Netdiver Mag

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

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

An experimental festival celebrating independently produced art and technology.

Upcoming: September 11–14

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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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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

TRÜF Creative is a Netdiver alumni. First featured for their studio mobile version.. and now fresh wave of new projects: identity, print, interactive, mobile – they are at the vanguard of delivering well designed material that fully support (enhance?) a client’s brand.

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What I particularly appreciate is how well they document each projects.

Showing a few highlights.

so.cial definitions:

Adjective: relating to or designed for activities in which people meet each other.

Noun: an informal social gathering, especially one organized by the members of a particular club or group.

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Well it seems that being a ‘social media’ user just reached another low. In past week, both Path and foursquare split their apps in 2 – without any consultation – or advance warnings.

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In the case of Path, particularly aggravating – is that all private messages were deleted and moved to ‘ephemeral’ aka lasting 24h – and msg to go through ‘other’ app Talk.

Never was offered to do preemptive back-up. The loss is terrible. Many important discussions – some critical were tossed out without any regards to ‘us’. I feel deeply betrayed. And I am not alone.

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Tested install and guess what? App asked (again?!?!?) to have access to my Contacts – with a meager reassurance that ‘they would never contact them before letting me know about it.’

Yeah sure.

(And it seems like the 800k$ fine didn’t ram much wisdom.)

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Even ‘Premium’ members got no ‘special’ treatment. Everyone and everything wiped out. So much for respecting their mission of providing a secure private network where to have ‘meaningful conversations’.

Dave Morin (ex-Facebook) and team have dropped the ball in a majestic way – alienating their loyal ‘supporters’ (for in the end – who cares for stickers really).

Little do they know – I won’t renew (and many others won’t either) – a sustantial drop of income is to expect.

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As for foursquare – it’s simple and drastic: I couldn’t check-in anymore. Period. Like it or not I HAD to download and start using Swarm.. (because they are preparing a ‘new’ 4sq). No option. Get going girl.

That logo color reminds me of Gowalla which was swallowed by Frackbook – and did the same to all their users. We were dumped out of the service overnight.

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I am hereby solemnly and immediately requesting a rewording of Social media to $ocial media.

Hunt&Co. is an internationally recognised and awarded design consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia.

Excerpt: “Good design is about making connections. We believe good design doesn’t start with formats or platforms — but that it finishes with them. That it requires curiosity and bravery. We believe in the road less travelled. We believe in the hunt.”

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Wow to both mission statement + signature minimalism design projects!! Wanna see a great portfolio?

Head-on there – huh – hunt-on there.

Smiling Wolf arrived in 2000 as a group of established designers responding to the vision of director Simon Rhodes of listening to clients as well as respond to their needs in the brand and digital marketplace.

Oh, and their projects are all delivered with the proverbial UK calm and assurance.

TTMM presents watchface apps collection, designed for smartwatches with black and white 144×168 pixel screens such as Pebble. The apps (iT / Gp) are original, simple and aesthetic in design.

These watches are the most economical and ecologically-friendly ever to have existed. You will find here 32 models of simple, elegant and aesthetic watchface.

In addition some of these decrypt as visual puzzles. Brilliant!

Mike Tucker now operating from London, UK, has garnered quite a parcours by having working with stellar agencies.. and fascinating projects.

He is an interactive director currently at Universal Everything.. which will be reviewed again.. soon.

Have a lookee.

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PopClock turns your iPad or iPhone into an hourglass. Beginning at midnight with an empty screen, the screen gradually fills up over the course of the day.

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