Design news | May 08
Eatjapanesefood is home to Holly Wales, a talented mixed media illustrator who in her words, likes to “explores a variety of subject matter through self-initiated and commercial work for a range of international clients”.
Naughty and grungy the Ginger Beards have redesigned their website keeping their recognizable signature illustrations. Check the tees and shave the beard to see the hidden design. Fun!
Discover the fantastically beautiful retro loving artwork of Jen Ski. She is the epithome of kitschy 50s receiving a major facelift and seamlessly achieving to be modern. Her mix media collages are elegant and eye catching.
Giclee prints, stationery and other collectables are available for purchase in her online shop.
The art of independence is well represented by DELAware which is a “japanese super sonic group, designs music and musics design. Their works take on multiple forms such as recordings, visual installation, writing, web, mobile phone, poster, cross stitch, and live performance”.
Luv their new tagline: BeGlobal and as usual, their fondness for cross-stitches and pixel design.
Based in central London, Studio8 is a graphic design studio and was established in 2005 by Matt Willey and Zoë Bather, formerly Creative Directors at Frost Design London.
Blew me away! Hesign totally rad (double) navigation with so much blinking and animated parts that it can be dizzying. But if you wanted to make a first strong impression — point made!
The dangling letters of his name is also a navigation.
“This Sunday, 11 May, is Mothers' Day in China. Just like here, it's a day for families to celebrate the strength and love that mothers bring into our lives. And this year, it's a chance for us to reach out to some particular mothers in Beijing who have experienced the worst thing a mother could endure - the death of their own children, at the hands of their own government.”
As a long time human rights activist - I am proud to join in expanding the awareness that China has NOT yet address the 'human rights' issue and that no matter how the new found economic / olympic game clout may be it will not cover the truth.
Take time to send an e-card message. A simple gesture of love and compassion can go a long way. Count your blessings.
Ittestudio is a design studio based in Barcelona that just launched a new line of beautiful patterns and prints — over 120 designs that can be applied to jewelry, textiles, wall paper, ceramics, appliances, architecture, anything imaginable...
Contact them to get their brochure.
Mathieu Foucher made a motion graphic clip WE BE which got him a second place rank. It will be shown on stage during the tour of Wax Tailor, a French hip-hop/trip-hop artist that organized the contest for his new single. Mostly typography following the lyrics it is simple, and yet underlines a powerful message.
IMPORTANT Update! ! !
Late this Autumn and part of our 10th anniversary bash publishing online, Netdiver will release a spanking new website that will include a redesigned interface, cool new sections, improved search and a couple of surprises projects that will be more community and self-expression based.
As you can see the little batteries which were the navigation for the different disciplines/sections thumbnail galleries are gone! Now with text links, we're fully accessible for hand-held devices and more usable.
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Also to avoid further frustration to us all, we are putting our feed on hiatus so we can concentrate on the task of a huge content migration. So you understand where we are coming from, RSS back then did not exist, and is not supported properly by our current architecture: it is impossible to reflect how many entries (3 to 5) are posted leading to look as if we are not updating, as we do, daily.
Last night winners of the Art Directors Club yearly design competition were announced. Standing out in the print category is the series of Stephan Sagmeister covers for his latest book: Things I have learned in my life so far - which we reviewed recently.
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In the interactive category - another fav which is also one of our Best of the Year is Get the Glass brilliantly designed online game by the cool gang at Goodbye-Silverstein.
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Uniqlok campaign attempt at global brand dominion via this smart clock, raked a ADC Hybrid Award because it “was thought to have a creative spark, excellent execution as well as iconic and scalable”.
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All Design, ADC Sphere, Advertising, ADC Hybrid, Gold and Silver medalists, and Distinctive Merit and Merit winners, will be included in the Art Directors Annual 87, the hardcover book to be published by RotoVision in November, 2008.
Trevor Bolam aka Element 5.0 relaunches his website.
POL Oxygen who is positioned as a high-end design and interior design magazine came up with a brilliant idea: publishing a MiniMilan available as a .pdf. So if you want to have a quick overview of the hot new product designs and did not attend the fair, fancy downloading and indulge the coverage.
Print the whole or what strikes or inspires you.
That is different! Have a look at mola ativism website. All the projects are listed in rows, one on top of the others but as you mouse over a larger visual appears. Choose and click one. Some of the sections include small movies of the making of.
Smart move to include an alternate navigation with dropdowns to move to another section.
Unassigned, the future calls for submissions
“The world is in a spin and with what the media withhold, one can only imagine the silenced and vital issues. After being trashed, punked, desecrated, softporned by all possible extent of explicit reality, what next? Call on the dreamers!”
From the archived articles I wrote to feed your mind!
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Stephen Ledwidge as an illustrator deals mostly with editorial assignments for the health, sports and technology sectors.
Changing colors all the time, Christoffer Hald aka Klon2 uses huge background images to show his work. He is proficient in typography and graphic design. Make a detour and review his photography section, some awesome shots. Think he could even take a shot at a dual career here.
From Denmark with luv.
A talented graphic designer, Oliver Munday is mostly into print design and his portfolio lists a host of good projects.
What is broadband affording us? Well not only allowing rich media apps and immersive experiences to be readily available but also the possibility to use more of the interface to display visuals in a more compelling way. Another in a series of portfolios websites that I'm discovering is OPX who does exactly that.
These huge backgrounds allows for a simple banner head location for text and navigation and the use of semi-transparencies.
Turn on to Switch to discover a bright upcoming new creative agency from UK who wants to focus on design for the music industry. Aaron Bimpson, who acts as the creative director, was involved for many years as one of the editors of the now defunct Pixelsurgeon.
Cheers to your success!
They are now CMPLT (read: complete)! Luv the concept of the name since dynamic creative duo are also a couple in real life. Hats off to Simona and Mark for the launch of their new design studio website!
SKIN has resurfaced its identity and launched a new website which I prefer over the previous iteration. Really like what they did: clean interface, black stripe for the navigation and rotating banners that hints at their cultural flavor and favorite design items.
From Oslo with luv!
Simone Magurno aka Serious Situations is a talented designer who received an honorable mention in our first DAC (Digital Art Contest) and a student at HyperIsland.
He is looking for an internship anywhere in the world (30 weeks period) from August 2008 until March 2009.
Designboom Milan Design week 2008 in 2233 images! If you are into product design or curious of the latest, this is a must!
It's the first time I see such a type of portfolio where all content is spreaded across columns. Have a look at GraphicalHouse.
Sangre is Pablo Scaglione home on the web. He is a graphic designer and art director located in Buenos Aires. Luxurious use of white expanse that frames most of his projects.
Delrancho is Ricardo Villavicencio portfolio and as a graphic design and art director his current output is of superb quality and his creativity keeps on surprising.
There seems to be no end in finding new surfaces to design. Check the Mimobots® dressing up in disguise USB flash drives.
Introducing a new movie from the New Artist Series by Hillman Curtis. SAGMEISTER 08 : A look at Stefan Sagmeister's recent show at Deitch Projects, NYC which is based on his book Things I have learned in my life so far.
DDB gave the advertising industry a wake-up call. They introduced a new approach to marketing that relied on insight into human nature, respect for the consumer, and the power of creativity. In short, they said: Let's stop talking at people and let's start conversations that lead to action.
Yellow papers to learn from their processes:
Swarm
Marketing
Brand
Narratives
Brand
consistency redefined
The
conflict between accountability and effectiveness
Six
billion monkeys versus William Shakespeare
Unleash
emotions for business growth
Unleash
the Future
CosmicSoda welcomes you to a new t-shirt gallery where you can submit your designs and of course get paid for them!
They are good with concepts and excel at doing so. Recently discovered new illustrators:
/ Daniel Lim sweet and emotional characters
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/ Emptees for the luv of tshirts design community
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/ Aaron Kraten bold central characters with often mixed artifacts
Grant Barnhart is a talented illustrator who will have his first oversea show at Leslie's Art Gallery, Luxembourg and will be attending the opening.
Ron van der Ende uses reclaimed timber to create astounding and realistc bas reliefs which scales, as you will see, can be quite big.
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..”
– Henry David Thoreau
Made in Bunch identity adventure has after one year and over 450 contributions come to near completion.. or has it? They are still accepting new entries for next the few months…
Have a look at the gallery and published contributors. Some pretty awesome design and concepts are listed.
April 27, is World Graphics Day which is an opportunity to recognize communication design, its role in the world and to celebrate Icograda's anniversary. It has been celebrated internationally since 1995.
Studio/lab is a design consulting services with offices in Chicago and San Francisco and they specializes in strategic brand design, information design, communication design.
Fairspot interwiew with Tom Muller aka Hello Muller
“We're here to bring the flavor to your senses, and what better way of doing that than to feature one of the few designers that successfully mixes grid structure with Sci-fi-like style! We're talking about a design icon here, someone that every creative insider has heard of at least once, and if asked to describe in one word, might blurt out orange or classic.”
L2M3 is a heavy-weight kommunikation design buro experienced in print and environmental design, a penchant for culture related projects and more. I like the the black horizontal bars while a project loads.
From Stuttgart with luv.
Abiding in a class all of his own, John Malloy is a talented illustrator who has succeeded in porting his skills to varied projects.
His depictions are somewhat washed out or bold with colors where humans are sometimes distorted by strong inner emotions or turmoils.
Eeeee!!! DesignSpotter brings your design into the spotlight and now in beta, a spanking new website and very nice new identity!
This online magazine offers young designers a platform for publication. They publish young designers works and ideas and build up a base for communication among all those people who love and live design like us.
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Are you in Montreal? Looking for a location to co-share with other indie workers? Or meet clients? Or do a small gathering? Or even throw an event? Than Station C offers a range of plans for a reasonable fee.
“Un coworking, c’est un espace ou les travailleurs indépendants et pigistes peuvent travailler en paix, collaborer, rencontrer des clients, s’entraider et tenir des événements dans leurs domaines. C comme dans coworking, collaboration, communauté, création, code, citoyen, centre…”
It's time to keep your eyes on Eye Magazine a quarterly covering design who has officially gone solo and was released to its present editor, John L. Walters.
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via: Icograda
Isle of MTV 1 and Isle of MTV 2 show opener ident and teaser with ingenious motion graphics by Anders Schroder.
Sennep came up with a stacked of cards to show this long-time running industrial product design and consulting company profile and achievements. The whole site has a pared-down and elegant feel. Don't miss the case studies section.
From designing the first cordless kettle in the 80’s to the conceptual interior of Virgin Galactic tourist spacecraft SeymourPowell portfolio is vast and varied.
War Design Studio is a growing practice predominantly working on branding, packaging and literature projects and are looking for Senior / Junior Designers.
From Australia with luv!
Presenting: Preparation, Process, and Pizzazz by Lea Alcantara
“There is a reason why public speaking is a common phobia; just because someone is knowledgeable about a subject does not mean they know how to communicate their ideas for others to absorb.
Never dive into creating your presentation without knowing the constraints within which you are working, as they can really alter how you present. When I started to prepare for my presentation, I had to ruthlessly narrow down what my goals for speaking were before I tackled the nitty gritty.”
Yolo is the graphic design studio of Martin Fewell based in Manchester UK. He has a wide range of experience in television and worked north to work for The Designers Republic for 2 and a half years. He dabs in font design as well.
Established in 1997 by Bryan Edmonson and John Simpson, SEA are an independent, multi-disciplinary design agency based in London. Nice print and environmental projects.
Chromatics have been a taunting challenge since I started playing colors as a teen. My first painting was an horrible brownish mess and I vouch to decipher the rules behind.
In The Mod: Color Analytics — A Dr. Woohoo Production — is an ingenious system whereas different paintings are analyzed on the fly producing a color palette that you can download and use in either Photoshop or Illustrator, Flash, Processing and After Effects. You can find similar palettes too and in the menu section, you can read about the process behind the generative engine.
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ndlr: Brian Willmont likes striking colors and builds unusual installations.
MAGROUND is a picture agency for landscape-, urban- and background photography. The high resolution image material is optimized specifically for the use in advertising and CGI. The range of international locations includes multi-perspective photography as well as GPS-supported specifications of location, which make it possible to use the archive also for location scouting.
Did you know that Safari 3.1 is available for Windows? We can't say same from M$ product fallouts for the Mac platform — like dumping IE5.2.. It claims to be the fastest browser on any platform — Safari is the first browser to pass the Acid2 benchmark from the Web Standards Project — and if you like the Mac chrome design — we window serfs can also own a little piece of it. And of course, available for the glamorous iPhone.
And that Apple claims their “engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one.” See the cool interface and also own it as an extra browser to test your in-progress websites. Download the .pdf to see the complete functionalities.
Major drawbacks: the anti-aliasing of fonts, with no options to just say no thanks, the bookmarks open over the browser window instead as a drop down, and the fact that there is no lower chrome which I use all the time to check the URL address of a website before going there.
Rules for Responsible Reformatting: A Developer Manifesto edited by Luca Passani
“The introduction of reformatting systems can lead to the disruption of mobile web sites for all of the users in their respective networks. This situation is a concern for mobile web neutrality and has the potential to jeopardize the mobile web as a platform in the years to come.”
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A couple of years ago we encountered exactly the symptoms described of a proxy reformatting, whereas porn advertisement was inserted in the Netdiver content viewed by users of a mobile network in Japan. We sucessfully blocked the network — to detriment of users — so I urge you to read the manifesto and sign it.
