Design news | Apr 07
Look at who's talking with LOUNGE72. Recent interviewees include Masa and Genevieve Gauckler.. and there's more!
Enjoy watching the results of fusion says Joey Khor creative director of Malaysian motion graphics studio Hue.visualab.
Watch and be awed by their heady blend of graphically embellished cinematics.
Scrumpidelicious, and vibrant, welcome to the fantasy land of Air Riders, a movie by Qian Qian who is one of the young rising star of design.
Don't fear the bear! Steadyhand is mutual fund company telling it like it is! Not only is all the short presentation videos entertaining, the facts pointed out are convincing and intelligent. Well done!
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ndlr: Produced by Burnkit who has an immediate vacancy for a Flash Developer/Animator.
From top to bottom, relevent and meritocratic websites are kept in the Portfolios+ wave of emerging talent in new media and print design. Directory has been completely revisited.
Hats off to staying residents, you keep us on our toes and going ahead!
Topo is a skilled and well-rounded design studio with a solid portfolio.
One beginning no end is a project that Tavo Ponce who specialized in developed as a proposal for Puma using stop motion and motion graphics.
Luv the concept and smart storyboard based around the universality of human desires and needs.
Duality is a short almost abstract motion experiment into a philosophical theme that is too often discarded as... too complex to address.
It's time to look inside as suggest Mostar Design which is ready to rock some! Think they're good, don't hesitate, call on them.
Evgeny Kiselev is a prolific illustrator! He's been on my to watch for list for a couple of years. This is what working hard and improving one's craft will afford you: renewed coverage.
Thinking of switching to Mac? Mau Sandoval reports on running Windows Vista on Mac Pro. Him and I started exchanging about Bootcamp. As you will see in this post, he prefers to run Parallels.
More motion for your emotions, eye candy and technical prowness brought to you by:
/ Recircle is all about advertising spots.
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/ PANL Awards film by ME (stop motion and embedded images on surfaces).
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/ It Consolidates is an ad spot capturing the essence of the HP branding.
In the heart of Bucharest is an organic club which breathes fresh air into the city: Embryo!
The website uses a widget to navigate. Double-click and see thumbnails in the section.
If you're into photography perhaps you are also familiar with Holga, which is one of the eldest lomographic camera. The particular of the pictures taken are this halo like around the edge which makes for cool fx.
So the perfect companion would be this Lomo Notebook which includes loads of related info and ample space to record your next missions.
ByJerome is dormant for good and wide awake is * Hellofreaks * design studio. From France with luv!
Fergal Keane has been web designing for a long while now and he knows his trade and craft as you can see in his newly revamped portfolio website.
SYRUP/NYC is looking for an actionscripter with the following skills for freelance work, possible full-time position. At least two years development with actionscript and flash experience with design patterns and Object Oriented Programming in AS2. BS in computer Science preferred.
Please send links and examples of your code for review.
Oh! Jen Stark mind-blowing sculptures and spaghetti like thumble-jumble illustrations add up to a real jaw-dropping stop me still in my tracks jewel of a portfolio!
Get ready to be amazed.
Doing big projects and having much fun all along Mucca Design is represents the quintessential studio.
A bit gooffball - check out how the retro class picture is affected when clicking on a team member name, an Abbott and Costello act during Adobe Achievement Awards show, and the map they provide to get to their offices, are just a few examples.
Oh and the fonts. Download ready as T1 Mac only :((
Meet me in NYC! Now if you're heading to town, you need a place to stay. Well here comes The Pod Hotel that finally got it right.
Amenities for the young and hip and travel weary: set your music and your mood with our iPod docking station, plug into the Internet with free WiFi access and you've gotta luv the bunkbeds!
Medaone is gone! Studio Poana is born out of the collaboration and friendship between Meda and Cheeky!
Duplex talents equals double results?
What a tale!!! Blueoverblue a lesson in perseverance!
“Three years, two mergers and one dot com crash later, what was left of the company I loved saw fit to eliminate most of its creative department, myself included.
After several months of freelancing and unemployment checks, I decided to pick myself off the couch, move to Minnesota and start my own business. After over 3 years of being my own boss, I couldn't be happier.”
Slick and very sleek is urbn media_ website. One of the very first companies to be listed in the Portfolios directory, what a pleasure to see them endure and grow and prevail!
Luv the use of the three little panels where client work glide and show.
Philippe Starck is probably one of the best known product and interior designer in the world. His personal signature is reconizable in his sometimes quirky, strong and beautifully scaled objects.
He has put his stamps on luxurious modern environments ranging from boutique hotels, restaurants and private estates and properties.
Once read that he never dismiss a good challenge!
It's a secret? Well no longer it seems. Check out The Secret of Drawing by Si Scott. Fascinating peek into line art design executed with confidence and precision!
Fabulous!
Robert Rebotti operating under .Gara di Nervi. has got such a unique style of illustration. Intense! Somewhat gloomy and always making the right punches and just released his new portfolio website.
Psychedelia colors meets retro popping lines for the Suspension of belief movie by Volumeone.
Revel in a collective imagination! Not to missed - is how the soundtracks mesh with one another to create a reflective and immersive experience.
/ Loquacious eyesicle wildbites
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D.SOUL Don't set yourself on fire is a music video realized for DEJINE:REC / ZEROFEEDBACK with conception, direction and animation by SL Co.
Beautiful and sweet 3D renderings.
Natural Crisis is the motion graphic project for Titipun Tubthong VDO Editing class. 45 seconds to communicate it and inspired by An Inconvenient Truth movie.
Music by Mum - Green Grass of Tunnel
Adrenalab version 3.0 has launched with a toned down palette with accents of red. Still going strong after all these years.
Announcing the launch of Crew12 which is the annual release from the HyperIsland students who are eager to go out in the world.
Absolutely brilliant! Must see!
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ndlr: “For the upcoming start in fall 2007, Digital Media in Karlskrona will have an international touch. The change also open up the opportunity for english speaking persons getting admitted to the program.”
How to apply? Applications due by April 15
Grip Design has got an opening for a designer! Make sure to answer the required questions.
Though I'm not into or a fan of cars, gotta to admit that Rewards of Winning is an interesting film. Even if a promotional one, I must say that the unveiling of facts behind the company, makes for a good story.
Produced by Carmichael Lynch who has been working with Porsche since 1999.
Gotta digg deep for the pearls... but no digging no winning! 2x4 is a multidisciplinary studio focusing on design for art, architecture -- fashion and cultural clients worldwide.
The Brooklyn Museum logotype is a genial idea. Fantastic work!
Anthony Hurd is a talented artist / illustrator / motion designer who just updated his reel with recent works and he's looking to continue to work with good people on good projects.
Update your bookmarks: the community French'N'Fresh has now become NTMY - Nice to Meet You!
Presenting a street wise, edgy in the now joint motion and design studio founded by Ashley (ex-Cartoon Network) and Drew (ex-TCM) and they really know they're Awesome!
And you?
Tronic Meets Target : The Future of Art and Branding by Levent Ozler
Absolutely superb! Tronic surpassed themselves in these animated spots for Target! Smack on target, marvel at the marbles!
Spot 1 - Spot 2 - Spot 3
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ndlr: Tronic press release which contains ample production details obtained
via: Motionographer
BTW Brandon from Code and Theory is looking for their NY or SF offices for:
Project Manager
Information Architect
Interactive Designers (jr/sr)
Developers
The BB/Saunders Journal – 365 is a daily record of occurrences, experiences, observations or thoughts.
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A daybook. 365 (almost) virgin pages before you to do with what you will – that never ending ‘to do’ list, those phone numbers with no name written against them, the ingredients you mustn’t forget for tonight’s dinner or that idea that just might save mankind.
Alternatively, it works equally well propping up tables.
Launching a new section is always exciting! Since I'm very young always have been fascinated by moving images. With the dawn of powerful technologies and software, designers are ramping up great visual experiences and experiments.
I am pleased to introduce the Reel * Shorts directory! What you'll find there?
Brilliant storyboards and visual fx from either studio reels, shorts, flash intros, advertising spots or short films! They rely on video or illustration or text or assortment of all.
Some require interactions, others, just sitting-back and watching. I'm not through populating it and if you want to suggest great additions, please do so.
Follows samples of the initial collection! Enjoy!
/ Digital Kitchen / Spring reel
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/ S4C by Universal Everything
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Icograda mini-poll results for What should you be paid for a pitch?
58% Fair market value for the work produced to present.
17% A percentage of the value of the contract.
28% An honorarium based on the time involved.
Stunning! S2PHOTO is a jewel compilation of diverse topics and subjects! The ambiance is moody, sometimes stark and poetic.
Luv the surimposition fx and use of big titling for sections.
Must see!
You've gotta see Code and Theory website. They've designed many a great project (one of my fav is STYLE WARS). Luv the mini-movies that puts emphasis in the project portions they feel are most important.
Be amazed! To a long-running studio, kudos!
Dzark Designbureau explores communication design via chaotic lines and imploded features. The results? Abstract yet engaging.
Totally engrossing projects!
Eoin Stanley passion for drawing started very young (5-6 years old) and since, went on to become a striving young designer and illustrator.
Interestingly, in the work section the very last thumbnail will show examples of his... huh... early works. Marguerite Yurcenar said wisely: “You become in old age what you were, when young.”
I would add to this, if you do not compromise your early aspirations.
Recurring science-fi aka fantasy land for the character inhabitants drawn by Parquerama. Excellent animations too.
Have you had your Daily Type yet? Visit a creative project run by several russian type designers. Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results.
Manuel Lima is an interaction designer, information architect and design researcher and started visualcomplexity to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.
You can filter your search by topics like biology, networks and even art. Some of the output are as beautiful as meaningful.
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ndlr: There is a comprehensible book section too. One I own and shows jaw dropping visual renditions is the Digital Information Graphics by Matt Woolman.
Supermundane Loves You! Netdiver too! His style is recognizable because of the very psychedelic years treatment of multiple line art defining elements. Fantastic graphic and illustration work!
Dazzling!
Suprb is home to Andreas Pihlström on the web! What more can it be said, his work is superb. Art directing and designing mostly for a realm of big corporations and community oriented projects.
Goodies available: cool Building and Cloud fonts to download!
Fresh out of school and ready for action! Check Ian Kim portfolio! Wow! When I grow up - I want to be as good as he is!
The liveliness, the movement, the stylish lines in his illustrations will lead to a great career!
Oh the beauty! Moira Millman is in a class by herself! Just so luv the very clean, sweet and concept centric illustrations. Brimming over with emotions and talent.
Serial Cut is a Madrid based studio, established in 1999 by Sergio del Puerto. They work on a great variety of projects types focussing mainly on the following: art direction, graphic design and illustration.
Impressive one-page portfolio website using an unusual background color, that I haven't seen in a long time: #FFFFCC.
group94 is expanding and is looking for a senior interactive designer. This job is only open to people from (or prepared to relocate to) Belgium.
Beck band website has got a fast loading funky immersive experience awaiting. Good use of a black background that infers edginess and where anything in colors just pops out!
Their music is a mix of funk pop rock laced with ambiotic techno chill additions.
Michael Fakesch who makes music for ads and is a DJ too, has got a simple website. Step by step interface sections make it an interesting visual statement.
Scaling it up, simply!
From flat to bubliluscious! TAK! newly redesigned website. These folks are so talented as communication designers!
Got Milk? Most are propably familiar with this campaign but have you seen (play) Get the Glass! The logo is absolutely gorgeous, the visuals exactly what can be expected to appeal to all the kidz, big and small. And the critters? Just luvable!
View the spots too! Hilarious!
Awesome advert and animations by North Kingdom.
The Brand New School school of film & video has garnered a list of impressive projects executed by the students.
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ndlr: Don't miss their 2006 year reel.
Coincidence? I luv the Blossomy font and the Grow banner above uses one of the plant leaves - surprised? The color palette is so similar... So if you hold any qualms or doubts that different folks can arrive at a very similar idea. Here's proof!
Kapitza the creator of this font has just released their Blossomy stickers collection to adorn any surfaces you like.
Roxik bobbling head interactive experiment is something to see. Click on a face feature (ex: the nose), grab and drag and release.. and see what happens!
Around the studio, an eclectic assortment of little toys and cute widgets are displayed and grouped in such a way as if in their own world. They use very little space on a window sil, bookshelves, desks or the non-functioning fireplace mantel and because of their smallish scale, a minuscule book of dinausors is approximately 2 x 2.5 cm in size, they become a focus point and make my mind wander.
In the real world filled with giant issues, tasks and responsibilities, they make me comfortable, 'cause then, I am the giant! ;-D
__junkoseven describes as a toy photography collective! They've undertaken to set their fav critters and toys in context and snapped a picture.
Nobodyland is home of Keith Jones an artist who exercises a stern yet humoristic critic of our societal flaws and status.
GI Joes and Janes day?!?! Have a look at the Pond Patrol, an internet series with a new episode every Thursday. The plot unfolds and is substantied with loads of images...
Before embarking on the journey, get some historical facts.
My, can you imagine these are toys. Awesome photography!
Buket Erdogan is inspired by vibrant colors and children' art and has been having lots of fun painting characters. Three of the little mouse books were NY Times Best Sellers.
With BrainStore's industrial idea production process and the world's only IdeaMachine, amazing ideas are produced in record time for each assignment, that meet the pre-defined criteria for successful ideas.
Albrecht Gerlach has got a special solution for displaying his photography work. Luv the fact that there are huge panning pictures to focus on. The only way you can achieve this, is if at the core, your work is really good and can support this kind of exposure.
KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) has been a long time recurring theme in reference with the value of simplicity and that “simplicity is more complex than you probably think it is.”
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via: Smashing Magazine
Long running and still going strong, Volumeone has got some cool projects and stickers!
Here are concise write-ups of the panels Matthew Magain attended at recent SXSW Interactive. Excellent read!
Day 1 // Day 2 // Day 3 // Wrap-up
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ndlr: BTW Sitepoint happens to publish some of the best code related books in the world. JF owns many and look them up all the time. They are his ultimate reference and hands-on collection.
Lemonade represents a roster of talented illustrators and as they state: imagination is your only limitation. And that, you'll see a plenty!
Rigid or flexible identities? Recently read a printed in-depth look at the Walker Art Center identity. The concept is a genial one! Create many different graphic elements that can be used and reused to give a fresh visual statement.
I am a firm believer that a logo should be used as a great visual element and not the other way around. Identity systems should simplify the work of designers not make it a nightmare.
Introducing Walker Expanded: The Walker Art Center's New Graphic Identity by Eric Olson of the Process Type Foundry
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Read the interview and learn from this elegant and flexible approach.
The only unfortunate, is that their website (apart from the top banner on the index) does not reflect the new identity. It would have been great to see the same process implemented.
It seem that the redesign is only applied to print signage, projects and announcements.
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Having won a best of category (graphics) last year, read I.D. judges comments as well.
Luc Melanson has a very unique and recognizable signature: sparingness of lines, flat layout and his character depictions, the same profile.
Excellent work!
Büro North is a multidisciplinary design studio with very nice environmental, signage, graphic and even sculpture works!
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ndlr: Designed by upcoming (website yet to be launched) Design Royale of which founding partners are already listed on Netdiver:
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and / My Misio
No time or aptitude to draw? Baby now you can Blik your walls, or floors or...whatever!
Laughter therapy! Great Pockets by Henry Needle & Sons: bespoke tailored plus sized pocket fashion for the mobile multimedia gadget lifestyle.
Pick and choose items of the collection and do say 'no thanks' and see what is on the other side!
What an unpredictable concept! Imaginative!
Dreaming big? Wanna live San Francisco style? Mint Collection has got space for you. Smart use of a straightforward web interface with well organized sections. If the lofts are built as well as the website... splendid!
See awesome floorplans and luscious model loft pictures.
Can you tell? They're big into sports related projects: identity, environmental and shoes... Hybrid Design does it with versatility and style!
Very nice! Mostly graphic and print portfolio for an upcoming new designer: Laura Risse
Although stating it's a temp portfolio, Jens Nilsson aka Dancemade keeps getting better and better! Great to see him evolving his craft! His packaging and logo designs are stellar.
Luv his new logo too!
Weither using sparingness of lines or mumble-jumbled details, OOkie work is as colorful as simple. Luv his design approach and visual treatments.
Some very cool illos!
Kyle Webster and Andy Horner have teamed up to write and produce a totally engrossing tale: LIGHT CHILDREN!
I've taken time to review the main protagonists character and read the introductory synopsis... if all goes well, this will become a fabulous story.
“When you see our grand and interwomen is our existence.. and how precarious is our future.. then you will be fully awake.”
Must see!
