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“During the pandemic we were all experimenting those weird emotion. We wanted to be productive and at the same time our fear and emotion from the virus were exhausting us this is a representation of a conflict with out emotion. And we should accept how we feel and take some time for us.” - says animation director Kimathi Flavien
Timişoara, Romania-based artist Alina-Ondine Slimovschi always filtered the reality in a specific manner emphasizing the notions of solitude, melancholy, escapism, abandon, fears and expectations, love, lust, memory and recollection.
There is no doubt 2020 is a rocket year for digital becoming an integral part of human-being. Everything went online, work, galleries, art, exhibitions (worth to mention our own @Digital.Decade SE 2020), cryptocurrency art auctions like SuperRare, Nifty Gateway and etc. Fashion is no exception, and you have already seen David Koma’s online catwalk. Now, Demna Gvasalia, art director of Balenciaga, went further and released an online game “Afterworld: The Age of Tomorrow”. After the start you go straight to 2031 and… try yourself:
Virtual Exhibitions on Nifty Gateways
“Gavin Shapiro’s ultimate goal is to produce work that makes you smile, and these days he aims to do that by making vibrant, surrealist 3D animation that doesn’t take itself too seriously but still retains a high level of quality. He's lived and worked in New York, Osaka and Paris, working on a large variety of projects including tv shows, commercials, outdoor displays, large-format stage visuals, and animations for casino games.”
His personal work, released under the name “shapiro500”, has been used as visuals at music festivals and shows all over the world, and has been shown on digital billboards as part of art exhibitions in New York City and Tokyo. His animations have accumulated hundreds of millions of views across Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Giphy.
III. Cohesion
— Nifty Gateway (@niftygateway) December 5, 2020
by @shapiro500
The third phase from Gavin's collection revealed!!! We can't WAIT for his collection tonight! Check out the full collection page below:https://t.co/Fkq0sIh7cy
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His works are available today on the Nifty Gateway - the exclusive digital art platform featuring digital artists from all over the world that enabling collection of “non-fungible tokens” - a special type of cryptographic token which represents something unique, like Gavin’s artworks
American Expressionist in a second generation Jeff Erickson creates landscapes that are inviting a lonely soul to take a deep fresh breathe and seize the moment⠀
Long time no exceptional tattoo post.. Here we go with Seoul based master SOL creating multi-layered colourful pieces on a human skin
Artist and illustrator Nicholas Moegly creates haunted paintings of an abandoned rural suburbia occupied by natural inhabitants
When there is not so much left to unite there is a good case to start again from uniting some common things. And the visual identity for The United Sodas of America is a minimalist yet ultimately democratic design approach to do so. Conceived by a Brooklyn-based studio Center, it was inspired by America’s diversity and complexity.
“Following the belief that variety sparks unity, the designers imagined a palette of 12 bold, solid colors complemented with a versatile sans-serif font. Each taste is strongly reflected with the right shade – from Young Mango to Blackberry Jam. This approach to branding reflects on how political can drive aesthetics in the quest for a better world.”
Georgian photographer basing and working in Saint-Petersburgm Giga Topuria has an eye on the beautiful moments, renaissance light and sfumato shadows, while catching classic compositions in an urban life of a top cultural city of the world we all love and live in.
Talented London-based classic-taught artist Ben Ashton granted a knighthood to his majesty the Glitch by creating awesome distorted portraits (mainly self-portraits) with oil on canvas. Ashton's work combines precision in execution with humour and character, balancing emotive response with a strong contextual foundation. Worth to mention his commission for Rag’n’Bone Man platinum single and then epic album “Human”. Ben did an a portrait of a singer that appeared on the cover art.
Utopia
by Camille Walala
Camile Walala, who recently painted a parade of shops in east London, got the idea to design a new Oxford Circus at the beginning of lockdown – when she says she was “struck by the silence of the streets” and “the sense of peace that had descended on London in the absence of the traffic”.
Pedestrianised, exploding with colour and full of imaginative street furniture designed to be interacted with in multiple ways, Camille’s Oxford Street is a place of joy, surprise and asymmetry – an antidote to the flatness and homogeneity that often characterise the standard high street.
In a letter accompanying the series, Camille reflects on her 23 years living in London, and credits the capital with sparking and shaping her career as an artist. This project, she explains, is in essence an expression of her love and gratitude for the city, as well as a serious proposal for a new, more enriching urban landscape. Full of colourful, bold architectural structures and 3D surfaces, the images present a vision of an urban thoroughfare that exists for more than practical purposes, inviting numerous forms of interaction. It’s a place for gathering and meeting, resting and rambling – evoking the multiple community functions of the agora, or public square, in ancient Greece. Walala imagines the space as somewhere the natural and the human-made can coexist and complement each other, weaving water and verdant plant life into her speculative streetscape.
“Adopting a remote lifestyle seems more realistic than ever, and this week, MINI proved yet another way to do it. On Tuesday, the BMW-owned automotive marque unveiled an experimental ‘Vision Urbanaut’ car that imagines the living room to be on the go.”
“The concept, modeled like a small camper van, bears a metallic green exterior, light-up wheels, and gradient windows.
The Urbanaut extends upon MINI’s core of the “Clever Use of Space” with a dashboard that can be lowered into a daybed and front seats that swivel around, so the driver can relax or interact with other passengers when not steering the wheel.”
In constructing the surface of her works, Sung-Hee uses a collage method in which many circles are hand-cut or gently torn from traditional “hanji” paper, then layered with oil pigments and placed one atop another. Sung-Hee successfully combines a traditional Korean sensibility with her unique vision and personal narrative. Her works explore the complex relationship between colour and texture through a labour intensive, time-consuming process.
Multi-media artist based in Los Angeles Luna Ikuta shares their love to frozen moments of a nature beauty through creating motion artworks featuring a short life of plants
Renowned interactive media production company Sila Sveta was commissioned by fashion designer David Koma to create a totally digital catwalk in a futuristic environment
Concept and Artistic Direction: David Koma
Creative Direction: Polina Zakh
Creative Direction, Art Direction and CG: Komron Komron, Evgeny Mezhibovskiy
Cloth Simulation: Danya Qebab
Character Animation and Modelling: Efim Strand
Sound: Rob Taliesin Owen
Styling: Marc Goehring
Talent: Tamar M.
Powered by: Sila Sveta
Through a range of perspectives, glaring upwards, scanning downwards and cutting across the city skyline, Malachowski’s lens searches the metropolis like a surveillance camera.
Minsk-based artist Dima Kashtalyan shares his black-and-white detailed ink drawings and same but scaled techniques he uses for creating urban art murals
Graphic designer Bogdan Katsuba has been featured on our pages with his visual research on common used symbols and brands. Here is his next interpretation of archaic coats of arms in a way they merge urban reality with natural environments
Hamlyn's work delves into our relationship with modern technology to explore our shifting enthusiasms towards contemporary life. Working with a considered merging of carpentry, metalworking, digital design manufacture, electronics and coding. Hamlyn produce's sculpture, installations, paintings and performing spaces.
Moscow based young illustrator working under “Amak” moniker shares sharp skills and style with his latest artwork. Amak also creates music you want to listen below
