Dandelight by Studio DRIFT

December 13, 2023 by Arseny Vesnin in 2023, Art, Craft, Design, Netherlands, USA

Dandelight embodies a graceful blend of art, nature, and innovation within our renowned 'Fragile Future' series. Each Dandelight is meticulously crafted using real dandelions handpicked during the annual DRIFT Spring Harvest, with every single seed delicately affixed to an LED.

This year's special edition is centred around a promising future, highlighting the potential of seeds and soil as they collaborate to foster fertility. DRIFT aimed for a sense of weightlessness through natural materials like sand and jute, while the base, cast in translucent white resin, encases dandelion seeds.

For a healthy new generation, we need to get the basics right! "This double dandelion version reflects a beacon of hope embodied in the promise of new life." shares artist Lonneke Gordijn, who is expecting her first child.

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Spin ceramics by Robert Dawson

December 05, 2023 by Arseny Vesnin in 2023, Art, Craft, Portfolios, United Kingdom

Robert Dawson’s ceramic art blurs the lines between tradition and innovation, motion and permanence, and challenges conventional perceptions of craftsmanship.

Dawson's creation, Spin, beautifully encapsulates the essence of motion blur, reminiscent of the technique used in animated movies. Just as motion blur aids in creating fluidity in film sequences, Dawson's manipulation of glaze and design captures a fleeting moment, freezing it in time while alluding to movement. The Blue Willow pottery design combines fixedness and the illusion of movement, showcasing the artist’s skill.

The plates symbolise clay’s history and transformation. Dawson cleverly incorporates circularity, a fundamental principle in pottery, by showcasing the spinning process as a visible final stage in decoration. This extends the traditional concept of pottery time, inviting viewers to contemplate the craft’s evolution.

His plates honour and represent ceramic heritage while pushing boundaries..

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Paper-cut corals by Rogan Brown

November 05, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Craft, Portfolios, Sculpture

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“Artist Rogan Brown introduces his intricate cut-out paper ‘coral garden’, following his previous series that emphasised the mesmerising diversity of the coral realm. In his previous sculptures, the artist sought to capture the durable yet fragile silhouette of the corals, which is a symbol of the overwhelming impacts of global warming and man-made destruction.” via designboom

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‘Coral Garden’ is part of an ongoing series displayed at Galerie Bettina in Paris, as a contemplative journey to the heart of nature. “The reefs are a potent symbol of the planet itself: teeming with life and colour and biodiversity and yet threatened with extinction because of our inability to control our own appetites and to accept the consequences of our own actions.”

Tech Art by Sebastian Errazuriz

December 25, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Design, Portfolios, USA

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There is no doubts Science, Art and Technology are the Three Whales on whom the 21 Century Rests: here why the body of Sebastian Errazuriz work is an illustration of this. Sebastian is a designer, artist, entrepreneur and activist based in New York. He is known or a diverse body of work that demands reconsideration of familiar objects. These works often challenge viewers perceptions of how things are, and blur the boundaries between contemporary art, design, and craft.

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Fabian Oefner Disintegrating Art

December 16, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Photography, Portfolios

Fabian Oefner`s work explores the boundaries between time, space and reality. He creates fictional moments and spaces, that look and feel absolutely real, yet aren't. Through this, Oefner dissects the different components of reality and gives us a clearer understanding of how we perceive and define it.

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Inspired by science, Oefner`s approach to art is highly methodical and at the same time playful for unexpected moments to happen. He creates carefully orchestrated works, that are planned down to the last detail as well as pieces, that use a loose framework for art to happen.

In his highly acclaimed "Disintegrating" series, the artist portrays performance cars, that seem to blow apart. He creates these artificial moments in time by photographing every piece of the dismantled car individually and arranges them digitally into one photograph. Spending hundreds of hours on each piece, the photographs become a hyperrealistic rendition of a moment, that never existed.

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MUNDANE FW20 by Konstantin Kofta

November 03, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Fashion, Design, Craft, Portfolios, Ukraine

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Relationships of men and objects. While forming space, men create and surround themselves with product designs, objects, that have always been a major source of influence of humane conscience, mood, behaviour and attitude. Lightness of Being comes through the awareness of one's purpose.

Kofta is the independent couture studio specializing in the art of leather craft using futuristic technics. Based in Ukraine since 2010 the studio carry out unique projects and seasonal collections from start to finish, allowing them to be designed, developed and produced in-house. In the last few years, kofta won numerous art&fashion contests (A’Design 2016, Red Dot 2018 to name few) and was exhibited in K11 Gallery in Shanghai for the prestigious “BAGISM” exhibition.

Objects of kofta studio would be found at the intersection of art and applied science. Accomplished by using the futuristic techniques such as 3D-modeling/-printing/-cutting mixed with the traditional leather craft methods like molding, drying, straining, hand painting etc., they provide an independently fresh view at the manufacturing process, which is carried out entirely in-studio by kofta team.

“We want to allow the viewer to gain different perspective on familiar things through sinergizing 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.”

— Kofta Studio

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Masks by Anastasia Pilepchuk

October 26, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Portfolios, Russia, Fashion

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Moscow-based artist and fashion designer Anastasia Pilepchuk recently got an invite from Instagram for Business to create a series of masks inspired by the topic of “harmony breaks silence”. In collaboration with another artist Moritz Simon Geist they created an interactive versions of them

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“In my work I am interested in the notions of sublime and elusion, entering into a meditative process akin to a dream-like state. The real and the fantasy weave together, hiding behind the masks, threads and layers. Expression is channeled through those shapes, finding its intention and force both in the normality and in the surreal.

The method I use in my work is based on constructing an image or an object starting from the small building blocks, which, when gradually put together, let the pattern of the whole emerge. I like to reconsider materials and shapes, finding new ways to inscribe them into the real through the imagination and moments of improvisation that occur in repetitive work.”

— Nastya Pilepchuk

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Plywood Mandala Art by Scheme

October 20, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Portfolios, Street Art, Russia

Russian artist working under Scheme moniker creates mind-blowing colourful mandalas of plywood by spraying and applying resin on small cutouts and than assembling it into 16- or more layered wall pieces.

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Woven Glitch Blankets by Zouassi

October 06, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Craft, Glitch, Design, Portfolios

Digital artist Zouassi went beyond screen field he usually fill up with a slit-scan glitch artworks and landed in exploring the cotton woven craft by delivering machine made Glitch Blankets that will define our age of digital decadence sometime in a future.

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Bertjan Pot masks

September 15, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Netherlands, Portfolios

Bertjan Pot shares The Masks series begun in 2010 and still in progress, is an exploratory work on the subject. The idea originated in an unexpected reaction: wanting to make a carpet, Bertjan realises that once the textile assembled, curves are created. From there, he began to consider a first mask, the beginning of a long series. The possibilities are endless and the designer has since enjoyed creating each time new faces.

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Yinka Ilori Studio

July 31, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Design, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Yinka Ilori is a London based multidisciplinary artist of a British-Nigerian heritage, who specialises in storytelling by fusing his British and Nigerian heritage to tell new stories in contemporary design. He began his practice in 2011 up-cycling vintage furniture, inspired by the traditional Nigerian parables and West African fabrics that surrounded him as a child.

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Louisa Salas

July 21, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Mexico, Portfolios

Always curious for contrasts and bold simplicity, Lou bases her artworks in the act of balancing abstracted memories, feelings and music. All of them influenced by a minimal and modern approach to the diversity of her Latin roots.

@holalou

Collage Art by Eloise Renouf

July 13, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Portfolios, United Kingdom

Artist, designer and illustrator, living and working in Nottingham, UK - Eloise Renouf creates decorative yet simple, colourful but thoughtful collages inspired by the outside and rethought on the inside.

@eloiserenouf

BRRCH

June 11, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Craft, Lifestyle, Portfolios, Photography, USA

BRRCH is the NY-based floral project of Brittany Asch, founded in 2013 on the principle of delivering flowers as art to heighten the appreciation of the natural world around us.

With a deep respect For natural landscapes, Brittany aims to create Floral climates from worlds that do not exist, often elevating the flower Elements she shares into the realm of fantasy and Surreality. Her work with Flowers was once described as "What love would look like if love could materialize into floral form."

@brrch_floral

Baroque Punk by Asya Kozina

June 08, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Portfolios, Russia, Sculpture

Paper craft artists Asya Kozina & Dmitry Kozin were commissioned to create this masterpiece for ICART.

“Specially commissioned by our friends ICART, we created a modern portrait of a rebel businessman in the image of a punk. We believe that punk culture is in tune with modern business, which also constantly questions authorities, protests against obsolete rules, breaks down stereotypes and seeks its own way. In the Iroquois in the Baroque style, we have woven the symbolism of money, placing our hero in a powerful and provocative context.”

@asya_kozina

KIRO ╳ Zhostovo

April 27, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Design, Craft, Portfolios, Russia

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Ongoing collaboration “KIRO ╳ Zhostovo” is a clear example of how traditional folk art integrates with contemporary art. Abstract artworks of Irina Kiro (from her series “Emotionalia” she created during art residency at Mas els Igols, Spain) found new meanings as they transformed as an artistic reflection of traditional Zhosotovo painting on metal trays. The new visual meaning is painstakingly reproduced by masters from Zhosotovo factory strictly following classic cannons of 19 century.

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Blair Martin Cahill

December 23, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Craft, Portfolios, USA

“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

Hortensia Chair by Andrés Reisinger

December 19, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Design, Craft, Interior Design, Spain, Argentina

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.

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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

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Paper Wigs by Asya Kozina for Dolce Gabbana

December 18, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Fashion, Craft, Russia, Portfolios

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

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Paper-craft Honda advert by Noelia Lozano

December 06, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Advertising, Agencies, Craft, Spain, Motioncollector

HONDA commissioned Noelia’s Lozano studio to create some papercrafts animated sets for their Summer Special campaign. “All based on the first time doing something with your Honda Car, in this case we had the task to focus on the new Honda Civic shiny red car. So all the compositions and stories move around this baby hero.” - shares Noelia on Behance

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