Design news | Oct 07
How about starting the week with a stunning reel from Imago! These guys know about how to pull an all punches presentation and of course, about design, 2D, 3D and motion graphics.
From Turkey with luv. Enjoy!
Recently was looking for world's flags icons and I found a lovely collection on famfamfam. Check out the other lovely collections too.
Splendid colors and composition for Larry Sultan photography portfolio.
POL Oxygen magazine has won the best design in show at the Folio Show Awards in New York. Add to this golden achievement, a Gold medal for best one-shot for our special issue Stretch, and Silver medals for Best Typography and Best Feature Design.
Just discovered this experimental motion and animation graphics reel 2005 from Nanika! He's into beautiful pictures of flowers and some pretty amazing visual fx.
For intense eye goodness, have a look.
MediaStorm Wins Emmy for Outstanding Broadband Documentary! Congrats to Brian Storm and team!
“Kingsley's Crossing is the story of one man's willingness to abandon everything—his family, his country, and his friends—in the hopes of finding a better life abroad. Award-winning French photojournalist Olivier Jobard documents the passage.”
After being employed at different studios and branding and strategy companies, in 2005 Cristian Vargas decided to create typozon, a design studio that develops projects of design, illustration and art.
Get ready for an explosion of imagination, colors and conceptual brilliance! Definitely someone to watch for.
From Bogota with luv!
On the power of a dream, here is a touching animated short, named Shelly by Johnny Kelly.
Campaign for real beauty from Dove launches another critical and oh so real movie called Onslaught that grippingly shows how young girls are exposed and bombarbed with unattainable beauty canons.
“Talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does!”
For the sake of self-acceptance, this is a must see!
Say hello to web standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
“There's something new at Apple’s online store: web standards and accessibility.. But while its beauty and usability have always run ahead of the pack, its underlying source code has not always kept pace.”
Someone dropped by and suggested that TYPISM be listed on Netdiver. Oh my gosh, talk about an upcoming design rockstar. (Almost) Everything he does is of top quality and shows this indisputable trait: an understanding of what communication design is about.
Fresh! Type treatment, graphic design, characters, photography... Indulge!
Heidi Romano is another upcoming talent. She is a Melbourne based art director / fine art photographer and as you will see, her photography work is outstanding. Don't miss the calendars series!
From Australia with luv.
Applied Projects is a visual angency Rune Høgsberg (formerly adoptdesign.com) and Michael Mandrup (formerly bandage.dk) have joined forces.
It pays to be two and two heads are better than one! Scroll to the right to see their excellent portfolio.
One of our Best of the year 2006 photographer Pawel Fabjanski updated his web site with new works.
You, like I, obsessing about eating right? Well the The Good Fight delivers all the punches and facts in an incredibly fun experience.
Wanna see the power of flash delivering a virtually flawless interactive game? Try it and have a healthy laugh!
For more outstanding concepts visit the Imaginative directory!
Milligram is an architectural firm based in Japan. The choice they made for their interface, having to show a lot of project is like a vertical bar code, much ressemblance to their signature.
Although it may feel overwhelming on first load, each of the projects are well orgranized containing both information and pictures.
Bright LED experimentation and innovation on the theme of LED lighting. The results are in! See amazing design proposals and working prototypes.
Trollbäck designed a mega sized projection on a 30' x 7' foot display for the recent Wired Next fest. Check it out!
The Octonauts & The Sea of Shade by Meomi
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I've been a fan of Meomi for a number of years and it's not surprising that her acquired craft as an illustrator, her attention to details and the passion shown to illustrating sweetness would take the form of children books.
The characters have each a compelling personality and the story is a voyage in the realm of a very fertile imagination and the plot unfolds with page after page of visual goodness.
THE OCTONAUTS are a crew of cute critters who love to explore the big blue ocean. From their undersea "Octopod" base, the eight talented animals are always ready for fun and excitement. In their second adventure, all the shadows in the world have gone missing!
Mind you, if you're a serious illustrator, her books are a must have for study and reference. Published by Immedium.
Diesel Marketing rebrands under Sid Lee! cool opening video about their creative process and first class projects in their portfolio.
Feed your eyes! New sights to learn and portfolios to be inspired from! Siedemzero new portfolio website includes animations and print design.
Yama+Mar is an architectural firm with a cool flash website.
Windows Vista Too Slow? ReadyBoost Can Help
Have a Windows Vista preloaded on your laptop, but the system is too slow? If you have Windows ReadyBoost-capable USB flash memory, you can speed up your PC in just a few steps.
Here are 30 secret Photoshop shortcuts that Nick La has learned from years of experience.
Well, message on screen is pretty straightfoward isn't it? Check the post QBN Sessions website for videos of Shepard Fairey, Joshua Davis and Michael Muller and loads of event pictures.
A well-ronded graphic design portfolio for Berlincut! Mostly print work!
Karl Escritt is a UK-born designer who became one of Japan’s hottest young talents during his four year stay in Kyoto, gaining acclaim from the national and international press.
The power of imagination! You must see this amazing video of six drummers using ordinary home objects to create extraodinarily in-sync rythms.
It's been a while since I've not been impressed by the talent of a photographer: check out Sean Murphy portfolio.
Steven Knodel is a freelance designer based in California and he's the one who designed Sean Murphy website.
Looks like the set of a science-fi movie? Well this is one of a series of 360 degrees panoramic pictures called More London taken by Will Pearson.
Signal7??? They design taylormade solutions in the areas of content, knowledge and digital asset management ranging from company intranets over publicly available media databases to web content management systems.
And they've got a gorgeous and simple interface which is like an infinite horizontal wrapping picture. Check it out!
They are Claire and Olivier. They are graphic designers. They like nice colors and nice people. They live and work in Lyon, France.
Form and Motion 04 is a short animated exercise with simple form and basic colors designed by Leandro Feuz who is upcoming and talented designer from Buenos Aires.
Build has just relaunched their new website which is a minimalist per excellence exercise.
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Have a peek inside the studio with the Print with love video.
Bildmekanik deconstructed interface and navigation wears pink and gray which offsets perfectly this illustration and animation portfolio.
From Sweden with luv!
NODE Berlin Oslo — Graphic Design Studio has got a minimalist site.. where lines serve as navigation. Some will decry the non-usability issue, but I think that for a print portfolio (mostly) website it works.
Lovely work too.
Presenting Gastón Caba a freelance illustrator who currently lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work featured worldwide in many exhibitions, websites, international magazines, plus some books.
He's the one behind the Ping-Pong Remix project, a collaborative project in which +70 of the best illustrators/designers around the world remixed his ping-pong characters into original artworks.
Paprika (a multi-awards agency) now offers more than fabulous communication and advertising services. Just discovered a lovely set of wrapping paper sheets... which can probably make pretty blank empty space in a studio or home.
Check out the fast-scrolling gibberish text that leads to each section on their website. That's a first!
David and Goliath: interview with David Gensler who is the founder, president, editor in chief, visionary behind TheKDU
“They say people like him come once every decade; the one that goes agaisnt the grain of society's opinions and instills change regardless of public opinion.. It's about 'He' talking to 'them' to rise above the mediocrity and question all things wrong in this culture..”
Playtime? Readymech are free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to fit on an 8.5"x11" page and printed with any printer. You’ll need double-sided tape, thick matte paper, and 10-15 minutes for build time.
Now that's a cool project, brought to you by FWIS.
Ideacodes is an award-winning strategic design consultancy in San Francisco who create social applications, concept-driven websites, web products, integrated marketing, and sustainable technology solutions and was co-founded by Emily Chang and Max Kiesler, a multiple-listing Netdiver alumni.
If you are encountering issues with Photoshop CS3/Windows VISTA being incredibly slow. We found this remedy. Check it out.
And the Pixel Awards nominees are?
HL2 whimsical line art animations will appear after picking a heart chamber and setting stage in an all too inoffensive approach to the beefy design chops this agency offer clients.
20 Trusted AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Tool Sites by Max Kiesler
“My question is always who can I trust for tested quality scripts and tools? While there are probubly hundreds of trustworthy sites out there these are the ones I go to when I'm looking for ideas and inspiration.”
What's Going On (WGO)? This is a non-profit piece created to help stimulate thought, educate and promote discussion surrounding New Orleans and its people. It's purpose is to ask a simple question.
Photomontage and graphic design on a tragically appropriate song.
See for yourself.
Oh no for me (don't particularly like winter) and oh yes for winter sport luvers. Presenting, the new Elan Snowboards website.
Slick, funky and urban with just the right touch of line art feel, well organized and ready for the fans.
