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Russian figurative painter Rustam Iralin shares his love to abstract portraits and invites a viewer to read the visual stories hidden in between of canvas, strokes and layers of oil. You may read an interview with Rustam on Yatzer published today
Surreal close-ups of model's lips shoot by Marius Sperlich eliminates the border between abstract and figurative photography. Tugging on the triggers of lust, Sperlich employs accessories as diverse as toy guns, strawberry jam, spaghetti, mirrors and and roses to take macro images that leave no detail uncovered.
Lera Kiryakova is a Russian illustrator, who is known for cute celebrity portraits. She creates hand-drawn cartoons in a kind of "puppet" style, which not only affects the similarity but also adds adorableness
Truly born as CG Artis, Adam Martinakis creates stunning video digital artworks by looping the beauty inside absolute void
“Imagining art being a bridge, a connection between the spirit and the material,
the living and the absent, the personal and the universal”
"Alan Turing is the inspiration for a study of human and artificial intelligence by art and design group United Visual Artists"
"In the third and final episode of our Illuminating series, a trilogy of films showcasing a range of innovative installations by London-based art and design group UVA, co-founder Matt Clark explores the grey area between the natural and the technological."
"With a focus on UVA's permanent light installation, Message From the Unseen World—a memorial to pioneering British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing, set under a bridge in London—this episode ultimately explores the deeper enigma of being human."
Kofta is no ordinary bag designer. His backpacks resemble works of art rather than the emphatically practical and minimalist pieces. This is a melange of imagery, containing raw thoughts, tameless animals, deep forests, abandoned buildings and ancient architecture.
“Humankind is not the first and not the last intelligent race on earth. Erenow, blue blood was flowing in the veins of living creatures. Blood is nothing but a liquid metal. Accomplished technology is indistinguishable from the magic. Mankind has transformed himself and knowledge into artificial intelligence. Existence becomes smarter and faster, it achieves an ability to adapt for radical global changes. The Era of Mankind is coming to its end.”
Rodrigo Pinheiro founder of Paste In Place studio is a talented art director pushing the boundaries of fashion campaigns they deliver for customers. Beside this, "Paste in Place" practice a collage art techniques that some of them went viral last days
"In 2012, Oregon-based sculptor Chris Antemann was invited to participate in artCAMPUS®, the art studio program of Germany’s renowned MEISSEN® Porcelain Manufactory. The program enabled Antemann to collaborate with Meissen’s master artisans on unique pieces and a series of limited-edition sculptures, resulting in a grand installation that reinvents and invigorates the great porcelain figurative tradition."
"Using the Garden of Eden as her metaphor, Antemann created a contemporary celebration of the 18th-century banqueting craze. Inspired by Meissen’s great historical model of Johann Joachim Kändler’s monumental Love Temple (1750), the artist sculpted her own 5-foot version."
Award-winning studio Chapeaux is a boutique of ideas and design bureau based in Hamburg.
"Cambridge-based photographer Karl Dmitri Bishop creates surreal, somewhat mystical images that seem to come straight from another planet. His shots are highly constructed and processed, sometimes they feel rather like paintings then photos with an intangible quality of otherworldliness. With an ever growing audience, Dmitri Bishop leaves a sense of wonder and mystery with his magical work."
Italian sculptor Willy Verginer creates figurative sculptures from wood, pieces that allow his carving skills to stand out with minimal additions of monochrome bands of paint.
Verginer’s newest work is included in the group exhibition After Industry at Wasserman Projects in Detroit through April, 8 2017. You can see more of his minimally painted sculptures on his Instagram.
Kazakhstan-based designer Nissa Kinzhalina created “Living light” back in 2015 - a lamp that appears as a diaphanous container, in which the light was poured. This was her first recognised object to that date, and since than she created a number of design products worth to grab your attention below
Typoe (Michael Andrew Gran) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice plays upon the constant tension between the dark recesses of the urban underground and the shimmering bling of celebrity. With both gravitas and irreverence his work might be regarded as a contemporary memento mori with a smile.
Typoe’s work evolves in response to a given situation or environment and he often works with gunpowder, fire, plastic, spray paint and found objects in the creation of his works and installations., the messenger that while laughing, points to hypocrisy and excess while announcing the melancholy of time lost.
Based in Miami, Typoe has participated in gallery and museum shows around the world and exhibited his work in Mexico City, Mexico, New York, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Basel ,Switzerland. Typoe is cofounder and Creative Director of PRIMARY, an art collective and gallery in Miami.
Italian digital artist Leonardoworx (previously) shares his new venture in creating CG Alphabet "AXIS" inspired by product design from 1970-80s
"Shot around central and southern Japan / Okinawa, the series by Gabriella Achadinha shows day and night photographs of spaces and individuals that stood out from the time there. Marlize Eckard has added her touch by creating the ‘fleeting impermanence’ via acrylic paint with additional strokes that create the smudging, lapsing memory."
Figurative artist Jenny Morgan explores femininity in aspects of life, death and rebirth. "Fusing figurative realism with graphic forms, her impeccably detailed images demonstrate an exceptional technique, while purposefully abstracting the human body—at times literally reducing it to its fundamental, skeletal structure."
The BassAwards want reward, once again, the best audiovisual pieces worldwide, which make a major use of Motion Graphics and animation, as well as excellent design, creativity and execution. No matter the size of the company, if you are freelance or who is your customer. BassAwards look for the best.
This year renew the 9 categories, reviewing the works and concerns of the participants of past editions. In 2017, the animation design for series or Internet programs, among others, will have room in BassAwards, with the intention of finding the best creatives in practically all the audiovisual sectors.
The contest will start on 21st March and will finish on 30th May. BassAwards remain hopeful like every year to find the excellence, rewarding the bests.
"Turkish art director and visual artist Hüseyin Şahin has an uncanny eye for combining disparate photographs into cohesive scenes, where technology, nature, and humankind collide. Sahin works with a variety of digital photographs which he then edits into collages that he shares on Instagram and Behance"
