Design news | Sep 07
Robin Eley is the consumate portraitist working with oil and acrylics. His illustrations are often capturing the engrossing featured topic and often depict subjects in a charicacture of themselves.
Much talent!
Celebrating an upcoming and promising artist, Reto Kaul aka gizmodus is a Swiss freelance concept artist / illustrator who has work experience in concept design, book illustrations, covers and fashion design. His landscapes are breathtaking, check him out.
Flexing their creativity, the Patrizia Pepe is an efficient website that show the company fashion apparel collections using the latest flex technology. Also the man Autumn collection is slick and elegant in comparison with the usual too austere or too extravagant ones.
The photography work is stunning as you will see, I'm a great fan of minimalist settings in such projects.
Thumbs up!
Craig Phillips is a freelance illustrator working in his studio in the sunny South Coast of NSW. His science-fi comic book like approach gives way to depth and exquisitely detailed results.
EULDA received almost 1000 excellent entries sent from 33 different countries and their unique three-tier jury has selected 201 logos to be published in the Eulda '07 annual.
Todd Proctor has a quirky approach to design and illustration standing on a one-pager website.
Terranova stands for italian spirit in fashion and the label website demonstrates this in luscious surroundings and beautiful pictures.
Daisy Fletcher studied Illustration at the University of Brighton, graduating in 1999 with First Class Honours. She went on to complete her MA in Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art.
She now freelances and has done a number of exhibitions. Her style borders on realistic with a touch of surrealism rendered in beautiful lines.
Kanardo a two headed unit for graphic design, goes black!
170+ Expert Ideas From World’s Leading Developers by Smashing Magazine
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Sohum Cosmetics, beautifully designed packaging.
Interview with Kenya Hara by Maggie Kinser Hohle
Kenya Hara is a fortysomething graphic designer based in Tokyo and the art director of MUJI, the no-name brand agency. “Although he has designed the usual things in that field—posters, packaging, signage, corporate identities—what he’s really good at, and becoming best known for, is looking at the big picture of where design fits into real, modern, daily life.
Hara’s a cerebral designer, but also eloquent and he produces exquisite work..”
50 Designers x 6 Questions by Smashing Magazine
What is one typical myth about web-development (which is not true)?
What is one bulletproof method to get over creativity block?
What is one thing you wish you knew before you’ve started programming/designing/… ?
Apple Inc. “Get a Mac” named most successful marketing campaign of 2007 by Effie Awards. Click the view 'videos' to have a good laugh.
It amazes me no end, how the 'personality' of behomoths competitors comes across without saying anything but clip style fast firing short sentences.
Andy Ward is all about illustration, animation and character design and he does so with brio and gusto! Check him out.
914 is a dynamic artworker working on a range of projects including creative direction, design and illustration for magazines, music, arts & culture. Stay tuned for the launch of the cute Puppets calculators!
Jeffrey Docherty is a New Zealander art director currently living in New York. Over the past seven years he's worked with many inspiring studios in New York, Australia and New Zealand.
Another typography luver!
Task-Focused is Rob Cordiner's, an Australian born graphic designer with an affinity for typographic solutions, home on the web.
Zeixs books are out!!! The call for entries was a great success and the four books covering graphic design, illustration, logotype and typography are now available!
The Dieline claims to be the ultimate package design blog. Although they only started publishing this year, worth digging for inspiration or submitting your shiny packaging designs.
ONTOUR launches their Fall /// Winter Collection! Now if you need fab digs here you go! Their best till now!
SLEEP CLUB is the joint work of artists Dell Stewart and Adam Cruickshank. Sleep Club is all business, all day. Adam's work has appeared in numerous magazines and Dell has organised and participated in numerous solo and collaborative exhibitions.
LIFELOUNGE brought together 22 artists from around the globe to design a shirt. All of the profits from the sale go to charity.
To all eye candy luvers now coming to you in 22Flavours!
Must see! Followig in the Oakley series of promotional mini websites for their sponsored atheletes, as you will see, they all carry the same luscious visual treatment, suprise interactions and bits and pieces of their personal life while competing for world titles.
/ Oli's life is Oli Adams, pro Surfer Champion
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/ Vicci's life Vicci Miller, pro Snowboard Champion
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/ Scott and Tyler's life Scott McMorris and Tyler Chorlton, pro Snowboard Champions
Bunker Design is another portfolio of design and flash goodness.
The results of our mini-poll are in and confirms the new sections we were considering for Netdiver new website! Thanks to everyone who voiced their choices on what Netdiver should have ..
Live submissions by users -> 19%
Comments opened -> 7%
Designer rockstar interviews -> 20%
Business of design articles -> 15%
cool design competitions -> 13%
A .pdf or flash magazine -> 25%
Smashing magazine is ramping up a week-long party for their 1st Anniversary! Stay tuned for the details!
40+ Books For Professional Design & Development
Three detailed articles on sketching, inking and coloring illustrations:
The Complete Digital Comic, Part 1: Sketching and Pencilling in Photoshop
The Complete Digital Comic, Part 2: Inking in Illustrator
The Complete Digital Comic, Part 3: Coloring in Photoshop
New on the block: Collect Project is a collective world wide open source animation project meaning they'll collectively work on a short animation film. They aim to have all the best motion graphic artists throughout the world contribute to a single animation film...
August 31, last day to vote, if you haven't yet! The little poll results are confirming the new projects and sections we will be launching. If you've not voted yet, please do, your voice matters to us.
This project was active back in 2003 and fortunately the URL has been updated so you can see this huge pixel based project having had 400 residents and standing 2.000m tall.
Welcome to a new kind of building: ~MrWong's Soup'Partments.
This powagirrl sure knows how to pack an immersive experience! Check Prismgirl new website! Scroll, mouseover, click! Enjoy beautiful!
Steven Heller honoured by School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City, will honour Steven Heller with the Masters Series Award and retrospective exhibition. He is the author, co-author or editor of over 100 books on graphic design, illustration and political art, was an art director at The New York Times for 33 years and is a columnist for The New York Times Book Review.
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“The Masters Series: Steven Heller” will be on view at the Visual Arts Museum, 209 East 23rd Street, New York City.
Upcoming: 22 October - 1 December 2007
He likes everything print and we luv everything print he does! Check Alex DeArmond portfolio. Fantastic throughout from books, posters, editorial design to environmental signage.. The Walker series is quite impressive.
ROJO is on the move! They've recently opened an artspace in Barcelona, to open one in Sao Paulo in September and next in New York, Paris, Berlin, Milan, Rosario, Bucarest, Tokyo...
Looks like the design culture is in rapid expansion!
Didn't even know these kind of websites still existed! You know, the ones that would open multi-broswers pages upon request. Anyhow our new powagirrrl addition, Camille Baudelaire chose this solution to show her portfolio.
Blew me socks away! Have a look at Ben's life, micro-site of pro athletes Ben Grove (Skateboard).
Pleasantly surprising is the fact that on each refresh, a different section of the website loads, and each and everyone of them, has got somekind of interactions that makes it a really good experience.
Even moreso, the fact that it's not a yadiya list of his achievements, but a personal and fun peek where you get bits and pieces of the athlete life and interests.
Henning von Vogelsang aka as core claims to be an honest interactive brand consultant and I luv his new website!
CSStux support the underdog (especially the cartoon) and we're turning the tables by promoting the little guy on an equal footing with Joe Corporation.
Who is Troika? A multi-disciplinary art and design practice founded in 2003 by Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel, who met while studying at the Royal College of Art.
They develop a variety of self-initiated and commissioned projects that are both engaging and demanding to the user, from printed matter to product design and custom installations.
"You were born an orginal; don't die a copy."
— John Mason
The Beast is Back with loads of new projects and yummy characters.
You must see Giosimi reel with enough transitions and cameras movements to make you almost dizzy.
Eye candy guaranteed!
Desktops wanted! Desktoptopia is a desktop background manager for the mac that automatically loads and displays designer desktops on your monitor, as often as you wish.
(: Sentry Robot is ready for you :) by Parquerama
10 inches limited edition vinyl doll, produced by Kaching Brands. On sale in stores. For more information, please contact info@parquerama.com
Oh rad! Nike Evolution video! The 30 second Nike Evolution ad features nine different shoes in transition on a pavement.
Emil Kozak is from a small town in Denmark, and was inspired to take on graphic design as a result of his life long passion for skateboarding. He designs cool merch with a recognizable stamp of the new urban lifestyle avant-garde.
Adam Cruickshank art and illustrations have been published around the world, appearing on t-shirts, sketchel and installations.
At the moment he lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He went to art school in Brisbane in the early 90s and dropped out 6 months short of his degree. He's been practising artist ever since.
Completely flipping me up! Oh my, look at Ekko Fest is a website an upcoming festival for electronic music in Bergen, Norway.
The interface simply blew me away. Ain't flash powerful or what? The panning fx is working perfectly overall due to solid black lines for text . The newspaper layout feel gives way to legible text only when you select an item. Check the semi-transparent widget on the left that includes program and sound.
Original, crisp and holding in a single page! Hats off to Are Bu Vindenes!
How does Netdiver work? The What's new includes daily news and buzz about freelancers, individual professionals or studios as well as industry events. An alternate browsing since we cover most design disciplines, these are gathered in snapshot galleries where you can find loads of inspiration.
- \ Flashware -> Flash web sites and experimental code
- / Illustration -> Diverse illustration styles
- / Imaginative -> Outstanding concepts and fresh design perspectives
- / Industrial -> Products, furniture, toys, wearables, architects
- / Motion -> It's all about motion graphics
- / Photography -> Some of the sharpest eyes shooting today
- / Portfolios -> Emerging talents in new media, graphic design and print
- / Powagirrrls -> Women who rock the design the design industry.
In mid-October, Netdiver magazine will be 10 years old and we will launch a year-long online party bash with cool new projects for you to contribute to.. leading to the relaunch of a brand new website late Autumn!
There will be no interruption of news about the digital culture and design community, but our RSS feed will go on a temp hiatus. We know there have been issues in regards with it, and we're going to fix this.
The little poll results are confirming the new projects and sections we will be launching. If you've not voted yet, please do, your voice matters to us.
Also stay tune for announcements on the What's new by mid-September. This is when you can join the party! Thanks so much for your support and share da luv for Netdiver around you.
What I like about Richard Wilkinson illustrations is this old world feel like the kind of illustrations you can find in the very early issues of Vogue and the New Yorker. The sparingness of lines and subdued palette concurs to this air of minimalist elegance.
The Ekko Festival identity is designed by Grandpeople who are masters in design and direction. They have an outstanding portfolio that cuts right through all edges.
Peter Granser photography captures the mundane and simple life of people in high contrasting color giving these a surreal dimension.
Luv the dual picture presentation!
Aren't we lucky, Chris Thompson designs with tenfingers and he luvs print work and does so well.
Annoucing the launch of Undoboy Wall Decals, if you want yummy icons to adorn your walls. cool or what?
Presenting Oliver Sieber // J_Subs portraits collection.
“In 1999 I finished a series of 53 portraits called “Skins Mods Teds”. I was very interested how far there are youth-cultures (or subcultures) existing in my nearby environment which lead back to important groups from the past.
For me it is interesting to see the influence of youth traditions from Europe and North America to the Japanese youth-culture, to find out the differences or coherences, what was changed regarding the style or meaning.”
Loads of very good adverts created by Sägas Broadcast Planet, a motion graphics company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Their head directors have been involved in film and commercial productions for the last 7+ years.
Blanka presents 50 years of Helvetica where you can see the font useage in selected works through the years. Interestingly, although this font is probably the most used and recognizabled and intended for corporate communications, as you will see in this online gallery, not all work is of equal quality. So a great font is not enough to make a great.. design.
Some of my favs are:
1963 // ANTOINE+MANUEL / I HAVE A DREAM
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1985 // NB: STUDIO / A IS FOR APPLE
Arne Quinze, Creative Director of Quinze and Milan, is a trail-blazing, self-made designer. A leading member of the Uchronia creative community that made waves at Burning Man 2006, Quinze creates masterful sculptures, installations and productions.
John Davey invited me to speak at the upcoming Flash on the Beach. If you plan to be in Brighton next November, let me know so we can hang out.
Self Promotion by Carole Guevin
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