Paintings by Alec Huxley

Paintings of figures dressed in business attire wearing space helmets that alludes to some sort of narrative, while also combining the architecture of San Francisco with fantasy and film noir. That is Alec Huxley

It all began when I bought a Soviet space helmet on eBay. I was playing around with a bunch of space-themed work for my first show at D-Structure and painted two pieces in that style. Something in the cinematic and graphic look just clicked with me, so I started to explore it more.

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Drawings by Alex Konahin

Latvia-based artist Alex Konahin creates extraordinarily ornate, detailed and beautiful drawings like these using just pencils, pens and india ink. We did a review on his works year ago covering his art done not only by classic materials but even personal blood. For now please check his latest painstakingly intricate series of floral insects and other creatures.

Synchrodogs

Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven are two emerging photographers who have been experimenting with high quality cameras since their perhaps not-so-innocent youth. From frozen lakes to empty theatre stages across Eastern Europe, the duo have snapped haunting images of the surroundings available to them, often emanating a dark or eerie mood. http://www.synchrodogs.com/

Would Kazimir Malevich Get into Art School Today?

A prank video shows an “art student” meticulously copying the Suprematist works of Kazimir Malevich for a portfolio, then going around and showing his work for admission to a number of art academies under the anagrammatical name of Michael Mikrivaz. This prank’s conceit: that Malevich, or “Mikrivaz,” would be rejected by today’s art establishment, or something. via

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJCxrUpQBI8

Aaron Nagel new artworks

My personal favourite hyper realistic artist Aaron Nagel get new updates up on his website

Art by Alejandro Monge

Alejandro Monge‘s (Zaragoza, 1988) work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions: in IAACC Pablo Serrano Museum in Zaragoza, at the Center House Madrid’s Retiro Cows or Miguel Bers in Cologne (Germany). In late 2012 he opened his first solo exhibition in Zaragoza and was the winner of the tenth edition of the Biennale of Painting Prize ‘Government Delegation in Aragon’ with his work ‘Old school new generation’. via

Pirelli 2014 Calendar by ... Helmut Newton

Yes, by Helmut Newton and you are not reading Designcollector Back to the Future digest. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its annual calendar, tire company Pirelli has made the decision to release a set of vintage Helmut Newton portraits from 1986 for its 2014 calendar. The calendar will feature 12 black and white never-before-seen photographs shot on location in Monte Carlo and Chianti. According to The Cut, Newton had to abandon the 1986 shoot due to personal issues, and the photos were stored in the Pirelli archives until earlier this year.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSrr49gCPSg

Gleb Solntsev

Russian talented commercial illustrator Gleb Solntsev updated his personal portfolio website featuring pencil drawings and some poetical projects.

Mirrored Infinity Rooms by Yayoi Kusama

In Infinity Mirrored Room installation by Yayoi Kusama ( 'I Who Have Arrived In Heaven' Exhibition at David Zwirner Art Gallery ), hundreds of multicoloured LED lights, suspended at different heights and dangling from floor to ceiling, transform a room into what feels like eternity. The cube-shaped, mirror-paneled room has a shallow reflecting pool as its floor and the lights flicker on and off in a strobe-like effect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZR3nsiIeA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD-2_MTqtYw#t=61

Hercules XIII tablet stand by Scott Eaton

You might have seen recent buzz about Lady Gaga's life-size sculpture made in collaboration of Scott Eaton and Jeff Koons. Creepy but that's pop culture. Let's switch to the latest work of Scott - Hercules XIII tablet stand - the second of its type after "The Venus of Cupertino". It features oversized Hercules (hence we call oatmeal in Russia by this greek name of the famous half-god) holding any tablet with an outstanding grace. If you like them both you will definitely appreciate their collide in Venus Lamp shown below :)

Aleksandra Domanović

Aleksandra Domanović deals with sculpture that echoes monuments from the past from her native (former) Yugoslavia. While some sculptures take on more traditional forms of post-Communist leaders, the Berlin-based artist also began experimenting with unique materials in her work. 19:30 Stacks was created by piling size A3 and A4 paper with photos printed on their sides with ink-jet printing. First creating a massive PDF file of a photo, Domanović set the printer to ‘border-less print’ setting, which coated the ends of each paper, and when stacked upon each other, revealed the finished image.

From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes

"Created by British designer Alex Chinneck, this fun intervention creates the illusion that a brick facade has melted right off the side of a building and into the front yard. Titled From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes, the piece was installed in the English seaside town of Margate, and the artist chose to present it without any identifying information, leaving locals amused and scratching their heads."

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http://vimeo.com/75760193

Art of Erin Cone

American figurative artist Erin Cone from Sante Fe has that specific balance on canvas between abstract colour and realistic stories. Love them all.

Styles of Russian folk art

LA-based Russian-born graphic designer Alexandra Vinogradova mixed occult scull with traditional styles of Russian folk paintings. Check it out on Behance or in the post below.

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.

Take a deep breath and go deep into the interesting visual stories from creative people

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/