Polymorphism by David McLeod
New York based art director David McLeod (Instagram) released a personal project exploring Polymorphism in motion
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Kaleidoscopic by Maria Baoli
Maria B’s (Tumblr) newest project ‘Kaleidoscopic’ is a visually captivating series that alters everyday space with unexpected layers of reality.
‘There’s a certain beauty in the gestures that are almost invisible in our daily lives. With the opposition of movement and the calmness of the subject, there’s a feeling of both reality and fiction,’ she explains.
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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
New City Animation concept by NORD Collective
“New City (ニューシティー)” is an experiment, conducted by our friends at Nord Collective.Think of it as an identity constructor for modern Utopia city, where each person is treated as centre of his own universe. His interests and needs are forming the zone of perfect comfort around him. “New city” is the place where any personal universe can happily coexist with lots of other personal universes, colliding only in social collaboration for perfect today and even better tomorrow.
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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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Digitizes Fabrics GEIST.XYZ by Zeitguised
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."
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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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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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Coffee Table By Stelios Mousarris
"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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#2015BestNine People on Instagram
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
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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
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Somebody is having a lot fun on Instagram by chubbing heads of famous people and complete strangers like us
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StPete guys having a lot of fun replacing friends heads with different things on Instagram.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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
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
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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
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London Warehouse by Sadie Snelson Architects
"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
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
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
By a good tradition we share London Fireworks on 1st of January. Enjoy your 2016!