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It's been a while since we started to select the best of 2015 creative posts we shared with you through the year. Now it's a time to go deep into the 150+ selected projects, people, movies and sound tracks.
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“Over 2,000 delicate LEDs fill the Olympus Photography Playground in artist collective Neon Golden’s SWARM, the lights’ soft, electric emissions buzzing through the 850-cubed-foot space in Vienna. Engineered with a combination of Arduino, Cinema 4D, Raspberry Pi, and Processing, the audiovisual installation reacts to movement, placing its visitors inside a colorful, carefully coded 3D environment.” http://vimeo.com/119266974
Leading digital artist Joshua Davis, the veteran of the OFFF festival was back to Barcelona's 15th year of the festival with the epic new work “The Deepest of Space“. http://vimeo.com/124447271
NONOTAK studio is the collaboration between the illustrator Noemi Schipfer and the architect musician Takami Nakamoto. They work on light and sound installations, creating an ethereal, immersive and dreamlike environment meant to envelope the viewer, capitalizing on Takami Nakamoto’s approach of space & sound, and Noemi Schipfer’s experience in kinetic visual. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wJtVwvMxjE
In 20 Steps by Drift, an installation about the movement of flight presented as a part of group installation “Glasstress 2015 Gotika” in Venice Biennale 2015 as part of an exhibition by the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg Exhibition http://vimeo.com/128608936
The Lyon Museum of Fine Arts asked artist Arnaud Pottier to bring sculptures, including Laurent Honore Marqueste’s Perseus Slaying Medusa, James Pradier’s Odalisque, and Barrias’ Les Premières Funérailles, to life. His method was pretty simple: He used projection mapping, which can turn anything—including statues—into a display. http://vimeo.com/131201461
Antrum Spatio-Graphical Interactive Installation looks like a grotto of the membrane, the surface of which is inhabited by strange creatures. It’s complex structure causes association with living creatures, space objects and architectural constructions. In this frontier word pure mathematical abstractions are mixed with natural shapes, resulting in formation of new entities. Viewers can push the membrane and try to contact with them. Project realised by Russians: Tatiana Plakhova (more) and mathrioshka.ru of Eduard Haiman & Vadim Smakhtin http://vimeo.com/130972302 http://vimeo.com/130454184
One of the best electronic light and projection mapping studios in the world (yes, literally), Russians – TUNDRA and SilaSveta collaborated together to produce an EPICENTER immersive installation to celebrate 7th Anniversary of ARMA17 in Moscow “Each group created an installation that places the viewer in the “epicenter of borderless creativity.” Tundra’s piece, Halo, creates eerie scenes such as a lightning storm and a fire, playing with space and criss-crossing beams of light. A figure weaves in and out of the beams, getting closer and closer but ultimately disappearing into the darkness. The soundtrack consists of choral music overlaid with what sounds like either rain or a scorching forest.” says The Creators Project http://vimeo.com/143827409
“Los Angeles based Turkish artist Refik Anadol wants us to slow down and make technology into something we consciously see and feel..His most recent installation, titled the “Infinity Room” at Zorlu Performing Art Center in Turkey, is a trippy, black and white installation that uses audio and visual stimulation to alter one’s sense of the room. For this, he installed a cinema screen, onto which 3D kinetic animation based on algorithms was projected. It is part of his ongoing project titled, “Temporary Immersive Environment Experiments,” which takes the idea of immersion. Immersion into virtual reality is a perception of being physically present in a non-physical world.” via Hi-Fructose http://vimeo.com/141749628
Cambridge’s King’s College Chapel unites the old and the new, the spiritual and scientific – literally so with the “Dear World… Yours, Cambridge” projection. This project by Miguel Chevalier set up in “immersive projection” in the chapel that showed images relating to the many fields of the University of Cambridge, from literature to astrophysics. http://vimeo.com/143870160
“Virtual Depictions:San Francisco” is a public art project by media artist Refik Anadol consist of series of parametric data sculptures that tell the story of the city and people around us within a unique artistic approach for 350 Mission’s media wall in collaboration with Kilroy Realty Corporation / John Kilroy and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Architects. http://vimeo.com/147304811
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symmetrybreakfast
It started by accident: one perfect, symmetrical breakfast for two. Four hundred cappuccinos and a huge Instagram following later, the men (Mark van Beek and Michael Zee) behind Symmetry Breakfast share their favourite photos
chubbhead
Somebody is having a lot fun on Instagram by chubbing heads of famous people and complete strangers like us
insteadofthehead
StPete guys having a lot of fun replacing friends heads with different things on Instagram.
raul-alejandro-cabrera-ruiz
Paris-based architect Raul Alejandro Cabrera Ruiz has a killer eye for details and especially the ones from urban landscape. Following the aphorism “God is in the details” once said by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Raul developing his skills on a daily basis using Instagram for documenting his success.
linda-lomelino
Blogger, food photographer, stylist and cookbook author – Linda Lomelino is real fairy of a perfect shot and knows how to make you mouth-watered in a matter of a few seconds.
combophoto-smcmennamy
Art Director Stephen McMennamy (Instagram) looks for simple backgrounds, takes two photographs, and then carefully arranges them together. The early #combophoto project shots were taken with an iPhone, but McMennamy recently bought a new camera to improve the quality, and occasionally uses a drone.
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Rafael Mantesso puts his pet bull terrier, named Jimmy Choo, into all kinds of funny situations by adding some drawings to the picture. Jimmy Choo was named by Rafael’s ex-wife, who was a stylist and loved the brand’s footwear. After their divorce, Mantesso wanted to fill the empty spaces of their house by creating some fictional scenes. And since Jimmy Choo was always around to watch him draw, he thought it was natural to include him into his artworks. He aims to post a new photo of his works on Instagram everyday, he mainly finds inspirations by observing his surroundings.
Sebastian-Erras-ParisianFloors
Inspired by the intricate patterns of mosaic floors he saw in Marrakech, Sebastian decided to document the stunning views below his feet starting with the cafes and hallways back in Paris.
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British artist Rich McCor gives new meanings to famous landmarks in different cities by using intricate paper cutouts and posting results on Instagram.
0:00 - River Island x Jean-Pierre Braganza by Dvein x White Lodge 0:21 - Mario Hugo - Alabama Shakes ‘Don’t Wanna Fight’ by Hugo & Marie 0:56 - COSMOS - A Spacetime Odyssey - Uruk Brought to Life by Stephane Coedel 1:31 - WXD WIRED by Raoul Marks – MARXº 1:47 - Paris - New York by Nord Collective 2:32 - Lido Sim by Animade 3:12 - La vita nova by The Workroom 3:53 - The Safegate Effect by UPPER FIRST 4:30 - J’ai fait la Fnac - Nekfeu Eddy 4:51 - Black Atlass - Jewels by Yoann Lemoine (from Top 2014 but released on Vimeo in 2015) 5:34 - Title Sequence - Oscars - 2015 by Henry Hobson 6:02 - Back & Forth by PORTHÉ 6:25 - Man Seeking Woman Main Titles by DK Studios, DIGITAL KITCHEN (Eliot Lim) 6:37 - The Walk by Art&Graft 7:14 - Sputnik by Max Zhestkov 7:52 - FITC Type Animatic by Nicolas Girard
bookniture
BOOKNITURE is an extremely compact furniture. You can store it or carry it around just like a book. In just a flip, it unfolds from a book to a piece of multifunctional furniture. http://vimeo.com/122714502
volvolifepaint
“As urban streets are increasingly shared between drivers and cyclists, road safety is more of an issue than ever before. In the UK, more than 19,000 cyclists are involved in accidents every year. Many of these collisions take place in London, where the city’s often old, narrow streets make it difficult to accommodate both four-wheeled and two-wheeled drivers. Swedish car manufacturer Volvo is now addressing the problem with the introduction of its new product Life Paint, which just launched in London.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfWzeGlaFvI
halfbike
Like an upstanding desk is a new way to express your vitality this Halfbike can be a solution for this life concept. Halfbike II designed by Kolelinio was available for pre-order on Kickstarter http://vimeo.com/124188874
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Emerging Russian industrial design talent Constantin Bolimond came up with a lamp design resembling a milk bottle. As a form follows famous Soviet milk bottle with a foil cap, it is recognisable abroad due to the fact almost everything in “soviet design” was adopted from outside.
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Danit Peleg: “In September 2014 I started working on my graduate collection for my Fashion Design degree at Shenkar. This year, I decided to work with 3D printing, which I barely knew anything about. I wanted to check if it’d be possible to create an entire garment using technology accessible to anyone. So I embarked on my 3D printing journey, without really knowing what the end result would be.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s94mIhCyt4
rhei-clocks
Rhei is a prototype of an electro-mechanical clock with a liquid display, and the result of a one-year long passion project, created by Damjan Stanković, executed in collaboration with Marko Pavlović and many other wonderful people http://vimeo.com/140469553
moresky
Architect and designer Aldana Ferrer Garcia, has created More Sky, a variety of window concepts that allow people living in apartments to experience more sunlight in a unique way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BsDKGCOB7g
konstantin-kofta-ss16
“Known for his daring and unconventional leather-accessory design, Ukrainian fashion designer Konstantin Kofta has just released his latest collection of leather bags and clutches.. Bearing the title “ARXI”, Kofta’s SS16 collection takes the designer’s approach a step further, by incorporating and inspired by forms and imagery found in Baroque architecture.”
ohhio-Anna-Marinenko
Merely a year ago Anna, a Kiev-based handcrafting artist, was captivated by an unusual material that sparked an idea to knit a blanket with a supersized ties using hands instead of spokes. That’s how a Kikstarter’s success – Ohhio project started. By this time her project is baked 10 times more than she estimated leaving her a lot of evenings to create and dispatch the orders made by earlier supporters. With no doubts Anna shows us the way how a small idea become a great path in a life.
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“Naturalist” is a product design project initiated by IZBA Team – the Russian collective of talented designers, currently 15 in a row. The project was set up by curator Tatiana Kudryavtseva and product designer Yaroslav Misonzhnikov, who set a brief for products that could re-introduce nature to urban apartments. The collection of 18 products ranged from hanging and wall-mounted planters, to furniture made using natural materials such as bark and marble.
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Multi-talented Swiss-born filmmaker and photographer Vincent Laforet has wowed his fans with breathtaking late-night aerial photos of New York City, illuminated by the lights of a city that never sleeps. He shot the series “Night Over New York” while sitting on the edge of a helicopter flying above the Big Apple.
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Japanese photographer Daisuke Takakura takes clone photography pretty seriously. His project “Monodramatic” features some models tens of times, with some of the clones so far away from the camera that they can barely be seen in the distance.
Ivan the Prince
Uldus reinterprets traditional Russian Tales in her photos by focusing on the pagans roots and ethnography of Russia. Her works are thoroughly detailed and immersive, and are based on comprehensive research and comparison with Euro-Asian mythology. The artist pays special attention to her ambivalent interpretation of the symbolism hidden in legends and myths.
daria-khoroshavina-6
Moscow-based photographer Daria Khoroshavina creates awesome animated photographs of her favourite cooking recipes.
Francesca-Fattori
The Wonders Taste was inspired by a René Magritte’s picture named “The Invisible’s Taste”. Artist Francesca Fattori often take inspiration from the surrealist art. Fattori objectifies ordinary food ingredients by relating them to her personal perceptions of sinuosity; extravagance; limitation and fragility. The pictures are still scenes from a play and removed from their fluid natural sequence, which she likes to call “Metaphysical Landscapes”.
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Chris Burkard is a photographer based in California, whose work is layered by surf, outdoor, lifestyle and travel subjects. Burkard’s images are punctuated by energized landscapes and moments of bliss, by adventure seeking and the lifestyle that ensues, by movement and intuitive light-working capabilities
preservation-blak-little
“When people showed up to Blake Little’s studio in response to a Craigslist ad calling for actors, the amateur thespians didn’t realize what they were in for. Fascinated with honey as a symbol and an artistic medium, Little asked his subjects to strip naked and pose in front of a monochromatic backdrop while his assistants doused them in gallons of the sticky, viscous substance. The experiment yielded a striking photo series in which people with a diverse array of body types and aesthetics appear transformed into statues."
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Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc is on a mission to capture portraits of women from every country in the world in order to shed light on the beauty that exists everywhere. A little over two years ago, at the age of 27, Noroc quit her job, withdrew all her life savings, and embarked on an incredible journey across the globe with little more than her camera and backpack. Her travels so far are documented in The Atlas of Beauty, an ongoing project that features a diverse array of local women from 37 different countries and almost every single continent.
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Award-winning Fine Art Aerial photographer Alex MacLean creates abstract canvases by shooting man-made and natural landscapes from a bird’s eye view.
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Artists have wrestled with the raw, majestic, natural power of the sea for hundreds of years, but Australia-based photographer Ray Collins is one of the few who really gets it right. Collins’ epic wave photos seem to freeze and capture all of the sea’s power, casting it in the respectful and majestic light that it deserves.
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With seven million people, Hong Kong is the 4th most densely populated places in the world. However, plain numbers never tell the full story. In his “Architecture of Density” photo series, German photographer Michael Wolf explores the jaw-dropping urban landscapes of Hong Kong. He rids his photographs of any context, removing any sky or horizon line from the frame and flattening the space until it becomes a relentless abstraction of urban expansion, with no escape for the viewer’s eye. Infinite and haunting.
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If you have been to Paris you might remember its mythical nights full of love and unknown. Photographer Alain Cornu focus on the second topic – unknown for the common eye, and that is Paris roofs.
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Awesome lifestyle and fine art portrait photographer Sergei Sarakhanov raised in St.Petersburg and based in Kiev, Ukraine.
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Anna Radchenko is one of the new exciting talented breed of Russian artists that are now using London as their creative base. Originally from Moscow, Anna creates visual works on human emotions and observations of the modern world, working with installations and photography.
klaus-frahm
Photographer Klaus Frahm takes photos of theater auditoriums from the stage, showing us ‘a work-space hidden behind the red curtain’ as he describes it. His ongoing series ‘The Fourth Wall’ takes us behind-the-scenes of Europe’s most famous theatres.
annadiprospero
Rome-based Anna di Prospero travels a lot, and creates meaningful self-portraits blending herself into urban environments
instagram-lies
Every day, thousands of people on Instagram snap pictures meant to invent a new identity for themselves. That is the message behind this wonderful photo series by Chompoo Baritone, a photographer in Bangkok, Thailand who shows just how fake Instagram photos can be.
Erik-Madigan-Heck
“At first, these highly stylized fashion images from Erik Madigan Heck look like vector art. However, these shots of Junya Watanabe’s Fall 2015 collection are actually all photography, but edited to be flat and one dimensional to complement the graphic nature of the collection.”
Mattia-Crepaldi
Milan-based photographer Mattia Crepaldi teamed up with some of the most beautiful models of Italy and Europe, such as Ilaria Pozzi. They all have jaw-dropping tattoos, from neo traditional to geometric, and from tattoo masters such as Marco Galdo. Mattia Crepaldi’s portraits are diptychs, showing two different aspects or complementary sides of his model. The result is raw, dark, but also moving and breath-taking…
benthomas
“In the series ‘Chroma’, Australian photographer Ben Thomas captures photos of urban landscapes featuring bright aqua-hue tones and simple forms that resemble illustrations. Shot across a number of cities – including London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Shanghai – the images depict a diverse mix of architecture and skylines. To achieve the colour and texture seen in his photos, Thomas usually photographs on sunny days and uses photo editing tools to create the right balance between intensity and depth.”
michaela-noroc-atlas-beauty-0
Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc is on a mission to capture portraits of women from every country in the world in order to shed light on the beauty that exists everywhere. A little over two years ago, at the age of 27, Noroc quit her job, withdrew all her life savings, and embarked on an incredible journey across the globe with little more than her camera and backpack. Her travels so far are documented in
, an ongoing project that features a diverse array of local women from 40+ different countries and almost every single continent.
Giacomo-Carmagnola-top2015
Designcollector is extremely happy to open
this year and had a great opportunity to work with him on
The Digital Decade III: His Majesty The Glitch
project earlier this year (featuring his work you see above in Barcelona, OFFF2015 Festival) “
I’m completely absorbed by glitch art. I’ve always been attracted to its aesthetics; I’m not talking about philosophy or higher concepts, but just its plain visual pleasure,
” says Giacomo. From the burning monk in “Saigon” to Jesus’s crucifixion in “Meltchrist” – the digital artist combines the old and new to create a symbolic modern image. “
I see these images as an alternative beauty. I find it extremely fascinating how the same image can change so much by keeping its original 'skeleton'. Of course they’re also visually impactful. But before this, I find them simply beautiful.
“
alexey-kondakov
You might remember Ukrainian artist
taking over XX-century art with her Emoji Nation project last year. Here is her countrymate
brining the art twist to our modern-day life. Alexey's imagintational world is where Bouguereau’s Song of the Angels appears to take place on an empty subway car while a pair of men from Holbein’s famous The Ambassadors are transported to the table of a seedy bar.
sean-yoro
Sean Yoro aka
is a new kind of street artist levelling up the global awareness with his environmental water and even icebergs murals. Hula travels the world creating paintings which capture the emotions and interactions between the figures and their environment. With each piece, Hula merges his backgrounds in both street and fine art.
combophoto-smcmennamy
Definitely a new breed of
emerged this year, and here is one of the best, as we see him. Art director
looks for simple backgrounds, takes two photographs, and then carefully arranges them together. The early #combophoto project shots were taken with an iPhone, but McMennamy recently bought a new camera to improve the quality, and occasionally uses a drone.
loise-mertens2015-0
Louise is our personal selection from rising mixed media artists. We were extremely happy to work with her on unreleased
and than on
this year. Being a model and an artist on one hand is a double-win, on another is a massive responsibilities for personal challenges. Louise achieves them with a speed of a pain that she splatters across handmade photography collages. After dry up she complete the artwork digitally and send it over fashion editorial or personal exhibition, signed and stamped. She has completed Sagmeister&Walsh internship recently and now working in here hometown of Antwerp delivering fashion collages and exhibiting them offline and online. Must follow on Behance
danit-peleg-3d-fashion
The year 2015 is definitely the one to remember with a huge development of 3D Printing. Everyone who started to work with this tricky technique is a pioneer of his industry. Same to say about fashion designer Danit Peleg and her printable generative dresses. We will remember her as the first designer to bring serious 3D printing to the catwalk. “
In September 2014 I started working on my graduate collection for my Fashion Design degree at Shenkar. This year, I decided to work with 3D printing, which I barely knew anything about. I wanted to check if it’d be possible to create an entire garment using technology accessible to anyone. So I embarked on my 3D printing journey, without really knowing what the end result would be.
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pokras-lampas-afwrussia2015
Self-made man,
is now a trendsetter in calligraphy, fashion and street art industries. His latest work has been merely named the largest calligraphy in the world and was made using 800l of paint on a huge factory roof. This year Pokras did a huge amount of collaboration from fashion to packaging and set up a new branch of the industry - calligrafuturism. Must follow on Instagram
yuri-shwedoff2015-0
The knight of mystic digital illustration Yuri Shwedoff has just completed academic studies and developed his own way in the wood of screen art. What we admire the most and beside his unique talent is the ability to share workshops with others through online courses and illustration tutorials.
max-zhestkov-sputnik
With no doubts Max won our "Return of the Year" award with his come back to the motion design scene. As a young director he has a huge portfolio of commercial video but recently he developed himself as an animation short movie director. Max's latest work "Sputnik" is the ode to sci-fi, and apparently it hit strong whether your are a science fiction fan or not.
It's time to start revealing our 5th Annual Cream of The Crop review (check previous under Fav navigation). Here is the generic selection of the Most Visited posts of 2015 generated using official website stats of nearly 2m page views.
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bookniture
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