Architecture Bureau identity by Vlad Likh
Art director Vlad Likh and Studio ONY released a very clean and neat identity for Architectural Bureau P H.D
Oleg Gert illustrations
Just discovered awesome Russian illustrator Oleg Gert who works mainly with character prints involving a huge sense of humour and epic drawing skills as well.
Hopper Meditations by Richard Tuschman
Edward Hopper's art draws a lot of attention last month. Worth to mention Nastya's Ptichek "Emoji Nation" but today's Richard Tuschman’s series “Hopper Meditations” evokes the moody colour palettes, cityscape backdrops, and solitary female characters that are signature elements in Hopper’s paintings.
“I wanted to do a series of staged figurative narratives, somehow connected to past art, but also something I could take ownership of. The sets are all painted dollhouse size dioramas that I built and photographed in my studio. A lot of the furniture is standard dollhouse furniture, but some I made myself. I photographed the models against a plain backdrop, and then made the digital composites in Photoshop. This method gives me a great deal of control over every aspect of the process, and I can do it all in my small studio”
Louise Mertens
You might remember that straight "Nefertiti"-like face from Lisa Rouchet portrait series. This is not (only) a model but first - talented graphic designer Louise Mertens from Antwerp, Belgium. Her passion is fashion collages done with mixed media. Here we show her collaborations and personal artwork that you can enjoy on louisemertens.com as well.
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Not Available on the App Store
Three Hyper Island students (Caio Andrade, Rafael Ochoa, and Linn Livijn Wexell) dreamed up the idea of making “Not Available on the App Store” stickers as a friendly reminder to get kids away from the screen and into the real world. Stickers are available for purchase or you can make your own. via Colossal
Elementaree Set by Maxim Ali
Moscow-based art director Maxim Ali (check his previous work on Minsk City Style feat in Top 2013) created a new identity for DIY Chef Delivery "Elementaree". The visualisation of each cooking receipt is "trop bien", from icons to typography guides. Check it out on Maxim's Behance profile.
Elsewhere by Von
Illustrator Von's latest solo exhibition, Elsewhere, opens at KK Outlet in London next week. Elsewhere, is a collection of delicately beautiful drawings based on photographs shot by Dan Sully. Each portrait in the collection explores those fleeting moments where we involuntarily slip under and away from all of our surroundings, appearing to others absent and completely elsewhere.
"Based in London, Von studied illustration and animation at Kingston University and set up his own studio, HelloVon, in 2006. He's since produced work for Nike, Selfridges, Penguin, the New Yorker and the Paralympic Games and has exhibited fine art work in London, New York and Los Angeles, including the beautiful graphite and pencil series Animals and Semblance, a collection of portraits combining traditional and digital image-making techniques. For his latest exhibition, Elsewhere, Von has created another series of graphite and pencil drawings, this time depicting subjects who are lost in thought. The show includes both large and small-scale artworks and Von has collaborated with Non-Format, HORT, David Pearson and Darren Firth on a set of limited edition exhibition posters, available to buy on his website."
Read full interview on Creative Review
Surreal Drawings by Ethan Murrow
Heavily influenced by both film and photography, artist Ethan Murrow creates grandiose theatrical narratives manifested as large-scale graphite drawings. via Colossal
Chloe Early art
Chloe Early is an Irish born, London based artist who uses her canvases to explore the contradictions between the romantic and the gritty. Simultaneously dreamlike and unflinching, her oil paintings are a place where opposites meet, they are full of colour and space and play with abstract and collage effects in interesting ways.
Camera Obscura by Abelardo Morell
"Originally born in Havana, Cuba, photographer Abelardo Morell has embraced the classic technique of camera obscura, a method used photographically through the use of pinhole cameras. Morell finds rooms with windows that offer unique and spectacular views from the Eiffel Tower to the Italian countryside and then blocks out all the light from the windows with the exception of a pinhole which causes the narrow channel of light to project an exact upside down image of the scene outside on the opposite wall. Next, Morell sets up a large format camera facing the projection on the wall and creates a long exposure photograph revealing the juxtaposition of the actual room meshing with the landscape outside the window." via Juxtapoz
320° LICHT
The "320° Licht" installation of URBANSCREEN uses the cathedral-like beauty of the Gasometer as the starting point for a fascinating game with shapes and light.Within a radius of 320 degrees graphic patterns grow and change on the 100-metre high inside wall of the Gasometer.
“This experience is based on the vastness of the Gasometer,” sound designer Jonas Wiese told the Creator’s Project. “We tried to work with that expression to make the space bigger and smaller, to deform it and to change its surface over and over while not exaggerating and overwriting the original effect of the room.” He continues, “the age of the screen is coming to an end, digital interfaces will dissolve and merge into the social space [...] we poetically contribute to this through art.”
via Colossal
Natasha Law art
Have not seen anything sexier than these gloss paint on paper semi-nudes looking very sultry. That's the work and magic of UK artist Natasha Law (sister of Jude Law). Natasha is represented in by Eleven Fine Art in London
Tomcat Brothers by Piotr Jabłoński
Futuristic comics-like journey of two Tomcat Brothers accompanied with a huge white graffiti cat, a saviour and a friend at the same time. The plot created by Polish digital artist Piotr Jabłoński, you can visit his portfolio on Deviantart, Behance or Facebook and even buy few prints of Tomcats following this link
Geometric Reflections by Victoria Siemer
Victoria Siemer aka Witchoria is a graphic designer and a photographer who lives in New York. In her latest series entitled Geometric Reflections, she shots beautiful natural landscapes, peaceful mountains and green hills. Then she added a geometrical form in the picture, reflecting it like a mirror and giving so an awesome surrealistic look to the photo.
Henrik Purienne Photography
Fashion photographer and editor-in-chief at Mirage Magazine Henrik Purienne has enough to say by uploading shots on Tumblr and Instagram
Classics Vs Plastics
There is a tendency in today's world, associated with plastic surgery craze. Many people have a severe psychological dependence chasing the elusive perception of beauty. A person falls under the plastic surgeon's scalpel again and again. It seems that we have forgotten the simple truth that each of us is perfect and unique from birth.
CLASSICS VS PLASTICS is non-profit social project reminding the public about the problem of depence from the plastic surgery. Because the natural beauty is more important than imaginary aestetic standarts. How we are bringing this idea? Quoting the truly great men — the classics of their time.
Project team:
Pokras Lampas Calligraphy artist
Alexey Kuzin make-up artist
Alex Tsvetkov photographer
Artem Sanin model
Chris Strange model
Igor Duibanov brand-designer
Ilya Tekhlikidi creative producer
Zaal Danelia director & cameraman
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Alexandre Korobov illustrations
Originally from StPete Alexandre Korobov is a young illustrator based in Paris. He creates illustrations full of colours, saturated, photo-realistic, at times acid and ironical, the obsessions of the time finding their way into his commissioned work. He also seeks to revisit illustration techniques of the past by using a mix of electronic processing, pencils and overlay inks. Find his HUGE and EPIC fashion illustration portfolio on www.behance.net/alexandrekorobov and follow him over on Facebook
Monument Valley Game App
You don't need a special announce to mention the rocket start of a new iOS game "Monument Valley". Designers from "the creative silicon valley" - Shoreditch, London forming the agency UTSWO released the game being inspired by the surreal world of M.C. Escher.
"Monument Valley is an elegant puzzle game where you guide a young princess, Ida, through a maze of ruined monuments. You manipulate the landscape to let Ida get from place to place, using optical illusions to your advantage – as in Monument Valley, when walkways appear to line up, Ida can walk along them – even when you know that they really don't." via Digital Arts
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Behind the scenes:
In these films they explain how the works of MC Escher and the architecture of ancient temples inspired both Ken's visuals and way the game is played.
The team also revealed their favourite things about the game and its creation in the video below.
Nois7
"Robert Jahns, better known as nois7, has casually been manipulating photos to create surreal, impossible situations for some time now. Featured throughout much of his work are cities – bold old and new – infused with extremes, from the frozen canals of Venice to skateboarding the skyline of New York City. While the idea itself is not necessarily new, the execution is very well done, leaving the viewer with a sense of awe." via Highsnobiety
