3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
All over the world office procrastinators must be jealous after exploring the unique art made by Gregory Euclide on whiteboards with a single black marker and some water. Definitely there is no limit for an artist in materials if he really wants to express himself.
http://vimeo.com/42278456
Motherland Russia has enormous quantity of creative gems spread over the land. Today we found Rustam Valeev's street artworks made with chalks. Speechless, just one white chalk 1% of awesome talent and 99% of painstaking perspiration. For now Rustam has no portfolio website but only a page on Russian social network that blocked in most of countries due to a good reason. Hope to see his personal playground one day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m3VDirO4_8&feature=player_embedded
Epic sci-fi artist and gifted illustrator Jon Foster has so much to show. He welcomes us to the inner world of imagination, post digital steam punk personages and awesome stories. Jump in! http://www.richardsolomon.com/artists/jon-foster/
Also pay attention to Jon's Behance profile
"Disassembly" is a set of photographies made by Todd McLellan who literally disassembled outdated home appliances making them as a sort of an art statement.
Photographer Christoffer Relander just finished a new series of double exposure photograps called ‘We Are Nature’. Christoffer is graphic designer and self-taught photographer from Finland, Raseborg.
View full series on artist's website http://www.christofferrelander.com/projects/we-are-nature/
via iGNANT
Inspired by brash light, vivid color and glitter, and the punk music scene, Natalia Fabia paints photorealistic images of after-hours bars and parties. Her 2010 series “Punk Rock Rainbow Sparkle” was based on staged photo shoots of lingerie-clad girls that captured a raw yet decadent sensibility. The provocatively posed models, many of whom are Fabia’s friends, sport glitter, tattoos, and clunky jewelry, seeming both tough and heartbreakingly vulnerable at the same time. http://www.nataliafabia.com/ via art.sy
Hilo Chen is a Taiwanese-American painter best known for his amazing erotic photorealistic figurative paintings. His work is in major museum collections throughout the world. Currently presented by Bernaducci Meisel Gallery
Endless Summer is a series of intricate oil artwork that methodically recreate summer holidays spent or just captured in canvas by Warsaw based artist Kasia Domanska.
Designcollector is a place for revealing upcoming artist and cares more when it comes to cover new stars from Russian-speaking community. This time we want to feature fresh fashion graduate from Ravensbourne, London; London College Of Fashion - Iryna Gorelikova. Born in Sebastopol, Ukraine, Iryna first completed same university as me in Saint-Petersburg (SUTD). Worth to mention some coincidence that another university fellow and quite famous London fashion designer David Koma was in jury for Iryna. Clap-clap-clap.
Reflecting today’s time, worldwide crises, natural disasters, the rapid growthof social media is the evidence that the world is transforming into new forms of reality.
A dissertation written, with the lead question ‘What is Innovation in Fashion Today? Rei Kawakubo’s phenomenon’, visited lectures in Economics at LSE and Alan Moor’s ‘No straight Lines: making sense of our non-linear world’ talk, were found as primary sources for the main concept for the final collection. The study shows that the world changes from linear to nonlinear existence and one of the most successful business companies today, due to a crisis condition, the Lego Group, with its flagship product, Lego constructor. Lego consists of colourful interlocking plastic bricks and various other parts. After this case study a ‘LEGO concept’ has been found. The main colour of the collection is black and represents our current linear world in combination with other bright colours, like colourful Lego bricks, that are hidden inside of garments (lining) represent the ‘non-linear world’. The use of special metal buttons that by their shape are very similar to Lego bricks, which give to garments a feeling of bricks of clothes that can be assembled and connected in many ways. Anything constructed can be taken apart again. For instance, a dress can be deconstructed into a skirt and a jumpsuit, and so on.
A classical school of pattern making appears in the heart of each look which during the process of FMP development transforms and reflects today’s shapes and silhouettes. Main techniques and features used for building the collection are hand sewing, felting, mixed texture of black fabrics; hats and rings as accessorises.
Autumn/Winter Avant-garde /Concept womenswear Collection is based on, luxury production, expensive fabrics: different types of wool, cashmere; textured, thickness.
RAVENSBOURNE 2012 LIVE: Gala Fashion Show Skip to 36:00 for Iryna Gorelikova collection
http://vimeo.com/44096504
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.
