The Selby

Todd Selby is a portrait, interiors, journalist and fashion photographer and illustrator. His project The Selby offers an insider’s view of creative individuals in their personal spaces with an artist’s eye for detail. The Selby began in June 2008 as a website, theselby.com, where Todd posted photo shoots he did of his friends in their homes. Requests quickly began coming in daily from viewers all over the world who wanted their homes to be featured on the site. The Selby’s website became so influential — with up to 100,000 unique visitors daily—that within months, top companies from around the world began asking to collaborate. These joint projects have included ad campaigns and collaborations with Louis Vuitton, FENDI, Nike, Microsoft, Hennessy, Habitat, Slowear, Ikea, Heineken and a solo show at Colette.

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Russian Art get Simpsonised by BHSAD Students

If you have a good sense of humour and a perfect visual memory than we got something for you. Moscow based High School of Art and Design (BHSAD) has a dozen of "kickass" tutors like Dmitry Karpov that squeeze students brain till the last drop of creativity. Physically and mentally. This time students got a brief to make a satire on famous Russian Art masterpieces. So, voila, Russian Art got Simpsonised what can be seen as a metaphor to current political situation. But truth is in eyes of beholder, so don't get it wrong - just smile :)

P.s. You might remember our collaboration with Dmitry's student at BHSAD http://designcollector.net/bhsad-students-challenge-by-designcollector/ http://designcollector.net/alchemy-offf-2012/ http://designcollector.net/the-spinner-offf-2012-unofficial/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emgElAhpGtM&feature=youtu.be

1. Let's start with Petrov-Vodkin simpsonised by Evgenia Chur

2. Alexander Andreeyvich Ivanov meets Maria Galukha to get simpsonised

3. Ivan Kramskoj simpsonised by Egor Abaturov

4. Viktor Vasnecov vs Anton Chalov

5. Viktor Vasnecov vs Katya Kovalenko

6. Pavel Fedotov vs Alexey Golovanov

7. Pavel Fedotov vs. Elena Khoroshiltseva

8. Kazimir Malevich vs. Misha Golev

9. Mikhail Vrubel vs. Misha Golev

11. Fedor Pavlovich Reshetnikov vs Alexander R

12. Fedor Pavlovich Reshetnikov (same as previous) vs. Azamat Ivanov

13. Vasilii Vladimirovich Pukirev vs Andrey Kolmakov

14. Ivan Bilibin vs Vladislav Poliakov

BSHAD tutor Dmitry Karpov also shared other untagged works, please be patient we will find the authors of Simpsonisation asap:

Designcollector Magazine Issue 3!

IT'S HERE! To celebrate 10 Years of Designcollector Network we set up the poster contest "The Digital Decade" earlier this year. The winners got their prizes and 15 finalists exhibited at OFFF2013 in Barcelona. Now it is time to show all the participants under one cover. New DCMAG#3 features all works from "The Digital Decade" as well as 94 pages of awesome content including huge interviews with top professionals of graphic design. Get your hardcopy to reveal also a dozen of Russian Illustrators you hardly heard about and go deep to the Visual Overdose right from the pages of brand new Designcollector Magazine or simply DCMAG!

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Tour Paris 13

If you are lucky to be in Paris these days please visit "Tour Paris 13" project in the 13th arrondissement, 5 rue Fulton. Originally a tower in 13th arrd of Paris slated for demolition in late 2013 and Gallery Itinerrance that has promoted Street Art artists for many years. "Paris 13 Tower" is the largest group street art exhibition ever carried out, with over 4500m2 of ground space and 9 floors with 36 apartments. You can visit the tower only till October 31. On November 1, the "Paris 13 Tower" will be physically closed to the public. Till November 11 everyone can access the website and click on artworks they want to save "digitally" click by click, pixel by pixel. After the deadline the digital presence of the artworks will exists only in visitor-saved mode and the building will be completely demolished.Given the urgent and ephemeral nature of street art, the project will survived at the end only through your actions.

http://www.tourparis13.fr/

Papercut art by Myriam Dion

Canadian artist Myriam Dion takes newspapers and intricately cuts patterns into the pages using a scalpel.

Experimental Art of Chad Wys

”My artwork is also, at its core, an experimentation in composition, color, and form,” says Wys. “Through a variety of mixed media I have chosen as my inspiration a color palette that is at times complimentary and at other times purposfully contradictory, or seemingly destructive. The literal destruction of an object is secondary, in my mind, to the overall effect created by color (dis)harmony and the overall aesthetic-emotional experience of the reclaimed and reinvented object. I openly play with the allure of foreign and aggressive new colors and forms, inviting them into otherwise familiar and traditional settings. Barriers and obstacles are thereby erected between the viewer and the object through which one must negotiate an understanding of what is both present and hidden. What does the creation of new meaning tell us about old meanings, or meaning in general?” http://www.chadwys.com/

Sculptures by Michael James Talbot

Beautifully oxidized bronze sculptures of elongated women by Michael Talbot

Hedi Xandt

Jaw dropping sculptures from Germany based artist Hedi Xandt

Doublefaced by Sebastian Bieniek

Berlin based artist Sebastian Bieniek will freak you out with his latest series of Doublefaced portraits

Vinyl Skulls by Ted Riederer

An avid lover of music and art, Ted Riederer created these skull forms by placing vinyl records atop a plaster skull mold and melting them down. The record label molds perfectly around the curvature of the frontal bone giving each skull a unique identity. The series, titled Primal Sound, "…aims to explore the symbols of music, and music communities, for their redemptive power. When I was 16, my life fell apart, I joined a band and was saved. The vinyl skulls are based on a nonfiction essay by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke entitled ‘Primal Sound.’ In this essay he ponders what sound the coronal suture would make as it closely resembles a sound wave. He proposes that this process of combining what seems like disparate elements initially to create something that the world has never heard, is a model for making good art." –Ted Riederer

Antonio Santin

Spanish artist Antonio Santin has created an incredible collection of hyper-realistic paintings depicting human bodies hidden under highly ornamented tapestries

Danielle - Aging experiment

"Last Thanksgiving, Anthony Cerniello traveled to his friend Danielle’s family reunion and with still photographer Keith Sirchio shot portraits of her youngest cousins through to her oldest relatives with a Hasselblad medium format camera. Then began the process of scanning each photo with a drum scanner at the U.N. in New York, at which point he carefully edited the photos to select the family members that had the most similar bone structure. Next he brought on animators Nathan Meier and Edmund Earle who worked in After Effects and 3D Studio Max to morph and animate the still photos to make them lifelike as possible. Finally, Nuke (a kind of 3D visual effects software) artist George Cuddy was brought on to smooth out some small details like the eyes and hair."

via Colossal

I wanted to make a person, I felt like I could tell a story with that, but it ended up feeling slightly robotic, like an android. I’m OK with that. Things never come out the exact way you plan them, but that’s the fun. The score I imagined would tell this woman’s life, with events speeding by as she aged, but in the end I thought it would be more interesting to go with an abstract piece of sound, and my friend Mark Reveley really came through because I love how it sounds.

http://vimeo.com/74033442

Marble Clothes by Alex Seton

Alex Seton is a Sydney-based artist best known for his realistic sculptures carved from marble. In the selection below, we explore Seton’s recreations of everyday clothing like hooded sweatshirts and t-shirts done in Carrara marble.

Michael Johansson art

Sweden contemporary artist Michael Johansson among numerous of excellent installation works has "Some Assembly Required" and "TOYS’R’US" projects that attracted our attention. Fascinated by assembling objects from model kits as a child, Michael Johansson transforms everyday objects into models of themselves. Taking away their original purpose, the life-size kits hold a commentary on today’s ways of living. In his first piece from the series, TOYS’R’US, a boat and related equipment are joined together in a welded metal frame. Everything is painted in a unifying plastic layer to resemble the surface of a model kit.

Hong Chun Zhang

In case of hair phobia close the website. Otherwise please enjoy the artwork of Hong Chun Zhang having a clear and excellent obsession with hairs.

The idea of my graphite hair drawings and oil paintings is about humor, beauty and repulsion. To me, long hair not only looks beautiful, but sometimes it can be very unattractive in particular settings such as hair in the hamburger, egg, wineglass, cigarette, toothpaste and sink. I combine hair and daily used objects to evoke different feelings and emotions through a surrealistic approach.

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Light experimentation by Benoit Paillé

"Light Experimentation 3" is a new series of Digital Fine Art Photography by Quebec artist Benoit Paillé. "All these landscapes are photographed in the total dark, I light it up with car light and flashlight. So its a one single exposure shot around 30sec and minimal retouch ( minimal color correction )"

http://www.benoitp.com/

Speed Painting Timelapse by Lora Zombie

Talented artist from Saint Petersburg Lora Zombie recorded (Mike Droog) a timelapse of her recent drawing study

https://www.facebook.com/LoraZombie

http://vimeo.com/72874423

Balance from Within

Imagine the 170-years old sofa is balancing on one leg. Creative Applications writes "Created by Jacob Tonski, artist-in-residence at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, ”Balance from Within” is an installation that includes a 170-year-old Victorian sofa which balances precariously on one leg, continuously teetering, responding internally to external forces. Inside the body of the sofa, a robotic assembly maintains balance dynamically. As the sofa begins to fall, the mechanism senses tilting and exerts a force appropriate to counter the falling, resulting in an endless wobbling back and forth."

Balance comes from within. It’s a delicate act, and sometimes we fall down. ‘Balance from Within’ is a meditation on the nature of human relations, and the things we build to support them.

http://vimeo.com/72826106

Amy Judd Art

Amy Judd, a London based artist, takes her inspiration from the enchanting, imaginative relationship between women and animals found in traditional mythologies and stories from around the world. Amy’s paintings are sensitive moments between anonymous women and a bird or maybe a woman faceless and half-bird… via

Jonny Ruzzo

Gifted artist and illustrator from New York - Jonny Ruzzo caught our eyes with his series of female beauties named "Norns". Check all his artworks on www.jonnyruzzo.com and find few we selected below