Neon Tokyo by Xavier Portela
Travelling photographer Xavier Portela (previously) shares his latest eye-catching images from the trip to Tokyo city
Porcelain Beauty by Kristina Varaksina
New York based fashion photographer Kristina Varaksina explores the topic of extreme beauty in her recent photo shoot session "Porcelain Beauty" (that just got 1st place in Beauty category at International Photography Awards)
Kristina’s focus is to capture human emotion and the psychological impressions of her subjects' mind – permitting the characters to project their internal reality. Works undertaken are keen to explore a female and child perspective, evoking their thoughts, dreams and hopes.
JR Installs Two Athletes In Rio
"The famed French street artist JR has struck again, this time with two giant athlete installations across Rio de Janeiro in anticipation of the upcoming Olympic Games the city will host. Created as part of JR’s ongoing ‘inside out’ project, the pair of athletes are created on the construction scaffolding being used to prepare the city’s buildings ahead of the games. The first athlete, a high jumper, is the 27-year old Sudan-born, Germany-based Mohamed Younes Idriss, who “missed out on qualification for the 2016 rio olympics but he is there some how,” according to JR. The second installation, located near the water, represents a diver jumping into the water." via iGNANT
ZONT synthesizer by Pavel Golovkin
Russian product and motion designer based in New York - Pavel Golovkin released a concept of minimal-looking pocket synthesizer ZONT built for sound geeks and electronic music composers. We are not sure if he is going to run a crowdfunding campaign but it can be worth of it.
“The Zont synth is the kind of product that is so beautiful that you want to believe it would help you immediately lay down a killer beat upon picking it up. I know I’m dying to try it, and I am about as confident in my music-making prowess as I am in my ability to do rocket science.”
Instagram.exe
Russian animator Misha Petrick imagined Instagram existed in Win95 era, time of hate/love to interface and software races.
FAT Lamp by Constantin Bolimond
“If the brain has the wrong prior knowledge, our perception will be false. With modern technology we can make many novel pictures that the brain has not been designed to comprehend.
We cannot avoid having false perceptions of these pictures. One object that it is almost impossible to perceive correctly is the inside of a hollow mask of a face. When we look inside this hollow mask, we cannot help but see it as a normal convex face. Our prior belief that faces are convex and not hollow is too strong to be modified. If the mask is slowly rotating, an additional illusion is caused. Because we see the mask inverted, the tip of the nose appears to be the nearest part of the face, when it is in fact the part that is furthest away. As a result we misinterpret the movement of the mask and see the direction of the rotation reverse whenever we are looking into the hollow.”
Belarusian product designer Constantin Bolimond and character artist Vasilii Mialick created a concept of a lamp that likes noodles too much
Adri Godis Urban Photography
Adriana Godoy aka Adri Godis is Buenos Aires based urban photographer exploring the city scape through the fair lenses, light and a bit of magic
Facade Type Graffiti by Sergey Rasskazov
Saint-Petersburg based typography artist Sergey Raskazov, founder of Type School and organiser of Typesburg event happening now, created a huge type lettering on historical building of recently refurbished Manege Art Expo Center. His team created a sign for exhibition of Russian group of contemporary artists that took a part in Venice Biennale of different years.
Quayola Captives #B04
“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped, and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. The best artist has that thought alone which is contained within the marble shell; the sculptor’s hand can only break the spell to free the figures slumbering in the stone. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
In Spring 2016 Quayola presented solo exhibition Laocoön at One Canada Square in London. The exhibition was a continuation of the artist’s ongoing research into iconography, whereby he abstracts classical sculptures using digital rendering and production techniques. In so doing, Quayola creates new spaces in which relationships between classical and contemporary art forms and themes can be re-thought.
Plasticine Quotes by Jenue
Jenue is a Spanish Artist and Art director, who divides his time between Madrid and London. He makes playful images for editorials, music, and advertisements with his own colourful view and style. Check his latest project made of famous designer's quotes commissioned by AIGA
Naked Lunch - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Illustration of Rich Kelly
Pittsburgh-based illustrator Rich Kelly shows amazing skills in creating visual stories for editorials, music covers and posters
Art of Eric Wert
Explore carnivore "naturmort" art of Eric Wert
Double-exposure portraits by Nevess
Double-exposure or its imitation is nothing new on creative scene, but anyway it strongly depends on the quality of visuals selected for that. Young French artists Nevess does it very well sharing the best of collages on Instagram
Animated by George RedHawk
Watercolour Illustration by Oksana Dimitrenko
Illustrator from Moscow creates conceptual watercolour illustrations mainly portraits with a fairy-tale twist
Transcriptions
Montana-based artist and photographer Kyra Schmidt triggers an increased consciousness of landscape with her ‘Transcriptions’ series.
Photos by So!Fraiche
The Digital Decade IV London: How it was
We are happy to share official photographs from the event hosted by Designcollector and Youth Worldwide in London this July. As you may remember the topic of our annual digital art collaboration was "There is No Planet B" where curated and open contest artists faced the challenge to "Imagine there is no.." war or aggression, gender or racial issues, pollution or climate change. Nearly 30 artists were exhibited at Underdog Art Gallery in South London.
This could not happen without our main partner - Depositphotos and guys at Curioos behind awesome aluminium prints and their delivery.
Samuel (Youth Worldwide), Kalyn (Curioos) and Arseny (Designcollector)
Photo by So!Fraiche
We were lucky to have a team of Youth Worldwide and ToandTo helping us a lot with exhibition instalment.
YWW and Toandto installing exhibition
Media coverage was able because of So!Fraiche collective worked hard documenting everything we did at the opening night on July 4th. Bear with us till we release an official video of the event.
Official Exhibition Catalogue is on Sale now
Opening night photographs
Artworks on the walls
David Marinos, Min Htet Dipar and Nicolas Monin-Baroille
Min and Nicolas with ARTISTMARK on the right
Cityabyss and Alexander Gish
Louise Mertens and Calvin Pausania
Corner setup
Contest winner Daria Po with 2x Elena Kulikova and Thompson Ekong
Giga Kobidze and Gregoire Meyer
Gregoire Meyer, Mart Biemans, Moe Pike Soe and Salim Adam
Antony Kitson and Louise Mertens
Xavier Bourdil, Cy Tone, Evgenij Soloviev, Anatoly Shabalin and Zouassi
Tilemachos Michailidis, Giacomo Carmagnola and Desislava Desseva
Boeing 100 Director's Cut
“We created three spots to celebrate Boeing’s 100th anniversary. Executed using seamless design and hyper-real CG, we drew inspiration from engineering blueprints, as each spot captures the awe-inspiring process that starts with a single spark in the mind of a Boeing engineer, and finishes with a gravity defying roar of an engine taking a machine to unprecedented altitudes. From the historical, 1916 B&W plane to the 787 Dreamliner, Boeing products come alive, celebrating 100 years of technological triumphs in Space, Defense and Commercial travel.”
Created by Aggressive
Peony Yip Illustration
“What if, instead of oozing blood, we sprouted flowers? “To Bloom Not Bleed” by Peony Yip illustrates this idea, portraying “the fine line between the grotesque and beauty of death.” A gutted fish, instead of looking limp and lifeless, reveals its insides to be a bouquet of peonies and roses. It’s a notion that makes death appear almost romantic.”
Modern Brands styled as they come from the USSR
As a kid born in the USSR I can't admit I have a lot of nostalgia for that period but it definitely has a good examples of graphic design especially typography. Keeping this in mind Saint-Petersburg based designer Mike Levchenko approached the idea of rebranding famous global trade marks using so say "USSR" or "Soviet" style.
