"American designer and illustrator Jenna Barton combines watercolor and digital processing to create mysterious anthropomorphic scenes of dogs, foxes, deer, and other four-legged beings. These eerily rendered creatures often have blank glowing eyes which suggest the animal is possessed or hiding a deep inner world."
Russian artist Ruslan Khasanov shared his ink works he has collected for the last few years
Created by Kyiv-based Radioaktive Film on location at Lviv vélodrome "Hennessy V.S. Major" is a story at the turn of the 19th century, cycling was the world’s biggest sport, and Marshall ‘Major’ Taylor was its biggest superstar. He broke multiple world records, won championships and defeated competition all over the world. But he was still searching for something else: a true rival.
Hennessy V.S 'Major' with RadicalMedia LLC, Droga5, The Mill
Director: Derek Cianfrance,
Director Of Photography: Roman Vasyanov.
It's been a while since our friend and partner Alex Frukta (part of Nord Collective) shared new motion works with us. Here is the latest commission he did for Johnson&Johnson. Every year, brand hosts an conference, which brings together employees from all divisions from Russia and CIS countries. It sums up the year and celebrates its end.
Agency: Illuminarium 3000
Producer: Yura Pelin
Design/Motion: Alex Frukta
Audio/Soundesign: Finalsketch, Vasily Filatov
When a residential project in collaboration with Zaha Hadid did not receive approval by the local Moscow legislature, Vladislav Doronin was determined to work with Dame Hadid and subsequently commissioned her to design a residence for him. Over a lunch meeting they discussed the brief, ‘floating above the treetops, overlooking the forest’ and Zaha Hadid sketched her ideas onto a napkin. The result was the Capital Hill Residence, a fluid monument emerging from its surrounding landscape.
The title sequence for FITC Toronto 2018 is built on the theme of Transform. It aims to morph the spatial perception of its viewers as it takes them through a constantly shifting, never-ending journey into a series of patterns, landscapes, and environments that exist between two and three dimensional space. In each world, 2D and 3D programmatic processes are combined to create rich, organic animations and sprawling graphic forms.
Directed by: Joshua Davis & Saad Moosajee
Animated by: Saad Moosajee
Technical Director: James Bartolozzi
Programming: Joshua Davis, James Bartolozzi
Supporting Animation: Enle Li
Sound: Kurt Uenala / Null + Void / Song : Into the Void / Album : hfnmusic.lnk.to/Cryosleep
Barcelona-born, Oslo-based ex-architect and now street photographer Pau Buscató spends several hours a day searching for the funny moments that only happen when people are crammed together.
"These photos are fun by necessity. They require a disciplined practice of not being bored by people and places Buscató has seen a million times. “Over-familiarity with our surroundings can blind us, so trying to keep fresh eyes and an open mind always helps,” he said. It’s a lesson anyone trapped in a place, job, or situation they find boring can learn from."
"This one is a sequence of birds taken in Leicester Square, London. The photo shows painted birds, an imaginary one and a real one. I took this on July 2016, but I had already tried something similar in the same spot a year earlier. In 2015, I took some shots there trying to add a real pigeon (they were flying around) to the painted birds sequence. I more or less succeeded, but I found the result quite boring, so I just left and forgot about it. A year later, I was on another photo trip in London, and after four days in the city, I noticed the same fence with the painted birds, but didn't pay much attention to it. Some hours later I passed by and saw a detail that changed everything: There was a hole in the fabric that in my eyes looked like another bird. That's when I got obsessed and spent my last two days there, trying to get something. I tried many different things, and after several hundreds of failed attempts, I got that photo."
4 years in a row Nike Sportwear teams up with talented ManvsMachine to craft a global campaign for Air Max Day. This year's approach takes cues from modern editorial design and hosts an extensive number of assets — from live action, 3D, typographical design, right the way through to cel animation
Art Palette works as a search engine that finds artworks based on your chosen color palette. Using this tool, you can explore how the same five colors from Van Gogh's Irises can be related to a 16th century Iranian folio or Monet's water lilies.
Hungarian graphic designer Dániel Taylor (resident of Digital Decade 5) playfully merges double exposure with collages and illustration. His designs take you on a trip through time and space, into the depths of forests and the realms of our galaxy in search of natural beauty.
Photo credit Aleksei Gots
Kofta is the couture label specializing in the art of leather craft using futuristic techniques. Based in Kiev since 2010, Ukraine, the studio has the ability to carry out individual projects from start to finish, allowing them to be designed, developed and produced in-house. Here the bag is not just an accessory but an expression of art.
It is a melange of imagery and allegory, fusion of raw contemplations, tameless nature, deep forests, timeworn buildings and ancient architecture.
Receiving an impressive amount of acclaim in just three years since picking up a camera, Neave Bozorgi is a Los Angeles-based photographer who creates images that are intimate in nature and saturated with sensual nostalgia.
"Romain Laurent has a knack for creating striking photos—images you can’t un-see, the kind you just have to click on. With his work it’s often hard to tell what you’re looking at, which elements are digitally composited, and what’s real (is any of it?). “Inner Dialogue” is more obvious its trickery, but nothing here is over-edited. Less is always more and he uses just enough." via Bo7M
"Relentless with their mission of diffusing emerging music onto the scene, Red Bull launched Red Bull Radio. The web based radio station offers an eclectic programming that also includes interviews with musicians, critics, industry thinkers and music mavens. Recognizing that every show has its own identity, Baillat set a unique tone corresponding to each of their themes. In keeping with the modus operandi of the Baillat's Red Bull campaign concept, the studio called on various local illustrators and graphic designers to unleash a series of animated GIFs. Staying in true form, the results resonated in outstanding, eccentric and upbeat renditions."
"Hidden Layer looks at the way neural networks augment our identities and change the way we think and behave. With AI increasing its influence on the decisions we make and the information we digest, how will algorithmic structures infiltrate and influence human concepts of self? What happens to AI - augmented humans if the structures they rely on collapse?
Often described in terms of what it can do for us, a neural network is complex, self-evolving and dynamic. It is also capable of decision-making autonomously, without human intervention. As such, artificial intelligence algorithms can be understood both as a way to analyse today’s complex world and as beings distinct from human influence.
The name Hidden Layer comes from a term used in the development of artificial neural networks. The Hidden Layer is neither seen nor understood by humans; it is the part of the network in which the main computation driving the network is done. Hidden Layer is part of FIELD’s broader series of works titled Second Nature, which examines Machine Learning as an entity."
FIELD
London based digital art studio FIELD work at the intersection of art, technology and design, and explore “colour, life, and infinity though new technology and a research-led approach - creating high-tech experiences with a human touch”. FIELD create expressive and dynamic artworks for digital platforms, including audiovisual installations, digital artefacts, and interactive films. FIELD are known for their unique approach to aesthetics, blending the latest digital technologies with nature and human subjects. FIELD’s body of work takes many different shapes, from apps to installations. Their work Energy Flow is an app experience weaving animated story lines into audiovisual pieces that change endlessly and is different for each viewer.
It was listed among the best apps from The Guardian Technology blog. For Deutsche Bank, FIELD collaborated with Universal Everything to create a large-scale installation using a 12-metre wide screen with atmospheric cityscapes, hand-drawn scenes, patterns and landscape animations that were generated in realtime that made every iteration unique. The studio collaborates with cultural institutions and global brands on commissioned artworks and generative design solutions, including Nike, Deutsche Bank, HP, Nokia, GE, and AOL. Their work has been exhibited at cultural institutions and galleries internationally, including at La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; The China Museum for Digital Art, Beijing; and The British Library, London. FIELD has also been included in festival programs at Ars Electronica and onedotzero.
Portuguese student of ESAD School João Xará visualizes the invisible concept of force through his design of glass vessels. The pre-blown glass shapes squeezed by clamps demonstrate the action of force in an intuitive and direct way through the materiality and given direction.
"Mathery" is an award-winning Italian studio founded by duo of art directors Erika Zorzi and Matteo Sangalli. The catalysation of their ideas often turns as a long-term collaborations with leading agencies and producers, and even festivals like OFFF Barcelona. For their latest edition Mathery imagined "OFFF" name as abbreviation to "Oysters Flavoured Food Festival" brining the outstanding visuals for the campaign.
Perception is one’s personal opinion. Any image invites the audience to ponder, offering at least several ways of perception. The image is forming an idea using sensitive and logical tools. The idea is being formed when a spectator gives the image a permit to do this. An image is always spots, dots and lines. A spectator builds up the inner nexus and images while just seeing the spots paly on the screen. The brain transforms flat form into something having a volume, parts are merged into the whole. The question is what a spectator sees – a genuine true image or the personal perception of it, formed on a basis of one’s experience and the knowledge of the world. What if it will contain the minimum specification, if it’s gonna be a digital noise, a random combination of 0 and 1? What if the absence of information is a message itself? A sign for one’s brain to think up, to invent the necessary information. The lack of information inside of a given context is a self-sustained image, giving an impulse to a further chain of thoughts. I invite a spectator to dive inside of himself, when he lets the screen be almost blank and sets his imagination free. All the logical thinking is off and the opportunity to observe is on.
Artist, designer and photographer based in Barcelona - Sandra Aguilera, passionate about art in all dimensions playing with the concepts. Famous for creating a fresh and vibrant conceptual art, and transforming day-to- day objects into something attractive through sarcasm and composition, where bright colors predominate in the works. Her inspirations are artists like Edward Hooper, or even Wes Anderson
Apart from artistic images Sandra creates bright and casual women accessories for any occasion
"Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence. Today, a new generation of self-learning computers has begun to reshape every aspect of our lives. Incomprehensible amounts of data are being created, interpreted, and fed back to us in a tsunami of apps, personal assistants, smart devices, and targeted advertisements. Virtually every industry on earth is experiencing this transformation, from job automation, to medical diagnostics, even military operations. Do You Trust This Computer? explores the promises and perils of our new era. Will A.I. usher in an age of unprecedented potential, or prove to be our final invention?"
Directed by Chris Paine
