Ricardo Gonzalez Lettering

IT’S A LIVING is not just a statement but it is also a life philosophy for Ricardo Gonzalez, a designer, and artist from Durango México currently living in Brooklyn. His signature script style can be easily recognised from large scale murals to commercial work for some of the biggest brands to a simple sticker in the streets.

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The ambiguity in the typographical messages continually creates a dialog between the viewer and the artwork. “A word is an image” and an image can be interpreted in so many ways, the direct approach of typography has been an exploring path where the main goal is to question our daily living and to produce a positive impact. After all, it’s a living.

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Louisa Salas

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.

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Influx

A mother finds herself sinking into a domestic violent relationship, until an influx of emotions is awakened within her.

‘Influx’ is a poetic short film that sinks into the themes of domestic violence, alcoholism, and love. Inspired by Leslie Morgan Steiner's TED talk: ‘Why domestic violence victims don’t leave’. And by the countless stories of mothers trapped in abusive relationships and the power of love for their children.

This film was made to spark hope and connect with those that find themselves in unhealthy domestic relationships. Given the current situation with the virus lockdown and recent rise in domestic abuse and alcoholism, the importance of having a dialogue with audiences regarding domestic violence is vital.

Written and Directed by: Daniel Uribe
Produced by: Jonathan Melton
Production Company: Curfew
Director of Photography: Htat Lin Htut

Paulette Jo

Mexican artist Paulette Jo shares her illustrative sketchbook shared on Tumblr

Rodrigo Chapa

Rodrigo Chapa is a Mexican artist who has been working with photography for the past decade. “In his series “Ausentes” (Absents), he makes reference to abstract expressionism by composing images with color field backgrounds and a dancer as the subject. He captures the movement and improvisation of the dancers, in which the record of the physical manifestation of the subject becomes the work of art.” via @trendland

Sense of Colour with Alejandra Garcia

Alejandro Garcia is a modern day child of Picasso and Kandinsky living in the land of colour - Mexico. Beside abstract lines-splashes-dots exploration she creates capsule collaborations for fashion brands that are obviously stick to her sense of form and colour. No doubts it is a win-win situation for both sides having artist developing her skills and industry catching their audience with bright patterns.

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Las Catástrofes by Mateo Pizarro

A series of drawings of imagined disasters drawn by Mateo Pizarro. The series is being shown in a similar arrangement in HeartEgo, a contemporary art gallery in Monterrey, Mexico.

Amorfo

Nowness presents director Andres Arochi

Iconic Mexican architect Luis Barragan’s Casa Gilardi — an iconic modernist house in Mexico City — hosts a body-bending dance troupe who twist and move through the geometric building’s colorful spaces and rooms. Director Andres Arochi explains his interest in experimenting with the physicality of Barragan’s architecture: “I wanted to play around with and explore the architect’s design. He knew exactly when and where people stand, and how the combination of light and space makes them feel.” Continuing, he notes that: “When we began shooting, magic started to happen. Light burst in through the window, and the dancer’s bodies started to flow in a way I had not anticipated.”

Jose Cuervo Celebration by Brian Williams

They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds

Shot by Brian Williams in the town of Tequila, the film is about more than just capturing the heart of a place, its people, or even the brand

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“Every now and again a job comes along that makes you remember why you love making films so much. Boys & Girls asked me to travel to the heart of Mexico to make a film for Jose Cuervo in the town of Tequila. Our mission, to capture the spirit of Jose Cuervo, the town and its people. This is the result and it became more than just a film for me, it was a trip I will always remember and a group of people I’ll never forget. Everybody mucked in to make this as special as it really was.”

— Brian Williams

Exec Producer: Michael Duffy
Producer: Dara McClatchie [Sound Recordist]
Director: Brian Williams
DoP: Joseph Ingersoll & Brian Williams
Editor: David Blake Run Robot
Music & Sound Design: Denis Kilty
Grade: MPC London
Post: SUPER 68

Client: Jose Cuervo
Agency: Boys and Girls
Creative Director: Laurence O’Byrne [Lighting Department]
Creative: Colm Coonagh [C Camera]
Account Director: Caroline Keogh [Camera Dept]
Copy: Rory Hamilton
Agency Producer: Derek Doyle [Key Grip]
Production Company: Butter

Los Terrenos by architect Tatiana Bilbao

For this new house project, Los Terrenos (The Terrains), Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao conceived a trio of small buildings (just under 2,200 square feet in total), each of which serves a specific function and emphasizes one of the three main materials in the project’s palette.

The largest of these, a structure covered in its entirety with a mirrored facade that contains an open living/dining/ kitchen space, allowing it to disappear into the surrounding vegetation; its peak-roofed profile mirrors those of the mountains, and concealed doors open the interior to the terrace beyond.

Photography by Rory Gardiner

OFFF Mexico 2017

Second, in a row, this month OFFF on Tour festival, now baked in 6th time in Mexico brings us amazing Official Titles created by the famous Framestore (guys behind dystopian environments in the new Blade Runner)

Sharon Lock, Head of Design Studio and Creative Director, of the work: "Creating the OFFF CDMX titles has been such an incredible and challenging experience for us all, and I'd like to thank Hector Ayuso for the opportunity to be part of such an iconic event. I'm really humbled that a complete indulgence of everything I love has been pulled together into a single piece of work by such a talented team of artists.

The team has learnt so much in such a short space of time, and it is testament to their dedication and commitment, working above and beyond in their own time, that we've managed to create such a beautiful sequence. I'm honoured that it has been for OFFF, whose creative integrity we've all admired for years."

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Concept and Direction: Sharon Lock
Design Director: Stephen Goalby
Lead Design and Edit: Steven Kelly
Art Direction and Design: Dan Herlihy

Designers:
Philip Rambowski
Yukari Schrickel
Louise Walker
Nikola Yordanov

Fire dress modelling: Alice Roseberry-Haynes
Houdini FX: Deniz Cinar

Colourist: Steffan Perry
Audio: Jon Dix (jondix.tumblr.com/)

Ball-point pen art by Alfredo Chamal

Visual artists from Mexico - Alfredo Chamal uses simple ball-point pen to create his photo realistic artworks. This medium is nothing new and used by prominent contemporary artists like Jan Fabre or famous illustrator Juan Casas . As for Alfredo it's a new way to reveal psychorealistic art that's rolling on in Mexico right now

Illustrations of César Canseco

Illustrator from Oaxaca, Mexico César Canseco aka Hdnn* shares his latest artworks available for purchase on Curioos

OFFF CDMX Main Titles

The OFFF CDMX Main Titles 2016 are directed and produced by MATERIA, an interdisciplinary collective, founded by Susi Sie and Remo Gambacciani.

The Main Titles for OFFF CDMX 2016 were produced by combining analog and digital techniques; blurring the boundaries to become one. Deeply inspired by the complexity of nature, MATERIA explores the uniqueness of highly detailed structures and organic shapes.

The score is composed and played by Nikolai von Sallwitz using real instruments (such as cello, bows, cymbals, woods, sticks and kalimba’s combined with voice and piezo mic) and hardware FX (such as analog synths, loads of stomp boxes like ring modulator, pitcher/octaver, delay, grain synthesis, reverbs, looper, filters and analog drum machine).

White Canvas Installation by Cocolab

An immersive audiovisual installation created by Cocolab commissioned by ARCA, presented at TagCDMX 2016

Hueso Restaurant

"An enormous curiosity cabinet painted entirely white, Hueso inMexico’s Guadalajara city, is a restaurant that’s more of a work of art than anything else. Created by celebrity chef Alfonso Cadenaand designed by his brother Ignacio Cadena ofCadena+Asociados Concept Design studio, the unconventional albeit somewhat chilling interiors of this restaurant are second to none."

Art of Carlos ARL

Mexico-based artist Carlos ARL has pretty nice collection of portraits mainly female in portfolio

Paul Fuentes

Paul Fuentes is a graphic designer, based in Mexico City, who enjoys staging everyday objects into surreal and colorful compositions creating pop mashups.

A photo posted by Paul Fuentes • The New Pop Art (@paulfuentes_design) on May 15, 2016 at 8:13pm PDT

A photo posted by Paul Fuentes • The New Pop Art (@paulfuentes_design) on Apr 27, 2016 at 12:01pm PDT

3D Characters designed by Aarón Martínez

Mexico based designer Aarón Martínez creates awesome characters for different editorials and commericials

Virtual Topographies Of Jhovany Quiroz

We are getting close to the open contest of Designcollector Digital Decade + OFFF15 (will announce soon), that will explore Glitch in its beauty this May. Meanwhile dig the exploding, virtual topographies of Jhovany Quiroz. Starting with a single image, he deconstructs 3D terrain using commonplace imaging apps. From the iPhone Camera and Photo Editor, to Mextures (for layers, light leaks, and emulsion effects) and Glitché (for three-dimensional imaging), his digital arsenal yields artworks that resemble what we imagine it would look like if a stick of dynamite was sucked into a black hole.