LEVSHA - Designer's Diary
LEVSHA is the diary that helps to organise plans, structure the working schedule, make notes of your ideas, thoughts and wishes. The project delivered by Pavel Makhnatch & Lesha Limonov from Minsk, Belorussia. The name "Levsha" taken from favourite Russian tale of the Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea. The word literally means a person who can manage any tricky situation.
Beth Cavener Sculptures
The sculptures of Beth Cavener focus on human psychology, stripped of context and rationalisation, and articulated through animal and human forms. Cavener wants to pry at those uncomfortable, awkward edges between animal and human. Entangled in their own internal and external struggles, the figures express frustration for the human tendency towards cruelty and lack of understanding
Video directed by Bas Berkhout
Visualisations by Diego Querol
Check this stunning sunny studio digital visualisation done by Diego Querol. Follow this link to find out the process behind this work
Sleepless by Susi Sie
Talented motion artist Susi Sie (previously) released a new work filmed using liquids and a 100mm macro lens
OFFF Russia 2015 Got New Motion Identity
The second Russian instalment (OFFFRUSSIA) of the most famous design festival OFFF (on Tour) rooted in Moscow this time with speakers like IDEO, Joshua Davis, AKQA and more. Designcollector (Arseny Vesnin) is proud to take a humble direction of it's concept and together with Nord Collective (Vladimir Tomin and Alex Frukta) delivered a first video based on a glitch tracking concept you will enjoy shortly. Music composed by Arseniy Sysoletin
Paintings by Yang Cao
Citing iGNANT: Toronto-based artist Yang Cao paints faceless figures to portray a spectrum of emotions and sensations. A graduate in fine art from the Ontario College of Art and Design, Cao typically creates fantastical paintings of nude bodies with cloud-like heads in dull colours.In an interview about his work, Cao says: "I like the unpredictability of the cloud. It’s shapeless and changes all the time, it follows the wind and never stays in one form and place. Somehow I find this as a resemblance to our human nature and mind."
Hell's Club Mashup from Hollywood Movies
Watch dozens of famous film characters edited into one Action-Packed Club Scene
Photographer Brice Bischoff
American artist, Brice Bischoff, experiments with large sheets of coloured paper to create various rainbow figures and effects.
Illustrator Rune Fisker
Hailing from Copenhagen, Rune Fisker shows his talented lively and dynamic drawings and illustrations on website and Instagram
Showreel 2015 by Andrey Nikolaev
We have been following Andrey since the beginning of his director's career, admiring his style coming bold and awesome year by year. Here he stays now, epic young director squeezing the best of his pieces into one reel. You can't miss it
Post Modernism Posters by Anna Kulachek
Russian graphic artist Anna Kulachek (previously) has a faith in good typography and practices in creating swiss-clean posters for different creative events around Moscow. Below you can find her latest works
See photos of Anna with her posters by Sergey Serov below
And here is a graphic designer asking for her signings
The Broad museum LA
This first set of official images shows Diller Scofidio + Renfro's The Broad art museum in Los Angeles ahead of its opening later this month. Via Dezeen
Photographs by Benny Chan, Iwan Baan and Hufton+Crow
Pantone Smoothies
Art Director Hedvig Astrom Kushner with photographer Michael Kushner creates deliciously healthy smoothie recipes based on Pantone colour swatches. Check them on pantonesmoothies.com
SmartHalo - Turn your bike into a smart bike
SmartHalo is a smart biking device designed for urban cyclists. Its military-grade locking system ensures it stays permanently on your handlebar to assist you when you need it. The intuitive navigation system shows you the quickest, safest routes to your destination. Automatic tracking capabilities save your biking metrics seamlessly. The powerful front light illuminates your path at night. And when you’re not around, SmartHalo keeps your bike safe from thieves. This is the smart biking system you’ve been waiting for. You can support the project on Kickstarter now
Champagne Mailing by Martin Sulzbach
Talented graphic designer Martin Sulzbach (previously) just dropped a new case combining Direct Mail solution with all-in-one-problem solution - a bottle of Champagne. Trop bien!
Ceramic Sculptures by Haejin Lee
"Ceramicist Haejin Lee (Instagram) creates sculptures that seem to unravel before your eyes, ceramic forms that open and splay outwards to make vessels unusable and faces far more interesting. Utilizing minimal color Lee instead focuses on her shapeshifting creations, often incorporating human elements like eyes and mouths that sprout from the banded chaos."
via Colossal
Ikenaga Yasunari Japanese Women Illustrations
Ikenaga Yasunari paints tranquil portraits of women immersed in elegant floral patterns. His work is a curious blend of traditional Japanese-style paintings (nihonga) and modern imagery.
Read more on Juxtapoz
Black & White Drawings by Paul Jackson
Paul Jackson is a British artist based in Toronto. His black and white art is incredibly detailed, and some pieces are even verging towards being hyper-realistic.
Words Can Save Me: Kate Story by VGNC
The feature short is a part of wordscansave.me project. The interactive portal which highlights the signs and problems associated with cyber bullying. "Kate Story" directed by VGNC (previously)