Long Lasting Sharpness

Deeply influenced by japanese culture and particularly inspired by the sleek style of famous designers such as Ikko Tanaka and Shigeo Fukuda, this new series of visuals designed by Nicolas Dumenil for Japanese Miyabi knives highlights slices of salmon, watermelon and ham as thin as sheets of paper.

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Ambroise Tezenas Photography

First spotted at Designcollector VOX, the works of Ambroise Tezenas captivated us with his beautiful attention to the light and other magics. Based in Paris, he worked as a photo-journalist for both french and international magazines, spending much of his time traveling in South East Asia, Central and South America.

Here is his recent series of uninhabited Paris

Jardin des Tuileries, Paris. 2013

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Jardin des Tuileries, Paris. 2014

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Paris. 2014

Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris. 2013

Walking New York by JR

Earlier this month, workers with the French street artist JR (previously) covered a plaza in Manhattan's Flatiron district with a giant, wheat-pasted photograph of a guy walking. It was 20-year-old immigrant and Brooklynite Elmar Aliyev in mid-stride. The image was only up for a day, and almost no one noticed. But it would go on to create one of the most inventive New York Times magazine covers of recent memory.

The cover is a commentary on the invisibility of immigrants, a theme JR has previously explored. "For this project, we decided we’d photograph recent immigrants and paste their images on the city’s streets, where they and other immigrants are often invisible," the NYTimes writes. The French artist photographed several different immigrants before landing on Aliyev, who came to New York from Azerbaijan last August after winning the green card lottery.

via FastCo

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Raul Alejandro Cabrera Ruiz

Paris-based architect Raul Alejandro Cabrera Ruiz has a killer eye for details and especially the ones from urban landscape. Following the aphorism "God is in the details" once said by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Raul developing his skills on a daily basis using Instagram for documenting his success.

Read the interview with Raul on iGNANT

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Les Bosquets Teaser by JR

The film Les Bosquets brings the audience in a place where art and the power of image interweave. Based on the story of Ladj Ly and the performance of the ballet Les Bosquets of New York City Ballet (2014) inspired by the riots in the French suburbs in 2005, JR reveals its experience in the ghetto of Montfermeil where he created his first project, Portrait of a Generation. This film is a continuation of this 10 years project, for which he uses various means of expression and narration : video archives, choreography and testimony. This short film will be presented exclusively in galleries and museum shows.

http://vimeo.com/123712526

Prada Candy by Vahram Muratyan

Exclusively for Vogue.fr, Prada celebrates Prada Candy Kiss - a collection of three mini Candy fragrances - with a visual road trip with Vahram Muratyan (Facebook). The French visual artist creates a playful and eye-poppingly colorful video bursting with animations and dancing lips.

Read Lea Seydoux (face of Prada Candy commercials) talking with Vahram Muratyan about everything

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