Tsto
Tsto is a graphic design agency based in Helsinki and Paris focusing on visual concepts and art direction.
French ‘Oceanscape’ photographer Fotomas has been shooting some pretty delightful surf photographs. Mostly shot in Hossegor, south of France, Thomas uses very long exposure and creative photo filters to tweak his final colors, and the result is stunning
A work by French artist Leonard Combier is like a riddle that can never quite be solved. Something always slips your notice or escapes your eye, resisting your attempt to unravel every clue. What attracted us to his work is an ongoing project featuring “tattooed” passports of travellers that Leonard has been doing for the last five years. Now he wants to bring an attention for this cause in terms of global situation
“Léonard Combier’s work deals with causality and liberty. In a world where everything interrelates and can only be understood as a vast chain reaction, how is freedom conceivable? This applies as much to the artist who is caught in a system of his own creation, as to the viewer whose gaze finds no exit. The answer, I believe, lies in the Combier’s sense of humour. Humour provides the only solution, a multi-directional vector leading to different levels of interpretation, the choice of which is left up to the viewer. It pervades Combier’s entire work, from the bizarre figures to the comical texts, as the artist’s mischievous playfulness sets the scenes of his different worlds like those in a vaudeville play – save the final twist in the plot, which is never revealed. Yet there is always the mystery contact, whose phone number is etched into each work.”
Talented French graphic designer Renaud Futterer who moved from London to NYC for delivering high class typography, motions, and layouts for @buck_design has shared the latest works with us
Virtual Installation by Salomé Chatriot Samuel Fasse @salomechatriot and @samuelfasse
As the world continuously moving towards unknown and uncertainty, people starting migrating online. The first cohort to reflect on any social/climate changes at any times of history and Now is - Artists. “LONELY” is a debut online show from SPACED IN LOST platform initiated by artist Filip-Andreas @Skrapic curated by Yvannoé Kruger @yvannoe with production by Socle Collections @socle.collections and run by @victorguenard with @lucafixy
In these times of introspection and inner experiences this journey invites us to explore certain dimensions of solitude. What projects, what works of art, even what friends do we imagine within four walls?
How can artists help us to live and understand this new daily life? This exhibition is entirely modelled in 3D and can be viewed from the comfort of your own home.
It is a space specially designed for the occasion, populated with works that the artists have designed and adapted from a distance in an extremely short time.
In order to make these digital spaces, often too arid, a little more humane, the artists have recorded a few messages that you will be able to discover in the exhibition.
Checkout Zero is an anti-consumerist visual tale by French photographer Pol Kurucz . In a not so distant future when all, even the soul is on sale, eccentric cashiers interact with peculiar products of a factory-like supermarket. Through visual allegories and pop aesthetics each female protagonist uses their singularities to provoke us and challenge wild capitalist, gender and aesthetic norms. Checkout Zero was shot in Sao Paulo with local models and queer artists. The series mixes fine art and fashion elements and features creations from local brands.
Filippa Edghill is a Swedish/Barbadian painter and illustrator living in Biarritz, France. We focus on her block prints series, depicting feminine in a simple one-colour manner with an Ancient Greek twist
French art director and illustrator Jerome Masi shares his flat-styled artworks that looks like a paper-cut masterpieces
“From Rembrandt I’ve learned how little light there is in man. The Rembrandtesque portrait exhausts all its light resources; there is no more light in it. Light itself seems to be the interior refraction of a light that dies somewhere, far away. Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro doesn’t derive from bringing clarity and darkness in close proximity but from the illusion of light and from the infinity of the shadow. From Rembrandt I’ve learned that the world is born out of the shadow…”
French architect Thomas Paturet shares his photography series “Chiaroscuro” taken on Mount Saint Helens & Mount Rainier in Washington
Ludwig Favre is a Photographer specializing in major cities and landscapes of america, raised in Paris, currently living in Paris. He has created visuals on a variety of media platforms from advertising campaigns to magazine editorials, books, gallerys over the world. We share his latest project “Tokyo, Lost in Translation” featuring never sleeping capital of a sunrise country
Marynn is French artist based in Biarritz. Her style is influenced by the rollercoaster of love & life, she likes to play with symbolism, imagining stories articulated with femininity and poetry. Sometimes with her hyperrealistic style in graphite or oil painting, sometimes with photography or typography. She likes to explore different styles and techniques, keeping her curiosty awake to navigate into her dreamy world.
French digital artist Dan Maurin works under The Drawing Rubber moniker and creates “sublime, majestic mutants, filled with grace and wisdom, seem to suddenly appear from some distant past or future. “
“These reincarnated virtual models challenge, by their attitude and defiant stare, our understanding of reality. Goddesses, princes and zoomorphic creatures make up a portrait gallery at once beautiful and intriguing, peopled with beings shaped from some mythical, cosmic substance.These apparitions born of the union of Humankind, of Nature and of the Universe, invite us to share, as if in a time capsule, in a journey across the ages, perhaps to discover a totally different reality. “
Mind-bending abstract ceramic sculpture comes out from the hands of artist Dorothée Loriquet based near Paris and represented by Modern Shapes Gallery (@modernshapes)
French illustrator and graphic artist Lili des Bellons follows the reference from pop culture, Medieval art, African art, Japanese animation, and iconography created by poster artists in Europe. The viewer is witness to Lili’s vibrant, somewhat frightening, and futuristic illustrations, which are brought to life with its strange characters as they interact with their peculiar universes.
French illustratrice and graphiste Amandine Comte shows off her latest artwork she does for personal manner or for commercial collaborations with names like Marionnaud, Durance, J.L David and R. Furterer
“We live in a society ruled by social conventions and labels with pre-established set of traits that would be construed as weak, weird, bad, or unacceptable. My work aims to use self-deprecation and satire as a way to own up to those labels rather that shy away from them, and thus, put on display the very thing that others would scorn at. By using satire as a weapon against one’s inner demons, but also by rejecting a pre-established set of codes of social conventions to break down a systemic derogatory social hierarchy. It’s about owning up to one’s own short-comings and imposed labels, and refusing to apologise for them by revelling in them as part of one’s own identity. ”
For their latest Blankets collection “Reversible”, Forget Me Not (run by our friend Coco) used advanced Jacquard weaving techniques, bringing an original depth and texture to their design range. Always dedicated to providing artisan quality home decor items to boutique stores worldwide. All their items are printed and manufactured by Europe’s finest craftsmen.
“The Upside Down Glow, inspired by the American TV series: Stranger Things.
When it rains, I always look to capture images using reflections, time to stretch your neck.”
A portrait of Inna, muse, artist and designer.
Ukranian-born and Berlin-based, Inna draws on her life, the people she meets, the places she visits and the world around her, to create simple jewellery in bold, timeless metal, precious and semi-precious stones.
From the Brutalism of the Soviet-style architecture she remembers from her childhood, to the rhythms of modern-day Berlin and Paris, Inna develops her identity.
In her subterranean Berlin workshop, she designs and hand crafts her pieces. From conception to creation, designing to finishing, Inna focuses on simplicity, luxury and realizing the hidden potential of form, immortalizing memories and moments in metal. From one-off bespoke pieces, including engagement and wedding rings to complete collections, she sells online, in selected outlets worldwide and has been exhibited at Paris Fashion Week for four consecutive years.
Credits :
Directed by Maison Vignaux
DOP : Jalaludin Trautmann
The designer : Inna Nechyporenko
Model Paris : Cate Underwood (IMG)
Model Studio : Emma Reipert (M4)