AKQA – The Snow Fox

Just in time for this holiday season, AKQA launched The Snow Fox – a children’s story that comes to life by voice.

The Snow Fox is a wintry tale of a young child who adventures through the forest with a newfound furry friend in search of his/her mother. But this is no ordinary story. The Snow Fox is powered by words. As the child reads, the story animates. When a sentence is finished, the story automatically transitions to the next scene. Word by word the story comes to life, bringing an element of magic to special bedtime story bonding moments between parent and child.

Using the latest SiriKit to turn voice into a reading gesture—a mobile first—The Snow Fox gives new life to the oldest form of story while transforming how we incentivize our children to learn. At the end of The Snow Fox, children can create a short memento of their narration to share with family and friends, highlighting their voice.

Art of Panos Tsagaris

New York based, Greek artist Panos Tsagaris burst onto the art scene in 2005 with his first solo exhibition "Theanthropic" and has since embarked, both artistically and personally—as these are undeniably intertwined, at least in Tsagaris’ case—on a journey of continual transformation towards a higher state, a “state of Catharsis” in the artist’s own words.

Drawing on the fields of spiritualism, esotericism and the Occult among others, his artistic process can be compared to that of an alchemist, as curator at large at MADRE Museum Eugenio Violahas poignantly observed, combining disparate elements, from contemporary life to quantum physics to mystical traditions, in order to achieve a masterfully calibrated equilibrium. This artistic-cum-alchemist transformational process aims at “capturing and expressing the restlessness and magic that exists in the soul of all of us” as the artist explains, in order to “elevate our ‘impure’ self to the level where it can reunite with our ‘Divine’ essence”.

“Let The Sun Protest” exhibition at Marie-Laure Fleisch Gallery, Rome
Installation photos by Giorgio Benni

Elena Miska

Elena Miska is a New York based art director who’s just hit refresh on her website to include new works

“I’m a graphic designer and art director living in Brooklyn, but am originally from the Bay Area in California. My whole life revolved around art and dance, and I actually went to school for a year at SUNY Purchase here in NY, but had to move back to California after a dance-related injury. (It was actually a blessing in disguise – I will always love dance, but ended up finding my calling in design.) I got my degree in Graphic Design from Academy of Art University, and worked for a few years in San Francisco doing design and art direction before moving back to New York a year and a half ago with my husband, Tom. We’re both in the same profession, and agreed that NY was the place to be (we were right!).”

— Elena Miska

ICARUS by Vadim Sherbakov

““Icarus” is my non-narrative short drone film and really a homage to an awesome piece of technology, Phantom 3 Pro, that travels with me for the past 2 years to many many locations. From rocky cliffs of Isle of Skye to the mighty Dolomites in Italy. From unearthly Icelandic landscapes to lake belfry in Russia. Never in a million years have I though it would be possible to capture worlds beauty from this new and exiting prospects. New technology gives us this creative freedom and I am going to explore it furthermore.”

— Vadim Sherbakov

Art of Science by Sila Sveta

Sila Sveta produced one of the largest video projection made on the façade of the unique architectural landmark - the main tower of Moscow State University at the Vorobyovy Hills. The projected area covered over 50 000 square meters and was over 0.5 km long, 212 projectors were used for the show.

Face Plates by Jean Jullien for Case Studyo

Case Studyo unveils their latest collaboration with world-renowned illustrator and funniest French Englishman, Jean Jullien. The edition consists of an impressive set of 6 ‘Face Plates’. The plates are handcrafted and moulded in high quality porcelain and adorned with Jean’s signature brushstrokes. Each plate of the set has it’s own unique shape, colour and facial expression.

Sprut Kinetic Light by Julia Nizamutdinova

St Petersburg based architect and designer Julia Nizamutdinova created enigmatic light object using 3D-Printing technologies. Using a kinetic motion it creates 

GIF art of Vincent Viriot

Visual GIF works of Vincent Viriot

Art of Emilio Villalba

Californian artist Emilio Villalba recently presented by Modern Eden gallery depicts dreamy distortion on canvases. "His gorgeously distorted work is dreamy and unfocused, at once familiar and unsettling in a way that makes the hairs on the back of your arms stand up."

The Jewellery of Joy BC

Born in raised in a pocket of South East London,  27-year-old Joy Bonfield expresses everything from her Italian heritage, to her feminist interests and discovery of Yoruba castings into her two-year old jewellery line, balancing bespoke one-offs with a beautiful and affordable ready-to-wear collection to maintain her staunch belief that “everyone should have access to fine jewellery and precious metals.”

Macrocosm by Susi Sie

Macrocosm is a new video released by Susi Sie created by visualising sound from space recorded by NASA

Sedition Frame x Art Stream

Now you can take your art with you, wherever you may find yourself.  Created with the philosophy that works of art don’t have to be limited to fit inside the perimeters of a frame, London based Sedition offers collectors digital works of art that can be enjoyed on smartphones, tablets, computers and TV screens.  Founded by Harry Blain, owner of Blain | Southern, Sedition is an online platform intent on changing the way we collect art by making it affordable and totally digital.  The multi-faceted interactive platform also offers a new opportunity for artists to create new work and present them to the tech savvy collectors.

Designcollector is pleased to have a media partnership with Sedition platform being their collector and artist since the beginning. 

Sedition Art Stream

Inspire loved ones with art throughout the year with a curated selection of contemporary artworks on Sedition Art Stream. This holiday season, give a subscription to Art Stream – a stream of twelve artworks for display on TVs, tablets and smartphones.

Subscribers can experience a high-quality display of works by renowned artists including Tracey Emin, Mat Collishaw, Elmgreen & Dragset, Jenny Holzer and more. Each week one new artwork is added and the oldest one is removed from the stream. The Art Stream can be displayed using the free Sedition apps for iOS and Apple TV. Subscribers will also receive offers to purchase the artworks at a discounted price when they fall off the stream.

Sedition Frame

The Sedition Frame is a beautifully-crafted solid oak frame designed for showcasing your digital art collection on tablets. The perfect gift for an art lover, the frame is an elegant and stylish way for displaying art in the home.

Intangible Matter by Lucy Hardcastle

We deeply hope this is a last year to raise the humiliating question of women role in art.. in everything, especially when the audience is 60% of you - the best ever Earth can give. For DC it was essential from the start to praise female work and speak about projects like "The Fifth Sense" (even it's based on commercial platform) that are revealing female talents worldwide. The Fifth Sense is a new initiative run by i-D Magazine and Chanel. Below we share the epic project delivered by young British digital artist Lucy Hardcastle aimed to sense the beautiful scent via digital online installation..

Taking her brief from The Fifth Sense, she wanted to combine the idea of scent with the already existing sensory angle of her work and make something unique. The result is inspiring and impressive: a jewellery box of compartments and chambers to discover online – actual objects that you want to touch and lick that have the duality of being hyper-real but also action filled digital responses. “In terms of a website, it’s really something that hasn’t been done before – people haven't had the reason to make a site built with WebGL that's so visual. We wanted to make work that makes other people question how we did it.”

"Intangible Matter" is a digital journey to make the invisible, visible. Inspired by CHANEL Nº5 L’Eau. Explore the physical and virtual elements of scent by deconstructing its unseen elements, combining the scientific yet emotive components of fragrance in a digital space. Each individual journey is unique to the user through the interactions and tasks of each space, creating a visual and sonic world of discovery. 

At still only 24, Lucy Hardcastle is simultaneously studying her masters in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art. “Think of it as interactive design but grounded in data. I have a real gang of creatives,” she continues, “I just feel that as a young person, as long as you carve out a space for yourself and have a community, then you’ll be cool."

Digital Portraits by Ivana Besevic

Paris-based digital artist Ivana Besevic from Belgrade creates lively emotional portraits of her friends, celebrities and strangers

Illustrations of César Canseco

Illustrator from Oaxaca, Mexico César Canseco aka Hdnn* shares his latest artworks available for purchase on Curioos

More brilliance. More beauty by Sony

Sony filled an abandoned casino in Romaina with 4,000 balloons and 1.5 tons of glitter for one intense TV advert. Shot in 4k, the ad made by American director Andre Stringer, together with DDB Berlin

Chirstmas Tree for Claridge's by Sir Jonthan Ive and Marc Newson

Mayfair hotel Claridge's has unveiled its 2016 festive installation, this year designed by Sir Jony Ive and Marc Newson

The unveiling of the Claridge’s Christmas tree has traditionally heralded the start of London’s festive season, not least because of the illustrious roster of designers who have headlined the Mayfair hotel’s installations. For 2016, it is designers (and long-time friends of the hotel) Sir Jony Ive and Marc Newson who have taken up the challenge of reinterpreting the tree.

Rebecca Naden/Getty

Photos by Rob Price/BI

Art of Andrey Surnov

Go deep into the mid road somewhere nowhere sadness depicted by Russian artist Andrey Surnov

Illustrations by Pedro Tapa

Beautiful illustrative portraits of young ladies in flowers created by Spanish artist Pedro Tapa

Martin Wittfooth

Martin Wittfooth was born in 1981 in Toronto, Canada. He spent his childhood in Finland, before moving back to Canada as a teenager. Through his paintings, Martin presents a world which is dystopian by its very definition. The Earth he depicts is void of human life, and filled with strong symbolic implications that the root cause is of our own making; pricipally our disconnection from, and disrespect for, the natural world.