Art of Laurence Jones

“My paintings incorporate elements of both fiction and reality, and are brought to fruition through a varied means of production. I draw from a pool of collected images that are then digitally edited, and serve as a starting point for a process-based practice.

The paintings lend themselves to a simulation of reality, presenting a hyperreal aesthetic that is heightened by the screen-like finish of the work. Perspectival planes are shifted, flattened or extended, warping the notion of depth within the image, presenting a simultaneous distancing and magnification that offers multiple readings of the work. Although the aesthetic of the work suggests a digitally mediated experience of the urban environment, broken and dripped paint ground the work in a more traditional notion of materiality.”

— Laurence Jones

Imagine the World is Ending

Submitted by Brendan Withy on DCN Platform

"Do today's young people have a right to be angry about the world they've inherited? Two schoolboys use poetry and a selfie stick to confront the problems facing the world."

Loading Docs is a series of incredible 3-minute documentaries from New Zealand. Watch them all, like and share! loadingdocs.net/itwie

Hakanaï projection mapping dance performance by Adrien M and Claire B

Hakanaï is a solo choreographic performance that unfolds through a series of images in motion. In Japanese Hakanaï denotes that which is temporary and fragile, evanescent and transient, and in this case something set between dreams and reality. This symbolic relationship is the foundation of the dance composition in which a dancer gives life to a space somewhere between the borders of imagination and reality, through her interactions with the images she encounters. Performed by Adrien M and Claire B (previously) it was debuted in San Francisco few years ago.

Art of Josh Sperling

Josh Sperling is a young contemporary artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Sperling’s works on canvas waver between wall sculptures and paintings. Building layered plywood structures by hand, the artist stretches canvas over these forms to create a subtle relief. 

New York, New York

Beautiful ode to the NY City shot by young film enthusiast Leon Jamrosy

John Yuyi art

Permanent contemporary tattoo is nothing new since Tattly project run by famous design tank Tina Roth Eisenberg but Taiwan-raised US based artist John Yuyi taking it to the new level. "FACE POST is the artist’s three-part series and a nod to social media via her aforementioned, now-signature transfer stickers. The stickers are reminiscent of the superhero tattoos you’d get in those packets of “cigarette” sweets, applied with a modest dunk of water but maintained the staying power of super-glue ­– it’s this use of familiar objects in a witty way that gives her work its relatability." says Dazed Digital

KAWAII

What is a definition of Kawaii? Watch the video below and get visually insulted by the Kawaii Miso Soup advert recently hit internet. Created by Marukome

Rem. Architect retrospective movie by Tomas Koolhaas

"Set to premiere at this year’s Venice film festival in September, Rem is the culmination of film-maker Tomas Koolhaas chasing his busy father across time zones for four years, from taxi to departure lounge to construction site and back again, forming a whirlwind travelogue-portrait of the world’s most talked-about architect." via the Guardian

Crawler Series by Sakir Yildirim

Instabul-based photographer and digital artis Şakir Yıldırım creates mind-bending photo-manipulated projects for no reason but art. We personally love his latest glitchy works from "Crawler Series" posted below

Aizone by Sagmeister&Walsh

Last year Sagmeister & Walsh created 3d environments inspired by 2d pop art paintings with the help of body painter Anastasia Durasova and set builds by Sing-Sing. This year, along with the same team, they brought psychedelic and constructivist worlds to life, complete with trippy optical illusions and a pink painted horse. Images will be on billboards, in magazines, newspapers, and in stores across the middle east at Aizone stores.

CREATIVE & ART DIRECTION: Jessica Walsh
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Sing-Sing (Adi Goodrich and Sean Pecknold)
DESIGN: Jessica Walsh, Daniel Forero
MAKEUP: Anastasia Durasova
SET DESIGN: Sagmeister & Walsh, Adi Goodrich
SET BUILDS: Sing-Sing
3D / POST PRODUCTION: Pedro Veneziano
RETOUCHING: Lutz & Schmidt

Minivan converted to a mobile studio by Zach Both

Filmmaker Zach Both got creative when it was time for him to hit the road for work last year. Needing to hit various locations around the U.S., 23-year old Both bought a 10-year old Chevy cargo van off of Craigslist and converted it into a mobile studio. This gave him complete freedom to work wherever the project took him, while giving him a comfortable place to live and work.

via Design Milk

Sculptures by Crisitina Córdova

Cristina Cordova is a sculptor currently based in Penland, North Carolina. She now works with ceramics to create powerful, reflective figures which create an emotional entrypoint for those experiencing her work. She often jumpstarts her work with a specific notion: what is important to her culture or her family. She envisions herself primarily as a growing artist; though her identity now includes being a partner and a mother.

Ellen van Engelen

The psychedelia spiced illustration of Belgium artist Ellen van Engelen remind the works of Heinz Edelmann (Yellow Submarine, 1968) and some of earlier Soviet animations from last century.  

Olympics Promo by PLENTY

Buenos Aires based team of PLENTY released an awesome motion design case where merely no 3D design was involved apart from projection mapping tools. Watch the video and making of below

“We embarked on an amazing adventure with our dear friends from DIRECTV to take on a creative and production process we had never done before, mostly because we developed a CG production but ended up recreating Rio de Janeiro in MDF and 3D printing 10 statues representing different sports disciplines and the 2 most important Olympic Stadiums in Rio in order to film everything and add projection mapping. The whole production is real, we only did color correction. The piece wasn’t intended for advertising but to create an artistic representation of what the Olympic Games symbolize for the brand, which is a Colossal and Beautiful moment.”

— PLENTY

Making of

Promo video

Lance Wyman: The Visual Diaries 1973—1982

I still think I was lucky enough to speak a night through with that genius designer and just a great personality - Lance Wyman during the speakers dinner at the ocean on the end of the Earth during Trimarchi festival last September. I hope to meet Lance again during OFFF2017 where he is speaking next year revealing his huge experience in graphic design pioneering with Mexico'68 Olympics designs.

Every day Lance Wyman documents his creative process in his black “designlogs”. We are psyched to announce that awesome London based independent publisher United Edition are doing a collectible Diaries of Lance Wyman circa 1973—1982 years.

Raphael Vicenzi

Raphael Vicenzi is Belgian illustrator and artist living in Brussels creating collages and artworks based on collage techniques

Paul Fuentes

Paul Fuentes is a graphic designer, based in Mexico City, who enjoys staging everyday objects into surreal and colorful compositions creating pop mashups.

A photo posted by Paul Fuentes • The New Pop Art (@paulfuentes_design) on May 15, 2016 at 8:13pm PDT

A photo posted by Paul Fuentes • The New Pop Art (@paulfuentes_design) on Apr 27, 2016 at 12:01pm PDT

NASA shared Hi-Res photographs of Mars surface

We are the lucky species of mankind to live in the era of space exploration. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter system shots hi-res photographs of Mars surface since 2006, not long ago they setup a special website where you can find a lot of them. Pure inspiration and meditative source for digital artists and everyone interested in far far away...

Infrared Nature in GMUNK photography

Well-known motion and digital creative director GMUNK has a hook on making awesome photographs with a strong selective vision. Beside shooting urban patterns he recently encountered into infrared photography delivering amazing shots of nature shot as seemed it is from another dimension.

An animated homage to the games

Henrique Barone, Rafael Mayani and Conor Whelan team up to delight us with Olympia, “a nice combination of two somewhat random ideas.” 

Creative Direction: Henrique Barone, Rafael Mayani And Conor Whelan
Art Direction: Rafael Mayani
Storyboard And Animatic: Henrique Barone
Animation And Line Clean-up: Henrique Barone And Conor Whelan
Color Clean-up: Rafael Mayani And Henrique Barone
Compositing: Conor Whelan
Music And Sound Design: John Black