3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
"Paris & NY, like many large cities, have a lot in common ; transport, infrastructure, national monuments. I wanted to explore not only these comparisons but also the differences, in order to expose the beauty and individuality of each. What you cannot deny is the vibrancy and explosion of character each city has and I thought split-screen with timelapse would be a good way to help convey this." says director Franck Matellini.
http://vimeo.com/108552265
Dom Sebastian is a 19 year old London based designer. I personally liked his glitchy "Holographic Melt Series" "It’s not very often that you find a fashion designer who branches out into other fields within the creative spectrum and conquers them all. Dom Sebastian is a master of graphic design, art and music as well as fashion design. Each artistic practice inspiring his bold and unique designs" - P I T C H Zine
"New York-based photographer Gail Albert Halaban first began peering into people's windows many years ago, and her fascination with the public versus the private in urban life inspired a voyeuristic photo project and then a book, Out My Window, in fall 2012. It caught the eye of Cathy Remy, photo editor for Le Monde's M magazine, who invited Halaban to take her show on the road to Paris a few weeks later. The initial process went the same in Europe as it did in New York, with a few exceptions: Remy and Halaban found participants through Facebook, friends of friends, and word of mouth, and all gave permission in advance, though reactions toward the nature of the shoot were a bit polarizing." Read more on NYmag via Bird.Depositphotos Buy the book on http://www.houkgallery.com/artists/gail-albert-halaban/paris/
http://vimeo.com/105493549
All photos are shot by Gail Albert Halaban, courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery
"Sculptor Ben Young just unveiled a collection of new glass sculptures prior to the Sculpture Objects Functional Art + Design (SOFA) Fair in Chicago next month. Young works with laminated clear float glass atop cast concrete bases to create cross-section views of ocean waves that look somewhat like patterns in topographical charts. The self-taught artist is currently based in Sydney but was raised in Waihi Beach, New Zealand, where the local landscape and surroundings greatly inspired his art. You can learn more about his sculptures over on Kirra Galleries, and follow him on Facebook." via Colossal
Epic murals and street art created with impressionistic paint strokes from Spain based artist Borondo. You can see more of the exciting work below
"This is a tribute film to the amazing Montserrat typeface, recently designed by Julieta Ulanovsky. A tribute, also, to the Montserrat neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, which inspired the font. An finally a tribute to Jorge Luis Borges. The text is an extract from his wonderful poem Break Of Day (Amanecer) from the book Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923)."
Direction, design, animation: Fernando Lazzari http://www.popscience.tv/ Director of Photography: Matías Nicolás Music: Brian Eno / Black Planet Sound Design: Andrea Damiano Plataforma Buenos Aires, Carolina Tobal
http://vimeo.com/79733436
IKEA have taken the famous scene from The Shining where Danny rolls around on his trike and inserted that same ominous fear into their own store. That's kind of an epic homage to Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqsonfSQk2I
Marine Coutroutsios creates compelling paper artworks which catch the eye and mesmerize. Marine moved to Sydney from France in 2012 and brings a European outlook to her interpretations of Australian life. Encounters with exotic flora and fauna have sparked Marine’s imagination. Represented by online gallery of Australian artists Art Pharmacy "Marine works through her ideas in multiple sketches, then carefully cuts out each individual element using a scalpel. This is an intricate process, with each work usually talking many hours to produce.", says The Third Row. Her works can be purchased on The Third Row website.
Here is Marine's Series of Australian Birds
Hyper realistic art on canvas painted by Kyle Barnes. As stated on the website Kyle is inspired by our perception of, and our interaction with each other through visual identity. The combination of expression, eye contact, concealment, colour and texture makes for a varied involvement with each of his works.
Maxim Scherbakov of design studio Plan-S23 (with Alexey Galkin) created the Sputnik-5 coffee table so that small plants or herbs can grow inside it. The structure and the name of the table is inspired by the Soviet satellite that first took living objects into space and returned them safely to Earth. The designer states: “The table acts as a watchman of a plant bursting from the aperture of the marble surface.” The table is actually built up from a series of components, each of the elements can also be used independently as decorative pieces.
Russian photographer Katerina Plotnikova (previously) who is famous for her portraits featuring forest animals and human beauties, released a new genius exclusive series that we called "Bambi".
"My Whale" is a site-specific installation by Tundra for a renovated ship "Brusov", laid up on Moscow river and turned into an art-cluster.
There is an impressive space at the front of the ship, with panoramic windshield and hexagonal pattern on the vaulted ceiling, remained from the 70-s, the time, when “Brusov” was constructed in Austria. Standing there gives you the feeling of floating through the reflections of the Krymsky bridge lights on the river, inside a giant whale head. Looking through its eyes, listening to its songs that flow across the brain made of hexagonal cells by the wires hanging down here and there. With some light and sound we brought this whale to life.
http://vimeo.com/108384374
Visuals by Alexander Letcius, Alexander Sinica and Sergey Lubashin; Sound by Klim Suhanov and Semyon Perevoschikov of D-Pulse; Production by Bulat Sharipov; Shot and edited by Alexander Sinica.
"Quotes on Shit" is a side project of Jessica Walsh (Sagmeister+Walsh) and Timothy Goodman. We know these guys not only by OFFF presentation and awesome projects but also by a social project they did last year "40 Days of Dating"
Check this awesome ad created for SONOS by NYC based motion design studio 1stAveMachine. Check their portfolio online - a lot of awesome motion works!
http://vimeo.com/108810132
Collage artist Eugenia Loli uses photography scanned from vintage magazines and science publications to create bizarre visual narratives that borrow from aspects of pop art, dada, and traditional surrealism. Check her Flickr account for more works
Beef&Liberty is a gourmet burger joint and delicious restaurant based in the heart of revolutionary Hong Kong. Design by Japanese architects at Spinoff spiced with murals created by Cyrcle team, bar is definitely a place to visit. via
Photos: Jonathan Leijonhufvud – www.jlap.com
Last week it was revealed that Oslo-based design agency Snøhetta had jointly won a competition to redesign the Norwegian banknote. The Central Bank of Norway announced on October 7 two winner proposals for the design of the new banknotes. Snøhetta’s design will be the foundation for the backsides of the notes, while The Metric System’s design will be the starting point for the fronts.
"When contrasts come together, as when soft meets hard or digital meets analog, a dynamic is created. Our cubical pattern first of all represents pixels; our times visual language."
Last year the Spanish government decided to raise the tax for theatrical shows from 8% to 21%, resulting in a fall in audience attendance of 30% in one year. In response to this, Teatreneu, a comedy club in Barcelona has partnered with advertising agency The Cyranos McCann and came up with an ingenious new way to get people back through the door.
"Pay per Laugh is a new project that charges audience members according to how much they laugh at a show. Using facial-recognition technology installed in iPads attached to the back of seats, a count is made of how often each person laughs. This data is then sent to a server which creates and monitors the statistics. Audience members are offered free admittance but are charged €0.30 per laugh. However, the price for laughter is capped at €24."
via Protein
http://vimeo.com/97708026
