Russian Empire in colour photos

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You might seen the unique set of pioneer colour photos taken by Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorskii a century ago. Here is a new portion presented on BBC.

"This vivid colour photograph is 100 years old, a self-portrait by the Russian aristocrat Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, using a unique photographic technique he developed himself. Prokudin-Gorskii studied chemistry under Mendeleev, the inventor of the periodic table, before travelling to Berlin to study photochemistry.'

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Prokudin-Gorskii took thousands of pictures between 1909-1912 as he toured the Russian empire, armed with a special pass from Tsar Nicholas II. He created a panorama of all the peoples, landscapes, industries and antiquities under Russian possession.

Grand model of Russia

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"Grand Maket" is a scale model (1:87) of Russia covering the country on 200 square meters of permanent interactive (yes, trains are moving and so on) exhibition in Saint-Petersburg. This is a perfect place for kids and parents to spend a day discovering hidden and unusual parts of Russia scaled down and gently spiced with a humor in details. Check their official website. Many thanks to StPete based fashion photographer Daria Markova for materials

UI Packs by Vladimir Kudinov

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Vladimir Kudinov is a super bright UI talent and an example of a good self promotion. How this works he has thousands of appreciations and tons of views on his projects? A simple answer is to do something useful and share it for free or even later for two bucks. Recently Vladimir created a two packs of custom carved and shaped UI design elements suitable for any middle-weight web or mobile project: Futurico and Impressionist. Check them all on http://vladimirkudinov.com/ together with nice design project shipped with Vladimir's crisp style.

DCMag Sponsor: Bang Bang illustration Agency

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Russian Illustration Agency "Bang! Bang!" has been already recommended as one of the largest illustration studio working with world based customers. They have about 65 awesome talents from 13 countries on board and release over 130 final illustrations a month. That's huge work for a small agency like them, operated only by 7 beautiful young ladies. Their portfolio is always a collection of mouthwatering illustration and their blog is worth to read.

[box]Designcollector's new magazine DCMag is happy to receive a support from Bang! Bang![/box]

DCMag - Designcollector Mini Magazine Printed

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We are proud to present you our first ever printed magazine "DCMag 1" or Designcollector Magazine Winter 2012. First, we'd like to thank our the only one sponsors for now: Bang!Bang! studio.

It is small, independent but very brave magazine featuring the very latest artworks from cherry-picked world-known digital artists. A dozen and a bit of future shapers: Sara Blake, Xavier Bourdil, Wojciech Zalot, Evgeny Kiselev, Anton Repponen, Fil Dunsky, Magomed Dovjenko, Loic Sattler, Lisa Shahno, Charlie Bearman, Waldez Snegotskiy, Michael Chereda, Sergey Vlasov, Christoph Sagel and ARS THANEA and VISUAL FREAKS.

Covers art is made by Evgeny Kiselev and layout with logotype by Fleve Studio

[box]Magazine is available in both Printed and Mobile versions. Check it and order now!

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3020003

Also download a free Mobile ePub version [/box]

The Spinner OFFF 2012 Unofficial

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Interaction design students from Moscow based British Higher School of Art and Design strikes again in a tutor's challenge inspired by the upcoming OFFF 2012 festival. The brief is "Take OFFF". "We decide to risk and make an ambitious project - the Offf titles. But the following titles do not include credits of artists from the festival. They serve as a reminder of designers who are no longer with us, but each of whom has left their influence in different design fields. artistry designed long go, we think, forms the base for the design of today and weaves the a thread through tomorrow. The main character of our video-story is a spinner, ancient Slavic goddess Makoš who rules over destiny of gods and men. Connected with fertility, reproduction and weaving, she equals to the Greek goddesses of fate Moirai, who spun the thread of life; and Norse Norns. This archetype can be found in the epos of every culture. She spins her own hair. As hair is the symbol of life, of strength, of sexual and creative energy. The symbol belongs to the goddess of fertility, who also represents Mother Earth that inspired cultural and agricultural ethics."

This is a BHSAD project, by one assigned student group, with additional help and consultation. new.britishdesign.ru/?lang=eng

http://vimeo.com/37118375

Credits: Concept: Anastasiya Vasukhina, Yana Mironova, Tim Raiter Photography: Yana Mironova, Tim Raiter, Pavel Anisimov Post-production: Yana Mironova, Tim Raiter Model: Natalya Shevchenko Costume: Rotobor.com Location: Natalya Fedorova Linguistics: Stacey Wilenkin

Tutors: Dmitry Karpov Anton Yarusov

Supervisors: Stepan Burlakov (freeger.com) Arseny Vesnin (designcollector.net) Oleg Sharabanov

Music: Nine Inch Nails "Ghost 35"

See also "Alchemy OFFF 2012" and first DCN+BSHAD Students Challenge

Nikita Nomerz street art

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"A street artist makes derelict structures come alive by adding eyes and facial features. Nikita Nomerz's work ranges from water towers painted to look like they're laughing to dilapidated buildings with broken window frames for eyes. Nomerz, from the western Russian city of Nizhniy Novgorod, travels around various cities in his homeland to carry out his art." Daily Telegraph

http://vimeo.com/32435748

P.s. You might also like Pavel 183 street art

Alchemy OFFF 2012

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Enjoy the Unofficial OFFF 2012 motion piece made in Moscow based British Higher School of Art and Design by students Artem Shchuyko and Anna Seslavinskaya.

Their tutor Dmitry Karpov released a brief "Take OFFF" Brief. The task was to create a visually reach short for OFFF 2012 event. We think about old alchemy culture, about making participation and interaction feel post-digital; making the tech less techy. We see this approach is reflected back in the freshest creative and cultural work of the near future.

Students: Artem Shchuyko Anna Seslavinskaya

Tutors: Dmitry Karpov Anton Yarusov

Model: Anna Maksimenko

Supervisors: Stepan Burlakov (freeger.com) Arseny Vesnin (designcollector.net) Oleg Sharabanov

BHSAD http://new.britishdesign.ru/?lang=eng

Appreciate on Behance

http://vimeo.com/36755127