3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
"Label Tania is a self-taught illustrator living and working between Bordeaux and Biarritz, France. She works for fashion, design and advertising. Her work is essentially drawn by hands, using traditional techniques with lead pencils and black pencils or more recently Bic. Combining multiple textures like pens and water-colors then, once scanned, she put the finishing touches to the drawing with Photoshop. Represented by Creasenso." via
If you follow us on Instagram you might mentioned our post about the latest work of talented French street artist JR. A huge container-sheep left Le Havre carrying a huge murals as a part of "Women Are Heroes" long-term project started by JR in 2007.
I fulfilled my promise. At 7am, the 363 meter long ship left the Port of le Havre, France to cross the world all the way to Malaysia In 2007, I started Women Are Heroes. To pay tribute to those who play an essential role in society, but who are the primary victims of war, crime, rape or political and religious fanaticism, I pasted portraits and eyes of women on a train in Kenya, a Favela in Brazil, a demolished house in Cambodia. They gave their trust and they asked for a single promise make my story travel with you. I did it: on the bridges of Paris and the walls of Phnom penh, the building of New York, etc. I wanted to finish Women Are Heroes with a ship leaving a port, with a huge image which would look microscopic after a few minutes, with the idea of these women who stay in their villages and face difficulties in the regions torn by wars and poverty facing the infinity of the ocean. It did not happen at the time But during the last 10 days, we pasted 2600 strips of paper on the containers with the dockers of the port And this morning we saw the ship leaving the port. I have no idea of what is in the other containers on the boat: stuff from people leaving a country to build a different life in another region, goods that will be transformed, worn, eaten in a different country. I have no idea where and how people will see this artwork but I am sure that some women far away will feel something today . And in Le Havre, we are exhausted and proud
One of the leading automotive photographer and art director at Citroën Design Centre - Laurent Nivalle visited Cafe Racer Festival on Autodrome de Linas-Montlhery near Paris. I feel these photos can bring a bit of atmosphere, sound and smell of this event, take a look!
Artist JR started his career illegally posting enormous photographic imagery in the streets of Paris. The French capital eventually approved of JR’s installations and started supporting his artwork in the outdoors of Parisian housing projects from 2004 to 2006.In JR’s latest endeavour, the Pantheon opened this month with his “Au Panthéon!” project. It showcases thousands of portraits taken in March of this year from a photo-booth truck, which made its way to multiple nations. The portraits are arranged in mosaics on ornate ceilings, floors, and exterior of the famous monument. via
Paris-based fashion and editorial photographer beside commercial shots shares his conceptual series. Check “Instant Life” – the “unbearable lightness of being” shot from above
“Somewhere else” is a new series of illustration from Romain Trystram that won our attention at Top 2013 projects last year.
"In Lajeunie’s series of images, colour appears as a powerful intrusion upon the ocean. The images presented in the work Water meets colour, colour meets water are loaded with violence. The ocean is tinted with natural sugar colouring, causing an array of absorbing patterns to materialise in the waves. As the colours bleed into the sea, the texture of the water thickens and the motion of the waves is (re)defined, revealing its hidden course and complex networks. The crashing waves, which are carefully contained within the camera frame, pull the viewer into a vortex of frozen shapes and novel configurations that are otherwise indiscernible to the human eye."
Tom Haugomat is an illustrator based in Paris, France. His works have been shown in publications like XXI, Le Monde and etc.
French photographer Laurence Demaison has released two new photo series’ entitled ‘In the clouds’ and ‘Meditations’. Both projects illustrate haunting images of subjects engulfed in smoke. Demaison has an affinity for distortions of the human body – her previous projects depict the manipulation of reflections, refractions, visual repetitions and the experiments through the idea of light in darkness.
Photographer Romain Laurent (previously here) continues to create a new looping animated portrait each week. The photographer began the project as a way to break free from the pressure of commercial work, and we’re glad to see the project is still ongoing. via Colossal
French photographer and art director Alexis Pazoumian apart from commercial work travels a lot to shoot the diversity of social life around the world.
Paris-based designer and artist Maud Vantours uses layer upon layer of cut paper to create hypnotizing patterns and textures that translate into set designs, fashion accessories, and editorial treatments. Vantours has explored a number of 3D paper treatments including floral patterns, spirals, and geometric designs.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maud-Vantours-Art-Design/506510376078200 https://www.behance.net/maudvantours
via Colossal
The clips are actually from a 9-hour production called Tokyo Reverse that was played in its entirety in France as part of new television trend called ‘Slow TV.’ Written and directed by : SÅNDL : Simon Bouisson et Ludovic Zuili
French artist based in USA - Bastien Lecouffe Deharme has all his character's noir charm depicted on digital canvases. You can admire his works on Behance or personal website
Fashion photographer and editor-in-chief at Mirage Magazine Henrik Purienne has enough to say by uploading shots on Tumblr and Instagram
Originally from StPete Alexandre Korobov is a young illustrator based in Paris. He creates illustrations full of colours, saturated, photo-realistic, at times acid and ironical, the obsessions of the time finding their way into his commissioned work. He also seeks to revisit illustration techniques of the past by using a mix of electronic processing, pencils and overlay inks. Find his HUGE and EPIC fashion illustration portfolio on www.behance.net/alexandrekorobov and follow him over on Facebook
"Facades is an ongoing series of work by French photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy that imagines a world where facades have been completely isolated from buildings. He shares of the project" writes Collosal
The façade is the first thing we see, it’s the surface of a building. It can be impressive, superficial or safe. Just like during a wandering through a foreign city, I walk through the streets with these questions: what will happen if we stick to that first vision? If the daily life of “The Other” was only a scenery? This series thus offers a vision of an unknown world that would only be a picture, without intimate space, with looks as the only refuge.
