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Design anywhere digital culture NEWS // June 2005
Miki
Amano 
has
redesigned her site and since being first added to the directories,
she has grown in her craft and matured in her design skills.
Undecided
about a color palette? Can't find the right combination? Try COLOURlovers!
Always
on the move portfolios!
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Tokyoplastic released
a new 3D animation for MTV Music. You gotta see this, the sequence
is awesome!
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FUPETE one of my favorite artist and illustrator! What talent!
He
has written over 423 short-short stories on the web. They are not boring,
in fact, his prose is pretty good. Just for the sake of curiosity - read
some of Kevin Spenst who
claims to be trying to find a way to eek out a living in the arts in
my own uniquely creative way just like hundreds of thousands of others.
Freelancing
and feeling the pinch? After reading this article, some servers will
about explode from download requests. Wow, there were some software that
I needed (like Gaim a multi-account messaging soft) Web
Designer’s FREElance Toolbox for Windows by Brian Reindel.
Perhaps a Mac Toolbox is on the way?
Mix
digging up historical music and original instrumentation that dates back,
way back; then put together a cutting-edge flash designed site and you
get Zephyr. Who said old
can't be cool! The voice of the singer is superb.
Be
inspired! Interviews can
reveal so much and this is a great success story being told!
“You have to do a little work to find out what we do, admits Coudal.
"That was intentional from the beginning in 1999. We do great work
and we love to show off our portfolio, but our experience is that assignments
are given based on the dynamic between the people involved first, and
the actual work you've done for other people second. So we've built our
site as a way for a potential client to see what we're all about as people.
Someone here once said: if you're chatting up a girl in a bar, the fi
rst thing you don't talk about is the other girls you've dated. And that's
how we feel about the portfolio.”
Must
listening to! Two excerpts from recent SXSW conference by We
the Media by Dan Gilmor about the power of publishing on the net
and Keynote Conversation: Alex
Steffen and Bruce Sterling.
Find
a wealth of information from NeMe collective
art site from Cyprus focusing on calls, news and articles. Contributors
include Lev Manovich, Steve Dietz, Richard Barbrook and Michael Haerdter.
Somebody has got to help them redesign this site - it would gain from
a better usable and nicer interface design.
Original
navigational system to explore and display mostly photography - check Pensamente!
Wayne
Kerr has got a nice sweet and simple site to promote his music
which is pretty good. Luv the palette and small animations.
Phenomenal! Jay
Montgomery is an illustrator like no one else I have seen. The
realism is so striking - you might even think it to be a retouched
photograph.
Another
hub that specializes in vector design: Made
in Strator (portail de la création vectorielle) in pink flava!
Keith
Parry photography site is covering a large spectrum of subjects
but he is really good at capturing the mood in interior settings and
close-ups objects! See for yourself.
Mmm...
He paints this white suited astronaut in many unreal situations and snaps
this tyrannosaur in hilarious and quirky sets up. Presenting the much
talented and prolific Scott Listfield aka Astronautdinosaur!!!
Stunning
animated line art for Felix Stumpf portfolio
site. Minimalist at best. Original work and much talent. Luv it!
How
about a thumb full page to show your work? A prolific illustrator The
Boy Fitz Hammond has just done so!
“Les
artifices c'est pas notre tasse de thé!” is a statement
from Bestseller, an advertising
agency with attitude and convictions! From Belgium with Luv.
It's
kind of a news site for products/fashion/art/music/travel, etc... with
big-big headlines, small thumbs and copy edge: The
Brilliance.
Someone(s)
has spent zillions of hours collecting the most unusual collection of
posters from way back then to somewhat modern (1976!!!) We're talking
thousands here to view!? Welcome to the Circus
Museum.
Also,
the Box Doodle project has uploaded
40 new artworks. Want in? Contribute your art on recycled boxes and paper
scraps.
Did
you know that there were widgets designed for iPods? Contourcase for
cool ergonomic accessories...
For
all those who are speakers... mmm... they need to make sure to choose
the right locations. What do you make of that?
Conferences:
What motivates you to go?
59% The location
39% The speakers
5% The cost
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ndle1:
via Icograda
KSLG
is a little jewel! Flash using a fast loading 3D module - gotta LUV these.
Don't miss the animations he did - absolutely awesome! From Argentina
with LUV.
Nope
it's not promotional material for a new fashion line nor a trendy bar.
See the plasma screen in the left screenshot? Wanna see incredible storyboarding,
workmanship and compelling visuals?
Hop there to see the Heart
of Volvo fabulous promo areas!
You
have gotta see this! Kim_Holm Temp is
the portfolio site of an upcoming brillant designer! All items are showing
great potential and his photography is awesome! Wow! He's presently looking
for an internship (student at Hyper
Island - do you know how that school operates?).
Catching
up with the wave. cool and refreshing new portfolios sights.
Be inspired!
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Purepartner shine high with their approach to brand/marketing especially
via industrial and architectural designs; check the recent XBox
area case study at E3.
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Fly Design makes scrolling good and is definitely much talented!
Overall excellent portfolio! LUV the work!
Redesigned!
Relaunched! Refreshed! Lounge72 ready?
There
is a newly uploaded temporary/intermediate version of Well Vetted sporting
June issue #34.
For
fans of industrial and product design one of my favorite design mag Designboom launches
its blog! To bookmark!!!
Ohlala!
This is one heck of a breaking news!!! Good grief... there sure will
be turmoil out there. End of IBM??? Apple getting closer to Intel is
it comparable to Microsoft absorbing AOL??? Expect a thundering new wave
of code reingineering - more jobs? What do you make of it?
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It's Official! Apple Weds Intel...
or AMD? All 'rumors' that were going on over the weekend became
truth.
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The new alliance between Apple Computer and Intel will reverberate through
Silicon Valley, and it will likely make waves in Hollywood, too. Intel-Apple
coupling could woo Hollywood by Michael Kanellos
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Hollywood
Orders: Apple Wed Intel by Leander Kahney
This
is really how I envision the promotion and penetration of popular (digital)
art. Forget fancy installations go the simple route and post it in a
strategic place. The texture collage is an unusual navigation - but hey
when you are an artiste some leeway allowed. Hats off Luke
Best!
On
May 30th, Montreal became the official host city and launched were the ICSID / ICOGRADA /
IDA (International Design Alliance) new secretariats. Such endeavor requests
the vision, the contribution as well as the collaboration and much efforts
from many different individuals who have in common, architecting the
future of design. Montreal was part of a 34 city world wide bid! I heard
of some interesting projects are brewing - exciting times ahead indeed.
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Inauguration
of the Icograda, Icsid and IDA international headquarters - Montreal
honoured as the world centre for design and creativity - via Canada
NewsWire
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“The International Design Alliance’s decision to establish
its head office in Montréal shows how our city has become a
virtual design hub as well as a meeting point that is ever more prized
by international institutions who want to carry out their activities
here”
states the mayor.
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“Design
is a creative activity whose aim is to establish the multi-faceted
qualities of objects, processes, services and their systems in whole
life-cycles. Therefore, design is the central factor of innovative
humanisation of technologies and the crucial factor of cultural and
economic exchange.”
More illustration, industrial and
new media portfolios to explore
and to discover the incredibly rich talent pool out there!
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Spinefish Incomplete but promising illustrator has
got cute mini-interactions!
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Sekati unique navigation - leave the screen rest for a couple of
seconds and see how it rearranges itself.
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Katja Jesek designs
some of the most glamorous accessories. I am proudly wearing one of
her signature belt celebrating strong and intelligent women!
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Raum Rot* photography - haunting and intemporal images making it
hard to categorize.
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POTIPOTI Wear
and Illustration made with a 100% Love! What more can be asked? Handiwork
of Nando and Sylvia.
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pioneer 10 goes rainbow colors as a most unusual navigation to
present a new updated portfolio.
I'm
presently in NYC for a couple of days attending the Webbys.
Will update soon.
An
unusual collection: 300
Images From 1800 Sites.
The
strength and power of newly discovered talents are incentives to excel!
To push and exceed our limitations. Portfolios and flashware to
inspire yourself!
\ hologram
extraordinary! Explosive and unique style for this graphic design talent.
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LG&F has no fancy mission statement. Only claim the work they
do, and measure themselves, by the results.
\ Bigstar
fashion label playing with hyper reality to create a different way to
experience our day to day suit, jeans! From Poland with LUV.
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Right Brain Terrain to the rescue. There is no such thing like
too much stimuli to keep the creative juices going. Out of it?
Tag
culture running wild on Maneeto. Interesting mix of doodling illos, photographs
and actionscripting.
In
those days - truly - to be passionate about fonts - was an all hands-on
profession! In the days of pre-software design, the sharpness of concept
and execution were the make or break ingredients. Out of the sea of fontographers
comes a book that celebrates not only a great foundry but one innovative
enough to launch what is today - the norm - in branding warfare: launching
its own magazine!!!
U&lc
(Upper & Lower Case) is all about influencing design and typography
as sub-title affirms. This book comprises of an in-depth compilation,
in which you recognize instant the similarity of intent - nothing has
changed in the ways to promote one's work. Thing is, U&lc did it
before everyone else did! They did it smartly. Impressive to see that
for a long period of time - it was a no-color publication, reminding
me of what a mentor once said: “No color design - means no place
to hide conceptual flaws (behind colors).” And that, is something
to contend with.
I strongly recommend this book as a reference companion to any font
lovers. Personally as a designer - one of my favorite design asset are
fonts and to be able to retrieve wisdom and inspiration from this book,
makes it invaluable. Not all included designs are going to throw you
on the floor nonetheless, what is impressive - is the willingness to
continue the journey. It talks about stamina, vision and determination.
Toronto
Search Engines Strategies Conference... I know that sounds really
boring and soupy but Rudy Limeback does a good job at pinpointing some
DOs and DON'Ts that make sense.
Dirty
tricks being played in Browser War 2.0 by Jeff Louella
“Are Microsoft and NBC purposely discriminating against people
who use Firefox and Opera?
Is Microsoft really that scared that Internet Explorer might lose its
market share?
...I don't want to be denied access to a site based on
the data of my browsers User Agent.”
Ductype releases
five new game developers' ready pixel fonts! Scoredom (4 weights), Shinjuku
(8 weights), Atomic Sister (2 weights), Extrudor (12 weights), Aussenborder
(8 weights). cool!!!
Beats
me! Some photographers are so incredibly ingenious and will relentlessly
push all limits to achieve the right concept, and Adrian
Bischoff is no exception!
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incredible resource Wikipedia which
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For
an inside look at the street art culture which hosts really are amazing
work - visit the Wooster
Collective. Unfortunately not all is well and some stories turn out
bad since breaking the law by installing art over private property is
still a reality. It would be great to have an abandoned building taken
over and becoming the first street art museum where the exhibits would
always in motion, in becoming since it would be done by visiting artists.
Everyone is an artist, everyone can contribute to the evolution of the
galleries which retain their ephemeral quality.
What do you think - would that work?
Hyperisland students
- which is one of the better new media school - are finding their way
in to request internship. Now the play on words of Hakan is
brillant! Need I say more? Just saw that his favicon is animated!
More talented students looking for internship:
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Amber Sellers
Study:
People Increasingly Listen To Music On Computers via Coolfer
Designed
for a cause Black Day to Freedom is a just released book and DVD and
acts as a voice for the Asylum Seekers / Refugees.
Don't miss the trailer! Support!
I
really like this initiative - get the 'HELLO' limited
edition Ts celebrating Steve Job's 30 years of genial technological contributions
and advances!
Where
boyz, bright boards and design brillance meet! Discover and ultra talented
studio - Medusa Team - who will turn you nice a plenty! Outstanding work
all around. It's been a while that I have visited such an all around
top caliber multi-disciplinarian group.
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