SPACES by Grant Yun

April 30, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, Portfolios, South Korea, NFT Art

Grant Riven Yun is a Korean-American digital artist known on the NFT scene for his minimalist “Neo-Precisionist” style, capturing quiet moments in American suburbia and landscapes. Balancing life as a medical student, breakdancer and NFT OG, Yun blends nostalgia and precision in digital scenes inspired by artists like Hopper and Sheeler. His work has been exhibited internationally and featured in collaborations with Moma, Sotheby’s auctions, and NFT platforms, providing a fresh perspective on the beauty of the everyday.

“SPACES, Grant Yun’s latest body of work, thoughtfully investigates the profound transformations in our built environments driven by technological innovation, automation, and shifting labor paradigms. Created over several years, Yun’s vector-based illustrations reflect critically upon how exponential advances in artificial intelligence, remote work, digitization, and data infrastructure have reshaped the relationships between humanity, productivity, and physical space.”

SPACES is a series of 20 artworks. Each is a 1/1 NFT edition with an accompanying 3 + 2 AP print, with print edition 1 available to the NFT holder at cost. They are available via 24hr auctions (Ξ0.1 reserves) on fellowship.xyz, starting at 1pm ET on Apr 30th.

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Juun.J Flagship Store by WGNB Korea

April 08, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Architecture, Interior Design, Photography, Portfolios, South Korea

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Seoul-based architects WGNB shares their latest design project created for Juun.J flagship store. Under the slogan “See the same thing but think differently”, WGNB pursues creating a new perspective through connecting the various inspirations of our daily lives with the spatial design. With the new perspective and flexible thoughts, WGNB redefines the boundaries between design that ranges from architecture, furniture to product design. Based on this creative goal, we seek to create a new sense of experience by collaborating with various genres of art.

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by WGNB

It’s the first flagship store of the fashion brand of Juun.J. It’s divided into two floors; the first floor comprising cafe and women’s wear, while the second floor men’s wear. We used natural elements such as light and shadow in order to express darkness within space using black – identity color of Juun.J brand. The shape of the architecture was initiated from geometry that is the basic form in all designs. Juun.J’s flagship store surely has a certain form but in the shape like a shadow without exact shape, which is similar to Juun.J as it invites endless curiosity to people.

We built our first flagship store where customers are able to experience at once all lines of not only men’s and women’s wear collections but of limited collaboration products at Dosan Park, Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

The flagship store is composed of the first and second floors with the total size of 396㎡. The first floor is arranged centred on women’s line and collaboration products, while the second floor displays men’s products. We at Juun..J provide differentiated brand experience to customers by arranging a garden as well as the best specialty coffee brand FELT COFFEE on the first floor so that they can experience a diverse range of brands at the same space.

Concept

“Black is a color symbolic of Juun.J and the most beautiful shadow out of the shapeless existences is also black.“

If we look at the traditional house structure in the East, large roof files are put above the house basically and the whole structure is absorbed into within the deep and wide shade generated by the awning. Deep darkness below the awning is shadow as well as black within the space.

In an attempt to turn black into space, we organised space by either hanging plenty of objet or separating them and generating shadows. All spaces except white part for women’s wear on the first floor are composed of varied densities of darkness. While the first floor has contrasts with some white part, clothes here are also hung in darkness. The space of cafe generates various darknesses due to natural light dramatically penetrating from the ceiling. And eaves spreading forward work as an awning and make visitors feel natural light coming as a result of reflection on the garden. They can see the garden from within the space and find another shadow as a tree is floating in the garden.

The shape of the architecture is composed of circle, quadrangle and triangle, basic forms in all designs and the architecture is designed with the concept of dark matters of the universe. Especially, the garden-shaped circle, which is a space drawing natural light, plays an important role in making this dark matter a striking contrast.

This architecture and space started very much from the Orienal way of thinking, and the structure of space and formative approach were complete based on the Western style. We expressed achromatic color of black as darkness within the space instead of a simple painting and, as far as the used materials are concerned, we diversely applied materials that black has intrinsically instead of painting them in black.

SOL Tattoo

December 03, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Tattoo, South Korea

@soltattoo

Long time no exceptional tattoo post.. Here we go with Seoul based master SOL creating multi-layered colourful pieces on a human skin

Cho Sung-Hee Art

November 26, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, South Korea

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In constructing the surface of her works, Sung-Hee uses a collage method in which many circles are hand-cut or gently torn from traditional “hanji” paper, then layered with oil pigments and placed one atop another. Sung-Hee successfully combines a traditional Korean sensibility with her unique vision and personal narrative. Her works explore the complex relationship between colour and texture through a labour intensive, time-consuming process.

PYRAMID

July 22, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Portfolios, Motioncollector, South Korea

A short animation by Ihsu Yoon, artist & director with a background in architecture, created in collaboration with Giantstep as a part of Asymmetry project

“Pyramids are the ancient monuments where people worshiped their gods. My concept is re-interpreting the pyramid in modern society where individualism is appreciated. The concept of the god has been changed and considering oneself as a god has become trendy. People can experience spiritual meditation through climbing up to the top of each stair way. On each top, there are the lights on the floor and ceiling which represents their own Sun (the concept of ancient god). Maybe people can feel themselves directly connected to indescribable power. About the installation movement, each stair way is connected with each ring ground and spins by some interacting way with the audiences. By the spin, it eventually shows the extended form of cone or pyramid”

@ihsuyoon

Illustrations by Womi

May 21, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Illustration, South Korea, Portfolios

Talented illustrator from Seoul Jordan Hongdae working under Womi moniker shares the best of their skills

@womi_s

WAVE Public Media Art

May 20, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Advertising, Agencies, Digital Art, South Korea, Motioncollector

Seoul-based company d'strict shares their latest digital case 'WAVE' with anamorphic illusion that has been successfully revealed on a building of Coex Artium, featuring the largest and high-definition outdoor advertising screen in South Korea at 80m x 20m

@dstrictholdings

Hana Ju

March 26, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, South Korea, Portfolios

El Greco, Salvador Dalí and Egon Schiele went in to the bar and met Hana Ju depicting the madness of real world in a way she got blood mix from all of them.

“I looked at myself on the canvas, painted with different colors, and I faced the courage that I still could not get through. I decided to subtract a lot of the rhetoric that I used to express myself. I pulled away from the bubbles and decoration which was on me, just me being myself, I took out the colors on my canvas to meet my raw self. Through this series of processes, I tried to look at myself, who was in a deeper place, that I ignored, as who I am. I want to accept it. I believe that my gaze will be able to face others without judging, and accept them as who they are.”

— Hana Ju

Nasus' Secret Garden

March 18, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Illustration, South Korea, Portfolios

Moving illustration for [INVADE ART] exhibit created by Mr Misang, depicting a legend of “Nasus and Shurima”

@mrmisang

Min Kyung illustration

March 16, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Advertising, Illustration, Portfolios, South Korea

Korean illustrator Minkyung shares his skills in a flat styled manner

@minggg.u

Kasiq Jungwoo Illustration

January 27, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Illustration, Portfolios, South Korea

Talented illustrator from South Korea, Kasiq Jungwoo shares his skills in catching the character in watercolours

@kasiqjungwoo

Monument - Paradise Projection

January 16, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Motioncollector, South Korea, Agencies

WOOT Creative realised an epic project mapping on the wall of club Chroma on Paradise City island near Seoul dubbed as the biggest club in the world

@wootcreative

Zipcy Illustrations

November 19, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Illustration, South Korea, Portfolios

Zipcy is an illustrator looking for moderate sensual pleasures by having much curiosity about the humanity and society

@zipcy

Second Layer by Kim Byungkwan

November 18, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Portfolios, South Korea

“Classic icon must be distorted when they’ve got through all the journey of time and culture. What I can do is that just assume the PAST filtered through these thick and blur lenses. So, What I paint would not be the icon itself but the surface of lens of time, which might be just stretched, or by which the image could be deformed or vaguer.”

— Kim Byungkwan

@painterkim

Mikyung Lee Illustrations

July 23, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Illustration, South Korea, Portfolios

Mikyung Lee is Korean illustrator based in Seoul, Korea.

She loves to create scenes of poetry mood and unrealistic images as well as drawing emotions. She sometimes makes GIFs.

Selected clients: Google, Penguin Random House, Airbnb, New Yorker, New York Times, The Guardian, BuzzFeed news, Playboy, Elysium Health, Snapchat, Medium, and many others.

@mikyung__lee

Kwang Young Chun

April 24, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, South Korea, Portfolios

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“South Korean artist Kwang Young Chun wraps tiny geometric packages in paper and combines them into massive wall-mounted and freestanding assemblages. Each composition is composed of thousands of individual mulberry paper parcels, carefully toned with tea and pigment and including the abstracted characters that allude to the paper’s origins as old documents. The works, which Chun refers to as ‘agreggations’, feature gradations in color and smooth craters within their highly textured surfaces.”

@kwangyoungchun

Jang Dong Won

January 08, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Instagram, Photography, Portfolios, South Korea, 2019, TOP 2019

Master of mellow sunsets and manipulated golden hours artist Jang Dong Won creates illusions we all deserve at the end of the day

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@hello_dongwon

Beautiful Office Life by Superfiction

May 21, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Agencies, Graphic Design, South Korea, Motioncollector, 2018

It's Monday and time to enjoy your Beautiful Office same ways as fictional character Paul does. He is a creature of SUPERFICTION Studio based in Seoul, that focuses on 'fiction' in the word 'Science Fiction'. They lead a story using the term that means the 'great story' and the ‘real lie’ at the same time.

@superfiction_sf

Illustrations by WanJim Gim

February 28, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Illustration, South Korea, Portfolios, 2018

"Seoul-based artist WanJim Gim illustrates the form and gesture of the human body using complex hatched layers of color and dramatic lighting. He adds intrigue to poses that could be considered traditional figure drawing studies by adding abstracted lines and watercolor washes that integrate the fragmented body parts into a larger visual field."

@willeys_art

Not an Apple Smart Glasses

February 23, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, Portfolios, South Korea, 2018

Award-winning Korean industrial design student Taeyeon Kim take the shortest way to internet recognition by riding a hype of "yet not an Apple" product. His take on Smart Glasses went well and got a massive response online. The hommage for Steve Job's glasses is clear and gracefully naive while the overall "willy wonka" look&feel is pretty nice and playful

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