3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Living in this masterpiece city always a pleasure to see how travelling artists accept it and admire its beauty. NYC-based Kelly Beeman was commissioned by Louis Vuitton’s Travel Book Series to create a body of work that play off the many unique traits of the city.
Sergio Roger’s work is born from his constant search for inspiration in the ancient artistic representations of beauty. The artist reinterprets iconic elements of art history and decorative arts to break away with preconceived ideas by creating unique and elaborated textile sculptures.
Each of Sergio Roger’s works is Unique and is created from antique fabric remnants. The artist himself carefully selects these materials from antique collector stores. He chooses fabrics such as old linens and velvets, which carry the passing of time and bring soul to the work. For example, in his series of linen busts, he brings a new vision on this subject by replacing stone or marble with delicate pieces of antique linen. With this gesture, the artist wants to reflect on the idea of permanence and majesty that we associate with this traditional art form.
For the 2020 launch of the Mars Rover, NASA asked House of van Schneider to design a symbol capturing the energy and legacy of space travel, while celebrating the engineers who worked tirelessly on this mission.
At once an abstract representation of the iconic rover and blocks reaching up to the sky, the logomark works as beautifully on the rover as it does on a 191-foot tall rocket ship.
Do you know any other designer around whose work travelled to Mars? We know only Tobias! Proud to meet him during OFFF Festivals in Barcelona.
Voxel artist (3D pixel) Mari Mad Maraca shares her magic worlds available for collecting as Prints or Digital Tokens
Artist and director of Barcelona Academy of Art Jordi Diaz Alamá has a vast relationships with academic and abstract ways of painting.
“Alamà offers through this series of saturated, vivid and imposing reds, a privileged peek inside the universe of the painter’s studio, the practice of working with life models and the vast plurality in sensuality. Red Studio synthesises the many layers of technical research the artist has acquired over the last decade. Academicism and abstraction coexist again on the canvas: a new aesthetic chapter carried out by an overwhelming expressive force in the form of a dance between the measured and the vigorous brushstroke.”
“Red Studio has been developed in parallel with another of Alamàs’s ambitious series of paintings illustrating scenes of Hell in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Both series have grown in the same space – the artist’s studio – a place that can too often become hell in itself. The fire of the Dantesque Hell seems to crawl into these classical anatomical studies and envelop the figures with an abrasive red enamel, the main unifying thread of the series. Similarly, the works from the #ClásicosDesollados series also make an appearance, engulfed in flames and hung at the bottom of the Red Studio‘s works.” - words by Albert Navales
Time to refresh our #tattoos collection with a new masterpieces from Moscow-based ink artist Ilia Zharkov
Being a pioneer of digital art promotion - Designcollector is always looking for the breakaway artists whose intuition way ahead of the main peloton. Groundbreaking digital artist Mike Winkelmann known as Beeple is one of them. Since 2007 Mike has created 5,000+ digital artworks by following a simple rule: one image per day. The diligence paid off when the rise of NFT trading burst like a fresh wave onto the digital art scene just at the moment of another lockdown after another lockdown during 2020. Beeple played a huge role in reinforcing beliefs in quite an ephemeral way of selling unique artworks for cryptocurrency by imprinting them “forever” into Ethereum blockchain.
His January’s drop of a dozen phygital artworks (non-fungible token JPG + physical collectible including a certificate “signed” by artist’s hair in a capsule) rocketed the NFT scene by a one week auction on Nifty Gateways platform.
And here come Christie’s what means art institutions started to look (if not late) onto the opportunity to catch an NFT wave by putting Beeple’s EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS - a huge stitched image featuring all images he created over 13 years. Organised in loose chronological order, zooming in on individual pieces reveals abstract, fantastical, grotesque, and absurd pictures, alongside current events and deeply personal moments. The NFT is minted on another platform Makersplace and is available for bidding on Christie’s website
“The notable difference between the pictures from Day 1 (1 May, 2007) and Day 5,000 (7 January, 2021) reveals Beeple’s immense evolution as an artist. At the project’s inception, Everydays consisted of basic drawings. Once Beeple started working in 3D, they took on abstract themes, colour, form, and repetition. In the last five years, however, his digital pictures have became increasingly timely, often reacting to current events.” says Christie’s in its groundbreaking article
“Art should be everywhere and everyone should live like an artist and create their dreams. In a decentralized world, this is possible.”
Bristol based graphic designer Jack Harvatt beside creating bespoke packaging and identity systems is generating vibrant colourful CG scenes used in his latest artworks
Celine's mens show for FW 2021 arrived in the form of a medieval-themed film - Teen Knight Poem.
A presentation filled with stunning theatrics, in a way that only creative director Hedi Slimane can pull off, Teen Knight Poem is Celine at its most mysterious and exciting.
Celine has drawn its creative sword once again to ride into a decadent Arthurian future. The Teen Knight Poem collection shares Hedi Slimane's fascination with the unshackled of a new generation of fashion. We saw these same inspirations and ideals in his beloved and rather sport Celine womenswear SS 2021 show in Monaco last year.
Mark Constantine Inducil based in Melbourne creates surreal and abstract renders that won’t disappoint you
Interdisciplinary designer Weronika Dudka is a master of many talents, where architectural photography is only a part but took us all. Her trained eye frames the meaning of each brutalism building she photographed.
Darius Puia aka Baka Arts is a graphic designer and digital artist basing in Germany, and bringing cyberpunk with sci-fi art to the screens during the last 15 years
Digital artist based in Norway, Christian, creates neat CG characters that reminds us some popular people
@dingyun_zhang & @antonitudisco
“Dingyun Zhang, the 25-year old Chinese Central Saint Martins graduate and YEEZY designer hadn’t even sold a single product. He still hasn’t. Yet the demand for his namesake brand’s signature oversized puffers, trousers, and sleeveless vests has continued to skyrocket. Everyone from A$AP Nast, Jerry Lorenzo, and Tremaine Emory to Mowalola, Hidden.ny, and sneaker legend Steven Smith now follow him on IG, Rihanna, CL, and Kaia Gerber have worn his design samples, and (in secret) some of the biggest retailers have started placing orders.”
In October, the designer partnered with Italian-Filipino art director and 3D artist Antoni Tudisco on a set of 3D rendered film stills and short animations that featured exaggerated versions of Zhang’s MA puffers and YEEZY sneakers, set in utopian landscapes. It was a case study to show how the brand could build buzz outside of traditional big budget runway shows and big scale advertising campaigns. It worked, with the first set of images getting up to three times as much as engagement as usual.
Tudisco grew up in Hamburg, Germany — and started getting approached by commercial clients after he published sketches and rough renderings on Facebook a couple of years ago — and says he’s recently recognised a rise in big brands like Balenciaga started incorporating animations in their work. Zhang, in his mind, made the perfect potential collaborator.
For Highsnobiety’s Not in Paris II exhibition, the duo pushes their collaboration a step further by introducing their longest video to date:
David Belliveau is a self-taught digital artist and entrepreneur, specialised in advertising illustrations and realistic portraiture. When he’s not painting for clients, he spends most of his time teaching others. In 2015 he co-founded Paintable, an online art school built to empower budding artists around the world.
An entrancing short film by designer and artist Rus Khasanov (previously) fuses multiple optical tricks into a single work.
“The hypnotic footage utilizes pareidolia—the inclination to see an object where it physically doesn’t exist—while referencing heterochromia iridum, a fairly common condition in which a person’s irises are multi-colored, sometimes in the forms of spikes radiating around the pupil or swirls that split the tissue with different hues. Khasanov’s rendition mimics that phenomenon through saturated droplets and innumerable veins that plume outward.” via Colossal
Saint-Petersburg, Russia based artist Edgar Invoker creates quite surreal and experimental artworks by mixing digital tools with airbrush, monotype, liquid acrylic, masking. Practicing techniques contributing to lucid dreaming, he fixes the experience and understanding in the form of paintings. The main technique is to create an abstract form in the form of a blot or a paint print, followed by a "manifestation" of a specific image using a set of techniques.
Jade Purple Brown is an artist living in New York City. Her work uses strong figures, vibrant coloгrs, and messages of optimism to create new, dynamic worlds of individuality and empowerment. Her artistic practice spans across Illustration, Design, and Creative Direction, and has attracted a wide range of global clients.
SMECCEA is a motion designer based in Vancouver. Her work often examines abstract ideas, spirituality, and self discovery. She grounds her work based on careful introspection, always drawn to working in many creative mediums.
An immersive sci-fi short by writer-director Stuart Langfield. “Loop” centres around a reclusive former tech CEO’s quest to teach AI how to experience and process true human emotions. However these ’emotion experiments’ involve a series of scripted scenarios that seem to do more to call basic humanity into question as the film blurs the lines between drama and sci-fi, human and machine, real and artificial.
“Loop is an artistic exploration of a simple hypothesis: emotion cannot be programmed, it must be felt and experienced to be real. I started exploring this concept while observing my young son discover and display new emotions through his own direct experience and contact with others. He was learning to process the feelings of anger, joy, disappointment, sadness, and I found this progression of maturity fascinating and insightful. I started to question whether replicating an emotive incident could result in a similar reaction every time and, if so, could we program a machine to feel?”
