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Netdiver just turned 10 and we want a party. A BIG party!!! Since we can't pack a worlwide audience in one place (and heck who can afford it), let's do an online (design) bash! So, how about you throw in some of your creative overflow into designing cool merch for the occasion?

Deadline for on-going call for entries: February 2, 2009

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Just fund this lovely! Full Bleed is a collaboration between Veer and UNKL (of which I'm a big fan) and the originator of UniPo vinyl toys. This 2" vinyl cutie is passionate about the same things you are: gorgeous inks and flawless print jobs.

Nice concept!

Cityabyss is Beata Szczecinska illustration portfolio where you will discover a maelström of photography, line art and painted surfaces used mostly in editorial assignments.

Hard to describe her style, the renders are enigmatic yet elegant more like abstract art pieces than traditional illustrations.

Original? Very!

Update your bookmarks VARIAL* becomes / VARIAL*Studio which has grown by leaps and bounds in the past year they are driven by a passion for strong images (that they shoot).

Mar Hernandez aka Malota creates unique characters that hold a large semblance to many eastern countries cultural references such as the details on russian dolls with a modern twist.

Patrick Nichols is proficient in generating intense portrait photography. It's all about the attitude of the subject.

BUUUU is Catalina Schliebener home on the web where you browse and discover her amazing installations and artworks filled with reminescent characters of a long gone cartoon era.

Proyecto Ensamble is a collaborative project from Chile which is about a paper toy that can be ensemble with each other, like a Lego. Get the blank template to create your artwork, add to growing countries that will be included in the big final installation.

Deadline: December 14

Mon Oeil is a concept and global design creative agency located in France. Particularly like Black is color concept.

Time to challenge what we think and how we approach how creativity with these 2 remarkable videos:

Do schools kill creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson who makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

via Philippe Galowich

Yes design can make you happy by Stefan Sagmeister which was posted by Alexis Budejen after I found this quote “Obsessions make my life worse and my work better”.

via Liz Kinmark

How was Wooster Collective, a site dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world born? Read all about it on Format Mag.

VISITORS An Extraterrestrial Design Contest

Senses Group is going to organize a series of events which offer opportunities for designers from all parts of the world to demonstrate their new ideas, boost their initiation to innovate the design community and underscore the importance of creative design.

Deadline: December 20

5th annual Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition (2008/09) launches and you are invited to create and submit lovely, humorous and/or witty artworks for those cute little mobile canvases.

Deadline: February 16

Blue Beanie Day!!! Today, November 28, 2008 is the day thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for accessible, semantic web content. JF and I are duly capped!

Please join us! Upload your pix on Flickr.

Today: November 28

Heath Korvola is a location photographer and a great amateur of outdoors and snapping sports enthusiasts in their favorite environments.. A long term adventurer, he’s into design, technology and photography and how the three intersect to create something larger.

United Planet is the joyous playground of Colan Ho and Mak Siu Fung who have sculpted and created a unique series of characters that are masterly crafted merging anime influences with 70-80's science-fi style with definitely a modern edge to it.

Oliver Jeffers is what we would call in French, un touche à tout. The span of his work and interests is vast: children books, illustrations, paintings, mix-media, intriguing objects. Some very adult, other infused with childhood memories.

Quad - the little cube that could. This simple organizing system can be juxtaposed, piled up, mounted on coaster, be a bench, a side table.. and more.

OFFF Lisbon '09 it's gonna be rock'n'rola. New venue, better conditions and last week to get Super Early Price Tickets so do not wait to get yours. Grab your tickets before they are gone! See you there.

Vascolo is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina and what they do best is motion graphics, top graphic design and illustration. Just have a look at their new reel to see what I mean.

Dazzling work!

TITAN International Illustration in Design Competition is aimed at design companies in all sectors of business, freelance designers, illustrators as well as local or private organisations. Only published work in the past 5 years are admissible.

Prize money is 28.000,00 euros total splited between the 8 categories and a big prize.

Deadline: January 23

WSDIA stands for WeShouldDoItAll and indeed, they do it all! With brio, with guts, with exacting professionalism and overflowing imagination. They have a passion for what they do and it shows, in even the most menial details. They set up props, take pictures, turn these into real-life installations or environmental design or posters, do websites and corporate identity.

Gotta luv the vintage Mac props. Although navigation is a bit obscure, just click double-down arrows to move from one project to others and then click image to advance to next or use keyboard arrows.

Must see!

Floto+Warner studio produces high-end photography for retail and interior design and the spectrum of portraits, still life and corporate requirements. Particularly like the portraits and inside shots.

ilovedust is one of my fav designer and has created this awesome bear dunny for Kid Robot.

Heydays is a design and direction studio located in Norway and I really like the collaterals they have developed for themselves, not withstaking their client work that is best defined as clean with just the right level of extra ooomph.

Wanna see nice motion graphics? Have a look at Stardust Beat City

and the one for Stardust NYSE movies. Awesome!

Weston Teruya is not only a remarkable artist but a socially engaged one as well. His work has facilitated community and youth arts projects with organizations including the Youth Justice Coalition, Public Allies - Los Angeles, Little Tokyo Service Center and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center's PAPAYA youth program. He has also been an artist in community projects with organizations including Strategic Actions for a Just Economy.

Colors and the Kids aka CatK have this mumble-jumble interface (click on any item that randomly reset to see a project). You can already grasp the ingenuity of this design studio and recently they designed an exhibition about minerals. Watch Terra Mineralia introduction film that shows in a playful way, the process.

The Republic of Synesthesia is home to talented Andrew Hamilton who works as a freelance art director / designer in NYC. His portfolio has got really rad pieces.

HSA*BA means please eat has completely revamped her website, and now, the finger looking good (and hot) Burmese recipes are now available in a book. Way to go Cho!

Mouth watering!

Interestingly, Jonathan Barnbrook share a common mentor, Richard Doust, professor at the Royal College of Arts. I had heard of him and as of yet - did not realise until now, that he was not yet part of the great portfolios of designers on Netdiver.

The strongest aspect of his designs is the strong graphic and typgographic treatments that can be both ecclectic or minimalist. He has been published around the world. His lean and clean, no-nonense sometimes in your face approach to design is one to learn from.

Uniqlo Cannes Lions T-shirt Grand Prix competition

After winning the Cannes Lions Grand Prix in 2008, UNIQLO is to produce an official T-shirt for the same Grand Prix this year. They have decided to invite people from all over the world to design a memorable T-shirt. As long as the basic material involves the lion theme, the applicant is free to design the T-shirt however he/she wishes.

Deadline: December 21

Shift interview with ultra talented Pierre Vanni.

“A picture like a movie, must suggest a lot of different story, different interpretation.”

As a graphic designer based in France, Pierre Vanni has been implementing diverse activities of not only 2D creations but also 3D and 4D including the paper sculpture, the combination of the paper sculpture and graphics, film works and etc.

No rest for the restless RESN who once again build another crazy interface design for their new website, which is most unconventional, to say the least.

If you're so inclined, yes, they are hiring!

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