Sydney Dogs & Cats Home Identity

January 11, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Australia, Branding, Graphic Design, Portfolios, 2016

We have not been into good graphic design posts lately and promise to reveal more inspiring projects in 2016. Here is a group of Sydney based designers transform the low communication of local animal shelter by helping "Sydney Dogs & Cats Home" to get a new visual language. A versatile identity system was put in place to work across all manner of communications, with a boldness and clarity of message, whilst making sure playfulness was embedded throughout.

Digitizes Fabrics GEIST.XYZ by Zeitguised

January 10, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Fashion, Germany, Motioncollector, Portfolios, TOP 2016, 2016

Citing The Creators Project: Created by design and animation studio Zeitguised, it features algorithmic design in the style of fashion textiles. "We have a background in sculpture and fashion design, and wanted to make this design project for years. We felt that algorithmic design is underrepresented in fashion still, due to approaches that are either too nerdy or executions that don't work,” says Henrik Mauler of Zeitguised. "We wanted to change that, and bring more design thinking to making patterns with algorithms.” In combining digital art with fashion and textiles, geist.xyz exists in the realm of the hyperrealistic-unreal, and imagines a future in which the very clothes on our backs could be a digital canvas. "We also want to see these patterns being worn, and wear them ourselves—even if self-transforming textiles don't exist yet to the extent that we show,” says Mauler. "We just simply didn't want to wait for it."

http://vimeo.com/150824660

Top 2015 Drawing Artists, Painters and Sculptors

January 10, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin

Let's go deep into the art and select the best projects of pure artists we reviewed on Designcollector last year. From pencils to clay - they are masters of illusion and hyper realism, they create magic from nothing. Welcome the Top 30 Artists of 2015

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10 DRAWING ARTISTS OF 2015

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Top 10 Drawing Artists of 2015. All Together

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10 PAINTERS OF 2015

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Erica Elan Ciganek

USA

Johnny Morant

United Kingdom

Mike Dargas

Germany

James Bullough

USA

Karen Ann Myers

USA

James Rawson

United Kingdom

Alexander Gardner

USA

Mark Heine

Canada

Adele Renault

Netherlands

Joel Rea

Australia

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10 SCULPTORS OF 2015

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Top 10 Sculptors of 2015. All Together

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Stay tuned for the Official Top 2015. Enjoy the previews here

10 Illustrators of 2015

January 09, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin

Welcome to the selection of the best illustrators we’ve seen together on Designcollector this year. It's been a hard choice to made, to select 10 from more than a hundred we reviewed this year.

Top 10 Illustrators of 2015

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Top 10 Illustrators of 2015. All Together

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Stay tuned for the Official Top 2015. Enjoy the previews here

Coffee Table By Stelios Mousarris

January 08, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Cyprus, Design, Portfolios, 2016

"Cyprus-based designer Stelios Mousarris created the ‘Wave Coffee Table‘, a curved table that features the design of a cityscape, which appears to be lifted upside down. Made of wood and steel, the structure of the table was achieved using 3D printing technology. On the idea behind it, the designer says that he was inspired by the movie ‘Inception’"

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Vanessa Mckeown

January 07, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Instagram, Photography, Portfolios, 2016

Enter the imaginary world of Vanessa (Instagram) that sees unordinary things in everyday objects.

http://vimeo.com/77979175

#2015BestNine People on Instagram

January 06, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in 2016, Motioncollector

It's been the fastest year I've ever seen in my life. 2015 brought a lot of creative names you want to know on our Top 2015 Preview lists. Meanwhile enjoy the "youngest" medium on our blog - Instagram People, creative folk that inspired us through the year. We hope to cover more of them in 2016.

Symmetry Breakfast

@symmetrybreakfast

It started by accident: one perfect, symmetrical breakfast for two. Four hundred cappuccinos and a huge Instagram following later, the men (Mark van Beek and Michael Zee) behind Symmetry Breakfast share their favourite photos

Chubbhead

@chubbhead

Somebody is having a lot fun on Instagram by chubbing heads of famous people and complete strangers like us

Instead of the Head

@insteadofthehead

StPete guys having a lot of fun replacing friends heads with different things on Instagram.

Raul Alejandro Cabrera Ruiz

@raulcabrera

Paris-based architect Raul Alejandro Cabrera Ruiz has a killer eye for details and especially the ones from urban landscape. Following the aphorism “God is in the details” once said by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Raul developing his skills on a daily basis using Instagram for documenting his success.

Linda Lomelino “Call Me Cupcake”

@linda_lomelino

Blogger, food photographer, stylist and cookbook author – Linda Lomelino is real fairy of a perfect shot and knows how to make you mouth-watered in a matter of a few seconds.

Stephen Mcmennamy

@smcmennamy

Art Director Stephen McMennamy (Instagram) looks for simple backgrounds, takes two photographs, and then carefully arranges them together. The early #combophoto project shots were taken with an iPhone, but McMennamy recently bought a new camera to improve the quality, and occasionally uses a drone.

Pet bull terier Jimmy Choo

@rafaelmantesso

Rafael Mantesso puts his pet bull terrier, named Jimmy Choo, into all kinds of funny situations by adding some drawings to the picture. Jimmy Choo was named by Rafael’s ex-wife, who was a stylist and loved the brand’s footwear. After their divorce, Mantesso wanted to fill the empty spaces of their house by creating some fictional scenes. And since Jimmy Choo was always around to watch him draw, he thought it was natural to include him into his artworks. He aims to post a new photo of his works on Instagram everyday, he mainly finds inspirations by observing his surroundings.

Parisian Floors by Sebastian Erras

@parisianfloors

Inspired by the intricate patterns of mosaic floors he saw in Marrakech, Sebastian decided to document the stunning views below his feet starting with the cafes and hallways back in Paris.

Rich McCor

@paperboyo

British artist Rich McCor gives new meanings to famous landmarks in different cities by using intricate paper cutouts and posting results on Instagram.

Follow @designcollector on Instagram to explore more creative people every day!

Stay tuned for the Official Top 2015. Enjoy the previews here and Happy New Year!

Space Travel of the Digital Girl

January 05, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, France, Motioncollector, 2016

Directed by Gilles Esteve "Digital Girl" is a Sci-fi commercial made for Louis Vuitton, a shiny homage for Star Wars aesthetics

Tiny Pantone Objects by Inka Mathew

January 05, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Instagram, Photography, Portfolios, USA, 2016

A personal project of tiny proportion—matching small everyday objects to their Pantone® Matching System colors, by designer Inka Mathew (Instagram). All pictures were taken with her iPhone 5 and edited with Snapseed. She also released a book "Tiny Pantone Objects" last year available on Amazon

"According to Mathew, the process is fairly straightforward. After she finds an object she wants to match, she goes through her Pantone chips book (an indispensable tool for graphic designers and color enthusiasts) to find the right swatch. Using natural daylight, she places the object on top of the swatch to make sure the hues match, and then snaps a photo with her phone. She finds matches 95 percent of the time, making for a total of about 145 vibrant compositions since she started the project over a year ago." via

Motion Graphics 2015 Mashup

January 05, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in 2016, Motioncollector

This is a 5th year (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) we ask our friends at NORD Collective to orchestrate an amazing mashup of the best motion graphic works we have seen in the past year. Go deep into the divine world of motion design with Designcollector's Top Motion Graphics 2015

Playlist:

0:00 - River Island x Jean-Pierre Braganza by Dvein x White Lodge 0:21 - Mario Hugo - Alabama Shakes ‘Don’t Wanna Fight’ by Hugo & Marie 0:56 - COSMOS - A Spacetime Odyssey - Uruk Brought to Life by Stephane Coedel 1:31 - WXD WIRED by Raoul Marks – MARXº 1:47 - Paris - New York by Nord Collective 2:32 - Lido Sim by Animade 3:12 - La vita nova by The Workroom 3:53 - The Safegate Effect by UPPER FIRST 4:30 - J’ai fait la Fnac - Nekfeu Eddy 4:51 - Black Atlass - Jewels by Yoann Lemoine (from Top 2014 but released on Vimeo in 2015) 5:34 - Title Sequence - Oscars - 2015 by Henry Hobson 6:02 - Back & Forth by PORTHÉ 6:25 - Man Seeking Woman Main Titles by DK Studios, DIGITAL KITCHEN (Eliot Lim) 6:37 - The Walk by Art&Graft 7:14 - Sputnik by Max Zhestkov 7:52 - FITC Type Animatic by Nicolas Girard

P.s If that is not enough please check our Top Lists in: Music Videos, Animations, Best Videos and Motion Graphics that we selected carefully from the best blog posts of the year 2015

London Warehouse by Sadie Snelson Architects

January 04, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Agencies, Interior Design, United Kingdom, 2016

"The architects of Sadie Snelson Architects transformed an old warehouse in East London into an impressive living and working concept for photographers. The team removed nearly all original walls in order to create an open living space. Great importance was given to preserve individual elements to keep an industrial look."

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Sherlock Christmas Special 2015 VFX by Milk

January 03, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Agencies, Motioncollector, United Kingdom, 2016

Sherlock Christmas Special that aired on BBC this weekend and gave a huge tidal of response and reviews. London-based Milk VFX created all of the VFX for the hotly anticipated 90 minute Sherlock special episode “The Abominable Bride” for Hartswood/BBC.

Watch VFX job done by Milk on Vimeo now

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Pokras Lampas makes Caligraffiti on the Frozen Baltic Sea

January 02, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Lettering, Motioncollector, Russia, Street Art, 2016, Art

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Pokras Lampas

What do you know about crazy Russians?! The last project of Pokras Lampas in 2015 year was Calligraffiti on the frozen Baltic sea, 2 km far away from the snowy beach. Unstoppable young artist from Russia did it on ice

London Fireworks 2016

January 01, 2016 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, United Kingdom, 2016

By a good tradition we share London Fireworks on 1st of January. Enjoy your 2016!