3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
New works from Chinese illustrator often lead with "fashion" word for his tender and sensible artworks - Janboy from Chengdu. For me, his works like a world sized sponge absorbing all styles and reworking them in very special manner that you can't directly attach them to any culture.
When you step in to Amelia's imaginary world you don't expect photography as a creation tool, either unicorns or fairies are waiting inside. We just shown our nose in here world and get mesmerized with her self-portrait series leaving the other huge part of the miracle for your exploration - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ameliafletcher/, http://www.ameliafletcher.com/
Alvin Diec (@alvindiec) gifted branding craftsmen from Atlanta. Check his selected works on our blog and visit http://www.alvindiec.com
The fine line graphic project by Latvian designer Alex Konahin made with dip pen using black ink or other materials, sometimes including his own blood, yuk!
Editorial and fashion photographer Natasha Ygel works and lives in Buenos Aires having all hands in advertising industry. Sometimes she takes director place to work on motion pieces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9SA979PXp4&feature=player_embedded
Sometimes few works are enough to value the talent. Check these rare gems: digital portraits from Russian artist and illustrator Evgeniy Klyatskiy
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.
Russian fashion and editorial photographer Igor Oussenko mixing objects and models to get the Kaleidoscope series of works for commercial projects.
Few other works selected from Igor's Behance profile
Moscow based art director Alex Mikhaylov created video identity for TV channel of the leading Russian radio.
http://vimeo.com/38911403
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
Talented Canadian draughtsman using the only blessed pencil to create snapshots of someone's mad dreams haunted by the strange creatures of nature and mankind. Welcome Amanda Nedham http://amandanedham.com
Briefly the video "Silver&Light" shows talented photographer Ian Ruhter using specially created, huge camera to create wet plates the size of a large painting.
http://vimeo.com/39578584
"Tel Aviv-based artist Shay Aaron constructs incredible miniaturized food sculptures at 1:12 scale that look almost completely edible. You can see hundreds more photos on Flickr and he also makes miniature food jewelry which is available over on Etsy" writes This Is Colossal
Here is a high profile of Russian illustrator Alexey Baydakov full of colourful and crisp works. Check also his Behance profile
A third work by Pavel Emelyanov on our pages that we can't wait to share with you. This time it's a branding design for Eskimo (yes: wood, hot emboss, paper and suede). Even it is handicraft made in few copies the work itself is professional and balanced.
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.
Read MoreIrina Batkova is a vivid example of Russian freelance graphic movement. Unlike of worldwide freelance positioning, Russian has its own hard places of friction between weak law and weak market that entails great difficulties to work alone.
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Chalermphol Harnchakkham is an illustrator from Thailand with an amazing talent. Check his works on personal website http://www.huebucket.com/ and prints available for sale on Society6
Brooklyn based master of figurative art Eric White shows his selected oil paintings on http://ewhite.com/
The hyper realistic art of Canadian master Christopher Stott shows the moment of life of abandoned vintage objects. Presenting these regular, banal subjects in painting transfers them to iconic symbols of the not-so-distant past .. http://www.chrisstott.com
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.
