Primavera Sound Line Up 2016

January 21, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Events, Motioncollector, Spain, 2016

Beside a great line up Barcelona's music festival Primavera just released their official promo video created by Device studio

Miguel Vallinas

January 20, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Photography, Portfolios, Spain, 2016

Talented Spanish photographer Miguel Vallinas dedicates his time mostly for urban and natural landscape photography but hence widely known for his personal projects. Last year his "Segundas Pieles" or "Second Skin" went widely across creative blogs. Recently he continued his anthropomorphic series of animals dressed as human. His other series "Raiz" (Roots) went a bit crazy by replacing human heads with flowers, what also lead to numerous hidden meanings.

A 100-Year-Old Church in Spain Transformed into a Skate Park Covered in Murals by Okuda San Miguel

December 16, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Architecture, Interior Design, Portfolios, Spain, Street Art, 2015, Art

"Originally designed by Asturian architect Manuel del Busto in 1912, the church of Santa Barbara in Llanera, Asturias, was abandoned for years and crumbling from neglect. Luckily, a group of enterprising individuals lead by a collective called the ‘Church Brigade,’ with help from online fundraising and Red Bull, the church was salvaged and turned into a public skate park dubbed Kaos Temple.

As if having a skate park inside a beautiful abandoned church wasn’t enough, artist Okuda San Miguel was commissioned to cover the walls and vaulted ceilings with his unique brand of colorful geometric figures." via Colossal

Glitchy Type Posters by Ruben Montero

December 15, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Graphic Design, Portfolios, Spain, Glitch, 2015

"Scanmania" is a kind of a handmade posters created by Spanish art director Ruben Montero using simple scanner to get the effect widely called "slitscan"

LEIF - Digital art by NastPlas

December 07, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Spain, 2015

Spanish digital artists working under NastPlas name have a lot of things to show you. Let's start from one of their latest project "LEIF" - a set of digital sculptures

Rafa Merino

December 07, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Graphic Design, Portfolios, Spain, 2015

Rafael Merino is former art director based in Madrid, focused on the creation of engaging graphics for all kinds of purposes. We consider his works more from digital art side neither graphic design

Justino, El Gordo

November 19, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Motioncollector, Spain, 2015

Every Christmas merely everyone in Spain join the national lottery to win the biggest prize called El Gordo. This year Leo Burnett created a teary story about Justino - night guard at mannequin factory..

Digital Art by Zigor Samaniego

November 16, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Spain, Glitch, 2015

"Ezin izan esan ezin" is a glitch art series created by Basque Country (Spain) designer Zigor Samaniego, literally the title translates as "Could not say no".

Soft Stone Sculptures by José Manuel Castro López

November 16, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Spain, TOP 2015, 2015

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

Paula Bonet

November 03, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Spain, 2015

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.

Serial Cut 2015 Showreel

October 19, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, Spain, 2015, Agencies

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

August 10, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, Portfolios, Spain, 2015

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

August 03, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Spain, 2015

"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

Macro art by Rómulo Celdrán

July 21, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Spain, TOP 2015, 2015

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

July 03, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Spain

"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

June 29, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Events, Spain

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

June 29, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Events, Spain

Call For Entry for Students Only till 30 June

http://vimeo.com/121116930

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

A Look Inside OFFF Barcelona

June 24, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Events, Motioncollector, OFFF, OFFF2015, OFFF2016, Spain

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

June 24, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Events, Motioncollector, OFFF, OFFF2015, OFFF2016, Spain

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

June 11, 2015 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Graphic Design, Portfolios, Spain, TOP 2015, USA

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

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