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Since 2003
"A thousand reasons is a short animated spot directed and animated by Daniel Britt. Created for the WMD Awareness Programme, Daniel Britt and the foundation wanted to raise awareness around nuclear weapons and the thousand reasons why they shouldn’t be made." via Whitezine
http://vimeo.com/45150640
I also liked the way the video was crafted by hands from paper
Western Siberia design and production agency "Province" creates outstanding print design and corporate souvenirs with smart humor icing for valuable clients. We spotted their two latest works worth to explore below
A smart gift for a hunter
And a daily-sticker calendar named Everyday Argument
London Olympics 2012 starts this week and here is a creative way to tune up for this amazing hope not spoiling by politics event. The Berlin-based artist Jens Ullrich explorers the collision of antics and modern sports by using collage techniques.
"Lithuanian artist duo Terrible Twins (Ruta Pu & Urte Janus) use photography as their tool for creating new experiences rather than capturing a moment. The duo builds sets, designs costumes, and uses make up and styling elements in order to bring their subjects out of their actual identity and into a surreal character " writes Trendland
” Nine Circles of Heaven is an exploration of Sin as a concept perpetuated by western Catholic society and aims to question the authority of such doctrines when describing concepts like virtue and sin, good and bad," say Ruta Pu & Urte Janus
View full series on http://terribletwins.co.uk/NINE-CIRCLES-OF-HEAVEN
StPete based designer Lesha Galkin (one third of Dopludo Collective) released a new experimental home shelving object - Nenuphar. Floating like a water-lily Nenuphar is a completely eco-born system using metal strings with no fixation and wooden shelves with organic shapes. The distributed weight of the construction rests easily on that 10 rods.
Artist Scott Gundersen finalizes his latest portrait using 3,621 recycled wine corks. Watch the video of the making
http://vimeo.com/45818343
Young Russian talent based in Northern city of Arkhangelsk - Vadim Skorik has some striking ink art that can perfectly fit any t-shirt design or enemy's skin
London based Bobby "The Slighted" forms "Department International" duo together with Brian Okarski. All of their links contains a heap of very good magazine designs but better we shall take a look on Bobby's covers shared on his Flickr
Born in Yerevan and presented worldwide Tigran's figurative art gained good critics and settled down in private collections. Apart from awesome archive works his latest series "Millennium" shouts out aloud showing modern life in Biblical manner.
This project combines the collective talents of musicians, dancers, programmers, designers and animators to create an amazing visual instrument. Creating music through motion is at the heart of this creation and uses the power of the Kinect to capture movement and translate it into music which is performed live and projected on a huge wall.http://www.v.co.nz/#the-motion-project
http://vimeo.com/45417241
Developers: Jeff Nusz Paul Sanderson - fugitive.co.nz
Music: Joel Little
Ableton: James Hayday
Dancer: Josh Cesan
Agency: Colenso BBDO
Client: Frucor
We spotted Kashiwa Sato flash website five years ago and it is still an example of Japanese way to organize information. This time he is back to shock us with new iPad experience. Check his Portfolio application or watch the video below http://itunes.apple.com/app/kashiwasato.com/id502367977 http://kashiwasato.com/
http://vimeo.com/43805654
After some magic happened with gravitation in Buenos Aires, the Inception Park migrated to New York. Directed by Fernando Livschitz from www.bsfilms.com
http://vimeo.com/45789225
This miserable rainy StPete's day has been brighten up for a few minutes after I visited This Is Colossal post revealing a short but awesome video of Spanish sightseens tilt-shifted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO8y2brnXZg&feature=player_embedded
7 Chinese artists from our partners at NeochaEDGE portal were asked to recreate the visual image of Volvo Hybrid car within a 30+ square meter background canvas behind it. That was a live performance in Zurich this June, shot by renowned photographer Francesco Carrozzini.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LXo2Xw4MIk&feature=player_embedded
View full credits, all videos and photos on http://www.volvoartsession.com
Award-winning figurative artist Sarah Harvey inspired by the pools in Tuscany when traveled with scholarship given by Newcastle University in 2003. Since then she concentrates on portraying human body underwater. "Entirely suspended by the water, the human forms are fragmented by the ripples and swirls created by the water, abstracting them, and often with implausible results such as the appearance of disfiguration or distortion. I have become increasingly excited about the abstract elements in these works, and the interplay between light, colour and water. The emerging patterns are becoming more apparent and dominant, drawing the eye not only towards the main focal point of the human form, but also to the surrounding areas, which are of equal significance."
China-born and world based contemporary artist Ling Jian creates captivating and sometimes provoking canvases portraying faces in a strange and surreal way.
We had a chance to speak with Russian designers from "Bureau Working Title" that did a commercial short "A Touching Application" using no 3D software, only projection mapping, modeling and classic animation. The ad shows advantages of Russian navigation application published by Yandex Ltd.
DC: What is the main plot of this advertisiment? The touching story tells us about two sentimental creatures from some outer world; nevertheless, they seem to be a lot like humans. As the two plan their date in a telephone conversation, they decide to meet up in a planetarium. From now on, they get any information from a mobile map application, which tells them the best routes, timing and any other – that's important – interactive tips. They face random barriers on their way: she gets stuck in a traffic jam, he forgets to buy her flowers and so on. The application helps them to finally meet each other on a crossroad and make their way to the planetarium "using" the "street view" option. We see them as they watch the stars leaning towards each other. The story ends up with a slogan: "A touching application".
What was the largest challenge in producing and directing the project? The hardest was to deal with time which passed so slowly. Classic animation process requires a lot of patience, and the more patient you are, the more satisfaction you get when the work is done. But russian advertising is always about tough deadlines, so you have to make it really quick. Thanks to the professionals who helped us getting the shootings done in its best ways and shared their skills with us. Furthermore, it was a great challenge to combine various techniques: stop-motion animation with dummies, iPad-freezelight, 3D projection mapping and a little bit of computer graphics.
How long did it take you to complete the whole project? Making of all the stage requisites, creating the script, directing everything to its sterile fancy looks, shooting till the final cut – the whole process took us about 1,5 months to get done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcISIVoSZGQ
Credits:
Concept, script, production: Бюро "Рабочее название" (Bureau Working title) www.workingtitle.ru Director, camera: Ivan Proskuryakov Light: Pavel Ukhanov Animation: Alla Solov'eva Projection mapping: Sergey Titov and Sasha Gavrilova (Stain) Dummies: Igor Khilov Stage requisites: Alexey Petrov, Anastasia Zolotilina, Lena Shagieva Freezelight, compositing, CGI: Marina Cherry, Ira Lubomirova Music: DZA (http://soundcloud.com/dza)
That's not a sponsor post or whatever just because we love to feature awesome achievements of Russian Students. That happens a fifth year in a line Moscow based British High School of Art and Design tear apart the international competitions without fanatic roaring but with a methodical wins of valuable awards. Last year BHSAD Students brought 2 pencils from D&AD competition. This year brought the school 3 Yellow Pencil awards.
1) Integrated Communications - Arina Kiseleva, Kseniya Apresyan http://vimeo.com/44983497
2) Moving Image - Lidia Velles, Yana Mironova, Zhanna Nosova http://vimeo.com/45633490
3) Photography - Michael Skachkov
Also there were 3 Nominations for Anastasia Korosteleva, Ann Khokhlova and a team of Arina Kiseleva, Dima Vtulkin, Olga Terekhova
And 3 "Best of the Year" for Sergey Kleschev, Nina Kazimirova and Zhanna Nosova, and Oleg Pashkovsky, Seslavinskaya Anna, Tim Raiter, Vitaliy Urban
Awesome photo manipulation work of Paris statues photographer by Leo Caillard and digitally dressed by Alexis Persani
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52ak299RqHI&feature=player_embedded
