Berlin based American artist James Bullough (Facebook) specializing in realistic murals and studio paintings. He is also the host/co-founder of VantagePoint Radio. He is also a part of JBAK Street Art duo running together with Addison Karl. We did a coverage of their murals this month
Transforming Céline campaign girl Daria Werbowy into a primordial goddess rising from and returning to the earth, the CGI-powered film directed by Analog Studio explores ideas of nature, birth and death.
"Conceived in collaboration with Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones for Creative Review’s Annual Creative Awards. The capture side of the project was a one day shoot in Holborn studios London with FBFX Digital scanning, Frank Benhamou styling, Rebecca Louise Law creating floral installations, Raphael Salley on hair direction, and Ninni Nummela on makeup. An original music composition by Salvador Breed and Stijn Van Beek took a couple of weeks, as did the editing by Steve Ackroyd at Final Cut London."
http://vimeo.com/125678796
First spotted at Designcollector VOX, the works of Ambroise Tezenas captivated us with his beautiful attention to the light and other magics. Based in Paris, he worked as a photo-journalist for both french and international magazines, spending much of his time traveling in South East Asia, Central and South America.
Here is his recent series of uninhabited Paris
With this work, Catalonian artist Cinta Vidal Agulló (1982, Barcelona) wants to show that we live in one world, but we live in it in very different ways, playing with everyday objects and spaces, placed in impossible ways to express that many times, the inner dimension of each one of us does not match the mental structures of those around us.Check her exhibition at Miscelanea, Barcelna this week
"I do not remember the last time I left home without a notebook to draw what I see, notebooks where I try to reflect the complexity of human relationships from different perspectives. I never wanted to commit to a single style, even if that's the common thing to do: each new project, painting, illustration, client, idea... is thoroughly analysed and after that process, what should be told and how it should be told will arise."
"Topography, architecture and traffic routes give every city a unique structure. These conditions create the typical and individual inner structure of a city.I didn't only want to show these structures in the conventional way from above but also including the exact three-dimensionality of topography and buildings - a real world visualisation. Google's OpenStreetMap data enabled me to visualize the satellite-based information using DEM Earth in Cinema 4D. The results are some extraordinary views of large capitals and small towns." View City Layouts project on Behance by Luis Dilger
Satire is the theme — on sex, religion, politics and mass media in the blog of a 34-year-old graphic designer from San Marino.
Read MoreAnonymous is ongoing series of digital artwork released by Tbilisi-based artist and Designcollector resident Giga Kobidze
Earlier this month, workers with the French street artist JR (previously) covered a plaza in Manhattan's Flatiron district with a giant, wheat-pasted photograph of a guy walking. It was 20-year-old immigrant and Brooklynite Elmar Aliyev in mid-stride. The image was only up for a day, and almost no one noticed. But it would go on to create one of the most inventive New York Times magazine covers of recent memory.
The cover is a commentary on the invisibility of immigrants, a theme JR has previously explored. "For this project, we decided we’d photograph recent immigrants and paste their images on the city’s streets, where they and other immigrants are often invisible," the NYTimes writes. The French artist photographed several different immigrants before landing on Aliyev, who came to New York from Azerbaijan last August after winning the green card lottery.
via FastCo
We are getting close to the open contest of Designcollector Digital Decade + OFFF15 (will announce soon), that will explore Glitch in its beauty this May. Meanwhile dig the exploding, virtual topographies of Jhovany Quiroz. Starting with a single image, he deconstructs 3D terrain using commonplace imaging apps. From the iPhone Camera and Photo Editor, to Mextures (for layers, light leaks, and emulsion effects) and Glitché (for three-dimensional imaging), his digital arsenal yields artworks that resemble what we imagine it would look like if a stick of dynamite was sucked into a black hole.
Last year Playing Arts One project released a deck of poker playing cards showcasing the illustrations of 55 top illustrators and designers. This year brings a new edition, even more eclectic and powerful, with 55 artists from all over the world involved. Since the beginning of April, one card design appears daily at playingarts.com/two following by process insights and short interviews with the artists.
AmaZing Venues has renovated this 19th-century sea fort into a one-of-a-kind luxury hotel, located in the Solent straight of southern England. No Man’s Land Fort was built between 1867 and 1880 in means of defense from a suspected French invasion. The fort is roughly two hours from London and can now be accessed by boat or helicopter.
When life gives you a chocolate double it up. Here is a Titses Milk Chocolate project created by Constantine Bolimond with the help of Maxim Ali
It's all starts like Colonisation PC Game and dramatically ends at the 47 second on the 102nd floor of the NYC World Trade Center with a Twin Towers appearing and ghostly disappearing in 4 second. Experience the augmented reality elevator that recreates the development of New York City's skyline, from the 1500s to today.
Video and photo, lifestyle, extreme, travels, dreams, enjoy” This is the description at Alexander Tikhomirov´s tumblr site. Just perfect. We love the same. And fall deeply in love with his newest video for onetwotrip where it´s all about unforgettable moments starring Alexis Ren. Hawaiian Dreamers in California. Beautiful sunsets, beautiful girls and the perfect track by Nora En Pure “Come With Me”. Says C-Heads
http://vimeo.com/123733014
Lee Griggs is a Madrid-based CG artist and technical author creating awesome digital artworks using "Arnold for Maya". Check his latest works on Behance profile
Feelers is a stunning type and motion project by Ari Weinkle (Instagram) “typographic experiment based on the movement of animal appendages”
http://vimeo.com/121086845
Young and an aspiring fashion photographer from Florida has a beautiful soft light on her self-portraits we posted below. For her professional portfolio check www.captureyourheartphotography.com, and for ginger happy-go-lucky girls with freckles just follow her Instagram
Stephanie from Houston misses her astronaut father working at the International Space Station. Watch how her special message, written by 11 Hyundai Genesis, was delivered to her father in space. This message was officially acknowledged as “The largest tire track image” by the Guinness World Records.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=224&v=3EOAXrTrsOE
Making of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXPte3YlVFs
In 2012 Penguin Books published Vahram Muratyan’s book called "Paris versus New York”. Being a huge fans of Vahram’s work, NORD Collective decided to create an animated version of the book. They took initial idea and recreated the illustrations in their own manner, trying to keep all author's rights clear. Watch it below!Music by The Cosmic Setter
http://vimeo.com/125167921
Kiev-based artists Victoria and Vitalina Lopukhiny (previously) did a lovely lettering on some leading IT office in the capital of Ukraine.
