Paper Art by Raya Sader Bujana

June 24, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, Portfolios, Spain, 2016

Barcelona-based paper artist Raya Bujana creates awesome origami jewelry and other weightless crafts you can view on her Instagram and purchase on Etsy

Clay Sculpture by Irma Gruenholz

May 25, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Spain, Sculpture, 2016

Madrid-based Irma Gruenholz calls herself a 3D handmade illustrator as she works on her artworks using clay sculpture and mixed media. Find here works on Behance and Tumblr

Barcelona Hyperlapse

April 23, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, Spain, 2016

Barcelona is the best city for me to align my heart and soul together and place to explore new experiences for example at OFFF Festival. Here is the best hyperlapse video of Barcelona I have seen so far. Enjoy the melting pot of South Western Europe

Dancing Plague

April 14, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Spain, 2016

The short film Dancing Plague is the new work of a long collaboration of more than thirteen years between Diego Agulló and Jorge Ruiz Abánades . Based on three images of Peter Brueghel the Elder, and taking as a handwritten texts that recount the phenomenon of multitudes known as ” dancing mania ” or “Dance of San Vito ” , this film delves into the theme of the dance and its close affinity with the uncontrollable forces of chaos : immediate ability to interrupt work time , enabling another exceptional time of the bizarre, the jovial and festive but also of social disorder and catastrophe

BASED on Pieter Bruegel the Elder´s paintings:

The Tower of Babel (c. 1563)

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (c. 1559)

The Triumph of Death (c. 1562)

Antonio Santin

April 04, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Spain, 2016

Spanish figurative artist Antonio Santin (Instagram) "creates a visceral tension between surface and space with a range of techniques that incorporate both the technical foundations of classical painting and unexpected alterations to the qualities of oil paint to re-assemble the sensory experiences of everyday life"

Photo surrealism by Paloma Rincon

March 15, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Graphic Design, Photography, Portfolios, Spain, 2016

The photographic artworks of Madrid-based artist Paloma Rincon is an example of cognitive dissonance in visual perception. Paloma tear off the nature of an object and fool it's mental state so that's why we have now a family of Disco Watermelon, Cactus Icecream and other curiosities you won't miss if visit her Instagram and personal website

http://vimeo.com/125574735

OFFF Barcelona 2016 Teaser

March 14, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Events, Motioncollector, OFFF, OFFF2016, Spain, 2016

For the 16th year in a row we decided to show you a taste of what OFFF preparations seem like. The school of Atelier worked on a campaign with a twist to show off the reality of every OFFF member and OFFF speaker every year: a mix of pure craziness, hard work, adventures, nervousness and fun! Watch this only at OFFF this May 2016! Grab your tickets now on http://offf.ws

María María Acha-Kutscher

February 26, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Spain, 2016

María María Acha-Kutscher (Facebook) illustrates women exercising their voices in political struggles. She says her work focuses on the woman, on “her story, the struggles for emancipation and equality, and the cultural construction of femininity.” The political dimension of her work plays a dual role—“an artistic product in itself” and “an instrument covers a social need and... contributes to political transformations.”

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3D Grafitti Paintings by Felipe Pantone

February 25, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Spain, Street Art, Glitch, 2016

"Felipe Pantone’s work is at the cutting edge of street art. Straddling conventional graffiti, typography and abstraction, his work fuses bold elements of graphic design with highly evolved geometric shapes to create an ultra-modern aesthetic which complements and reacts with the stark modernity of our cityscapes.Drawing on our concerns of the digital age and the speed at which technology is developing, Pantone’s art is like looking several light years ahead into the future and discovering a new language in which to communicate."

text by James Buxton. Global Street-Art

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Portrait of an Artist | Felipe Pantone
A series of facts of varying importance on the topic of Felipe Pantone UB.Felipe Pantone is a contemporary slash kinetic slash graffiti artist living in Valencia, Spain. Selina Miles is a video director from Brisbane, Australia. Together, they celebrate their love of the internet and facts in this short film.Directed and Edited by Selina Miles selinamiles.com
Posted by Selina Miles on Sunday, 14 February 2016

Álvaro Peñalta

February 20, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Graphic Design, Portfolios, Spain, 2016

As a talented art director based in Barcelona, Álvaro Peñalta was responsible for a good set of project you can review on his Behance profile

http://vimeo.com/154124756

Vero Navarro

February 05, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Spain, 2016

Vero Navarro is a freelance illustrator from La Mancha, Spain, currently living in Madrid. She is an enthusiast of colored pencils in one hand and digital techniques in the other. Vero’s body of work encompasses delicate and realistic renderings of human figure, fauna, flora, architecture and everything in between. In her works she tries to tell stories about human condition using characters in constant struggle with their inner selves.

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"Mexican Factory" Restaurant Interiors by Plantea Architectura

January 26, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Interior Design, Portfolios, Spain, 2016

"Madrid-based architecture studio Plantea designed this small restaurant in a shopping mall just outside their hometown as the first unit of a newly established local fast-food company. The designers wanted to avoid any reference to typical chain restaurants and mass consumption —not an easy task, given the new restaurant’s location and business plan." says Yatzer

Photo © Lucia M Photography.

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".