Tokyo Hikari - 東京ひかり - SynthCity

December 01, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Japan, Photography, Portfolios, 2017

Photographer ZAKI Abdelmounim shares his neon view on the capital of the Risin Sun - Tokyo. During his 8-months journey, he was experimenting with various colour grading techniques that shifted from cyberpunk to vaporwave. We let author speak for himself below

"Tokyo's overwhelming visual presence is an all-out assault on your senses offering a strong immersive cyberpunk experience. A lot to process and too much to take in from the flashing neon lights, the sounds of the busy streets and train stations, and the commercial signs of every building It's downright surreal and truly catches the spirit of what a cyberpunk city would look like. Easily getting lost offers an unmatched thrill and sense of discovery, but a certain follower emerges at night will keep your company during your stroll in the rain."

@CREATIFLUX

"It's the "Talking Lights" in the labyrinth of alleys. The dimly-lit neon signs of hiragana and katakana trying to communicate with the fast-paced walkers bring a nostalgic air, and it's a beautiful sight to behold."

Appreciate on Behance

The Art of Ping Pong

Creative Debuts

November 30, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in United Kingdom, Illustration, Graphic Design, Art, 2017

DCN Partners at Creative Debuts presents

Exhibition: 30th November - 4th December 10am - 5.30pm

The Art of Ping Pong and @creativedebuts invite you to celebrate this year’s exhibition and auction in aid of @Trekstock

For the fifth year running, The Art of Ping Pong has asked 27 artists to customise a ping pong bat to be auctioned for charity. This year’s charity is Trekstock, which provides social and practical support for people with cancer in their 20s and 30s across the UK.

Nous Vous

Gemma Shiel

This year’s roster of artists in full is Yoni Alter, Mr Bingo, John Booth, Emma Brewin, Fred Butler, Alison Carmichael, Sebastian Cox, Mr Doodle, Marina Esmeraldo, Emily Forgot, George Hardie, Nigel Howlett, Kev Munday, Neasden Control Centre, Nous Vous, Zuza Mengham, Hattie Newman, Charlie Oscar Patterson, Stina Persson, Saskia Pomeroy, Pref, Benedict Radcliffe,Gemma Shiel, Adam Simpson, Sam Taylor, Louis Trew and Celia Washington.

John Booth

Mr Bingo

Sam Taylor

George Hardie

Hattie Newman

Kev Munday

@artof_pingpong

Erik Östensson Photography

November 30, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Photography, Portfolios, Sweden, 2017

"In his recent series ‘The Circle and the Line’, Stockholm-based photographer Erik Östensson presents his viewer with subtle complexities in the setting of every day life. His poetic, performative images capture emotive interactions between people, objects and the landscape. In each image, all elements are somewhat intertwined and exist in harmony with one another, forming new relationships in materiality and form."

“When looking at our surroundings, we fill it with our own notions. Without these simplifications, we would not be able to operate within the world’s complexity. I want to create images where the viewer can see it all again. I do this by depicting objects from a new angle and by putting them in a new context. Past notions are replaced and the meanings of familiar objects expand”

— Erik Östensson

Tony Matelli

November 29, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, USA, 2017

"Matelli's work is known for the juxtaposition of antique looking marble or concrete garden-like statuary, against abrupt hyperrealism embellishments. By contrasting these aged forms against unexpected decorations, such as cast bronze vegetables, fruit, meats and bread, the artist questions the value and purpose of classical figure. Turning them into a setting or a merely a pedestal for presenting common everyday objects, he shows his remarkable technical facility and a cautious romanticism. Both the aged feel of the statues and the freshness of the ornaments are created using elaborate fabrication process and peculiar materials. From meticulously cast and painted bronze that flawlessly depicts the bread texture or gradients of an apple peel, to use of cast glass to evoke the translucence of citrus flesh, Matelli continues to play with viewer's perception while presenting his iconoclastic temperament" —Sasha Bogojev

@tonymatelli

Shortcut Racing Car customised by Pokras Lampas

November 28, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Lettering, Typography, Russia, Portfolios, Street Art, Art, 2017

Featured

Pokras Lampas

Leading calligraphy artist Pokras Lampas spent 30 hours to customise Shortcut Racing car in collaboration with DK Racing Team Russia. By applying his personal "Calligrafuturism" style Arseny (Pokras Lampas) brings dynamics of streets to typography patterns applied across the buggy car body.

Photography: Denis Bychkovskiy / @denbych

@pokraslampas

Sam Adefé

November 28, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2017, Art

After a quick view of Sam Adefé sanguine and charcoal drawings, we fell in love with his portraits, emotionally charged, "provoking conversation about certain subject matters that are being ignored, in hope of changing how we chose to look at certain things"

@adefe___

Highgate Hill by LLI Design

November 27, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Architecture, Interior Design, Photography, United Kingdom, Agencies, 2017

London-based LLI Design lead by Linda Levene recently completed a total redesign and refurbishment of a 7 storey townhouse in Highgate, a leafy and desirable part of the city.

Kitchen, Fireplace + Chaise + Joinery Unit

The owners wanted to create a new environment; they liked the idea of having a contemporary house and agreed that the house lent itself to this, however they were concerned that contemporary design could be cold and impersonal.

The brief was to create a contemporary family home, not in a stark clinical sense, but rather, colourful and practical. The key to the overall success of the design was to re-think the dynamics of all the spaces and change the existing layouts to provide a design and flow which responded to their brief. The family had a large collection of vintage travel posters that they wished to display prominently around the house.

4th Floor - Bespoke Red Lacquer Bed Detail

By changing the dynamics of the spaces involved we maximized the available space creating a contemporary, but colourful, warm and inviting home; with a harmonious feel as you move up the house, but with each floor having its own character. As with the majority of LLI Design’s projects, the construction, joinery, home automation and landscaping were carried out by our in-house vertically integrated teams - Pegasus Property & Pegasus Automation.

LLI Design

Above Below Beyond: Janeanne Gilchrist

November 27, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2017

"Above Below Beyond" is an ongoing solo exhibition at The Fergusson Gallery of Scottish photographer Janeanne Gilchrist (Staunch Industries). Her work explores the world under the waves and man's relationship with the sea. With strong themes of folklore, fantasy created from man-made waste, dive with Janeanne into my subconscious mind to find a deeper meaning of life. Freediving in various locations in the Scottish seas for the last 10 years, she has discovered a beautiful new world where gravity doesn’t apply and everything is in constant flux.

@janeannegilchrist

S7 Airlines: I Am You

November 25, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Motioncollector, 2017

S7 Airlines did it again. You may remember their award-winning collaboration with OK GO, and beautiful video campaigns "I want to go, where.." and "The Best Planet" but their latest "I Am You" smashed them all. Glitch, vaporwave, selfie and unlimited access to planet Earth - that what director Salomon Ligthelm put on an editing deck, mixed and twisted together with Russian agency Stereotactic

“With a decidedly eclectic visual approach, we wanted to convey two worlds, one experienced through the limited lens of other people’s digital experiences - creating a distorted and ultimately ‘unrealistic’ depiction of the world, and the other was an invitation to go and experience the world and its unique cultures and subcultures yourself - be it the Wushu Martial Art Kids of Shaolin, the Drifters of Saudi Arabia, the Bosozoku of Japan, the Shamans of Altai or the eccentric characters of a ‘Burning Man’ type arts festival.”

— Salomon Ligthelm

Vernacular, sculptures by Song Kang

November 24, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, Portfolios, USA, 2017

Song Kang is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. She combines her interests in organic forms and textural details to create dreamlike images. Her latest project "Vernacular" features sculptures of imaginary architecture growing from animal bodies.

The term ‘vernacular’ tends to correlate with all things commonplace; however, in the architectural sense, the ‘vernacular’ exemplifies man’s abilities to adapt to his surroundings and build with his environment. This series explores the symbiotic relationship between the vernacular home and the environmental context in which it exists.

@songhkang

Nicolas Garner

November 23, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, France, Portfolios, 2017

Nicolas Garner is a visual artist and designer based in Paris. He graduated with a master’s degree in Art Direction at ECAL. His transdisciplinary practice is characterized by a significant interest in the decompartmentalization of the creative mediums and rigorous approach to research and experimentation. He works in the fields of art, image-making and creative direction as part of self-initiated projects or collaborations.

In his series Hyperreality and Genesis 1:27, which have been exhibited as installations, Nicolas treads the thin line between photography and CGI. In both bodies of work he is “challenging our trust of digitally constructed imagery in the context of our post-photographic era.” His glossy images of the human form blur the boundaries between realness and falseness by appearing at once too slick to be photos but also too realistic not to be. “What I find fascinating in the digital representation of the body, is that it is vain by essence. It’s very legitimate to wonder about the relevance of the use of these technologies in the quest for a faithful representation,” he explains.

@nicolasgarner

INTRA

November 22, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, France, Portfolios, 2017

"We don't know yet what is inside a black hole, we know it is a singularity, a point where every rule of physics collapse. One of the possibilities is called "The White Hole Theory", a sort of exit from the black hole, a point where everything is born, including space and time. Some compare it to the Big Bang."

INTRA tells the visual story of this theory, a journey from the black to the white hole, a cosmic tale of death and birth...
As a tribute to Nolan's Interstellar, this second short after NOVAE go deeper into our conception of cosmos, interpreting the unknown to propose a vision of the most extreme celestial object of our Universe...

Directed by Thomas Vanz

Making of

Uijung Kim Illustration

November 22, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, USA, 2017

Uijung Kim, originally from South Korea now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Uijung studied Art and Design at Gunsan University, South Korea and illustration at the College for creative studies in Detroit, MI, USA. Inspired by her childhood experiences and the family and friends she grew up with her work is strongly rooted in Korean culture through colour, tone and narrative. Uijung likes making people happy and wants her work to speak to a kid of all ages.

@uijungkim

Abandoned Beauty in Nicola Bertellotti Photography

November 21, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Italy, Portfolios, Photography, 2017

Italian photographer Nicola Bertellotti is a real castle-hunter travelling around the Europe to find abandoned beauties of previous epochs. His photographs left us with gasps and unresolved questions "why? where?" spelling more miracle on the untold stories

on Flickr

Cover Arts by Mateusz Lengling

November 20, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Graphic Design, Poland, Portfolios, 2017

Young Polish graphic artist Mateusz Lengling decomposes perfectly fashion photography then rebuild it to a new forms of visual arts

@lxny__

"Wurf" ("Throw") by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk

November 20, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Denmark, Germany, Portfolios, 2017

Danish-German artist duo Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk created a series of installations exploring “the relationship between sculpture and place”.

"Titled ‘Wurf’ (‘Throw’), the large-scale installation features a piece made of paper maché and wood that mimics a heavy stone. Displayed in a courtyard in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, ‘Wurf I’ is installed in a delicate green glasshouse. ‘Wurf II’ features the stone imitation hanging from the roof of a monastery church near Leipzig."

The Visionaries: dir. Kinvara Balfour

November 17, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, USA, United Kingdom, 2017

London-based, LA-heart'ed director, producer, writer and speaker Kinvara Balfour (we met her once at V&A) launches the ongoing film project:

THE VISIONARIES

Shot exclusively on iPhone and broadcast on YouTube, the videos are designed to represent the lives of visionary individuals in a format that suits the habits and expectations of viewers in our digital age.

"The visionaries featured in the series come from all walks of life: there are fashion and accessories designers such as Manolo Blahnik, Mary Katrantzou and Stephen Jones; beauty entrepreneurs such as Charlotte Tilbury; and creative talents such as the set designer Es Devlin, the screenwriter Peter Morgan and the photographer Charles March." text via Town&Country Magazine

The first six episodes of the series went live on Kinvara Balfour’s YouTube channel today, with further films released thereafter on a bi-monthly basis.

THE VISIONARIES: WATCH NOW

@kinvarabalfour

Beautiful and Bizarre sculptures by Qixuan Lim

November 17, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Singapore, Sculpture, Netherlands, 2017

Artist Qixuan Lim born-and-raised in Singapore and now based in Eindhoven makes these and several other tiny sculptures as a sideline to her work as an information designer

@qimmyshimmy

The Six Walls house near Stockholm

November 17, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Architecture, Sweden, Photography, 2017

Located in the woods near Stockholm, ‘The Six Walls’ house is a light-filled weekend home designed by architecture practice Arrhov Frick Arkitektkontor. The concrete building features a sleek rectangular design with walls that are more than five meters high. The same simplicity-guided approach goes for the interior, with a narrow entrance opening up to expansive living areas including a roof terrace overlooking the area’s pine trees.

Colour Theory by Connor Singh

November 16, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Photography, Portfolios, USA, 2017

Colour Theory is a bold and sensual photographic project released by photographer Connor Singh that explores the beauty of the body. The luminescent light follows the curves of the body to form an ensemble that is both electric and almost erotic.

@connor.singh