FITC Toronto 2018 Titles dir. Joshua Davis & Saad Moosajee

April 17, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, Canada, Events, 2018

The title sequence for FITC Toronto 2018 is built on the theme of Transform. It aims to morph the spatial perception of its viewers as it takes them through a constantly shifting, never-ending journey into a series of patterns, landscapes, and environments that exist between two and three dimensional space. In each world, 2D and 3D programmatic processes are combined to create rich, organic animations and sprawling graphic forms.

Directed by: Joshua Davis & Saad Moosajee
Animated by: Saad Moosajee
Technical Director: James Bartolozzi
Programming: Joshua Davis, James Bartolozzi
Supporting Animation: Enle Li

Sound: Kurt Uenala / Null + Void / Song : Into the Void / Album : hfnmusic.lnk.to/Cryosleep

Pau Buscató Photography

April 17, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Portfolios, Spain, 2018

Barcelona-born, Oslo-based ex-architect and now street photographer Pau Buscató spends several hours a day searching for the funny moments that only happen when people are crammed together.

"These photos are fun by necessity. They require a disciplined practice of not being bored by people and places Buscató has seen a million times. “Over-familiarity with our surroundings can blind us, so trying to keep fresh eyes and an open mind always helps,” he said. It’s a lesson anyone trapped in a place, job, or situation they find boring can learn from."

"This one is a sequence of birds taken in Leicester Square, London. The photo shows painted birds, an imaginary one and a real one. I took this on July 2016, but I had already tried something similar in the same spot a year earlier. In 2015, I took some shots there trying to add a real pigeon (they were flying around) to the painted birds sequence. I more or less succeeded, but I found the result quite boring, so I just left and forgot about it. A year later, I was on another photo trip in London, and after four days in the city, I noticed the same fence with the painted birds, but didn't pay much attention to it. Some hours later I passed by and saw a detail that changed everything: There was a hole in the fabric that in my eyes looked like another bird. That's when I got obsessed and spent my last two days there, trying to get something. I tried many different things, and after several hundreds of failed attempts, I got that photo."

Turning Imagination Into Reality

April 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Agencies, Digital Art, Motioncollector, USA, 2018

4 years in a row Nike Sportwear teams up with talented ManvsMachine to craft a global campaign for Air Max Day. This year's approach takes cues from modern editorial design and hosts an extensive number of assets — from live action, 3D, typographical design, right the way through to cel animation

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Art Palette

April 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, 2018

Art Palette works as a search engine that finds artworks based on your chosen color palette. Using this tool, you can explore how the same five colors from Van Gogh's Irises can be related to a 16th century Iranian folio or Monet's water lilies.

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Dániel Taylor

April 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Decade, Digital Art, Hungary, Portfolios, 2018

Hungarian graphic designer Dániel Taylor (resident of Digital Decade 5) playfully merges double exposure with collages and illustration. His designs take you on a trip through time and space, into the depths of forests and the realms of our galaxy in search of natural beauty.

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Konstantin Kofta FW18 "Sophro"

April 13, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, Fashion, Portfolios, Ukraine, 2018

Kofta is the couture label specializing in the art of leather craft using futuristic techniques. Based in Kiev since 2010, Ukraine, the studio has the ability to carry out individual projects from start to finish, allowing them to be designed, developed and produced in-house. Here the bag is not just an accessory but an expression of art.

It is a melange of imagery and allegory, fusion of raw contemplations, tameless nature, deep forests, timeworn buildings and ancient architecture.

@konstantinkofta

Neave Bozorgi

April 13, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Fashion, Photography, Portfolios, USA, 2018

Receiving an impressive amount of acclaim in just three years since picking up a camera, Neave Bozorgi is a Los Angeles-based photographer who creates images that are intimate in nature and saturated with sensual nostalgia.

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Inner Dialogue by photographer Romain Laurent

April 12, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, France, Portfolios, 2018

"Romain Laurent has a knack for creating striking photos—images you can’t un-see, the kind you just have to click on. With his work it’s often hard to tell what you’re looking at, which elements are digitally composited, and what’s real (is any of it?). “Inner Dialogue” is more obvious its trickery, but nothing here is over-edited. Less is always more and he uses just enough." via Bo7M

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GIFs for Red Bull Radio animated by Baillat Studio

April 11, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Agencies, Canada, Graphic Design, 2018

"Relentless with their mission of diffusing emerging music onto the scene, Red Bull launched Red Bull Radio. The web based radio station offers an eclectic programming that also includes interviews with musicians, critics, industry thinkers and music mavens. Recognizing that every show has its own identity, Baillat set a unique tone corresponding to each of their themes. In keeping with the modus operandi of the Baillat's Red Bull campaign concept, the studio called on various local illustrators and graphic designers to unleash a series of animated GIFs. Staying in true form, the results resonated in outstanding, eccentric and upbeat renditions."

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FIELD - Hidden Layer

April 10, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Digital Art, Motioncollector, United Kingdom, 2018

In a new experimental short film, FIELD explore how human identity could change as a result of artificial intelligence.

"Hidden Layer looks at the way neural networks augment our identities and change the way we think and behave. With AI increasing its influence on the decisions we make and the information we digest, how will algorithmic structures infiltrate and influence human concepts of self? What happens to AI - augmented humans if the structures they rely on collapse?

Often described in terms of what it can do for us, a neural network is complex, self-evolving and dynamic. It is also capable of decision-making autonomously, without human intervention. As such, artificial intelligence algorithms can be understood both as a way to analyse today’s complex world and as beings distinct from human influence.

The name Hidden Layer comes from a term used in the development of artificial neural networks. The Hidden Layer is neither seen nor understood by humans; it is the part of the network in which the main computation driving the network is done. Hidden Layer is part of FIELD’s broader series of works titled Second Nature, which examines Machine Learning as an entity."

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London based digital art studio FIELD work at the intersection of art, technology and design, and explore “colour, life, and infinity though new technology and a research-led approach - creating high-tech experiences with a human touch”. FIELD create expressive and dynamic artworks for digital platforms, including audiovisual installations, digital artefacts, and interactive films. FIELD are known for their unique approach to aesthetics, blending the latest digital technologies with nature and human subjects. FIELD’s body of work takes many different shapes, from apps to installations. Their work Energy Flow is an app experience weaving animated story lines into audiovisual pieces that change endlessly and is different for each viewer.

It was listed among the best apps from The Guardian Technology blog. For Deutsche Bank, FIELD collaborated with Universal Everything to create a large-scale installation using a 12-metre wide screen with atmospheric cityscapes, hand-drawn scenes, patterns and landscape animations that were generated in realtime that made every iteration unique. The studio collaborates with cultural institutions and global brands on commissioned artworks and generative design solutions, including Nike, Deutsche Bank, HP, Nokia, GE, and AOL. Their work has been exhibited at cultural institutions and galleries internationally, including at La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; The China Museum for Digital Art, Beijing; and The British Library, London. FIELD has also been included in festival programs at Ars Electronica and onedotzero.

Força by João Xará

April 10, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, Portugal, Sculpture, 2018

Portuguese student of ESAD School João Xará visualizes the invisible concept of force through his design of glass vessels. The pre-blown glass shapes squeezed by clamps demonstrate the action of force in an intuitive and direct way through the materiality and given direction.

Mathery Studio

April 10, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Branding, Agencies, Advertising, Italy, Graphic Design, 2018

"Mathery" is an award-winning Italian studio founded by duo of art directors Erika Zorzi and Matteo Sangalli. The catalysation of their ideas often turns as a long-term collaborations with leading agencies and producers, and even festivals like OFFF Barcelona. For their latest edition Mathery imagined "OFFF" name as abbreviation to "Oysters Flavoured Food Festival" brining the outstanding visuals for the campaign.

@matherystudio

Filling the memory voids

April 09, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Russia, 2018

Russian motion artist Danil Rusanov shares his project "Filling the memory voids" made few years ago

Perception is one’s personal opinion. Any image invites the audience to ponder, offering at least several ways of perception. The image is forming an idea using sensitive and logical tools. The idea is being formed when a spectator gives the image a permit to do this. An image is always spots, dots and lines. A spectator builds up the inner nexus and images while just seeing the spots paly on the screen. The brain transforms flat form into something having a volume, parts are merged into the whole. The question is what a spectator sees – a genuine true image or the personal perception of it, formed on a basis of one’s experience and the knowledge of the world. What if it will contain the minimum specification, if it’s gonna be a digital noise, a random combination of 0 and 1? What if the absence of information is a message itself? A sign for one’s brain to think up, to invent the necessary information. The lack of information inside of a given context is a self-sustained image, giving an impulse to a further chain of thoughts. I invite a spectator to dive inside of himself, when he lets the screen be almost blank and sets his imagination free. All the logical thinking is off and the opportunity to observe is on.

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Synth-pop collages by Sandra Aguilera

April 09, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Portfolios, Spain, Instagram, Photography, 2018

Artist, designer and photographer based in Barcelona - Sandra Aguilera, passionate about art in all dimensions playing with the concepts. Famous for creating a fresh and vibrant conceptual art, and transforming day-to- day objects into something attractive through sarcasm and composition, where bright colors predominate in the works. Her inspirations are artists like Edward Hooper, or even Wes Anderson

Apart from artistic images Sandra creates bright and casual women accessories for any occasion

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Ariadna Arnes finds beauty in strangeness

Do You Trust This Computer?

April 06, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, 2018

"Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence. Today, a new generation of self-learning computers has begun to reshape every aspect of our lives. Incomprehensible amounts of data are being created, interpreted, and fed back to us in a tsunami of apps, personal assistants, smart devices, and targeted advertisements. Virtually every industry on earth is experiencing this transformation, from job automation, to medical diagnostics, even military operations. Do You Trust This Computer? explores the promises and perils of our new era. Will A.I. usher in an age of unprecedented potential, or prove to be our final invention?"

Directed by Chris Paine

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Illustrative portraits by Y.D.A

April 06, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in 2018, Canada, Illustration, Portfolios

Young Canadian self-taught artist Yanah D.A working under "artdalas" moniker shows of her surreal portraits of Instagram era. Follow her on Ello for more

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Colourful Blast by Nina Minnebo

April 05, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Belgium, Illustration, Art, Portfolios, 2018

Nina is a Belgium based artist who studied Graphic Arts at the Luca School of Arts in Brussels. By mixing different techniques she produces a bold and colorful visual language. Often using acrylic, ink, watercolour & pencils.

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The imagined modernist world of 3D artist Alexis Christodoulou

April 05, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Architecture, Instagram, Portfolios, 2018

"Alexis Christodoulou wasn’t always an artist, though his dreamy 3D renders of imagined modernist interiors belies his brief tenure as one. A former copywriter at an advertising agency, Christodoulou began experimenting with the 3D modelling program SketchUp during a particularly frustrating spell of screenwriting. Five years on, the Cape Town-based artist offers simply this on his Instagram profile: ‘No photographs. Just renders.’"

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From Barnoldswick to Leeds with illustrator Anton Marrast

April 04, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

Once our favourite illustrator Anton Marrast (previously), disappeared from our radars for years and we are happy to have him back with a new artworks. just few days ago he shared travel sketches from a narrowboat trip from Barnoldswick to Leeds he did in England

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Song Wei Sculpture

April 04, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, China, Portfolios, Sculpture, 2018

Leading figurative Chinese artist Song Wei is definitely recognised for his "Porcelain Hamburger" (made of fibreglass) and less for the rest of his body of work in classic oil on canvas spiced with Asian cultural twists.

Across the globe, his Porcelain Hamburger will be seen in the bank’s publicity advertisements on print. The image was specifically selected for its representation of a perfect marriage between East and West, the hybrid aesthetics of both cultures, and a perfect ambassador for a bank that serves the world.

Song Wei’s bears are often depicted in everyday situations: eating a lollipop, playing with toys, and even sitting on a toilet bowl. While his works appear joyous, carefree and fun loving, there are undoubtedly deeper meanings behind them. His paintings not only remember his childhood memories and adult experiences, but also reflect the impact of Western merchandise, the changes in Chinese values and mentality, traditions and modernisation, honesty and controversy, capitalism and consumerism, as well as the welding of Eastern and Western cultures in our metropolitan societies.

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