Netdiver Mag

/ Surfacing the creative culture
since '98

A force to reckon

Shaz Madani has come a long way since she was first featured. Her work has diversified into mostly editorial design projects (books and magazines) vested in the arts often with a social cause flavor.

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She’s in a class all of her own.

Alice + Plenty

We need to talk about Alice by Plenty – a motion sutiod located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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The animation is part of Great Writers Series – a collection of short films made to promote a non profit organisation. It’s the 150 year anniversary of this classic book!

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Good Books are an online charity book store that sells book and donates all proceeds to Oxfam, an organisation that fights hunger and poverty since 1995.

Creative Block

Creative Block by Danielle Krysa. Get Unstuck. Discover new ideas. Advice and projects from 50 successful artists.

The editor of The Jealous Curator wanted to make something beautiful – a contemporary art book filled not only with inspiring images, but also inspiring words, advice, and tips.

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Illustration by: Martha Rich

Lucid yet dreamy

Selina Alko is a terrific illustrator! Her work is lucid yet dreamy, one can sense the social commentary passed – especially evident in her book covers.

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Her optimism permeates her work. She believes that change is always possible.

LUV drawing / #1

Illustration is probably the largest creative area to express (mostly without words) a message. Application media are endless.

Recent finds:

The New York Times Sunday Styles by Paul Windle

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Polygonal Poster by JR Schmidt

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Poster for La Guarimba International Film Festival 2015 by Aditya Pratama.

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(3rd) City LIFE Challenge / Grand Prize by Jean-Marc Emy

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3D illustration and character designs created with The Foundry, Modo by Teodoru Badiu.

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Untitled by Naftali Beder

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Modern Manners book cover by Julia Rothman

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Personal illustration by Florent Hauchard.

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EDEN Festival de folk psicodélico by Micaela Podržaj

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Editorial design for the Deloitte University Press by Jack Daly

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Robot Taekwon V by Ameba Fish

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Adobe Photoshop 25 Under 25 by Teddy Kang

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Upper-Crust Moms / New York Times by Ping Zhu

Brand Guide by *FP

Brand Guide: Singapore Edition is the first edition by Foreign Policy Design Group. Hats off to powagirrrl Yah-Leng Yu and co-creative head Arthur Chin for this achievement.

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468 pages / 100% designed, printed & hand-assembled in Singapore.

Fontalicious!

Little Black Font Book Volume 2 is a go to font companion book in pocket-sized. 44 pages of fontalicious layouts.

What type are you?

Search for inspiration and/or talent in Netdiver Mag.

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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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