The Digital Decade 2016: Winners and Artists

June 07, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Decade, Digital Art, 2016, Events

With a lot of efforts from the team of Digital Decade and the best artists ever we are getting close to our London's exhibition happening in July 4-6 at Underdog Gallery.

The Digital Decade is the annual art collaboration run by Designcollector and partners started at OFFF Festival in 2013. The collaboration has 2 Phases and a resulting event.

1st Phase - we invite 20+ curated artists to warm up the event and create their works.
2nd Phase - we invite everyone to take part in Open Contest and having a large jury board we select the best one and give the exposure and prizes.

This year we worked closely with 25 Artists for the 1st Phase and welcomed 100 Applicants on the 2nd Phase. The "Digital Decade 4" got more than 30 Artworks from Open Contest and judges selected 1 Winner and 1 Special Selection this time. With the great help of Depositphotos we secured the resulting event at London's Underdog Art Gallery and with the help of team behind YouthWorldWide we are going to heat up this place for 3 days in July.

For now we would like to thank everyone involved it to our cause and happy to announce the winners of the 4th Annual Digital Art Open Contest "There is no planet B". These 2 persons will join the group show of merely 30 selected artworks created by artists that took a great challenge to Imagine Our Own Planet without shit happening today.

Please follow the online galleries of 25 Selected Artists and Winners+Runner-ups on the DigitalDecade.net

This event could not ever happen without the joint work of Samuel Mensah (YWW), Matt Valoato (Curioos), Kalyn Burns (Curioos), Dines (BLUP), Alex Pedosenko (Depositphotos) and yours trully Arseny Vesnin.

The whole event curated by Arseny Vesnin and presented you by Designcollector and YouthWorldWide, supported by Depositphotos and to be printed at Curioos

Please follow us on @digital.decade and Digitaldecade.net

Save the date if you happen to be in London on July 4-6 The Underdog Gallery

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Sougwen Chung builds a robot to draw with her

June 02, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, Portfolios, Motioncollector, 2016, Digital Art

Artist Sougwen Chung built a robot arm that draws in harmony with her in order to gain a better understanding of how humans relate to robots. With the project, dubbed "Drawing Operations Unit" (or DOUG for short), she hopes to counter the prevailing media representations of robots as adversarial to their human counterparts. Check out the video above to see Chung and DOUG in action.

Randomness by Peter Tarka

May 27, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Illustration, Portfolios, Poland, 2016

Talented digital artist Peter Tarka summed up his recent works made for personal exercises as a standalone project on Behance

Jules Julien

May 25, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Netherlands, Portfolios, 2016

Jules Julien is a French born, Amsterdam based artist. In the artwork featured above, Julien disfigures canons of beauty. Initially created to become part of an branded artist collaboration project.

Axel Oswith

May 24, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Indonesia, Digital Art, Portfolios, Instagram, 2016

Axel Oswith creates a visual ode to everyday objects using Instagram as a medium

Surreal Photo Manipulations by Laurent Rosset

May 20, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Italy, Photography, Portfolios, Digital Art, 2016

Architect and digital artist Laurent Rosset creates sweeping photographic landscapes that seem to curl upward into infinity like an enormous wave that obliterates the sky. Rosset uses much of his own photography to create each image and enjoys discovering how even slight manipulations can vastly change the composition or meaning of a photograph. You can see more of his work on Instagram, and if you liked this also check out Aydin Buyuktas

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INKS Game App - Pinball of Watercolours

May 20, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, United Kingdom, Mobile Applications, 2016

For their latest video game INKS, London-based State of Play Games have created a new spin on classic pinball by turning the background of a pinball game into a piece of interactive art. As the ball traverses the course, the bright lights and clanking sounds of traditional pinball are replaced with pockets of watercolor paint that explode into flourishes. The ball in turn leaves trails of color as you solve each level.

“Inspired by artists like Miro, Matisse, Jackson Pollock and Bridget Riley, each table becomes a unique work of art in its own right, sculpted by the player as they fire an ink covered ball around the canvas. The player is encouraged to share their final work of art on social media with the iOS share function. They can even print them out if they like – with the story of their perfect game literally drawn on the canvas in front of them, something to be proud of and share.”

— State of Play Games

Underpaper Gods by NORD Collective

May 19, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Russia, Motioncollector, 2016

Our friends at NORD Collective created this self initiated project to play the motion muscles they have. Meet Underpaper Gods

“Under the surface of the paper, deep down there live old Gods, as ancient as the first stroke of paint. Guiding the hand of lost artists, they bring glory to their messengers and truth to the world. They are primal art.”

— NORD

Mesmerising GIFs by Carl Burton

May 18, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, TOP 2016, 2016, USA

Go deep into the digital optical illusions created by talented motion and graphic artist Carl Burton. We picked the best he shared on Behance profile recently

Motion Identity for "What is Bloomberg?"

May 13, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Russia, USA, TOP 2016, 2016

“64 lines, read by 35 employees, using 18 culturally distinct vocal styles, covering 5 languages — our spot for Bloomberg’s Global Recruitment Campaign is fast, smart, unexpected, collaborative and bold.”

— AGGRESSIVE

The magic ad was produced by AGGRESSIVE, and directed by Alex Topaller and Daniel Shapiro together with motion artists from Loop - Max Chelyadnikov and Alex Mikhaylov in collaboration with NORD (Alex Frukta and Vladimir Tomin) All together they created this amazing piece "What is Bloomberg?" spiced with a hot processing art infographics. Top work for the top world analytics company

Kittozutto

May 10, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Singapore, Portfolios, 2016

“Kittozutto is an artist outfit that believes in the beauty of dreams. Their art aims to objectify transient beauty, and acts as a reminder about the ephemeral quality of life”

Yana & JUN met in 2007 and soon started creating Art as kittozutto in 2008. Their creation, through the juxtaposition of their art and life, acts as a parallel universe of their creative & romantic partnership. They are fascinated about the beauty in strangeness resulted from the connections between seemingly unrelated subjects. The resulting tension, by enforcing the subjects to coexist within the same canvas, creates an awkward beauty, in which many of their works aim to seek.

Massive CGI Crowd Simulation

May 09, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, 2016, Digital Art

Let there be no wars on Earth but only in computer games.

A demo of the same software (Massive) once used to generate the massive battles from The Lord of the Rings now lets you make your own wars about whatever you want on a single computer.

Créa 2016 Opening by L’Éloi

April 26, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Canada, Digital Art, Motioncollector, 2016

L’Éloi, a Montreal-based agency that represents photographers, art directors, and other creatives, produced this TRUSST-directed animation, which brings the concept of a brainstorm to visual life. The animation served as the opening video for Créa, the Quebec advertising awards showcase.

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SSENSE Issey Miyake by Thomas Traum

April 23, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Fashion, Motioncollector, 2016

SSENSE commissioned Thomas Traum studio to create a short CGI film to reveal the technological splendor of the Homme Plissé Issey Miyake Spring 2016 Collection. We reimagined the clothing focusing on the line’s innovation on textiles and cut.

"Our idea was inspired by the simplicity of Issey Miyake’s clothes, expressed in particular through the images created by Irving Penn for Miyake’s collections in the ‘80s. In our film, we wanted to create a modern high-tech take of their approach, but keeping the spirit of these images created decades earlier. We wanted to strip the film back to the core essence: Clothes as a container and amplifier of the human body in movement."

Creative Direction — Thomas Eberwein Cloth Modeling — Fabian Rosenkranz Animation — TTEAM Production — Julie Vergez Sound Design— Loom

Misplaced by Anton Repponen

April 21, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Architecture, Digital Art, Photography, Portfolios, USA, 2016

"Misplaced Series is a project that takes notable New York buildings from their existing surrounding environments and inserts them into desolate locations out of context. By sequestering these structures from the hustle that usually swallows them, their architectural form becomes more defined and easily understood. The juxtaposition of these concrete volumes and glossy glass windows against sand dunes and rocky cliffs forms a new way of perceiving and appreciating these otherwise familiar architectural landmarks.Short fictional stories accompanying each building are written to help readers experience the ambiguity and absurdness of each scene. Architects are confused with the irrational task of designing something in the desert, self-expanding constructions that seek for new places to exist, unsold tickets to museums that are nowhere to be found and luxury hotels with no guests. Each story might have been a short scene from the movie that is never going to be watched, same way as those building are never going to be somewhere else." text by Jon Earle for Anton Repponen.

View more onmisplaced.design

The Others by Hiroshi Kondo

April 20, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Japan, Motioncollector, Portfolios, TOP 2016, Glitch, 2016

"Hiroshi Kondo captures the the energy and the loneliness of living in such a vast metropolis in his experimental short, The Others. The slit-scanning film bends time and place into a moving portrait of a Tokyo square by highlighting the individual and the crowd moving both separately and in haunting unison. "

Velocipedia by Gianluca Gimini

April 19, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, Digital Art, Italy, 2016

"Back in 2009, Gianluca Gimini picked up an unusual hobby. The Bologna-based Italian-American designer started approaching his friends — and complete strangers — and asking them to draw a bicycle from memory...By 2016, the pile had grown to 376 drawings from a broad array of participants from seven different countries, males and females as young as 3 years and as old as 88. He decided to begin creating highly polished renderings of these sketches, and the results — which you can see on Behance — are equal parts brilliant, hilarious and frightening."

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Dancing Plague

April 14, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Spain, 2016

The short film Dancing Plague is the new work of a long collaboration of more than thirteen years between Diego Agulló and Jorge Ruiz Abánades . Based on three images of Peter Brueghel the Elder, and taking as a handwritten texts that recount the phenomenon of multitudes known as ” dancing mania ” or “Dance of San Vito ” , this film delves into the theme of the dance and its close affinity with the uncontrollable forces of chaos : immediate ability to interrupt work time , enabling another exceptional time of the bizarre, the jovial and festive but also of social disorder and catastrophe

BASED on Pieter Bruegel the Elder´s paintings:

The Tower of Babel (c. 1563)

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (c. 1559)

The Triumph of Death (c. 1562)

13th Years Online! The Digital Decade 2016: Can you beat these roaring 20 artists?

April 13, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Digital Decade, Glitch, 2016

The game is on my friends! We teamed up with Depositphotos, Curioos e-shop and Youthworldwide London collective to celebrate Designcollector's 13th Anniversary. Today we set the start of the new 4th Digital Decade art collaboration of 2016.The title of this year’s event is: "There Is No Planet B" and it will be held in London in summer. The idea is to bring attention to the problems our planet is currently facing - economic, environmental, political - and what our world would look like without them. Currently we asked 20 artists selected by our team to create an artwork for the expo that portrays a major issue as either solved by humans or even non existent.

Now we invite you to overcome this group of artists and create your artwork. You can think of "Imagine there is no…", as you approach this project. The winners get a place in upcoming London's exhibition alongside with 20+ Selected Artists.