Bigmag magazine - Characters

September 14, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Russia

Our friends from Russian Coalla agency released a new copy of Bigmag magazine dedicated to Character Design. On magazine pages team spoke to Michael Mariskano about Russia and Characters, discussed the industry problems with Coalla founder Valery Golnicov. Australian photographer Jonathan May shared his experience with character role in photo story telling...

Magazine is on Russian only but anyway it is good enough to take a look :)

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Anka Zhuravleva

September 13, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Photography, Portfolios, Russia

Moscow raised and StPete based awesome artist and photographer Anka Zhuravleva invites you to be mesmerized by her latest photo-artwork series "Distorted Gravity".

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Sasha Ermolenko illustration

September 09, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Russia

Moscow based young illustrator Sasha Ermolenko has a mix of striking illustration and strong poster works in her portfolio.

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Ruslan Khasanov

September 05, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Russia

Yekaterinburg, Russia based digital artist and graphic designer Ruslan Khasanov gained a fame for his vector-mesh illustrations on Behance, now we take a look at his latest experiments.

ruskhasanov.com

Sonya and Mark Whitesnow photography

September 02, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Agencies, Fashion, Photography, Russia

Photographers Sonya and Mark Whitesnow lead the self titled studio in Kirov (Vyatka), Russian North city. With their "Ice Cream" series they won an attention of online audience and now they strike with "Burnt by the sun" set balancing between the tenderness of a teen age beauty and image colouring.

http://www.whitesnowstudio.com http://www.behance.net/WhiteSnow

Bayan

August 18, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, Russia

Selfburning team burns it again

This film emphasizes our Russian national origin. It is a visualisation of cacophony performed on an original Russian instrument – button accordion (bayan) which is commonly associated with traditional Russian way to relax and entertain. The film is a confluence of two contradicting things: rag-wooden Russian folklore and modern plastic computer graphics.

http://www.selfburning.com/

http://vimeo.com/27655264

Respublika motion branding

August 16, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Graphic Design, Russia

The moscovian team of Stas Leontyev (Graphics), Pavel Paratov (Motion) and Vasiliy Filatov (Sound) released a nice motion graphics for local book&leisure stores "Respublika".

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Respublica-Bookstore-Reel/1945655

http://vimeo.com/27527580

Dmitry Ligay illustration

August 08, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Russia, Uzbekistan

Tashkent born and based illustrator Dmitry Ligay works for mainstream illustration agencies and magazines in Russia and has an awesome hand-drawing style.

http://www.behance.net/d-planshet

http://d-planshet.livejournal.com

TOSAY.IT

August 05, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Design, Graphic Design, Photography, Russia, Street Art, Typography

TOSAY.IT is a continuation and a large update of our past projects with public text posters once created by Dopludo Collective from StPete, Russia. The main idea of the project is to explore text, streets & internet as an artistic medium, to broadcast actual ideas that are usually ignored by mass media, or to comment on the issues that seem important to put up by the author of the text. In november 2010 TOSAY.IT was exposed in Moscow's activistic art gallery at Vinzavod. In upcoming August it is going to be represented in public space in the center of Amsterdam.

http://tosay.it/

http://dopludo.com/

Liquid-Do

July 23, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Motioncollector, Russia

LIQUID-DO is an interactive audio-visual performance with sound generation based on chemical process of coloured liquids.

Credits: Julia Borovaya - art Sergey Kasich - sound Vadim Smakhtin - programming

Intel Fashion & Technology by Myshli

July 05, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Digital Art, Motioncollector, Portfolios, Russia

Russian motion designer Danil Krivoruchko aka Myshli was commissioned by Sensitive Brands to create a series of Intel reels for their latest Russian campaign.

Animation, Render, Compose: Rostislav Magay, Danil Krivoruchko Laptop stopmotion: Pavel Loparev, Roman Klimov Stopmotion cleanup: Dmitry Zuev Sound: Konstantin Chubakov (chubakoff.ru)

Director: Danil Krivoruchko

Yota Space 2011

July 04, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Events, Russia

2nd Yota Space festival of Digital Arts will take a part in Saint-Petersburg, 22 October - 4 December 2011. It's now opened for international call for submissions. Designcollector might take a part there speaking about motion and digital talents of motherland Russia.

OFFF Russian Panel video

July 03, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Events, Motioncollector, OFFF 2011, Russia

We continue reveal what awesome has happened at OFFF 2011 Russian Panel this June, and I made a short film compilation from some motion works we featured and videos from the scene. Please take your seats and enjoy this half hour video.

Appreciate our related project on Behance network

STOYN Ice Cream

June 26, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Agencies, Russia

STOYN is a Moscow based independent ambient advertising agency. Their first concept melt down our hearts and really indulge us. Stoyn Ice Cream is a set of flavoured pieces made to lick and bite the generation idols. Try Mayakovsky made of cranberry and vodka or Dark Vader in blackberry & licorice flavor.

http://stoyn.com/

Noosphere by Tatiana Plakhova

June 23, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Motioncollector, Russia

Moscow based illustrator and complexity graphics explorer Tatiana Plakhova creates her epic artworks mostly by manual vector graphics rarely using processing and computed art. You might seen her works on Behance now please watch Noosphere video under the cut.

Bronze Cannes Lion for Andrey Gordeev illustrations

June 23, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Russia

The most awesome Russian illustrator Andrey Gordeev was commissioned by Brazilian Giovanni + Draft FCB to create posters for Taina coffee. This work won bronze at CLIO2011 awards and today it won Bronze Cannes Lion in Outdoor.

FIRMA won Silver at Young Director Award

June 23, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Agencies, Motioncollector, Russia

Russian agency FIRMA won Silver in Film category for Eristoff ad "Wolf is back" at Young Director Award by Cannes Lions

http://firmastyle.com/en/content/eristoff

Case study:

Cannes Lions - Russia on cord

June 21, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Events, Russia

21 June This day has started with awesome news - Russian Leo Burnett Moscow gained Bronze Lion in Direct with "Photoshooting" campaign for WWF. But what is most awesome, is that the day ended with 2 awesome news - Gold Lion in Outdoor for Lego again by Leo Burnett, and Bronze Lion in Media Lions for Yekaterinburg based agency Voskhod for their simple and cool campaign "Book Fresheners" for "100000 Books" stores.

22 June Silver Lion in Design! Moscow based Depot WPF agency won first ever Russian award in this category for milk package

4 Lions and counting because Russia has a lot more lists in other categories http://www.canneslions.com/work/

View all three works under the cut

Bronze Lion in Direct: Leo Burnett Moscow "Photoshooting" WWF

Bronze Lion in Media Lions: Voskhod "Book Fresheners"

Gold Lions in Outdoor: Leo Burnett Moscow for Lego

Silver Lion in Design: Depot WPF for Milk packaging

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D&AD 2011 Yellow and Silver Pencils for Russian students

June 17, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Events, Russia

Dmitry Karpov - the tutor of a Moscow based British High School of Art & Design recently shared an awesome news: Russian students took D&AD Yellow Pencil (2nd place) in Digital Design/Graphic design (no 1st place in a category for this year) and Silver Pencil for Interactive Design by Marina Tristan and 4 In Book awards!

Svetlana Shokhanova, Nataliya Sinelshchikova, Mikhail Krivoruchko did an awesome iPad app concept for a Taschen brief. Watch the video under the cut.

And Silver Pencil goes to..

Silver Pencil for Interactive Design by Marina Tristan

Also Moscow students won 4 D&AD In Book Awards

First D&AD In Book Award goes for Digital Design Tatiana Sineva, Natalia Rudenchik, Maya Shulepova, Jane Ponomareva, Alexander Fedorenko

Second In Book award goes for Interactive Design Ilya Krasinskiy

Third In Book award goes for Brand Communications Mikhael Kravchenko, Max Katyunin, Margarita Galkina, Helen Dernova

Fourth In Book Award for Advertising - Digital Direct Dmitry Kazban, Anton Basistov

Homafone (Humster phone) by Red Keds

June 01, 2011 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Agencies, Motioncollector, Russia

Just fall in love with this madness case by Red Keds agency: Humster powered mobile phone "Homafone/Хомафон" Video and case itself is on Russian but you get the plot.