The Top Russian Projects of 2013

It time to show you the best Russian projects we posted on blog this year. Most of them gained a lot of attention and were warm welcomed by the world based audience so we decide to focus even more on Russians in 2014.Enjoy the selection of best 20 various projects from the year 2013 below!

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Architectural Photography by Pavel Bendov

Pavel Bendov is a New York based photographer who grew up in Belarus and moved to United States in 2010. he is specialized in architecture, landscape, still life and product photography. He is also the founder of New York Explorer instagram blog. Urban Lines Project is his latest photo project about our modern architecture, the lines and shapes of our big cities. via pavel-bendov-9

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Paintings by Alec Huxley

Paintings of figures dressed in business attire wearing space helmets that alludes to some sort of narrative, while also combining the architecture of San Francisco with fantasy and film noir. That is Alec Huxley

It all began when I bought a Soviet space helmet on eBay. I was playing around with a bunch of space-themed work for my first show at D-Structure and painted two pieces in that style. Something in the cinematic and graphic look just clicked with me, so I started to explore it more.

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Surreal Munich by Victor Enrich

"As part of his latest project NHDK, photographer Víctor Enrich challenged himself to digitally reconfigure the same building in Munich, Germany in 88 different configurations. The Barcelona-based artist is known for his warped and skewed interpretations of architecture in locations around the world including an extensive series of images shot in Tel Aviv." via Colossal. http://vimeo.com/81182837

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The Grand Kind Haiyan Print Auction

Grand Kind Haiyan Print Auction is a charity auction organised by Grand Neue that aims to raise funds for the Disaster Emergency Committee in support of their current relief efforts in the Philippines. This charity print auction has secured close to 100 great art prints donated by leading contemporary illustrators and designers including Mr Bingo, Patternity, Hvass&Hannibal, the Peepshow Collective and Nous Vous.All auctions will be ending over the course of this week from Tuesday (10 Dec) to Saturday (14 Dec).

GrandKindHaiyan - Mr Bingo

GrandKindHaiyan -  Hisham Akira Bharoocha

GrandKindHaiyan - Jean Julien

GrandKindHaiyan - Patternity

Pasta Architecture

The Gourmand food and culture journal commissioned London-based designer Gemma Tickle and photographer Aaron Tilley to create five different settings made of five different types of pasta, paying homage to Italian architecture. The final result is a photo series which depicts the brittle beauty of structural and decorative architectural elements.

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Laura Eddy

These extraordinary drawings are by Australian artist Laura Eddy, who renders celebrities and models like Dita Von Teese and Cara Delevingne in painstaking pencil work. Her imagery is full of skeletons, ice cream cones and confetti which adds a playful, feminine side to her art. One marvels at the time spent creating these wonders. via

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Hyper-realistic iPad painting

When I was 5 years old I clearly remember a guy that was looking for us kids in a kidergarten. He owned an Edge-a-Sketch (actually its Soviet version called "Magic Screen") tool and did portraits while we had a siesta. That was impressive and realistic sketch portraits of his girlfriend (our nurse obviously) and I was wondering why he can do that and someone else cannot. That's how I got close to the definition "talent".I truly believe that no tools are the magic wand in the hand of creator but his talent and skills are. For trained oil painter and illustrator from UK Kyle Lambert an iPad is a tool and please have look what he did using only fingers and application Procreate. A hyper-realistic portrait of actor Morgan Freeman. Even after watching the video several times, you probably still won't believe that he created something so realistic using the same device your niece uses to play Angry Birds, so check out some bonus videos below for further proof.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEdRLlqdgA4

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Original photo of Morgan Freeman is made by Scott Gries

P.s. For those who cares, it believes that the video is not a fake, read the statement from Procreate CEO "There's been some controversy over the veracity of the Kyle Lambert painting video we shared earlier this week, and our CEO James has addressed these comments. Following the controversy we analysed the source file extensively, and determined that it is genuine. That this is hard to believe is testament to Kyle Lambert's exceptional work. Read the full statement here: http://procreate.si/press2/download.php?file=releases%2FKyleLambert-MorganFreeman.pdf "

Drawings by Alex Konahin

Latvia-based artist Alex Konahin creates extraordinarily ornate, detailed and beautiful drawings like these using just pencils, pens and india ink. We did a review on his works year ago covering his art done not only by classic materials but even personal blood. For now please check his latest painstakingly intricate series of floral insects and other creatures.

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Synchrodogs

Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven are two emerging photographers who have been experimenting with high quality cameras since their perhaps not-so-innocent youth. From frozen lakes to empty theatre stages across Eastern Europe, the duo have snapped haunting images of the surroundings available to them, often emanating a dark or eerie mood. http://www.synchrodogs.com/

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Multiculturalism by BHSAD Students

After enormous success of "Russian Art get Simpsonised" students from Moscow high school of Art and Design BSHAD strikes again. I am really jealous they have a tutor like Dmitry Karpov, this time he "beats" out lumps of creative out of their heads. The brief was short - migrate Russian (Soviet) Cartoons personages to Foreign Animation Families like Adventure Time, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park and SpongeBob SquarePants. The idea of a study to explore new boundaries of multiculturalism and reveal tolerance and patience. To get more fun you must be Russian and grown up on Soviet animation, otherwise enjoy the project itself. You might find few works responding to the hot political topic around Ukraine's issues, but take it with a smile rather than seriously.

Adventure Time in Ukraine by Svetlana Shokhanova and Evegeny Oleynikov

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Oookraine by Pavel Efremov

Victim of intolerance by Anton Chalov

The Mystery of the Land of Ooo by Elena Khoroshiltseva

Fraternal Kiss by Boris Belov

Stupid or smartie - Relax! Let's go party! - by Natasha Daneshvar and Alexander Romanov

Ukraine is the Europe

By Katya Kovalenko

Cartman Adventure by Vladislav Poliakov

Cartman and Foxie: The Tolerance Day by Vladislav Poliakov

By Konstantin Novikov

Author names and links TBD

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Ooli Mos

Saint Petersburg based illustrator and graphic designer Ooli Mos has an awesome set of works in her portfolio. Everything from infographics to black and white illustration, from signage to tattoos is an object to collect and save for further inspiration. Ooli is a part of creative duo working under the name Orka Collective creating commercial work for editorials and independent stores.

Collaboration splash. Motion design by Alex Frolov http://vimeo.com/80416903

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