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August 22 (14) 11:01 am
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upcoming events {c/y}
#TAG: business of design — cause
Vancouver Design Week is a not-for-profit social enterprise created by a passionate team of volunteers from across design disciplines.

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VDW is a collaborative platform, a call to action, and an invitation to us all to immerse in design and its transformative potential.
Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives.
Upcoming: September 15-28
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Very cool and edgy website interface! Love it!



August 22 (14) 10:37 am
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#TAG: art — digital effects — digital media
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August 21 (14) 13:32 pm
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motion {c/y}
#TAG: motion graphics — photo manipulation
Danny Yount is an american graphic designer and commercial director who has a diverse visual style and a unique range of depth and crafstmanship in motion arts and film.
Fantastic split scenes montage for the Semi-Permanent (2013) conference titles.





August 21 (14) 12:27 pm
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motion {c/y}
#TAG: animation — cgi
Maxim Meshkov aka Dxmiq creates 3d animations and cgi graphics with a sci-fi futuristic flare. An imaginative world where ‘white’ and ‘gray’ are the primal colors until unexpected explosion of neon + pastel palette appears.


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Perfected renderings are sometimes vertiginous moving in one plane to another as if viewer tumbles in an endless playful plastic-like surface world.
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Featured: SLICED


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Featured: EF-6: LHC / Energy Flow


August 20 (14) 11:15 am
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imaginative {c/y}
#TAG: cause — interactive design — interface layout
I have a deep appetite for sciences such as astrophysics + astronomy + geographic expeditions especially dedicated to discovering the deep seas.
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The Aquatilis project website is extraordinary on many levels. Please donate if you can.
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First the scope – 3 years around the seas on a high-tech sailboat.
Secondly the leader is no other than underwater photography genius – Alexander Semenov.




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Thirdly – branding – font – interactive design is the handicraft of extra talented Tobias van Schneider.

August 20 (14) 09:53 am
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art — imaginative {c/y}
#TAG: art — generative art — technology
Adam Ferriss experiments with all sorts of tools in making his algorithmic art, from Processing and other creative coding frameworks to real-time shaders and post-processing video effects.

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Sometimes he distorts photographs he finds, running them through a gauntlet of digital mutations until they’re something entirely new.

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Be ready to be blown away. Careful extreme animated visual permutations. Want to give it a try? Download his open-source files.
Don’t miss his about page for more links to artworks.


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via: Wired
August 19 (14) 11:15 am
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photography — powagirrrls {c/y}
#TAG: food — interior design
Kat Teutsch photographic style is like cup to cake and leave to twig. Not overstuffed! Not overlit! Not over staged! Not overdone.

Natural. No less than quietly brilliant. Genuine. Feels ‘real’ and warm.
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She is a food, still life and interiors photographer living in New York City. She also shoots a lot of travel/personal projects around the world.




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via: Big Leo Productions
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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.

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

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