Alex Konahin Fine Line art

The fine line graphic project by Latvian designer Alex Konahin made with dip pen using black ink or other materials, sometimes including his own blood, yuk!

Silverfake and Tetra by Alexey Frolov

Young and prosperous Russian designer Alexey Frolov released free new typefaces both featured on Fontfabric typefoundry. Silverfake is a contemporary slab serif wide free font and Tetra is a decorative sans serif typeface both available for download and appreciations.

Natasha Ygel photography

Editorial and fashion photographer Natasha Ygel works and lives in Buenos Aires having all hands in advertising industry. Sometimes she takes director place to work on motion pieces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9SA979PXp4&feature=player_embedded

Evgeniy Klyatskiy

Sometimes few works are enough to value the talent. Check these rare gems: digital portraits from Russian artist and illustrator Evgeniy Klyatskiy

John Paul Thurlow illustration

New York based British artist John Thurlow (@jptcovers) has called our attention few years ago while working on personal series of "a selected magazine covers redrawn with a sole pencil". This project host more than a hundred of stunning cover arts that are two times worth than the original magazine cover. His next Covers vol 2 features free artwork mostly inspired by magazines but layered with personal wordings or common phrases (also inspired by music). Outside illustration world he is Creative Director at Grey Group and also has a personal design-related portfolio on Behance.

Vool - the wooden laptop stand

The Dopludo's Collective concept wooden laptop Vool stand we spoke about year ago went to production. Initially designed by collective member Lesha Galkin this piece of eco-design will perfectly fit any friendly house or freelance environment. Check the details and prices on http://vool.me/

http://vimeo.com/40696923

Mike Ko motions

Mike Ko attracted us with his very short but cool animation "iPhone Diorama" made as a part of graduation project.

http://vimeo.com/40056491

Also check his short showreel, we hope to see more mature works soon

http://vimeo.com/21348902

Igor Oussenko photography

Russian fashion and editorial photographer Igor Oussenko mixing objects and models to get the Kaleidoscope series of works for commercial projects.

Few other works selected from Igor's Behance profile

Punk You

Founded in 2009, Russian design studio "Punk You" based in South Siberia. Now they are proud to be in a first top ten of Russian branding design companies having a good set of award-winning projects in portfolio. Also Punk You organized the first and unique "Fake Advertisement" festival in Russia. We really enjoyed digging their website with a smile put on the face http://www.punk-you.ru

Alex Mikhaylov Europa Plus 2012 idents

Moscow based art director Alex Mikhaylov created video identity for TV channel of the leading Russian radio.

http://vimeo.com/38911403

Directed by Alex Mikhaylov Production producer: Elena Orlova DoP: Maxim Zhukov Sound: Anna Lavrenko Stylist: Kirill Vychkin Hairs: Leonid Romanov Make up: Savva

Art-director: Alex Mikhaylov CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov Modelling / animation: Alexander Sokolov Lighting / rendering / compositing: Max

Amanda Nedham illustration

Talented Canadian draughtsman using the only blessed pencil to create snapshots of someone's mad dreams haunted by the strange creatures of nature and mankind. Welcome Amanda Nedham http://amandanedham.com

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Silver and Light

Briefly the video "Silver&Light" shows talented photographer Ian Ruhter using specially created, huge camera to create wet plates the size of a large painting.

http://vimeo.com/39578584

Mini food by Shay Aaron

"Tel Aviv-based artist Shay Aaron constructs incredible miniaturized food sculptures at 1:12 scale that look almost completely edible. You can see hundreds more photos on Flickr and he also makes miniature food jewelry which is available over on Etsy" writes This Is Colossal

The Division Of Gravity by Rob Chiu

I really am happy to know Rob Chiu in personal, even it was a short meeting at OFFF Hotel lounge last year, and I hope to make OFFF this year as a Media Partner.

"The Division OF Gravity" is a short movie that touches too much...

You may for it on Vimeo Awards

http://vimeo.com/36813256

Psychic Land by 2veinte

Short eye-breaking motion created by 2veinte. Directed by Pablo Gostanian

http://vimeo.com/39659731

Alexey Baydakov illustration

Here is a high profile of Russian illustrator Alexey Baydakov full of colourful and crisp works. Check also his Behance profile

Eskimo Identity by Pavel Emelyanov

A third work by Pavel Emelyanov on our pages that we can't wait to share with you. This time it's a branding design for Eskimo (yes: wood, hot emboss, paper and suede). Even it is handicraft made in few copies the work itself is professional and balanced.

Titles for MAD2012

Pity we had not visited "Mad In Spain" festival this year as we did in 2011. MAD2012 took a place (literally yesterday) on 13-14 April in Madrid. I bet this was a wonderful festival featuring Stefan Sagmeister, Aaron McBride, Jordi Bares, Nando Costa, Mario Eskenazi, Cuban Council, Vitaly Friedman, Randy J. Hunt, Hanzo, No-Domain, Bendita Gloria, Adobe. And here is Official MAD2012 Titles made by Nando Costa http://vimeo.com/40058332

Behind the scenes: http://vimeo.com/40040586

Watch festival videos from previous years on MAD's Vimeo