Mat Maitland is an English designer whose many years of experience cover the disciplines of art direction, graphics and illustration. As part of Big Active Design, where he is currently Creative Director, he has created powerful and innovative music campaigns for Beck, Goldfrapp, Basement Jaxx, Michael Jackson, Mark Ronson, Das Pop and Sneaky Sound System among many others. His portfolio is an amazing proof of that surreal illustrations and collages can sell if it is done great.
We have spotted Mash Creative studio from East London year ago let's take a fresh look on their new works now
London-based sculptor and illustrator Arran Gregory shares his latest works. His mirrored sculpture gained a good attention and has been exhibited among illustrations in few galleries in London this September.
Talented visual artist Max Hattler was commissioned by London's place KXFS to create a water projection on Regent Canal.
http://vimeo.com/49029399
Launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_-f7G9VSPw&feature=player_embedded
Poetic Cosmos of the Breath was an experimental solar dome created by artist Tomas Saraceno. It was launched at dawn on 22 September 2007 at Gunpowder Park, Essex, UK. Commissioned by The Arts Catalyst. Nowadays artist is building a cloud city at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHOsO-IYpbw
Timelapse video of artist Patrick Vale drawing the view of the Manhattan skyline from the Empire State Building.Music - Moanin' by Charles Mingus.
http://vimeo.com/42635813
A collection of pencil drawings London based illustrator Rupert Smissen time to time working in collaboration with Rebecca Pomroy. Obsessive with details, double-meanings and beautiful shadows Rupert's works are yet not provoked the industry to step out from Tumblr, I bet this is a matter of time and good illustration agency.
Atton Conrad O’murchadha is a London based advertising and art photographer. “I love technology, I have used photoshop for over a decade, but there is a certain quality I want to create that is unobtainable by the usual route alone”. Unique results created by unique methodology. Conrad continues to work on commercial team projects, using all forms of lighting, and developing his personal fine art and video projects available on attonconrad.com
Dean Chalkley is a Photographer and Film Maker based in London. Whilst at college he began shooting for Dazed and Confused magazine (1998). Since then Dean has continued to depict his love for Culture, and Music especially working with many different publications, record companies and fashion brands. He has undertaken high profile campaigns for the likes of Rayban, Levis and New Balance.
Have you ever get frustrated with awkward files sharing through iPhones when chatting with friends in life? Still using an email to share photos with you friend sitting at your right hand? Yeah ugly miscommunication or the next "must have" feature for iPhone 7.. Recently we found freebie Chirp doing awesome photos, text and links sharing on-a-fly or on-a-chirp.
You and your recipient must install Chirp app and have internet connection for making an app sings information from one iPhone to another.
A second fashion attack by Tara Dougans mimicking and reworking men fashion haute-coutre in illustrative way, now made after Paris Fashion Week. "Originally concepted as an 'animated editorial', the project kicked off shortly after Paris Fashion Week Menswear in January. Inspired by the Burmese proverb 'beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting', the idea was to juxtapose the subtle stoicism of menswear imagery with a cheeky animated wink. Having previously worked almost exclusive with pencil, the aim was to create a multisensory experience without losing the feel of handcraftsmanship."
http://vimeo.com/44189505
Menswear F/W 2012: An Animated Editorial Illustration and Direction by Tara Dougans Original Score by Johnston Sheard
View full series on Tara's Behance
If you are not into Olympics this beautifully crafted animated short by Passion Pictures' Pete Candeland will get you in the mood.
http://vimeo.com/46441341
GIF animation experiences the second revival and goes through amazing cinemagraphic strictly to experimental fashion films. One of the first to experiment with it comes Alexander McQueen fashion house that continually strives to reinvent and transform its’ image. Check this campaign film featuring the Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2012 Collection, directed by David Sims and featuring Suvi Koponen.
Bye-bye our self-proclaimed trend "fidget noir", hello eyes killing Post-GIF.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5wXXJpQyxg&feature=player_embedded
ᔥ http://portable.tv/fashion/post/alexander-mcqueen-goes-gif-tastic/
Google Web Lab is a series of interactive digital experiments, brought to life at the London Science Museum. It enables worldwide participation both online and from within the exhibition space, to control machines which explore and demonstrate a range of web technologies. http://vimeo.com/46314040
Bibliotheque created the environmental graphics and signage, working as part of the team alongside UniversalDesignStudio and MAP (the research and development design consultancy, founded by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby). The Web Lab website and identity were created by B-Reel, and the machines were built by Tellart.
Traffolyte panels introduce each of the 5 areas, and explain the science behind each experiment: Orchestra, Teleporter, Sketchbot, Data Tracer and the Lab Tag Explorer. Floor graphics aid navigation and visitor flow, helping create the feel of an experimental 'test area'. The exhibition is open at the Science Museum, London until June 2013.
"A thousand reasons is a short animated spot directed and animated by Daniel Britt. Created for the WMD Awareness Programme, Daniel Britt and the foundation wanted to raise awareness around nuclear weapons and the thousand reasons why they shouldn’t be made." via Whitezine
http://vimeo.com/45150640
I also liked the way the video was crafted by hands from paper
London based Bobby "The Slighted" forms "Department International" duo together with Brian Okarski. All of their links contains a heap of very good magazine designs but better we shall take a look on Bobby's covers shared on his Flickr
Award-winning figurative artist Sarah Harvey inspired by the pools in Tuscany when traveled with scholarship given by Newcastle University in 2003. Since then she concentrates on portraying human body underwater. "Entirely suspended by the water, the human forms are fragmented by the ripples and swirls created by the water, abstracting them, and often with implausible results such as the appearance of disfiguration or distortion. I have become increasingly excited about the abstract elements in these works, and the interplay between light, colour and water. The emerging patterns are becoming more apparent and dominant, drawing the eye not only towards the main focal point of the human form, but also to the surrounding areas, which are of equal significance."
We spotted Tom Lane's graphic design few years ago just in time he graduated from college. Now it is a time to revisit and check his new directions.
http://vimeo.com/30392705
http://vimeo.com/45436061
This is a rare type of post when we feature craftsmen but Hard Graft wins a full attention. The masters of premium italian leather and wool felt knows how to keep all you gadgets and other urban nomad things all together with a modern twist.
Hard Graft is a perfectionist duo - monie.ka and James based in London, UK. They do design and produce sleek objects of desire in Italian workshop called "The Brothers". Stitch to stitch, button to button their products are a real aesthetic heritage available for purchase and delivery right now (pity they don't deliver with DHL or UPS to Russia, and that is a real torment for us).
