Netdiver Mag

/ Surfacing the creative culture
since '98

LUV design! #3

They LUV design! It shows! We show it!

Ginormously talented, all producing massively gorgeous digital art, graphic design, posters, editorial design.

Michal Sycz is a freelance digital artist based in Cracow / Poland. His areas of specialization include: illustration, web design, branding and interactive media.

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Suprb is Andreas Pihlström, born and raised in Stockholm / Sweden.
Specialised in typography, code, movable and static shapes since 1978.

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Letman by his owns words is “cuckoo about letters, he loves them, so far is certain. His letters are curious. His handmade style fits the boundries of typography like a universe on itself by lashing out to illustration, grafitti and graphic design”

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TwoPoints rocks! Founded in 2007 with the aim to do exceptional design work. Work that is tailored to clients needs, work that excites clients customers, work that hasn’t been done before, work that does more than work.

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Stubborn Sideburn is a character graphic project created by Junichi Tsuneoka designs unique and strong character based illustrations that can apply to many different graphic design project.

SAFARI poster for IP TOYAMA.

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Felipe Rocha or flpr is 19 years old! From Brazil and an extra talented design student with no doubt, a great career ahead of him.

Hola Bosque!

BOSQUE is a new multidisciplinary creation studio with varied techniques and supports. Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina as you will see, they enjoy working for art projects. They have done live painting on store windows and art exhibits and even an incredible booth design installation for Monoblock.

Drooker and NYC

Wanna see someone who masters the art of editorial design? Eric Drooker is a native New Yorker, born and raised on Manhattan Island. His graphics are seen on countless posters, books and CDs, and his paintings often appear on covers of The New Yorker magazine.

Showing: The New Yorker / circa 1994 (!)

Emmanuel Polanco

Brilliant illustrator and designer, Emmanuel Polanco brings the art of collage to a next level. His images are as dark, retro and fearless as they are fresh, clever and ironic.

Pick any series to find absolute beauty!

Mario Hugo

Mario Hugo‘s site may be sparse on visual details, but dig one layer lower and you find that the real gems lie just below the surface. The talented illustrator/designer has produced work for a range of clients including Microsoft, Nike and Dolce and Gabbana.

His work deftly incorporates hand-drawn elements, type and photography into wholly unique and layered compositions.

His use of negative/positive space to convey shape and type is inspirational.

Su Blackwell

A Royal College of Art graduate, her medium is paper and her tool is a scalpel, the result? Delicate and melancholic art. Su Blackwell releases the characters of her beloved fairy tales and makes one of a kind book sculptures.

“I find the materialisation of a flat piece of paper an almost magical process, and am exploring the relationship between two and three dimensionality by painstakingly cutting out the pages of the book and re-sculpting them, thereby allowing the book to be read in a another way.”

Jolby & Friends

Hailing from the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest come the very talented design/illustration team known as Jolby & Friends. Colby Nichols and Josh Kenyon are art directors by day who decided to come together and pool their collective talents on an array of freelance projects.

While still in the beginning stages of their partnership, they have already embarked on a range of identity and illustration projects AND have just finished their first solo exhibition entitled, Home is Where You Make it.

This talented duo is worth keeping your eyes on.

Search for inspiration and/or talent in Netdiver Mag.

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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

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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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