OFFF 2021 Virtual Experience

April 23, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, OFFF

Introducing OFFF.INC, the corporation generating hallways to further worlds. This is the doorway to the many phenomenal worlds interpreted by each OFFF artist's personal vision.

Until we can meet face-to-face again, OFFF moves to a virtual world powered by Futura Space where all the activities scheduled for the 2021 edition will be celebrated. OFFF is hosting an immersive experience as you’ve never seen before. They are excited to introduce you to out-of-this-world realities. This metaverse broadly understood as a persistent, shared virtual realm is no longer just fodder for science fiction.

“This world OFFF 2021 powered by Futura Space will always be on; it’s live and in real time; its experiences and content will be created for and by our community. The metaverse will allow you to interact with other participants through personalized avatars: make new friends, chat, networking, walk through the different spaces of this virtual world, attend the 36 talks of our speakers and workshops that will be organized, a free zone with surprise content.

We conceive these other worlds not as single destinations to which everyone goes by default, but as a complex network consisting of browsers, indexes and portals. One constantly buzzing with activity, where our community can go whenever you want, and do whatever you want.

One significant feature of the metaverse is its interoperability. That is, my ability to travel across it, hopping frictionlessly from portal to portal.

Welcome to the OFFF metaverse, alternate digital realities where people work, play, and socialize. You can call it the metaverse, the mirror world, the Magicverse, the Spatial internet, or Live Maps, but one thing is for certain, it’s coming and it’s a big deal.”

OFFF 2021 SPEAKERS LINE-UP

How do you get in?

You will be able to access this universe directly from a link that we will share with you later, without the need to download applications and from any PC or Mac. It will be preferable to access from the Google Chrome browser. If you use MacOs Big Sur, you must access from Mozilla Firefox. The platform will not be accessible from your cell phone or tablet. You will need to create a username and password and enter your login ID to access.

Open portals

OFFF 2021 will be a 6 days event from May 3rd to May 8th, and will run everyday starting at 12:00 to 21:00. As soon as we open our portal, you will be able to access our virtual platform, create your personalized avatar and walk through our world.

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TICKETS

One Thousand Ksoids

April 22, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Illustration, NFT Art, Portfolios, USA

@myshli

1000 original and collectible KSOIDS 3D characters by VFX artist Danil Krivoruchko -- NFTs with a heart and meaning, now at OpenSea

NFT Opensea

Meet the Ksoids, an impossibly addictive NFT collectible that not only creates a world all its own, but also helps protect our world.

Each one of these curious creatures was generated by a hand-crafted algorithm and then lovingly selected by creator Danil Krivoruchko to join an elite group of 1,000 Grade-A Ksoids, all available to the discerning investor.

The first few drops will be sold on the NFT marketplace OpenSea, and available in randomly selected packs of 1, 4, and 10. It’s also possible there will be a few easter eggs thrown into the mix, but that’s all we’re saying for now.

We reserved an original release format for a special #collectable. A group of 1,000 Grade-A Ksoids dropping by the pack! Randomly selected by an algorithm, each pack has 1, 4, and 10 Ksoids. Available on the #NFT marketplace @opensea, the first batch of 100 KSOIDS dropping today! pic.twitter.com/gd6OpSD6Pf
— One Thousand Ksoids (@ksoids_home) April 22, 2021

Clap your hands! Mind your head! Make some noise! Here they drop! KSOIDS! #NFT debut is tomorrow on @opensea! Made in 2013 by award-winning studio @myshli_com finally coming as NFTs! We will bring more news out about the KSOIDS cutielicious project! #NFTcommunity, stay with us! pic.twitter.com/y7L6ECj5rN
— One Thousand Ksoids (@ksoids_home) April 21, 2021

Charity Donations

Thankfully adopting a Ksoid doesn’t have to mean decimating either their habitat or ours. In an attempt to counteract NFTs’ negative environmental impact, Ksoids will work to reduce their footprint through the purchase of carbon offsets.

Not only that, but 20% of all profits will be donated to the Orangutan Outreach, an organization dedicated to protecting orangutans in their native forests, while also caring for orphaned orangutans.

ksoids.com

Brooklyn-based Myshli Studio was founded by Danil Krivoruchko, a motion designer, director, and visual effects artist. Krivoruchko's NFT works are already well-known to digital art collectors, having been featured on platforms such as KnownOrigin and Foundation; the Ksoids will mark his premiere on OpenSea. His digital art work is also well-known in the film community. Last October, a collaborative group of designers and artists under the direction of Krivoruchko used 3D-imaging to transform the sci-fi novel "Blindsight" by Peter Watts into a short film. The movie has won over a dozen awards, including the Best Animation Award at the Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival. In the past 17 years, Danil has collaborated with clients such as Apple, Nike, Boeing, Verizon, and Intel, to name a few.

Phygital Masks by Ikeuchi Hiroto

April 22, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Design, Japan, Portfolios

@_ikeuchi

These days you cannot be 100% sure what you see on the screen, things can be real, virtual or mixed as physical and digital what is called simply “Phygital”. Here is artist Ikeuchi Hiroto creating her cyborgs with elements of phygital armory

Airo Car by Heatherwick Studio

April 21, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Cars, Design, United Kingdom

London-based Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its concept for the Airo electric car for IM Motors that will "vacuum up pollutants from other cars".

Named Airo, the electric car will be fitted with a HEPA – high-efficiency particulate air – filtering system that will actively clean pollution. It will have both autonomous and driver-controlled modes.

“Airo isn’t simply another electric car that doesn’t pollute the air. Instead, using the latest HEPA-filter technology, it goes further by also vacuuming up pollutants from other cars as it drives along.”

— Thomas Heatherwick, founder of Heatherwick Studio

The car has been designed with a flexible interior with rotating seats so that it can be reconfigured into a "multi-functional room".

With the seats facing each other a four-leaf table can be unfolded to create a dining space or a screen extended to watch films or play games.

The car's interior can also be turned into a bedroom as the contoured seats fully recline to create a double bed

The car, which is set to go into production in 2023, was designed for IM Motors – a car brand created by Chinese car company SAIC Motor, online retailer Alibaba Group and the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Group.

Where The War Things Are by Schoony

April 20, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Digital Art, Portfolios, NFT Art, United Kingdom

We are very proud to welcome new and prominent artist Schoony to the NFT scene on Superrare platform.

@schoony_art

Schoony’s background is rooted in special effects and prosthetics for the film industry. His career spans over 30 years. Since the age of fifteen he has worked on over a hundred films. His work and reputation for high quality and pioneering techniques has reached far corners of the world thanks to the representation of Maddox Gallery. Schoony uses 3D technologies alongside the more traditional methods in his art pieces. He continually pushes boundaries within this discipline.

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Designcollector: What inspired the work in your first NFT drop?

Schoony: For the first drop with SuperRare I thought I would go back to one of my early works. Where The War Things Are is a variation on my Boy Soldier that has been a motif that has stuck with my work over the years and been very symbolic. Where the War Things Are is a throwback to my time spent in Melbourne, Australia where I was working on the film Where the Wild Things Are. I thought I would celebrate my first drop on SuperRare by recreating the piece digitally.

Where The War Things

Read our interview on Superrare Editorial

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Studio Marcus Kraft

April 20, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Agencies, Graphic Design, Branding, Portfolios, Switzerland, Typography

@studiomarcuskraft

Zurich-base Marcus Kraft studio is celebrating its 10th anniversary of delivering top-notch graphic design projects with the bigger picture in mind, great attention to detail, and typographic quality. They strongly believe that design should be more than ‹just› beautiful and aesthetic. The following ten principles* build the foundation for Marcus Kraft work and available as a Manifesto

Rukmunal Hakim Illustrations

April 19, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Illustration, Indonesia, Portfolios

@r_hakim

Rukmunal Hakim (b.1983) is a self-taught artist and illustrator based in South Tangerang, Indonesia. he takes inspirations from all living, natural creatures, and personal anecdotes in his monochromatic visual artwork.

Being born with colour blind condition this does not stop him to keep creating and experimenting with artworks using color, both digital and traditional

His works have been exhibited in Jakarta, Bandung, Japan, Scotland, and the Netherlands, among others.

Life the Certainty of Uncertainty

"The life of a person who goes up and down, is uncertain" is another meaning of "Yang Rebah Bangun, Karena Terinjak". Summarizes the many things that have happened during my nearly eleven years as a self-taught artist. The collection of visual works here are stories of how I see the path of my journey as an artist who has never been on a flat and straight path. It is boring to hear about someone's struggles when they become an artist, such as the love and heartbreak pop songs that are repeated over and over again. This is also a question for myself, until when to make works that are always about self-internalization? How about a work in the form of social commentary? Does the work I create have a place and function for society? Or is it just an artist's creative masturbation?
These questions are part of my work journey. Intertwined with the inability to identify self-image, low self-esteem, to the urge to commit suicide. An extreme ride like a roller coaster. These ten works summarize the journey, as a visual record for me, a reminder that so far, the road has not been easy. Do I keep walking, taking a break, or stop?
The online solo exhibition showed 10 digital artworks that I created from 2019-2021. This collection is also special because apart from digital working techniques, these 10 artworks are also a collection of my works with color. A big step for me as an artist, after years of getting used to black-and -white and monochromatic color schemes. This solo exhibition is held on my personal website : www.rukmunalhakim.com

Auguste Lefou

April 16, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Portfolios

@auguste_lefou

Digital artist Auguste Lefou creates works that can be seen as a perfect illustrations for any of your favourite sci-fi book

The Fungible by Pak - Sotheby's x Nifty Gateway

April 15, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, NFT Art

The history is made at night. Mighty digital artist Pak has completed an auction organised by Sotheby’s and Nifty Gateway and paved a path to the history of NFT Art on April 14th 2021.

Pak is an omniscient designer/developer/wizard, one of the leads of the design scene as the founder of Undream and one of the prominent social media figures as the creator of Archillect, the synthetic curator. Pak is currently at uncharted space experimenting with new forms of creation and communication, discovering, learning and teaching along the journey.

“In the Sotheby’s sale, top prices were paid for Pak works that showcased a level of market savvy and gamelike complexity that would be impossible with a canvas or sculpture in real life. “The Switch,” which sold to California cryptocurrency investor Damian Medina for $1.4 million, is a digital image of a rotating, black-and-white geometric shape.” text via WSJ

“Another work, “The Pixel,” sold for $1.4 million to artist Eric Young and elicited bids from many top NFT art collectors in part because its medium-gray monochrome represents a single pixel, the building block of digital imagery.”

The auction for the open edition “Cube” was set up in a way of mathematical game explained neatly in this tweet and hardly understandable for us but at the end it went as 23151 sold editions of a single Cube. Obtaining a sequence of single Cubes made collectors to receive an NFT of 5, 10, 20, 100, 500 and 1000x1000 cubes based on how many cubes they own. This action burst a second sale in the form of pyramid. The top secondary market buyers will get other unique NFTs. This creates buying pressure in the secondary market, further adding value to single cubes.

Unlike the debut of Beeple’s The First 5000 days NFT on Christies', Pak created a brain puzzle for those who a seriously familiar with math and cryptocurrencies leaving others watching this Game agape.

View on Nifty Gateway

Ana Ayala Illustrations

April 14, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Illustration, Portfolios, Spain

@anayala

Barcelona-based illustrator Ana Ayala shares with us her love with colour and shapes that form a life scaled visual storytelling

Tomasz Mro illustrative portraits

April 12, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Portfolios, Illustration, United Kingdom

@tomaszmroart

Young UK-based illustrator Tomasz Mro specialises in creating ethereal portraits with a haunting mood and atmosphere, often exploring different emotions and expressions within his pieces.

Manuel Fernandez

April 09, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Digital Art, NFT Art, Portfolios, Spain

@manuelfernandezstudio

Manuel Fernandez is a Spanish artist making internet art projects since 2011. His artistic practice begins at the intersection of art, popular culture and Internet. He explores the impact of technologies on society and their consequences in the way we perceive and experience reality.

Manuel investigates on new processes involved in the creation and production of the art object, in its distribution, presentation and in their consumption in the era of Internet of things.

Bid on Foundation

Juun.J Flagship Store by WGNB Korea

April 08, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Architecture, Interior Design, Photography, Portfolios, South Korea

@wgnb.kr

Seoul-based architects WGNB shares their latest design project created for Juun.J flagship store. Under the slogan “See the same thing but think differently”, WGNB pursues creating a new perspective through connecting the various inspirations of our daily lives with the spatial design. With the new perspective and flexible thoughts, WGNB redefines the boundaries between design that ranges from architecture, furniture to product design. Based on this creative goal, we seek to create a new sense of experience by collaborating with various genres of art.

WGNB_Juun.J_Images (2).jpg — Juun.J

by WGNB

It’s the first flagship store of the fashion brand of Juun.J. It’s divided into two floors; the first floor comprising cafe and women’s wear, while the second floor men’s wear. We used natural elements such as light and shadow in order to express darkness within space using black – identity color of Juun.J brand. The shape of the architecture was initiated from geometry that is the basic form in all designs. Juun.J’s flagship store surely has a certain form but in the shape like a shadow without exact shape, which is similar to Juun.J as it invites endless curiosity to people.

We built our first flagship store where customers are able to experience at once all lines of not only men’s and women’s wear collections but of limited collaboration products at Dosan Park, Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

The flagship store is composed of the first and second floors with the total size of 396㎡. The first floor is arranged centred on women’s line and collaboration products, while the second floor displays men’s products. We at Juun..J provide differentiated brand experience to customers by arranging a garden as well as the best specialty coffee brand FELT COFFEE on the first floor so that they can experience a diverse range of brands at the same space.

Concept

“Black is a color symbolic of Juun.J and the most beautiful shadow out of the shapeless existences is also black.“

If we look at the traditional house structure in the East, large roof files are put above the house basically and the whole structure is absorbed into within the deep and wide shade generated by the awning. Deep darkness below the awning is shadow as well as black within the space.

In an attempt to turn black into space, we organised space by either hanging plenty of objet or separating them and generating shadows. All spaces except white part for women’s wear on the first floor are composed of varied densities of darkness. While the first floor has contrasts with some white part, clothes here are also hung in darkness. The space of cafe generates various darknesses due to natural light dramatically penetrating from the ceiling. And eaves spreading forward work as an awning and make visitors feel natural light coming as a result of reflection on the garden. They can see the garden from within the space and find another shadow as a tree is floating in the garden.

The shape of the architecture is composed of circle, quadrangle and triangle, basic forms in all designs and the architecture is designed with the concept of dark matters of the universe. Especially, the garden-shaped circle, which is a space drawing natural light, plays an important role in making this dark matter a striking contrast.

This architecture and space started very much from the Orienal way of thinking, and the structure of space and formative approach were complete based on the Western style. We expressed achromatic color of black as darkness within the space instead of a simple painting and, as far as the used materials are concerned, we diversely applied materials that black has intrinsically instead of painting them in black.

Lee Madgwick Art

April 07, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, United Kingdom

@leemadgwickart

Lee Madgwick’s mysterious and emotive paintings depict scenes of abandonment, seclusion and dereliction. Both his urban and rural pictures portray parts of the modern British landscape that are often overlooked by many (with occasional sprinklings of the surreal). With an undercurrent of mischievous menace throughout, the subject matter is at once thrown into question. Who inhabits these places? What lives do they lead? What is happening or about to happen? “I hope to achieve a sense of drama in my work. Presenting a familiar image yet placing it in an intimate and moody setting. A narrative is very important – but intentionally never fully explained. I like to leave it for the viewer to come up with their own interpretation.”

Lee paints on canvas in oils and acrylics. A play of light is used to generate an abundance of seemingly inexplicable moods to contrast with a brooding sky. Lee has exhibited throughout the UK including London and Edinburgh as well as Dublin, Amsterdam, Rome, Milan, Stockholm, Madrid, Singapore and New York.

Surreal Infraland™ by Paolo Pettigiani

April 06, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Italy, Photography, Portfolios, NFT Art

@paolopettigiani

Photographer and art director Paolo Pettigiani combines graphic design and photography playing with colours, shapes and contrasts.

Infraland™ is a graphic and visual exploration of nature that aims to highlight the beauty that surrounds us and that is too often forgotten. For this project I used digital Infrared photography. This technique enables the full sensitivity of the camera’s sensor, making it sensitive to UV, visible, and IR light.
Elements with chlorophyll, such as grass, leaves and trees, strongly reflect IR light on the invisible wavelength.

Bid on Foundation

Zhong Lin Photography

April 05, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Fashion, Photography, Portfolios

@zhonglin_

The Taiwan-based photographer Zhong Lin is exploring art and solitude during isolation with ‘Project 365’

“Project 365 is a year-long project I started in April 2020 during the pandemic to rediscover myself and do what I like without restrictions. I must admit the idea of making a new image every day is indeed very ambitious. The shoots are not always planned; there are days that I need to improvise within a short time. The challenge of Project 365 is pushing my boundaries under different circumstances and making the fullest out of everything I have. I wasn’t sure if I could manage to deliver as I wish daily.”

— Zhong Lin

Read interview on thefashionography.com/zhong-lin-interview

Tom Blachford Photography

April 02, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, NFT Art, Photography, Portfolios, Australia

@blachford

Working at the intersection of long exposure photography and exploration of the built environment Tom Blachford’s Fine Art Photographs seek to transform predictable and known environments into surreal and dreamlike worlds.

Obsessed with capturing the moments of clarity, colour and mystery that exist just beyond the limits of our human perception Blachford explores the ability for his camera to bridge our worlds to dark worlds beyond our reach.

Captivated by architecture, not only for its sculptural forms, Blachford’s images of homes, towns and suburbs act as the the stage for unwritten narratives that implore the viewer to script their own drama happening behind the walls of each scene.

Using only existing light sources – the moon (Midnight Modern), The neon Lights of Tokyo (Nihon Noir) or the harsh street lights of LA (Noct Angeles) Blachford hunts for the overlooked cinematic moments in the everyday and works to distil them with a sense of mystery, unease and wonder.

Bid On Foundation

Portrait of Beatrice Cenci / Guido Reni (1600)

AI as an Artist - Yuma Kishi

April 01, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Japan, Portfolios

@obake_ai

Japanese artist Yuma Kishi trains GANs related DeepAI systems to work with art and recreate it meanings in a wake of Crypto Renaissance.

org. Ecce Homo / Guido Reni (1650)

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (1635)

Bacchus and Ariadne, circa / Guido Reni (1619-1620)

On Superrare

Anthony Hurd

March 31, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, USA

@anthonyhurd

Anthropomorphic abstract paintings by Anthony Hurd attract with it’s deep layering of thoughts and senses one can decode based on its own life experience

The Robots Are Coming

March 30, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Graphic Design

@tomorrowbureau

@there.techlab

Tomorrow Bureau builds a series of satisfying and futuristic digital robots for a gallery campaign launch

Titled The Robots Are Coming for Amsterdam-based gallery There Tech Lab, the design studio has created a series of films each exploring the possibilities of robotics.