Alba Prat

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Alba Prat is a Spanish Fashion Designer from Barcelona who studies fashion design at Berlin University of Arts. Prat's final year project is making a lot of good noise in the fashion industry. Inspired by the first Tron film of 1982, she kept the futurist concept, androgynous aspect and straight silhouettes in her design pieces with the touch of the avant-garde glamour and under the futuristic shapes and laser-cuts.

The materials used are wool, leather, cotton and neoprene (a material that becomes our second skin and protects us when we are in the deep waters of the ocean).

The project "Synthetic Oceans" was created to be the final project of Prat's graduation year in Fashion at the German school University of Künste in Berlin. This represents the transition that the aquatic world experiences mixed with the result of the industrialization era.

It's a project focus in the hundreds of tons of plastic that are dumped in the middle of ocean every year creating serious and complicated situations for the living species that live in there and the need of adaptation that they have to don't be killed or die.

The collection "Synthetic Oceans is a ‘cold and dark atmosphere where the beauty of the mutations and the defense mechanisms that its inhabitants embrace is to be seen’.

We can see in the fashion pieces the resembling of the cubist movement, the clean line features and shapes in garments combined with chunky wedge boots with the use of grey, black and silver as a colour palette.

"Through different techniques I have created cube patterns on the surface of some of the materials. Giving the designs a technical yet minimalist character."

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PressPausePlay film

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PressPausePlay film that we watched at OFFF festival is available now on Vimeo and through PPP website.

"The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world's most influential creators of the digital era."

Street Art by Pavel 183 (R.I.P. boy)

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Russian based street art master Pavel 183 brakes the myths of graffiti vandalism by revealing outdoors installations and modifications of post-urban suburbs of our capital. His works a full of social less politic sense and can be valued as an equal act of contemporary art and most of times his stuff is cooler then we see in modern museums around the world.

Interview http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/multimedia/2012/02/120202_moscow_street_art.shtml

RIP 01.04.2013 :(

Alex Tyapochkin art

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New works from gifted Moscovian artist Alex Tyapochkin. The unique graphic destructive street-art style makes Alex's illustrations speak their own language and that is a matter of his art manners to start from a freehand drawing with a bit of digital retouch at the end. And with an eight years of the background in graphic design and art he runs the successful Yeah Yeah studio: http://yeahyeahstudio.com For this post Alex prepared a set of recent experimental artworks featuring floral ornaments.

Satoshi Minakawa Dekochari & Dekotora

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Briefly "Dekocahri" is overdecorated bikes in Japan and "Dekotora" is same for large trucks - the field for chrome and lights. Japan fashion and editorial photographer Satoshi Minakawa, Intersection Magazine and the theprintspace galleries team up to create "Customized" exhibition featuring this Japanese trend. Don't miss a video from exhibition opening.

Polaboy frames

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I got in to the Polaroid culture when I was ten with a proud colour one "Assembled in the USSR". This was a high times, today Swissmiss made a huge flashback and now I really want to install Polaboy frame featuring some of the photos from my past. Smart and simple idea and citing Swissmiss: "Polaboys are enlarged Polaroids to a scale of 10:1 (to 88x107cm) and backlit. They are 20 mm thick and use energy-saving LED area lights. The frame is wooden and they are made in Germany. Also good to know: The photographs can be changed at any time and you can even send your custom image."