2,000 copies. Get a bag full of goodies!
WIWP Remixed Vinyls now available for grab and viewing. See a unique track of urban designs applied to an old media.
Really cool initiative!
“The world is steeped with bad design...”
Part prankster, part provocateur, BadDesignKills, a new site for professional designers, launched this year on January 12 to cajole an industry invaded by $29.95 hack logos and cheap clipart collections. The incendiary yet humorous poke at poor design has dual motives: to make fun of the ignorance and cutrate solutions professionals struggle against, and to generate awareness about the nature of good (and bad) design in the public arena. Created by Von Glitschka.
Participate and add your voice to this source for guerilla marketing. Resource files available for download to design and start your own campaign.
A dream job at T26: Font Tech? Apply now!
Splendid! Brian Malloy's opening site picture is a perfect example of what a great photographer can do. Even in black and white, you feel the light and warmth, the quiet happiness and child-like marvelling at nature. That special moment that makes and enrich one's childhood memories.
The words that comes to mind to best describe his style are: high human density.
Non-Design Skills for Designers (as in math, writing, communication) by Kevin Potts
That's original! Diagonally oriented? Why not? I really like the 'philosofish' play on word from Rumblefish (demo reel is awesome) a postprod motion graphics promising shop. Must see!
Standards are great for our industry! Explorations seed the next wave of standards! More than ever, it's time to play.
Lafano is an office separation system company that shows really nice pictures of the assembly partitions possibilities. Well done.
Fresh and cool! You've gotta see Shop Composition, probably the best designed online store so far. With big pictures of items, no doubt you see what you'll get. The dragging device to view more item is genial, keeping your last visited item as background.
Newly refreshed product and portfolios sites:
/ One & Co nice presentation
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/ Konstruct / STK check the Frankfurt Airport pitch
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/ Teresa Sapey awesome architecture studio
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/ Nebojsa Nikolic movement painter
Oh! One's gotta luv this pitch: “It's about taking lemons and making standards-compliant lemonade” by The Weekly Standards
One of the most prolific designer, Xavier Mariscal has litterally his hands in many-many-many projects in his Barcelona studio. From print, interactive projects to furniture and architectural design. Luv the little characters in the loading sequence (which is his trademark illustration signature).
Everything on the site is miniature, but certainly not the talent!
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf signs on with Google by Eric Bangeman (via: ArsTechnica)
“They don't call it the war for talent for nothing... Google has hired Internet pioneer Vint Cerf away from MCI, where he most recently served as senior vice president of technology strategy. He also serves as the chairman of ICANN, the agency charged with overseeing the Internet's domain name registry.”
Stay tuned! The next announcement will be: “All your metas belongs to us”. There was a lot of controversy surrounding ICANN becoming the manager back in the days when much trouble was happening in domain management nirvana.
So really, if Vint Cerf (co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet) is chairman of an organization (non-profit) and now becomes 'chief evangelist' for a megapoly arising... ain't there some little measure of conflict of interests?
Just discovered Nate Williams (n8w) Illustrationmundo... which says it all right? Don't miss the mini-survey presently ran...mmm... wow I did not know that.
Creative Behavior issues two new articles. Must reads.
Online Creative Strategy by Stephen Gates
How to Manage the Monster by Kevin Airgid
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ndlr: additional read Clueless clients and whose fault is it?
3D floorplans and interior environments are the new (design) rage! What do you make of that? Of course, who would not want a house overlooking the ocean... but is it realistic to sell this kind of utopia to sell your goods? From a technical point of view Sony Style (MX) lounge is impressive... but...
The Power of Design by Fast Company
“Look around you: The evidence of design's power is everywhere. It's apparent in the mere fact that the bar has been raised. Customers expect, even demand, more from the design of everything they buy...”
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ndlr: Mostly from mega brand designers but still valuable as a trend process indicator.
Support the AIGA Katrina Relief effort!
WellVetted inspirational gathering issue #37 is out. My pick for this month is Adrenalab.
Sites standing out:
- amana x2 / BBDO x3 / loworks x2
- Rolitoland x2 / Subdisc x4
You have gotta see this! Rough54 made four different iterations of this hilarious visual stunt for a telcom in ref with time it takes to download mail. Shown start of version #1 and end of #2. Available: / #3 / #4
When megalopolies face each other... mmm... it's bound to get ugly. Court docs: Ballmer vowed to 'kill' Google by Ina Fried
State of renewal for the following web sites who recently were redesigned:
/ signalgrau designbureau they are back!
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ndlr: While cleaning up, found my original version of ESCALATE a stop motion project. Choose Carole Guevin. Sorry this was my template; the other participants are missing and the project site has now been relocated!
Scope for mobile web best practices is just published by the W3C.
Typebox, is an agency that specializes in... well, type design and iconographics. Check their Peek-a-box to see fonts in context. Very nice projects and they offer worthwhile tips and some history of typography as well. Luv it!
State of renewal for the following new media portfolios web sites who recently were redesigned:
/ MotionTheory still edgy
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/ Newmedia clean and contrasted
Announcing the launch of beta 2.0 of FlashTV! cool concept!
Unless you knew of them beforehand, you've never seen illustration portfolios quite like these!
/ KumKum Noodles 3D characters are so yummy you wish they were gummies.
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/ Sophie Toulouse is the consumate portraitist whose swirly and exquisite strokes beautify everything she does.
Better and better and better, these designers portfolios are still rocking and improving!
/ Michael Patrick Partners imaginative expansion
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/ Pacific Coin Op Studio awesome illustrator!
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/ Punchcut why wallpaper when you can remodel?
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/ CLAN.DREI look at the little thumbnail pouches!
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/ **designblue creative instinct promotional site by korean designers
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/ Sharpe + Associates one of the greatest photographers' agency
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/ Mauricio de Pierro logo and illustrations are outstanding!
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/ Demo Design still pushing farther ahead
Breaking news! A List Apart v.4 now online! You can read the making of process (includes some pretty nifty backend tools) by Jeffrey Zeldman.
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ndlr: Netdiver started publishing links to articles from ALA way back, in the early days. The vintage mini anim (as shown) is still in useage across the news archive, a couple of screenshots are still there for aticles that have relevancy even today.
A List Apart site was part of the Best of the Year 2002 list.
Timeless Principles of Design - Four steps to designing a killer Web site by Clement Mok and Vic Zauderer
ROLF this is soooooooooo cute! My gosh, <<<===---- Rolito lanD will make you laugh! The mini animations are little jewels.
Fresh out! If you're freelancing or considering doing so, Kevin Airgid just put out in a neat little book his over a decade worth of experience working solo. The topic covers what I call, a need rarely catered to: the business side of (web) design. To me, as far as I'm concerned, these hands-on pearls are valuable to all disciplines that require, at one time or another, you being da man (or woman) of the situation.
It's a fast read. I blasted through from cover to cover in a mere couple hours. Now the book looks like neon bar coded because of the sooo many highlighted stuff. Weither you are a rookie or an experienced roadie, weither you need to get (finally) confirmation over some of the things you thought right (and were not sure of) or weither past judgment errors (man these hurt) still affect your self-confidence or you need a reality check to pursue the path to success or would like to learn about cheap workarounds and pitfalls to really really avoid or you just want the url to snatch goodies, there is enough substance in the Web Designer's Success Guide to make it your best investment this year!
Download a chapter for free or just buy it baby!
Newly industrial updated sites...mmm... and delicious to see again. (bis)
/ Seol Euna far out interactive explorations!
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/ ~~LINOLEUM still retro kool with a twist!
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/ fFurious wild white squares navigation!
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/ byMaze be amazed by their funky product designs.
Guaranteed jaw dropping experience! BLISSIUM is a motion graphics + visual effects powerhouse that has been listed on netdiver since 2002 and you have gotta to see their showreel. It is so great to see talent evolved into becoming even more talented! Hats off Jim!
Newly updated across disciplines portfolios sites...mmm... and delicious to see again.
/ Lomp.Illustration v.2 still delivering!
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/ sockho absolutely brillant new portfolio!
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/ :::. NOMADE v.2 those 2 powagirrrls rock!
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/ FarukAkin Project the black and white version rocks!
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/ { unit 8 } simply gorgeous print work!
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/ c o o l a r t ?? soft palette redesign
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/ | Tabas | Marseille (FR) agency new site
you grow girl is a groundbreaking guide to gardening and a really cool green thumb ezine with lots of easy projects. Brought to you by Fluffco
One of the most prolific photograph I know (almost 5,000 photos in total), Rion has been going strong for many years. Catch a glimpse of her vision. Her site has been listed on netdiver for many years, and only now, do I discover that she is a woman!
In fact, she contacted me and I deem it important to publish this excerpt “...since the male-to-female photoblogger ratio is rather unbalanced (especially in NYC), I feel it's particularly important to let you know that I'm a woman, not a man... it would mean a lot to me if that could be corrected. there's just not enough female representation around!”
Wow, she rocks! It's never too late to welcome a new powagirrrl!!!
Opera is celebrating 10th anniversary and is giving away free registration codes today!!! As cross browser testing is still essential for most of us this could come handy. (Offer expired! Join affiliate program and get a free copy) (tx Oliver for heads up)
Robert Moog died this last weekend, due to a brain tumor. I don't think we have any idea of how much music involves 'The Moog' synthesizer. But we sure know the impact he had on contemporary music. He will be missed. (via Mau)
Written while listening to Lucky Man by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, featuring one of the first mini Moog solo ever!
RARE Method (previously known as iDEA Machine) specializes in interactive marketing. I like their clean and efficient website.
OKIDOKI! Netdiver 3.0 is live with (surely) kinks to iron out in the next weeks! Wanna know about the how and why we did it?
The directories are reopened! Galleries are being revisited and when relevent, thumbnails refreshed. So there's no such thing as being 'old' news on Netdiver. You were picked because of your talent then, you're still thriving, you're staying because you're still at it!
Still in flux, cleaning up still on. 75% of newsarchive restructuring completed!
Yobotica // Brave new planet is a flash experimentation with 3D rotating robots and futuristic backgrounds.
Awesome! The making of Citizens (their music is pretty good too) You drive video clip by Bubble&Squeak, is dense with emotion and packaged in a minimal backdrop... brillant editing!
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ndlr: In fact, this short reminds me of MARLA filmed using a homemade custom camera (MINI35 kit based around a Nikon F-2 and a Canon Gl-2).
She's made a name for herself as one of the first to initiate workshops and books and became a reknowned teacher of interactive design and now, lynda.com acquires the Flashforward Conference and Flash® Film Festival.
Nothing gives me more pleasure than discovering new talent! Mariline Fiori is no excpetion. I like the uniqueness of her illustration signature and the overall sweetness. From France with LUV.
She does this and that! Annette Merrild is a multi-displinarian who succeeds with passion at both medias. Her paintings - which have a collage feel - are charged with details and emotions and in some instance, the color palette is dazzling.
Her photographic experiments, one in particular called The Room Project, is based on visiting neighbors appartments to get to know the world around you. To be visited from top to bottom. From Denmark with LUV.
Pirated Sites welcomes you to the newness! The old site is busted and now forums have been installed to post your rips, or show off originals. You can get authentic feedback for the first time ever!
netdiver.com -> shame on them! Squatting our (first) domain for many years, the trail leads to this Slashdot member and to this registrar asking for a ripping price to give it back?
