Gourmandises by Ruslan Khasanov
Master of colourful liquids metamorphoses Ruslan Khasanov release static project "Gourmandises" where he shares his love to oil paint and water by creating wallpapers and eye-catchy images
Big Cats by Viktor Miller-Gausa
Petersburg-based illustrator Viktor Miller-Gausa was commissioned by capital's underground transport to decorate metro cars with large-scale illustrations. This was a project initiated by "Amur Tiger Center" to grab attention on far east big cats that are in danger of extinction. "It was an incredible experience, the result of which throughout the whole year, will delight the residents of the Russian capital. In total, the project presented 18 illustrations for the whole train. My illustrations graced only the outer top." says Viktor
3D Manga by Serge Aleynikov
LA-based motion designer and CG artist Serge Aleynikov shared his recent personal project, that was inspired by Japanese manga series Evangelion and Akira
First VR Space Car Test-Drive by DEPARTÁMENT
Using dome-shaped futuristic construction shelling Audi A4 inside of #a4space VR Installation, Moscow-based event production team DEPARTÁMENT level up the virtual reality experience stepping outside simple frames of plastic glasses. The whole Audi A4 car become a sort of "oculus" on wheels delivering the physical imitation of zero-gravity forces and "driving" people into the new worlds projected and synchronised with the driver gestures. Total thing was programmed and designed by SILA SVETA.
Produced by DEPARTÁMENT Team
Petr Ivanov
Pavel Nedostoev
Yulia Sigunova
Vlad Alexandrov
Video-content by Sila Sveta Team
My Whale installation by TUNDRA
Reimagined and bigger scale version of interactive hexagonal installation “MyWhale” which was originally produced as a site-specific interactive installation by Tundra for “Brusov”, a renovated ship, laid up on Moscow river and turned into an art-cluster.
The inner revision of MyWhale was specially made for “9 Lights in 9 Rooms” exhibition at D MUSEUM (Seoul, Korea) and was visited by more than 200.000 visitors during the period of exhibition.
ZONT synthesizer by Pavel Golovkin
Russian product and motion designer based in New York - Pavel Golovkin released a concept of minimal-looking pocket synthesizer ZONT built for sound geeks and electronic music composers. We are not sure if he is going to run a crowdfunding campaign but it can be worth of it.
“The Zont synth is the kind of product that is so beautiful that you want to believe it would help you immediately lay down a killer beat upon picking it up. I know I’m dying to try it, and I am about as confident in my music-making prowess as I am in my ability to do rocket science.”
Instagram.exe
Russian animator Misha Petrick imagined Instagram existed in Win95 era, time of hate/love to interface and software races.
Facade Type Graffiti by Sergey Rasskazov
Saint-Petersburg based typography artist Sergey Raskazov, founder of Type School and organiser of Typesburg event happening now, created a huge type lettering on historical building of recently refurbished Manege Art Expo Center. His team created a sign for exhibition of Russian group of contemporary artists that took a part in Venice Biennale of different years.
Watercolour Illustration by Oksana Dimitrenko
Illustrator from Moscow creates conceptual watercolour illustrations mainly portraits with a fairy-tale twist
Boeing 100 Director's Cut
“We created three spots to celebrate Boeing’s 100th anniversary. Executed using seamless design and hyper-real CG, we drew inspiration from engineering blueprints, as each spot captures the awe-inspiring process that starts with a single spark in the mind of a Boeing engineer, and finishes with a gravity defying roar of an engine taking a machine to unprecedented altitudes. From the historical, 1916 B&W plane to the 787 Dreamliner, Boeing products come alive, celebrating 100 years of technological triumphs in Space, Defense and Commercial travel.”
Created by Aggressive
Modern Brands styled as they come from the USSR
As a kid born in the USSR I can't admit I have a lot of nostalgia for that period but it definitely has a good examples of graphic design especially typography. Keeping this in mind Saint-Petersburg based designer Mike Levchenko approached the idea of rebranding famous global trade marks using so say "USSR" or "Soviet" style.
Retro Serif for Monotype by Polina Hohonova
London based graphic designer Polina Hohonova was recently awarded by D&AD Yellow Pencil (Gold) for her graduation project at Chelsea College of Arts (Tutor: David Barnett)
Retro Serif for Monotype
Retro Serif is a project about the revival of glyphs in the Russian alphabet that had been omitted after the revolution. When the Bolsheviks came to power, says student Polina Hohonova, the letters I, Ѳ, Ѣ were omitted from the ‘new’ Russian alphabet as they were regarded as symbols of the aristocratic ‘High Russian’ and therefore representative of the defunct Tsarist Russia. Those symbols were part of the language of Pushkin and Tolstoy. “Reviving these characters is a protest against the prescribed dictatorship of the language,” she says.
Technology and Nature
Leo Burnett Moscow approached NORD Collective to create this motion visual "Technology andf Nature" for Philip Morris
Slavic Folklore in Yakovlev and Aleeva's Fashion Photography
The artistic duo - Yakovlev and Aleeva, who are well known in the fashion community for their sophisticated artistic stylings, have continued to pull heavily from different eras, traditions, and cultures for their new project reflecting on traditional orthodox Russian Easter
Sila Sveta Showreel 2016
World leading projection mapping studio SILA SVETA released their fresh showreel
Tasha Alakoz
Millennial's new media artist Tasha Alakoz based in St Petersburg works easily with commercial brands vanishing them in her personal way of colourful fashion selfies. We adore this balance that definitely requires a lot of will power and creativity and hope to see her speaking about that experience on some festivals like OFFF.
Prisma - Artificial Intellect Art Application
Prisma AI App is a new addition to kicking Russian-built family of great mobile applications that merely started from Glitché and SLMMSK (Vladimir Shreyder, promoted by me at Digitized14 conf) that changed the canvas of digital contemporary art and even influenced the showbiz. Later Facebook bought another speedy Russian filter app MSQRD (Nick Davydov) that rocketed in app store in a matter of month. Few days ago a new wave of Instagram artistic make overs started to appear by the tag #prisma
Creation of a Russian team lead by Aleksey Moiseenkov Prisma transforms your photos into artworks using the styles of famous artists: Van Gogh, Picasso, Levitan, as well as world famous ornaments and patterns. A unique combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence (same algorithm as in Deep Dream technology) helps you turn memorable moments into timeless art.
Our friend and selected artist at Digital Decade 2016 - ARTISTMARK immediately took over the new app and created an awesome artwork we share below
Latest Instagram photos shared by tag #prismaapp
Magical Jungles tiles in Casa Cook Hotel by Karina Eibatova
“I was asked to create a large scale drawing for the tiles of the hotel in a restaurant and a reception area. The hotel Casa Cook is situated in Greece, Rhodes and the theme of the decorative drawing was jungles. My task was to create jungles and integrated animals and a few unusual and magical half-half creatures.
The design of the hotel was created by the German studio. I was working in a collaboration together with Stefan Grüner an art director of Lambs & Lions Network, based in Berlin. ”
Come & Stay in Paris
“Paris is a vibrant city and it has never been quiet for me. It’s full of fragile sounds, unique textures of streets echoing with the patter of footsteps, wheels, horns, voices.”
Directed by Alex Soloviev