3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Moscow based illustrator and complexity graphics explorer Tatiana Plakhova creates her epic artworks mostly by manual vector graphics rarely using processing and computed art. You might seen her works on Behance now please watch Noosphere video under the cut.
The most awesome Russian illustrator Andrey Gordeev was commissioned by Brazilian Giovanni + Draft FCB to create posters for Taina coffee. This work won bronze at CLIO2011 awards and today it won Bronze Cannes Lion in Outdoor.
Death in Paris is a creative bureau based in Paris works in print and motion areas. Please take a look at their latest mapping installation "Jag Diamonds"
Watch their showreel
Russian agency FIRMA won Silver in Film category for Eristoff ad "Wolf is back" at Young Director Award by Cannes Lions
Case study:
Hope I will have a time to write about that awesome conference MAD I attended in Madrid this June (right before OFFF) - MAD2011. Meanwhile enjoy the special movie made by famous Paris based studio HelloHikimori especially for this conference.
Photos from the conference:
Nokia is trying to catch the wind of changes and after their decision to fire 7000 employees by 2013 (mostly all Symbian OS teams) they suddenly jumped over the bar and hanging on it with the help of the teeth. I really hope their newborn Nokia N9 will be a base to something new and fresh! Just take a look at the photos made by Laura Jul and read more details under the cut.
The new smartphone is called Nokia N9 – and with N9 everything is just a swipe away. So they say on their website. And so it is!
The story behind N9 design
IS IT HOT OR NOT?
Spiros is a graphic design graduate from Middlesex University although Illustration has since won his heart. He is currently working on graphic design and fashion projects while continuing his studies in fashion illustration at the London College of Fashion. He recently completed collaborations/placements at Alexander McQueen, Goose Design and Saturday-London and is currently working on various other freelance projects. http://www.spiroshalaris.com/
21 June This day has started with awesome news - Russian Leo Burnett Moscow gained Bronze Lion in Direct with "Photoshooting" campaign for WWF. But what is most awesome, is that the day ended with 2 awesome news - Gold Lion in Outdoor for Lego again by Leo Burnett, and Bronze Lion in Media Lions for Yekaterinburg based agency Voskhod for their simple and cool campaign "Book Fresheners" for "100000 Books" stores.
22 June Silver Lion in Design! Moscow based Depot WPF agency won first ever Russian award in this category for milk package
4 Lions and counting because Russia has a lot more lists in other categories http://www.canneslions.com/work/
View all three works under the cut
Bronze Lion in Direct: Leo Burnett Moscow "Photoshooting" WWF
Bronze Lion in Media Lions: Voskhod "Book Fresheners"
Gold Lions in Outdoor: Leo Burnett Moscow for Lego
Silver Lion in Design: Depot WPF for Milk packaging
Gregory's Euclide art is balancing between real and surreal worlds using the metaphorical landscapes as an artworks basics. In his work Gregory utilize objects from a natural and urban environments creating an artificial dreamspaces involving the viewer to his game. http://www.gregoryeuclide.com/
Gifted spaniard and awesome illustrator Berto Martinez has all his hands for handmade artworks http://bertomartinez.blogspot.com/
This is not another motion experiment in cinema4d, this is how our Space is look like.
The footage in this little film was captured by the hardworking men and women at NASA with the Cassini Imaging Science System. If you're interested in learning more about Cassini and the on-going Cassini Solstice Mission, check it out at NASA's website.
Directed by Chris Abbas
Dmitry Karpov - the tutor of a Moscow based British High School of Art & Design recently shared an awesome news: Russian students took D&AD Yellow Pencil (2nd place) in Digital Design/Graphic design (no 1st place in a category for this year) and Silver Pencil for Interactive Design by Marina Tristan and 4 In Book awards!
Svetlana Shokhanova, Nataliya Sinelshchikova, Mikhail Krivoruchko did an awesome iPad app concept for a Taschen brief. Watch the video under the cut.
And Silver Pencil goes to..
Silver Pencil for Interactive Design by Marina Tristan
Also Moscow students won 4 D&AD In Book Awards
Second In Book award goes for Interactive Design Ilya Krasinskiy
Fourth In Book Award for Advertising - Digital Direct Dmitry Kazban, Anton Basistov
Design director and a true typography study explorer Andrei Robu is basing in Bucharest. He is one of the leading designers from the Eastern Europe that gained a power by permanent graphic design research, experimenting with typography, lettering and all things around beautiful details. Designcollector has been following Andrei for years and is very happy to see his new site running and hosting brand new updates http://andreirobu.com/
The debut single from Figures, this is Velo. Figures are Jamie Blanco and James Delay.
Created by Chris Tirrell & ENTWURF
Project Name: SHIFT Design & Production company: Mirari & Co
A portrait of the urban man on the move, Weavers is a follow-up to 3.1 Phillip Lim's fall menswear show. I feel Rodchenko is looking at it and smiling...
This is awesome news for our iPad magazine project!
Designcollector MAG received the FWA Mobile Of The Day Award !
http://m.thefwa.com/site/designcollector-mag
And is also featured on http://www.thefwa.com/mobile/designcollector-mag
DC MAG Team: Fiodor Sumkin, Aziz Melibaev and Arseny Vesnin
UPD: in 2022 Rob Ford stressed remove all awards and jury members with Russian roots just because :)
Romanian digital artist Cristian Boian has nice portfolio on Behance
is a professional illustrator and designer based in Helsinki, Finland. He has worked as a designer in one of Finland´s top advertising agencies. Currently Vesa is busy running his own company name and pushing his professional illustrator career.
Madrid based gifted illustrator and graphic designer Vicente Morillo has awesome portfolio on Behance