Netdiver Mag

/ Surfacing the creative culture
since '98

89th ADC Awards

Art Directors Club 89th Annual Awards Call for Entries is now opened. Announcements of the winners will appear in national and international advertising and design publications, both in print and online versions. Winners will be announced at the Gala ceremony at ADC Gallery in New York in the spring of 2010. Winning work will go on a worldwide exhibition tour and be published in the Art Directors Annual 89, the longest-running archive of leading creative work in global advertising and design.

Deadline Design: January 22
Deadline Interactive: January 29
Deadline Advertising: February 5
Deadline Hybrid: February 26
Deadline Students: January 29

Wild Things’ Forts!

Wild Things’ Forts! – BOOOOOOOM! ran this exciting and totally fun call for entries. Winners are now annouced and get a Wild Things Edition XBOX plus a magnificent bus shelter-sized poster not available in stores!

Suggest you take a moment to view the entries – it is good for the soul to revisit one’s fav childhood role-playing game and to see the sheer amount of creativity and fun that was put into building these.

#1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8Winners

UT Cannes Lions

UT CANNES LIONS GRAND PRIX 2010 call for submissions. The theme is inspiration. Cannes Liones International Advertising Festival that developed as a venue to judge advertising ideas from around the world will select as the UT Cannes Lions Grand Prix 2010 T-shirt design one of the various values that can be said to be the Cannes brand. No age, gender, nationality, or other requirements apply. Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply.

Prize: US$10,000 (gold)
The top 20 works will be made into UNIQLO products. Of those, gold, silver, and bronze prizes will be awarded.

Extended deadline: October 18

Global Championship

Cut&Paste is proud to present the culmination of Digital Design Tournament 2009 —the first-ever Global Championship. With the broad geographical reach of an Olympic event and the nervy psychological gamesmanship of the X Games, the championship takes the tournament’s international approach to design as spectator sport and amps it up like never before.

Upcoming: October 16 in NYC

UT Cannes Lions

UT CANNES LIONS GRAND PRIX 2010 call for submissions. The theme is inspiration. Cannes Liones International Advertising Festival that developed as a venue to judge advertising ideas from around the world will select as the UT Cannes Lions Grand Prix 2010 T-shirt design one of the various values that can be said to be the Cannes brand. No age, gender, nationality, or other requirements apply. Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply.

Prize: US$10,000 (gold)
The top 20 works will be made into UNIQLO products. Of those, gold, silver, and bronze prizes will be awarded.

Deadline: September 30

SHIFT.jp competitions

Shift calls for entries for DOTMOV 2009 and SHIFT 2010 Calendar Competition.

Deadline: September 10

Swatch Yi

The Swatch Young Illustrators Award is a unique competition awarding creativity and innovation in personal contemporary illustration and graphics. Nominees will be invited to Berlin and get the opportunity to exhibit their work at Illustrative 2009 in Berlin. The winners await prizes worth 6.000 Euros as well as publications and illustration agency contracts and will also be featured in future international shows.

Deadline: September 30

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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 Mag is sweet

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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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Netdiver Mag is sweet

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Dates soon.

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