Russian Empire in colour photos

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You might seen the unique set of pioneer colour photos taken by Russian photographer Prokudin-Gorskii a century ago. Here is a new portion presented on BBC.

"This vivid colour photograph is 100 years old, a self-portrait by the Russian aristocrat Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, using a unique photographic technique he developed himself. Prokudin-Gorskii studied chemistry under Mendeleev, the inventor of the periodic table, before travelling to Berlin to study photochemistry.'

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Prokudin-Gorskii took thousands of pictures between 1909-1912 as he toured the Russian empire, armed with a special pass from Tsar Nicholas II. He created a panorama of all the peoples, landscapes, industries and antiquities under Russian possession.

Grand model of Russia

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"Grand Maket" is a scale model (1:87) of Russia covering the country on 200 square meters of permanent interactive (yes, trains are moving and so on) exhibition in Saint-Petersburg. This is a perfect place for kids and parents to spend a day discovering hidden and unusual parts of Russia scaled down and gently spiced with a humor in details. Check their official website. Many thanks to StPete based fashion photographer Daria Markova for materials

Longway North

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"Sasha, a young Russian artistocratic girl at the end of the 19th century, dreams of the Great North and languishes over Oloukine, her grandfather, a renowned scientist and Arctic explorer, who has not returned from his last expedition to conquer the North Pole. He transmitted his vocation to Sasha which is far from satisfying her parents as they have already arranged for their daughter to marry. She revolts against this destiny, flees and is resolved to going to join Oloukine a longway north." Directed by Sacrebleu Productions

http://vimeo.com/38442550

Barry X Ball sculpture

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Barry X Ball is one hell of a sculptor who uses various types of marble and steel to create his works. Mr. Ball (if I may call him that) is currently based out of New York, USA, but originally hails from sunny Pasadena, California. His series, entitled “Masterpieces”, consist of recreated sculptural works after classic pieces of the Great Masters, such as Antonio Corradini, Josse de Corte, and the timeless Hermaphrodite Endormi (Ermafrodito Borghese) piece.

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New Behance 2012

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As official Behance Russian Ambassador, Designcollector joins the celebration of New Behance Network release on Behance.netCheck what they got under the hood..

Here is Behance offical press-release

With our powerful new Explore tab, sort the world's creative work by field, location, tools used, and more.

EASILY FIND:

With our new Activity Feed, track work by people you know and follow, see what work gets appreciated, and access your portfolio statistics.

Browse curated work from dozens of Behance-powered sites for top schools and other industry websites, plus work for sale and member collections.

We’re bringing a new level of transparency and attribution to creative work. This means better opportunities find you.

Vimeo's New App

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Vimeo (creative motion pictures service) released a second version of iOS application with iPad support. It doubles the possibilities of iPhone app when you can take, edit, create and upload videos directly to your Vimeo. Now iPad.. On an iPad, the new app has an especially cool browser that splits the screen and enables you to watch a video while browsing more suggested videos — it's a great way to keep the amazing vids flowing. In addition, you can watch videos in your Feed (or anywhere on Vimeo) and do all the liking, commenting and Watch Latering that you're used to.

Read more on Vimeo's Blog or grab it directly for Free on iTunes Store.

http://vimeo.com/37594663

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UI Packs by Vladimir Kudinov

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Vladimir Kudinov is a super bright UI talent and an example of a good self promotion. How this works he has thousands of appreciations and tons of views on his projects? A simple answer is to do something useful and share it for free or even later for two bucks. Recently Vladimir created a two packs of custom carved and shaped UI design elements suitable for any middle-weight web or mobile project: Futurico and Impressionist. Check them all on http://vladimirkudinov.com/ together with nice design project shipped with Vladimir's crisp style.

Hipster Branding

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Dave Spengeler, a 22 years old graphic designer & illustrator from Switzerland reviewed the branding of famous brands to create their own logo in a new “old” version, featuring typographies and styles appreciated by what he calls the hipsters community. We love them, and don't look back on our DCN Logo it was also made to reflect modern trends, we never stop doing our identity - it is flexible.

Mulheres Barbadas

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Mulheres Barbadas have updated their website with tons of new stuff. They still make their work available so people can download and use freely, but now its in a downloads section so its easier to find. Tons of monochromatic drawings, check it out!

http://vimeo.com/24843068

Mulheres Barbadas, aka the Bearded Ladies, are Henrique Lima and Julio Zukerman. Working together based in São Paulo since 2007, the illustration duo joined forces to fill empty spaces with monochromatic doodles. Today their work varies between digital mediums, murals, drawings on paper and on different objects, always with too much information and too little colors.

http://vimeo.com/23004489

http://vimeo.com/29916994

http://vimeo.com/19747836