Ride The Planet film

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Once we've mentioned Russian free ride movie project "Ride The Planet" with their episode five made on Kamchatka. Now it is a time to go deeper into the snow with their full-length movie "Ride The Planet". It is a one hour movie shot in December 2010 - April 2011 in the mountains of Russian Caucasus, Japan, Kashmir, Norway and Kamchatka. Freeriders are: Kirill Anisimov, Konstantin Galat, Anna Hankevich, Egor Sorokin, Alexander Baydaev, Egor Druzhinin, Veronika Sorokina, Ivan Malakhov.

Worth to mention the soundtrack made by Russian rock band astra*

Wake Me Up by astra*

Watch the movie on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/32830649

Minimalism in Russian movies posters

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St.Petersburg based designer Andrey Gubin probably was inspired by Olly Moss minimalistic posters, decided to start his own project and then a contest for Russian/Soviet movies posters. Being a professional graphic designer Andrey aimed to polish the results to get all that enormous quantity of cinema memes and metaphors to one simple graphic idea. Full contest available by this link

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Calendar 2012 by Irina Vinnik

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3rd most viewed designer on Behance Network (over 2mln views) - Saint-Petersburg artist Irina Vinnik released a new awesome Calendar for 2012. In the name of "The Eyes of Imagination"

With the new year approaching, I am excited to represent a new Calendar. This limited edition of the yearbook called “The Eyes of Imagination” is a deep insight into my intangible imaginary world, which I’ve tried to perceive & depict. Each page portrays the spirit of the month as I see it. All of these drawing were created in 2011 and you might have already seen some of them in my sketchbook – it’s my annual report for those who love my paintings.

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Space & surface by Dopludo Collective

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We spotted a nice projects made by Egor Kraft and Karina Eibatova who are together with Lesha Galkin share Dopludό Collective. They were commissioned by Sydney's shopping center and went to Australia to work on murals for their new stores. The way they explore and use the Space metaphors in their work made us to post another (and this time a motion) piece by Egor Kraft - "Beyond The Surface".

"Beyond The Surface" by Egor Kraft

"The video is a visual metaphor of existential freedom, predominance of essence over existence, and conditionality of boundaries it also has a sculptural dimension related to the evolution of form. The space as a black absolute presented as an allegory of authentic freedom as well as the narrative links to the discourse of how the consciousness and existence are related to each other."

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BHSAD Students Challenge by Designcollector

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BHSAD + DESIGNCOLLECTOR NETWORK

Collaboration between Moscow based British Higher School Of Art & Design and Designcollector Network (DCN).

Students from Interactive and New Media design courses. Tutor: Dmitry Karpov

BHSAD tutor Dmitry Karpov and Designcollector founder Arseny Vesnin challenged Interactive & New Media course (aka "Interactopus") students to come up with a visual interpretation for Designcollector's digital culture values. The results trespass the bounds of a figurative graphic design and touch the cutting edge of digital art.

This is a first step in a partnership between leading Russian design media and institution.

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Papshev studio

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Russian studio located in the middle of legendary Siberia creates mouthwatering advertising that can arouse envy in any capital based agencies. We love the way guys from Papshev studio devote themselves to the world of good advertising, thumbs up.

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Plywood artworks by Aske Sicksystems

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When digital art goes offline you get physical results like Dmitry from Aske Sicksystems did with his plywood artwork series.

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Tembolat Gukaev furniture

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Saint-Petersburg based designer Tembolat Gukaev has awesome ideas and concepts of furniture and lamps.

From his website:

“Tembolat Gugkaev is a Russian designer, which surely goes to the world level. Working with plants and enterprises around the world, he won fame in the design industry. His works are distinguished by the originality and freshness of the decisions and have already received their fans in many countries in Europe, America and Asia.

Tembolat Gugkaev was born in North Ossetia-Alania, learn many creative professionals, has long worked as a jeweler in the world-famous jewelry company. He currently lives and works in St. Petersburg“

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Eduard Haiman

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Moscow based multidisciplinary designer and architect. Eduard is a researcher of interactive and parametric architecture. Works with architecture, interior design, graphic design, 3d animation, interactive and algorithmic installations.

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Deers Tears by Dangerous Underdogs

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Dangerous Underdogs (Russian students that won D&AD this June) presented the DEERS' TEARS interactive installation at the MIGZ 2011 festival. Dealing with habitual objects we tend to overlook their direct influence on nature. The installation gives you an opportunity to feel an immediate response to our actions.

http://vimeo.com/29952317

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Victor Lyagushkin photography

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You might saw the photographs of two-time world champion in free diving Natalia Avseenko swimming in White Sea with white whales in minus 1.5C water. Speechless. Now we have discovered the photographer portfolio: Victor Lyagushkin - extremal underwater and cave photographer. Check his latest project dedicated to Orda Cave – the biggest underwater gypsum cave in the world, second in Eurasia and one of the biggest caves in the world regarding to volumes of its galleries. Again - speechless!

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