Another great conference and festival we supported but missed again this year - FITC 2013 Amsterdam. Here is the Official Titles created by GMUNK http://vimeo.com/59892998
Credits: Design & Concept: GMUNK (gmunk.com) Production & Direction : ONESIZE (onesize.com) Type Font Design: Brian M Gosset (briangossett.com/) Music & Sound Design: MassiveMusic (massivemusic.com/)
Impressive wood sculptures by cousins and artists Aron and Gehard Demetz http://www.geharddemetz.com/ (website is not functional for now)
Mysterious Russian photographer Katerina Plotnikova creates visual fairy-tales, both sensual and inspiring. http://500px.com/katerina_plotnikova https://www.facebook.com/KaterinaPlotnikovaPhotography
Russian mapping masters from Sila Sveta did it again. This time it was a New Year visual fairy tale for kids "Good Deeds Fair" mapped on Victory Memorial in Moscow sponsored by monopolist bank (it's really strange when a customer in Russia can't stay with only a logo at the end and just be a sponsor but not a main hero dressed in corporate colours and a savior in this fairy tale).
http://vimeo.com/59092035
Kelvin Okafor made a photo fixation of the "behind the scenes" for his latest portrait drawing called "Mana".Take a look how freaking empty page went live under his hands.
View full series on http://kelvinokaforart.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/mana-evolution.html And on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kelvin-Okafor-Art/109909719036016?sk=photos_stream
The creativity has no limits and boundaries and it can stretches and be flexible just like paper sculptures of Beijing artist Li Hongbo "A book editor and designer, the artist became fascinated by traditional Chinese toys and festive decorations known as paper gourds made from glued layers of thin paper which can be stored flat but then opened to reveal a flower or other shape. He applied the same honeycomb-like paper structure to much larger human forms resulting in these highly flexible sculptures." says Colossal
http://vimeo.com/54967505
http://vimeo.com/55336193
"Paperman" is a short Oscar-nominated animation made in Disney. It tells a story about love and destiny in a retro-Gatsby style created by a group of just 12 artists and first-time director John Kahrs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSxJkKiHXbw
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QAI4B_2Mfc
”The drawings are part of an on-going evolutionary process of exploration and development, and thus serve only to mark and represent a particular stage in my abilities and understanding. Current on-going experimental ‘drawing’ includes very large scale drawing, based around the human figure, which are very different in character from the pencil portrait and ‘flesh’ figure drawings which are featured here. Some of the new work is abstract in nature.” – Cath Riley
Okay here we go! The magazine you were waiting for almost a year - DCMAG n°02. Bold, brave, indie, smells like you want it, featuring awesomeness and easy to order. It is Designcollector Magazine.
Read More"Belgian studio Soon has made a promotional stop-motion video for Twixl media. The clip is an interesting watch because it is fully typographic and illustrated with chalk by Kelly De Ceuninck, and Pieter Vanhoutte. Additionally, it has been creatively directed by Jim Van Raemdonck, and typography and art direction by Lee Skinner." via Illusion Scene 360
http://vimeo.com/56277909
Eiko Olaja is an illustrator, graphic designer and art director based in Talinn, Estonia. He often uses paper-cut collages for graphic design works
Dutch-born sculptor Rein Vollenga's work has been displayed in worldwide galleries and touted by the likes of Lady Gaga. Vollenga regularly transgresses the traditional boundaries of sculpture by producing tangible and wearable pieces for a whole host of fashion brands - Mugler, New Power Studio and Cassette Playa - as well as magazines, including Dazed & Confused.
"This is a chronicle progression of a woman. A woman who morphs from innocence to struggles, and back to innocence. From a state of purity, when there is no good and bad, to sophistication, which comes with seduction, greed, debauchery amongst all other evils that dominate the world. On the verge of decadence she struggles, for individuality, for virtue, for her own soul. In the end amidst all chaos, she unites with peace of mind, living with a sober fact that she is just one of them, and she can’t hide. That is her IDENTITY, whether she likes it or not." Fashion photographer Jeffrey Wang speaks for himself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRDjpOfZ5Cw&feature=youtu.be
If you ask good user interface designer to come up with perfect layout for social network he will bury you under the tons of paper research and can eventually kill the idea. But if you ask bright UI designer to do the task he will get back to you with the Facebook he dreamed about for years. That what happened to Fred Nerby from Brisbane. He presents a conceptional and systematic design approach encouraging user behaviour and a greater control of data within a responsive grid.If this guy won't work for Facebook in a month than Zuckerberg does not exist.
http://vimeo.com/56488043
View full presentation on Behance
"British artist James Mylne makes photo-realistic images using essentially a ballpoint pen, and sometimes he mixes other materials such as ink, marker, and spray paint. His drawings demand a great deal of concentration because one wrong stroke, can spoil the whole portrait." via Illusion Scene 360
Guys behind Life in Five Seconds project and a book - Milan based studio H-57 extend their pictology skills onto famous movies, squeezing Hollywood's scenarios into a short visual story. They called it "Shortology"
I think sometimes the drawing procrastination on Geography studies can help to form the future of an artist. But that is not what happened to Edward Fairburn that uses geographical maps as a canvases just giving them a new life through drawing awesome portraits.
Cold steel advertising featuring red hot bullet of Givenchy's lipstick was directed by our friends at Paris agency Hellohikimori. Production company: ONIRIM Music: "Viol" by Gesaffelstein (SavoirFaire cie and Turbo Recordings)
http://vimeo.com/56977646
This year is going to be huge for Designcollector as we just entered our 10th Year of online existence. During the New Year I was thinking to go beyond normal posts and focus on what we love to do - collect things under different categories. So we start the year with 1st Inspiration set of Living Spaces or simply great Interior Design examples (mostly done in Rustic, minimalists and industrial style) collected in our Pinterest
