Digital Art of Mateusz Krol
When imagination meets right tools a new design star is born, please welcome Mateusz Krol - very promising digital artist and designer from Warsaw. His profile can be found on Ello as well as on Behance
NU:RO Minimalist Analog Watch
Just in time when “Quantified Self” trend is trying to excuse the brutal data harvest from leading smart accessories - here come the solution to take an ease in sharing all of your personal details (including blood cells rate) to the unknown. Welcome award-winning minimalist analogue watches created by the fellows of our creative industry - Anton Repponen and his Brooklyn based studio ANTON&IRENE
After winning the Red Dot Award in 2010 for best concept, and many years of creating digital products for a variety of clients such as The Met, USAToday, Spotify, Balenciaga, Google and Netflix, Anton & Irene decided to make the leap into product design and produce the analog NU:RO watch themselves.
“We could have easily produced more watches, but we deliberately wanted to release a limited edition of 500 so that owning one would feel more special, almost like we’re all part of the same family”
The watch has two dials, one with hours at the top and the other with minutes at the bottom. When they rotate the current time is shown inside the hourglass. The watch has been manufactured in a limited edition of 500, and can be purchased through the studio’s Kickstarter campaign until October 10th, after which, they will be gone forever.
The studio has also collaborated with the artist Shantell Martin for a limited edition release of 10 original hand drawn artworks.
“I always love working with Anton & Irene, and am proud to collaborate with them on this very special release of a project I know has been a passion of theirs for many years”
Kim Leutwyler Art
Kim Leutwyler (@carlosbob) is a visual artist based in Sydney, Australia. She works in a variety of media including painting, installation, ceramics, print media and drawing. Kim’s current work takes its form in paintings dealing with images of beauty, gender and Queer-identity. She has come to focus on painting as a medium because of its primarily masculine history in the western art canon. By entering into the modernist painting field Kim hopes to destabilize gender borders just as LGBTQ artists have been doing since the 70’s and earlier. Her artwork has been exhibited in multiple galleries throughout the United States and Australia.
Marbles Revisited by Fabio Viale
Talented marble artist Fabio Viale creates an upgrade versions of classic masterpieces aligning them to the modern society state of things (and its current meltdown with gangster culture). His tattooed marbles are the pieces to think about the contemporary life priorities and “what’s going to left after us”
Artist Leni Dothan
Leni Dothan: Portland Stone Rehabilitation Centre
This innovative art project by Leni Dothan was prompted by the desire to raise a stronger awareness towards the invisible enemy that is air pollution. Together with the Chemistry department of UCL, Leni created these photographs on 200 Portland stones using London’s air pollution
Texts by Marine Tanguy MTArt Agency
This project is a perfect conceptual and chemical symbiosis between science and art, aiming for awareness and a response to air pollution through public art in between London and Portland Isle. During the b-side biennale, the artist will transform the Verne High Angle Battery into a rehab centre for air polluted sculptures made in London.
These sculptures will be the outcome of an ongoing research based collaboration with Dr. Raul Quesada-Cabrera, expert in photochemistry at UCL, prof. Andrea Sella and Sana Ali. Together, they developed a pollution-reactive material in UCL’s Chemistry lab.
Artist Leni Dothan
Leni Dothan will bring these polluted sculptures to Portland for them to be cleaned while on display at the Verne High Angle Battery for nine days. The audience will witness the colour changes on the sculptures as the artworks react to a healthier context. The sculptures will become a powerful tool for public awareness towards the growing issue that is air pollution, especially in cities.
Marine Tanguy
About Marine Tanguy MTArt Agency
Founded in 2015, MTArt is the first artist agency in the world for the world’s most exciting up and coming visual artists. While the art world concentrates on selling art on walls, the agency focuses on investing and supporting the artists. Every month, the agency reviews 200 portfolios of artists. Its selection committee select artists with innovative techniques, inspiring content and strong visions.
Marine Tanguy at Portland (UK) installation of Lent Dothan
For the artists who sign with the agency, MTArt covers their studio costs, sells their works, implement cultural & commercial partnerships and offers press exposure. This is how the agency accelerates their artistic reputation, visibility and success.
Giovanni Esposito Illustratio
Italian illustrator Giovanni Esposito caught our eye with his tender visual stories drawn using no digital tools
Ceramic Sculptures: Low Pixels CG Series by Toshiya Masuda
Using traditional materials and techniques to achieve a digital effect, Japanese artist Toshiya Masuda makes this cool ceramic pixel art.
"Japanese artist Toshiya Masuda builds pixelated objects out of clay, piecing together sculptural tennis shoes, fried eggs, and baseballs that look as if they have been pulled directly from a video game. By designing his works to appear digital, Masuda provides a physical quality to computer or television-based images. The combination of ceramics and digitized objects allows the artist to blur the line between what is real and virtual, an increasingly common experience in our present age."
Maxim Zhestkov - Optics
Talented Russian media artist Maxim Zhestkov released his long-waited film "Optics". It's an experimental art film exploring the behavior of artificial light and color in digital environments. Blending architectural gallery space with computer-generated digital glass sculptures, we encounter animated refractions, chromatic aberrations, colourful reflection and other conditions which are impossible in reality. A series of tests and explorations guides us through different optical conditions of the bright and colorful digital universe.
The film was initiated as an experimental series of tests in Zhestkov.Studio. After some research, the studio realized that the beauty and visual power of these explorations could be transformed into an art film rather than remain a series of tests. For a couple of months, programmers and artists at Zhestkov.Studio developed different approaches and played with the infinite visual possibilities opened up by refractions and reflections with sound design by Marcelo Baldin.
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“We developed over 1000 tools and principles of working with light and refractive/reflective surfaces. Coders wrote dozens of lines in Python to achieve some of the effects and behaviours of light. In the end, we produced some truly amazing results. Light and refraction, in reality, can behave only in one way in one condition, but in the digital world, where we don’t have real-world restrictions, we can animate every condition and step further into the understanding of light and colour”
Design and Direction - Maxim Zhestkov
Production - Zhestkov.Studio
Sound Design - Combustion.Studio
Parks Perdue
Sticking to a dark colour palette that utilises the eccentricities of certain typefaces in neon colours, Parks' Perdue work has certainly stepped a gear in terms of a graphic design aesthetic.
Cinemagraphs by Tim Tadder
Photographer, director and motion video creator Tim Tadder shares a lot of visual overdose on personal Behance profile. Here is his personal selection of Cinemagraphs styled by Julia Reeser, with hair and makeup by Victoria McGrath
Beyond No Man's Land
Jan Erik Waider photography
“This place is beautiful to me, even now.
To see it, with eyes as a child’s.
There is wonder here, Captain.”
Aeroglyph by Reuben Wu
"Reuben Wu (previously) uses long exposure techniques to capture light traces formed by a moving drone equipped with a lighting rig. In his latest group of images the paths create illuminated symbols such as a square, plus sign, and triangle from straight, narrow lines. The shapes hover just above the horizon with an abstracted reflection projected in the water below."
“The project name Aeroglyph describes what I see as large temporary geometries created in the air, only visible in their entirety through the capture of a camera”
The project is an evolution of his ongoing Lux Noctis series which focuses on specific light paths, rather than entire illuminated landscapes. The plus and minus symbols were shot over the Pacific Ocean at night, while the square and triangle were captured over the bright blue waters of Lake Michigan.
Portraits by Rezania
Iranian photographer Mohammadreza Rezania creates 1001-nights-fairytale portraits inspired by the power of women beauty
Insta Novels by New York Public Library
NYPL comes with a pioneer initiative to use Instagram Stories as a visual storytelling for a book. Baked by Mother Agency and talented artists and illustrators they created a brand new Insta Novels
“Instagram unknowingly created the perfect bookshelf for this new kind of online novel. From the way you turn the pages, to where you rest your thumb while reading, the experience is already unmistakably like reading a paperback novel. We have to promote the value of reading, especially with today’s threats to American system of education.”
In the coming months, look for two other literary works that will be released on the Library's Instagram account: "The Yellow Wallpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman illustrated by Buck (@buck_design) and The Metamorphosis, a novella by Franz Kafka illustrated by César Pelizer (@cesarpelizer).
Dubbed “Insta Novels,” each piece has been chosen for their highly visual nature. To increase the project’s reach, designers and artists with large Instagram followings have been tapped to create these digital novels, - via Artnet
How it works
First, go to the Library's Instagram account (@nypl) and tap Part 1 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in the Highlights section, right under the bio.
Rest your thumb on lower right part of the screen to hold the page, and lift your thumb to turn the page. (The lower right thumb holder is designed to double as a flip book: if you lift your thumb and let the pages flip, you'll see an animation.)
As more stories are added, the NYPL Instagram account's Highlights will turn into a digital bookshelf.
Refik Anadol for NVIDIA
Media artist Refik Anadol well-known for his immersive projection mappings has shared his latest "phygital" project made in collaboration with Nvidia during GameCon, Cologne.
Watch below
“By using real-time ray tracing RTX we augmented 3-dimensional Cornell
Box and used real-time audience reflection as an input which has never been done in the computer graphics history in this level”
Cornell Box Legacy
3.6M x 3.6M x 1M
4K 30.000 Laser projection, Unreal Engine special built with RTX, quadraphonic sound @unrealengine
Plastic Rain by Andres Reisinger
Plastic Rain is a serie of non-standard retail spaces created by Andres Reisinger. Each zone presents vividly different stories and objects.Visitors can immerse themselves the installation aesthetic in dramatic totality. Spaces that offers time for meditation. A gentle inside/out travel
Imaginary Soundscape
Nao Tokui is a Japanese media artist and DJ working on different projects researching soundscapes within visual systems. His latest "Imaginery Soundscape" web-based installation originally started as an exploration of how AI "imagines" a sound of any Google Street location using deep learning models.
The research went further and currently runs as "Imaginary Soundscape" machine where you can upload any image or photo to get the generative sound map created by AI. You can find beautiful examples of how "deep mind" hears the art masterpieces on Qosmo website founded by Nao
Ocean Rift 裂痕海洋
"This series of works takes the ocean crisis as the topic, based on the Installation to present the ecosystem destruction by human activities. The singular mutation and death of marine life caused by Radiation and genetic modification, also involved elements of natural, polluting and synthetic." - Kim Yeonhee
The design combined with the destruction of raw materials, plastic, metal, and the dark heavy colors and the emotional impact of the destroyed scene, to interpret the "Ocean Rift".
Dina Khalifa
Cairo-based art student Dina Khalifa approached digital painting with a classic background. Thus makes her portraits stands out and depict female beauty from the place where it is quite limited
