JR Installs Two Athletes In Rio

"The famed French street artist JR has struck again, this time with two giant athlete installations across Rio de Janeiro in anticipation of the upcoming Olympic Games the city will host. Created as part of JR’s ongoing ‘inside out’ project, the pair of athletes are created on the construction scaffolding being used to prepare the city’s buildings ahead of the games. The first athlete, a high jumper, is the 27-year old Sudan-born, Germany-based Mohamed Younes Idriss, who “missed out on qualification for the 2016 rio olympics but he is there some how,” according to JR. The second installation, located near the water, represents a diver jumping into the water." via iGNANT

ZONT synthesizer by Pavel Golovkin

Russian product and motion designer based in New York - Pavel Golovkin released a concept of minimal-looking pocket synthesizer ZONT built for sound geeks and electronic music composers. We are not sure if he is going to run a crowdfunding campaign but it can be worth of it.

“The Zont synth is the kind of product that is so beautiful that you want to believe it would help you immediately lay down a killer beat upon picking it up. I know I’m dying to try it, and I am about as confident in my music-making prowess as I am in my ability to do rocket science.”

— The Verge

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Instagram.exe

Russian animator Misha Petrick imagined Instagram existed in Win95 era, time of hate/love to interface and software races.

FAT Lamp by Constantin Bolimond

“If the brain has the wrong prior knowledge, our perception will be false. With modern technology we can make many novel pictures that the brain has not been designed to comprehend.
We cannot avoid having false perceptions of these pictures. One object that it is almost impossible to perceive correctly is the inside of a hollow mask of a face. When we look inside this hollow mask, we cannot help but see it as a normal convex face. Our prior belief that faces are convex and not hollow is too strong to be modified. If the mask is slowly rotating, an additional illusion is caused. Because we see the mask inverted, the tip of the nose appears to be the nearest part of the face, when it is in fact the part that is furthest away. As a result we misinterpret the movement of the mask and see the direction of the rotation reverse whenever we are looking into the hollow.”

— Chris Frith

Belarusian product designer Constantin Bolimond and character artist Vasilii Mialick created a concept of a lamp that likes noodles too much

Adri Godis Urban Photography

Adriana Godoy aka Adri Godis is Buenos Aires based urban photographer exploring the city scape through the fair lenses, light and a bit of magic

Facade Type Graffiti by Sergey Rasskazov

Saint-Petersburg based typography artist Sergey Raskazov, founder of Type School and organiser of Typesburg event happening now, created a huge type lettering on historical building of recently refurbished Manege Art Expo Center. His team created a sign for exhibition of Russian group of contemporary artists that took a part in Venice Biennale of different years.

Quayola Captives #B04

“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped, and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; the sculptor’s hand can only break the spell to free the figures slumbering in the stone. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

— Michelangelo

In Spring 2016 Quayola presented solo exhibition Laocoön at One Canada Square in London. The exhibition was a continuation of the artist’s ongoing research into iconography, whereby he abstracts classical sculptures using digital rendering and production techniques. In so doing, Quayola creates new spaces in which relationships between classical and contemporary art forms and themes can be re-thought.

Plasticine Quotes by Jenue

Jenue is a Spanish Artist and Art director, who divides his time between Madrid and London. He makes playful images for editorials, music, and advertisements with his own colourful view and style. Check his latest project made of famous designer's quotes commissioned by AIGA

Illustration of Rich Kelly

Pittsburgh-based illustrator Rich Kelly shows amazing skills in creating visual stories for editorials, music covers and posters

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Art of Eric Wert

Explore carnivore "naturmort" art of Eric Wert

Double-exposure portraits by Nevess

Double-exposure or its imitation is nothing new on creative scene, but anyway it strongly depends on the quality of visuals selected for that. Young French artists Nevess does it very well sharing the best of collages on Instagram

Animated by George RedHawk

Watercolour Illustration by Oksana Dimitrenko

Illustrator from Moscow creates conceptual watercolour illustrations mainly portraits with a fairy-tale twist

Transcriptions

Montana-based artist and photographer Kyra Schmidt triggers an increased consciousness of landscape with her ‘Transcriptions’ series.

The Digital Decade IV London: How it was

We are happy to share official photographs from the event hosted by Designcollector and Youth Worldwide in London this July. As you may remember the topic of our annual digital art collaboration was "There is No Planet B" where curated and open contest artists faced the challenge to "Imagine there is no.." war or aggression, gender or racial issues, pollution or climate change. Nearly 30 artists were exhibited at Underdog Art Gallery in South London.

This could not happen without our main partner - Depositphotos and guys at Curioos behind awesome aluminium prints and their delivery.

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Samuel (Youth Worldwide), Kalyn (Curioos) and Arseny (Designcollector)

Photo by So!Fraiche

We were lucky to have a team of Youth Worldwide and ToandTo helping us a lot with exhibition instalment.

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YWW and Toandto installing exhibition

Media coverage was able because of So!Fraiche collective worked hard documenting everything we did at the opening night on July 4th. Bear with us till we release an official video of the event.

Official Exhibition Catalogue is on Sale now

Opening night photographs

Exhibition Installement

Artworks on the walls

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David Marinos, Min Htet Dipar and Nicolas Monin-Baroille

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Min and Nicolas with ARTISTMARK on the right

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Cityabyss and Alexander Gish

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Louise Mertens and Calvin Pausania

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Corner setup

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Contest winner Daria Po with 2x Elena Kulikova and Thompson Ekong

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Giga Kobidze and Gregoire Meyer

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Gregoire Meyer, Mart Biemans, Moe Pike Soe and Salim Adam

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Antony Kitson and Louise Mertens

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Xavier Bourdil, Cy Tone, Evgenij Soloviev, Anatoly Shabalin and Zouassi

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Tilemachos Michailidis, Giacomo Carmagnola and Desislava Desseva

Boeing 100 Director's Cut

“We created three spots to celebrate Boeing’s 100th anniversary. Executed using seamless design and hyper-real CG, we drew inspiration from engineering blueprints, as each spot captures the awe-inspiring process that starts with a single spark in the mind of a Boeing engineer, and finishes with a gravity defying roar of an engine taking a machine to unprecedented altitudes. From the historical, 1916 B&W plane to the 787 Dreamliner, Boeing products come alive, celebrating 100 years of technological triumphs in Space, Defense and Commercial travel.”

— AGGRESSIVE

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Anatomical Art Noveau Collages by FFO

Russian artist working under FFO Art name creates beautiful collages and illustrations based on anatomical vintage drawings and "art nouveau" posters. You can purchase any of her works on Society6 page

Peony Yip Illustration

“What if, instead of oozing blood, we sprouted flowers? “To Bloom Not Bleed” by Peony Yip illustrates this idea, portraying “the fine line between the grotesque and beauty of death.” A gutted fish, instead of looking limp and lifeless, reveals its insides to be a bouquet of peonies and roses. It’s a notion that makes death appear almost romantic.”

— Illusion Scen360 Magazine

Modern Brands styled as they come from the USSR

As a kid born in the USSR I can't admit  I have a lot of nostalgia for that period but it definitely has a good examples of graphic design especially typography. Keeping this in mind Saint-Petersburg based designer Mike Levchenko approached the idea of rebranding famous global trade marks using so say "USSR" or "Soviet" style.

Cupola Light by Studio AMeBe

“Italian Studio AMeBE pays homage to the stunning architectural beauty of Saint Peter’s Basilica by recreating it as a magnificent lamp. The hanging light fixture focuses its attention on the Vatican City’s iconic dome, using a hyperrealistic approach to craft a striking likeness. Designers Alessandra Mantovani and Eleonora Barbareschi—the duo behind Studio AMeBE—hand painted the ornate and weathered exterior as well as the religious scenes that line the inside. From certain angles, the miniaturized structure could be the real thing.”

— MyModernMET

www.studioamebe.com

Art of Jessica Rimondi

Jessica is an Italian artist studied at the Academia Albertina di Belle Arti of Turin and now lives and works in Berlin.

“My work is a challenge to find a paint method that could be sensory, emotional but cruelly true and real at the same time. I take people I know or find and I get inspired from their natural gesture and the sensation that I find in them. I observe what they evoke in me, and I want to transfer this kind of emotional feeling to the people that observe my paintings. I try to find a way to let my figures breath, move, think – but not only in their physical appearance. I don’t want to make a realistic paint, but a real painting, with all the sensation of their action. This is why I start from gesture, because is instinctive, it is pure, it is just a reaction to something external about us. Then I arrive to work on flesh with this caducity or freshness. This is the approach on my artwork, a continuous curiosity in development, life, communication, exchange.”

— Jessica Rimondi