OFFF Mexico 2017

Second, in a row, this month OFFF on Tour festival, now baked in 6th time in Mexico brings us amazing Official Titles created by the famous Framestore (guys behind dystopian environments in the new Blade Runner)

Sharon Lock, Head of Design Studio and Creative Director, of the work: "Creating the OFFF CDMX titles has been such an incredible and challenging experience for us all, and I'd like to thank Hector Ayuso for the opportunity to be part of such an iconic event. I'm really humbled that a complete indulgence of everything I love has been pulled together into a single piece of work by such a talented team of artists.

The team has learnt so much in such a short space of time, and it is testament to their dedication and commitment, working above and beyond in their own time, that we've managed to create such a beautiful sequence. I'm honoured that it has been for OFFF, whose creative integrity we've all admired for years."

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Concept and Direction: Sharon Lock
Design Director: Stephen Goalby
Lead Design and Edit: Steven Kelly
Art Direction and Design: Dan Herlihy

Designers:
Philip Rambowski
Yukari Schrickel
Louise Walker
Nikola Yordanov

Fire dress modelling: Alice Roseberry-Haynes
Houdini FX: Deniz Cinar

Colourist: Steffan Perry
Audio: Jon Dix (jondix.tumblr.com/)

Xavier Monney

"Xavier Monney is the 23-year-old designer from Lausanne, Switzerland whose work caught our eye due to his refreshing but incredibly impressive manipulations of type. Xavier combines animation and typography to create three-dimensional experiments, often incorporating some form of optical illusion."

Invasion by Anna Radchenko

Our friend "Anna Radchenko and Edgar Dubrovskiy team up to bring to life this sombre yet vibrant film. Encompassing rhythm and beauty, the scene is set around Jessica Louise transformed by the smooth makeup of Yulia Yurchenko. Haunting and unforgettable, the poetic composition is round off with comely muted styles by Hiroshi Goto and Dior under the supervision ofCamille Marchand." via Shön!

LASER

‘лазер (laser)’ sees Russian dancer Maria Kochetkova navigate a world of floating light, dancing through lasers with emotive and precise choreography.

In a previous collaboration with director Tarik Abdel-Gawad (vimeo.com/96030980), Kochetkova danced within inches of a robotic camera precisely choreographed to capture her every move. In this film, Kochetkova navigates a world of floating light in a unique improvisation between dancer and environment.

ELYTRE - A permanent installation by Yannick Jacquet

It took 3 years for artist Yannick Jacquet to create Élytre, a forty metres long generative work on display at the foot of the the Alexandre III bridge in Paris. The piece was commissioned as a permanent design feature for Le Flow, a floating building moored along the new pedestrian area on the banks of the Seine.

Yannick Jacquet drew inspiration from the dark mass of the barge between the sky and the river to fine-tune his response to the immediate surroundings, calling on the instability and permanence of the flowing water, the infinitely nuanced shifts of light, and the interplay of transparencies between its large plate-glass windows and the glass dome of the Grand Palais just across the water. Drawing on the barge’s organic, cocoon-like architecture, he came up with a highly sensitive, reactive work in the form of an installation that reverses the overall structural inertia of the barge’s four hundred tons of steel, as if echoing Reyner Banham’s principle of regenerative architecture. The installation is linked up to a battery of sensors so that it varies according to the time of year, season, atmospheric pressure, wind speed, temperature, and so on. It is in a constant state of flux, permanently subject to imperceptible shifts.

Represented by AntiVJ

Photographer Cody Ellingham on ELLO

DCN Partners ELLO Creative Network presents

Cody Ellingham (@cbje_tokyo) - a Tokyo-based art director and photographer. 

OFFF London 2017 Main Titles

As OFFF "On Tour" Festival made his first successful step in the hot spot of creative scene - London, one of the best motion design studio FutureDeluxe took care of OFFF London Official Titles

Hot Art Exhibition by Alper Dostal

"Hot Art Exhibition is a series of visualisations following the question: What would happen if there would be no air conditioning during extremely hot summer?"

Pulsar. Digital Heart

Digital artist Denis Sartakov does a lot of CG art on his own and for commercial needs and recently he caught our attention with the motion graphic interpretation of human heart alive.

Marcel Lisboa on Creative Debuts

DCN New Partners at Creative Debuts presents

Marcel Lisboa - one of the ten winners of our recent Ello x Digital Decade 5 open contest became a base of Phygital Art Exhibition held in London last month at Ugly Duck

Marcel Lisboa for the Digital Decade 5

Graphic designer Marcel Lisboa, living and working in São Paulo/Brazil, uses digital means to create his utterly unique illustrations; all of which expressions of private worlds that reveal a distinct story and invite endless contemplation.
Through digital collage the artist reflects his key inspirations: the Renaissance, the Baroque and Neoclassicism. But by shunning the usual genealogy of the Dadaists, Lisboa creates an unique aesthetic based on stunning draftsmanship and evocative scenography.

Creative Debuts, London is a platform celebrating the brightest emerging artists and designers. Designcollector is proud to have them as a new partners for upcoming Digital Decade events you won't miss if subscribed to the Newsletter

"_____.jpg" by Alan Belcher

Conceptual artist Alan Belcher explores an intersection between photography and sculpture, creating artworks he defines as ‘photo-objects’. His ‘_____.jpg’ study approaches the jpeg icon with a manner of directness and humour.

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The installation shots from Belcher’s exhibition ‘Preview’ at Le Consortium assemble over one hundred ‘_____.jpg’ pieces in various layouts, causing a visual glitch between the gallery’s white wall and a folder of jpeg previews on a computer screen.

Ben Wiseman Illustrations

Revising the works of Ben Wiseman (previously) who illustrates for Wired, Le Monde or The New Yorker in his own minimal "cut-out" style

After Fabergé by artist Jonathan Monaghan

After Fabergé, is a personal project and ongoing exhibition of five digital prints created by artist Jonathan Monaghan, to run a half year at The Walters opening in November

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After Fabergé is a series of five prints which transform an iconic symbol of status and wealth into uncanny objects composed of modern furniture, computer parts, and historic architecture. Set on stark white backgrounds and rendered with perfect glossy surfaces, the imagined forms appear almost like a commercial product with an eerily ambiguous function. The eggs are meticulously crafted in virtual space and are presented as highly-detailed, large photographic prints

Wade Jeffree on ELLO

DCN partner Ello Creative Network presents

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Wade Jeffree is a New York-based Designer and Art Director whose practice is based upon creating long-standing collaborative partnerships built on honesty and purpose within the fields of art, culture, and commerce. He believes in a life where work and play are forever intertwined. As of 2016, he runs a studio with his wife Leta Sobierajski from Brooklyn, New York.

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“Wade and I had the pleasure of spending 3 days in San Francisco on Adobe Live Stream to create a 3 part photographic poster series following the theme of “Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil.””

— Leta Sobierajski

Spirit of Ecstasy

Titled ‘The Spirit Of Ecstasy’, the artwork is a collaboration between the unnamed model, Chemical X and artist Schoony. According to the press release, “the British model and actress, who is a fan of Chemical X’s and already collects his work, has been identically recreated – as a hyperreal silicone and fibre glass model.”

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The model was digitally scanned “posing in position with her hands and feet life cast” with her head and body 3D printed in order to make the silicone sculpture. This was then suspended into five sheets of acrylic “surrounded by a halo of 7,254 meticulously hand placed pills.” See images of the artwork below.

Trash Isles: The World's First Country made of Trash

As you read this, an obscene amount of plastic is making its way into the oceans – in total, eight million tonnes a year, or a rubbish truck full of plastic every minute. There is now so much of it, an area cumulatively the size of France has formed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii. With no one paying attention to this catastrophe, LADbible has teamed up with the Plastic Oceans Foundation to take this country-sized trash patch and turn it into the world’s 196th nation – named the Trash Isles.

"This isn’t some throwaway idea. Oh no, on World Oceans Day (8 June) we submitted a Declaration of Independence to the United Nations to seek recognition of the Trash Isles as an official country."

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Mario Kerkstra/Plastic Oceans/LadBible

Now, this is going to be a three-month campaign to get the country official recognition and we need your help- to be specific, we need you to ‘become a citizen’, to pressure the United Nations into approving our application and recognising the Trash Isles.

Juvet Hotel from Ex-Machina Movie

If you've seen the Academy Award-winning movie Ex-Machina, you'll know just how beautiful the main house in it is. In reality, the house is actually a hotel situated within a nature reserve in north-western Norway. Check out some more of the hotel below and if you want to find out more, head to the Juvet Landscape Hotel website.

Fleeting Parts: Milena Naef Plays with Marble and Skin

In Amsterdam-based, Milena Naef’s new series, “Fleeting Parts,” sections of her body fill tailored empty spaces in expertly cut-out marble. Creating these pieces was a process as carefully mentally planned to fit her exact measurements, as the designing and stitching of an exquisite couture silk dress might be. But whereas the dress will disintegrate with time, the marble slab, with its custom-designed sections that Milena's body - and hers alone - fill will last “forever.” Even if it is just for one fleeting moment. And it is with that defining moment, she demonstrates, in a tangible way that the relationship between an existing structure and the human form, transform “the mental into physical to find a new relation between the two.” - via Yatzer

Polka: Purveyor of Dots by Sky Pie

The "Polka" film was born out of a shared interest to investigate the creative process of Sky Pie team with the designers at Refinery 43. 

“Our aim was to explore the hazy origins of an idea, and the trials and tribulations that one must endure to find out what’s on the other side. We were expecting to make a process film. In a case of life imitating art, we instead ended up making a pink-fringed tale of polka dots.”

— Sky Pie

Ultimately Polka’s journey has very little to do with the pattern that vexes her, she must push past her own narrow world views and envision another world altogether. Or as the Lorax puts it, “It's not about what it is, it’s about what it can become”.

WRITER & DIRECTOR: Daniel Castro at Sky Pie Studio
GRAPHIC DESIGN : Kelsy Stromski at Refinery 43

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY : Evan Jake Cohen

ORIGINAL SCORE: Joel Pickard

SET DESIGNER: Espen Oydvin

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Boris Ebzeev
ART DEPARTMENT: Katherine Yaksich

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Behind the scenes