Sunsetting by Jeff Masamori

August 14, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Portfolios, Photography, USA

Jeff is a Senior Art Director at Huckberry, an occasional freelancer, and chef de cuisine at Mi Casa. Beside these he loves shooting and exploring the outdoors, and recently comes up with a long-term project “Sunsetting” - a zine featuring selected shots made in SF.

Sunsetting

“At the end of a 10-year spell living in the sunset district of San Francisco, I created this short series of photographs documenting the character of the area—taken at the time of day from which the neighborhood gets its name.”

@jffmsmri

Glitch Art by Azamat Akhmadbaev

August 13, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Digital Decade, Glitch, Portfolios, Russia, Art

Azamat Akhmadbaev (b.1991) is a visual artist who lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He works across many disciplines including painting, photography, video and digital art. His artworks operates in the gap between glitch art, abstraction, minimalism and graphic art. Also he is a founder/editor-in-chief of @dontpostme_magazine - a magazine about contemporary art. Private collections in Russia, Spain, the USA, the UK and Poland

We’ve approached Azamat this July to create an artwork for our Special Edition of @Digital.Decade reflecting on the current situation in the world. He came up with “Bite tongue, deep breaths” available for collecting on @seditionart for your digital home and mobile screens.

BITE TONGUE, DEEP BREATHS, 2020 is a part of an ongoing series of digital artworks by Azamat Akhmadbaev. This artwork continues to explore the limits of digital art world, and it was inspired by a song by Clams Casino & Imogen Heap ‘I’m God’.

Having taken the repeating words ‘bite tongue, deep breaths’ from the song, the artist has transformed a sampled song’s melody and text into the colorful artwork with infinite number of layers. Using glitched, vandalized images and texts (in a special, manually designed fonts) as brushes on a digital canvas, Akhmadbaev represents a dualism of the digital and the real, physical world. Technically, the artist checks out the ability of auto and manual software tools to create the image with glitched, lost, degraded effects. Conceptually, the artist launches the self-reflexive process with a manifestation of his attitude to the legacy of the post-war (abstract painting) and 90’s (usage of computer technologies in art) periods. And references to the popular song are the digitally manipulated links with culture and time in history discourse.

@azamatakhmadbaev

FRIENDS

August 12, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Advertising, Agencies, Branding, Graphic Design, Portfolios, USA

A collaborative design company in New York “Friends” showcases their long visual journey through mindset changing projects and collaborations, applying a practice they call Design for Preferred Futures

@madewithfriends

Polina Okean

August 11, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Illustration, Portfolios, Russia, Street Art

Russian illustrator Polina Okean easily transforms her colourful works to murals and back to prints. Following a minimal visual approach creating quite self-esteemed and good looking characters

@okeanch

Ricardo Gonzalez Lettering

August 10, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, USA, Street Art, Lettering, Mexico

IT’S A LIVING is not just a statement but it is also a life philosophy for Ricardo Gonzalez, a designer, and artist from Durango México currently living in Brooklyn. His signature script style can be easily recognised from large scale murals to commercial work for some of the biggest brands to a simple sticker in the streets.

The ambiguity in the typographical messages continually creates a dialog between the viewer and the artwork. “A word is an image” and an image can be interpreted in so many ways, the direct approach of typography has been an exploring path where the main goal is to question our daily living and to produce a positive impact. After all, it’s a living.

@itsaliving

Morten Lasskogen

August 10, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Denmark, Portfolios

Denmark-based artist, Morten Lasskogen a.k.a Moteh on Instagram has people sold with his unique artwork that just pulls you in and fascinates

@iammoteh

Super You AR by Universal Everything

August 07, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Motioncollector, United Kingdom

Super You is an AR costume arts experiment by Universal Everything. Aim your camera at your super friend, see them transform and swipe to change costumes. There are 11 super costumes to choose from, which also sample the colours of the clothes you are wearing.
Using the latest body tracking technology, film your Super You taking a walk in the park, dancing in the kitchen or relaxing on the sofa. Make a film of your creation and share it directly from your device’s gallery to social media, using the hashtag #SuperYouAR to join in with this collaborative artwork.

(It is compatible with devices which have the Apple A12 and A13 chip.)

@universaleverything

Brushes by The Dink

August 06, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Portfolios, Motioncollector, United Kingdom

London-based motion designer The Dink shares his experimental short that follows the movement and personality of various household items. The environment that each brush finds itself in directly impacts the way they move. with each scene depicting a unique movement and flow providing an individual character to each brush. The collection of brushes chosen, each have very distinctive bristles and textures in order to showcase the contrast of each animation.

Design, animation and direction by The Dink
Sound design by Echoic Audio

@the_dink_

Mineralogy Illustrations Sorted By Colour

August 05, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Illustration, USA

“When Nicholas Rougeux came across the massive collection of mineral illustrations that British naturalist and illustrator James Sowerby created at the beginning of the 19th century, he wondered what they would look like arranged by colour in a big collage. And, well, he spent the next four months doing exactly that: arranging all of Sowerby’s illustrations from the 718-plates-strong series British Mineralogy containing minerals found within Great Britain and Exotic Mineralogy containing those from beyond its borders.”

The result is the stunning project British & Exotic Mineralogy

@nickrougeux

When the drape falls, Digital Decade SE, 2020

Grégoire A. Meyer for Digital Decade SE, 2020

August 04, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Decade, Digital Art, Portfolios, United Kingdom

Award-winning artist Grégoire A. Meyer creates digital illustrations that evoke thought-provoking reactions. His art examines the body in its extraordinary simplicity as a biological, digital and aesthetic organism. He captures the essence of fleeting moments, like a splash of water or a disintegrating face, and freezes them in time in objects that appear almost tangible. His works create a complex relationship between fact and fiction.

Bride II

Bride I

We’ve approached Grégoire this July to create an artwork for our Special Edition of @Digital.Decade reflecting on the current situation in the world. He came up with “When the drape falls” available for collecting on @seditionart for your digital home and mobile screens.

““The horse represents our last hope and challenges the concept of black as darkness and as the drapes slips off with its own weight - the future of humanity will be exposed..””

— Grégoire A. Meyer

@gregoireameyer

Garden of Hubris, oil and acrylic on canvas

Sholto Blissett Art

August 03, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, United Kingdom

Sholto Blissett (b.1996) is an artist from Salisbury who lives and works in London.

Garden of Hubris I, water based emulsion on canvas on board

Growing up surrounded by the ancient sites of Stonehenge and Avebury stone circle, Sholto has always had an interest in the fictions which societies create in an attempt to understand their place in nature. Hence, Sholto’s largescale, fictional landscapes explore humankind’s relation to nature. At first glance, he evokes the Kantian division of the human and nonhuman; yet his works then turn the viewer towards the Sublime realisation that these two notions are indivisible. Thus, the original, Kantian conception of the Sublime in which the human and natural are purported as separate are challenged by the alternative arguments emerging from the events of the Anthropocene. Sholto encourages the viewer to realise their – our – inescapable intertwinement with the natural world.

@sholto.blissett.art

Yinka Ilori Studio

July 31, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Design, Nigeria, United Kingdom

Yinka Ilori is a London based multidisciplinary artist of a British-Nigerian heritage, who specialises in storytelling by fusing his British and Nigerian heritage to tell new stories in contemporary design. He began his practice in 2011 up-cycling vintage furniture, inspired by the traditional Nigerian parables and West African fabrics that surrounded him as a child.

@yinka_ilori

Daniel Carlsten

July 29, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Graphic Design, Illustration, Portfolios, Sweden

Stockholm-based digital artist and art director, Daniel Carlsten worked as an art director at Acne before starting to work freelance. He has since been commissioned by clients such as Le Bon Marché, Herman Miller, Rimowa, Van Cleef & Arpels, and done editorial work for Dwell Magazine and Nowness.

His work is represented in the permanent collections of the National Museum in Stockholm and the Röhsska Design Museum in Gothenburg.

@daniel_carlsten

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