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The Smashing Conferences explore real-life projects, workflows and hands-on insights that we all can learn from and use right away.

SmashingConf – Los Angeles – 450 seats available.

Upcoming: April 27-30

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SmashingConf – New York – 400 seats available.

Upcoming: June 15-18

AIGA/NY event

AIGA/NY invitation to a conference by Lance Wyman: Coming and Going

While he is best known for his designs for the 1968 Mexico olympics, Lance Wyman has become an unquestioned master of transforming space through branding and wayfinding over his 50+ year career as a designer and teacher.

Lance will be talking about his experience designing urban icon systems.

Q & A to follow.

Where: Parsons The New School for Design 66 Fifth Ave, New York, New York 10011

Upcoming: October 29 / 18h30

TDR™ @ Typopassage™

TDR™ Preview – We Design The World, People Copy Us

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British graphic designer Ian Anderson, founder of The Designers Republic™ will give a conference and workshop.

The autumn event marks the end of the TDR™@Typopassage™ year with an A to Z of TDR™ conference, a Pointless workshop and a DJ Set – all highly anticipated by the local design community.

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Typopassage™ is a micro-museum with and about lettering. Set in an unconventional location – under a bridge in the center of the city, it has become, during the past 4 years (#2#3#5), a landmark for typography and graphic design exhibitions and events and managed by Ovidiu Hrin after a seminal meet-up with Erwin Bauer.

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Previous guests of the TypopassageTM annual workshops were Ciprian Isaac from Graphic Font (Bucharest), with Graphics without Computers, and Ian Wilker, Hijalti Karlsson and Nicole Jacek from Karlssonwilker Inc. (New York) – with Another Day – Another Adventure.

You are invited!

Upcoming: September 26

Agenda:

11:00 Participants registration
12:00 CONFERENCE: A TO Z OF TDR™
14:00 Brunch
15:00 WORKSHOP: POINTLESS
21:00 DJ SET: Ian Anderson vs. Anonim™

Location: Typopassage™ – D’arc Mal Boat / Tinereții Bridge, Timișoara

£50 discount

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

Industry events #01

Mark your calendar – upcoming industry events you may want to attend:

Reasons to be Creative

RTBC 14

Reasons to be Creative is a conference for web designers, coders, & anyone with a creative mind. It is about discovering the best in art, design, code, & inspiration.

Upcoming: September 1-3

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XOXO Festival

XOXO

An experimental festival celebrating independently produced art and technology.

Upcoming: September 11–14

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The Brand New Conference

The Brand New

The Brand New Conference is a two-day event organized by UnderConsideration, focusing on the practice of corporate and brand identity.

Upcoming: September 25-26

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Future of Web Design

FOWD / New York

Conference for designers and front-end devs. Learn all about UX, responsive design, CSS, web performance and workflow, and more.

Get 10% off 2 day pass – promo code: NETDIVER

Upcoming: November 3–5

AIGA 2015

AIGA 2015

Provocative speakers, local culture, nightly networking receptions, competitions, exhibitions, professional development sessions and face-to-face roundtables with design heroes.

Upcoming: October 8-10 / 2015

IndieWebCamp

IndieWebCamp 2014

Two days of brainstorming & creating. Be a part of advancing & growing the indie web.

Upcoming: June 28-29

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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
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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

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Carole Guevin

Carole Guevin is a founder + editor + design curator ∞ culture creator + online pioneer ∞ featuring the creative culture since '98.

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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

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358 reviews

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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

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552 reviews

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/ Powagirrrls

Women who rock the design scene with _more_ than pink design
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/ 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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