Tales of Colour

““Made in Italy,” is a label that deserves to be noticed as it consistently stands for impeccable craftsmanship, extreme inventiveness, and subtle yet noticeable sophistication. All three of these titles can easily be bestowed both upon Santoni shoes, the purveyor of fine, hand-made Italian artisanship and the compelling work of storytelling photographer, Simone Bramante, aka @brahmino. No surprise then that the two have joined collaborative forces for Tales of Colours, the new campaign highlighting the mastery, art, and narrative represented within the stitches and fine leather of each handmade Santoni shoe. ”

— Yatzer

www.instagram.com/brahmino/

www.yatzer.com/tales-of-colours-santoni-shoes-simone-bramante

Josef Hoflehner Photography

"Each of Hoflehner’s photographs achieves a perfection of composition that seems to defy the possibility that it could ever be seen any other way. Gripping in their ultimate solitude and the unexpected natural beauty they capture, Hoflehner's photographs take his earthly subject matter to raise it to an almost mythical level, defining the essence of the place. In these rare and elusive moments, the natural and the man made are brought together in a poetic interplay of light and shadow, emptiness and structure"

www.josefhoflehner.com

La Fábrica

The Cement Factory from the first period of the industrialisation of Barcelona, “The Factory”, keeps on living as a creative space inspired by Surrealism, Astraction and Brutalism. With its Cathedral, Garden and Silos, new and old generations work together surrounded by windows, doors, stairs, false perspectives, in a continuous unfinished work.

“We found enormous silos, a tall smoke snack, four kilometers of underground tunnels, machine rooms in good shape… This was fifteen year ago and it was our first encounter with the Cement Factory. Seduced by the contradictions and the ambiguity of the place, we decided quickly to retain the factory and, modifying its original brutality, sculpt it like a work of art.”

— Ricardo Bofill

www.ricardobofill.com

Art of Liu Yuanshou

Liu Yuanshou is a contemporary Chinese painter. He was born in Beijing in 1967. He earned a degree in oil painting from the Capital Normal University of Beijing in 1991, and has exhibited in and won awards in many prestigious exhibitions throughout Asia, including China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan.

Art of Chris Guest

Chris Guest’s work focuses mainly on painting heavily tattooed people, with a ‘Pin-Up’ feel. Utilizing classical oil painting techniques, learnt at London Fine Arts in Battersea, Chris creates paintings in a classic figurative tradition, coupled with a contemporary twist

IKEA x HAY — Ypperlig Collection

A trio of Danish creative agencies – Morten Kühl Christensen from Kühl & Solvstrom with Nikextension and Barkas – have unveiled the first in a new series of ad teasers in support of Ikea and Hay’s 2017 collaborative collection.

www.mortenkuhl.com
www.kuhlsolvstrom.com
www.nikextension.com
www.thebarkas.com

Sea Of Hull by Spencer Tunick

The streets of Hull (England) were transformed into an ocean of painted human flesh as 3,200 volunteers braved the North Sea chill to create an incredible spectacle. Called the Sea Of Hull, it was the biggest nude art installation Britain has ever seen and the brainchild of US photographer Spencer Tunick, who was impressed at how wholeheartedly his idea was embraced.

The Digital Decade IV goes to London

If you follow us already you may know that we run awesome digital art collaboration each spring for the last few years with the resulting exhibitions at OFFF festivals or so. This year together with Youth WorldWide we took a great challenge and moved our cause to London as a standalone group show to happen just in a matter of few days!

Sponsored by Depositphotos

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There is No Planet B

4-7 July, London

On July 4th, Digital Decade’s annual art collaboration kicks off at the Underdog Gallery in London. This year’s exhibit, “There is No Planet B”, features the work of international digital artists who address the economic, social, political, and environmental problems we face by imagining a world without them.

Using their talent for photo manipulation and glitch art - the purposeful corruption of data within a digital file to create distorted yet aesthetic effects - 25 invited artists and 2 winners of The Open Call contest come together to “Imagine there’s no… climate change, human aggression, war”, and more.

Curated by Arseny Vesnin from Designcollector Network, with help from Curioos, YOUTH Worldwide, and Depositphotos, the artworks will be featured on large aluminum prints until July 6th.

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Artworks Preview

Translated Vase by Yeesookyung

“Korean artist Yeesookyung masterfully produces imperfect sculptures, bulbous yet elegant works composed from mismatched porcelain. The series, titled “Translated Vase,” was first inspired by the Korean artisan tradition of destroying porcelain works that are not deemed pristine, and she has continued to make the fused pieces since 2001. Intrigued by these tossed aside works and shards, Yee began saving fragmented tea cups and pots rejected by contemporary masters. Honoring the works’ dismantled states, she traces each crevice in 24-karat gold leaf in the style of Japanese kintsugi, merging the unwanted works together in a way that heightens the beauty of their distress. In this way she blends diverse methods to form a contemporary process that evokes both the elegant designs of her homeland and the delicate rebuilding of damaged works in Japanese tradition.”

— Colossal

http://www.yeesookyung.com/

Illustrative Works by German Gonzalez

German Gonzalez is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Medellin, Colombia. 

Blaise Misiek Photography

Talented Canadian photographer Blaise Misiek rooted from Poland shows off epic portfolio. We enjoyed its Still Life section the most. Below is his recent series made with stylist Chad Burton for Metal Magazine

Our Time - United Visual Artists 2016

Our Time (2016) is the latest large-scale installation by United Visual Artists investigating our subjective experience of the passing of time. It defines a physical environment where pendulums swing at a pace apparently unhindered by the laws of nature and where no single time measurement applies. The installation combines movement, light and sound as a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional canvas the visitor can enter. Pendulums swing, each to their own rhythm, as time flows through the grid. With light tracing the path and sound its echo, the passing of time becomes almost palpable.

Ilka Kramer

“As of the most convenient mediums to capture reality, photography sometimes moves a step beyond it and takes us on a journey to the unknown. Ilka Kramer does just that, creating unearthly scenes that question our perception of landscapes.”

— iGNANT

“In a time where we lose direct contact with nature, we accede to it only by the view.”

— Ilka Kramer

All images © Ilka Kramer

Technology and Nature

Leo Burnett Moscow approached NORD Collective to create this motion visual "Technology andf Nature" for Philip Morris

Claire Luxton

Claire Luxton works with her own body and face as an object of art creating colourful photography prints available for purchase

Chill Photography

French indie photographer Chill currently living in Strasbourg working mainly with nude female portraits sharing the best of intimate moments

Portraits of NYC Subway Strangers as an Animals by Matthew Grabelsky

"Grabelsky’s works depict couples on subways, often nonchalantly reading magazines or newspapers, but the male figures in these dyads are strange, quasi-mythological human hybrids with animal heads. Deer, bears, elephants, tigers, and everything in between, make a suited appearance in rush hour. By contrasting the platitudes of the day-to-day with the presence of the extraordinary and unlikely, Grabelsky stages the unexpected within the most unassuming of circumstances." via ThinkSpace Gallery

Paper Art by Raya Sader Bujana

Barcelona-based paper artist Raya Bujana creates awesome origami jewelry and other weightless crafts you can view on her Instagram and purchase on Etsy

Elena Yeo Ellustrate

Elena Yeo, also known as Ellustrate, is an art director, illustrator, designer and art teacher based in Singapore. Her distinct illustrative style that is typographic, ornately detailed and sometimes swirly have won her drawing contracts with some big names recently. she strongly believes that everyone has the capacity to draw, as long as they put their heart into it. overall, she sees illustration as a powerful form of communication that allows her to convey her own thoughts and ideas through visuals that are beyond what words can solely deliver.

Mixed Media Art of Pablo Barreto

Colombian art director and graphic designer Pablo Baretto creates artworks in mixed media using a fashion language as a main tone