Behind REWORK book illustration process by Mike Rohde.
“In September 2009, I began work with Jason Fried to create a series of 90 sketchnote illustrations and 10 chapter illustrations for the new 37signals business book, REWORK.”
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via: Jason Fried
Tag Me is a self-initiated project based on the idea of tag clouds as badges. The badges would text on them describing various attributes of the person wearing the button. Each colour would represent a different category and the size of text would determine the most common denominator.
Idea developed by Matt Niblock.
If you like to draw, as I do, one drawing a day keeps the trouble away or keeps you inspired or keeps your brain at the tip of your fingers. Self-assigned projects like ENCREetPAPIER, are proof of the difficulty and joy of doing so: some will be ok, other blah and other will be excellent.
On being exposed and delivering the creative hooplahs, Jesse Brown and Chad Kouri did it again, the Life Long Work Week. They transformed the Renegade Handmade storefront into their work space for one week, this time in Chicago.
Must have been exhilarating, crazy nerve-racking and fun.
Excerpt from The Courage to Create (1975) book borrowed from Sshhh. This is a working library, a project by Mandy Brown is a Creative Director at W. W. Norton & Company, an independent publisher.
“Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the “divine madness,” to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.
They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.”
Would you like to spend a full hour one on one with me for free? Would you like to pick my brain and find out what I’ve learned by being editor of ND, judging multiple design award shows and having reviewed over 150k portfolios in the past 15 yrs?
No problem! Let’s do it! Grab a tall fav drink and set some quality time aside to get loads of insights as to why your talent is primordial, how to use, exploit, present it and cash on it. Definitely aiming to empower and inspire rather than show. There are no ‘visual’ examples provided.
Make it an even better experience download and print the .pdf to follow and add your personal notes as we go along. Now, how do we go about doing this?
Head on to and pick the Online the Brand is You video (1 hour) of the session I did at FITC Toronto ’09, and we’re all set. Would luv to hear your comments or questions.
Poster designed by Joshua Davis
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Caught into the moment during my session.
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Photo by Lillian Xia
Marcus Eriksson aka Subdisc has come a long way since first being features on ND (when he was using an open CD box as interface). He now works as a creative director and is becoming a talented photographer.
Search for inspiration and/or talent in Netdiver Mag.
pinterest / medium / linkedin / X / rss
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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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.
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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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This private (free) app I use daily for taking notes or writing. Back up to the cloud for multi-devices access. Runs locally.
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I paint abstract with pretty colours ~ I play with mobile apps to create unique generative art.
Look 'Ma no AI.
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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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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’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
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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YouWorkForThem — Good design needs good fonts! YWFT is privately owned and run by designers.
Rocking it since 2001.
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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Illustration is probably the largest creative area to express (mostly without words) a message.
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A type of Show #5 – I love typography - these projects caught my eye.
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Moodboards #1 – Branding collaterals staged and served with conceptual brilliance.
A little (www) Story. In 1995, JF and I started a little project — Netdiver mag.
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Editorials. Design topics or issues that have impacted me and/or our creative industry. .
Over 50 articles.
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A short interview on how to build a strong portfolio + self-promotion.
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
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Netdiver long-standing mini visuals (200 x 115 px) galleries. Each lead to its review. Happy talent discovery!
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Vast array of drawing styles
404 reviews
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Conceptual designs standing out
358 reviews
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Products / packaging design / spaces +
333 reviews
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Brilliant storyboards / motion / vfx
286 reviews
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Some of the sharpest eyes shooting today
210 reviews
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New wave of design / interactive / mobile stars
552 reviews
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Women who rock the design scene with _more_ than pink design
391 reviews
Visual Brain Gravity is a producer and developer of concepts, products and brand experiences.
Driven by vision.
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Self-curation experiment coupled with minimalist interviews with people in the design industry I admire.
By invitation only
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Terrific product or service or event and wanna reach a fabulous international audience?
Advertise with us
Coming soon
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Netdiver Best of the Year is a yearly compilation of projects / talents who made a lasting impression the previous year.
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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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Walk down memory lane: hand-coded news in design from 1998-2008.
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Terrific product or service or event and wanna reach a fabulous international audience?
Advertise with us
Dates soon.
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