Urban Symmetry by Zsolt Hlinka

"A series of symmetrical buildings on the banks of the River Danube by Budapest-based photographer Zsolt Hlinka. The images emphasize the uniform proportions of each structure by removing their surroundings and placing them in homogeneous, monochromatic backgrounds."via

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The dreamy landscapes of Charlie Davoli

"The dreamy landscapes of Charlie Davoli resemble snapshots from a parallel universe. Yet they all come from the hands of the artist, who literally creates unreal worlds by shooting pictures with his iPhone"

Visual paradoxes, perfect symmetry, and optical illusion play an important role for the photo artist. Davoli says, "My inspiration comes from a combination of the supernatural images from the Italian artist De Chirico, my love for geometry of Bauhaus, and the pop culture of Warhol and Lichtenstein... And all with a touch of retro sci-fi. "

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Best Interactive Art Installations of 2015

The year 2015 was on the cutting edge of the art and technology and the next year is definitely going to be following this path. A lot of art installations of 2015 we dedicated to the view, the user and the only beholder of the criticism. There is no better critic than a feedback from an audience. Below we posted the best of interactive project shown to public in various locations during the year

Neon Golden’s SWARM

“Over 2,000 delicate LEDs fill the Olympus Photography Playground in artist collective Neon Golden’s SWARM, the lights’ soft, electric emissions buzzing through the 850-cubed-foot space in Vienna. Engineered with a combination of Arduino, Cinema 4D, Raspberry Pi, and Processing, the audiovisual installation reacts to movement, placing its visitors inside a colorful, carefully coded 3D environment.” http://vimeo.com/119266974

The Deepest of Space by Joshua Davis

Leading digital artist Joshua Davis, the veteran of the OFFF festival was back to Barcelona's 15th year of the festival with the epic new work “The Deepest of Space“. http://vimeo.com/124447271

NONOTAK – DayDream

NONOTAK studio is the collaboration between the illustrator Noemi Schipfer and the architect musician Takami Nakamoto. They work on light and sound installations, creating an ethereal, immersive and dreamlike environment meant to envelope the viewer, capitalizing on Takami Nakamoto’s approach of space & sound, and Noemi Schipfer’s experience in kinetic visual. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wJtVwvMxjE

In 20 Steps by Drift

In 20 Steps by Drift, an installation about the movement of flight presented as a part of group installation “Glasstress 2015 Gotika” in Venice Biennale 2015 as part of an exhibition by the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg Exhibition http://vimeo.com/128608936

Golem x MBA

The Lyon Museum of Fine Arts asked artist Arnaud Pottier to bring sculptures, including Laurent Honore Marqueste’s Perseus Slaying Medusa, James Pradier’s Odalisque, and Barrias’ Les Premières Funérailles, to life. His method was pretty simple: He used projection mapping, which can turn anything—including statues—into a display. http://vimeo.com/131201461

Antrum Installation by Matrioshka

Antrum Spatio-Graphical Interactive Installation looks like a grotto of the membrane, the surface of which is inhabited by strange creatures. It’s complex structure causes association with living creatures, space objects and architectural constructions. In this frontier word pure mathematical abstractions are mixed with natural shapes, resulting in formation of new entities. Viewers can push the membrane and try to contact with them. Project realised by Russians: Tatiana Plakhova (more) and mathrioshka.ru of Eduard Haiman & Vadim Smakhtin http://vimeo.com/130972302 http://vimeo.com/130454184

TUNDRA x SILASVETA – EPICENTER

One of the best electronic light and projection mapping studios in the world (yes, literally), Russians – TUNDRA and SilaSveta collaborated together to produce an EPICENTER immersive installation to celebrate 7th Anniversary of ARMA17 in Moscow “Each group created an installation that places the viewer in the “epicenter of borderless creativity.” Tundra’s piece, Halo, creates eerie scenes such as a lightning storm and a fire, playing with space and criss-crossing beams of light. A figure weaves in and out of the beams, getting closer and closer but ultimately disappearing into the darkness. The soundtrack consists of choral music overlaid with what sounds like either rain or a scorching forest.” says The Creators Project http://vimeo.com/143827409

Infinity Room by Refik Anadol

“Los Angeles based Turkish artist Refik Anadol wants us to slow down and make technology into something we consciously see and feel..His most recent installation, titled the “Infinity Room” at Zorlu Performing Art Center in Turkey, is a trippy, black and white installation that uses audio and visual stimulation to alter one’s sense of the room. For this, he installed a cinema screen, onto which 3D kinetic animation based on algorithms was projected. It is part of his ongoing project titled, “Temporary Immersive Environment Experiments,” which takes the idea of immersion. Immersion into virtual reality is a perception of being physically present in a non-physical world.” via Hi-Fructose http://vimeo.com/141749628

“Dear World… Yours, Cambridge” by Miguel Chevalier

Cambridge’s King’s College Chapel unites the old and the new, the spiritual and scientific – literally so with the “Dear World… Yours, Cambridge” projection. This project by Miguel Chevalier set up in “immersive projection” in the chapel that showed images relating to the many fields of the University of Cambridge, from literature to astrophysics. http://vimeo.com/143870160

Virtual Depictions: San Francisco by Refik Anadol

“Virtual Depictions:San Francisco” is a public art project by media artist Refik Anadol consist of series of parametric data sculptures that tell the story of the city and people around us within a unique artistic approach for 350 Mission’s media wall in collaboration with Kilroy Realty Corporation / John Kilroy and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Architects. http://vimeo.com/147304811

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

Sydney Dogs & Cats Home Identity

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.

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Top 2015 Drawing Artists, Painters and Sculptors

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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Top 10 Drawing Artists of 2015. All Together

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Erica Elan Ciganek

USA

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Johnny Morant

United Kingdom

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Mike Dargas

Germany

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James Bullough

USA

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Karen Ann Myers

USA

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James Rawson

United Kingdom

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Alexander Gardner

USA

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Mark Heine

Canada

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Adele Renault

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Joel Rea

Australia

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Top 10 Sculptors of 2015. All Together

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10 Illustrators of 2015

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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Tiny Pantone Objects by Inka Mathew

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

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Motion Graphics 2015 Mashup

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

Top 2015 Product Designs

Welcome to the selection of the best product design projects we’ve seen together on Designcollector this year

 

Bookniture

Hong Kong, China

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BOOKNITURE is an extremely compact furniture. You can store it or carry it around just like a book. In just a flip, it unfolds from a book to a piece of multifunctional furniture. http://vimeo.com/122714502

Volvo Lifepaint

United Kingdom

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“As urban streets are increasingly shared between drivers and cyclists, road safety is more of an issue than ever before. In the UK, more than 19,000 cyclists are involved in accidents every year. Many of these collisions take place in London, where the city’s often old, narrow streets make it difficult to accommodate both four-wheeled and two-wheeled drivers. Swedish car manufacturer Volvo is now addressing the problem with the introduction of its new product Life Paint, which just launched in London.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfWzeGlaFvI

Halfbike

Spain

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Like an upstanding desk is a new way to express your vitality this Halfbike can be a solution for this life concept. Halfbike II designed by Kolelinio was available for pre-order on Kickstarter http://vimeo.com/124188874

 

 

Milk Bottle Lamp by Constantin Bolimond

Russia

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Emerging Russian industrial design talent Constantin Bolimond came up with a lamp design resembling a milk bottle. As a form follows famous Soviet milk bottle with a foil cap, it is recognisable abroad due to the fact almost everything in “soviet design” was adopted from outside.

 

 

Generative Fashion by Danit Peleg

Israel

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Danit Peleg: “In September 2014 I started working on my graduate collection for my Fashion Design degree at Shenkar. This year, I decided to work with 3D printing, which I barely knew anything about. I wanted to check if it’d be possible to create an entire garment using technology accessible to anyone. So I embarked on my 3D printing journey, without really knowing what the end result would be.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s94mIhCyt4

 

 

Rhei, the liquid clocks

United States

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Rhei is a prototype of an electro-mechanical clock with a liquid display, and the result of a one-year long passion project, created by Damjan Stanković, executed in collaboration with Marko Pavlović and many other wonderful people http://vimeo.com/140469553

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Architect and designer Aldana Ferrer Garcia, has created More Sky, a variety of window concepts that allow people living in apartments to experience more sunlight in a unique way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BsDKGCOB7g

ARXI by Konstantin Kofta

Ukraine

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“Known for his daring and unconventional leather-accessory design, Ukrainian fashion designer Konstantin Kofta has just released his latest collection of leather bags and clutches.. Bearing the title “ARXI”, Kofta’s SS16 collection takes the designer’s approach a step further, by incorporating and inspired by forms and imagery found in Baroque architecture.”

 

 

Ohhio. Super chunky knits by Anna Marinenko

Ukraine

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Merely a year ago Anna, a Kiev-based handcrafting artist, was captivated by an unusual material that sparked an idea to knit a blanket with a supersized ties using hands instead of spokes. That’s how a Kikstarter’s success – Ohhio project started. By this time her project is baked 10 times more than she estimated leaving her a lot of evenings to create and dispatch the orders made by earlier supporters. With no doubts Anna shows us the way how a small idea become a great path in a life.

 

 

Naturalist

Russia

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“Naturalist” is a product design project initiated by IZBA Team – the Russian collective of talented designers, currently 15 in a row. The project was set up by curator Tatiana Kudryavtseva and product designer Yaroslav Misonzhnikov, who set a brief for products that could re-introduce nature to urban apartments. The collection of 18 products ranged from hanging and wall-mounted planters, to furniture made using natural materials such as bark and marble.

 

 

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