Netdiver Mag

Pantone postcards

September 12 (14) 11:09 am Wanna see more? — industrial {c/y}
#TAG: print

Pantone chips postcards in a 100 pack. No shades repetition. Imagine on your studio wall? Cool.

Dimensions: 14.4 x 19.8cm

Available at Top3.

aka Flight 404

September 11 (14) 17:44 pm Wanna see more? — motion {c/y}
#TAG: cgi — generative art — installation — motion graphics

Featured on ND (circa 06) was Weird Fishes on Radiohead track. Have a listen.

Still a great experiment!

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Processing (founded by Ben Fry and Casey Reas) is a fascinating software and one of the first to explore the possibilities was Robert Hodgin (one of the co-founder of the Barbarian Group) – aka Flight 404.

Want to view more? 281 uploads + 16 appearances in his Vimeo profile.

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His dynamic visuals have backed musicians performing on tour like Peter Gabriel and Aphex Twin, and he designed the popular Magnetosphere music visualizer in Apple’s iTunes.

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While at Bloom Studio – he worked on the worked on the Planetary iPad app which was the first code acquisition by the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

Closeup of the Flashbulb planet ‘Red Extensions of Me’ which features a bright red album cover. The planet and its moons derive their surface patterns and colors from the album art.

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He is the foremost implementer of Cinder, a C++ graphics framework he co-created along with Andrew Bell and Hai Nguyen. He is engaged in constant investigations of emergent complexity in generative design.

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If you are interested in investigating further – I recommend looking up: Form+Code to which Robert has contributed to.

Check the ‘links‘ section to discover others working the field.

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And there is a book available.

Diamonyte duo

September 10 (14) 17:18 pm Wanna see more? — illustration — powagirrrls {c/y}
#TAG: art — installation — interior design

Gilles & Cecilie Studio design, illustrate, curate, paint walls, write copy, share their knowledge through lectures, talks and workshops, make tailored work, like to push boundaries. Whew!

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Their works feel like a never-ending Summer of youthful boundary-less exhuberance. Loads and loads of colors – or none. Diamond shapes are a must obviously but not limited to. Surfaces – in-store – outdoors – wall or window treatments abound as packaging to stamps.

Life choreographed and celebrated.

FUI = Decca Digital

September 10 (14) 15:36 pm Wanna see more? — motion {c/y}
#TAG: cgi — digital media — motion graphics

Decca Digital is Corey Bramall – a screen graphics designer based in Vancouver, Canada – who believes the best results come from telling the story with special attention to the details.

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Alright no doubt! On opening of website – you might be perceiving right off his – huh – special attention to details.. to quote his own words.

The complexity of the screens – that to me represent just about the heaviest layered .psd nightmare on warp. But that’s me. And as for him – he’s a genial, humble and happy FUI!!

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Needless to say none of these screen caps pay true homage to his skills. Let’s say that he’s worked on some of my fav sci-fi films – such as Iron Man 3 – Eagle Eye – The Amazing Spider-Man and Thor.

Check the trailers.

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ndlr: FUI (Fantasy User Interface)

3d Wizard

September 9 (14) 17:38 pm Wanna see more? — illustration {c/y}
#TAG: product design

That is a gorgeous Apple keyboard mock-up designed by Gorm Haraldsson from Sweden. His 3d abilities are through the roof.

And guess what? You can download .psd for free!

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And how about two sizes of soda can? No problem – free .psd to download as well.

Creativity is messy

September 9 (14) 14:46 pm Wanna see more? — industry news — powagirrrls {c/y}
#TAG: business of design — creativity

Fabulous letter – of admission – creativity is messy. I know – just back from attempting to record WAABM debut album – and the ‘title’ track drove us not only up the walls – but the colliding 2 styles – proved – irreconcilable. So we did a ‘rewrite’ of the song – found a new direction and took 5 days off.

We were spent.

As a good friend said:

These things take time.

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So encouraging you to NOT COMPROMISE. Better be as you want – then try to be a crowd-pleaser or worst – succumb to perceived (usually false) perception of anticipation.

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Open Letter to our Future Users by Bespoke Atelier

After a rocky beta (users had to provide UDID (device id) to receive app and just about ready to launch Bespoke – a server glitch derailed the app in iStore and delayed it for 5 more weeks – until ‘bug’ was finally fixed.

Now the waiting game is on for Apple approval.

Starting a project / app / venture?

Must read.

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It’s time to call it: Pulling the plug on Buyosphere by Tara Hunt

Tara is a serial project starter – she’s hard working, witty and driven like no other I know (except perhaps for Michele – they abide same realm) – and yet – after a humble TedX plea, venture seeking, (almost) burning out working up / down startup avenue..

The worst just happened.

The rebound will be exceptional.

Must watch video for startup DO / Don’t.

Change of hat

August 22 (14) 19:24 pm Wanna see more? — art {c/y}
#TAG: art — digital media — music

Last day as editor for 15 days. Change of hat: songwriter – composer – arranger -> recording debut album ‘Changing‘.

See ya’ again on Sept 9.