NEWS // March 2007
Fellow
Montrealers Mandarine 24 specialize
in visual effects and animation. They know and exploit the power of rich
media aka new media with technical prowness, humour and creativity.
Kewl website, awesome projects. Don't miss their reel!
Introducing
a new graphic design and illustration studio on the block: Mopa!
A nice one-pager portfolio where it's all about design-design-design!
From Brazil with luv!
Meet
the master of icon design Jakub
'jimmac' Steiner
“Starting late 2000 I have been drawing icons for various projects
mostly around the GNOME desktop. While quantity alone doesn't say much,
I've crafted over cca 4 thousand icons over the years.”
Wanna
see top execution of spots and shorts? Check what MHP
(which stands for My Happy People and founded by a talented couple: Guillermo
Lecuona and Tera Hollingsworth) has got to offer!
Pay special attention to the 360 degrees rotation in the College bowl
and the dimensional flowing objects in the BDA film.
Paving the way to the future of visual entertainment!
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ndle1:
submitted by Steve O. via Motionographer
Have
you ever dreamed of seeing your name
in lights?
Or does someone you know deserve to have their name in lights?
Now’s your chance to make it happen.
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ndle1:
via 3form
STUDIOSarchitecture
sports a step like navigation and lots of layers to showcase their great
portfolio.
The information architecture was intelligently thought out and using
large scale pictures user can see as well as read what their capabilities
are.
If you're an architecture student, great site to learn from.
i-merge
are looking for new collegues. Do you know any? Well then you have a chance
to win a 4-day-ticket for Cannes Lions and many more amazing awards.
Visit Cannes Hunting to view
openings!
SKY.fm is looking for a PHP web developer
in New York City.
He
likes black and white for sure and he is an upcoming talented motion and
toy designer: quadroplastic.
From Russia with luv!
Absolutely
stunning photography and product styling by M+Nature
a studio ran by Amélie Vuillon - Lamboley. She is tremendously
gifted and all her projects carry a manicured and elegant touch. What
an eye for composition she has!
Indugle, visit from top to bottom, you won't be disappointed!
Antonia
Kühn & Julia Wolf wish to embark on a very special project twocollect
and perhaps, you can help make it happen.
It consists of a creative and intercultural exchange of knowledge –
their work for a charge that covers their basic expences like board and
lodging, as well as additional incurring costs. They neither want to make
profit out of this project, nor have deficits. They will be documenting
the whole trip in the form of a travel diary and are planning to publish
this documentation as book-dvd combination.
Did you ever see the Black
Day to Freedom trailer?
Support the cause, buy the book
which contains:
1 x Black Day To Freedom (100 pages)
1 x DVD featuring exclusive motion pieces and bonus artwork
The
Running Fish Gutter is a wild expedition! You've never seen something
quite like this! Imagination on warp here!
Yepp it's upside down, although you can remedy this!
Free
Photoshop Brushes by Tutorial Blog
“Every good designer needs an arsenal of brushes to use within
photoshop, whether its a grunge effect or some techno swirls that are
required there is sure to be a brush that fits your needs.”
March 8 was International Women Day!
Celebrate all the powagirrrls
around you!
8
Web Design tactics to help you when you're stuck by Matthew Inman
“Web design can be incredibly frustrating. You'd
think that with the infinite possibilities of what-goes-where it'd be
pretty easy to land a design that works, yet somehow we've all been stuck
before: working hour after hour on a design that refuses to look right.”
Ruby
on Rails for the rest of us by Justin Williams
“You’ve probably heard of Ruby on Rails, which
has been generating noise in the web development field over the past year.
While buzz and hype are nothing new to our industry, it’s always
beneficial to cut through that hype and the jargon to understand what
a new technology really is about.”
In the future every URLs will be popular for 1.5 seconds says Thomas
Marban:
“popurls is the dashboard for
the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute
headlines from the most popular sites on the internet.”
Visit
the Bittbox Freebies
section and find loads of useful interface widgets or have a look at the
28
Free Illustrator Brushes for making Swooshes and Swirls and learn
how
to do it too!
Make sure to read the License
and Usage information.
HowTo:
Make Pretty Pie Charts by Stuart Brown
She's back! Have you heard of Experiential
Prototyping?
Created by Jennifer Darmour
as a MFA thesis in Media Design “consists of a collection of projects
that explore new ways of using interaction and physical computing to invent
and prototype the experiences of new interactive technology-driven products
and services.
The final project is an innovative personal mobile music device that
uses gesture-based movements to mix, share, customize, and sync music.
The experience of using the device and all the components that it interacts
with (such as a web and cell phone application) was built into an interactive
touchscreen that animated user-based stories that directly interacted
with the device so you can watch how the characters use it and experience
it for yourself.”
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ndle1:
Now you have gotta see this mind-blowing project!
CODEPINK
is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working
to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into
healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities.
Wanna
see amazing product designs? Did you know that each year, La
Cie makes a call for submissions for some of their components and
that worldwide reknowned designers take on this task?
Upcoming some kewl external drives designed by one of my all time top
fav, Karim Rashid.
Shown USB
& FireWire Hub by Ora Ito.
Shown FireWire
Speakers by Neil Poulton.
Inspiration is the best medicine against the design blahs. Start your
week fresh with these newly added websites. :
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redoctober industries launches v.3 and still going strong! Edgy, audacious,
creative and boundless energy sustain their determination.
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Sans Nom is a design studio offering art direction and design across
disciplines such as print, product design, packaging, illustration, interactive,
cream sauces...
Check the map they did for Computer Arts, design hot spots.
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Emotive Project is a multidisciplinary studio! Mixing different creative
fields as illustration projects, animation, graphic design, art and music
and take profit of challenging themselves to make new things every day,
growing up and discovering new posibilities.
No kidding!
/
Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search
for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled
to form a grand association-chain-massacre..
Watch the movie!
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ndle1:
Based on the original Indexed
idea created by Jessica Hagy, who btw, just landed a book deal!
BoDo
is where to come for practical business advice. Maybe you’ve already
made a range of expensive mistakes. Maybe you are trying to avoid the
possibilities.
No prob, your-mistakes-are-us!
Adi Fainer is into product design with passion. A bit overwhelming
as are the thumbnails on the opening index, but being a whee bit patient
will be rewarded.
Make sure to visit his esquistes Bird eyes view porcelain dish!
He's brilliant!
Miguel
Vasquez operates under MASA | Design
from Latin America and undisputably knows how to draw. Most projects target
the contemporary, pop and street culture scene.
His work has been published all over and he has also designed two rooms
for the famous Hotel
Fox which was my fav project, I reviewed in 2005.
Must see!
Bo
Lundberg has a very refined and minimalist approach to illustration.
When less is definitely more.
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ndle1:
via DutchUncle blog
Can't
resist the appeal of sleek lines in modern furniture. Check out 521
Design furniture and projects.
YEAN which
stands for Young European Architects Network is a fluid site that will
adapt to any size browser windows. Designed with vertical panels it has
an ingenious pull functionality
which enables you to slide open (expand) or close content sections.
With an unusual middle plane and vertical navigation, content will either
open on the right or left side, which may be confusing but on the other
hand, since their mission is to encourage study and research,
it makes sense to have a more exploratory interface process.
Years ago, I've used frames to make what would be then defined
seamless design. Through the years, it has garnered harsh critics but
yet, in some contexts, they are still the best route to take.
On this website, user interactivity was made intense and fun. Visiting
any of the sections that will reveal bold pictures and graphics elements,
make it an intriguing but true visual adventure.
In my view, goal met.
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Designed by Daphne
Bom a
long time Netdiver alumni.
It's
always amazing for me to discover, sometimes years later, who is behind
a project I have admired. While visiting an online Tshirt website, hapchanced
on //stereoplastic home of
Mike John Otto, and while I was reviewing his portfolio, it so happens
he designed Interone, a project
that made the BOTY
05 shortlist.
On top of this found out that this book I just bought, Advertising
Now Online with the introduction written.. by him.
LUV the sweet left hand side animated vignettes of deconstructed urban
landscapes. His projects a lot having to do with cars and technology widgets,
are strong! Very!
Small world isn't it? Talent inevitably collide at some point and when
it happens, sweet!
Gore's
SOS - Save Our Selves by Bruno Giussani
“Along the social absorption route, there is always a point where
complex issues and inconvenient messages percolate into the pop-culture
sphere and start being considered self-evident, possibly triggering changes
in behavior and other individual or collective responses.
For the climate crisis that point may be nearing. It may even have a
precise date: this year's 7th of July (7/7/7)..”
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ndle1:
Support and join the movement! Live Earth
concerts in all 7 continents to reach global audience of over 2 billion
in order to Save Our Selves (SOS).
Code
Design is based in Hong Kong and looking for a graphic designer with
at least 2 years experience in branding & corporate literature design.
Oh
my, grab a seat! As I'm revisiting the explorative directory, I've discovered
that Andrius Esu has moved on from his initial secret experience
website to launch PetPunk.
Still very much an edgy interface as you will see, his acquired experience
in motion design is turning jaw-dropping projects.
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Which leads me to single out Biplan,
the website he did for this lithuanian band. Choose to view the presentation
for the album Chuligans for starter.
Pick a section and watch what happens when you move your mouse across
the desk.
Marian
Bantjes
has over 13 years’ experience in design and an additional 10 years’
experience in book typesetting and production.
As you will see, her work his highly influenced from her luv of typesetting
and her projects are all original conceptually and simly, gorgeous!
What talent she has!
Elephante?
He's good and I hope he continues to progress. Promising illustrator from
Argentina.
Paul
Ortchanian made Miniml simple.
It's about basic actionScript. It is committed in the research of creative
coding and the deconstruction of complex, sometimes over-engineered scripts
into simple and understandable execution.
To create you need to simplify and then try to extend.
Jon
Tran uses mainly sihouettes like style in his illustration which yields
uncanny and original results.
The
Rasterbator created Matias Ärje
Have you ever gotten close enough to a billboard to see
all the strangely captivating multicolored dots that form the image? Now,
thanks to the work of a clever Finn, you can make the same kind of beautiful
halftoned enlargements of your own photos.
Casey Reas has studied at the MIT where you can still see his earlier
interactive explorations,
then his works from 2001-04 at GroupC
and now his current work via REAS.
Dwelve into an astronimically inventive and curious mind.
Revisited and recently updated websites operating either in new media
or other design disciplines:
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h e l i o z i l l a
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fake id
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Hz
/
marek mielnicki
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dextro
Top
10 Ways You Know You’re An Entrepreneur by Ben Yoskovitz
1. Passionate 2. Looking for opportunities 3. I can do better 4. You
want to live your work..
What a brilliant article. Simple and direct, not verbose, just what you
need to see if you are one. Make it a point to follow all the links. These
will talke you to another article, deepening the meaning of key words
in the 10 pointers.
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Could not resist posting this excerpt from Seth Godin:
“A lot of folks whom I talk to speak wistfully about what they
would do if they were in charge. I've got news for them: If they're
willing to be in charge, people will put them in charge!
In my view, the huge rewards that we're seeing for people who are brave
enough, crazy enough, and talented enough to carry the torch for a new
business are entirely justified.
Why? Because there aren't nearly enough torchbearers
around.”
FLUOR.essência
do it with style! Excellent portfolio. Particularly like the campaign
done for EXD Transit company.
The
Society of Typographic Arts is proud to announce the Archive
'06 selections – 28 Chicago-area designers whose work has been
accepted for placement in the Chicago
Design Archive permanent collection.
Skizzomat
has got this retro collage like approach for most of their design projects
and some edgy typo and editoral work.
Sarah Lamont
is a long time web designer who just recently redesigned her website.
Simple and efficient.
Sheila
Seyfert is a mercernary in design powagirrrl
and talented illustrator and she knows her trade well. Proof amply given
with a diverse load of projects available on S-P-O-O-N-L-I-G-H-T.
Nevermindus the darkish background on her site, fetch the goodies in
the different categories.
Titoonic:
Flash Developers Wanted! Alive!
We’re busy and we are currently looking for one full-time Flash
developer and several freelance Flash developers. You must be able to
visit us in Copenhagen for a job interview.
BSL,
a leading marketing communications agency with a portfolio of clients
spanning from the local to the international across a broad range of sectors,
is looking for a flash developer.
What
a cutie! Lunartik in a cup is a
playful application for our daily hot breverage intakes.
Because
we dig indie projects! Are you to into music? Wanna know who's on the
move and shakin' and stirrin' the worldwide scene?
Metronomic Family
is a kewl project with loads of content! They claim to offer “the
best music of today, the names for tomorrow...”
Subscribe to the newsletter to know when a new radio show is
airing!
After
a 10 year dispute (!?!?!?) the Beatles
ready to click with charts again by Adam Sherwin and Ian Evans
“They revolutionised Britain’s music industry,
conquered America and now the Beatles are set to dominate the download
charts after settling a trademark dispute with Apple computers.”
Oh
so refreshing! iamstudios is
all about audio post-production, music composition and sound design!
From Netherlands with luv.
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ndle1:
Designed by * Fat-Man Collective
who specializes in web, graphic, motion and 3D.
A fantastic
new talent to be discovered Lim Si Ping aka PixelPastry. The richness of details and sheer imaginative productions make this student,
someone to watch for.
IDS
07 is Canada’s premiere platform for contemporary residential
design where the newest Canadian and international furnishings, fixtures
and accessories for the residential market are launched and exhibited.
Monster Lamp designed by Adriean Koleric
in collaboration with Motomichi Nakamura
will be showing!
ONTOUR
LAB are obsessing over mostly laughing dentures with the big mouth
collection which is really no serious matter. Something to smile about
and wear with a wink.
Kewl fashion label!
What happened? wearetheweb.org
has been a self-funded labor of love by its creators, space150. The costs
of hosting this popular net neutrality site have gone through the roof.
Please help offset some of these bandwidth costs by purchasing an iamtheinternet
t-shirt?
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ndle1:
via Kanardo a (very talented) two
headed unit for graphic design.
Just recently they've opened an online
space dedicated to art, illustration, funny projects, vintage computers,
and bicycles
Dragged in because we luv colors? If anyone had any doubt on the attraction
power of colors can now put this objection to rest.. for good!
First their was HP, then Bravia using the color balls and now Art
like no other which to their credit are using a full plasma like screen
complete with a typo.. How about you dawonload?
Ok the build your own art is catchy and then, be led to this
advert which is
impressive technically, but no so much conceptually.
Now Motorola
joins, the club.. huh.. the trend.
Hitless
is a digital graphic novel series formatted for popular handheld devices
and designed in the tradition of the great 40-50s era comic books. Gripping
story!
The comic book is free to download in digital format for your PSP, iPOD,
Zune, Mylo, Zen, Clix and Smartphone.
Written and produced by a good friend of mine Nicholas
Da Silva.
Nessim
Higson jumps over the edge of edge with the new version of IAAH
aka I am always hungry. Texturized, changing sig and backgrounds.
His work has increasingly become more edgier since first reviewed
a couple of years ago.
Arjan Westerdiep better known as drububu
and one of the first pixel design artist (circa 1999), mashes
up a one metre high drububu statue in real legobricks.
What an inquisitive mind!
Die
Gestalten Verlag (the publishing powerhouse) proudly presents the
launch of the new online store and platform for characters: Release
The Freaks.
Absolutely gorgeous website! Luv it! (and the toyz too)
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ndle1:
via Designiskinky
Wanna
stay in touch with what is going on in Japan and the broad design scape
scene? Shift another long time online publisher, has launched it's Shift
blog which includes stuff not making it to their long standing monthly
update.
Newsletter subscription available.
Blow
me sucks away! Mike and Maaike
wouldn't win any awards for their website BUT wait till you see their
product designs!
Check their soft laptop carrier, crocheted necklace, thermo plastic pillow
and the nuclear waste memorial that would be built right smack in D.C.
Absolute mind-blowing creativity and deep-rooted thinking process!
Do
you know what is a Gravatar?
1. Acronym for: Globally Recognized AVATAR.
They follow the user and display next to the users name everywhere the
user posts on the web, assuming the website has enabled them.
2. Avatar (icon):
is an Internet user's representation of himself or herself.. The term
avatar can also refer to the personality connected with the screen
name, or handle, of an Internet user.
Magnetizing!
Luv automatic script based performed art which may or not require user
input! Have a look at Fladdict worm
painting...
Let it run and it will fill your screen.
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ndle1:
via Refresh
-> more news
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