Netdiver Mag

The Heads of State?

August 13 (14) 15:46 pm Wanna see more? — imaginative {c/y}
#TAG: art — art direction — branding — illustration

The Heads of State. We Make Stuff. For You. For Your Brand. For Ourselves. And brand themselves – well, they do.

Reassuring to their clients? Bet it is.

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LOVE the ‘Graphic Diplomacy established in 2002’ on their business card.

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World class brands and lo-fi bands, entrepreneurs and raconteurs, cultural institutions and craftsmen alike work with us because of our inventive thinking, our classic design sense, our abundance of facial hair, and our honest approach to the business of image making.

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Read: The Great Discontent interview.

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In their online store (currently in maintenance) they offers print which proceeds go to certain organizations.

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THOS have a superb website. As a user – just as I prefer them. Large opening visual with knick-knacks staging infused with metaphors referring to their agency description.

3 hands – (3 heads) are better than one and their gorgeous logo (love it).

Visual Conversation

August 13 (14) 12:15 pm Wanna see more? — art — industrial {c/y}
#TAG: art — graphic design — poster

Visual Conversation – geometry, typography & concepts is an online design brand of high quality original limited edition prints.

Pretty colors to adorn your studio or commercial space. Like?

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Item #1: Bob Dylan At Wilson High School Concert Poster 1964

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Item #2: Johnny Cash At Riverside Concert Poster 1957

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Item #3: Bob Marley And The Wailers at Apollo Theatre Concert Poster 1979

For Office Use Only

August 12 (14) 15:48 pm Wanna see more? — portfolios — powagirrrls {c/y}
#TAG: art — digital media — interactive design

For Office Use Only is a graphic and interactive design studio hailing from NYC. First discovered their work back in 2004 – we are 10 years later – they are steady holding pace.

Vast difference? More experience and expertise warranted garnering high-end cultural mostly entities and projects.

They are good. Very very good.

20 Years ago

August 11 (14) 16:42 pm Wanna see more? — industry news {c/y}
#TAG: cause — insider — technology

I remember – when we ‘upgraded’ to Netscape (and proudly own a ‘hard’ copy).. don’t recall which browser we were using prior in ’95. I recall vividly Bill infamous: "I don’t believe in the Internet" and the big ensuing vicious attack by M$.

Epic and devastating.

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Marc Andreessen may have known what he was getting into when he cowrote Mosaic at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications, but it wasn’t until he graduated from college and met with some Silicon Valley types that the Web revolution really began.

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In 1994 Andreessen launched Netscape Communications, offering his new Navigator Web browser (based on Mosaic) to the world. Finally, users outside of the academic world would get a taste of HTML, and nothing has been the same since.

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Netscape browser archive.

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Netscape chose Netdiver as one of their *Best of What’s New* (Dive in) link from August 2000 to Jan 2001.

July 14/00 *Rage of the day * site by Netscape editors (Dive in).

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Don’t know how they found our fledging little online magazine. Maybe we could submit – can’t recall. But in the end – we actually owe Netscape putting Netdiver Mag on the map sorta speaking – sending huge traffic and giving us massive visibility.

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How Microsoft Attacked the Beast who created Netscape, Mozilla Firefox & Skype.

“It was like a visit from Don Corleone, I expected to see a bloodied computer on my bed next day” – Marc Andreessen to Microsoft.

View the full video!

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via: Jan Jursa + Jason Kokkte + PCWorld

C.R.E.S.

August 11 (14) 14:33 pm Wanna see more? — industry news {c/y}
#TAG: business of design — cause — creativity — ethics — insider

A mission. Cultivate. Resist. Elevate. Sustain.

I cultivate featuring good people – good projects and good designs ONLY.

I resist following trends and false perceptions of hype or edge. I don’t compromise EVER!

I elevate the best in our humanity – we are all imperfect ANYWAYS.

I sustain a passion to empower the creative industry, gain it respect and visibility TODAY.

£50 discount

August 11 (14) 13:07 pm Wanna see more? — upcoming events {c/y}
#TAG: conference — creativity — technology

Woot!!! Get £50 discount (that’s about 15% discount). Promo code: NETDIVER50 – expires August 22nd – to attend upcoming Reasons to be creative conference.

Upcoming: September 1-3

Where: Brighton, UK

Barcodes encore

August 8 (14) 14:27 pm Wanna see more? — photography {c/y}
#TAG: architecture — photo essay

I always had a weak spot for bar codes: products – desktops – wrapping – and still do.

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Upon discovered attraction – started designing with these back in early 2000 – we even had a website with these. As you can see – the love lingers in my vintage pixel avatar.

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He has an exceptional eye for composition – like none other. Geometric compositions. Can I say that? The collision of graphic grid meets architecture head-on is generating extraordinary. The results are splendid. Saturated colors.

Who wouldn’t want those ‘turquoise’ on a wall to look at in the dead of Winter as shown in the Spektrum Eins project?

Matthias Heiderich is a self taught photographer and an outstanding one as that – check his folio out. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.