Netdiver Mag

/ Surfacing the creative culture
since '98

Design + culture news

IR = Loves you

Her portfolio is extensive and expansive. The breadth of her creativity is constantly paired to remarkable conceptual ideas with a thang of ubiquity and sweetness – in any and all of the branding suites – packaging what-not she enterprises.

There you go – Snap! What a tagline: A sweety branding studio. That loves you.

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No wonder there is so much ‘charmingness’ in her work. Passion. Color. Experience x repeat ad infinitum = Isabela Rodrigues / Porto Alegre, Brazil

Anastasia K.

That flowery interface blew me away. Today UI expectation what not – is keen to favor flat design (which I love since ND has been flat – forever in web years) which shows just about ‘nothing’ as visual expression except for completed projects. All that ok.. but..

Her little place on the web is like a beautiful garden in the shade – waiting to bloom. Altho a work in progress – her portfolio shows one project but a superb one. I can’t wait to see how her career evolves and new projects she gets involved in.
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Her name is Anastasia Kolesnikova. She is a twenty two years old designer based in Krasnodar, Russia.

52 Weeks of UX

Hapchanced unto this amazing resource: 52 Weeks of UX authored by Joshua Porter & Joshua Brewer. Not really fresh off the web sorta speaking – principles are principles – they don’t succumb to fads or trends.

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Description: A discourse on the process of designing for real people.

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via: Carolyn Wood

Sélavy font

Sélavy which very much sound like a play on words from French: C’est la vie! (It’s life). It reminds me of dot-matrix printers in the early days of computing.

Designed by Nina Stössinger.

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Sélavy is distributed under the SIL Open Font License. The idea is that you are free to use, share, distribute, modify and adapt the font software.

What you cannot do is sell it, or any modifications thereof, by itself.

The Great Discontent #1

The Great Discontent (TGD) is a magazine featuring interviews on beginnings, creativity, and risk. Cofounded by a brilliant duo – Ryan & Tina Essmake – they publish a new interview every Tuesday morning.

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On February 4, they launched a campaign to fund The Great Discontent Magazine #1 – their first printed version.

It was an epic campaign that was fully funded at almost minus 0.

Now, it is possible to buy or gift a copy.

Limited quantities of all items.

Moodboards #1

Moodboards #1. Feast your eyes.

Branding collaterals staged and served in a visual assemblage. Ranging from merch to stationery, and everything in-between.

Follows an inspiring list of recent finds.

Featured: Think Independently from la Maison d’AnnaG blog and shot by Anna Gustafsson / France

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Featured: Rebranding Online Store Deerz included the creation of a large number of labels, tags, buttons, etc. by Eskimo Design / Sankt Petersburg, Russian Federation

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Featured: Logotype and corporate identity for Blickfang Media by Pixelinme / Berlin, Germany

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Featured: Market Decor curates a special compendium of objects for resale – identity by Isabela Rodrigues / Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Featured: Personal Identity design by Andreja Popovic / Beograd, Serbia

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Featured: Yellow Jam Marketing identity for a marketing professional and enthusiast, Joe Morecroft designed by Adam Charlton / Brighton + Hong Kong

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Featured: Minamalist approach with funky elements for the Apex Studio branding / Porto, Portugal

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Featured: Cornelia and Co is a restaurant, a bakery, a winery, a coffe shop, etc. branding + packaging by Oriol Gil / Barcelona, Spain

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Featured: Bergen International Festival presents art in all its guises for 15 days – branding by Anti.as / Oslo, Norway

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Featured: The Happiness Kit. Soft!™ sells softserve icecream designed by Bravo Company / Singapore

Expect the unexpected

LOVE the typographic treatments done by Alexander Egger aka Satellites mistaken for stars. He has a knack for out-there experimental lay-outs and grids that are near non-legible – and on the other hands he creates minimalist signage that says it all.

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The multiple editorial projects he was involved with – attest to his ability to reinvent books – or perhaps better said – how we read.

Expect the unexpected.

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 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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