3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Sam Cannon is an artist and director based in NYC. Her personal work focuses on the manipulation of time, space, and the human form. Living somewhere between still photography and video, her images explore the way we interact with never-ending moments in the age of the 15 second clip.
Sam has also used her gif art for advocacy. She has been involved with anti-bullying campaigns, and recently used gif art to create portraits of young muslim women breaking stereotype.
Keiko Fukazawa is a ceramic artist who is born and grew up in Japan. After spending 30 years in America, she dedicated her last three years in Jingdezhen, temple of porcelain since 1393.‘Made in China’ is a collection of playful works denouncing the effects of globalisation and consumerism in China.
Seattle-based illustrator Kai Carpenter creates awesome artworks with a deep reference to American art-deco and post Fordism era
Pioneer of digital renaissance his majesty GMUNK or just mr. G Munkowitz is back with a new installation called "CURRENTS". This Lightform Sculpture was created by the dream team of himself, architect Lorenzo Vianello, projection mapping wizard Philip Reyneri and motion graphics ace Peter Call Me The Clark.
To celebrate the U.S. Basketball team going for the Gold in Rio 2016, Hybrid Design partnered with Nike Brand Design and Golden Wolf to create one-of-kind boutique retail experience, re-launching an equally unique shoe: The Nike Air Foamposite One. This larger-than-life, digital sneaker box projected 4 sides of Air Foamposite One-inspired animation, visible from as far as the Bay Bridge in San Francisco
"Color Dialogues" is an ongoing series of abstract digital graphics created by Buck art director Jean-Michel Verbeeck. By experimenting witch shapes and colour, his images reject the traditional boundaries and explore new ways of experiencing visual imagery.
Netflix will premier a new original documentary series, Abstract: The Art of Design, that introduces the work and creative process of eight leading designers (and yes it will air on Netflix Russia too, starting on 10th of February). The series is produced by Wired’s editor-in-chief Scott Dadich, Morgan Neville and Dave O’Connor. Each programme will focus on a different individual, the subjects are: Bjarke Ingels (architect), Christoph Niemann (illustrator), Es Devlin (stage designer), Ilse Crawford (interior designer), Paula Scher (graphic designer), Platon (photographer), Ralph Gilles (automobile designer) and Tinker Hatfield (Nike shoe designer).
“I can guess what you’re thinking, because I have watched a lot of design documentaries. Restrained, polished, pretty—so many of them look like a moving version of a coffee table book. You’ve got softly lit interviews, esoteric conversations, and subtle tracking shots of wide landscapes beneath unobtrusive music. Most of it is clean, minimal, and boring as hell. We’re not doing that. My partners and fellow executive producers—Morgan Neville (who won an Oscar for 20 Feet From Stardom) and RadicalMedia’s Dave O’Connor—and I built a team of today’s best-known documentarians. Every episode stands as its own film, adapting the design sensibilities of our subjects.”
P.s If you are totally in it than you have all chances to meet design gurus in life on festivals like OFFF Barcelona, FITC, Toca Me... Hurry up, tic-toc
Talented paper artist from US Olga Skorokhod creates awesomely detailed artworks based on topography techniques. Her latest "making of" video of "Lake Baikal" work is something to watch on repeat
"Splendor of Existence" is a video art that aims to engender wonder and inspiration by drifting you through a vast dreamlike sea of tranquility. Created and directed by Apostolos Stefanopoulos
"In this intriguing sculptural series spanning 2005 to 2014, LA-based artist Walead Beshty packaged his artworks in FedEx boxes and shipped them across the country to exhibitions and galleries. But unlike most artists who utilize every bit of care to protect and pad their artwork from the inevitable rough handling of mail carriers, Beshty designed his pieces to break. For his famous FedEx works he constructed laminate glass objects that fit seamlessly within the dimensions of standard size shipping boxes. Through the “normal” handling the objects would inevitably crack and shatter and it was up to curators and gallerists to carefully remove each piece for display. The fragile volumes were then given titles that specifically mention the date, tracking number, and box size of shipment."
Kytten Janae is an artist and director based in Los Angeles, California. She creates experiences, short films, memes, live concert visuals,VR, and more. Her work can be seen online, on television, and at some museums and sometimes on tour or at festivals.
"Kytten is influenced by all the sadness in her heart and the Internet’s small cultures and communities. Interested in the intersection of experimental animation, technology, and interactivity, kyttenjanae creates digital and physical experiences.” via Femmebit Event, where some of the most influential pioneers in the field of digital media arts gathered at Human Resources inside a former kung fu theater in LA's Chinatown to discuss the history and future of the still-forming discipline, see new digital shorts, and experience groundbreaking VR projects.
“Unknown Terrain” is a culmination of Andrew Hem's imaginative view of the world. In his show statement, Hem shares his personal goal of painting the Seven Wonders of the World by the time he is thirty years old. Here, he portrays sites like the Grand Canyon and Mount Everest, recreating the experience of seeing them as an emotional one, rather than capturing their physical reality. Although these are famous places, many of them are out of reach or facing the threats of industry, becoming “unknown” to future generations.
Graphite art of Nicomi Nix Turner is filled up with occult symbols. Creating detailed illustrations that invoke a surreal understanding of the perfection in nature, her works delve into the occult and the connections between alchemy, mythology, decay and birth. Her hyper-detailed illustrations capture the coexistence of life and decay in a bouquet of fungi, personified insects, bones, flesh and fauna.
Elena Miska is a New York based art director who’s just hit refresh on her website to include new works
“I’m a graphic designer and art director living in Brooklyn, but am originally from the Bay Area in California. My whole life revolved around art and dance, and I actually went to school for a year at SUNY Purchase here in NY, but had to move back to California after a dance-related injury. (It was actually a blessing in disguise – I will always love dance, but ended up finding my calling in design.) I got my degree in Graphic Design from Academy of Art University, and worked for a few years in San Francisco doing design and art direction before moving back to New York a year and a half ago with my husband, Tom. We’re both in the same profession, and agreed that NY was the place to be (we were right!).”
Californian artist Emilio Villalba recently presented by Modern Eden gallery depicts dreamy distortion on canvases. "His gorgeously distorted work is dreamy and unfocused, at once familiar and unsettling in a way that makes the hairs on the back of your arms stand up."
Eye Love To See You is the ongoing project of photgrapher Elena Kulikova (also resident of our Digital Decade 4 collaboration). Elena began a photo study of eyes in 2012, this is a place where you can see the onoing collection of photographs and participate in future eye portrait sessions.
“What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates it’s moist brilliance on another human creature”
American photographer Ben Zank, shot a new series of surreal portraits following his move from New York City to New Zealand. In a statement about his latest work, Zank says, “The images represent an ongoing experience of emotions that I feel, the most recent being isolation and a longing to connect with another human being.”
New York based artist Shane Griffin creates a lot of art-x-commercial related project where we find "Chromatic" worth to review below and admire the pureness of colour
Beijing, Beijing, China, North-East Asia, Asia
Beeple is Mike Winkelmann, a graphic designer from Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. He is motion and digital artists creating commercial and personal artworks worth to see in his portfolio
