3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Imagined and executed by Madrid-based artist, Rómulo Celdran, the artworks entitled HI-RES, are divided into three distinct categories: Solid, Voxel, and Mesh. The goal of HI-RES for Celdran is to emphasise the artist's undying preoccupation with the ever-evolving and limitless possibilities of the 3D virtual world. As the artist explains, its the 3D world's "capacity and plasticity as a valid reference for pictorial and sculptural creation."
Jaime Pitarch creates sculptures, drawings, videos and installations often using humble everyday objects such as a guitar, chair, or household and consumer products. He employs inventive strategies of displacement, re-contextualization and visual punning to peel away at their routine uses and meanings to alter our relationship with such utilitarian items.
Pitarch describes his work as mainly having “… to do with the human being’s inability to identify with the structures he himself has created.” Having been stripped of their functionality, we are free to view them in the alternative narratives the artist provides.
"Andoni Beristain is a photographer and a Creative-Art Director. His shirts are famous, he thinks in the shower, he dislikes heat, he's thorough, symmetrical, colourful and even though he uses humour, he works very seriously. He also likes irony. He's Basque, lives in Barcelona and he knows how to do stuff properly".
Inpired by the 1980's Tango short film by Zbigniew Rybszynski, OFFF Barcelona's 2017 Main Titles are a true beauty. Known for their "high class lo-fi" work profile, Vallée Duhamel duo - Eve Duhamel and Julien Vallée - have took the challenge and decided to work on a one of kind piece to showcase the names of all the speakers who took part of this year's edition followed by a live session of shooting 2,000 paper-planes by the audience during their talk.
As the largest European design festival rolls out on the shores of sunny Barcelona, OFFF team decided to rid off traditional "Open Titles".
This year is a game changer as festival approached its 16th instalment, director Hector Ayuso called up OUTRO Studio and under direction of Marc Castellví with Àlex Monner and Greta Fernández they created a short movie "New Senses". The title corresponds to OFFF 2017 Festival concept.
Outro studio have decided to represent OFFF as an essential element, a brand that provides a formula for a sensorial rebirth - everything you see, hear, taste, touch and smell is a first time experience.
Barcelona-based creative Javier Jaén spends his days illustrating the world around him. For the past three years, Javier has been building a steady reputation via weekly collaborations with The New York Times Magazine.
"It is work that takes the form photo illustrations for a section called “First Words” which considers the ways language shifts and shapes our understanding of the world. The topics covered are vast and complex, from “The Identity Politics of Whiteness” to “How ‘Political Correctness’ Went From Punch Line to Panic.” For three years, it’s been Javier’s job to make impactful visual images to reduce those arguments into a single image."
The BassAwards want reward, once again, the best audiovisual pieces worldwide, which make a major use of Motion Graphics and animation, as well as excellent design, creativity and execution. No matter the size of the company, if you are freelance or who is your customer. BassAwards look for the best.
This year renew the 9 categories, reviewing the works and concerns of the participants of past editions. In 2017, the animation design for series or Internet programs, among others, will have room in BassAwards, with the intention of finding the best creatives in practically all the audiovisual sectors.
The contest will start on 21st March and will finish on 30th May. BassAwards remain hopeful like every year to find the excellence, rewarding the bests.
"Spanish designer/artist, Jaime Hayon's work is infused with a recognizable characteristic humor that goes hand in hand with superior workmanship and artistic integrity. So, it's no surprise that when the Barceló Hotel group asked him to add his unique touch to the redesign of the Barceló Torre de Madrid Hotel the results would be exceptional: The 142 meter tall building was constructed in 1957 and nine of its thirty four floors now house this ambitious hotel which has already become a modern landmark and a compliment to the arty Spanish metropolis it calls home."
Our old friend and talented graphic designer Andrei Robu released a new self-initiated project called "Let's get funky!" Watch it below
Barcelona-based artist Chamo San shares his latest charcoal pencil artworks including the very recent exhibited at Madame Hunter gallery
Beautiful illustrative portraits of young ladies in flowers created by Spanish artist Pedro Tapa
Serial Cut shared their upcoming project made in collaboration with Fantasaraxia. The original organic shapes created by them came to life by a series of motion pieces and stills, dividing the project in three parts: “Sweeepz”, “AstroXYZ” and “Offfpener” made exclusively for OFFF by Night Antwerp
The brainchild of our friend Andy Reisinger and Ezequiel Pini, Six N.Five is a young, contemporary art duo specialising in still life visuals with a clean, modern aesthetic; as the founders themselves put it – “exploring the frontier zone between art and design”. Apart from working on both advertising and editorial commissions, Andy & Eze also find time to create experimental work which is legitimising cgi as a new medium for creative self-expression.
Artist from Barcelona creates colourful works that can be visually read as self expressions of his emotional states. Meet Yago Hortal
Digital artist based in Barcelona and working under Fantasaraxia name creates disturbing abstract 3D artworks he can't explain why
Colombian artist based in Barcelona Cesar Biojo is famous for "destroying" the object of painting in his only manner. This involves techniques such as adding blobs of paint or smearing what is before him, the works created give way to the imperfections existent in all humans.
Jenue is a Spanish Artist and Art director, who divides his time between Madrid and London. He makes playful images for editorials, music, and advertisements with his own colourful view and style. Check his latest project made of famous designer's quotes commissioned by AIGA
“I invent during the process, so I don’t know what will happen at the end of the sculpture. I don’t always remember what I have done. Every time I stop, it’s something new”
Samuel has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and has exhibited at various venues throughout Spain.
Talented graphic designer and than young nuclear physics Marco Oggian born in Italy and working in Spain as a part of True Color Studio He started to do commercial works in his early ages, Zara bought his work when he was 15, since than Marco never stop dreaming of being big name in design
The Cement Factory from the first period of the industrialisation of Barcelona, “The Factory”, keeps on living as a creative space inspired by Surrealism, Astraction and Brutalism. With its Cathedral, Garden and Silos, new and old generations work together surrounded by windows, doors, stairs, false perspectives, in a continuous unfinished work.
“We found enormous silos, a tall smoke snack, four kilometers of underground tunnels, machine rooms in good shape… This was fifteen year ago and it was our first encounter with the Cement Factory. Seduced by the contradictions and the ambiguity of the place, we decided quickly to retain the factory and, modifying its original brutality, sculpt it like a work of art.”
