Ricardo Cavolo

July 28, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Portfolios, Street Art, Spain

Ricardo Cavolo is a Spanish artist based in sunny Barcelona. His eclectic international style is based on relationships with folk art, traditional and modern tattoo culture, Western religious imagery and the tribal arts.

Cavolo’s art is all about stories, characters and their experiences across time. Utilising art as a complex narrative, Cavolo often focuses on portraiture. These depictions propel protagonists to champion their unique tales. Referencing religious and historical fiction illustrations, his use of symmetry and symbolism connect to a modern and playful audience. Cavolo’s portfolio features public murals and art exhibitions across the globe from Paris to Moscow and Mexico City to Hong Kong. Notably Cavolo’s body of work includes illustrations, publications, fashion collaborations and a wide variety of commissioned works.

@ricardocavolo

Configurable by Felipe Pantone

July 27, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020

Artist Felipe Pantone Studio opens up as a producer and distributor of art editions. His recent affair is an affordable interactive project Configurable™ where you can create and obtain unique artwork.

Configurable™ Modular Art System is a platform in which the user actively interacts with the elements of Pantone's work, in order to create a physical piece

Using a programmable ColorCoordinates configurator you get a unique number that enables the CMY colour position on an Integration System and an artwork is created by Felipe Pantone and yourself. ‘Integration System P#01’ blends 5642 possible combinations linked to a singular code.

@felipepantone

@configurableart

Akatre Studio

July 24, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Agencies, Fashion, Graphic Design, Photography, Portfolios, France

Akatre is a creative studio founded in 2007, in Paris, by Valentin Abad, Julien Dhivert and Sébastien Riveron. The trio works and expresses themselves in graphic design, photography, typography, video, artistic installation and musical creation for institutions in art, cultural, fashion, media and luxury.

@akatrestudio

Motelx 2020 - 14th Edition

July 23, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Portugal, Motioncollector, Agencies

@motelx 2020 - 14th Edition directed by Rui Vieira @rfvieira with the amazing dancer Almudena (@almudena_m_) and Leandro Ferrão (@leandroferrao_) as director of photography, produced by Playground

@theplaygroundpt

PYRAMID

July 22, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Portfolios, Motioncollector, South Korea

A short animation by Ihsu Yoon, artist & director with a background in architecture, created in collaboration with Giantstep as a part of Asymmetry project

“Pyramids are the ancient monuments where people worshiped their gods. My concept is re-interpreting the pyramid in modern society where individualism is appreciated. The concept of the god has been changed and considering oneself as a god has become trendy. People can experience spiritual meditation through climbing up to the top of each stair way. On each top, there are the lights on the floor and ceiling which represents their own Sun (the concept of ancient god). Maybe people can feel themselves directly connected to indescribable power. About the installation movement, each stair way is connected with each ring ground and spins by some interacting way with the audiences. By the spin, it eventually shows the extended form of cone or pyramid”

@ihsuyoon

Louisa Salas

July 21, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Mexico, Portfolios

Always curious for contrasts and bold simplicity, Lou bases her artworks in the act of balancing abstracted memories, feelings and music. All of them influenced by a minimal and modern approach to the diversity of her Latin roots.

@holalou

David Åberg

July 20, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Sweden, Portfolios, Art, Sculpture

David Åberg is a digital sculptor and 3D animator. His pieces are created virtually and without limitations of gravity and materiality. From the imagination and the limitless starting point, his artistic handicraft is filtered through a digital pen and touch-sensitive drawing screens.

Åberg’s tactile process is in this way transferred into algorithms, in the dialogue between individual creativity and descriptive mathematics, that formulates into digital spatiality and sculpture.

“There is something exciting in this technology and its relation to drawing. By drawing on the screen’s two-dimensional surface I manipulate the geometry, which presents itself as three-dimensional objects. Furthermore, I see the media as a metaphor for the constructed, virtual, and intangible, and as raising questions about multidimensional realities and glitches in our communication.”

David Åberg is inspired by imaginary and esoteric art as well as sci-fi pop culture aesthetics and mythologies. With roots in art history, one might trace a clear relationship to natural forms in his practice, where the more strict language of technology is present. David Åberg's sculptures become detailed and hyper-realistic and simultaneously cause a transformation that turns away from our physical reality. In his universe - in the electronic, non-tactile version of reality - he builds up a fictitious gallery of personalities.and examines issues relating to fantasy identities and transhumanism.

@david_aaberg

Skin Deep by Miguel Marques and Pascal Schonlau

July 17, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Photography, Portfolios, Spain, United Kingdom

Madrid-based art director Miguel Marques and photographer Pascal Schonlau from London created a series of visual artworks under the theme SKIN DEEP. It's a visual essay that addresses how human bodies merge to other digital mediums, addressing 2D photography with 3D illustrations in this collaboration.

SKIN DEEP

The ability to recognise finest nuances and deviations when observing the appearance of a person is often tested by the abundance of purely digitally created bodies in cinema, print and online. Utilising a combination of photography and 3D elements we created a series of images that show a progression from the original human shape towards an abstracted virtual representation.

@jmmarques

@pascal_schonlau

Wetlands by Lucy Hardcastle

July 16, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Portfolios, United Kingdom

Lucy Hardcastle creates an interactive landscape visualising her own brainwaves, as part of the studio’s 2020 rebrand

Having used the lockdown period as an opportunity to define the studio’s mission, values and brand identity, Lucy Hardcastle Studio is unveiling a new website incorporating an interactive feature, based on a data visualisation of her own brainwaves.

Wetlands is a self-initiated project that outlines the vision and approach of the studio. By combining Lucy’s own neurological responses to material tactility with the user’s own interactions on the site, the project creates a unique digital landscape that constantly shifts in colour and form as the two data sources intersect.

Developed in consultation with specialists in the field of neuroscience, the project takes Lucy’s personal response to sensory materials as its starting point. A wearable headset was used to track electrical activity in her brain, as well as heart-rate and breath-rate, during stimulating experiences with different surfaces while in a closed-eye meditative state. These data were compiled into linear waves, graphs and cross-sections, which were then translated into a 3D landscape – a spectrum of colour and wave movement that acts almost as a 3D graph.

This landscape captures Lucy’s responses to a range of material textures, including glass, suede, acetate, slime, silicone rubber, sandpaper and silk, translating her brainwaves and other bodily data into high-points and valleys, rock pools of fluid and flurries of different coloured particles. Accessing the site, the user is brought into this realm, and encouraged to play with their surroundings. As they navigate the 360-degrees digital space, their interactions disperse colour and trigger wave motions in correlation with the data, creating mini-ecosystems or tides. The more the user plays with the pools, the more they spread and melt into the landscape, creating a flooded effect, with the outcome of an ever-changing digital environment.

“For our new identity, we were inspired by the importance of presence, as a way to represent how we ‘bring the human’ into our practice. In order to feel connected and personal to the foundations of the studio, we chose to use my sensitivity to materials as an area of exploration and data extraction, creating a visualised algorithm that is as much living and breathing as I am. The outcome is a digital landscape in a constant state of change between the data and the individual user’s input.”

— Lucy Hardcastle

Experience Wetlands and reimagined identity at lucyhardcastle.com

@luhardcastle

Katarzyna and Marcin Owczarek Collages

July 15, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Belgium, Illustration, Portfolios

Belgium-based duo artists Katarzyna & Marcin Owczarek creates wonderful surreal Animal Collages.

“Our project is mysterious, surreal and has emotional vigour. Our works are based on the poetics of surrealism, because surrealism makes visible the invisible and transgresses the traditional bounds of reality. Our minds works in similar way, we feel comfortable in this kind of universe, so we decided to inhabit there and invite art lovers to visit us.”

@katarzyna_marcin_owczarek

Hover Through The Fog

July 14, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Netherlands, Motioncollector, Portfolios

Today, globally people struggle in isolation, while we commemorate 75 years of freedom in Europe and beyond. That juxtaposition inspired Casper Faassen to explore the beauty in isolation, fear, hope and freedom. Together with choreographer and dancer Marne van Opstal of the internationally renowned NDT, he made a short film combining these elements in an installation with dance.

@casperfaassen

Yambo Studio

July 14, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Agencies, Digital Art, Graphic Design, Israel, Motioncollector

Yambo Studio is a CGI-driven design studio that holds attention to detail above all. They specialise in the creation of vivid graphic solutions with an immersive and engaging level of detail. This attention to detail allows Yambo to create strikingly beautiful graphic solutions without compromising the principles of good, simple design.

@yambostudio

Union Haus aka Calvin Sprague

July 13, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Graphic Design, Illustration, Portfolios, Netherlands

Union Haus is Calvin Sprague, Rotterdam based freelance graphic designer & illustrator with a knack for colourful, retro & playful styles. Experimenting with basic lines & shapes, he finds harmony by bridging the gap between structure & chaos. Influenced by the early works of Saul Bass to Heinz Edelmann to Milton Glaser, he sees their eccentric, colourful style as a big reason why he grew to love design.

@unionhaus

Collage Art by Eloise Renouf

July 13, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Portfolios, United Kingdom

Artist, designer and illustrator, living and working in Nottingham, UK - Eloise Renouf creates decorative yet simple, colourful but thoughtful collages inspired by the outside and rethought on the inside.

@eloiserenouf

Cecilie Manz Studio

July 10, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Design, Denmark, Portfolios

Danish designer, Cecilie Manz creates furniture, glass, lamps and related products, mainly for the home. In addition to her work with industrial products, her experimental prototypes and more sculptural one-offs make up an important part of her work and approach:

“I view all my works as fragments of one big, ongoing story where the projects are often linked or related in terms of their idea, materials and aesthetics, across time and function. Some objects remain experiments or sculpted ideas, others are made more concrete and turn into functional tools.

The task or project itself often holds the key to inspiration; ideas don’t come from waiting but from leg-work, drafting and trials. My work goes from the inside out, and a project has to possess a sound, strong and relevant idea or functional justification before I address the actual physical design. My work has always revolved around simplicity, the process of working toward a pure, aesthetic object.”

— Cecilie Manz

@ceciliemanz

Sound by: Killawat

Digital Decade SE 2020: VR Exhibition

July 09, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Digital Decade, Motioncollector, United Kingdom

With no doubts, 2020 is a total game changer. Digital officially becomes a part of our life in all possible ways and words “Internet”, “IoT”, “Online” does not make any sense now. It is life in all its beauty, pixels and germs..

During Digital Decade 2020 we hand-picked several artists and asked them to come up with visual representations of post-2020, post-isolation and post-identity. From today this set of artworks is available for collecting on Sedition Art Platform. The platform is dedicated to collecting digital art limited copies that you can enjoy as a part of your digital life, on a laptop, mobile or even wall frame TV.

This release is accompanied by VR/3D Gallery that you can access anytime and enjoy the atmosphere of a late night party (thanks to Ben Paul for the music mixtape). The exhibition features works by Krista Kim, Aristarkh Chernyshev, Eliška Sky, Azamat Akhmadbaev, Joëlle Snaith, Dimitri Daniloff and Grégoire A. Meyer.

Enter 3D Gallery

digitaldecade.net/2020

Quarantine by Misha Shyukin

July 09, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Germany, Motioncollector, Portfolios

Quarantine is a first self-initiated project created by a newly formed studio SHY run by Colgne-based motion designer Misha Shyukin.

”While being in lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic we spent quite a lot of time discussing face masks and various protective apparel options, which eventually ended in designing our own protective gear and experimenting with it. We used our newly found spare time to explore new software and to get outside of our comfort zone.”

@studio.shy

Digital Decade SE 2020

July 08, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Digital Decade, Events, United Kingdom, Russia

Special Edition of Digital Decade

Sedition + Designcollector

Digital Decade SE 2020 is the latest in the Digital Decade series of events by DesignCollector. Digital Decade is the brainchild of Designcollector founder Arseny Vesnin, who has curated and coordinated public phygital art events in London, St Petersburg and Barcelona since 2013. Since then Designcollector have presented the work of more than 150 pioneering, exploratory and celebrated artists working between the physical and the digital, as well as partnering with organisations including OFFF, Ello, Depositphotos and FutureFest.

On 8 July a new collection of digital editions curated by Designcollector Creative Network launches on Sedition. The exhibition features works by Krista Kim, Aristarkh Chernyshev, Eliška Sky, Azamat Akhmadbaev, Joëlle Snaith, Dimitri Daniloff and Grégoire A. Meyer.

Virtual Exhibition available by the link below

Digital Decade events are live artistic responses to current changes (geopolitical, environmental, social) influencing life in the digital age. For the latest iteration, held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, artists have creative speculative and critical comments on how phygital life may change post-pandemic. The artists participating present works in a range of media including photography, audiovisual collaborations, 3D digital sculptures and animation

Krista Kim

Continuum remix v.1 (w/ Ligovskoï and Efren Mur) (video)

Grégoire A. Meyer

When The Drape Falls

Eliška Sky

Ultrahumans (video)

Dimitri Daniloff

Human Unlimited

Azamat Akhmadbaev

Bite tongue, deep breaths

Aristarkh Chernyshev

No Color, No Taste, No Odour, or Critical Update
ISOLATION

Joëlle Snaith

Distortion (video)

On 8 July Designcollector release Digital Decade SE 2020, featuring seven digital limited edition artworks, available to collect on Sedition as a full set or individually. The works can also be experienced in a VR exhibition which features a mixtape by Ben Paul

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Swiss grit by Chris Ashworth

July 06, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Graphic Design, Portfolios, Typography, United Kingdom

Chris Ashworth is an English graphic designer known for being the executive global creative director for Getty Images and the art director of the magazine Ray Gun in 1997. Ashworth graduated from the York College of Arts & Technology in 1990 with a degree in graphic design. In collaboration with some friends, he opened a design studio called Orange, which created black and white, easily photocopiable flyers for local nightclubs.

Ashworth is inspired by Swiss design aesthetics, and refers to his own style as "Swiss grit". This style is characterised by hyper detail, barcodes, horizontal lines, and the use of multiple transparent layers.

@ashworthchris

Figurative Murals by Nadya O

July 06, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Russia, Street Art

Russian female urban artist Nadya O, easily creates large murals despite the established opinion of her male counterparts that there are a not that much women artists around. She brings a new figurative meaning to the old walls distastefully tagged before.