Paper Art by Raya Sader Bujana for DOIY

March 19, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Graphic Design, Portfolios, Sculpture, Spain, 2018

Venezuelan artist Raya (previously) and photographer Leo living and working in their studio in Barcelona. They were commissioned to create a new narrative with by Folch for Doiy Design - a joyful objects store in Barcelona too, with an aim to generate meaningful collaborations with diverse creatives. Inspired by the Mexican architects Luis Barragán and Ricardo Legorreta and Doiy’s recent Scala collection, together Raya and Leo created and filmed an artwork made entirely from paper that plays with textures, colours, clean cuts, light and perspectives.

@littlerayofsunflower

@DOIY

Malavida: Melting Digital Art

March 19, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Illustration, Portfolios, France, 2018

Alycia Rainaud is a French graphic designer and digital artist. Originally influenced and passioned about publishing and hybrid books, she started working more than one year ago as a digital artist also known by the name of Malavida, mostly experimenting with new technologies, digital painting, programming, and visual effects.

On Ello

@maalavidaa

Tape Project by Veronica Azaryan

March 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, Photography, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

Russian designer Veronica Azaryan shares her conceptual photo shoot on Ello Network

"The main idea of the project is to esthetize kinesiotherapy and to popularize the possibilities and techniques of applying this method through a series of advertising posters.
The concept of the tape project is to show the relationship between functionality and aesthetics.
Each kinesiology method has its own dynamics, plasticity and graphics. Therefore, visual images divided into directions to represent a certain method of taping, functionally confirmed. In addition to distribution by methods of taping, images are built on the difference of colors and lines contrasts."

@ronny_azaryan

Reality to Idea by Joshua Vides

The Seventh Letter Gallery

March 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Street Art, USA, Portfolios, 2018

Artist Joshua Vides making real-life objects appear as simple, black and white sketches. His ongoing experiments in Op Art went crazy when you see Air Jordan 1s, basketball hoops, street signs embellished in white paint with black sharpie lines drawn by hand. For Joshua’s next illusion, he took over The Seventh Letter Gallery in Los Angeles, California last week to present his new exhibit titled “Reality to Idea.”

@joshuavides

@realitytoidea

WC Tiles for Urban Architects

March 15, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Interior Design, Lithuania, Lifestyle, Portfolios, Agencies, Photography, 2018

This modernist photo tiles won't let you down (in case you are architect) while visiting a bath. WC Tiles is a self-initiated project created by Lithuanian design studio Gyva Grafika

Illustration sketches by Karina Yashagina

March 15, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

It's been a while since we focused on Russian illustration (THB our catalogues: RIW1 | RIW2) and just found a new gem - Karina Yashagina creating beautiful illustrative sketches

@Karinaias

Art of Photography by Flora Borsi

March 14, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Photography, Portfolios, Hungary, 2018

It's not a first time we review the ultra talented art photographer Flora Borsi but it worth to explore her recent artworks she created in the past year

@floraborsiofficial

*No. 1005 v. 25, digital algorithm painting, 2015*

Krista Kim for Lanvin RTW Fall 2018

March 14, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Fashion, Portfolios, USA, France, 2018

Artist Profile

Krista Kim

We have been following the self-initiated movement "Techism" started by New York based artist Krista Kim since the beginning. She currently exhibits in galleries and at art fairs globally in New York, Paris, Miami, Basel and Brussels, and is writing a book on the "Techism" that she hopes to have published next year. Recently she was approached by Lanvin creative director Olivier Lapidus to produce a collection based on her vivid digital artworks.

*Look 22 from* *Lanvin's FW18-19 ready-to-wear collection at* *Paris Fashion Week*

"Her digital images of LED lights informed the color palette of the clothes, which ranged from bold block colors to gradient effects on satiny coats and shimmering evening gowns. The latter were made from a specially developed silk Neoprene that conferred both structure and lightness." via WWD

*No. 671 v. 2, digital algorithm painting on Pleximuseum, Digital: 2015, Pleximuseum: 2016*

Apart from this fashion debut Krista "works with teams of up to six technicians in the most advanced specialised Pleximuseum labs in New York City and Paris. To reproduce the effect of a LED screen, production is high cost and high risk, as some pieces have to go through three or four runs to achieve the desired level of perfection and quality. It took her two years of experimentation and research into the latest technology to find the labs that could accurately recreate the vibrancy and luminosity of the colors in her artworks from the screen to the large format on Pleximuseum she required, as they had never before used pigments to the same level as she had been using and certain colors cannot be produced. She is the only artist who uses this particular kind of technology in these materials, style and scale. Requiring from six months to a year to complete just one piece, sometimes up to two years, and two months for production, prices of her artworks range from €38,000 to €85,000" via Forbes

*No. 1 v. 19, digital algorithm painting, Pleximuseum: 2017*

Krista Kim's 8x8 light and sound video installation with music composed by Tenille Bentley

ON Running — “No Room For Grey Areas”

March 13, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Branding, Germany, Graphic Design, Motioncollector, Portfolios, 2018

Traum Inc. was commissioned by ON Running to promote their new shoe Cloud X released in a special all black and all white version.

Shot in Iceland the film creates a world of black and white, brutalist and wild but technical, balancing sublime landscapes with technical closeups and 3D renderings of the shoe. The film pits a runner agains his alter ego, chasing each other until it comes to a final stand off between both.

DIRECTOR
Thomas Traum (TRAUM INC)
CREATIVE DIRECTION
Alex Griffin (On-Running), Thomas Traum
EDITING
Nikolaj Beltzer (OKAY Studio)
GRADING
Ludovic Roussaux (OKAY Studio)
DOP
Ruaraid Achilleos

1ST AC
Matthew Choules
TALENT
Kazeem Temiday
STYLIST
Erna Bergann
VFX
TRAUM INC (Safwaan Motara, Hayden Martin, Thomas Traum)
PRODUCTION
TRAUM INC

Traum Inc

Human Nature by Rikako Nagashima

March 13, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Japan, Portfolios, 2018

"In a deep-red homage to Anish Kapoor, artist Rikako Nagashima has tangled together HUMAN NATURE, an installation Kapoor’ish in scale, color and intention. HUMAN NATURE has been installed at two locations. Her work has been suspended through multiple levels of Tokyo’s MVRDV-designed eye of Gyre gallery, and has consumed the life of a concrete clinic-turned-art-gallery by schemata architects in japan — the latter of which is pictured here, tied-together."

"Anish Kapoor is believed by many to be an artist devoted to dichotomy. Blood, vortexes, voids — his works certainly convey paradoxes. Life, death, happiness, sorrow. they’re beautiful and ugly and they often tie into life and religions in india. as such, Rikako seeks to create a dichotomy of her own — an homage that draws inspiration from kapoor’s artistic execution, and draws dichotomies from her own culture’s philosophy, Yin and Yang"

@rikako.nagashima

Nike Epic React

March 12, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Argentina, Advertising, Digital Art, Motioncollector, Portfolios, 2018

Our friend and Digital Decade 5 artist Santi Zoraidez was approached by Nike Global Running to create their latest campaign featuring Epic React Flyknit

Directed by Santi Zoraidez
Art Direction & Design: Santi Zoraidez
Lead Animation: Facu Labo
Additional Animation: Edward Chiu / Diego Diapolo / Javier Bianchi
Client: Nike Global Running

@szoraidez

Club Zooma by Ricky Korf

March 12, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Branding, Graphic Design, Germany, Portfolios, 2018

German Club Zooma approached graphic designer Ricky Korf to update their web identity. We personally liked his techno approach and simplicity of the layout

Ricky Korf is an award winning designer and art director, rooted in Leipzig Germany. Starting with graphic design in 2002. Flexibly working over the years from either the sleepy town in the countryside fields or from Hamburg, the gate to the world.

rickykorf.com

Ethereal photo manipulations by Elena Vizerskaya

March 12, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Photography, Portfolios, Ukraine, 2018

Elena Vizerskaya aka KaSSandrA is a talented photographer and digital artist currently based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Elena focuses on digital manipulations, she creates enigmatic universes teeming details with surgical precision

@vizerskaya_official

Photo: Alex Delfanne. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Art of Lorna Simpson

Hauser & Wirth London

March 07, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2018

Lorna Simpson’s inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, ‘Unanswerable’, features new and recent work across three different media: painting, photographic collage and sculpture. Simpson came to prominence in the 1980s through her pioneering approach to conceptual photography, which featured striking juxtapositions of text and staged images and raised questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race and history. These concerns are reflected throughout the exhibition to present the artist’s expanding and increasingly multi-disciplinary practice today

Lorna Simpson: Unanswerable is on view at Hauser & Wirth, London, through April 28.

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@lornasimpson

Exhibition

Lux Notis II by Reuben Wu

March 07, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Portfolios, USA, 2018

This ongoing project entitled Lux Noctis II (view Lux Noctis I) by Chicago-based photographer Reuben Wu "depicts landscapes within the framework of traditional landscape photography but influenced by ideas of planetary exploration, 19th-century sublime romantic painting, and science fiction." Wu imagined these scenes as the familiar transformed into undiscovered landscapes to renew perceptions of our world.

“Each image is a carefully-planned scene consisting of multiple lighting positions, layered to produce a theatrically-lit composition. Using the GPS-enabled aerial light/drone in specific positions in space, I am able to create moods of drama and tension through chiaroscuro, and the ability to illuminate isolated features of a scene and exclude unwanted elements.”

— Reuben Wu

@itsreuben

Weird and Wonderful by Lea Brisell

March 05, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Graphic Design, Denmark, Netherlands, Portfolios, 2018

Young visual artist Lea Brisell creates creepy and fun anthropomorphic images that make you feel weird

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Collage Art by Igor Skaletsky

March 05, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

"Tel-Aviv, Moscow and Berlin -based artist. In his works Igor Skaletsky freely manipulates the recognizable images of the history of art and high culture, and ironically unites them in the stylistics of fashion magazines. His works send us back to patterns of our perception and at the same time destroy them. Our visual habits, this secret passage to the unconscious, become juggling toys in his hands. The spectator lives through his images as if through the shock of unexpected discovery of a familiar story."

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Volumes - Art film by Maxim Zhestkov

March 02, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, Digital Art, Russia, Portfolios, 2018

Designcollector is happy to announce a new long waited work of Russian motion artist Maxim Zhestkov. Welcome his short movie, and as he said before, his first in a colour, - "VOLUMES" that is available today for instant collecting on Sedition Art

Volumes is a Full CG art film by Maxim Zhestkov exploring the juxtaposition of emotions with the laws of nature. Billions of colourful particles dance, play and communicate with each other in an eternal hypnotic ballet governed by the invisible wind of fate.

@zhestkov

Illustrations by WanJim Gim

February 28, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Illustration, South Korea, Portfolios, 2018

"Seoul-based artist WanJim Gim illustrates the form and gesture of the human body using complex hatched layers of color and dramatic lighting. He adds intrigue to poses that could be considered traditional figure drawing studies by adding abstracted lines and watercolor washes that integrate the fragmented body parts into a larger visual field."

@willeys_art

Concept Art by Zeen Chin

February 26, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Malaysia, Portfolios, 2018

Can't help ourselves by fixing our eyes on digital paintings from Zeen Chin, whose ideas seem to blossom in an unwieldly fashion, and whose muted color palettes and anime-esque content create a beautiful dissonance that still remains painterly.

@zeenchin