Vova Tomin Motion Reel
Pioneer of Russian motion design - Vladimir Tomin, best known as a co-founder of Nord Works (together with Alex Frukta) and Digital Decade resident, released his massive showreel summing up few years of 24/7 animation work.
Exhibition Posters by Artem Matyushkin
Every day Artem Matyushkin goes to one exhibition at various New York galleries and designs a poster for each one of them. He says that while he was doing it he realized that the most interesting part about it and also the biggest challenge is finding something in the artists' style that can be translated into graphic design language.
STAIN - Generative Visual Performance Studio
Alexandra Gavrilova and Sergey Titov are Moscow artists, working together as Stain. They are focused on abstract forms and concepts to find concentration in today's poly-dimensional information flow, seeing creative process as a way to render one's idea of the world and oneself, to learn more about principles of nature and human perception. Stain works with generative methods to create graphics, audiovisual and light installations.
"Abstract objects on the projection are moving slowly according to the solid dynamics, an active environment is filled with bits of recursive reactions. This algorithmically conditioned but probabilistically unstable graphical canvas depicts a metaphor of causation and reflection on the events in the life of communities. All the scene is filming with low frame rate. The real situation in the space of the exhibition turns to a documentary, in another time, it immerses the observer in eternity and transience of the view from afar on the events happened a minute ago."
"The interrelations of the elements of sets, the patterns of their combinations, and the constancy of recurring circumstances constitute the stabilities of our existence."
"Everyone can influence the image with tilting a smartphone connected to the local network.
Sound by Lazyfish is also realtime synthesized and forms a whole with the graphics.
Audience's interaction with the installation floats between game, creation or contemplation, depending on participnts' mood and actions. Visually complex image is a metaphor of virtual structures, which one can affect intuitively easy. Participant's mind is immersed in the process of influence and perception of emotional feedback. Graphic style hints at futurist aesthetics and has a certain irony along with intention to rethink our attitudes to technology."
Designcollector's personal experience with STAIN' installation at MARSSPB, 2016
Macro by Ruslan Khasanov
Russian artist Ruslan Khasanov shared his ink works he has collected for the last few years
Filling the memory voids
Russian motion artist Danil Rusanov shares his project "Filling the memory voids" made few years ago
Perception is one’s personal opinion. Any image invites the audience to ponder, offering at least several ways of perception. The image is forming an idea using sensitive and logical tools. The idea is being formed when a spectator gives the image a permit to do this. An image is always spots, dots and lines. A spectator builds up the inner nexus and images while just seeing the spots paly on the screen. The brain transforms flat form into something having a volume, parts are merged into the whole. The question is what a spectator sees – a genuine true image or the personal perception of it, formed on a basis of one’s experience and the knowledge of the world. What if it will contain the minimum specification, if it’s gonna be a digital noise, a random combination of 0 and 1? What if the absence of information is a message itself? A sign for one’s brain to think up, to invent the necessary information. The lack of information inside of a given context is a self-sustained image, giving an impulse to a further chain of thoughts. I invite a spectator to dive inside of himself, when he lets the screen be almost blank and sets his imagination free. All the logical thinking is off and the opportunity to observe is on.
From Barnoldswick to Leeds with illustrator Anton Marrast
Once our favourite illustrator Anton Marrast (previously), disappeared from our radars for years and we are happy to have him back with a new artworks. just few days ago he shared travel sketches from a narrowboat trip from Barnoldswick to Leeds he did in England
Another Earth by Slava Semeniuta
Russian digital artist Slava Semeniuta shares his latest photography manipulations in a project called "Another Earth"
Ruslan Khasanov for Linda Farrow
Forever gold portrays the essence of signature Linda Farrow lenses and opulent yellow gold-plated titanium. Filmed by artist Ruslan Khasanov, discover mesmerizing scenes visualising the unworldly origin of gold.
“I had the pleasure of working on this project for a British eyewear brand called Linda Farrow.
The concept was simply «gold» as this is their iconic colour palette. This project was a real creative challenge for me. Shooting six pairs of mirror luxury sunglasses in a 30-liter aquarium... and deadline was one month. It was a completely new and exciting experience, full of experiments”
Animotion by Dmitry Grozov
Russian illustrator Dmitry Grozov aka Ahriman is doing his best by redrawing famous movies scenes as Anime in his ongoing project "Animotion"
Sport Calligrafuturism by Pokras Lampas
It was not even a week since a beastie boy of Russian art calligraphy Pokras Lampas shares a new worldwide collaboration he made for Reebok. The company commissioned artist to create a print with a hidden message "Cross Fit" he did in his own style "calligrafuturism".
Colourful Splashes by Ruslan Khasanov for MAC
MAC Cosmetics approached talented "liquid designer" Ruslan Khasanov to create a unique and creative instagram content to highlight brand's lip color products
Tape Project by Veronica Azaryan
Russian designer Veronica Azaryan shares her conceptual photo shoot on Ello Network
"The main idea of the project is to esthetize kinesiotherapy and to popularize the possibilities and techniques of applying this method through a series of advertising posters.
The concept of the tape project is to show the relationship between functionality and aesthetics.
Each kinesiology method has its own dynamics, plasticity and graphics. Therefore, visual images divided into directions to represent a certain method of taping, functionally confirmed. In addition to distribution by methods of taping, images are built on the difference of colors and lines contrasts."
Illustration sketches by Karina Yashagina
It's been a while since we focused on Russian illustration (THB our catalogues: RIW1 | RIW2) and just found a new gem - Karina Yashagina creating beautiful illustrative sketches
YSL Beautē ╳ Pokras Lampas: Calligraffiti Performance
To present their recent fragrance for men YSL Beauté asked the renowned Russian calligraphy master Pokras Lampas to set a performance during their Moscow leg of the international Y campaign. The challenge was not new for Pokras - 2 Hours, 5 Meters "Y" letter and 1 Artist in made his own epic #calligrafuturism manner
“Performance Arts — a special mix of skills, emotions and unpredicted things.
I love to challenge myself with the projects where randomness replaces any boundaries of comfort.
Climb up 5 meters to paint a huge letter “ Y “ ?
Why not. Keep it on tight timings? Great, there is gonna be a lot of paint splashes.
Any experiments is an invaluable experience and emotions from the result and the process of creation.”
Collage Art by Igor Skaletsky
"Tel-Aviv, Moscow and Berlin -based artist. In his works Igor Skaletsky freely manipulates the recognizable images of the history of art and high culture, and ironically unites them in the stylistics of fashion magazines. His works send us back to patterns of our perception and at the same time destroy them. Our visual habits, this secret passage to the unconscious, become juggling toys in his hands. The spectator lives through his images as if through the shock of unexpected discovery of a familiar story."
Volumes - Art film by Maxim Zhestkov
Designcollector is happy to announce a new long waited work of Russian motion artist Maxim Zhestkov. Welcome his short movie, and as he said before, his first in a colour, - "VOLUMES" that is available today for instant collecting on Sedition Art
Volumes is a Full CG art film by Maxim Zhestkov exploring the juxtaposition of emotions with the laws of nature. Billions of colourful particles dance, play and communicate with each other in an eternal hypnotic ballet governed by the invisible wind of fate.
Rem Koolhaas: the new Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow
OMA / Rem Koolhaas’ plans to renovate the largest museum building in Russia, the new Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, have been revealed.
"Originally completed in 1983, the N.P. Sukoyan and Y.N. Sheverdyaev-designed institute currently consists of multiple exhibition halls, adding up to a total floor area of 61,091 sqm. As grand as it is large, the museum houses an extensive and important collection of Russian art, including seminal work from Malevich, Kandinsky, Chagall, and Soviet artists such as Aleksandr Deyneka and Vera Mukhina."
Saint City Over the Winter Skies
The best city in the world (by my version) can never bring you down even it was brought down on different occasions through the 20 century turmoil. Talented guys from Timelab Pro lead by Andrey Efimov amazed us again (and before). The feather blow of a snow from St Isaac cupola makes my heart go fast even I write this post from only 10 km to the south from the location. I can't imagine myself watching this masterpiece outside St Petersburg just because it can brake my heart apart.
Turkina Faso Photography
Kati Turkina aka Turkina Faso is Russian born and London based journalist, tutor and independent photographer. Apart from editorial photography she does for numerous magazines she keeps a personal way to do visual research of the relations between nature, humanity and reality and its perception.
Researcher
"Researcher" reel is a teaser for upcoming CG short movie created by Russian motion designer Vladislav Solovjov
Direction / Design / CG / Compositing: Vladislav Solovjov
Modelling: Vladislav Solovjov, Evgeny Park
Soundtrack: Andrew Owlong