From Stick to Chandelier - Palka by Yaroslav Misonzhnikov

April 19, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, Russia, Portfolios, 2017

St. Petersburg-based Yaroslav Misonzhnikov has designed a clever way to turn those simple sockets into minimalist chandeliers. Palka, which is ‘stick’ in Russian, is a wooden system that becomes a support bracket to hold two, three, or five of those corded sockets in place to form a pendant chandelier.

"Palka" project was first shown as a system for sconces at the Stockholm Furniture Fair in 2016 but now it has been developed as a system for pendant lamps. Many people buy lamps with ceramic sockets, but then they face certain limitations during the process of installing.

Using the same module and the corresponding adapter, you can independently create a two-, three- and five-lamp pendant lamp. To fix a wire a special design has been developed: the holes for the wire are made at an angle, which allows you to bend the wire and fix it in the desired position.

The project is produced under the own brand of designer «Misonzhnikov». This constructor is available in two types of wood: oak and mahogany. Wires and bulbs are bought separately.

Photos by Mitya Ganopolsky

Art direction: Agafiia Galitskaya

@misonzhnikov

Marina Mika ink illustrations

April 19, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Croatia, Portfolios, 2017

Croatian artist Marina Mika has developed a personal style in traditional hand-drawn art with a b/w ink approach with a slight clingy to contemporary fashion. Her works correlates with the "Beardsley's" art-nouveau lineart previously praised by Kaethe Butcher and Maria Menshikova

@marina.mika

Neil Kryszak

April 19, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Portfolios, USA, 2017, Art

"Electronic music composer, producer, drummer and photographer Neil Kryszak believes that all art forms can communicate beautiful aesthetic values, as long as they are visually or audibly pleasing."

"After moving to Los Angeles, he began focusing on photography, inspired by the new surroundings and lifestyle. His pictures are characterized by surreal and exotic aesthetics, showing reflections of multicolored lights saturating the streets, architecture and the distant scenery, all fading into black. Led by intuition and trust, the instantaneous creative release and the ability to provoke through a frozen moment attracted Neil to photography. Especially the night time is very meditative to the artist. When it’s calm, there is a lot to imagine and to work with creatively, intrigued by adventure and mystery. Characterized by experimental and psychedelic art styles, the pictures also feature a 70s, 80s and 90s nostalgia.", text by Sarah Press

@neilkryszak

Cristina Burns

April 18, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Italy, 2017, Glitch

Cristina Burns is a photographer and a mixed media artist. Her work is characterised by juxtaposition, where opposing elements such as candies, toys, and flowers are fused to anatomical parts and insects, often blurring the extremely thin lines between fantasy and reality, purity and sin, life and death.

This multiplicity of elements are meticulously arranged to create her surrealistic compositions, then she photographs the assemblage, digitally enhance and prints in a limited number of copies, the resulting print is the only record of the artist's process.

@cristina.burns

Human After All by Jan Kriwol and Markos R. Kay

April 17, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Photography, 2017

Human After All, a collaboration between artists Jan Kriwol and Markos R. Kay, juxtaposes CGI recreations of the human circulatory system with images of urban landscapes

For the series, Kriwol collaborated with London-based digital artist Markos Kay. “I described my vision to few CGI artists and all of them gave up,” he says. “When I described my idea to Markos he said ‘okay’ straight away. He then developed the technique for creating our guy and proposed his form and texture.”

Elise's Phygital Objects

April 17, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, United Kingdom, Sculpture, Portfolios, 2017

Elise is an artist engaged with the shape and form of objects in space. Her sculptures are a giddying mix of surface, mass and volume, situated precariously on the verge of physical impossibility. Pushing materials to the edge of realism, she interrogates notions of materiality, duration and process. Her sculptural language borrows from the industrial and the vernacular. Simultaneously tangible and metaphysical, the compositions project across space, unfurling anthropomorphically upwards, or pushing outwards in repeated gestures of automated reproduction.

@elise.artist

Concrete photobook by Gábor Kasza

April 14, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Photography, 2017

“I got an idea to publish an extraordinary photobook. A photobook where the content is in accord with its design. A poetic photo series about relationships, which is moulded into a unique book and a special edition, where the book is set in a thin concrete slipcase. ”

— Gábor Kasza

Take a look at the gallery above and then head over to IndieGoGo to learn more about the concrete photobook. Only 50 units will be made available for supporters.

Gabor Kasza Photography from the book

@gabor_kasza

Porcelain Easter Eggs by Juliette Clovis

April 13, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, France, Portfolios, 2017

Made by artist Juliette Clovis (previously) at La Manufacture La Seynie - the oldest Limoges porcelain manufacture of France, Easter eggs are currently exhibited at Mondapart gallery in France.

@julietteclovis

Dima Rebus: Underground Aquarellka

April 12, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Russia, 2017

Russia-born, New York-based artist Dima Rebus creates arresting watercolours with visuals that blend surrealism and modernised labeling. Recent works move between quiet scenes and crowd-filled cacophonies, packed with contemporary commentary. He was last featured in HiFructose Magazine

@nevantuznetubus

Charles Bierk

April 12, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Canada, Portfolios, 2017

Toronto-based painter Charles Bierk creates hyper realistic portraits of modern youth and explore the visual sense of gestures

@cbierk

Sculptures by Jaime Pitarch

April 11, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Spain, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2017

Jaime Pitarch creates sculptures, drawings, videos and installations often using humble everyday objects such as a guitar, chair, or household and consumer products. He employs inventive strategies of displacement, re-contextualization and visual punning to peel away at their routine uses and meanings to alter our relationship with such utilitarian items.

Pitarch describes his work as mainly having “… to do with the human being’s inability to identify with the structures he himself has created.” Having been stripped of their functionality, we are free to view them in the alternative narratives the artist provides.

Syncretic Noise

April 10, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, USA, Portfolios, 2017

Syncretic Noise is an experimental dance film featuring relentless choreography by Jeff Salisbury and stunning sequences entwined in a dystopian tale of isolation and enlightenment.

Director Stephen Bullen creates a film within a silent dialogue of motion to portray a man’s struggle to find peace in contemporary civilisation.

Watch the movie below

Director & Editor - Stephen Bullen
Dance & Choreography - Jeff Salisbury
Colorist - Chris Brands
Visual Effects - Xuejing Xu
Sound Design & Music - Stephen Bullen
Production Company - Between The Notes Productions

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Andoni Beristain

April 10, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Graphic Design, Portfolios, Spain, Photography, 2017

"Andoni Beristain is a photographer and a Creative-Art Director. His shirts are famous, he thinks in the shower, he dislikes heat, he's thorough, symmetrical, colourful and even though he uses humour, he works very seriously. He also likes irony. He's Basque, lives in Barcelona and he knows how to do stuff properly".

@andoniberistain

Cielo Yu Photography

April 07, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Portfolios, Taiwan, 2017

"A young Taiwanese photographer, Cielo Yu searches for spontaneous visual discoveries, experimenting with various compositions and colour combinations."

First Words by Javier Jaén

April 06, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Graphic Design, Spain, Portfolios, 2017

Barcelona-based creative Javier Jaén spends his days illustrating the world around him. For the past three years, Javier has been building a steady reputation via weekly collaborations with The New York Times Magazine.

"It is work that takes the form photo illustrations for a section called “First Words” which considers the ways language shifts and shapes our understanding of the world. The topics covered are vast and complex, from “The Identity Politics of Whiteness” to “How ‘Political Correctness’ Went From Punch Line to Panic.” For three years, it’s been Javier’s job to make impactful visual images to reduce those arguments into a single image."

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Pierre Kiandjan Art

April 05, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, France, Portfolios, 2017

As Pierre Kiandjan is selecting color mixes, he aims to create illusion of motion, space, and temperature. The challenge consists in gathering simple shapes within complicated blendings. His pieces reveal a clear use of color shades and broken lines. His main influences include futuristic pieces of architecture invented by Mœbius, radiances of light diffracted by Barbara Kasten's mirrors, living compositions sculpted by Jean Arp, and rhythmic gracefulness drawn by Victor Vasarely.

His Parisian studio answers to design needs from clients belonging to a wide spectrum of sectors: Universal Music, Warner Music, Marie Claire magazine, Le Journal de la Maison magazine, Alex Gopher, Morgane Groupe, Album Surf manufacturing company...

@kiandjan

Wardrobe Snacks by Kelsey McClellan

April 05, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, Photography, Portfolios, 2017

Wardrobe Snacks is the ongoing project of photographer Kelsey McClellan and stylist Michelle Maguire depicting the matchy-matchy situations in fashion and food mixup

@kelseyemc

Disappearing Tokyo Storefronts illustrated by Mateusz Urbanowicz

April 04, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Japan, Portfolios, 2017

As Me Kyeoung Lee documenting the 20 years of conventional stores in Korea, his colleague of illustration world Mateusz Urbanowicz does it in Tokyo, Japan. While exploring the city, Mateusz was surprised to see the perseverance of older, more traditional architectures in spite of the city’s rapidly changing face and its international reputation as a sprawling metropolis.

Knowing all too well how quickly these buildings could be replaced with more modern counterparts, the artist set about illustrating the endearing buildings in a series rich with color, personality, and history.

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Mehdi Lacoste Photography

April 04, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, Photography, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2017

London-based photographer and art director Mehdi Lacoste creates vivid imagery by juxtaposing human portraits with natural scenery and architecture. Lacoste usually gets his inspiration from taking road trips with friends in various countries. The photographer has shot for the likes of Vogue, i-D, Vice, Nike and Topman.

@mehdilacoste_

Hyper Realistic Sculpture by Sarah Sitkin

April 03, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, Portfolios, USA, 2017

Sarah Sitkin is a Los Angeles based contemporary artist delivering hyper realistic and somewhat provocative art. Her sculptural works are made in wide variety of media including but not limited to silicone, clay, plaster, resin, and latex.

@sarahsitkin