Tattoo and dot painting art by Evan Lorenzen
Denver based artist Evan Lorenzen creates outstanding dot painting miniatures and tattoos
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Pierre Schmidt
German artist Pierre Schmidt, born in 1987 and also known as “drømsjel”, creates mind-bending imagery that combines digital illustration and collage techniques. He takes old-fashioned 20th-century style (sometimes pornographic) photographs and puts his own twist on them by manipulating each photo with his own vision of surrealism. Using photo manipulation, illustration, and collage, Pierre has found the perfect balance within each medium he utilizes, creating a diverse set terrifyingly beautiful pieces of art. His art can be found in Cosmopolitan, Vogue Italia, Hi-Fructose Magazine and Vice.
Gentle Monster: The Circle of Life by AES+F
The Circle of Life
After consistent efforts to perfect eyewear design, GENTLE MONSTER presents the Nano Collection campaign ‘The Circle of Life’. Through a collaboration with visual artist collective AES+F, the art film ‘The Circle of Life’ was created simultaneously as a pursuit of our origins and of our future, where we reach out to fantastical creatures as if for our dreams and where our life has no beginning or end.
GENTLE MONSTER invites you into an imaginarium where surreal creatures and strange structures float in the sky, and where Nano Collection’s bizarre products evoke a rush of emotions.
nastPlas - Surreal Art for the screen wall
Nastplas are an international creative duo based in Madrid, Spain and formed in 2006 by illustrator Fran R. Learte 'drFranken' and creative director Natalia Molinos 'Na' (together 'Nastplas Team'). Their work combines an impressive range of digital elements and abstract patterns with which they develop elaborate pieces of art with a deeply aesthetic. As many of other artists they are successfully entering NFT marketplace right now
HAVOC, 2021
QUO Horse
DEIMOS
Cameron Burns
Cameron Burns known as CaptvArt specialises in music album cover art and animation. He's worked with Run The Jewels, Daddy Yankee, summer walker, ACER computers, The Lumineers, Neon trees, The Word Alive, Juice Wrld, MGK and many more. Recently he is into NFT scene doing his drops on Foundation and Knownorigin
Alina Grasmann art
Alina Grasmann is a painter based in Munich.
“I am a painter and I mostly work in series and in large scale and oil on canvas. Each series is based on a specific location, that I try to examine more closely in my paintings. I have just finished the work on my last series „Sculpting in Time“, which was on view at Fridman Gallery in NYC until early January. The paintings show rooms of the urban utopia Arcosanti, which was designed by Frank Ilyod Wright student Paolo Soleri in the desert of Arizona. Ideally, my work is shifting somewhere between fact and fiction. The rooms shown in „Sculpting in Time“ become chambers of wonders, in the sense of baroque imaginariums. I try to fill a ruin, so to speak, with life again. But you will never find people in my paintings.”
Media.Work for SPACE10
Media Work studio run by Maxim Zhestkov has been commissioned by SPACE10 Lab to develop a set of scenes about the global climate stressors that captured the essence of each phenomena.
SPACE10 is a research and design lab, on a mission to create a better everyday life for people and the planet.
Exploring societal, technological, and environmental shifts likely to influence people’s lives in the coming years, they wanted to visualize the different ways that climate crisis is manifesting itself, through climate stressors.
“To support their different projects and articles relating to the crisis, these visuals will then be used to highlight in a beautiful way, nature we all love and remember.
Our task was to create visualizations of three phenomena: wildfires, floods, and droughts. The focus was on how these processes unfold over time and, eventually, become massive forces that alter entire ecosystems.” - says Media Work
“Visually, we looked for the balance between aesthetically pleasing and alarming — we had to show the phenomena as something important that is happening here and now, although, not to create frightening catastrophic images that would leave the viewer hopeless.” - continues Media Work
Read more on Visual Research of this case study on Media.Work
Jon Ching Art
Jon Ching is a self-trained artist originally from Kaneohe, Hawaii and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Steeped in natural beauty of O’ahu, Hawai’i, his island upbringing instilled in him indigenous lessons of appreciation and respect for nature, forming the foundation of his fascination with the natural and wild world, which deeply influences and drives his current work.
Jon’s devoted art practice and detailed realism is inspired by the interconnectedness of nature. His work is a surreal imagining of what limitless wonders and combinations nature can produce. New creatures and symbioses emerge in his meticulously rendered oil paintings, exemplifying the endless potential of life on Earth through metaphor and allegory.
Jon’s ultimate hope is to inspire love and admiration for the universally unique beauty and intrigue of our planet. He regularly works to bring awareness to endangered species, the current mass extinction crisis and climate change and continues to partner with environmental organizations in fundraising and educational efforts.
OFFF 2021 Virtual Experience
Introducing OFFF.INC, the corporation generating hallways to further worlds. This is the doorway to the many phenomenal worlds interpreted by each OFFF artist's personal vision.
Until we can meet face-to-face again, OFFF moves to a virtual world powered by Futura Space where all the activities scheduled for the 2021 edition will be celebrated. OFFF is hosting an immersive experience as you’ve never seen before. They are excited to introduce you to out-of-this-world realities. This metaverse broadly understood as a persistent, shared virtual realm is no longer just fodder for science fiction.
“This world OFFF 2021 powered by Futura Space will always be on; it’s live and in real time; its experiences and content will be created for and by our community. The metaverse will allow you to interact with other participants through personalized avatars: make new friends, chat, networking, walk through the different spaces of this virtual world, attend the 36 talks of our speakers and workshops that will be organized, a free zone with surprise content.
We conceive these other worlds not as single destinations to which everyone goes by default, but as a complex network consisting of browsers, indexes and portals. One constantly buzzing with activity, where our community can go whenever you want, and do whatever you want.
One significant feature of the metaverse is its interoperability. That is, my ability to travel across it, hopping frictionlessly from portal to portal.
Welcome to the OFFF metaverse, alternate digital realities where people work, play, and socialize. You can call it the metaverse, the mirror world, the Magicverse, the Spatial internet, or Live Maps, but one thing is for certain, it’s coming and it’s a big deal.”
OFFF 2021 SPEAKERS LINE-UP
Wade and Leta / Vallée Duhamel / Raisa Pardini
Lobulo / Stefan Sagmeister / Adam J. Kurtz
Beeple / Z by HP / Filipe Carvalho / Gavin Strange (aka JamFactory)
James White (aka Signalnoise) / Hort Berlin / It's a Living
Mucho / Saam Gabbay / Adobe
GMUNK / Josh Higgins / Joshua Davis / Lo Siento
Universal Everything / Musketon / Nathan Bell / Omelet / State
Studio Dumbar / Dropbox Design / Cookie Studio
Tendril / Future Deluxe / Max Siedentopf / Baugasm
Creative Mentorship by Adobe and OFFF Academy / Niege Borges
Zipeng Zhu / Editor X
How do you get in?
You will be able to access this universe directly from a link that we will share with you later, without the need to download applications and from any PC or Mac. It will be preferable to access from the Google Chrome browser. If you use MacOs Big Sur, you must access from Mozilla Firefox. The platform will not be accessible from your cell phone or tablet. You will need to create a username and password and enter your login ID to access.
Open portals
OFFF 2021 will be a 6 days event from May 3rd to May 8th, and will run everyday starting at 12:00 to 21:00. As soon as we open our portal, you will be able to access our virtual platform, create your personalized avatar and walk through our world.
One Thousand Ksoids
1000 original and collectible KSOIDS 3D characters by VFX artist Danil Krivoruchko -- NFTs with a heart and meaning, now at OpenSea
Meet the Ksoids, an impossibly addictive NFT collectible that not only creates a world all its own, but also helps protect our world.
Each one of these curious creatures was generated by a hand-crafted algorithm and then lovingly selected by creator Danil Krivoruchko to join an elite group of 1,000 Grade-A Ksoids, all available to the discerning investor.
The first few drops will be sold on the NFT marketplace OpenSea, and available in randomly selected packs of 1, 4, and 10. It’s also possible there will be a few easter eggs thrown into the mix, but that’s all we’re saying for now.
Charity Donations
Thankfully adopting a Ksoid doesn’t have to mean decimating either their habitat or ours. In an attempt to counteract NFTs’ negative environmental impact, Ksoids will work to reduce their footprint through the purchase of carbon offsets.
Not only that, but 20% of all profits will be donated to the Orangutan Outreach, an organization dedicated to protecting orangutans in their native forests, while also caring for orphaned orangutans.
Brooklyn-based Myshli Studio was founded by Danil Krivoruchko, a motion designer, director, and visual effects artist. Krivoruchko's NFT works are already well-known to digital art collectors, having been featured on platforms such as KnownOrigin and Foundation; the Ksoids will mark his premiere on OpenSea. His digital art work is also well-known in the film community. Last October, a collaborative group of designers and artists under the direction of Krivoruchko used 3D-imaging to transform the sci-fi novel "Blindsight" by Peter Watts into a short film. The movie has won over a dozen awards, including the Best Animation Award at the Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival. In the past 17 years, Danil has collaborated with clients such as Apple, Nike, Boeing, Verizon, and Intel, to name a few.
Phygital Masks by Ikeuchi Hiroto
These days you cannot be 100% sure what you see on the screen, things can be real, virtual or mixed as physical and digital what is called simply “Phygital”. Here is artist Ikeuchi Hiroto creating her cyborgs with elements of phygital armory
Airo Car by Heatherwick Studio
London-based Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its concept for the Airo electric car for IM Motors that will "vacuum up pollutants from other cars".
Named Airo, the electric car will be fitted with a HEPA – high-efficiency particulate air – filtering system that will actively clean pollution. It will have both autonomous and driver-controlled modes.
“Airo isn’t simply another electric car that doesn’t pollute the air. Instead, using the latest HEPA-filter technology, it goes further by also vacuuming up pollutants from other cars as it drives along.”
The car has been designed with a flexible interior with rotating seats so that it can be reconfigured into a "multi-functional room".
With the seats facing each other a four-leaf table can be unfolded to create a dining space or a screen extended to watch films or play games.
The car's interior can also be turned into a bedroom as the contoured seats fully recline to create a double bed
The car, which is set to go into production in 2023, was designed for IM Motors – a car brand created by Chinese car company SAIC Motor, online retailer Alibaba Group and the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Group.
Where The War Things Are by Schoony
We are very proud to welcome new and prominent artist Schoony to the NFT scene on Superrare platform.
Schoony’s background is rooted in special effects and prosthetics for the film industry. His career spans over 30 years. Since the age of fifteen he has worked on over a hundred films. His work and reputation for high quality and pioneering techniques has reached far corners of the world thanks to the representation of Maddox Gallery. Schoony uses 3D technologies alongside the more traditional methods in his art pieces. He continually pushes boundaries within this discipline.
Designcollector: What inspired the work in your first NFT drop?
Schoony: For the first drop with SuperRare I thought I would go back to one of my early works. Where The War Things Are is a variation on my Boy Soldier that has been a motif that has stuck with my work over the years and been very symbolic. Where the War Things Are is a throwback to my time spent in Melbourne, Australia where I was working on the film Where the Wild Things Are. I thought I would celebrate my first drop on SuperRare by recreating the piece digitally.
Where The War Things
Read our interview on Superrare Editorial
Studio Marcus Kraft
Zurich-base Marcus Kraft studio is celebrating its 10th anniversary of delivering top-notch graphic design projects with the bigger picture in mind, great attention to detail, and typographic quality. They strongly believe that design should be more than ‹just› beautiful and aesthetic. The following ten principles* build the foundation for Marcus Kraft work and available as a Manifesto
Rukmunal Hakim Illustrations
Rukmunal Hakim (b.1983) is a self-taught artist and illustrator based in South Tangerang, Indonesia. he takes inspirations from all living, natural creatures, and personal anecdotes in his monochromatic visual artwork.
Being born with colour blind condition this does not stop him to keep creating and experimenting with artworks using color, both digital and traditional
His works have been exhibited in Jakarta, Bandung, Japan, Scotland, and the Netherlands, among others.
Life the Certainty of Uncertainty
"The life of a person who goes up and down, is uncertain" is another meaning of "Yang Rebah Bangun, Karena Terinjak". Summarizes the many things that have happened during my nearly eleven years as a self-taught artist. The collection of visual works here are stories of how I see the path of my journey as an artist who has never been on a flat and straight path. It is boring to hear about someone's struggles when they become an artist, such as the love and heartbreak pop songs that are repeated over and over again. This is also a question for myself, until when to make works that are always about self-internalization? How about a work in the form of social commentary? Does the work I create have a place and function for society? Or is it just an artist's creative masturbation?
These questions are part of my work journey. Intertwined with the inability to identify self-image, low self-esteem, to the urge to commit suicide. An extreme ride like a roller coaster. These ten works summarize the journey, as a visual record for me, a reminder that so far, the road has not been easy. Do I keep walking, taking a break, or stop?
The online solo exhibition showed 10 digital artworks that I created from 2019-2021. This collection is also special because apart from digital working techniques, these 10 artworks are also a collection of my works with color. A big step for me as an artist, after years of getting used to black-and -white and monochromatic color schemes. This solo exhibition is held on my personal website : www.rukmunalhakim.com
Auguste Lefou
Digital artist Auguste Lefou creates works that can be seen as a perfect illustrations for any of your favourite sci-fi book
Pak
The Fungible by Pak
The Fungible by Pak - Sotheby's x Nifty Gateway
The history is made at night. Mighty digital artist Pak has completed an auction organised by Sotheby’s and Nifty Gateway and paved a path to the history of NFT Art on April 14th 2021.
Pak is an omniscient designer/developer/wizard, one of the leads of the design scene as the founder of Undream and one of the prominent social media figures as the creator of Archillect, the synthetic curator. Pak is currently at uncharted space experimenting with new forms of creation and communication, discovering, learning and teaching along the journey.
“In the Sotheby’s sale, top prices were paid for Pak works that showcased a level of market savvy and gamelike complexity that would be impossible with a canvas or sculpture in real life. “The Switch,” which sold to California cryptocurrency investor Damian Medina for $1.4 million, is a digital image of a rotating, black-and-white geometric shape.” text via WSJ
“Another work, “The Pixel,” sold for $1.4 million to artist Eric Young and elicited bids from many top NFT art collectors in part because its medium-gray monochrome represents a single pixel, the building block of digital imagery.”
The auction for the open edition “Cube” was set up in a way of mathematical game explained neatly in this tweet and hardly understandable for us but at the end it went as 23151 sold editions of a single Cube. Obtaining a sequence of single Cubes made collectors to receive an NFT of 5, 10, 20, 100, 500 and 1000x1000 cubes based on how many cubes they own. This action burst a second sale in the form of pyramid. The top secondary market buyers will get other unique NFTs. This creates buying pressure in the secondary market, further adding value to single cubes.
Unlike the debut of Beeple’s The First 5000 days NFT on Christies', Pak created a brain puzzle for those who a seriously familiar with math and cryptocurrencies leaving others watching this Game agape.
Ana Ayala Illustrations
Barcelona-based illustrator Ana Ayala shares with us her love with colour and shapes that form a life scaled visual storytelling
Tomasz Mro illustrative portraits
Young UK-based illustrator Tomasz Mro specialises in creating ethereal portraits with a haunting mood and atmosphere, often exploring different emotions and expressions within his pieces.
Manuel Fernandez
Manuel Fernandez is a Spanish artist making internet art projects since 2011. His artistic practice begins at the intersection of art, popular culture and Internet. He explores the impact of technologies on society and their consequences in the way we perceive and experience reality.
Manuel investigates on new processes involved in the creation and production of the art object, in its distribution, presentation and in their consumption in the era of Internet of things.
