Melancholy dipped in sunshine by Kalle Hellzen

May 23, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, Illustration, Netherlands, Portfolios

Kalle Hellzen discovered his passion for art in his 40th. For him, being colourblind is not a barrier to creating awe-inspiring art. His condition enhances reds, dims blues and blurs mid-spectrum colours, which is why he's making incredible contrast in his work. But it's his process itself which is fascinating.

Calais begins with oil and acrylic paintings, creating original bases from which to work. He then works digitally with tools like Photoshop to generate print compositions. He often captures subjects in pause, falling, or contemplation, exploring the human experience of enduring and navigating life's challenges. Combining traditional printing, painting, varnishing, and pouring layers of gloss acrylic medium, he crafts one-of-a-kind original prints, describing his work as melancholy dipped in sunshine.

@artbykallehellzen

Spring Coolers by Moreno Schweikle

May 20, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, Design, Germany

Spring Coolers by Moreno Schweikle, launched in 2021, still feels fresh, especially in today's workplace design and post-pandemic social context. As part of Balenciaga’s Art in Stores project, Schweikle’s work stands out by subtly challenging the emphasis on pure function in industrial design.

At first glance, a water cooler might seem like an unlikely muse unless you are a fan of pre-COVID office small talks. But Schweikle transforms this routine object into a sculptural reinterpretation, blending it with neoclassical elements that recall historic city fountains. Spring Coolers changes the game by making designs about beauty as well as usefulness in the workplace.

By turning "grabbing water" into a social event, Schweikle transforms the cooler into a modern meeting place—an open space where people can talk freely. In Balenciaga’s Art in Stores project, Spring Coolers is notable for its subtle insight and cultural importance, showing that even simple objects can hold significance.
Created in 2021, this work feels especially relevant today.

Portraits in Prism by Irina Kiro

May 16, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Illustration, Lifestyle, Portfolios

Irina Kiro, a seasoned graphic designer turned illustrator, brings a bold visual punch to the portrait format in her electrifying series Portraits. Known for her vibrant minimalist approach, Kiro reinterprets faces through a kaleidoscopic lens of colour, geometry, and mood. Each piece in the series pulses with layered hues—blues, purples, tangerines—merging expressive emotion with the clean efficiency of vector art.

Her decade-long career that we covered through our pages informs her keen eye for composition and storytelling. In Portraits, she distills personality into angular forms and radiant overlays, achieving a striking harmony between abstraction and humanity.

With an impressive roster of clients including Wired, The Guardian, L’Oréal, and Kiehl’s, Kiro proves that minimalist illustration can still be emotionally rich—and wildly captivating. Portraits is not just a collection of faces; it’s a celebration of identity in technicolor.

irinakiro.com

Francisco Ratti

May 12, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, Argentina, Digital Art, Portfolios

“My artistic practice develops around the different possible ways of creating images, dialoguing with tradition and art history from a current perspective. I am interested in constructing an image permeable to the present and reality that establishes an explicit dialogue with the digital image. I address traditional painting about new media and ways of looking at and translating reality. A question underlies this work:
How do we look at a painting, and how do we look at a screen?”

— Francisco Ratti

Francisco Ratti grew up amidst Patagonia's dry winds and vast open spaces, where he first discovered his connection to painting. He later earned his Bachelor's degree and now teaches painting as a professor of visual arts at the Faculty of Arts, National University of La Plata. Based in La Plata, where he lives and works, Ratti's artistic practice explores the concept of surfaces, opening up thoughtful dialogues between the digital and analogue realms.

Ratti paints from a place of contradiction and doubt, where every colour, form, and gesture interrogates itself. For him, uncertainty is not a weakness but a generative force—an insistence that gradually sharpens into clarity. His work emerges from internal battles, where buried images resurface, dissolve, and reconfigure. Ratti sees disorientation as essential; getting lost becomes a pathway to recognition.

In the suspended space between dawn and dusk, his painting becomes both wound and river — a site of confrontation, transformation, and fleeting wholeness.

The Secret Life Of Everyday Things

May 08, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Portfolios, Motioncollector

Long time no motion design feature on our pages!

Digital artist Sebastian Marek shared his latest visual story of everyday things’ secret life.

"The Secret Life of Everyday Things" is a surreal animated journey where the ordinary transforms into the extraordinary. With seamless, flowing visuals, household items break free from their usual functions and take on unexpected roles, blurring the line between reality and imagination. It serves as a reminder that even the simplest things can reveal unexpected wonders when viewed through a different lens.

sebastianmarek.com

Nick Cave "Wild God" Identity by OneTenEleven

May 02, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Branding, Design, Graphic Design, Lettering, Motioncollector, United Kingdom, Agencies

Wild God is the eighteenth studio album by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on 30 August 2024 on PIAS.

Nick Cave’s marketing team approached OneTenEleven (lead by Antony Kitson you may remember from our Digital Decade events) in late 2023

Forming Wild God

When Nick shared his vision for Wild God, it was clear the name carried a deep, almost spiritual weight — dark yet full of hope. We embraced that feeling by keeping the design bold and minimal, like a sacred sculpture. The cover isn’t just graphic — it’s real, made from hand-placed, heat-molded white plastic letters, giving the title physical presence.

The Wild God Tour

For The Wild God Tour, the team developed a bold visual identity featuring variations of the title design across posters, banners, and billboards. An infinite colour-phasing animation served as the tour's intro, with large-scale screens integrated into each venue. Digital assets were delivered in multiple resolutions, and in collaboration between “Thunderwing & Nick Cave” and OneTenEleven, animated lyric visuals — personally curated by Nick Cave — were created to accompany live performances, reflecting his input on motion and colour direction.

Vinyl & CD Packaging

3D pack shots created for the Wild God campaign. Created from Thunderwing’s artwork, 3D modelling in Cinema4D, textures & lighting with Redshift.

Lyrics Videos

Created for the Wild God Album Campaign throughout 2024/25.

studio.oneteneleven.com

Stephan Duq

May 29, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Digital Art, NFT Art, Portfolios, Netherlands, Motioncollector

Stephan's work, often dark yet undeniably fascinating, delves deep into the infinite duality within us. It’s a journey that unveils the concealed harmony within our souls.

He often mixes these flowers with living metals to show his quest for harmony and balance. His artistic approach to the artwork fuses traditional concepts of sculpting and painting with the application of cold, complex digital algorithms.

His approach to his work and the contrast within the designs allowed for a nontypical visual style that could not be replicated.

Stephan's work aims to revive his collectors’ interest in romanticism. In a world filled with cushioned meaning, his work may be an empty solace in which we don't have to find meaning but can just be.

stephanduq.com

Tania Font

May 28, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture

Tania Font is a versatile artist trained in painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture, and jewellery. Her diverse skills have led her to work on theatre and television scenography and collaborate with biologist Ramon López on hyper-realist scientific sculptures for museums.

Font’s art profoundly explores the human figure, focusing on women. Her work delves deep into the construction and deconstruction of feminine identity, offering a unique perspective on women's complex relationship with language, a relationship often marked by a long history of silence. This depth of exploration sets her work apart and makes it so significant in the contemporary art scene.

Font creates impactful art pieces reflecting society and culture, standing out in today's art scene. Her work speaks to diverse stories and delves into the complexity of human life.

@taniafont

Magic world of digital artist Alariko

May 27, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Digital Art, Illustration, Portfolios, Spain

Dive into the serene atmosphere of small towns created by Spanish artists working under the Alariko moniker. There is little to tell about the artist, but the works speak for themselves. Mainly using a rectangle brushstroke, they create beautiful scenery worth a full-length animation.

@alariko

Coalescence by Delfin Finley

May 13, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Art, USA, Portfolios

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Delfin Finley is drawn to the enigmatic beauty of the human figure. As a child, he often sketched in notebooks, influenced by the vibrant murals and graffiti of South Central. His love for graffiti gradually evolved into a dedicated painting practice by the time he graduated high school. While refining his skills at Santa Monica College and ArtCenter, Finley found inspiration in the majestic works of William-Adolphe Bouguereau and John Singer Sargent. He admired their tactile depth but felt disconnected due to their exclusive focus on white subjects. This tension led him to pursue oil portraiture, painting individuals in his creative circles like Tyler, the Creator, and Earl Sweatshirt.

His series "Coalescence" represents a significant shift in Finley’s style. Building upon his fascination with the human figure, he incorporates a rope motif explored in group shows like "Shattered Glass" at Jeffrey Deitch in 2021. For Finley, the ropes symbolise the pleasures and traumas of Black and brown communities in the U.S. They intertwine with history, forming a resilient bond woven into the essence of identity.

With his raw painting talent, Delfin Finley's lifelike oil portraits offer poignant reflections on racism's impact. His work challenges viewers to reconsider biases, fostering empathy and connection.

delfinfinley.com

Anya Asano

May 06, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Digital Art, Illustration, NFT Art, Portfolios

Anya Asano, a digital artist, seamlessly transitioned from a decade-long traditional painting career to the immersive world of NFTs, marking an evolution in his expressive journey.

With roots in traditional art school, Asano's work transcends boundaries, fusing digital technologies to create a unique visual language. They craft abstract and figurative amalgamations using tools like Blender, After Effects, AI algorithms, and glitch techniques, where the virtual and the real intertwine in a vibrant dance of pixels and polygons.

www.ayenwhyay.com

Jose Lopez Vergara Art

May 23, 2022 by Arseny Vesnin in 2022, Art, Portfolios, Spain

@joselopezvergara_

Jose Lopez Vergara was born in Mexico City in 1994 and raised in Madrid, Spain. In 2003 he had an accident that permanently impaired the movement of his right arm. During a long recovery period he was encouraged to cultivate his interest in drawing and develop his innate artistic abilities. Jose spent his teenage years painting murals with spray paint and creating hyper realistic drawings with coloured pencils. Having explored different creative paths, finally his interests led him to oil painting. He then went on to study classical drawing and painting from 2016 to 2021 in Florence and New York following a tradition that goes back to the Renaissance.

Vergara’s work centres on the search for an idealised representation of everyday life, current events and universal emotion. He’s influenced by art of many cultures of the past and present. Although his realist technique requires a strict methodology and rational thinking, his compositions rely on subconscious impulses and demand an abstract expression. His interest in the silhouette and minimal design plays a central role in his work and continues to open many paths for exploration.

www.joselopezvergara.com

OFFF 2022 Official Titles by GMUNK

May 12, 2022 by Arseny Vesnin in 2022, Digital Art, Motioncollector, OFFF, Spain

DECIMA

Official closing short movie for OFFF Festival 2022

DECIMA is a short film exploring themes of mortality, empowerment, soul passage and illumination produced and directed by GMUNK. The film focuses on the human condition nested within the control of a cult of robotic shamans called The Vi, and examines the deep emotional connection to loss and rebirth.

Roads Not Taken - Ouche NFT Show by OFFF

May 04, 2022 by Arseny Vesnin in 2022, NFT Art, OFFF, Spain

At the edge, creating the extraordinary

OFFF Festival (5-7 May, 2022) presents Ouche, a climate-forward and trustworthy NFT cultural home for artists and collectors, where we buy not just art, but stories.

Find the IRL gallery at OFFF Festival, Barcelona, on top of DHUB!

Roads Not Taken

Roads Not Taken offers an exciting glimpse into the alternate selves of the creatives luminaries who continue to pave the way forward, being the fuel for your imagination.

Showcases a collection of perspectives and artworks from around the world that translate our "today" into timeless essays and visual inspiration for you lovers and creative sexy beasts.

With true artists like Joshua Davis, Brendan Dawes, Six N. Five, Boldtron, Joëlle Snaith, Baugasm, Vasava, Jana Styblova, Pawel Nolbert and many others, we will get encouraged to take the road less traveled to watch all the differences that it will make.

Jana Stýblová

Pawel Nolbert

Designcollector (Arseny Vesnin) was humbled to co-curate “Roads Not Taken” by brining two promising NFT artists Jana Stýblová and Pawel Nolbert to the group show organised by OFFF Festival.

More artists and artworks from the NFT show

Crash by Pawel Nolbert

Erbium Nightmares by Jana Styblova

The Sinners by BAUGASM

Nº 03 TRINITY by Christoph Grünberger

Serendipity by JOËLLE

INSPO SIMULATOR by Boldtron

Ouche.art

LAUNCHING 5PM MAY 5!

First registered users on https://ouche.art/ and followers of @Ouche_art Twitter will get an airdrop design by VASAVA Studio

The Truth About Reality by David Christiaan

May 02, 2022 by Arseny Vesnin in 2022, Art, Netherlands, Portfolios

@davidchristiaanart

The Idea for this artwork came to me in two stages. Whilst I was laying in bath, I saw in my mind three overlapping mirrors. This image ignited my curiosity but that alone didn’t feel complete. I don’t remember exactly how the second part of the idea came to me but I was laying in bath again. This time the thought of arrows with black and white feathers shot in overlapping gold frames with silver surfaces came to my mind. This idea was very exiting for me because I could see the symbolic, mythological and metaphorical references in it. When I was making the actual artwork and thinking about it I was feeling very inspired. “This work needs to exist”. For me, the whole process of receiving the idea, making it (in secret) and then finally exposing friends and family to it for the first time, was a very satisfying experience.

“I’ve noticed that when most people first encounter this artwork they need some time to process what they are looking at. Although the individual objects and materials are recognisable you don’t immediately realise what you are seeing or where in the work to focus your attention. The relative visual complexity of this piece is a metaphor for the complexity of reality and truth. Hence the title of the subject. Since everyone has an individual experience when they view the work, the subject matter, which is clearly about perception, and the experience of the viewer actually become one. In this way the viewers experience becomes part of the artwork itself. I have found that without actually informing people about what I think this artwork means, it inspires thought and conversation regarding what our experience of reality actually is.”

— David Hutte

davidchristiaan.com

Masanori Ushiki

May 31, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Illustration, Japan, Portfolios

@ushikima

Japanese illustrator Masa Ushiki likes to present work tailored to the times and media of today. From humorous portraits to fashion conscious works based on aspects of boys’ culture such as manga, animation, special effects.

Daria Pekh

May 25, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Canada, Illustration, Portfolios

@sevenofnein

Talented illustrator Daria Pekh showcases her selected artworks on Instagram

Jam Sutton

May 17, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Sculpture, NFT Art, Portfolios, Digital Art

@jamsutton

Jam Sutton is a British artist exploring the space between technology and antiquity. Utilising 3d scanning, augmented reality, 3d printing and AI, Jam creates sculptures exploring identity and representations of the body in our digital age.

Starring into the Abyss

Fragmented frieze (Staring into the Abyss), 2020

Jam Sutton welcomes virtual visitors to ‘Staring into the Abyss’, a show featuring new artworks created in 2020. Displayed in an augmented reality installation, the show is accessible to the public in any location.

Bitten by the decorated statues, there was nothing glistening as temples do, there was chaos, 2020

Jam Suttons’ work explores technology, the human body, figures under tension, struggle and identity through sculpture and digital composites. The new work captures the human body through frantic, chaotic, isolated, fragmented, strong and fragile sensibilities. The exhibition title reflects times of uncertainty and turbulence, facing the unknown.

Through Constant Decay

‘Through Constant Decay’ augmented reality installation featuring 11 new AR sculptures. The sculptures will be released as NFTs on @niftygateway with @ivgalleryla this week

Jam Sutton NFT

Tattoo and dot painting art by Evan Lorenzen

May 11, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, Tattoo, Illustration

@artandsuchevan

Denver based artist Evan Lorenzen creates outstanding dot painting miniatures and tattoos

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Pierre Schmidt

May 07, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Germany, Portfolios

@dromsjel

German artist Pierre Schmidt, born in 1987 and also known as “drømsjel”, creates mind-bending imagery that combines digital illustration and collage techniques. He takes old-fashioned 20th-century style (sometimes pornographic) photographs and puts his own twist on them by manipulating each photo with his own vision of surrealism. Using photo manipulation, illustration, and collage, Pierre has found the perfect balance within each medium he utilizes, creating a diverse set terrifyingly beautiful pieces of art. His art can be found in Cosmopolitan, Vogue Italia, Hi-Fructose Magazine and Vice.