Hyper Realistic Drawings by Monica Lee

“I like to challenge myself with complex portraits especially people with freckles or beard,” says Monica Lee, who often works from photographic portraits to create seemingly identical drawings. Surprisingly, Lee worked in the digital world for 12 years before making the jump to illustration. But it certainly doesn’t show. She now spends 3-4 weeks on a single drawing. The artist attributes her love for hyperrealism to her father, who worked in the field of photography.

Lettering by Ian Barnard

United Kingdom-based logo designer and hand letterer Ian Barnard creates beautiful typography lettering by hand. Taking quotes of famous personalities, encouraging phrases, words of wisdom and more, he creates beautiful art that will put a smile to your face.

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Typography Illusions by Nicola Yeoman

Set designer Nicola Yeoman has created a series of artworks, installations and set design for both editorial and advertising campaigns. Some of her projects showcase impressive works of typography—using everyday items such as chairs, scissors, twigs and fabric, she has created letters of the alphabet.

Francois Chartier

Canadian hyper realistic artist Francois Chartier have a wonderful gallery of artworks worth to visit online

Lens Between Us

Creative directors Peter Sedlacik and Zuzu Galova have a fun project titled ‘Lens Between Us’ that sees them traveling the world taking photographs of their locations while facing one another.

Alessio Albi

Alessio Albi's stunningly atmospheric portraits explore light and shadows

I love natural light because it creates amazing shapes and volumes that I can’t obtain with artificial light. I could spend an entire day waiting for that precise ray of light coming through my window and shoot hundreds of photos only with this light source, because I love the way it interacts with the human body. I also love cloudy days for my outside shooting, because clouds create the perfect light diffuser and add lot of atmosphere to pictures. I love low light not only because it adds a lot to the atmosphere I want to create, but because it helps me to exclude a lot of details that would distract from the subject.

Katerina Belkina

Mesmerising digitally manipulated photography forms the real state of digital art. These are the works of Russian artist Katerina Belkina

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Illustrations by Tapio Mömmö

Talented Finnish illustrator Tapio Mömmö

World's Largest Poster

Swedish agency SNASK claims the creation of the largest poster in the world. Created for the Malmö Festival, Snask think it’s the first poster ever to have been turned into an entire physical area. As part of the festival, which takes place between August 15-22, the poster will be on the streets of Malmö for people to interact with, sit on, jump on and sleep on.

Erik Jones

New art by Erik Jones for his upcoming show, “Motion,” at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco features paintings that subsume the human figure in colourful abstract patterns.

Jen Mann

Exploring the new artworks (previously here) of Toronto-based artist Jen Mann

#OFFFSPB Main Titles by The Mill

This weekend we've experienced the first ever Russian OFFF on Tour in St.Petersburg - #OFFFSPB baked by IKRA School and a lot of partners worth to see on official website. Same time Designcollector was happy to held an exhibition of The Digital Decade winners and enjoyed the whole festival including the exclusive preview of the Official OFFFSPB Main Titles created and presented by The Mill magicians. Please enjoy it below and stay tuned with the next OFFF happening around you.

According to "the behind the scenes" the whole video is made using motion capture from professional dancers, watercolour and oil suspensions reactions and etc. Analog vs digital.

http://vimeo.com/100024795

Deep Glass Tables by Duffy London and Greg Klassen

Eager to show you the latest trends in furniture design by revealing to independent studios doing awesome deep glass wooden tables. It is the "Abyss Table" by Duffy London that looks like a deep ocean in a room. Next, is the work of Greg Klassen and his tables under the "River Collection"

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River Collection by Greg Klassen

Glitch Art by Alex Kanevsky

Check the glitchy art of Russian born and Philadelphia based Alex Kanevsky. His style is a mix of figurative with cubist-like marks by a palette knife. The relaxed figures break apart into geometrical gestures that imply their movement through the space. Kanevsky credits a range of aesthetically different artists as inspiration, from Van Gogh, Cezanne, Mondrian, Rothko, Kline, to Freud, the list goes on.

Cloud Lamp

You might remember our favourite thing from 2012 - Indoor Clouds by Berndnaut Smilde. Here is other wonderful interactive audiovisual fixture made by Richard Clarkson’s inter-disciplinary design studio brings all of the thunder but none of the rain of a summer storm to your home's interior. The “Cloud” thunder storm lamp and speaker system looks like a rain cloud on a leash that can even interact with people and sounds around it.

http://vimeo.com/86711365

Matthew Simmonds

"The sculptures of Matthew Simmonds give us a direct experience of our being in the present, through a love of the past transmitted in marble and light."

To create a sculpture that catches the light and structure of a building and lets the eye wander, to feel that here my eye could live, here a part of me could stay, is a great achievement. The sculptures give the viewer a different perspective on space. They look different from every viewpoint. You long to be in them, and they seem almost more meaningful for that.

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Sofia Ajram photography

Dreamy photography of Montreal-based photographe Sofia Ajram feels more like an illustration to an endless shoegaze space-rock album or a frame story of unseen silent movie. Take your time to enjoy her portfolio in a full blossom on Flickr, website or Instagram

Peter Hapak photography

Peter Hapak raised in Hungary, is a versatile photographer based in the US. He works for commercial and editorial clients, but his main focus lies on portraiture and the human body. His latest works for "Variety" cover shows the double-exposure technique in action, looks neat. But to understand the photographer's inner world better check his "The Protester" series made for The Time magazine Cover of the Year 2011. Time had named the Protester as person of the year 2011 and commisioned Hapak to travel to seven different countries to portray the protesters. In countries as Egypt, Spain, Greece and Tunesia he set up a makeshift studio in hotel rooms, anarchist headquarters and even in a temple in India. Peter also asked the portrayed to bring mementos of protest. Amongst the objects brought were Iphones, rubber pellets and Maalox, a substance used to counter the effects of tear gas. Another story he focused on were the Chilean miners that were trapped in 2010 which resulted in a strong series of black and white portraits. Peter has photographed a vast amount of celebrities as Robin Williams, Bono and Colin Firth. via

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7jueTQo9tk

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Dot work tattoos by Ilya Brezinski

StPete based tattoo artist and talented illustrator Ilya Brezinski shows off his best in dot-work technique. Whatever the material - skin or paper Ilya handles each work with a lot of care and attention to details.

Instant Life by Florian Beaudenon

Paris-based fashion and editorial photographer beside commercial shots shares his conceptual series. Check “Instant Life” – the “unbearable lightness of being” shot from above