Neon Tokyo by Xavier Portela
Travelling photographer Xavier Portela (previously) shares his latest eye-catching images from the trip to Tokyo city
Porcelain Beauty by Kristina Varaksina
New York based fashion photographer Kristina Varaksina explores the topic of extreme beauty in her recent photo shoot session "Porcelain Beauty" (that just got 1st place in Beauty category at International Photography Awards)
Kristina’s focus is to capture human emotion and the psychological impressions of her subjects' mind – permitting the characters to project their internal reality. Works undertaken are keen to explore a female and child perspective, evoking their thoughts, dreams and hopes.
ZONT synthesizer by Pavel Golovkin
Russian product and motion designer based in New York - Pavel Golovkin released a concept of minimal-looking pocket synthesizer ZONT built for sound geeks and electronic music composers. We are not sure if he is going to run a crowdfunding campaign but it can be worth of it.
“The Zont synth is the kind of product that is so beautiful that you want to believe it would help you immediately lay down a killer beat upon picking it up. I know I’m dying to try it, and I am about as confident in my music-making prowess as I am in my ability to do rocket science.”
FAT Lamp by Constantin Bolimond
“If the brain has the wrong prior knowledge, our perception will be false. With modern technology we can make many novel pictures that the brain has not been designed to comprehend.
We cannot avoid having false perceptions of these pictures. One object that it is almost impossible to perceive correctly is the inside of a hollow mask of a face. When we look inside this hollow mask, we cannot help but see it as a normal convex face. Our prior belief that faces are convex and not hollow is too strong to be modified. If the mask is slowly rotating, an additional illusion is caused. Because we see the mask inverted, the tip of the nose appears to be the nearest part of the face, when it is in fact the part that is furthest away. As a result we misinterpret the movement of the mask and see the direction of the rotation reverse whenever we are looking into the hollow.”
Belarusian product designer Constantin Bolimond and character artist Vasilii Mialick created a concept of a lamp that likes noodles too much
Adri Godis Urban Photography
Adriana Godoy aka Adri Godis is Buenos Aires based urban photographer exploring the city scape through the fair lenses, light and a bit of magic
Facade Type Graffiti by Sergey Rasskazov
Saint-Petersburg based typography artist Sergey Raskazov, founder of Type School and organiser of Typesburg event happening now, created a huge type lettering on historical building of recently refurbished Manege Art Expo Center. His team created a sign for exhibition of Russian group of contemporary artists that took a part in Venice Biennale of different years.
Quayola Captives #B04
“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped, and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; the sculptor’s hand can only break the spell to free the figures slumbering in the stone. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
In Spring 2016 Quayola presented solo exhibition Laocoön at One Canada Square in London. The exhibition was a continuation of the artist’s ongoing research into iconography, whereby he abstracts classical sculptures using digital rendering and production techniques. In so doing, Quayola creates new spaces in which relationships between classical and contemporary art forms and themes can be re-thought.
Plasticine Quotes by Jenue
Jenue is a Spanish Artist and Art director, who divides his time between Madrid and London. He makes playful images for editorials, music, and advertisements with his own colourful view and style. Check his latest project made of famous designer's quotes commissioned by AIGA
Naked Lunch - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Illustration of Rich Kelly
Pittsburgh-based illustrator Rich Kelly shows amazing skills in creating visual stories for editorials, music covers and posters
Art of Eric Wert
Explore carnivore "naturmort" art of Eric Wert
Double-exposure portraits by Nevess
Double-exposure or its imitation is nothing new on creative scene, but anyway it strongly depends on the quality of visuals selected for that. Young French artists Nevess does it very well sharing the best of collages on Instagram
Animated by George RedHawk
Watercolour Illustration by Oksana Dimitrenko
Illustrator from Moscow creates conceptual watercolour illustrations mainly portraits with a fairy-tale twist
Transcriptions
Montana-based artist and photographer Kyra Schmidt triggers an increased consciousness of landscape with her ‘Transcriptions’ series.
Peony Yip Illustration
“What if, instead of oozing blood, we sprouted flowers? “To Bloom Not Bleed” by Peony Yip illustrates this idea, portraying “the fine line between the grotesque and beauty of death.” A gutted fish, instead of looking limp and lifeless, reveals its insides to be a bouquet of peonies and roses. It’s a notion that makes death appear almost romantic.”
Modern Brands styled as they come from the USSR
As a kid born in the USSR I can't admit I have a lot of nostalgia for that period but it definitely has a good examples of graphic design especially typography. Keeping this in mind Saint-Petersburg based designer Mike Levchenko approached the idea of rebranding famous global trade marks using so say "USSR" or "Soviet" style.
Art of Jessica Rimondi
Jessica is an Italian artist studied at the Academia Albertina di Belle Arti of Turin and now lives and works in Berlin.
“My work is a challenge to find a paint method that could be sensory, emotional but cruelly true and real at the same time. I take people I know or find and I get inspired from their natural gesture and the sensation that I find in them. I observe what they evoke in me, and I want to transfer this kind of emotional feeling to the people that observe my paintings. I try to find a way to let my figures breath, move, think – but not only in their physical appearance. I don’t want to make a realistic paint, but a real painting, with all the sensation of their action. This is why I start from gesture, because is instinctive, it is pure, it is just a reaction to something external about us. Then I arrive to work on flesh with this caducity or freshness. This is the approach on my artwork, a continuous curiosity in development, life, communication, exchange.”
NYC Flow by Daniil Krivoruchko
Using open-source neuro-style code Daniil Krivoruchko, Viktoriya Yakubova and Tatiana Stolpovskaya created awesome video depicting New York in it's neuromantic beauty
Samuel Salcedo Sculpture
“I invent during the process, so I don’t know what will happen at the end of the sculpture. I don’t always remember what I have done. Every time I stop, it’s something new”
Samuel has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and has exhibited at various venues throughout Spain.
Filip Dujardin
"Filip Dujardin makes digital photo montages of impossible structures. In some, modernist buildings are stacked like towers of mislaid Jenga pieces, with cantilevered sections shooting out in every direction. Others show passageways leading nowhere, like Escher drawings made real. Each is meticulously constructed, teetering on the fine edge between reality and absurdity"
