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French Canadian actress and illustrator Charlotte Le Bon has a lovely portfolio full of hearty artworks ready to buy and hang on your walls
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Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc is on a mission to capture portraits of women from every country in the world in order to shed light on the beauty that exists everywhere. A little over two years ago, at the age of 27, Noroc quit her job, withdrew all her life savings, and embarked on an incredible journey across the globe with little more than her camera and backpack. Her travels so far are documented in
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Designcollector is extremely happy to open
this year and had a great opportunity to work with him on
The Digital Decade III: His Majesty The Glitch
project earlier this year (featuring his work you see above in Barcelona, OFFF2015 Festival) “
I’m completely absorbed by glitch art. I’ve always been attracted to its aesthetics; I’m not talking about philosophy or higher concepts, but just its plain visual pleasure,
” says Giacomo. From the burning monk in “Saigon” to Jesus’s crucifixion in “Meltchrist” – the digital artist combines the old and new to create a symbolic modern image. “
I see these images as an alternative beauty. I find it extremely fascinating how the same image can change so much by keeping its original 'skeleton'. Of course they’re also visually impactful. But before this, I find them simply beautiful.
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You might remember Ukrainian artist
taking over XX-century art with her Emoji Nation project last year. Here is her countrymate
brining the art twist to our modern-day life. Alexey's imagintational world is where Bouguereau’s Song of the Angels appears to take place on an empty subway car while a pair of men from Holbein’s famous The Ambassadors are transported to the table of a seedy bar.
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Sean Yoro aka
is a new kind of street artist levelling up the global awareness with his environmental water and even icebergs murals. Hula travels the world creating paintings which capture the emotions and interactions between the figures and their environment. With each piece, Hula merges his backgrounds in both street and fine art.
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Definitely a new breed of
emerged this year, and here is one of the best, as we see him. Art director
looks for simple backgrounds, takes two photographs, and then carefully arranges them together. The early #combophoto project shots were taken with an iPhone, but McMennamy recently bought a new camera to improve the quality, and occasionally uses a drone.
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Louise is our personal selection from rising mixed media artists. We were extremely happy to work with her on unreleased
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this year. Being a model and an artist on one hand is a double-win, on another is a massive responsibilities for personal challenges. Louise achieves them with a speed of a pain that she splatters across handmade photography collages. After dry up she complete the artwork digitally and send it over fashion editorial or personal exhibition, signed and stamped. She has completed Sagmeister&Walsh internship recently and now working in here hometown of Antwerp delivering fashion collages and exhibiting them offline and online. Must follow on Behance
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The year 2015 is definitely the one to remember with a huge development of 3D Printing. Everyone who started to work with this tricky technique is a pioneer of his industry. Same to say about fashion designer Danit Peleg and her printable generative dresses. We will remember her as the first designer to bring serious 3D printing to the catwalk. “
In September 2014 I started working on my graduate collection for my Fashion Design degree at Shenkar. This year, I decided to work with 3D printing, which I barely knew anything about. I wanted to check if it’d be possible to create an entire garment using technology accessible to anyone. So I embarked on my 3D printing journey, without really knowing what the end result would be.
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Self-made man,
is now a trendsetter in calligraphy, fashion and street art industries. His latest work has been merely named the largest calligraphy in the world and was made using 800l of paint on a huge factory roof. This year Pokras did a huge amount of collaboration from fashion to packaging and set up a new branch of the industry - calligrafuturism. Must follow on Instagram
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The knight of mystic digital illustration Yuri Shwedoff has just completed academic studies and developed his own way in the wood of screen art. What we admire the most and beside his unique talent is the ability to share workshops with others through online courses and illustration tutorials.
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With no doubts Max won our "Return of the Year" award with his come back to the motion design scene. As a young director he has a huge portfolio of commercial video but recently he developed himself as an animation short movie director. Max's latest work "Sputnik" is the ode to sci-fi, and apparently it hit strong whether your are a science fiction fan or not.
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The Paris-based illustrator Tom Haugomat (previously) has created four wonderful illustrations for the latest issue of the airline's in-flight magazine.
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Stunning mixed media portraits from Canadian artist Tim Okamura. Okamura “investigates identity, the urban environment, metaphor, and cultural iconography through a unique method of painting – one that combines an essentially ‘realist’ approach to the figure with collage, spray paint and mixed media.”
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"Originally designed by Asturian architect Manuel del Busto in 1912, the church of Santa Barbara in Llanera, Asturias, was abandoned for years and crumbling from neglect. Luckily, a group of enterprising individuals lead by a collective called the ‘Church Brigade,’ with help from online fundraising and Red Bull, the church was salvaged and turned into a public skate park dubbed Kaos Temple.
As if having a skate park inside a beautiful abandoned church wasn’t enough, artist Okuda San Miguel was commissioned to cover the walls and vaulted ceilings with his unique brand of colorful geometric figures." via Colossal
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You might remember Food Motion Feast designed for M&S last year. To repeat the success M&S Food (UK Grocery Retail) is back with a Christmas mouthwatering Adventures you may enjoy below
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Following successful revealing of "The Martian" UI Screen Graphics (Territory Studio) another one agency Rushes MGFXStudio came out with a detailed case of James Bond's SPECTRE interfaces story. Rushes were tasked with designing and creating all on-set UI screen graphics for SPECTRE. Over a 13 month period of working on the 24th Bond film, from pre-production through to post, in total Rushes MGFX Studio created more than an hours’ worth of unique animations and motion graphic sequences that furnished over 300 screens, across 23 scenes in the film.
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"Scanmania" is a kind of a handmade posters created by Spanish art director Ruben Montero using simple scanner to get the effect widely called "slitscan"
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A fluorescent energy is coming to earth on two wheels: it’s the new Yamaha MT-10 directed by Abstract Groove team
"Imagining a new exciting ride on the MT10 we explored once again ‘The Dark Side of Japan’, this time visualizing a trippy dimension inspired by 70's low-fi Japanese science fiction movies. But we also enjoyed sampling little elements from some dream-like cinema that we love… (from old classics like Kubrick’s 2001 - A Space Odyssey to more recent visions like Under my Skin by Jonathan Glazer.)"
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The most obscure motion artist of Russia - Max Zhestkov (previously) disappeared from the scene few years ago to work on his own short films production. He did a small come back year ago with Jupiter II movie that he decided to put down and focused on the release of another masterpiece named "SPUTNIK". Enjoy it now!
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It's time to start revealing our 5th Annual Cream of The Crop review (check previous under Fav navigation). Here is the generic selection of the Most Visited posts of 2015 generated using official website stats of nearly 2m page views.
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Male model Paul Mason has travelled the world to walk haute couture runways and has worked with the some of the top minds in the fashion industry. Last year, Paul joined the Yorkdale, Toronto team for the holiday season as Fashion Santa.
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Talented street artist, illustrator and tattooer SupaKitch (previously) created a super easy wall mount system for your creative posters - FrameFree, grab it till it get sold out
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"Rather than selecting one colour to represent all that’s going on in the world, Pantone chosen two – for the first time ever. Meet Rose Quartz and Serenity, together, the colours embody calm and relaxation – and they have a deeper meaning. The colours also symbolise a new embrace of gender fluidity, showing two stereotypically male and female colours coming together in one blur."
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"Virtual Depictions:San Francisco" is a public art project by media artist Refik Anadol (previously) consist of series of parametric data sculptures that tell the story of the city and people around us within a unique artistic approach for 350 Mission’s media wall in collaboration with Kilroy Realty Corporation / John Kilroy and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Architects.
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"Toronto-based artist Brian Donnelly uses turpentine and hand sanitizer to melt the faces of his portraits into rainbow rivers. Inspired by an interest in human identity and vulnerability, Donnelly paints from real life, portraying features of his subjects with realistic precision. He then allows the artworks’ colors to run, distorting the portraits’ faces."via
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International award-winning photographer Dave Sandford shares his latest photography affair with the ocean.
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You might remember the graphite animated self-portrait of UK based illustrator T.S.Abe we posted last year. Here is new updates with more animation drawings she did in a matter of this year for different occasions, mostly commissioned for fashion industry. Check the animated works on www.krop.com/tsabe and review full portfolio of T.S.Abe on www.tsabe.co.uk
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Designer Louisa Zahareas creates an optical illusion with her custom tea set ( the designer worked with computational geometry expert, Dianne Hansford). Says Zaharea of the idea behind the "Screen Mutations" project, “I wanted it to be humorous and light, but at the same time point to a real issue. How far are we willing to go to distort physical reality with how we are presenting ourselves on the web?”
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