3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Krisztiàn Tejfel is a Hungarian painter and photographer. He mostly paints women's portrait, often leaving his creations with the look of a "work unfinished". He is educated in traditional painting and began exploring digital painting a few years ago. His female portraits are characterised by their melancholic look with a pinch of surrealism.
Alexander Chapelin creates magical coffee tables by using stone and resin where you have full illusion you own a piece of ocean floor in your house. Some of his tables have night feature that can amaze you during long dark season.
A selection of work by New York illustrator Kevin Hong. His latest illustrations has been done for upcoming game Miyamori
Fabien Merelle's "renderings, simultaneously absurd, humorous, ironic and cruel, weave their own tapestry of tales and legends, blurring the line between what has been written and what our memory has forged."
François Beaurain was born in Bordeaux, France in 1976. Francois is a self-taught and multifaceted artist working predominantly as a photographer, but he sometimes extends to drawing, collages and sculptures. Francois is mostly known for his animated gifs project “Monrovia animated” which is part of the “Making Africa” exhibition by Vitra and Guggenheim Bilbao. From January to May 2014, Francois Beaurain wandered the streets of Monrovia and put in animated images the people met and places visited.
Based on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.
'To fall, patiently to trust our heaviness'
Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem ‘Gravity’s Law’, McDermott taps into themes of meditation and nature in a deliberate response to the overload of information in modern society.
He was drawn to The Barbican Centre and estate because of its otherworldly quality and achieves a sense of calm with his long free-falling shots against the brutalist architecture.
“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.”
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 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.
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.
Beautiful ode to the NY City shot by young film enthusiast Leon Jamrosy
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
"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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.”
