3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
I really liked this smart advertisement made by Young&Rubicam from Brazil for LG 3D TVsets
Advertising Agency: Y&R Sao Paulo, Brazil Chief Creative Officer: Rui Branquinho Creative Directors: Rui Branquinho, Flavio Casarotti, Victor Santanna, Jorge Iervolino Art Director: Guilherme Rácz Copywriter: Lucas Casão Photographer: Lúcio Cunha
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!
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.
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
Sometimes few works are enough to value the talent. Check these rare gems: digital portraits from Russian artist and illustrator Evgeniy Klyatskiy
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.
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
Short eye-breaking motion created by 2veinte. Directed by Pablo Gostanian
http://vimeo.com/39659731
Here is a high profile of Russian illustrator Alexey Baydakov full of colourful and crisp works. Check also his Behance profile
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.
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
If you ask what is the state with characters illustration in Russia we'd definitely shows this guy first. Ilya Kazakov one of the most productive illustrator on Russian illustration scene has already completed more than a thousand of works and most of them made for commercial FMCG companies in Russian and overseas.
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