French illustrator, film director and creative polymath Mathieu Bessudo, or McBess, is a London-based artist with an eye for incredible detail and a mind for a surreal rearrangement of the most simplistic of subject matters.
Same as our friends from Hobo and Sailor (that made an awesome DCN t-shirt for us) McBess inspires from earlier 20 century's studio Fleischer Cartoon
McBess also does music and videos, let's watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPsDFQWz3DI&feature=player_embedded
Chinese photographer Zhaohua Sen‘s photo series depicts bike riders floating in mid air and riding “invisible” bicycles.
Double or multiple exposed photographs is a distinctive feature of Christoffer Relander from Raseborg, Finland.
You might also like awesome double exposed photography from British artist Dan Mountford
In conjunction with its major Gerrit Rietveld retrospective, Vitra Design Museum has invited five of the most innovative designers from the Netherlands to join a partner from the region in developing a design project. The results will be shown from 12 June (Art Basel) until 02 September 2012 in the exhibition “Confrontations".Studio Wieki Somers teamed up with chocolatier Rafael Mutter to create the ‘CHOCOLATE MILL’. It will be installed and in use from 15 June.
http://vimeo.com/44097005
New York creative scene shows us a new promising star among acclaimed visual artist we have on the list - You Byun. She "was born in Queens, New York and grew up in Japan and Korea. She moved back to New York to be a visual artist, receiving her MFA in illustration as visual essay from the School of Visual Arts. You's work is a ritual that recollects and records her memories and emotions; she places her characters in lush environments that hopefully spread joy through the world. " taken from the You's interview for CA
Want to see classic paintings with a modern twist? Than have a chance to enjoy Wien based artist Dorothee Golz and her series of digital artworks merging modern looks with classic paintings.
Book seems to be a very flexible and meaningful material for modern sculptors but you need to have classic 99% of perspiration before you hit 1% of genius carving. Brian Dettmer did it well and host an awesome gallery of selected works on personal website http://briandettmer.com/
Interview
http://vimeo.com/25222103
We have been following Nikita Nomerz graffiti since his appearance world wide including tv news channels etc. Check his new works and watch interview on Russian http://nomerz-art.livejournal.com/
http://vimeo.com/36306536
Award-winning and acclaimed artist Roy Nachum covers artworks with poetry translated and sculpted to Braile as he believes making his art accessible to all people.
The fuel cell of Dopludo Collective - Egor Kraft shows off personal portfolio and showreel. We admire the visual balance of his works swinging between graphic design and contemporary art.
http://vimeo.com/43318699
Young American artist and illustrator Kimberly Bicknese shares gorgeous and really mature artworks through personal portfolio on synthoxide.net "The artwork that I compose primarily revolves around certain concepts that relates to people in general, such as mental illnesses, disorders, human emotions, desires and wishes, dreams, and anything else that essentially makes us who we are. Depicting such things allows me to record what many others around the world are feeling during certain points in their lives."
You might remember few photos of Leonid Tishkov's personal project "Private Moon" that had been circulating on the web few years ago. Here are new photos of Private Moon traveling around the world.
There are few works on Arthur Alimguzin's portfolio and maybe because of this I feel a hunger for his hyper-realistic drawing. Frankly speaking there are only three works that will be never enough and of course they are worth to watch and enjoyhttp://alimguzin.com http://www.behance.net/goodja
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YSKJGSwVv-s
Designcollector is revealing a sneak peek of artwork created by Sara Blake for upcoming Designcollector Magazine #2 - DCMAG.NETThis time we challenged selected artist to make a cover versions of other artists that contributes to DCMAG, so called battle "Artist vs. Artist" will spread on pages of this small and brave magazine. Meanwhile we are asking you to become a sponsor or support us to be able to release DCMAG in time http://dcmag.net/support and of course we are looking for contribution authors or artists, in any case please contact us by designcollector@gmail.com
We asked Sara Blake to make a cover version on Oleg Dou's artworks - the results are amazing.That what she writes on personal blog:
"To follow the first issue of the printed magazine for friends at Design Collector, I was invited to collaborate with the amazing, incredible, fantasic Oleg Dou for the second issue coming this summer. I've been mesmerized by Oleg's imagery for some time now. I never knew quite how to categorize his art for myself. I've always gravitated to more handmade work even if it's finished digitally. I feel that same handmade quality in Oleg's work, despite its more digital guise at first glance. In Oleg's words, "I'm an artist, but sometimes, some people call me a photographer. It's not true. I'm an artist who uses photography as a medium for my works." (Check out the full video of Oleg's work process presented by Adobe here.)
I had Oleg's hi-res files for Masha and White (below) for over a month and toyed with several ideas for a collaboration. I have to admit I was a little stumped for a bit. I had thought to do a "tear-out" effect and only illustrate certain features of his characters and place them over the original. I had thought also to embellish filligree in the negative space and lightly over the face... the usual fair of illustration/photographic collaboration. After sketching and brainstorming however, I reallized anything I were to add to Oleg's originals would not be an improvement, but would instead detract from their simplicity and power. I didn't want to tamper. Let a good thing alone—they were perfect as they stood. Instead I decided to create illustration "based" on his pieces, redrawn in my style, whatever that means. The two would sit side by side for a spread. The following 2 images were created quickly in a few hours (pencil, watercolor, digital). They will appear in the second issue of Design Collector Magazine, along with more artist collaborations from some friends. Huge thanks to Design Collector and to Oleg for having the trust to let me mess with his beautiful work."
Seoul based artist Lee Jung uses neon lights in a philosophical manner. "Lee Jung was born in 1972 and currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea returning to Korea upon completed her M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art, UK. She also received her B.A. with honors in Photography from Kent Institute of Art & Design, UK and a B.A. with honors in Mass Communication & Journalism from Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. Lee Jung most recently participated in 2010 Gwangju Biennale “10,000 Lives” under the direction of Massimiliano Gioni, the contemporary Korean photography exhibition “Chaotic Harmony” at the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) and “Writing Paintings, Painting Words” at the Seoul Museum of Art."
Proposition One is a series of x-ray photography made by Max de Esteban, revealing the nature of the obvious objects. http://www.maxphotos.es
I think @Radiohead or @MassiveAttackUK might be inspired as same as us by the latest and the longest project "An Anatomy" created digitally by hands of Saint-Petersburg based conceptual illustrator Olga Feldman aka Linzza. Why I mentioned Radiohead, because this work reminds me their project http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/rh/index.html with the only difference in creation - Aaron Koblin did it with code, Olga - by hands and without 3D dummies.
We had a chance to speak with Olga about her project.
DC: What was the concept behind "An atomy"? Olga: First there was no concept. All I wanted is improve my vector technic and connect it with classical anatomy studies. 3D models that I’ve used before are too rough and I refused them.
DC: What was the main challenge while creating this series? Olga: Once I saw that this “studies” could be joined like a puzzle . It was such a conversation between two hands at every picture – they care, love, protect each other and at the same time all of them are linked – in a human that implied. And this hands relationships are very simple, elementary. Soon, pictures became words – give, you, love and so on. Probably, this words I should say a long time ago, but I never did. This serial artwork is about a mother.
DC: How long did it take you to complete the project? Olga: It took time. I started to vectorise first picture about a year ago. Every little thing could bring me down, there were months of doing nothing between pictures, I changed title of the series three or four times, but came back to very beginning – “an atomy” – and unfortunally, there is no correct Russian analog for this title. Sometimes it seemed like I’ll never finish this work – some new details, meanings, nuances, technics appeared and made it all endless. So I just stopped.
