Netdiver Mag

/ Surfacing the creative culture
since '98

The Good Web NYC

The Good Web is a conference for Advertisers, Designers, Brands, and Non-Profits to share their ingredients of success for building awareness and participation around the causes they believe in.

Attendees will learn how industry leaders are using online marketing, social media, games, and mobile to build robust advocacy programs that benefit people, planet and profit.

Cancelled: September 25

Tenerife Design Festival

TDFAward proposes TenerifeDesignParadise, an international prize, which encourages designers to work on the elements that will make up a beach of the future … what better stimulus to let imagination fly?

Call for entries into 3 categories: A. What is? B. What do you carry? C. What do you leave?

Deadline: October 3

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The Tenerife Design Festival (TDF) is an event dedicated to design. During the week, many proposals, interventions, and other activities will be carried out by outstanding designers from different cities around the world, whose work will be based on the island’s natural resources. Thinking about Tenerife through design will turn the island into a point of reference for creativity.

Upcoming: October 19-25

Unified Carsonified

Ryan Carson and I go way back when the web was in infancy (as the creator and founder of BD4D – By Designers for Designers) and through the years, always supported his FOWA (Future of Web Applications) and FOWD (Future of Web Design) as well as his workshops events.

All activities are now unified under the Carsonified brand which so happens to have a spanking new kick-a.. website!

Here’s to you bro!

SenseMaker Dialogs

SenseMaker Dialogs is a new speaker series focused on exploring the rapidly changing hybrid activity of SenseMaking in the 21st century. No longer just focused on data and information visualization, the boundaries of what sensemaking is and what sensemakers do is in a state of rapid transformation like never before.

Upcoming in NYC: August 13

Manila Design Week 09

Manila Design Week 09 gathers all graphic designers – local and international, established and up and coming – to celebrate the emerging graphic design scene in the country today. Everything and anything Graphic Design in all media will be featured – from print and publication design to web and motion graphics, its application in photography, advertising and the fashion world.

The first of its kind in the Philippines, it aims to bring Philippine Graphic Design into the mainstream.

Upcoming: August 8-15

Post FITC Toronto

FITC Toronto ’09 was an amazing event, awesome to meet-up with long time pals and making new friends. Photos from the awards show, conference and parties have been posted to the FITC Flickr photostream.

Amazing postcard art by Joshua Davis.

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Caught in the moment during the Online the Brand is You session. Thanks to everyone who attended and as promised you can download the .pdf presentation. If you’re looking to redo your website (article with supplemental info), check the portfolios+ section.

Photo by Lillian Xia

F5 Festival NYC

F5 is a new festival exploring the intersection of art, design and entertainment. F5 unites the creative leaders who are breaking ground and shaping new standards in media and design, becoming the essential meeting point for future-minded individuals with the power to create lasting change.

Upcoming: April 16-17, New York City

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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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