3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Shipping containers are stacked on a floating platform to create these buoyant student halls of residence designed by Bjarke Ingels' firm for Copenhagen harbour (+ slideshow).
The project named Urban Rigger aims to provide low-cost housing for students in the centre of the Copenhagen, docked in the harbour.
BIG's scheme comprises nine shipping containers stacked and arranged on a floating base, to create 15 studio residences over two levels.
"San Francisco-based Swedish photographer Gabriel Isak creates surreal images featuring a dark, melancholic atmosphere. As he states on his Instagram, his life consist of the three: birds, ocean and the fog, which are also central elements in his photography. Gabriel Isak’s objective is to bring his experiences to life in a way that’s relatable to others. You can also follow him on Facebook."
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).
Director of recent viral video for My Little Paris (case on Behance), Francois Peyranne shares his latest photographic project "All you need is blue"
Talented Russian illustrator based in Moscow - Anastasia Lisich creates beautiful watercolour portraits
Adrian Smith "Charlie", a part of duo "Charlie & Blair" (with Heather Lockhart) created a self-portrait "Untitled" using 2124 porcelain painted vessels
photo credit: Michelle Smith
“Each vessel was hand thrown over a period of two months. As they came off the wheel I didn’t try and alter/perfect the shape of the vessel. Instead, I wanted to keep each vessel in their current state in order to capture a moment in time. These individual imperfections as a whole aren’t noticeable until the viewer approaches the piece. These subtle imperfections reflect my sense of identity and personal pursuit for perfection. Everyone has flaws and it isn’t until you get to a deeper level in a relationship, or closer to the subject matter that you notice these cracks and flaws. I used a stippling technique on each individual vessel that from up close has a perspective of scattered dots, but from afar the viewer receives a completed image of the artist. This shift in perspective creates alternating views depending on the angle and distance that the artwork is being received. I wanted to keep the facial expression neutral so the viewer can bring their own experiences to the subject matter. By doing this the viewer is interpreting the subject matter from their perspective and in a sense are critiquing the piece based on face value. The repetition of the vessels reflects my pursuit of perfection. By repeating the same vessel, I was guided by feel and sight to ultimately create a uniformed scale piece.”
Talented Russian designer Ruslan Khasanov, famous for his experiments with liquids and colour, shared his set of recent typography projects
London-based professional artist, illustrator, street artist, animator Dan Kitchener worka across all media. After you have seen his huge mural paintings you will never mess him up with any street artist ever. Same to say about canvas artworks set by him for sale
French artist Cyril Rolando creates surreal fantasy universes inspired by Hayao Miyazaki and Tim Burton
“Tim Burton and Hayao Miyazaki are both the roots of my own world. I like the surrealism movement, especially the work of Boris Vian and his ‘Foam of the Daze’ (L’Ecume des jours). I like the absurdity, the creativity and the enchanting universes, where colors bring more emotions than thousands smiles or million tears”
"Whatshisname" is an art alias of Polish artist living in London. His recent works includes punk parody on Koons "balloon" art - POPek Red, a statue of squatting balloon dog.
POPek Red Large
“The aim of my art is to express what cannot be express with words. I want to encourage the viewer to look at surrounding world and question it in derisive, unorthodox way.”
POPek Red Small
Knife sharpener
Riots Lamps
P Magazine
Russian photographer Stas Kalashnikov based in Paris shoots model photography for vast range of fashion editorials, collections and brands
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"Babeth Lafon is a beauty and lifestyle illustrator from Paris currently based in Berlin. Her work is characterised by pastel colours, layers of transparent washes and brushy textures which she creates for fashion magazines, cosmetics packagings and luxury brands." via
“I was born in Paris from French/Vietnamese parents who fled the war in the ‘70s, and as a teen, I’ve always thought of Saigon as my ‘real’ hometown (both my parents were born there).
Until I went backpacking there for a few weeks as a young woman, and realised that Paris was definitely my one and only hometown. I felt like a stranger in Vietnam, much more so than all the constant racism I grew up with in France could ever make me feel.
Still to this day, I have fantasies of tropical windows, sleepy hot afternoons and colourful details mixing up with my actual teenage years memories and obsessions – a mash-up made of bits and pieces from my real teenage bedroom in Paris and a dreamy Saigon, one I’ll never get to see. Now at last, it exists here, and strangely I feel more complete”
Moscow-based digital artist Alexei Sovertkov made a parody on modern society by reimaging selfie as an art masterpiece
Istanbul artist Aykut Aydoğdu (previously) shares new set of striking illustrations
"Acrylicize is a London-based art collective and consultancy who design and produce unique, made to order art installations for special spaces. They create original works that blur the boundaries between Art and brand and express identity in new and unique ways. Below we listed some of their award-winning works in a wide variety of sectors"
Animation artist Ori Toor (previously) shares a new series of strange and soft creatures living on his Tumblr account
We love Peechaya's minimalistic approach to create perfectly balanced image every time she has a new idea often spiced by some double meanings.
“My photographs mainly consist of things that I create or manipulate by hand. Occasionally I use Photoshop when enhancing the idea and presentation of an image fits well. Driven by childhood memories and very much fascinated by children’s imagination and their quirkiness, the direction of my photography is light, easy to approach with a little touch of everyday optimism.”
Colombian artist based in Barcelona Cesar Biojo is famous for "destroying" the object of painting in his only manner. This involves techniques such as adding blobs of paint or smearing what is before him, the works created give way to the imperfections existent in all humans.
It's official now - we live in a crazy world :) Snapchat, which is now a part of Snap Inc released its first physical object designed for generation Y - Snap Spectacles. Forget Google Glasses that provoked passerby to punch a face of their owner for spying/not spying. Spectacles are fancy sunglasses with an integrated video camera that makes it easy to create Memories.
