Art of Andrey Surnov
Go deep into the mid road somewhere nowhere sadness depicted by Russian artist Andrey Surnov
Best Wishes 2017 by Karina Eibatova
Russian illustrator Karina Eibatova (you may remember her by latest work for Hotel on Rhodes Island) decided to make your year 2017 much brighter than previous one and you can't disagree with that fact. "Best Wishes, 2017" is her new initiative where you can enter and preorder a beautiful print and a scarf to deliver you each month with a challenging lifestyle message next year. Karina spent 5 years in creating this project so at the end you will enjoy your full 12-pieces season collection of her artworks and scarves or even few of them if you book a season or two of it on Kickstarter page
“The idea is to share my art through the clothing and interactive poster in which a person could write a goal of the month, inspired by the artwork. The project is created to inspire and motivate people, to make art less elitarian, to share a collaborative vibe of an artist and a musician.”
Embroidery and Illustrations by Liza Smirnova
Moscow-based artist Liza Smirnova uses embroidery as a tool for her illustrative artworks
Malevich Gestalta
Moscow-based designer Maksim Arbuzov made a sort of an art statement by juxtaposing two icons of mass-production and contemporary art: IKEA and Malevich
"The moment when culture is reflecting in a mass product. Time is going and we often don’t see how history influences to our culture and markets. My idea is to show how through time frames art objects can find reflection in mass-market products. Malevich's Gestalta representing a contemporary culture was created from two famous man-made pieces from different centuries"
Memento Metro by Alexey Domrachev
Moscow-based designer and photographer Alexey Domrachev has been taking unseen portraits of commuters on capital's underground for years. This year he decided to create a guerilla exhibition called "Memento metro" by sticking prints on exact place where photos were taken. Follow this young Bresson on Instagram and watch the film below
Pixel Cities by Waneella
Russian artist best known as Waneella (previously) creates 8-bit pixel art works. Here is her new series of urbanscapes we wanted to share now
Conceptual Photography by Joanna Keler
Russian artist based in St Petersburg - Joanna Keler creates magic scenes by using camera as a wand and brining new meanings or removing any of them to the each scene
Strange occurrences in Paris
The Old New World
"The Old New World" is a Photo-based animation project created by Russian designer Alexey Zakharov. It's a travel back in time with a little steampunk time machine. The main part of this video was made with Camera projection based on photos.
Sasha Katz GIF Art
Russian illustrator and GIF animator Sasha Katz creates small moving digital masterpieces depicting the unexplainable states of modern life
Departáment Showreel
Understand yourself, in order not to betray yourself. Watch the new showreel submitted by DEPARTÁMENT.
DEPARTÁMENT’s philosophy can be described in just two words NEW&WOW, because the reality is simple: our guys like implementing their ideas in a way that will take everyone’s breath away. Inspired by cultural and technological progress, we use these developments to lookout for new ideas and tools for effective solutions in marketing, advertisement and PR.
Reality 2.0 by Dmitry Aske
Dmitri Aske had his first solo show in September — October, 2016 in Vladey Space Gallery, Moscow, Russia. The exhibition called Reality 2.0 included eight new artworks made in the artist's unique technique of a multilayer plywood relief especially for the show. All the works are dedicated to the digital era we are living in, now that the Internet takes up more and more of our time and attention becoming for many people the second reality. The addiction some people have might be even compared to a mother-child relationship. At the same time, as Marshall McLuhan wrote as far back as 1960s, people don't actually notice how new media entering our lives are gradually changing us.
A person born before the 1990s sees video calls, a 'computer-in-your-pocket' phone, and a broadband Internet connection available almost everywhere as materialisation of the future. Meanwhile, the new generation takes all that for granted as a beginning of a new era. In his new body of work, Dmitri Aske reflects our time suggesting that the viewers should contemplate how much all of us are absorbed by Reality 2.0.
ONE
With no doubts Russian Product Design is going to hit the global market soon. Here is ONE - a power bank and charger designed by talented Katerina Kopytina (resident of IZBA Project). With no intention to advertise the device it is really nice to share the final presentation where identity was designed by Nika Levitskaya and photographed by Lesha Galkin from Facultative.Works and Ivan Chikin
The Best Planet
Russian Airlines S7 concrete the title of most creative local advertisers. After successful "I want to go where" and "OK GO - Upside Down" award-winning campaigns (several cannes lions of 2015, 2016) they are back with the new masterpiece "The Best Planet" with narration from Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko. Created by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam
Illustrative portraits by Anastasia Lisich
Talented Russian illustrator based in Moscow - Anastasia Lisich creates beautiful watercolour portraits
Typography by Ruslan Khasanov
Talented Russian designer Ruslan Khasanov, famous for his experiments with liquids and colour, shared his set of recent typography projects
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Beauty Photography by Stas Kalashnikov
Russian photographer Stas Kalashnikov based in Paris shoots model photography for vast range of fashion editorials, collections and brands
Reimagined Selfies by Alexei Sovertkov
Moscow-based digital artist Alexei Sovertkov made a parody on modern society by reimaging selfie as an art masterpiece
Dmitri Pryahin Photography
You may find a lot of references to classic photography in Dmitri's recent works, beautiful and captivating. His dynamic portraits and frame composition worth to admire and save for inspiration.
Photo by Denis Esakov
Alvar Aalto's Library in Vyborg
Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia, built between 1927 and 1935, has recently been restored and the committee responsible for the restoration work has been awarded The World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize. This modern landmark features some of Aalto's trademark design elements such as the sky-lighted roof, undulating wooden ceilings and a glass-enclosed staircase.
Check out the pics of the restored building by Russian designer Katerina Kopytina
Sticker.Place Collaboration for iMessage
There is nothing new using and creating custom stickers in mobile chat applications. The latest and greatest addition to the family of such applications and development platform was done by Apple few days ago. After their massive release of iOS 10, the iMessage, at last, got its own stickers (that are applications themselves).
In a matter of a day I was contacted by team behind Stickers.Place collaboration. Guys invited talented illustrators to create stickers packs for iMessage and created a platform where any illustrator can join, create and share the best emotional stickers with audience.
