Netdiver Mag

/ Surfacing the creative culture
since '98

Design + culture news

Alice + Plenty

We need to talk about Alice by Plenty – a motion sutiod located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The animation is part of Great Writers Series – a collection of short films made to promote a non profit organisation. It’s the 150 year anniversary of this classic book!

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Good Books are an online charity book store that sells book and donates all proceeds to Oxfam, an organisation that fights hunger and poverty since 1995.

Type + Life

What TYPE tought me about LIFE by Roberlan Borges

How to create beautiful letterforms and nice typographic compositions.. I had no idea it will also help me deal with a lot of other things as a person and as an artist.

Forms of Finance

Motion graphics excellence: Forms of Finance by Field.

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An array of virtual data sculptures, casting the complexity of algorithmic trading into newfound and suggestive shapes.

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The forms and their behaviour illustrate the processes that inform algorithmic decision-making: macro-economic indicators, exponential correlations, social and political factors.

Think playful?

4 shots campaign for Daniel Wellington watches. Handmade blue + pink stripy props by Marion Toy.

Learn Squared

UI and Data Design for Film. Learn Squared by Ash Thorp, Maciej Kuciara, Anthony Jones, and Andrew Hawryluk.

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Learn innovative techniques as one industry-leading artist teaches another from a completely different field.

The goal is not only to teach what they have learned, but to demonstrate and share how they learn.

LUV drawing / #3

Illustration is probably the largest creative area to express (mostly without words) a message. Application media are endless.

Recent finds:

Artwork for Future Classic’s complication ‘One in a million’. 2016. Collaboration project Anny Wang + Tim Söderström.

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Posters March’16 by Quim Marin

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Cousins Secret Weapon cover by Eh Sides!

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Corner Food Shop by 1041uuu

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My Space installation by Eike Koenig

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Wander Project by Carolina Niño

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Illustrated type poster by Chae Byung-rok

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Two moments spent with myself by Cynthia Alonso

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B O R E A L by Súa Agapé

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Miso ramen by Alvin Diec

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Refugees welcome by Elena Éper

Design references

Research + bookmark + read + repeat. Awesome design references.

Form magazine archive. 40 years of the magazine was scanned for research purposes (from 1957/2013). Login required.

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Why You Should Judge a Design Studio by Its Logo or How to read a visual identity like an “About” page by Madeleine Morley

Judge a book by its cover or not?

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Why beauty is the hardest won thing and the key to good design by Alan Moore – author of Do Design: Why beauty is key to everything.

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LogoNature is an educational non-commercial website. It’s aim is to collect information about successful graphic identities and search examples.

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Thinking Form (an independenet studio) has collated and documented + design practices + design stories + achive (listed by designer name).

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Postage Stamps by Type Designers (and Notable Graphic Designers) that interest the Offices of Kat Ran Press. Example by Herb Lubalin.

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via: Gabriel Benderski

Search for inspiration and/or talent in Netdiver Mag.

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/ Tools we use

 

Affinity suite

Affinity Suite

Our little studio owned Adobe Master Suites—invoking security issues our perpetual licenses were nulled. Undone? No!

I can open all .pdf, .psd or .ai files in the Affinity apps and the UI/UX is so gorgeous!

See for yourself: test the Affinity suite. Works on all platforms + iPad for—6 MONTHS FREE!

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Proton Mail

Proton Mail

Connected to the internet's origins, building the internet of the future. We’re building ways to help everyone fight for privacy online. I am a big fan of their services.

Try a month free!

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DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo?

What a strange name for an independent Internet privacy company. Contrary to G/ who records every instance of their services useage with DDG, no recording of your data, EVER!!!

We use it everyday.

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Obsidian app

Obsidian

This private (free) app I use daily for taking notes or writing. Back up to the cloud for multi-devices access. Runs locally.

Deep and complex.

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Carole's Instagram

I paint abstract with pretty colours ~ I play with mobile apps to create unique generative art.

Look 'Ma no AI.

feed your eyes

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Communication Arts

Communication Arts 24-25—calls for entries.

Interactive — October 25/24
Illustration — Jan 10/25
Photography — March 7/25
Design — May 2/25

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Smashing Mag

The Smashing Conferences explore real-life projects, workflows and hands-on insights.

SmashingConf - Antwerp
Upcoming: Oct 28-31/24

SmashingConf - Workshops
Online: check dates.

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AIGA

AIGA call for submissions

AIGA’s competitions celebrate exemplary design and demonstrate the power of effective design.

50 Books | 50 Covers: February 26 / 24

365: AIGA Year in Design February 26 / 24

 

Alt Summit

Alt Summit 2024.

It is a conference and a community of thousands of women influencers and entrepreneurs in creative fields.

Upcoming: March 17-20 / 24

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YWFT

YouWorkForThem — Good design needs good fonts! YWFT is privately owned and run by designers.

Rocking it since 2001.

/ Highlighted talents

 

They LUV design! #13

Mind-blowing visual feats and original designs I recently discovered.

Previously: #12 - #11 - #10 - #9 - #8 - #7 - #6 - #5 - #4 - #3 - #2 - #1

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They LUV drawing! #3

Illustration is probably the largest creative area to express (mostly without words) a message.

Previously: #1 - #2

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A type of Show #5 – I love typography - these projects caught my eye.

Previously: #4 - #3 - #2 - #1

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Moodboards #1 – Branding collaterals staged and served with conceptual brilliance.

 

/ About us?

 

A little (www) Story. In 1995, JF and I started a little project — Netdiver mag.

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Editorials by Carole Guevin

Editorials. Design topics or issues that have impacted me and/or our creative industry. .

Over 50 articles.

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Kuvva interview

Kuvva interview

A short interview on how to build a strong portfolio + self-promotion.

 

Netdiver Mag

#ISSN 1911-866X

Carole Guevin

Carole Guevin is a founder + editor + design curator ∞ culture creator + online pioneer ∞ featuring the creative culture since '98.

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No hype — just beautiful

Reach my inbox °

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Netdiver review galleries

/ Design inspiration

Netdiver long-standing mini visuals (200 x 115 px) galleries. Each lead to its review. Happy talent discovery!

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/ Illustration

Vast array of drawing styles
404 reviews

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/ Imaginative

Conceptual designs standing out
358 reviews

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/ Industrial

Products / packaging design / spaces +
333 reviews

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/ Motion

Brilliant storyboards / motion / vfx
286 reviews

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/ Photography

Some of the sharpest eyes shooting today
210 reviews

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/ Portfolios

New wave of design / interactive / mobile stars
552 reviews

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/ Powagirrrls

Women who rock the design scene with _more_ than pink design
391 reviews

/ Insider info

 

Visual Brain Gravity

Visual Brain Gravity is a producer and developer of concepts, products and brand experiences.

Driven by vision.

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Special Feature issues

Special Feature issues

Self-curation experiment coupled with minimalist interviews with people in the design industry I admire.

By invitation only

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Netdiver Mag is sweet

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Netdiver Best of the Year

Best Of The Year (BOTY)

Netdiver Best of the Year is a yearly compilation of projects / talents who made a lasting impression the previous year.

/ 2016 edition

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Netdiver Vintage

Netdiver Vintage edition

What was new in design worldwide—sort of a very unofficial record of web history as captured from {1998 - 2007}.

Over 2.3k+ projects.

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Netdiver static

Walk down memory lane: hand-coded news in design from 1998-2008.

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