Hyper realistic dolls by Michael Zajkov
South Russian artist Michael Zajkov creates jaw dropping hyper realistic dolls, where your perception breaks apart while see him hold their heads in his hands. "Zajkov graduated from Kuban State University of Russia in 2009. From 2010 to 2013 he worked at a puppet theater while also attending a graduate school. He was propelled to fame after the 2013 “Art Dolls” expo in Moscow. Zajkov’s creations have multiple joints. He uses polymer clay for the dolls, hand painted glass eyes from Germany, and French mohair for hair." says BP
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Miguel Vallinas
Talented Spanish photographer Miguel Vallinas dedicates his time mostly for urban and natural landscape photography but hence widely known for his personal projects. Last year his "Segundas Pieles" or "Second Skin" went widely across creative blogs. Recently he continued his anthropomorphic series of animals dressed as human. His other series "Raiz" (Roots) went a bit crazy by replacing human heads with flowers, what also lead to numerous hidden meanings.
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A Million Changing Views by SENSUCHT
Berlin-based award-winning glasses company MYKITA took their boundary-breaking ethos to a whole new level with their parametrically-designed MY VERY OWN collection.
A collaboration with Swedish 3D-body-modeling company Volumental, the MVO label’s custom frames are made using 3D scans and algorithms that calculate a design that adapts perfectly to your face. To match this new level of bespoke-magic eyewear, Sensucht worked alongside director Stephan Wever to create a piece of visual “Slow Food“—the distilled essence in images of sensual, custom-made quality.
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C_29 / Optimist by 314 Architecture Studio
"Athens-based 314 Architecture Studio designed an eyewear store featuring a courtyard framed by a floating cube nestled between two exposed brick walls. Located in Chalkida on the Greek island of Euboea, the store is named C_29 / Optimist, and was designed with a gallery space in mind. Inside, white stone and concrete create a serene atmosphere, complemented by glass tables mirrors that aid the flow between exterior and interior." via iGNANT
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Top 2015 Graphic Designers and Projects
This is our last Top 2015 teasing post before the release of the full top. Here is our top of Graphic Designers doing their best as a pro or beginners, from award-winning projects to students studies we selected only 10 best.
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Art of Benjamín García
Multi-layered distorted portraits on canvas of Benjamín García (Instagram) creates an instant sense of dimmed conversion between the artist and the viewer. His work is the result of a meditative process using paint, and images to construct some sort of intuitive symbolic artworks.
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Hyper Real Space Art by Damian Loeb
It's hard to believe but this space artworks are made of oil on canvas by talented hyper-realism artist Damian Loeb (previously)
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Branded Dreams
"Nowadays young children know more brands and logo’s than bird or tree species. Advertisements are so present in our environment, it seems our dreams are the last safe and add-free place. But what happens when advertisers gain the technology to enter our dreams? This animated short by our friends of Studio Smack introduces us in a dream infected by a brand we all know…" via
Left March
Russian fashion photographers Andrey Yakovlev and Lili Aleeva took over paintings, shred them through Russian constructivism principles and recreated them in portraits as an editorial photo session. The results can be seen on Behance
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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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