Woof Woof Lamp by Maxim Maximov
Saint-Petersburg based designer Maxim Maximov describes his table lamp Woof Woof as a handy solution for people who want to have a dog, but can't afford. Emotional product design in action
Bike Lift&Carry by Alexander Mukomelov
Award-winning (5 RedDot Awards, 10 Design&Design) designer Alexander Mukomelov released his latest product concept for daily bicycle commuters - Bike Lift & Carry is the compact seat post mounted device stores a retractable belt, that, when pulled out, attaches securely to the handlebar. When done carrying, buttons positioned on the sides of the gadget activate the automatic folding of the belt. To get your personal holder you can support and bake the project on Kickstarter and send it as a Christmas gift for someone you care.
Futurama in 3D
I admit I've never seen Futurama in my live, but I am sure you guys will appreciate the attempt of Moscow-based designer Alexey Zakharov (previously) to bring it live in 3D.
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Herbarium of Heraldry
Russian illustrator Ivan Belikov rethinks leading countries coats of arms in a brutal, predator way. Meet his Herbarium on Behance - volume one and two
Rabona magazine design
Rabona Magazine is a brand new football magazine from London edited by Michael Da Silva and designed by Dima Kuzmichev from St.Petersburg, founder at QUS QUS. Check its slick layout on Behance or below
Katerina Belkina
Mesmerising digitally manipulated photography forms the real state of digital art. These are the works of Russian artist Katerina Belkina
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Dunsky & Maleev Illustration Masterclass SPB
For Saint-Petersburg only, famous illustrators Fil Dunsky and Katya Maleev will share their stories and skills on "Source Not Set" masterclass.
Образовательный проект «Источник не указан» проводит лекцию и мастер-класс двух прекрасных иллюстраторов – Фила Дунского и Кати Малеев.
На встрече 26-го июля в Петербурге Фил и Катя будут рассказывать о работе, творчестве, любви, вдохновении и путешествиях. Поделятся своим «рецептом счастья» – как быть не только успешными и востребованными в работе, но жить в гармонии с самими собой и окружающими.
Если вы находитесь в другом городе, либо хотите участвовать, сидя дома в уютном кресле и попивая кофе, запишитесь на онлайн-трансляцию. лекция будет идти в прямом эфире в hd-качестве с нескольких камер, с качественным звуком, а для обратной связи и вопросов лекторам на странице с видео доступен чат.
Homer & Magre wine
Constantin Bolimond and Dmitry Patsukevich inspired by the works of Pieter Mondrian and Simpson cartoons created a nice wine bottle design for no reason. If you like it you may check again the familiar concept from Vlad Likh we posted this year
Natasha Shaloshvili
Natasha Shaloshvili is a Russian fashion illustrator based in St.Petersburg. Here we show a little of her works, just one project named "Back to Basics"
Glitch Art by Alex Kanevsky
Check the glitchy art of Russian born and Philadelphia based Alex Kanevsky. His style is a mix of figurative with cubist-like marks by a palette knife. The relaxed figures break apart into geometrical gestures that imply their movement through the space. Kanevsky credits a range of aesthetically different artists as inspiration, from Van Gogh, Cezanne, Mondrian, Rothko, Kline, to Freud, the list goes on.
Brain Mash
"Brain Mash" is a graphic art studio based in the "capital" of Siberia - Novosibirsk. Check their portfolios to explore the successful juxtaposition of graphic design and street art
#OFFFSPB Teaser
For the first time in its history OFFF Festival (e.g OFFF on Tour) is coming to St.Petersburg for a two days in July. Guys from organization (IKRA School) presents the Official Teaser for the #OFFFSPB. Video directed by Rodion Arsenyev
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Mary Wong Bar design and identity
Moscow-based studio FORK set by 4 talented guys created (Pavel Platonov, Ivan Maximov, Kirill Ermoshin and Alexander Nekrasov) created an mouthwatering identity and spatial design for the noodle bar "Mary Wong" situated in the south of Russia.
Yuri Shwedoff
Young Russian artist and conceptual photographer Yuri Shwedoff has a good set of artworks worth to see on his Behance profile. For this post I selected only one of his works "Audrey" just because it is beautiful.
Megafaces Sochi - 1st Russian Cannes Lions Gran Prix
Cannes, France — Russia made history here tonight on 21th of June 2014, winning the Grand Prix in the Innovation Lions category for a telecom's installation at the Sochi Olympics that used sophisticated technology to let visitors take giant 3-D "selfies" on a board that acted like a huge pin screen.The so-called MegaFaces Pavilion, sponsored by MegaFon, consisted of 11,000 telescopic cylinders, each of which represented a pixel. As on a pin screen, the cylinders could extend to form the shape of the faces, and LED lights at the ends of the cylinders added the proper color and shading. The data for the 3-D faces was generated in 3-D photo booths inside the building.
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It's the first Grand Prix ever won by by Russia at the Cannes Lions festival. The work is credited to Axis Moscow, IART Basel and Asif Khan Ltd in London.
via Adweek
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Creative Cloud Mosaic
Just few hours ago Adobe Inc presented its new Adobe CC 2014 product line with a lot of updates and new features. Changes also covered Adobe ID Profiles and a lot of things happened in family products like Behance and Typekit, so, briefly you can access your properties from different environments and even mobile platforms. But leave it to official press releases and marketing, we are here to congratulate Russian and Ukrainian guys that took a part in Creative Cloud Mosaic. For the 2014 release of Creative Cloud, Adobe is celebrating creativity by bringing together amazing artists from around the world to remix the Creative Cloud logo into a collaborative mosaic.
Russians:
Evgeny Kiselev
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Ruslan Khasanov
Daria Khoroshavina
Ukrainian:
Alexey Romanovsky
Dot work tattoos by Ilya Brezinski
StPete based tattoo artist and talented illustrator Ilya Brezinski shows off his best in dot-work technique. Whatever the material - skin or paper Ilya handles each work with a lot of care and attention to details.
Catching Corners by Zhenya Aerohockey
#catchingcorners is a personal Instagram project of Petersburg’s lifestyle and portrait photographer Zhenya Aerohockey
Zarathustra Cat of artist Svetlana Petrova
Russian artist Svetlana Petrova has become known for her online artwork of famous portraits featuring her big ginger cat Zarathustra. View more on http://fatcatart.ru/
I lost my mother in 2008 and she left me Zarathustra. I got horrible depression after her death and for two years I was unable to do something creative. By chance a friend asked me 'why don't you make an art project with your cat because he's so funny'
I've had cats before and included them in my work, like playing in theatre shows and I've made costumes for them. But I thought, 'What can I do with Zarathustra, because my mother spoilt him and he's so fat'.
Read full interview on BBC News
