Continuum by Krista Kim

March 18, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Digital Art, Motioncollector, USA

Mediative light installation piece from #techism creator Krista Kim title “Continuum”

Mirror or the mind.

“When I lived in Tokyo, I was a newcomer to the city and I would discover the it on foot, navigating the Japanese signage, architecture and overall system of life. On a spring day, I wandered down side streets in my neighborhood, and I suddenly chanced upon a serene Zen garden. This Zen garden was an energetic vacuum because the world seemed to stop when I stepped inside it’s parameters. I stood still, fascinated by the beauty of negative space, peace and silence. I felt serenity. It was in that moment when I understood the principle of Zen and the meaning of art.
For centuries, Zen masters created these gardens with the intention of creating empty space in the mind of the viewer.

Art is a mirror of the mind.

I realized that our digital environment, though it is virtual, is a parallel reality of human existence—this environment is new, chaotic and distracting. The key to connecting to our humanity is to find and protect our inner sanctum of silence and peace. Younger generations are at high risk of losing this inner sanctum from digital technology.
I created a digital zen garden. One that communicates pure consciousness in the digital medium through the powerful harmony of color, light and sound.”

Music by Ligovskoï

@krista.kim

Art of Brian Alfred

February 27, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, USA

American artist Brian Alfred is best known for his collages, paintings, and digital animations. He works fluidly between classic and contemporary media like drawing and digital art, and he depicts subject matters that range from architecture and technology to modern idealism and romantic heroism. Best known for his works that examine how people's perception of their surrounding world and culture is mediated by technology, Alfred's practice is often accounted for as socio-critical and a mirror of our contemporary times.

He creates flattened and usually depopulated worlds of color reproduced in two dimensional bold patterns, often derived from found images. Alfred explores the effect public imagery has on individual perceptions of reality by using newspaper photographs, television advertising, and the internet as source. Inscrutable scenes in his paintings and animations remind the viewer of how public media tend to show a glimpse of reality: relevant information is cropped out of the image and the overall picture is flattened into a coherent colourful narrative of a simple ideology.

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360° in-store experience by Ross McCampbell

February 24, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Advertising, Agencies, Graphic Design, Illustration, Portfolios, USA

Talented illsutrator Ross McCampbell teamed up with legendary BUCK to work on 360° in-store experience for a secretive skin-care brand in San Francisco

@buck_design

@ross.mccampbell

The Canopy at 900 North Michigan by Leviathan

February 21, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Advertising, Agencies, Motioncollector, USA

Specialized creative agency Leviathan has closely collaborated with the 900 North Michigan Shops to engage visitors with content displayed on a massive 190-foot LED digital art installation on its atrium ceiling. The Canopy, as it's known, is the digital centerpiece of a larger reinvention of this iconic Chicago retail destination. Visible from the street and all seven floors, the installation is a key element transforming the 30-year-old complex into a 21st-century attraction drawing retailers and customers alike.

@lvthn

Myshli Reel 2020

February 12, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Advertising, Digital Art, Motioncollector, USA

Mighty talented motion designer Danil Krivoruchko shares his latest reel featuring his work for projects by Aggressive / BUCK / CHRLX / Loop / Los York / Method / Psyop

@myshli

Isometric Geometry 2020 by Matt W. Moore

February 10, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, USA, Street Art, Portfolios

Talented geometric abstraction artist Matt W. Moore shares his new 2020 series of spray paint on canvas

@mwm_graphics

Untitled Army

February 10, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Portfolios, USA, Brazil

UntitledArmy are the broken pieces of the Brazilian artist, Lucas Camargo. Based in Brooklyn NY, he haunts coffee shops with his sketchbook, cursed by having to draw obsessively the stream of life and whatever things that come to his mind.

@untitledarmy

Tyler Mitchell Photography

January 30, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Photography, Lifestyle, Portfolios, USA

Tyler Mitchell is a young photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, working across many genres to explore and document a new aesthetic of blackness. Mitchell is regularly published in avant-garde magazines and commissioned by prominent fashion houses.

In 2018 he made history as the first black photographer to shoot a cover of American Vogue for Beyoncé’s appearance in the September issue. In 2019 a portrait from this series was acquired by The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery for its permanent collection. This, alongside many other accomplishments, has established Mitchell as one of the most closely watched up-and-coming talents in photography today.

Read the review on @Artnet

“Tyler Mitchell: I Can Make You Feel Good” is on view now through May 18, 2020, at the International Center of Photography (@icp)

Blair Martin Cahill

December 23, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Craft, Portfolios, USA

“There are layers in all we see, do and present in our lives. These are the elements which we want to show, conceal, or perhaps only hint at. What is revealed is equally important to what is not, and both are needed to capture an entire vision.” - Blair Martin Cahil

The Tide

December 12, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Agencies, Advertising, Graphic Design, USA

Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, The Tide includes a network of parks and spaces along a flowing pathway that follows the Thames. In collaboration with Droga5, the kinetic logo mark was designed, iterated and perfected to represent the variety of ways in which the location can be experienced while maintaining its free-flowing and liquid nature.

Agency: Droga5
Creative Director: Chris Chapman
Lead Designer: Stephanie Mcardle
Producer: Monika Andexlinger
Lead CGI Designer: Bruno Canales
Animation: CREA

@crea.st

After School by Franck Bohbot

December 09, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, USA, Portfolios, Photography

At first glance, you see “oil on canvas” depicts youngsters enjoying after-school in a mellow palette of a golden hour. But what Franck Bohbot tricked us to believe, apparently went out as photography. Very talented photography indeed.

@franckbohbot

Jiaqi Wang Illustration

November 06, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, China, Illustration, Portfolios, USA

Jiaqi (Jackie) Wang is an illustrator and animator originally from China, currently based in Los Angeles. She specialises in 2D moving images and motion graphics. Her work revolves imagination about daily life, full of colours, visual design, and character design.

Basic RGB

@JQ.WAN

Gianmaria Schonlieb

November 05, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Advertising, Branding, Fashion, Photography, Portfolios, USA

Gianmaria Schonlieb is a multidisciplinary Creative Director with extensive experience in advertising and art direction.

“I like to focus on simple moments. Advertising is something that we don’t really need in life, so I have always loved to focus on small moments, objects, and little things that are often overlooked but that can make you crack a smile.”

@gschon

Kara Walker's Fons Americanus

October 29, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, United Kingdom, Events, USA, Portfolios

“My work has always been a time machine looking backwards across decades and centuries to arrive at some understanding of my “place” in the contemporary moment.”

— Kara Walker

Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Created by artist Kara Walker for the 2019 Hyundai Commission, it is one of the most ambitious installations in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall to date.

Rather than a celebration of the British Empire, Walker’s fountain explores the interconnected histories of Africa, America and Europe. She uses water as a key theme, referring to the transatlantic slave trade and the ambitions, fates and tragedies of people from these three continents. Fantasy, fact and fiction meet at an epic scale.

Based in New York, Kara Walker is acclaimed for her candid explorations of race, sexuality and violence. She is best known for her use of black cut-paper silhouetted figures, referencing the history of slavery and the antebellum South in the US through provocative and elaborate installations.

Fons Americanus is on display at Tate Modern until 5 April 2020. You can explore the artwork in more detail on @tate

@kara_walker_official

Field of Infinity by Reuben Wu

October 28, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Photography, Portfolios, USA

Light artist and photographer Reuben Wu spent time with a purpose during his trip through Bolivia to create new jaw-dropping photographs. Equipped by Phase Photo XT Camera System and a lucky season at unique salt space of Salar de Uyuni, he worked against the clock with a team to create an outstanding project Read more on https://seek.phaseone.com/en/reuben-wu

@itsreuben

Lars Fisk

October 21, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, USA

Since 1995, Lars-Erik Fisk has reimagined familiar and common-place objects into spheres, which he considers a "basic form… that we can all understand, but is at the same time the least likely form for these subjects to assume.”

Transforming objects in this way engenders a fascination with the mundane and elevates otherwise unnoticed details of one’s everyday surroundings to works of art that demand attention.

Made primarily by hand in the artist’s Brooklyn studio, each circle is designed to engage ordinary elements from parking lots, subway tiles, car parts and pencil stubs. The eclectic material palette uses the components of these architectural and urban facets – namely steel, glass and asphalt – and turn them into perfect spheres; transforming the simple theory into a potent array of sculptures.

@larserikfisk

Wave Atlas by Marpi

The Tech Interactive

October 02, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Digital Art, USA, Portfolios

Talented interactive artist MARPI (that worked with us on @Digital.Decade installation) shares his latest collaborative installation Wave Atlas.

Wave Atlas is a water world teeming with artificial digital life, which users simultaneously create and discover. The more users who interact, the richer and more complex this ecology grows.

Using pinch-and-drag hand gestures tracked via Leap Motion sensors or triggers via an HTC Vive controller, users create segmented swimmers that they can set free in a virtual ocean expanse. Once released, the creatures play, evolve, and interact, glittering sculptures in a digital current.

The creatures of Wave Atlas are inspired by nudibranchs and leafy seadragons, marine animals with arresting color patterns and an astonishing array of forms.

@marpistudio

Wave Atlas is on exhibit at The Tech Interactive’s Reboot Reality experience lab in San Jose, California, presented with support from the Knight Foundation.

Illustrative Art of Samuel Rodriguez

October 02, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, Illustration, USA, Portfolios

The San Jose based artist Samuel Rodriguez benefits from the mix of street art background and classic art education and has done some amazing illustrative art so far. He is mostly focusing in two types of portraiture which he refers to as, ‘Topographical Portraiture’ and ‘Type Faces’. The Topographical Portraits Rodriguez creates, are made by stylizing a portrait with topographical lines and shapes, in a similar manner to those found through images on geographic maps.

@samrodriguezart

The Immigrant by Michael Murphy

October 01, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Art, USA, Portfolios

The Immigrant - is a 3D halftone sculpture by Brooklyn-based artist Michael Murphy. When you view the 2,300 wood balls from forty feet away you see an image of Murphy’s partner Natasha Vladimirova. The work calls attention to the positive contributions immigrants make to our communities. Natasha is an immigrant and it is with her help that this piece was made possible. This tribute is intended to introduce positivity to a negative and overly politicized conversation.

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@thecanvasbyq

Flower Flashes in NYC by Lewis Miller

September 19, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Street Art, USA

Floral artist Lewis Miller (previously) and his talented team arrange beautiful blooms in the most unexpected places in New York City. For nearly 3 years with his company, Lewis Miller Design, they worked on a very cleaver guerrilla marketing campaign: “flower flashes”, where they transformed trash cans into larger-than-life flower vases and used blooms to embellish the streets of New York, as well as the subways as public art.

@lewismillerdesign