Vectors in Plywood by Aske Sicksystems

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Russian illustrator and artist Aske Sicksystems synthesizes elements of Soviet era cubism, constructivism and futurism through vector art into semi-sculptural works of art. His latest project is a "Sneaker Head," so to speak: a cross between a Nike Air Force 1 Duckboot and a wolf's head, executed as a painted plywood artwork for the Nike Store Moscow.

Also check another Aske's plywood installation created for International Festival of Contemporary Music and Media Arts MIGZ.

http://vimeo.com/29182974

For his earlier works check our post from October 2011

A Letterpress Film

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South Devon-based filmmaker Danny Cooke has documented the dying art of letterpress in a short film titled ‘Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film’. Beautifully crafted, the under 8-min documentary showcases one of the only few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, located at Plymouth University.

http://vimeo.com/35688592

Sculptures by Unmask

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"These figurative human and equine sculptures are by a trio of Beijing-based artists who go by the name Unmask Group. Liu Zhan, Kuang Jun and Tan Tianwei met while at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and have been producing sculptural work together since 2001." "These seemingly incomplete stainless steel works show figures in a state of dissolution or perhaps just the opposite, emergence. Regardless, the delicate lines and smooth curves left by the absence of materials make them appear almost sensual. These particular pieces were on display at H.T. Gallery through last month." via This is Colossal

Tyler Jacobson art

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Tyler Jacobson recently graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in Illustration. At present he is pursuing a career as a freelance illustrator and is represented by Richard Solomon and New York City. His clients include Wizards of the Coast, Fantasy Flight Games, Simon and Schuster, Texas Monthly Magazine, The Weekly Standard, The Deal. Currently, he works in oils on board and digital mediums. Check his Behance profile to discover full portfolio.

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.