Studio Form & Rausch
Directed by Hannes Lippert, the Berlin-based contemporary design studio Form & Rausch creating stunning eye-candy dream scapes and spaces
Quarantine by Misha Shyukin
Quarantine is a first self-initiated project created by a newly formed studio SHY run by Colgne-based motion designer Misha Shyukin.
”While being in lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic we spent quite a lot of time discussing face masks and various protective apparel options, which eventually ended in designing our own protective gear and experimenting with it. We used our newly found spare time to explore new software and to get outside of our comfort zone.”
Creatures by Susi Sie
"Creatures“ is a fiction Title Sequence telling the story of birth and decay. It developed while talented digital artist Susi Sie worked on her "Six Seconds Series“, evoking the deep passion for the dark and morbid side of nature.
“The Six Seconds Series“ explores 30 challenging analog materials, researching its nature, materiality, texture and versatility. In the end, the most appealing material will be picked to be processed in an extended film.
Title: "Creatures“ Title Sequence
Directed & Produced: Susi Sie
Soundtrack by @ECHOLAB
Sound Design + Final Mix: Gavin Little
Music: Steve Lynch, Gavin Little
Digital paintings by Guenter Zimmermann
Slightly disturbing but magnetic works of Guenter Zimmermann have deep meanings and puzzles on an each and every digital layer of the canvas
“Digital work is very forgiving. Any mistakes are easily erased and this saves time and paper.
Of course, on the other hand the artistic decision is deprived of its radicalism. I would have loved to have seen Vincent van Gogh working on an iPad.”
Ghosts by Philipp Bünger
Photographer Philipp Bünger captures abstract ghost likely visiting him from avant-garde period of the previous century
Florian Stumpe
Florian Stumpe is a multidisciplinary Creative Director and Graphic Artist based in Berlin. He creates visual concepts and transforms them into various languages such as films, animations, physical spaces and objects.
The authenticity of his work lies in his creative process in which he blends his analogue and hands-on exploration approach with new digital tools. He narrates his stories through a fine aesthethic and the beauty in random coincidences - the result is a unique style that breaks through by reminding us of the human touch in a digital age.
“Creating visual concepts for various languages such as films, animations, physical spaces & objects.”
Kseniia Stavrova @orkacollective
Graphic designer and art director Kseniia Stavrova is playing a key role on multi-disciplinary Orka Collective. We share here some of her selected works taken from the bottomless portfolio
Sebastian Weiss Architectural Photography
“Sebastian Weiss is a Hamburg-based architecture photographer with a flair for exquisite, impeccable angles. Having documented sites such as Spanish La Muralla Roja for Wallpaper* and Parisian suburbia, he is also the author of “Dramatic personae” series that aims to “represent public faces that deliberately restrains the identity of the object in order to concentrate on its public performance” via @trendland
Guillermo Espinosa Architectural Photography
Spanish photographer Guillermo Espinosa based in Berlin shares his camera view on architecture, urban life and portraiture
After Silence dir. Henning Himmelreich
Fresh graduate from the Film Academy of Baden Württemberg, Germany, Henning Himmelreich shares his short motion design film “After Silence”
After Silence addresses the inner process of mental and emotional regeneration of human psyche. To visually represent this process the film uses the imaginary from Egyptian mythology and its concept of the journey into the afterlife in an abstract manner.
The process of self-purification is visualized through both abstract and direct representations of deities and other mythological images, combined with modern graphical elements.
The protagonist is trapped in an uninhabitable world reigned by chaos, which is a visual representation of her own state of mind. As she enters subconsciousness, a mixture of self-reflection and external judgement makes her undergo self-purification. By passing all stages successfully and facing her demons she reaches a state of perfect harmony that purifies the soul.
The world around her changes correspondingly and darkness becomes light.
Imaginary Sneakers by Antoni Tudisco
Multi-talented Antoni Tudisco plays serious games with 3D by creating mind-bending prototypes of near-future shoes. We bet, only few years left till the complete turnaround of fashion industry with digitised fabrics.
Vogue Arabia Cover by Elizaveta Porodina
Fashion photographer Elizaveta Porodina was commissioned by Vogue to create the cover story for their branch magazine Vogue Arabia featuring the look from Zuhair Murad Couture Fall-Winter 2019-20 collection @zuhairmuradofficial
“The Beauty Manifesto” Jaguar for Sagmeister&Walsh’s “Beauty” exhibition
Rosa Kammermeier
Munich-based lettering artist and graphic designer Rosa Kammermeier has already worked with Google, Adobe, Timberland, Jaguar, Sagmeister & Walsh while being selected as Adobe Creative Resident in 2017. It’s a real pleasure to study her portfolio full of diverse works in calligraphy, advertising and graphic design
May Parlar Photography
“Berlin-based photographer and video artist May Parlar often uses outdoor open spaces for her impressive fine art photographs. She creates performative images exploring the human condition and the nomadic experience of ‘being’ in constructed realities. The idea of self, time & memory, the notions of belonging and alienation are recurrent themes in her practice.”
“I work across different mediums such as photography, film, performance art, sculpture, installation, and landscape art; and all of which gets merged in the end and put together with a glue that for me is the camera”
What the Fog? Stranger Nights by Mark Broyer
Mark Broyer is an art director and photographer based in Hamburg, Germany. He studied graphic design and worked as a freelance art director for several design and advertising agencies. Since 2013, he has been focusing on his own photographic projects at the same time
Thomas Vanz for Max Cooper: Let There Be
Motion artist Thomas Vanz just release his latest collaboration with Max Cooper for his new track “Let There Be”
““For “Let there Be”, Max asked me to think about the two key words “infinite” and “birth of humanity”. Everything came naturally to this process I was working on, involving two types of liquids blending in forever, progressively. I choose to represent the light of Kabbalah that Max once told me about, blending a very luminous and pearly white with a very dark black. Once I had a satisfying shot, I added with Max a variety of neolithic paintings and illustrations spreading out from the center where the lights were coming from.”
“I wanted to start the project with the earliest visual example of the infinite I could find reference to - the bright white light of Kabbalah. The magician of liquid systems, Thomas Vanz told me he had a new secret recipe which could deliver what I needed, so I set about scoring to this idea based around what I know of Thomas’ work. The whole project functioned in this way, starting with my written descriptions of each chapter, then finding a visual artist to carry out that side of things, while in parallel I scored the music to the imagined final result. At some point down the line the first visual and musical sketches arrived and things could be refined at each end to marry the music and visual together seamlessly.
The music for this chapter needed something with a feeling of grandeur and space, mysteriousness and mysticism. It all came down to some really sparse drawn out chords and plenty of different layers of saturation with pedals (plenty of Metasonix F1, Moogerfooger overdrive, Industrialelctric RM1N, Fairfield Circuitry Meet Maude, WMD Geiger Counter), with smatterings of more distorted hits running through a heavy (Big Sky) plate reverb to punctuate the scale even more.
Visually, we complemented Thomas’ growing light animation with ancient cave painting imagery in order to tie the visual abstraction to the human story, and the birth of our yearning for the infinite.
For the live show I use two layers of screens to first show the structure hovering in front of stage, then to slowly reveal the rear backlit screen and my position between them, as a means of slowly adding a 3-dimensional depth effect as the music and visual peaks.”
Denitsa Toshirova Photography
Denitsa Toshirova is a Bulgarian-born portrait and editorial photographer currently based in Berlin. Her personal work explores topics such as identity and the body and it is often situated within the genres of experimental and fine art photography.
Collage Art by Jorg Karg
German visual artist Jorg Karg focusing neatly on digital photo collage techniques and create astonishing artworks full of tranquil
Patterns and Structures by Nicolas Berger
The creative process of Nicolas mainly focus on the patterns and structures found in nature, observing and synthetizing their behavior, adapting their complex set of rules into a digital process, working with the idea of being only half controlling the shapes that he's generating and making abstract mathematical concepts taking shape, substance, and becoming new life forms.
Illustrations by Evgenia Chuvardina
Illustrator with academic art background Evgenia Chuvardina easily creates striking artworks featuring daily basis topics in a twisted way.
