Inktober Alternate Dictionary by Marv Castillo
Young award-winning creative designer and illustrator from Costa Rica - Marv Castillo took an Instagram challenge few month ago to come up with an ink illustration a day. During the βInktoberβ he created 31 artworks featuring the visual representation of a random character and associated word and by this created the βAlternate Dictionaryβ
Chicago by Ludwig Favre
French artist Ludwig Favre focuses on urban shooting and landscape photography in America
Abstract Portraits Kai Samuels-Davis
California-based artist Kai Samuels-Davis creates abstract portraits using large brush strokes and washed colour palette
Joe Kibra Illustrations
Talented illustrator and art director Joe Kibra creates unforgettable black and white illustrations using contrast forms and stripes as a main visual tool
Vasilina Popova
Siberian photographer Vasilina Popova focuses on beauty and fashion flows but still have a time to create personal fine art series we found in @hashtagphotomag
Sense of Colour with Alejandra Garcia
Alejandro Garcia is a modern day child of Picasso and Kandinsky living in the land of colour - Mexico. Beside abstract lines-splashes-dots exploration she creates capsule collaborations for fashion brands that are obviously stick to her sense of form and colour. No doubts it is a win-win situation for both sides having artist developing her skills and industry catching their audience with bright patterns.
Slow Lens by Vincent Leroy
βSlow Lens is the newest piece from French artist Vincent Leroy, who often explores optics and light in his large-scale installation work. The piece is suspended from above, and a network of curved, translucent lenses distorts the viewerβs perspective. Displayed en plein air, the connected lenses slowly rotate and ofter multiplied visions of the surrounding environment. Leroy installed and documented Slow Lens in various locations around Paris, including in highway lanes that were vacant due to pollution-induced city traffic restrictions.β via @Colossal
JR au Louvre
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Louvre Pyramid, @JR is creating a collaborative piece of art on the scale of the Napoleon Court. Three years after having made the Pyramid disappear, the street artist is about to bring a new light to the famed monument by realizing a gigantic collage.
Hurry up as it life only this weekend 30-31 March, 2019 - register on jraulouvre.net
Watercolour Cities by Maja WroΕska
Trained architect Maja WroΕska uses most of her talents in watercolour drawings of beautiful cities she visits
KAWS COMPANION on holiday in Hong Kong
βCOMPANION, a 121-foot-long inflatable sculpture by street artist @KAWS, launched today at Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. The reclined, monochrome figure is the largest to date for the American artist, with recent previous iterations of the project installed at the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, and on Seokchon Lake in Seoul, South Korea. The figure was purposefully designed to be in a peaceful repose, its crossed-out eyes gazing at the sky above.β
The work was launched by Hong Kong-based creative studio AllRightsReserved for the annual Hong Kong Arts Month, and will continue to occupy the harbor until March 31, 2019
Park Life lighting show by Lee Broom
Lee Broom draws a parallel between the 18th century and present-day social attitudes in his latest lighting installation, Park Life, for Space Furniture.
Weβve been following Leeβs carrier path since his debut on London Design scene more than 10 years ago. Attracted by the way he works with light and materials we canβt skip his recent milestone βa whirlwind tour of the Indo Pacific with Space Furniture, his exclusive retailer in Australia, touching down in Singapore, Australia, and New Zealandβ
βAnd so 2019 marks Lee Broomβs second visit to Australia, and the Park Life installation sees it become an unforgettable moment in time for allβ
Park Life draws on the very British history of the Pleasure Garden, at its most popular in the 18th century.
βConceptually, Park Life draws on the very British history of the Pleasure Garden, at its most popular in the 18th century. According to Lee, they were typically places for the aristocracy and the middle class to see music, art, fashion and dine and drink. Like an architectural display, they were designed with miniature waterways, mazes and pagodas. Although it was a period of high culture they became infamous for facilitating debauchery.β - continue reading on @habitusliving
1UP - Bangkok Ghost Tower β³ Modeselektor - One United Power
The new guerrilla graffiti work of world famous 1UP street art group becomes an unofficial music video for Modeselektor βOne United Powerβ. The 1UP (@up_crew_official) Crew hit the famous Bangkok Ghost Tower for the third time. In 2011 it was painted for the first time, but it got buffed 3 years later. The Crew had to come back to paint it a second time. 2017 it got buffed again and the crew booked new tickets to Bangkok in 2019
Local Preacher aka Thisset
Russian artist Semeniuta Slava (known us by Digital Decade collaboration) works non-stop creating new visual senses depicting the rise and fall of our digital generation
Santa Fe Opera illustrations by Stuart McReath
London-based illustrator Stuart McReath was commissioned to create posters for new season of Santa Fe Opera
An Uncommon Place by Reuben Wu
Weβve been following Reuben Wu for quite a long time since he started doing his βAn Uncommon Placeβ series including latest Lux Notis, Dreamscapes and Aeroglyph projects.
Western Taiwanese by Mariia Ominina
Mariia is a poster designer from Russia, she works as a digital artist, but mostly creates posters. Also, Mariia is a student of the world-famous poster artist Peter Bankov.
For the past few years, Mariia has traveled and worked extensively in Asia. She explored cultural differences, the reasons for the immigration of Western people who come to live in Asia, and the difficulties they face living in Asian countries.
Mariia's travels and explorations resulted in a three-month solo exhibition entitled "Western Taiwanese", which opened in Dounan City in November 2018. For this exhibition, the artist prepared a series of poster, and also for the first time worked in video art and installation formats.
In her posters, Mariia tried to visually reflect her impression of Yunlin County, where she lived at the time. She used a variety of visual research methods to capture cultural landscapes while creating the style of her posters. For example, she used Google Earth footage for the visuals, and Mariia also worked with local historians in the archives department. Mariia has created a vibrant palette of 6 colors along with a dynamic composition that together reflects the brilliance and quirkiness of Taiwanese nature.
Wang Chia Wei, curator of this exhibition, says Maria's exhibition was a completely new way to see Taiwanese culture. She also added that these posters are more like hokku, where the artist expresses deep meaning in simple words.
Mariia Ominina's project "Wester Taiwanese" is a fresh look at the world of poster art, where the artist expresses herself not through direct visual clues, but via vague images or meanings. Mariia managed to capture the connection between meanings and the visual component in the paradigm of postmodern aesthetics, where the classical "laws" and "norms" in design have ceased to be decisive. Her posters are lively and interesting, plunging into the confluence of new-old art, that borders between meaning and visuality; conceptualism and avant-garde.
FREIGHT
A story of weight within us
Director Sava Zivkovic - βFREIGHT started out as a pitch for a client project. We were tasked with creating a short film that could demonstrate the capabilities of an upcoming real-time ray tracing technology. There were no creative limitations, everything regarding the story or the art direction was left to us, which at time seemed like a dream project finally coming to fruition.
Weβve assembled the core team of longtime friends and collaborators, Milan NIkolic, Nebojsa Jez and myself, and developed the pitch for the project, consisting of the script, character concept art and a detailed previz, as well as some keyframe renders. A pretty strong start for any project. Unfortunately due to many variables the client couldnβt proceed with the project, which left us with a completely developed idea, one that we felt really strongly about, but without client funding to produce it.β
EDITION Hotels β³ Sila Sveta β³ Times Square
Robotic art projects and 3-D billboard installations by Sila Sveta are attracting New Yorkers to Times Square
βTimes Square is contemporarily known as the one-stop destination for tourists and the one spot New Yorkers avoid with more vigor than jury duty. Legendary Studio 54 founder and luxury hotelier Ian Schrager (@ianschrager), however, is seducing New Yorkers back to the area with the commissioning of two public-facing art projects located on the Jumbotron billboard on the corner of 47th and Broadway in celebration of the opening of The Times Square EDITION (@timessquareedition) β
βThe new billboard project features a glowing display of urban media art that fuses classic depictions of art and nature with modern technology. Schrager is collaborating with Sila Sveta, the New York-based multimedia design studio that has produced installations for the MET Gala, to bring back the sophisticated glitz and high romance that Times Square was once known for in the 1940s and 50s. What is now blocks of fast food chains and naked cowboys was once a destination for New Yorkers themselves, lined with nightclubs where one could spin to the sounds of Doo-Wop at the start of the evening then end it with a nightcap accompanied by Frank Sinatra.β
Text by Document Journal (@documentjournal)