Weekly report

This is our first attempt to summarize the week in design blogs and focus on things that gained most attention through the week.

Long Exposure Neon Waterfalls

Landscapes lit up by glow sticks, road flares, headlamps, and moonlight. By From The Lenz

Daft Punk buzz

In addition to revealing the list of their Random Access Memories collaborators during Coachella 2013, Daft Punk also gave a quick glimpse of their new look created by Saint Laurent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMJwcOiBoZE&feature=youtu.be

Google Street View Hyperlapse

Our Tuesday's post about the webtool built by Teehan+Lax called "Hyperlapse" was not alone and warmed up through the most of blogs during this week. http://vimeo.com/63653873

Hyper Realism in a bowl by Keng Lye

Keng Lye's resin optical art also went trendy this week

FLUIDIC – A Sculpture in Motion

Fluidic - an Interactive Field of 12,000 Spheres Illuminated by Lasers made by WHITEvoid studio from Berlin http://vimeo.com/63338826

Anamorphic Portrait

He is not Dali but Bernard Pras made this portrait from an entire room of objects http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=s3x5fwv0UdU

Exploded Flowers by Fong Qi Wei

This also gained much attention from the blogs this week - Exploded Flowers is a series of photos by artist Fong Qi Wei that shows a variety of flowers dissected into individual components.

Ten and counting

Sixteen thousands of subscribers, fifteen thousands of facebook fans, six thousands of twitter followers, nearly three thousands of instagrammers and two thousands of pinteresters just can't be wrong! We Love You All! Thank you!

Designcollector is celebrating it's Tenth Anniversary on 13th of April!

You are invited. We will announce a design collaborative competition "The Digital Decade" with great prizes next week to celebrate our 10th together in an upcoming Designcollector Magazine #3 Stay tuned.

P.s. Artwork by Anton Marrast for DCMAG#0

Future Lions 2013 Call for Entries

AKQA announces 2013 Future Lions Call for Entries‘Destiny Awaits’ theme encourages students to start their career with a win at Cannes The Future Lions global student creative competition is calling for 2013 entries. AKQA, in collaboration with Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, is hosting Future Lions for the eighth year in a row. This year’s theme, ‘Destiny Awaits’, encourages students to invent bold ideas that will create the future.

The annual Future Lions competition challenges students to develop an idea for advertising a brand in a way that would not have been possible five years ago. There are no rules in terms of media or technology, no restrictions around product or target audience and no entry fee. Winning concepts will be honoured at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in the Debussy Theatre in June.

Celebrating the competition’s emphasis on creativity and innovation, AKQA is proud to announce WIRED UK as official partner for Future Lions 2013.

Last year the competition achieved a record number of over 1,100 entries from 40 countries, making it one of the world’s largest student competitions. An influential platform for emerging talent, Future Lions winners are highly sought after and quickly employed by many of the world’s leading agencies.

"Future Lions is one of the greatest opportunities open to students. Winners receive job offers from many of the world's leading agencies pretty much as soon as they are announced. No other competition offers a boost like it at the start of a student’s career. This year’s theme, 'Destiny Awaits', encapsulates all that it takes to become a Future Lions winner: self-determination, bravery and the profound understanding that to create the future you need to give your all to the present.” James Hilton, AKQA Chief Creative Officer.

The five student teams submitting the best ideas will win registration to the Festival in Cannes, France, 16 – 22 June 2013, and will be honoured with the Future Lion Cub trophy designed by AKQA. The deadline for entries is 22 April 2013, 12.00 GMT.

Future Lions will also recognise the Future Lions School of the Year, for the individual school achieving the most student submissions to reach the final round. In 2012 this accolade was awarded to the Miami Ad School Europe in Hamburg.

To learn more about the 2013 Future Lions competitions and how to enter, please go to: www.futurelions.com or www.facebook.com/akqa

Parallel: Nespresso Mobile

Animation directed for Nespresso by Parallel (Quentin Baillieux and Raphaëlle Tinland), produced by chezEddy for Soleil Noir agency. Great use of colour, perspective and all that retro stuff in animation. http://vimeo.com/63676197

Jack Hughes illustration

Here is the works of freelance illustrator based as he said "just south of the river Thames" in London. Over bold background gradients and two-tone blocks of color, Hughes illustrates fashionable people from the middle of the 20th century. http://jack-hughes.com/

Obey the Giant

On April 15th, Director, Julian Marshall is launching an amazing new film entitled OBEY THE GIANT. It is about the early life of Shepard Fairey and the origin of his OBEY GIANT street art campaign. The film takes place in Providence, RI in 1990 when Shepard was a student at Rhode Island School of Design.

http://vimeo.com/42453172#at=0

Fiero Animals

Fiero Animals is a Moscow based creative retouching and CGi studio specializing in production of high quality commercial CG and photo based imagery for the advertising and entertainment industries. They have updated their "a-must-visit" portfolio recently.

Hyper Realism in a bowl by Keng Lye

Singapore-based artist Keng Lye meticulously produces three-dimensional works of art with acrylics and epoxy resin that lie somewhere between painting and sculpture. Using a technique originated by Riusuke Fukahori, Lye manages to produce the illusion of different animals swimming in water. The time-consuming process involves pouring resin into a bowl and then painting on top of it with acrylics, layer by layer. (via MMN)

3D Food by Janne Kyttanen

Janne Kytannen, co-founder of design studio Freedom of Creation, has visualised a series of 3D printed meals, including pasta, to show how the technology could be applied to home cooking in the future. (via Homebuildlife)

Kelly Blevins drawings

Simply charcoal on paper drawings by Kelly Blevins with the mind-blowing result

Justin Keena

Living in San Fransisco and travelling around the world, Justin Keena is an american photographer with a great passion for his art.

Stasia Burrington

Stasia Burrington‘s collection of drawings on brown Kraft Stonehenge paper. Done with charcoal, sumi ink, acrylic paint and cut fabric flower collage. via

The Rubber Barber

The more you making mistakes on paper the more is a haircut of this funky rubber heads. Brilliant idea designed by Chen Lu Wei for Megawing via

Google Street View Hyperlapse

A new project from Toronto UX design firm Teehan+Lax, which operates a Labs unit to explore its more playful side, threads together Street View imagery to create time-lapse animations called Hyperlapses, which makes Street View a more immersive experience. via

http://vimeo.com/63653873

Vincent Giarrano

Vincent Giarrano's figurative paintings in which the artist has taken moments from everyday life, and has made of them something beautiful and introspective.

“What inspires me most is the energy and beauty of my experiences,” says Giarrano. “I see painting as a way to appreciate what is all around us, stuff we take for granted or don't notice. My favorite things to paint are scenes of life in New York City. I love the architecture and people of the city. It's endlessly inspiring. I enjoy painting scenes on the streets but also interiors, which are often about people, alone and in their own thoughts. For me, that presents someone as more truly himself or herself.”

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Shave It

Animated short film by 3dar StudiosWritten and directed by Jorge Tereso and Fernando Maldonado

http://vimeo.com/63528500

Illustrations by Martin Satí

Using abstract biomorphic compositions and energy of colourfull lines spaniard Martin Satí creates awesome portraits, patterns and illustrations all worth of decorating the wall to admire.

Art of Natalia Rak

Natalia Rak is one of the most exciting painters and street artists to emerge in Poland’s contemporary art scene. Born in 1986, Natalia received a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Lodz, Poland, specializing in graphic arts. Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe, and she has made waves at some of the continent’s most prestigious street art events, most recently at the 2012 Walk and Talk Festival on Madeira Island in the Portuguese Azores. via (Sweet Station) http://vimeo.com/44730699

Tape Art by Sarah DiNardo

Sarah DiNardo unveils one of her greatest passions - creating art by rolling endless lengths of brown masking tape into different sized rolls which she then places into found boxes. Watch the video interview directed at the Gnarly Bay below via

http://vimeo.com/60188744

P.s. I think it is just a coincidence but Sarah's objects looks like Evegeny Kiselev's cover art for DCMAG#1 and it is cool!

Darkened Cities by Thierry Cohen

Thierry Cohen is seen as one of the pioneers of digital photography. Since 2010 he has devoted himself to a single project – “Villes Eteintes” (Darkened Cities) – which depicts the major cities of the world as they would appear at night without light pollution, or in more poetic terms: how they would look if we could see the stars. (via BD)

To make the work he combines two photographs, one with the retouched night city and second with the sky in a same angle of the cityscape and latitude just where it is possible to see the stars like the Mojave, the Sahara, and the Atacama Desert.