Netdiver Mag

SFi by Emilia Forstreuter

July 1 (14) 16:18 pm Wanna see more? — imaginative — powagirrrls {c/y}
#TAG: illustration — installation — motion graphics — typography

Creative Director + Founder
by Emilia Forstreuter

When a project doesn’t seem exciting at the first sight I find a way so it does excite me. The feeling of surprising others (and myself) really drives me.

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SFi is a self-curation experiment coupled with a minimalist interview by people in the design industry I admire.

View who has done it!

By invitation only.

DOTMOV Festival

July 1 (14) 13:58 pm Wanna see more? — upcoming events {c/y}
#TAG: design competition — digital media

DOTMOV Festival call for entries.

Online magazine SHIFT (JP) is aiming to discover talented creators as well as inviting guest creators, active on the front lines of the creative world, to participate as judges.

Works submitted from all over the world will be screened throughout world venues.

Deadline: August 20

Colour O’clock

July 1 (14) 07:22 am Wanna see more? — industrial {c/y}
#TAG: packaging — product design

Duncan Shotton – a young Brit living in Tokyo – shares the same love of circles + colors as I do. Colour O’clock just became a must in my studio. Oh!!! Almost like Netdiver navigation.

As the seconds, minutes and hours roll steadily by, the colour window glides subtly through the full spectrum of colours!

Reading the time by colour.

Me likes that a lot.

BUNGALOW = FDA

June 30 (14) 15:10 pm Wanna see more? — portfolios {c/y}
#TAG: animation — illustration — motion graphics — photo manipulation

BUNGALOW develops and produces ideas from Barcelona, ES. Using a number of disciplines.

Disciplines? Motion graphics, live action, illustration, photography, interactive, music and ‘other’.

Any good in all? Oh yes!

Why?

‘We are flexible, dynamic and agile.

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Suggested projects:

Neinver / stop-motion

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OFFF 2011 bumpers / motion graphics

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What’s in LIE?

June 30 (14) 06:51 am Wanna see more? — imaginative {c/y}
#TAG: graphic design — packaging — photo essay

Gotta love the play on words of LIE – an acronym of Little Ideas Everyday, a graphic design studio based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and founded by Driv Loo in 2011.

Pay attention to domain name: ‘wearenotlie’ and below about page picture that refer to a well-known ‘lier’ character.

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Excellent portfolio that is ‘not sticking with the norm or patterns’.

Unerdwear?!

June 29 (14) 14:30 pm Wanna see more? — industrial — powagirrrls {c/y}
#TAG: collective — fashion — product design

Unerdwear is ‘softwear for nerds’ brought to you buy a bunch of talented nerd approved powagirrrls – who started their experimental designer collective in Krakow, PO.

Can’t resist quoting: ‘Wat?! Srsly – designer boxers with geeky patterns. We call them ‘nerdies’.. And this: We like to think of them as ‘developer tools’ or ‘clean tech’. It’s very much WYSIWYG.’

(lol)

$$$ocial media

June 27 (14) 13:38 pm Wanna see more? — industry news {c/y}
#TAG: ethics — mobile design — privacy — social media

so.cial definitions:

Adjective: relating to or designed for activities in which people meet each other.

Noun: an informal social gathering, especially one organized by the members of a particular club or group.

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Well it seems that being a ‘social media’ user just reached another low. In past week, both Path and foursquare split their apps in 2 – without any consultation – or advance warnings.

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In the case of Path, particularly aggravating – is that all private messages were deleted and moved to ‘ephemeral’ aka lasting 24h – and msg to go through ‘other’ app Talk.

Never was offered to do preemptive back-up. The loss is terrible. Many important discussions – some critical were tossed out without any regards to ‘us’. I feel deeply betrayed. And I am not alone.

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Tested install and guess what? App asked (again?!?!?) to have access to my Contacts – with a meager reassurance that ‘they would never contact them before letting me know about it.’

Yeah sure.

(And it seems like the 800k$ fine didn’t ram much wisdom.)

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Even ‘Premium’ members got no ‘special’ treatment. Everyone and everything wiped out. So much for respecting their mission of providing a secure private network where to have ‘meaningful conversations’.

Dave Morin (ex-Facebook) and team have dropped the ball in a majestic way – alienating their loyal ‘supporters’ (for in the end – who cares for stickers really).

Little do they know – I won’t renew (and many others won’t either) – a sustantial drop of income is to expect.

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As for foursquare – it’s simple and drastic: I couldn’t check-in anymore. Period. Like it or not I HAD to download and start using Swarm.. (because they are preparing a ‘new’ 4sq). No option. Get going girl.

That logo color reminds me of Gowalla which was swallowed by Frackbook – and did the same to all their users. We were dumped out of the service overnight.

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I am hereby solemnly and immediately requesting a rewording of Social media to $ocial media.