John Paul Thurlow illustration

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New York based British artist John Thurlow (@jptcovers) has called our attention few years ago while working on personal series of "a selected magazine covers redrawn with a sole pencil". This project host more than a hundred of stunning cover arts that are two times worth than the original magazine cover. His next Covers vol 2 features free artwork mostly inspired by magazines but layered with personal wordings or common phrases (also inspired by music). Outside illustration world he is Creative Director at Grey Group and also has a personal design-related portfolio on Behance.

Alex Mikhaylov Europa Plus 2012 idents

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Moscow based art director Alex Mikhaylov created video identity for TV channel of the leading Russian radio.

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Directed by Alex Mikhaylov Production producer: Elena Orlova DoP: Maxim Zhukov Sound: Anna Lavrenko Stylist: Kirill Vychkin Hairs: Leonid Romanov Make up: Savva

Art-director: Alex Mikhaylov CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov Modelling / animation: Alexander Sokolov Lighting / rendering / compositing: Max

Ilya Kazakov illustration

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If you ask what is the state with characters illustration in Russia we'd definitely shows this guy first. Ilya Kazakov one of the most productive illustrator on Russian illustration scene has already completed more than a thousand of works and most of them made for commercial FMCG companies in Russian and overseas.

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Lacquered Paper Objects by Nendo

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Awesome example of Japanese object design as a pure state of art. Lacquered paper-objects by Nendo A small container created using a 3D printer that cuts, stacks and pastes sheets of paper one by one. We finished the surface with lacquer. The lacquer adhered thickly to the edges of the accumulated paper, and pulled at the paper's surface, resulting in a mysterious texture like wood grain.