3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Graphic designer Bogdan Katsuba has been featured on our pages with his visual research on common used symbols and brands. Here is his next interpretation of archaic coats of arms in a way they merge urban reality with natural environments
Hamlyn's work delves into our relationship with modern technology to explore our shifting enthusiasms towards contemporary life. Working with a considered merging of carpentry, metalworking, digital design manufacture, electronics and coding. Hamlyn produce's sculpture, installations, paintings and performing spaces.
Moscow based young illustrator working under “Amak” moniker shares sharp skills and style with his latest artwork. Amak also creates music you want to listen below
“The worlds Alexey Shahov creates look like video games that are still in the process of being designed, as grey, uneven body parts with stickman-like features are partially covered by sprawling flashes of spray paint and pencil marks.“
Studio Ultradeluxe was commissioned by Lalique brand to create a collection of 10 Art GIFs for social posts & ads and in-store screens.
“ For each GIF we got inspired by the gorgeous individual crystal art pieces. By highlighting it’s beautiful designs, patterns and tactility we created mesmerising loops that stand out in feeds and get people intrigued to click and find out more.”
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
'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.
Talented CG artist Luke “Wengles” James casted self-initiated posters of famous movies in a digital clay by using 3D tools
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 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."
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.
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.
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.
“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.”
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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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.”
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”.
Digging the art of Paco Pomet is like constantly finding a golden nugget after another nugget and each time its getting better and bigger.
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.””
Gada Jermy is Jordan-based illustrator creating beautiful imaginary portraits in her own style
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
“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.”
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
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