3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Artist Nicolas Delort lives and works in the suburbs of Paris where he creates evocative and imposing illustrations using ink and scratchboard. He often illustrates books and novels like Harry Potter represented in portfolio
It is interesting to see the behind-the-scenes photos of Yoann Lossel illustrating his dark fantasy worlds. His work is detailed and refined, and he uses various materials such as oil paint, graphite, gold leaf, and hydrangea petals.
Beautiful underwater paintings by Sydney based artist Martine Emdur.
”The drawings are part of an on-going evolutionary process of exploration and development, and thus serve only to mark and represent a particular stage in my abilities and understanding. Current on-going experimental ‘drawing’ includes very large scale drawing, based around the human figure, which are very different in character from the pencil portrait and ‘flesh’ figure drawings which are featured here. Some of the new work is abstract in nature.” – Cath Riley
Blackbird Illustrations is an illustration studio run by Bartosz Kosowski - an artist based in Lodz, Poland. Dealing mostly with portraits and editorial illustration, he has cooperated with such Polish magazines as “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Machina” and “Przekroj” as well as a number of international clients and institutions.
"Texan photographer Delaney Allen has one of the most bewitching photographic portfolios we’ve ever laid eyes on. Thick with rich landscapes and shots of turbulent seas, interspersed with abstract close-ups that give little clue to their construction, Delaney manages to transform everything he scrutinises into strangely familiar but equally distant scenes. " via It's Nice That
Tel-Aviv’s artist Eyal Gever presents Sublime Moments exhibit where one may see the impact of pressure, gravity, chemical mixing, squeezing, explosions, drying, freezing, and so on.
Inspired by Gothic and Islamic architecture artist Eric Standley constructs intricate stained glass windows from numerous sheets of laser cut paper.
via Colossal
French graphic designer Alexis Taieb, also know as Tyrsa has many good illustrative and typo artworks in portfolio ready to admire
Eiko Olaja is an illustrator, graphic designer and art director based in Talinn, Estonia. He often uses paper-cut collages for graphic design works
"Matt Shlian considers himself a “paper engineer,” and in addition to studying the material’s attributes on a nano-level, crafts and creates these beautiful works experimenting with light, balance and form." via Trendland
The work of the 2nd-year London College of Art student Adriana Krawcewicz has appeared in Computer Arts UK, Dash Magazine, and Juxtapoz. http://artianadeco.carbonmade.com/ http://www.artianadeco.com/
You may remember Dali worked with anamorphic images that were recreated on a glossy surface of a metal tube (also the huge one sculpture in Figueres city featuring Dali's face). As for Salvador Dali he did pictures and all mathematics by himself, as for modern figurative sculptor Jonty Hurwitz, computing is a first thing before he begins to create complex anamorphic sculptures. That's clear the process cannot rely only on hands and an eye. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W3SIEt37FjI
For the anamorphic pieces its an algorithmic thing, distorting the original sculptures in 3D space using 2πr or πr3 (cubed). Much of it is mathematical, relying on processing power. There is also a lot of hand manipulation to make it all work properly too as spacial transformation have a subtle sweet spot which can only be found by eye. Generally I will 3D scan my subject in a lab and then work the model using Mathematica or a range of 3D software tools. I think the π factor is really important in these pieces. We all know about this irrational number but the anamorphic pieces really are a distortion of a “normal” sculpture onto an imaginary sphere with its centre at the heart of the cylinder.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3hAojDjNhA&feature=player_embedded&list=UUsJTahxI36FEd4dKjOdZdpQ
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Russian raised and American based cinematographer, young director and photographer Nadia Bedzhanova sums up her latest works in a profound showreel
http://vimeo.com/45811941
Talented American artist Jonni Cheatwood working through variety of mixed mediaHere is a part of his latest "Grace Series"
Berlin-based Korean artist Jeongmoon Choi redefines a space with her incredibly eye-catching light and thread installations. All of Choi's spacial constructs allow audiences to roam within the rooms illuminated by spectacular UV lights. Many of the artist's works project abstract forms, creating an illusionary geometric matrix of woven string that stretch across the expanse of the exhibition site. The installations create a visual playground filled with colors, shapes, and an immeasurable liveliness for visitors to get lost in. A collection of Choi's work is currently showing as part of her solo exhibition titled Dialogue Lineaire in Paris at Galerie Laurent Mueller through January 26, 2013.
via My Modern Net
Istanbul based fashion illustrator Mustafa Soydan shows off his skills
The theme in my works is totally complicated. It changes with my mood; it contains my past, my wishes for the future, pictures of the moment, and daily pleasures. My passion is to put my love for living into my work and make a mark on life.
"This is a chronicle progression of a woman. A woman who morphs from innocence to struggles, and back to innocence. From a state of purity, when there is no good and bad, to sophistication, which comes with seduction, greed, debauchery amongst all other evils that dominate the world. On the verge of decadence she struggles, for individuality, for virtue, for her own soul. In the end amidst all chaos, she unites with peace of mind, living with a sober fact that she is just one of them, and she can’t hide. That is her IDENTITY, whether she likes it or not." Fashion photographer Jeffrey Wang speaks for himself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRDjpOfZ5Cw&feature=youtu.be
If you ask good user interface designer to come up with perfect layout for social network he will bury you under the tons of paper research and can eventually kill the idea. But if you ask bright UI designer to do the task he will get back to you with the Facebook he dreamed about for years. That what happened to Fred Nerby from Brisbane. He presents a conceptional and systematic design approach encouraging user behaviour and a greater control of data within a responsive grid.If this guy won't work for Facebook in a month than Zuckerberg does not exist.
http://vimeo.com/56488043
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