Soft Stone Sculptures by José Manuel Castro López

Spanish sculptor José Manuel Castro López creates surreal sculptures melt down by no reason. The material is stone what left us surprised and mesmerised by the way he played with the form. Check it out below or on sculptor's personal Facebook account

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Paula Bonet

Barcelona-based artist and illustrator Paula Bonet (Instagram) developed her only style based on mixed media practices and spread over canvas, books or large murals.

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Serial Cut 2015 Showreel

Brave Madrid-based design studio Serial Cut is back with an awesome Showreel smashing up their recent commercial and personal project in 2 minutes video

Stuff That Sound Like Summer

Fragmento Universo is a film production & music design studio run by the union of two creative minds, Christian del Moral & Tessa Dóniga, located in Madrid, Spain. In their latest work, "Stuff That Sounds Like Summer", they tried to set out to help everyone remember those sweet, sleepy and lazy ambient sounds normally associated with summer. They compiled the top summer playlist hits, which include the sound of water balloons, ice clinking in a glass of lemonade, the blades of an electric fan turning, or the ring of a hotel front desk bell. Enjoy it below

Animal Faces Anatomy Illustrations by Oscar Llorens

"Oscar Llorens is a Spanish illustrator based in Madrid. Oscar has worked with renown agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi and Young & Rubicam and had massive clients to the likes of Coca-cola, Mercedes, Lacoste, and so many others. His illustrations describe half well represented animal’s faces that peel by layers to reveal what’s really behind that skin." via

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Macro art by Rómulo Celdrán

Artist Rómulo Celdrán turns everyday objects into oversized sculptures for his series 'Macro'. That is not a new concept in terms of postmodernism sculpture but he does it with a great passion to details and as he said "I believe there is something magic in the world of scales. There is a kind of emotional memory that invites us to feel the relationship with the Macro objects as if it were a game"

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Pneumàtic Installation

"Pneumàtic is a collaboration by Octavi Serra, Iago Buceta, and Mateu Targa for Ús Barcelona, an art festival dedicated to the revitalization of urban spaces." via

Call for Student Entries: SELECTED Bilbao 2015

Designcollector is backing the new visual design conference based in Bilbao, Spain: SELECTED - the initiative of The Index Book and happening during 27-28 November this year. If you are a student, you have few days left to enter the SELECTED Bilbao 2015 Open Contest

Call For Entry for Students Only till 30 June

SELECTED from Bilbao is a space where you can discover, share and be inspired by the latest graphic trends from all around Europe. Over two days, SELECTED from Bilbao will supply all the creativity and inspiration you need. The festival takes place in Bilbao, the charming capital of Biscay, and invites attendees to participate in a programme packed full of activities: international artists, the Academic Lab, a round table, branding experts, exhibitions and lots more.

http://vimeo.com/121116930

SELECTED Bilbao Conference - 27th & 28th of November, 2015

Call for Student Entries: SELECTED Bilbao 2015

Designcollector is backing the new visual design conference based in Bilbao, Spain: SELECTED - the initiative of The Index Book and happening during 27-28 November this year. If you are a student, you have few days left to enter the SELECTED Bilbao 2015 Open Contest

Call For Entry for Students Only till 30 June

SELECTED from Bilbao is a space where you can discover, share and be inspired by the latest graphic trends from all around Europe. Over two days, SELECTED from Bilbao will supply all the creativity and inspiration you need. The festival takes place in Bilbao, the charming capital of Biscay, and invites attendees to participate in a programme packed full of activities: international artists, the Academic Lab, a round table, branding experts, exhibitions and lots more.

http://vimeo.com/121116930

SELECTED Bilbao Conference - 27th & 28th of November, 2015

A Look Inside OFFF Barcelona

This is why you need to visit festivals like OFFF and this is your last call to grab Mega Early Bird Tickets to OFFF16 Now.

http://vimeo.com/131390601

I said Now!

A Look Inside OFFF Barcelona

This is why you need to visit festivals like OFFF and this is your last call to grab Mega Early Bird Tickets to OFFF16 Now.

http://vimeo.com/131390601

I said Now!

Marta Cerda

Marta is a talented graphic designer residing in LA. Recently she did a collaboration for the BSIDE book, a special guide to Barcelona and the OFFF15 festival, edited by Atelier (that we posted earlier). Marta has an awesome and colourful portfolio you will want to explore on her personal website and Behance page

Marta Cerda

Marta is a talented graphic designer residing in LA. Recently she did a collaboration for the BSIDE book, a special guide to Barcelona and the OFFF15 festival, edited by Atelier (that we posted earlier). Marta has an awesome and colourful portfolio you will want to explore on her personal website and Behance page

Atelier

After visiting OFFF 2015 I've got two decks of cards, one designed by Signalnoise and Onesize to represent each speaker's name and another one real playing cards created in collaboration with dozens of awesome illustrators and Playing Arts project. So I decided to pick up a random card from both of them and do a post on Desingcollector time to time.Here we go, and the first card from OFFF15 Official Deck is ATELIER.

Actually Atelier is a multidisciplinary school born at OFFF Festival. Started in 2010 Atelier granted diplomas to 5 groups of art students you might seen life in Barcelona at OFFF Festivals. All of their projects has been related to the festival and even to official open titles you may watch below

http://vimeo.com/40816492

http://vimeo.com/39023481

http://vimeo.com/95364777

http://vimeo.com/129067321

http://vimeo.com/119326571

Atelier

After visiting OFFF 2015 I've got two decks of cards, one designed by Signalnoise and Onesize to represent each speaker's name and another one real playing cards created in collaboration with dozens of awesome illustrators and Playing Arts project. So I decided to pick up a random card from both of them and do a post on Desingcollector time to time.Here we go, and the first card from OFFF15 Official Deck is ATELIER.

Actually Atelier is a multidisciplinary school born at OFFF Festival. Started in 2010 Atelier granted diplomas to 5 groups of art students you might seen life in Barcelona at OFFF Festivals. All of their projects has been related to the festival and even to official open titles you may watch below

http://vimeo.com/40816492

http://vimeo.com/39023481

http://vimeo.com/95364777

http://vimeo.com/129067321

http://vimeo.com/119326571

Sunflower House by Cadaval & Solà-Morales

Designed by Cadaval & Solà-Morales, the Sunflower House is located by the Mediterranean Sea in Girona, Spain. The designers write, "The house wants to identify each of the particularities of this magnificent landscape; with its geometry, the house frames a multiplicity of different and specific views, and builds up content spaces that inhabit great big framed views."

via iGNANT

All images © Sandra Pereznieto

Sunflower House by Cadaval & Solà-Morales

Designed by Cadaval & Solà-Morales, the Sunflower House is located by the Mediterranean Sea in Girona, Spain. The designers write, "The house wants to identify each of the particularities of this magnificent landscape; with its geometry, the house frames a multiplicity of different and specific views, and builds up content spaces that inhabit great big framed views."

via iGNANT

All images © Sandra Pereznieto

OFFF Unmasked

We are still under the OFFF influence and one of the reason to visit the festival is to had a chance to get a special art book to complete your collection. This year VASAVA Studio presented their sacral work "OFFF UNMASKED" to the audience.

That what they said: "A new art book celebrating the 15th edition of Barcelona’s OFFF festival is as unique as the event itself. Featuring contributions from renowned illustrators and graphic designers, OFFF Unmasked is a journey into a parallel world, portraying the OFFF community as a mysterious cult with its own legends and rituals. Readers must peer behind the layers of myth to discover the real story of OFFF, its founders and its early supporters. The approach is in tune with the ethos of OFFF, which has always invited its guests to look beneath the surface of creativity.

The book’s host and mascot is Dr. Urgil Vataar, an academic who has made exposing the cult of OFFF his life’s work. This is the first time he has publically detailed his efforts to disentangle truth from fiction. The book was designed by Barcelona design studio Vasava in close collaboration with the OFFF team. It will be given away free to all those who attend the event, making it an extremely premium souvenir indeed. "

http://vimeo.com/128991284

http://vimeo.com/128998523

http://vimeo.com/129004970

OFFF Unmasked

We are still under the OFFF influence and one of the reason to visit the festival is to had a chance to get a special art book to complete your collection. This year VASAVA Studio presented their sacral work "OFFF UNMASKED" to the audience.

That what they said: "A new art book celebrating the 15th edition of Barcelona’s OFFF festival is as unique as the event itself. Featuring contributions from renowned illustrators and graphic designers, OFFF Unmasked is a journey into a parallel world, portraying the OFFF community as a mysterious cult with its own legends and rituals. Readers must peer behind the layers of myth to discover the real story of OFFF, its founders and its early supporters. The approach is in tune with the ethos of OFFF, which has always invited its guests to look beneath the surface of creativity.

The book’s host and mascot is Dr. Urgil Vataar, an academic who has made exposing the cult of OFFF his life’s work. This is the first time he has publically detailed his efforts to disentangle truth from fiction. The book was designed by Barcelona design studio Vasava in close collaboration with the OFFF team. It will be given away free to all those who attend the event, making it an extremely premium souvenir indeed. "

http://vimeo.com/128991284

http://vimeo.com/128998523

http://vimeo.com/129004970

OFFF Barcelona 2015 Open Titles by Atelier

We are back! It's been a huge experience to visit the 15th OFFF Festival last week. We can't give you all emotions spread across the venue, so please save the link OFFF.ws to book the Early Bird tickets for their next events. Meanwhile enjoy the film created by ATELIER Masmachos Team a visual arts scholarship created by OFFF to open new talents. They also did a "Finally Fucking Fifteen" campaign to celebrate the anniversary of the festival. Also you can be the next person to create next OFFF festival branding, just apply for Atelier Courses here

Strophe A man’s existence. This is how routine affects us; absorbs us from the inside until we get consumed by it and get comfortable with repetitive patterns and accept changes along the way. We present to you Atelier school’s Opening Titles for OFFF Barcelona 2015. A modern poetic internal monologue inspired by the Greek playwrights Euripides and Sophocles, the British philosopher Alan Watts and the American writer Henry Miller.

http://vimeo.com/129067321