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Design anywhere digital culture NEWS // September 2005
Plugzine
#1 Where to start? a concept and designs publication on contemporary
visual culture, that includes work by ParisSydneyTokyo, DHKY, Insect,
Saiman Chow, Netdiver, Delaware, Hort, Kam Tang, Friends with
You, Hausgrafik, :Phunk, Genevieve Gauckler, Jason Siu, Dimension 7,
Toca Me, Scott Rench and Ou Ning.
Published by Joyn: and Qian Qian.
Limited edition of 2,000 copies. Get a bag full of goodies!
WIWP
Remixed Vinyls now available for grab and viewing. See a unique
track of urban designs applied to an old media.
Really cool initiative!
“The
world is steeped with bad design...”
Part prankster, part provocateur, BadDesignKills,
a new site for professional designers, launched this year on January
12 to cajole an industry invaded by $29.95 hack logos and cheap clipart
collections. The incendiary yet humorous poke at poor design has dual
motives: to make fun of the ignorance and cutrate solutions professionals
struggle against, and to generate awareness about the nature of good
(and bad) design in the public arena. Created by Von
Glitschka.
Participate and add your voice to this source for guerilla marketing.
Resource files available for download to design and start your own campaign.
A
dream job at T26: Font Tech?
Apply now!
Splendid! Brian
Malloy's opening site picture is a perfect example of what a great
photographer can do. Even in black and white, you feel the light and
warmth, the quiet happiness and child-like marvelling at nature. That
special moment that makes and enrich one's childhood memories.
The words that comes to mind to best describe his style are: high human
density.
Non-Design
Skills for Designers (as in math, writing, communication) by Kevin
Potts
That's
original! Diagonally oriented? Why not? I really like the 'philosofish'
play on word from Rumblefish (demo reel is
awesome) a postprod motion graphics promising shop. Must see!
Standards are
great for our industry! Explorations seed
the next wave of standards! More
than ever, it's time to play.
Lafano is
an office separation system company that shows really nice pictures of
the assembly partitions possibilities. Well done.
Fresh
and cool! You've gotta see Shop
Composition, probably the best designed online store so far. With
big pictures of items, no doubt you see what you'll get. The dragging
device to view more item is genial, keeping your last visited item as
background.
Newly
refreshed product and portfolios sites:
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One & Co nice presentation
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Konstruct / STK check the Frankfurt Airport pitch
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Teresa Sapey 
awesome
architecture studio
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Nebojsa Nikolic movement painter
Oh!
One's gotta luv this pitch: “It's about taking lemons and making
standards-compliant lemonade” by The
Weekly Standards
One
of the most prolific designer, Xavier
Mariscal has litterally his hands in many-many-many projects in his
Barcelona studio. From print, interactive projects to furniture and architectural
design. Luv the little characters in the loading sequence (which is his
trademark illustration signature).
Everything on the site is miniature, but certainly not the talent!
Internet
pioneer Vint Cerf signs on with Google by Eric Bangeman (via: ArsTechnica)
“They don't call it the war
for talent for nothing... Google has hired Internet pioneer
Vint Cerf away from MCI, where he most recently served as senior
vice president of technology strategy. He also serves as the chairman
of ICANN, the agency charged
with overseeing the Internet's domain name registry.”
Stay tuned! The next announcement will be: “All your metas belongs
to us”. There was a lot of controversy surrounding ICANN becoming
the manager back in the days when much trouble was happening in domain
management nirvana.
So really, if Vint
Cerf (co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture
of the Internet) is chairman of an organization (non-profit) and now
becomes 'chief evangelist' for a megapoly arising... ain't there some
little measure of conflict of interests?
Just
discovered Nate Williams (n8w) Illustrationmundo...
which says it all right? Don't miss the mini-survey presently ran...mmm...
wow I did not know that.
Creative
Behavior issues two new articles. Must reads.
Online
Creative Strategy by Stephen Gates
How to
Manage the Monster by Kevin Airgid
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ndle1:additional
read Clueless
clients and whose fault is it?
3D
floorplans and interior environments are the new (design) rage! What
do you make of that? Of course, who would not want a house overlooking
the ocean... but is it realistic to sell this kind of utopia to sell
your goods? From a technical point of view Sony
Style (MX) lounge is impressive... but...
The
Power of Design by Fast Company
“Look around you: The evidence of design's power is everywhere.
It's apparent in the mere fact that the bar has been raised. Customers
expect, even demand, more from the design of everything they buy...”
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ndle1:
Mostly from mega brand designers but still valuable as a trend process
indicator.
Support
the AIGA Katrina Relief effort!
WellVetted
inspirational gathering issue #37 is out. My pick for this month is Adrenalab.
Sites standing out:
You
have gotta see this! Rough54 made four different iterations of this hilarious
visual stunt for a telcom in ref with time it takes to download mail.
Shown start of version #1 and
end of #2.
Available: / #3 / #4
When
megalopolies face each other... mmm... it's bound to get ugly. Court
docs: Ballmer vowed to 'kill' Google by Ina Fried
State
of renewal for the following web sites who recently were redesigned:
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signalgrau designbureau they are back!
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ndle:
While cleaning up, found my original version of ESCALATE a
stop motion project. Choose Carole Guevin. Sorry this was my template;
the other participants are missing and the project site has now been relocated!
Scope
for mobile web best practices is just published by the W3C.
Typebox,
is an agency that specializes in... well, type design and iconographics.
Check their Peek-a-box to
see fonts in context. Very nice projects and they offer worthwhile tips
and some history of
typography as well. Luv it!
State
of renewal for the following new media portfolios web
sites who recently were redesigned:
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MotionTheory still edgy
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Newmedia clean and contrasted
The
Red Thread Project is a must see short animated film!
Announcing
the launch of beta 2.0 of FlashTV!
cool concept!
Unless
you knew of them beforehand, you've never seen illustration portfolios
quite like these!
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KumKum Noodles 3D characters are so yummy you wish they were gummies.
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Sophie Toulouse is
the consumate portraitist whose swirly and exquisite strokes beautify
everything she does.
Better
and better and better, these designers portfolios are
still rocking and improving!
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Michael Patrick Partners imaginative expansion
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Pacific Coin Op Studio awesome illustrator!
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Punchcut why wallpaper when you can remodel?
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CLAN.DREI look at the little thumbnail pouches!
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**designblue creative instinct promotional site by korean designers
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Sharpe + Associates one of the greatest photographers' agency
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Mauricio de Pierro logo and illustrations are outstanding!
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Demo Design still pushing farther ahead
Breaking
news! A List Apart v.4 now online!
You can read the making
of process (includes some pretty nifty backend tools) by Jeffrey
Zeldman.
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ndle1: Netdiver
started publishing links to articles from ALA way back, in the early
days. The vintage mini anim (as shown) is still in useage across the
news archive, a couple of screenshots are
still there for aticles that have relevancy even today.
A List Apart site was part of the Best
of the Year 2002 list.
Timeless
Principles of Design - Four steps to designing a killer Web site by
Clement Mok and Vic Zauderer
ROLF
this is soooooooooo cute! My gosh, <<<===----
Rolito lanD will make you laugh! The mini animations are little jewels.
Fresh
out! If you're freelancing or considering doing so, Kevin
Airgid just put out in a neat little book his over a decade worth
of experience working solo. The topic covers what I call, a need rarely
catered to: the business side of (web) design. To me, as far as I'm concerned,
these hands-on pearls are valuable to all disciplines that require, at
one time or another, you being da man (or woman) of the situation.
It's a fast read. I blasted through from cover to cover in a mere couple
hours. Now the book looks like neon bar coded because of the sooo many
highlighted stuff. Weither you are a rookie or an experienced roadie,
weither you need to get (finally) confirmation over some of the things
you thought right (and were not sure of) or weither past judgment errors
(man these hurt) still affect your self-confidence or you need a reality
check to pursue the path to success or would like to learn about cheap
workarounds and pitfalls to really really avoid or you just want the
url to snatch goodies, there is enough substance in the Web Designer's
Success Guide to make it your best investment this year!
Download a chapter for free or just buy it baby!
Newly industrial updated
sites...mmm... and delicious to see again. (bis)
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Seol Euna far
out interactive explorations!
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~~LINOLEUM still retro kool with a twist!
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fFurious wild white squares navigation!
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byMaze be amazed by their funky product designs.
Guaranteed
jaw dropping experience! BLISSIUM is
a motion graphics + visual effects powerhouse that has been listed on
netdiver since 2002 and you have gotta to see their showreel.
It is so great to see talent evolved into becoming even more talented!
Hats off Jim!
Newly
updated across disciplines portfolios sites...mmm...
and delicious to see again.
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Lomp.Illustration v.2 still delivering!
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sockho absolutely brillant new portfolio!
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:::. NOMADE v.2 those
2 powagirrrls rock!
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FarukAkin Project the black and white version rocks!
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{ unit 8 } simply
gorgeous print work!
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c o o l a r t ?? soft
palette redesign
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| Tabas | Marseille (FR) agency new site
you
grow girl is
a groundbreaking guide to gardening and a really cool green thumb ezine
with lots of easy projects. Brought to you by Fluffco
One
of the most prolific photograph I know (almost 5,000 photos in total), Rion has
been going strong for many years. Catch a glimpse of her vision. Her
site has been listed on netdiver for many years, and only now, do I discover
that she is a woman!
In fact, she contacted me and I deem it important to publish this excerpt
“...since the male-to-female photoblogger ratio is rather unbalanced
(especially in NYC), I feel it's particularly important to let you know
that I'm a woman, not a man... it would mean a lot to me if that could
be corrected. there's just not enough female representation around!”
Wow, she rocks! It's never too late to welcome a new powagirrrl!!!
Opera
is celebrating 10th anniversary and is giving away free registration
codes today!!! As cross browser testing is still essential for most
of us this could come handy. (Offer expired! Join affiliate program
and get a free copy) (tx Oliver for heads up)
Robert
Moog died this last weekend, due to a brain tumor. I don't think
we have any idea of how much music involves 'The Moog' synthesizer.
But we sure know the impact he had on contemporary music. He will be
missed. (via Mau)
Written while listening to Lucky Man by Emerson,
Lake & Palmer, featuring one of the first mini Moog solo ever!
RARE
Method (previously known as iDEA Machine) specializes in interactive
marketing. I like their clean and efficient website.
OKIDOKI!
Netdiver 3.0 is live with (surely) kinks to iron out in the
next weeks! Wanna know about the how and why we did it?
The directories are
reopened! Galleries are being revisited and when relevent, thumbnails
refreshed. So there's no such thing as being 'old' news on Netdiver.
You were picked because of your talent then, you're still thriving, you're
staying because you're still at it!
Still in flux, cleaning up still on. 75% of newsarchive
restructuring completed!
Yobotica
// Brave new planet is a flash experimentation with 3D rotating
robots and futuristic backgrounds.
Awesome!
The making of Citizens (their music is pretty good too) You
drive video clip by Bubble&Squeak, is dense with emotion and
packaged in a minimal backdrop... brillant editing!
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ndle1:
In fact, this short reminds me of MARLA filmed
using a homemade custom camera (MINI35 kit based around a Nikon F-2 and
a Canon Gl-2).
She's
made a name for herself as one of the first to initiate workshops and
books and became a reknowned teacher of interactive design and
now, lynda.com acquires the Flashforward
Conference and Flash® Film Festival.
Nothing
gives me more pleasure than discovering new talent! Mariline
Fiori is
no excpetion. I like the uniqueness of her illustration signature and
the overall sweetness. From France with LUV.
She
does this and that! Annette
Merrild is
a multi-displinarian who succeeds with passion at both medias. Her paintings
- which have a collage feel - are charged with details and emotions and
in some instance, the color palette is dazzling.
Her photographic experiments, one in particular called The Room
Project, is based on visiting neighbors appartments to get to
know the world around you. To be visited from top to bottom. From Denmark
with LUV.
Pirated
Sites welcomes you to the newness! The old site is busted and
now forums have been installed to post your rips, or show off originals.
You can get authentic feedback for the first time ever!
netdiver.com -> shame
on them! Squatting our (first)
domain for many years, the trail leads to this Slashdot member
and to this registrar asking for a
ripping price to give it back?
-> more news
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