Max de Esteban's photography
Proposition One is a series of x-ray photography made by Max de Esteban, revealing the nature of the obvious objects. http://www.maxphotos.es
Proposition One is a series of x-ray photography made by Max de Esteban, revealing the nature of the obvious objects. http://www.maxphotos.es
I think @Radiohead or @MassiveAttackUK might be inspired as same as us by the latest and the longest project "An Anatomy" created digitally by hands of Saint-Petersburg based conceptual illustrator Olga Feldman aka Linzza. Why I mentioned Radiohead, because this work reminds me their project http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/rh/index.html with the only difference in creation - Aaron Koblin did it with code, Olga - by hands and without 3D dummies.
We had a chance to speak with Olga about her project.
DC: What was the concept behind "An atomy"? Olga: First there was no concept. All I wanted is improve my vector technic and connect it with classical anatomy studies. 3D models that I’ve used before are too rough and I refused them.
DC: What was the main challenge while creating this series? Olga: Once I saw that this “studies” could be joined like a puzzle . It was such a conversation between two hands at every picture – they care, love, protect each other and at the same time all of them are linked – in a human that implied. And this hands relationships are very simple, elementary. Soon, pictures became words – give, you, love and so on. Probably, this words I should say a long time ago, but I never did. This serial artwork is about a mother.
DC: How long did it take you to complete the project? Olga: It took time. I started to vectorise first picture about a year ago. Every little thing could bring me down, there were months of doing nothing between pictures, I changed title of the series three or four times, but came back to very beginning – “an atomy” – and unfortunally, there is no correct Russian analog for this title. Sometimes it seemed like I’ll never finish this work – some new details, meanings, nuances, technics appeared and made it all endless. So I just stopped.
The latest finding from Russian design scene - digital manipulated photography from Stas Stankovskiy (on Behance) "I photograph in multiple genres but staged photography attracts me the most. I trust my intuition, and philosophy. This is why I try to give mystical flavour to some of my pictures. Fantasy creates capturing stories with their own rules, their own circumstances and actions. I aim to create unusual pictures which will touch your inner world and will not leave you indifferent." that what he says on personal website http://www.stas-stankovskiy.com
Realistic art of Serge Marshennikov reveals Russian beauty in all its virginity with dignity. Each painting is captivating by the play of light and other things that excite and inspire. Personally, I found his works standing out of modern figurative art, maybe because the techniques deep into the Russian classic art of 19 century.There is something between the picture and the eye that makes me to stay mesmerized and watching..

Illustrator Chris Koehler recently updated personal portfolio. "His work has a very graphic quality although Koehler works with traditional media which is a bit of an ironic breath of fresh air in the now heavily digital world of illustration," says Changethethought









Bright Light is an app concept for Ray-Ban (apparently a briefcase) that will help you finding the sunny spots in your city, the places where you can enjoy the sun without the visual noise of the buildings. This app can help people to get the most out of the sun and their sunglasses. Wish it exists in Saint-Petersburg!App concept is created by Eva Wallmark, Rick Beskow and Michal Sitkiewicz from Swedish Berghs School of Communication http://cargocollective.com/evarickardmichal


http://vimeo.com/41000314
Our new adding to Car category is Jaguar concept created by Budapest based industrial design student - Laszlo Varga. Appreciate his project on Behance.
http://vimeo.com/33255300
Our dear friend and valuable collaborator Sara Blake (@hellozso) launched ZSO-NYC, a store branch of personal portfolio HelloZSO.
"I'm very excited to finally announce the launch of ZSO-NYC. This project has been over a year in the making, from initial illustrations, to sampling silks, to the photoshoot, to creating custom packaging and the printed lookbook. The launch of the Tantrum Scarf is what I hope to be the first of many more projects and products. The first edition was created in a very limited run of only 50 and comes with a printed booklet and signed certificate with your edition number. All photography was shot by my dear friend John Christenson, and I served as the reluctant model. This project has been such a wonderful experience. I hope you all enjoy and perhaps even pick up your own scarf", - says Sara
Russian motion designer Danil Krivoruchko specializing in advertising sums up his milestones in one blockbusting showreel. Take a comfort position, unload your machine memory and enjoy the reel
http://vimeo.com/41705046
Gifted Russian illustrator Anton Marrast recently finished few new artworks that illustrate Gabriel Garcia Marquez stories. What I prefer in Anton's works is a perfect sense of surreal art mixed with deep thoughts of a subject and polished with awesome skills in digital techniques. We follow Anton's works since old times and were really happy to collaborate with him for our iPad Mag Zero last year. We also featured Anton works at OFFF 2011 (pity we will miss OFFF 2012 that happens in next two weeks).
Original Prints, T-shirts and other goodies are available for purchase on Anton's online store http://society6.com/Marrast
One of prosperous Russian illustrator and graphic designer Evgeny Kiselev shows up his recent collaboration with Logitech company. Together with other world-based talents (Heiko Windisch, Archan Nair, Jimmy Rinnick, Joy Yang and Shadow Chen) Evgeny created a collection of object tattoos worth to see, and if you feel lucky, to purchase. www.logitech.com/en-us/349/9898?pcid=9898&WT.ac=ps%7C9929%7Chp












On my opinion, "Tomorrowland" photography project by Ben Sandler is an attempt to imagine our reality without digital innovation and still analogue. It is a kind of the future I would like to make a stop in.
I would call Joel surrealistic artist working with hyper-realism. His works bring thoughts of our existence and meaning of life. I bet this is a main function of art, to arise thoughts and give food for it but not for entertain. Be free to watch his interview inside the post and visit website http://www.joelrea.com.au/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amMVq9yktZE
One of the leading product designer of Russia Dima Loginoff has updated personal website. This year he was awarded by iF and Red Dot for ceramic Tiles made for Vitra brand. His portfolio host award-winning sofas, lamps and other concepts worth to see live neither on the web. And you have a chance - Dmitry will presents his latest works at Florence Design Week this month.

Robert Murdock aka Postmammal has an awesome sense of form, function and colour when it comes to create user interface design for any kind of project. Working as principal designer at Method he managing personal work pretty well, and his personal website is a real prove of that.

Saint-Petersburg based contemporary artist Victor Ponomarenko works in a classic manner with modern twist for obvious daily life's subjects.




Remember that Russia is a Black Hole of Creativity. Next gem we fished out of it is Bryansk based artist working mainly with 3D typography creating music covers and posters - meet Dmitry the Rockstar







This is a new video of making of stunning hyper-realistic paintings "born" by Melbourne artist JKB Fletcher. A kind of master class mesmerizes in the middle of the video story and traps till the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7DF6FFz7a8I
Russian digital artist Oleg Dou was selected by Adobe to create a box cover for Photoshop CS6. Watch the story of awesome product meets outstanding Russian talent







Soon you will get used to this new splash

Pedro Matos is an Artist and Curator born in Santarém, Portugal. After moving to UK and completing a painting course at Central Saint Martins, Pedro went on to pursue his career there in London, where he currently lives and works nowadays.
His work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums across the world, such as the University of Arizona’s Museum of Modern Art, Philips de Pury in London, White Walls gallery in San Francisco and Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles. Pedro Matos also works as a curator and was responsible for shows in Lisbon, London, Atlanta and Miami, having also recently co-founded Ivory&Black Soho in London.
Regarding the new work, Pedro states – “Through this exhibition I am trying to question my personal and cultural heritage, and how these values and conditions evolve and change over time in our society…” He is having an exhibition opening tomorrow in Ivory&Black titled "Heritage", watch the video below
http://vimeo.com/39732818




