The most talented Russian motion designer and director Max Zhestkov came back (literally) with a HUGE short movie he has been doing for the last 2 years. Stop what are you doing now - watch this epic sci-fi movie "JUPITER II"!
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This beautiful series of animal illustrations by Milan-based designer Andrea Minini began as a design experiment to obtain complex shapes and depth starting with just a few lines.
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Internet is run by cats. No doubts. Chineses designer from Lycs Architecture - Ruan Hao created a special table for their perpetual curiosity. CATable will probably save you from the sentimental ritual to put away the cat from your laptop.
Vlad Mishin is a Russian designer filled with creativity. His latest project called Transformer Apartment is a 60-square-meter flat converted into a modular and functional apartment. This apartment is cut in half by a massive wooden and black metal framework which opens and rotates to show the different zones of the flat.
Paris-based designer and artist Maud Vantours uses layer upon layer of cut paper to create hypnotizing patterns and textures that translate into set designs, fashion accessories, and editorial treatments. Vantours has explored a number of 3D paper treatments including floral patterns, spirals, and geometric designs.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maud-Vantours-Art-Design/506510376078200 https://www.behance.net/maudvantours
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Over 30mln people wants to visit the city we love and live in and only 3-4 of them really able to do this each year. For the last 5 years Saint-Petersburg city eat culture changed dramatically, dozens of indpendent bars, indie/vegan/burgers cafes opened around the city by young entrepreneurs. Lots of youth move from one place to another healing the culture of this once forgotten city. Among them I'd like to mention young illustrator Ekaterina Khozatskaya depicting the evening atmosphere in her notebooks with watercolours and inks. If you happen to live in Russia you may follow her "Between The Bars" community.
Russian sound designer and composer Vasily Filatov cover up the great animation short "The Scarecrow" filmed for Chipotle's Food advertising.
Sound Design by Vasily + Original Soundtrack ("Pure Imagination - Fiona Apple")
Only Sound Design by Vasily Filatov
Original Short:
Heavily influenced by both film and photography, artist Ethan Murrow creates grandiose theatrical narratives manifested as large-scale graphite drawings. via Colossal
Macau-based web designer Varun Thota has a fun, imaginative photo series called ‘#mytoyplane’ that shows a toy plane soaring in the sky.Guided by his hand, the toy plane can be seen weaving through “skyscrapers, city streets and the Macau countryside”.
Chloe Early is an Irish born, London based artist who uses her canvases to explore the contradictions between the romantic and the gritty. Simultaneously dreamlike and unflinching, her oil paintings are a place where opposites meet, they are full of colour and space and play with abstract and collage effects in interesting ways.
The Poool is a dynamic project brought to you by OFFF (Buy tickets now! Spend awesome 15-16-17 of May) that changes every year; offering exclusive elements, interviews and features by the most talented beings out there. The magazine this year will be taken on a personal level, a piece that the Poool Team hope to offer to people as something that they want to keep forever. Packed with interviews with Casey Neistat, Patrick Clair and Oliver Jeffers and features by Studio Blup, Bartholot, Conrad Roset and many more. The magazine’s cover will be designed exclusively by Si Scott and will come with a poster designed by Noelia Lozano.
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Read Computer Arts' Julia Sagar speaks to the organisers of Barcelona's biggest design fiesta as they launch The Poool website.
Four years after initially covering the incredible journey of photographer Kirsty Mitchell’s Wonderland series, we’re here to present to you with another page of what Mitchell is calling Wonderland’s final chapter, in the form of the behind the scenes of "The Stars Of Spring Will Carry You Home."
Behind the Scenes footage of "The Stars Of Spring Will Carry You Home" by kirstymitchellphotography.com, filmed and edited by fxmedia.co.uk
Having featured Niels Shoe Meulman’s calligraphy in 2012 and 2013, it seems like a good time to check up on the artist. This year he is using pearlized acrylic paint which changes colors when viewing at different angles. It is also fascinating to see images of his painting process showing the various brushstroke layers that form his eye-catching work.
"Originally born in Havana, Cuba, photographer Abelardo Morell has embraced the classic technique of camera obscura, a method used photographically through the use of pinhole cameras. Morell finds rooms with windows that offer unique and spectacular views from the Eiffel Tower to the Italian countryside and then blocks out all the light from the windows with the exception of a pinhole which causes the narrow channel of light to project an exact upside down image of the scene outside on the opposite wall. Next, Morell sets up a large format camera facing the projection on the wall and creates a long exposure photograph revealing the juxtaposition of the actual room meshing with the landscape outside the window." via Juxtapoz
The "320° Licht" installation of URBANSCREEN uses the cathedral-like beauty of the Gasometer as the starting point for a fascinating game with shapes and light.Within a radius of 320 degrees graphic patterns grow and change on the 100-metre high inside wall of the Gasometer.
“This experience is based on the vastness of the Gasometer,” sound designer Jonas Wiese told the Creator’s Project. “We tried to work with that expression to make the space bigger and smaller, to deform it and to change its surface over and over while not exaggerating and overwriting the original effect of the room.” He continues, “the age of the screen is coming to an end, digital interfaces will dissolve and merge into the social space [...] we poetically contribute to this through art.”
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Have not seen anything sexier than these gloss paint on paper semi-nudes looking very sultry. That's the work and magic of UK artist Natasha Law (sister of Jude Law). Natasha is represented in by Eleven Fine Art in London
Futuristic comics-like journey of two Tomcat Brothers accompanied with a huge white graffiti cat, a saviour and a friend at the same time. The plot created by Polish digital artist Piotr Jabłoński, you can visit his portfolio on Deviantart, Behance or Facebook and even buy few prints of Tomcats following this link
The clips are actually from a 9-hour production called Tokyo Reverse that was played in its entirety in France as part of new television trend called ‘Slow TV.’ Written and directed by : SÅNDL : Simon Bouisson et Ludovic Zuili
Created by Amsterdam-based director and animator Andre Maat, this quick animated short titled Woodoo relies on impressive sequences of laser-cut wood to create the illusion of a malliable substance. via Colossal
