WC Tiles for Urban Architects
This modernist photo tiles won't let you down (in case you are architect) while visiting a bath. WC Tiles is a self-initiated project created by Lithuanian design studio Gyva Grafika
Illustration sketches by Karina Yashagina
It's been a while since we focused on Russian illustration (THB our catalogues: RIW1 | RIW2) and just found a new gem - Karina Yashagina creating beautiful illustrative sketches
Art of Photography by Flora Borsi
It's not a first time we review the ultra talented art photographer Flora Borsi but it worth to explore her recent artworks she created in the past year
No. 1005 v. 25, digital algorithm painting, 2015
Krista Kim for Lanvin RTW Fall 2018
We have been following the self-initiated movement "Techism" started by New York based artist Krista Kim since the beginning. She currently exhibits in galleries and at art fairs globally in New York, Paris, Miami, Basel and Brussels, and is writing a book on the "Techism" that she hopes to have published next year. Recently she was approached by Lanvin creative director Olivier Lapidus to produce a collection based on her vivid digital artworks.
Look 22 from Lanvin's FW18-19 ready-to-wear collection at Paris Fashion Week
"Her digital images of LED lights informed the color palette of the clothes, which ranged from bold block colors to gradient effects on satiny coats and shimmering evening gowns. The latter were made from a specially developed silk Neoprene that conferred both structure and lightness." via WWD
No. 671 v. 2, digital algorithm painting on Pleximuseum, Digital: 2015, Pleximuseum: 2016
Apart from this fashion debut Krista "works with teams of up to six technicians in the most advanced specialised Pleximuseum labs in New York City and Paris. To reproduce the effect of a LED screen, production is high cost and high risk, as some pieces have to go through three or four runs to achieve the desired level of perfection and quality. It took her two years of experimentation and research into the latest technology to find the labs that could accurately recreate the vibrancy and luminosity of the colors in her artworks from the screen to the large format on Pleximuseum she required, as they had never before used pigments to the same level as she had been using and certain colors cannot be produced. She is the only artist who uses this particular kind of technology in these materials, style and scale. Requiring from six months to a year to complete just one piece, sometimes up to two years, and two months for production, prices of her artworks range from €38,000 to €85,000" via Forbes
No. 1 v. 19, digital algorithm painting, Pleximuseum: 2017
Krista Kim's 8x8 light and sound video installation with music composed by Tenille Bentley
The Micro Wallet
As you may know we support a lot of Kickstarter projects even some of them never happen to deliver :D But with our next pledge to the Micro Wallet we believe it take a place in your heart too. Showcasing 7 brand new designs by cutting edge artists worldwide, the Micro Wallet is a slimmest, strongest design yet.
After two successful Kickstarter campaigns, Paperwallet is excited to announce the launch of their next project, the Card Wallet. The Card Wallet is an ultra-slim RFID protected wallet made from Tyvek and is designed with awesome artwork from artists around the world.
Paperwallet was born out a of desire to fuse function with design and comfort in our everyday carry accessories
Artist challenge from Ello x Paperwallet
Submit your work to be featured in Paperwallet's newest product – The Micro Wallet – and be a featured artist on the Kickstarter campaign page.
ON Running — “No Room For Grey Areas”
Black and White
TRAUM INC
Traum Inc. was commissioned by ON Running to promote their new shoe Cloud X released in a special all black and all white version.
Shot in Iceland the film creates a world of black and white, brutalist and wild but technical, balancing sublime landscapes with technical closeups and 3D renderings of the shoe. The film pits a runner agains his alter ego, chasing each other until it comes to a final stand off between both.
DIRECTOR
Thomas Traum (TRAUM INC)
CREATIVE DIRECTION
Alex Griffin (On-Running), Thomas Traum
EDITING
Nikolaj Beltzer (OKAY Studio)
GRADING
Ludovic Roussaux (OKAY Studio)
DOP
Ruaraid Achilleos
1ST AC
Matthew Choules
TALENT
Kazeem Temiday
STYLIST
Erna Bergann
VFX
TRAUM INC (Safwaan Motara, Hayden Martin, Thomas Traum)
PRODUCTION
TRAUM INC
Human Nature by Rikako Nagashima
"In a deep-red homage to Anish Kapoor, artist Rikako Nagashima has tangled together HUMAN NATURE, an installation Kapoor’ish in scale, color and intention. HUMAN NATURE has been installed at two locations. Her work has been suspended through multiple levels of Tokyo’s MVRDV-designed eye of Gyre gallery, and has consumed the life of a concrete clinic-turned-art-gallery by schemata architects in japan — the latter of which is pictured here, tied-together."
"Anish Kapoor is believed by many to be an artist devoted to dichotomy. Blood, vortexes, voids — his works certainly convey paradoxes. Life, death, happiness, sorrow. they’re beautiful and ugly and they often tie into life and religions in india. as such, Rikako seeks to create a dichotomy of her own — an homage that draws inspiration from kapoor’s artistic execution, and draws dichotomies from her own culture’s philosophy, Yin and Yang"
Nike Epic React
Our friend and Digital Decade 5 artist Santi Zoraidez was approached by Nike Global Running to create their latest campaign featuring Epic React Flyknit
Directed by Santi Zoraidez
Art Direction & Design: Santi Zoraidez
Lead Animation: Facu Labo
Additional Animation: Edward Chiu / Diego Diapolo / Javier Bianchi
Client: Nike Global Running
Club Zooma by Ricky Korf
German Club Zooma approached graphic designer Ricky Korf to update their web identity. We personally liked his techno approach and simplicity of the layout
Ricky Korf is an award winning designer and art director, rooted in Leipzig Germany. Starting with graphic design in 2002. Flexibly working over the years from either the sleepy town in the countryside fields or from Hamburg, the gate to the world.
Ethereal photo manipulations by Elena Vizerskaya
Elena Vizerskaya aka KaSSandrA is a talented photographer and digital artist currently based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Elena focuses on digital manipulations, she creates enigmatic universes teeming details with surgical precision
Made by Humans on Earth
Elon Musk made a surprise appearance at HBO‘s Westworld panel at SXSW, joining friend and Westworld creator Jonathan Nolan to release an epic trailer of the SpaceX Heavy Falcon rocket launch that carried Spaceman into orbit.
"The highlight reel was created by Nolan, who spoke about the importance of inspiration and the excitement he felt as a child when watching Super 8 footage of Saturn rocket launches — a collective enthusiasm that has seemingly dwindled in recent times. “And so I was having a drink last year with a friend, and we were talking about how do you inspire people? How do you get people to talk again, how can you drive the conversation?” said Nolan. The friend turned out to be Musk and the solution they came up with was a red sports car and David Bowie‘s track “Starman"" via Hypebeast
YSL Beautē ╳ Pokras Lampas: Calligraffiti Performance
To present their recent fragrance for men YSL Beauté asked the renowned Russian calligraphy master Pokras Lampas to set a performance during their Moscow leg of the international Y campaign. The challenge was not new for Pokras - 2 Hours, 5 Meters "Y" letter and 1 Artist in made his own epic #calligrafuturism manner
“Performance Arts — a special mix of skills, emotions and unpredicted things.
I love to challenge myself with the projects where randomness replaces any boundaries of comfort.
Climb up 5 meters to paint a huge letter “ Y “ ?
Why not. Keep it on tight timings? Great, there is gonna be a lot of paint splashes.
Any experiments is an invaluable experience and emotions from the result and the process of creation.”
Photo: Alex Delfanne. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Art of Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson’s inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, ‘Unanswerable’, features new and recent work across three different media: painting, photographic collage and sculpture. Simpson came to prominence in the 1980s through her pioneering approach to conceptual photography, which featured striking juxtapositions of text and staged images and raised questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race and history. These concerns are reflected throughout the exhibition to present the artist’s expanding and increasingly multi-disciplinary practice today
Lorna Simpson: Unanswerable is on view at Hauser & Wirth, London, through April 28.
@lornasimpson
Lux Notis II by Reuben Wu
This ongoing project entitled Lux Noctis II (view Lux Noctis I) by Chicago-based photographer Reuben Wu "depicts landscapes within the framework of traditional landscape photography but influenced by ideas of planetary exploration, 19th-century sublime romantic painting, and science fiction." Wu imagined these scenes as the familiar transformed into undiscovered landscapes to renew perceptions of our world.
“Each image is a carefully-planned scene consisting of multiple lighting positions, layered to produce a theatrically-lit composition. Using the GPS-enabled aerial light/drone in specific positions in space, I am able to create moods of drama and tension through chiaroscuro, and the ability to illuminate isolated features of a scene and exclude unwanted elements.”
Brave Bear Sake packaging by Creative Carbon
Creative Carbon is a creative studio specialized in branding, graphic design and CGI with clients around the world. Recently they finished a new packaging design for Japanes Sake brand "Brave Bear". Its special Junmai Daiginjo variety is the first product of its kind to incorporate a soft note of honey, providing a somewhat "wild" experience. The visual identity, packaging and communication exploit this unique feature of the product, further enhancing the experience.
Yamaguchi prefecture is tucked away in the south-western tip of Japan’s main island Honshu. Among the sake - uninitiated, is best known for the pleasant tourist town Iwakuni. When it comes to sake, Yamaguchi prefecture is known as the home of gorgeously scented, delicate, delicious and super-premium products.
TOCA ME 18 Opening Titles
Recently hosted TOCA ME festival invited leading motion artists Susi Sie and Remo Gambacciani to create Official Titles of the event.
The ever-changing landscapes inspired by organic textures and surfaces within surreal worlds created by processing live action scenes with CG techniques. To create morphing textures MATERIA (Susi Sie and Remo Gambacciani) captured slowly spreading color on even surfaces.
The score was composed by Gavin Little from ECHOLAB. Inspired by seismic and earth shifting movements, he created geological seeming sounds. By burying contact microphones underground in soil and recording vibrations, he captured breathtaking, natural sounds of shifting earth and grinding rocks. For the score he used a hybrid of organic and digital sounds, a musical progression that matched the swell of the movements from texture to texture.
Weird and Wonderful by Lea Brisell
Young visual artist Lea Brisell creates creepy and fun anthropomorphic images that make you feel weird
Collage Art by Igor Skaletsky
"Tel-Aviv, Moscow and Berlin -based artist. In his works Igor Skaletsky freely manipulates the recognizable images of the history of art and high culture, and ironically unites them in the stylistics of fashion magazines. His works send us back to patterns of our perception and at the same time destroy them. Our visual habits, this secret passage to the unconscious, become juggling toys in his hands. The spectator lives through his images as if through the shock of unexpected discovery of a familiar story."
Volumes - Art film by Maxim Zhestkov
Designcollector is happy to announce a new long waited work of Russian motion artist Maxim Zhestkov. Welcome his short movie, and as he said before, his first in a colour, - "VOLUMES" that is available today for instant collecting on Sedition Art
Volumes is a Full CG art film by Maxim Zhestkov exploring the juxtaposition of emotions with the laws of nature. Billions of colourful particles dance, play and communicate with each other in an eternal hypnotic ballet governed by the invisible wind of fate.
Cité de l’Océan et du Surf - Ocean Museum in Biarritz, France
New York-based studio Steven Holl Architects and Solange Fabião designed a museum in Biarritz, France dedicated to oceanic issues.
"Entitled ‘Cité de l’Océan et du Surf’, the museum’s design is based on the dual concept of “under the sky” / “under the sea”. Hosting a public plaza and gardens surrounding the museum’s main exhibition space, the complex merges landscape design and architecture, bridging the building to the ocean nearby. Cité de l’Océan et du Surf was named Public Building of the Year by the 2011 Emirates Glass LEAF Awards." via iGNANT
