3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Fill Ryabchikov is a self-taught illustrator and graphic designer based in Saint-Petersburg represented by @hplus_creative and known for collaboration with our @Digital.Decade platform. His works combine bright colors and neon light effects with strong retro-futuristic aesthetics.
Generation Selfie born with frontal camera instead of mirror is heading with giant leaps into the new decade. Despite VR predictions the year 2019 became a metaphor for AR Narcissism after Facebook released Spark platform and opened a code for everyone able to create an Instagram mask. Spark pioneers who had early access opened a Pandora box to a hoard of creators that flood a selfie market with easy to go digital “face masks” some praised only by friends others by millions of users and influencers. We, at Designcollector, being a pioneers in Digital Arts and delivering a lot of Phygital collaborations decided to select best Instagram Masks of 2019. Not too much, just several of them, but epic.
A collaborative production between Feed Me Light and Blinkink, directors BRVTVS create a gritty, graphic world that imparts a funky new edge to creative director Jamie Hewlett’s beloved characters. With a unique approach to infusing 2D and 3D animation techniques with illustration and photography, BRVTVS lend their individual aesthetic to the most iconic virtual band in history.
KaloolaJay Studio creates mid century pastel prints with a tropical & architectural art twist
Clever design is often about clear message and minimum visual efforts, what is a rare pair in creative world. A good combination of that makes viewer “read” the idea and enrich it with their own understanding leaving confusion behind. Here is a package for Hair Cosmetics made by Belarus designer Edgar Kirei in collaboration with Polina Ivanova
French illustrator and graphic artist Lili des Bellons follows the reference from pop culture, Medieval art, African art, Japanese animation, and iconography created by poster artists in Europe. The viewer is witness to Lili’s vibrant, somewhat frightening, and futuristic illustrations, which are brought to life with its strange characters as they interact with their peculiar universes.
Brazilian artist Luiz Philippe uses stone, tiles and mosaics to create his suitcase sculptures you will never get a chance to sneak on any border
“Berlin-based photographer and video artist May Parlar often uses outdoor open spaces for her impressive fine art photographs. She creates performative images exploring the human condition and the nomadic experience of ‘being’ in constructed realities. The idea of self, time & memory, the notions of belonging and alienation are recurrent themes in her practice.”
“I work across different mediums such as photography, film, performance art, sculpture, installation, and landscape art; and all of which gets merged in the end and put together with a glue that for me is the camera”
“There are layers in all we see, do and present in our lives. These are the elements which we want to show, conceal, or perhaps only hint at. What is revealed is equally important to what is not, and both are needed to capture an entire vision.” - Blair Martin Cahil
Read more on @Ellohype
Sixteen years online is no joke. We getting stronger, but still take crazy teenage decisions like the idea to run this year our new standalone Instagram account for @designcollector posts. Thank you for following us!
Definitely bumpy year for our social networks but still we are progressing well with Daily Visual Overdose on @post.visual
Prostorcrew is a player in Moscow’s event market. A special attitude to visual communication is what distinguishes prostocrew from other agencies on the market. It’s not lovely pictures or business identity — it’s more like an album cover, a revolution symbol or a subculture sign.
Roma Erohnovich team released the first iteration of a formless identity three years ago, and with the current redesign, we replenish the lexicon and make metaphors out of those new meanings.
Strange Things happening on Simon’s Hjortek account who is in love with the beautiful & the bizarre. The weird & the wonderful. Also known under the pseudonym Magnificent Beast (@magnificentbeaststudios)
After his 3D rendering of a cloud-like armchair went viral on social media last year, Argentinian designer Andrés Reisinger has made the Hortensia chair a reality with the help of 20,000 fabric petals.
After a year of research and development, the first real version of the Hortensia chair is on display at the Montoya (@pasajemontoya) gallery in Barcelona. Read more on @dezeen
Talented Asya Kozina was commissioned by Dolce Gabbana to painstakingly create huge paper cut-art wigs for their Alta Moda show this December. Together with her husband, Dmitry, Asya completed a set of wearable piece of art that broke fashion internet
Pilar Torcal is a Barcelona born and raised designer and illustrator who dreamt of being a gymnast, a model, and an archaeologist as a kid.
After studying advertising and trying out luck as an account executive, she realized that colors and type had always been what she really liked to fill her time with. She then went back to study and after working for a while at a small editorial design studio in the center of the city, she moved to NY to first start working at the women-led studio mgmt design and later on for a big digital design agency called Huge Inc.
Everyday we exist in the boundaries : work, family, dreams or free time that we have to live for our life. Are there any "Frames" and can we break through?
Director/Concept - Lado Kvataniya
Starring - Sergei Polunin
Music Composer - Kirill Richter
Artist Renee French draws tiny fluffy creatures that seems to be completely innocuous. But somehow they fall into uncanny valley of perception with their exaggerated features of mogwai or gremlins
Claudia Fontes is an Argentinean visual artist based in England who explores through her actions, objects and research the poetic space and alternative modes of perception of culture, nature, history and society that emerge from processes of decolonization, be they personal, interpersonal, or social. She is well-known for her work “The Horse Problem” - top art installation at Venice Biennial in 2017. Her recent ceramic sculptures are gripping each other tight as they are transformed into fungus like growths and spores in an eerie but romantic series.
Designer Konstantin Kofta is back with his new collection of hi-end leather bags INERTIA SS20. As stated by his studio - “We want to allow the viewer to gain different perspective on familiar things through synergizing with our artwork. Our bags serve as a canvas for expressing our creative intentions through properties that they did not initially possess, endowing them with ability to bring aesthetic pleasure, while maintaining functionality.”
