David Pocull
Talented animator and graphic designer from Barcelona, David Pocull shares his latest experiments
Labyrinth by Gijs van Vaerenbergh
“In the industrial city of Genk in Belgium, a kilometer of steel corridors was constructed to form a mechanical-look maze at a former coal mine. The installation titled Labyrinth is created as a spiral experience by Gijs van Vaerenbergh in collaboration with the Belgium architect Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh.
The labyrinth contains various openings and perspectives throughout the maze and makes the viewer experience an ever-changing relationship with the surrounding urban environment.” via @trendland
Mathographics by GMUNK
The essence of being a creative professional is the ‘Art of Freestyle.’ This for Munky (GMUNK or Bradley G Munkowitz) means delving deep into the PsyMunk and finding those symmetries of craft and fruition that make the passion stream with inspired output. The Mathographics series is a culmination of that research, the purity and fabric of graphic design infused with optical distortions and anomalies to create statements of immersive intent and perpetual translation. The series first takes form as a series of kaleidoscopic movements, sequenced together into a short film scored and edited by frequent collaborator CallMeClark.
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DVEIN vs Flamingos
Teo & Carlos (very well) known as DVEIN dropped an experimental animation we believe they did during quarantine. “We've been playing, messing and having fun with flamingos for a while. We love them, but we love even more experimenting with them. This is an ongoing experiment and DVEIN VS FLAMINGOS is a collection of these animation experiments that we've crafted with Banjo Soundscapes as partners in crime.”
Visual ASMR
Japanese Art studio Onesal has launched a self-initiated series of four short films proposing a novel visual approach to explain it.
Visual ASMR, or Visual Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. ASMR is the subjective experience of euphoria characterized by a combination of positive feelings and a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin.
Natural sculpture formations set in seemingly impossible earth-like landscapes covered by living elements of surreal colors, each film travels through each almost at a micro level, witnessing its evolution. All takes place in four other-worldly landscapes we set up to examine up close the interaction, movements and evolution of the elements with their surroundings.
Each of the shorts is inspired by elements in nature, architecture and timelapse photography.
The body of work delves into textural, tactile elements morphing and interacting with each other in surreal environments.
The work set off to blur the boundaries between nature and design, simplicity and complexity, in an abstract uncompromised way.
Sound Design
Since the concept of this short film is Visual ASMR, a big emphasis was put on the sound effects of the elements when they grow, evolve, collide among each other and their surroundings. Crisp, defined sounds effects that further accentuate the movement of the elements on the screen. All the elements of the film are felt as if they were real, inviting viewers to reach out and touch them.
Design Process
Continuum by Krista Kim
Mediative light installation piece from #techism creator Krista Kim title “Continuum”
Mirror or the mind.
“When I lived in Tokyo, I was a newcomer to the city and I would discover the it on foot, navigating the Japanese signage, architecture and overall system of life. On a spring day, I wandered down side streets in my neighborhood, and I suddenly chanced upon a serene Zen garden. This Zen garden was an energetic vacuum because the world seemed to stop when I stepped inside it’s parameters. I stood still, fascinated by the beauty of negative space, peace and silence. I felt serenity. It was in that moment when I understood the principle of Zen and the meaning of art.
For centuries, Zen masters created these gardens with the intention of creating empty space in the mind of the viewer.
Art is a mirror of the mind.
I realized that our digital environment, though it is virtual, is a parallel reality of human existence—this environment is new, chaotic and distracting. The key to connecting to our humanity is to find and protect our inner sanctum of silence and peace. Younger generations are at high risk of losing this inner sanctum from digital technology.
I created a digital zen garden. One that communicates pure consciousness in the digital medium through the powerful harmony of color, light and sound.”
Music by Ligovskoï
Nasus' Secret Garden
Moving illustration for [INVADE ART] exhibit created by Mr Misang, depicting a legend of “Nasus and Shurima”
Shuster+Moseley and Lauren Baker at AZIMUTH
Last weekend MTArt Agency launched public art at AZIMUTH music festival, that took place in the very special historical site of Al Ula.
For this special occasion, exclusive sculptures were commissioned by Shuster+Moseley and Lauren Baker on the themes the Sun, mix of cultures and discovery.
Shuster + Moseley is a conceptual art studio led by Claudia Moseley (b. 1984) and Edward Shuster (b. 1986). The studio creates light-mobiles, sculptural installation and immersive, meditative environments reflecting on the nature of consciousness and technology.
Lauren Baker, born 1982, from Middlesbrough, UK. Currently lives and works in London. Lauren Baker is a British contemporary multidisciplinary artist who exhibits internationally. Her work explores the fragility of life, energy-fields, the after-life and other dimensions. Using neon light to express universal energies and life mantras, she aims to raise the vibration of love and connection within the world.
Photography by Roman Scott @romanscott
Min Kyung illustration
Korean illustrator Minkyung shares his skills in a flat styled manner
Sebastian Weiss Architectural Photography
“Sebastian Weiss is a Hamburg-based architecture photographer with a flair for exquisite, impeccable angles. Having documented sites such as Spanish La Muralla Roja for Wallpaper* and Parisian suburbia, he is also the author of “Dramatic personae” series that aims to “represent public faces that deliberately restrains the identity of the object in order to concentrate on its public performance” via @trendland
Music to your eyes
Creative duo Leta Sobierajski and Wade Jeffree delivered their first international exhibition “Music To Your Eyes”. They bring our distinctly optimistic, unapologetically vibrant, and supremely fun world of explosive colour to Calm and Punk's gallery space in Tokyo.
Music to your eyes is an exploration of harmony through visual stimulation of our work in order to explore colour and form. Our goal is to ignite a sensation for the viewer that is optimistic yet also leaves them with a sense of joy. Ultimately it is our way we describe our work: as visual music. Similar in concept to audible music, everything we look at and engage with has its own rhythm. Through the use of multiple mediums ranging from photography, wall reliefs, inflatables and a virtual reality experience, we encourage visitors to enter their world of insatiable optimism and explosive color.
The photographs on these walls are real—they are not 3D. The bodysuits were designed specifically for this show, and the sculpted shields held by those bodies were cut and painted by hand. We embrace the fact that they are imperfect and flawed. In the photographs on the walls, we camouflage ourselves as body sculptures, drenched in pattern and color that transcends from these images to sculptural wall hangings to inflatables hanging from the ceiling and finally to virtual reality discoverable through a headset. Our goal is to extend their vision to multiple dimensions, so you may enjoy their colorful world no matter which reality you may live in.
Acid House Barcelona
“An old factory in Poblenou, Barcelona was converted into a creative centre for business innovation. Envisaged by ARQUITECTURA-G for a decade of development, led by the economy of means, the original layout of the space was preserved and features an office, classroom, workspace and bathrooms.”
Paulette Jo
Mexican artist Paulette Jo shares her illustrative sketchbook shared on Tumblr
The Ninth
A creative collaboration between Nikita and Maria Replyanski and Kirill Maksimchuk from the world of Cyber Warrior. In this art project, they research a nature of an artificial personality. Team has created 8 characters by mixing real shooting, 3D printing, computer graphics, fashion, and art to find the identity of a nowadays person. The collaboration was presented at the Digital Fashion Exhibition curated by @trashymuse at EP7 in Paris during the Fashion Week {23 September to 1st October 2019}
Art direction & Concept Design: @n.replyanski
Photo: @notyouramericandream
Style: @katrin_white
VFX: @nomorerender
Graphic Design & Typography: @electroseela
Filippa Edghill illustrations
Filippa Edghill is a Swedish/Barbadian painter and illustrator living in Biarritz, France. We focus on her block prints series, depicting feminine in a simple one-colour manner with an Ancient Greek twist
Shifting Perspectives by Petecia Le Fawnhawk
Photographer Petecia Le Fawnhawk is known for creating striking surrealist landscapes using a mix of sculpture and editing techniques. Her new series “Shifting Perspectives” was recently commissioned by Apple and they looks like a “Monument Valley” recreated in real life
Guillermo Espinosa Architectural Photography
Spanish photographer Guillermo Espinosa based in Berlin shares his camera view on architecture, urban life and portraiture
Collages by Ceren Bulbun
Turkish artist Ceren Bulbun uses the traditional art of collage in a very innovative way: where she mixes natural phenomenon with human anatomy and body details.
Finding connections between nature and human body: a violet eyelid remembering a purple galaxy, the veins in our eyes that resemble a red striated marble or tangled fingers blended with wave power.
Emmanuel J Morgan illustrations
Emmanuel J Morgan aka Sffuma shares her inner world full of Forbidden fruits and provocative dreams based on the sharp style of Tarot cards. All these amazing pieces available as prints
Lena Pogrebnaya Photography
Lena Pogrebnaya was born in Odessa, Ukraine. She first fell for photography in 2009 while studying at Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture. After graduating in 2011 Lena continued her photographic exploration. Brutalist architecture of the 50s and 70s quickly became Pogrebnaya’s main inspiration. The essence of her projects lies in monumental constructions featuring concrete, granite, decorative tiles of multiple colors and… people merged with the aesthetics.
Her artistic investigation goes beyond conventional approach that nature and industrial objects should be opposed. For Lena Pogrebnaya architectural forms are part of the nature — being creations of people, nature’s products themselves. In her “nature creating nature” universe a human being feels harmony both in the wild and urban environment. Her models looks dignified in any site, and yet they are simply a unit of the beautiful surrounding just like everything else in the picture.