Playful Loft Design by HAO

Taipei City -based studio HAO Design focuses on the intersection of Chinese practices and Nordic minimalism by creating aesthetic forms of living. In their recent project they transformed a loft into a playful penthouse with a lot of hidden elements that can transform space during the day.

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“The master of this property likes the traditional Chinese style while the mistress likes the light and simple Nordic style. They hope to build a unique playground with a slide for their two daughters, which is also in line with the long-term use of the space.”

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Darian Mederos Art

Cuban artist Darian Mederos transforms his passion for the human figures and the study of Masters like Rembrandt, Caravaggio, and Diego Velazquez, that brought him to explore the ubiquitous human features.

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Looking through something is one of the many obsessions  that every artist has; Using an obstacle makes the vision more intriguing and less obvious: that's why Mederos has created a series of works that use bubble wrap over his subjects to obscure their form and features.

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Sunset Waves - Iceland by Jan Erik Waider

'SUNSET WAVES' is a fine art series by visual artist and landscape photographer Jan Erik Waider based in Hamburg. His focus is atmospheric and abstract landscape photography of the distant North. All images were taken on the black sand beach of Vík í Mýrdal on the south coast of Iceland.

Cinema Posters by Luke James

Talented CG artist Luke “Wengles” James casted self-initiated posters of famous movies in a digital clay by using 3D tools

Nick Barclay Typography Prints

Australian graphic designer Nick Barclay pours his love of typography, colours and broken grid into personal and commercial work. As the result everyone get visual satisfaction.

Darya Shnykina illustrations

Darya Shnykina is an illustrator from Moscow blurring a thin line between contemporary figurative painting and illustration. "With restrained and soothed color palette she’s capturing calm, introspective moments in her artwork. Using a sketchy, wavering line, she’s able to humanize and personify emotions. Although created using digital techniques, Darya’s artwork retains the charm of traditional material and textures."

MUNDANE FW20 by Konstantin Kofta

Relationships of men and objects. While forming space, men create and surround themselves with product designs, objects, that have always been a major source of influence of humane conscience, mood, behaviour and attitude. Lightness of Being comes through the awareness of one's purpose.

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Kofta is the independent couture studio specializing in the art of leather craft using futuristic technics. Based in Ukraine since 2010 the studio carry out unique projects and seasonal collections from start to finish, allowing them to be designed, developed and produced in-house. In the last few years, kofta won numerous art&fashion contests (A’Design 2016, Red Dot 2018 to name few) and was exhibited in K11 Gallery in Shanghai for the prestigious “BAGISM” exhibition.

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Objects of kofta studio would be found at the intersection of art and applied science. Accomplished by using the futuristic techniques such as 3D-modeling/-printing/-cutting mixed with the traditional leather craft methods like molding, drying, straining, hand painting etc., they provide an independently fresh view at the manufacturing process, which is carried out entirely in-studio by kofta team.

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“We want to allow the viewer to gain different perspective on familiar things through sinergizing with our artwork. Our bags serve as a canvas for expressing our creative intentions through properties that they did not initially possess endowing them with ability to bring aesthetic pleasure, while maintaining functionality.”

— Kofta Studio

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Designing the Future by Media.Work

Media.Works Studio led by Maxim Zhestkov share their view on Designing the Future by delivering 3 conceptual forecasts for the near future

“For one of our weekly explorations, we divided in three teams that received the task to create a prototype of a physical object. It did not necessarily have to be in the realm of speculative design, yet some of the created items deal with experimental technologies, not seen in mass-produced products.”

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“The first object has the potential of being mass-produced — it is a lamp, in which light passes through layers of colorful materials that can be easily switched to anything else. This is an item which is supposed to be customized and which can change mood in the interior completely by simply changing the ‘lampshade’ — it can create shaped shadows with texts or images and mix different textures, being a playground for its user.”

“The second item that was born in our ‘lab’ is an air purifier and a flower pot at the same time. It creates perfect conditions for a plant that grows inside of it, in a glass shell, and uses this plant to clean the air.”

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“Our third item is the most future-oriented. It is a visual experiment about shoe soles that grow to adjust their shape for human feet. We created a series of abstract forms, which are examples of how this custom sole can morph to better support a foot and redistribute the pressure.”

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Solitude - Quietude - Contemplation by Nadav Kander

Renowned portraiture and landscape photographer Nadav Kandar famous for his long-term projects depicting the power of nature and humanity. In his recent series “Solitude - Quietude - Contemplation” Nadav explores the solitude in the times of lockdown

“I think of a quote by Rilke: “Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.” So many feelings are at play and I was aware that in this quiet time there was a much bigger picture playing out, and it will continue to play out in our future.”

— Nadav Kander

Sasan Nasernia Calligraphy Art

Born in Tehran, Sasan Nasernia began his career primarily as a calligrapher and typography artist. Exploring different avenues in Persian classical and also modern calligraphy, he has since expanded his practice to include painting, print, digital work and installation. In his search to find a personal format of calligraphy, he has found a novel way of intertwining letters and words, which he refers to as “Crazy Kufic”.

Paco Pomet Art

Digging the art of Paco Pomet is like constantly finding a golden nugget after another nugget and each time its getting better and bigger.

Kine Andersen Illustrations

Oslo-based illustrator Kine Andersen retrospects the normality through the colourful pop-art lens . Her visual technique, beyond being consistent in narrative content, multiply the isolation and angst of small-town life in the north. Despite this fact she is not spending much time on self-reflection but creating a lot of commissioned work for leading editorials.

“I have a hard time understanding my own feelings, so it is easier to draw them. I felt like an alien most of my teenage years, therefore my illustrations are very lonely.””

— Kine Andersen

Gada Jermy Illustrations

Gada Jermy is Jordan-based illustrator creating beautiful imaginary portraits in her own style

Masks by Anastasia Pilepchuk

Moscow-based artist and fashion designer Anastasia Pilepchuk recently got an invite from Instagram for Business to create a series of masks inspired by the topic of “harmony breaks silence”. In collaboration with another artist Moritz Simon Geist they created an interactive versions of them

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“In my work I am interested in the notions of sublime and elusion, entering into a meditative process akin to a dream-like state. The real and the fantasy weave together, hiding behind the masks, threads and layers. Expression is channeled through those shapes, finding its intention and force both in the normality and in the surreal.

The method I use in my work is based on constructing an image or an object starting from the small building blocks, which, when gradually put together, let the pattern of the whole emerge. I like to reconsider materials and shapes, finding new ways to inscribe them into the real through the imagination and moments of improvisation that occur in repetitive work.”

— Nastya Pilepchuk

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Jimmy Choo Diamond by Maxim Zhestkov's Studio "Media Work"

Another great example of how digital art can be applied to commercial industry is a video for Diamond Sneakers created by @Media.Work studio led by ultra-talented Maxim @Zhestkov

Even the work has been done in 2019 it is worth seeing and inspiring

Visual Manipulations by Jie Ma

Shanghai-based visual artist Jie Ma creates mind-bending manipulations by using all possible digital tools, from rendering to illustration. Just look!

Vladislav Mukhanov

Saint-Petersburg raised and based sculptor Vladislav Mukhanov experiments with forms and materials by creating thoughtful pieces and indoor installations

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Wax Monks at Russian-Japan joint exhibition of Young Talents, Manege, St.Petersburg, 2018

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Amanda Berglund

Amanda Berglund is a Swedish illustrator creating imagery for magazines and books, using pixels and pigments. She also runs a studio for graphic design and art direction with her partner under the name of Amanda & Erik.

Plywood Mandala Art by Scheme

Russian artist working under Scheme moniker creates mind-blowing colourful mandalas of plywood by spraying and applying resin on small cutouts and than assembling it into 16- or more layered wall pieces.

SOLE

Interactive installation SOLE produced by artistic duo Quite Ensemble (Fabio di Salvo and Bernardo Vercelli)

The space floats in a suspended time, inhabited by the sun's rays and the moving shadows that dominate the surrounding architectures. The audience crosses a timeless place, where time is different, where sunrise and sunset meet, the suns are multiple and the twilight drowns in a stroboscopic dawn. A 360 degree video-mapping that, thanks to the use of 49 video projectors, simulates the movement of the sun around and inside the hall of the Salone degli Incanti in Trieste.