Cyril Lancelin

June 03, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Digital Art, Portfolios, France, USA

@town.and.concrete

Cyril Lancelin develops a hybrid work made up of sculptures, immersive installations, drawings, virtual experiences and videos that forge links between the physical and the fictional.

It is from a plastic vocabulary based on primitive geometry that he links architecture and the human body, the everyday and the functional, the perennial and the ephemeral, science and nature.

He began his career working for architects and artists in Paris and Los Angeles, using 3D modeling techniques and virtual images that he developed in the 1990s.

Artist Natalie Rukavishnikova

June 02, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Illustration, Portfolios, Russia

@natalieruka

Moscow-based artist Natalie Rukavishnikova creates works in a significant illustration manner with calm sepia palette that captivates the viewer with her visual stories.

Aerial photography by Stephan Zirwes

June 01, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Germany, Photography, Portfolios

@stephanzirwes

Stephan Zirwes is a professional Photographer who is specialised in aerial photography with an artistic approach to the themes of the environment and our surroundings. He is working with still and moving pictures since the early 90s creating video installations, art-videos and visual-arts. Then focused on Art Photography and working out of Helicopters and with Drones since many years for industry, movie productions and his own art projects. Structures and (un)intended arrangements are in the focus of his free work.

Masanori Ushiki

May 31, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Illustration, Japan, Portfolios

@ushikima

Japanese illustrator Masa Ushiki likes to present work tailored to the times and media of today. From humorous portraits to fashion conscious works based on aspects of boys’ culture such as manga, animation, special effects.

Daria Pekh

May 25, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Canada, Illustration, Portfolios

@sevenofnein

Talented illustrator Daria Pekh showcases her selected artworks on Instagram

Architectural illustration by Yael Steinwurzel

May 18, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Architecture, Illustration, Israel, Portfolios

@yaelsteinwurzel

Tel-Aviv based Israeli architect Yael Steinwurzel creates beautiful illustrations that try to capture the unexpected mystery in the everyday built surrounding with detailed, digital architectural illustrations.

Jam Sutton

May 17, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Sculpture, NFT Art, Portfolios, Digital Art

@jamsutton

Jam Sutton is a British artist exploring the space between technology and antiquity. Utilising 3d scanning, augmented reality, 3d printing and AI, Jam creates sculptures exploring identity and representations of the body in our digital age.

Starring into the Abyss

Fragmented frieze (Staring into the Abyss), 2020

Jam Sutton welcomes virtual visitors to ‘Staring into the Abyss’, a show featuring new artworks created in 2020. Displayed in an augmented reality installation, the show is accessible to the public in any location.

Bitten by the decorated statues, there was nothing glistening as temples do, there was chaos, 2020

Jam Suttons’ work explores technology, the human body, figures under tension, struggle and identity through sculpture and digital composites. The new work captures the human body through frantic, chaotic, isolated, fragmented, strong and fragile sensibilities. The exhibition title reflects times of uncertainty and turbulence, facing the unknown.

Through Constant Decay

‘Through Constant Decay’ augmented reality installation featuring 11 new AR sculptures. The sculptures will be released as NFTs on @niftygateway with @ivgalleryla this week

Jam Sutton NFT

Plant Yourself by Claire Luxton

May 14, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, United Kingdom

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Claire Luxton

MTArt Agency partnered with The Crown Estate and resident artist Claire Luxton, and launched their longest current public art project, entitled “Plant Yourself”.

@claireluxtonart

“After our artist’s public art projects in Central London that started in January 2021, our artist Claire Luxton is continuing to inspire Londoners with her art. For this special project, Londoners are invited to look at their feet level as they wander on Regent Street to spot the beautiful and colourful artworks of our artist on brand new planters. The Crown Estate and Westminster City Council helped Regent Street to create a greener, safer and more accessible West End and we are proud to be stepping in and highlighting it with these super cool photographs. Our partners have worked closely with experts to carefully consider the types of plants and trees they are introducing, to ensure that they continue to improve biodiversity and enhance the experience for Londoners. It’s so important to us to have a positive impact on the development of one of London’s busiest areas and in continuing to improve the future of our high streets with our partners and our artists. To spot our planters with the photographs of our artist, passers-by can start their trail at Oxford Circus and head down towards Regent Street.”

Tattoo and dot painting art by Evan Lorenzen

May 11, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, Tattoo, Illustration

@artandsuchevan

Denver based artist Evan Lorenzen creates outstanding dot painting miniatures and tattoos

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Pierre Schmidt

May 07, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Germany, Portfolios

@dromsjel

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

May 05, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Fashion, Advertising

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.

@aesplusf

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

May 04, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, NFT Art, Portfolios, Spain

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

Bid on Superrare

Cameron Burns

May 03, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Illustration, Portfolios, NFT Art, USA

@captvart

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

April 30, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Germany, Portfolios

@alina_anila

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.”

— Re:Magazine

Read full interview on Re:Magazine

Media.Work for SPACE10

April 27, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Agencies, Russia

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.

@Media.Work

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

Jon Ching Art

April 26, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Illustration, Portfolios, USA

@jonchingart

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

April 23, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, OFFF

@offfest

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

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.

OFFF.BARCELONA

TICKETS

One Thousand Ksoids

April 22, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Illustration, NFT Art, Portfolios, USA

@myshli

1000 original and collectible KSOIDS 3D characters by VFX artist Danil Krivoruchko -- NFTs with a heart and meaning, now at OpenSea

NFT 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.

We reserved an original release format for a special #collectable. A group of 1,000 Grade-A Ksoids dropping by the pack! Randomly selected by an algorithm, each pack has 1, 4, and 10 Ksoids. Available on the #NFT marketplace @opensea, the first batch of 100 KSOIDS dropping today! pic.twitter.com/gd6OpSD6Pf
— One Thousand Ksoids (@ksoids_home) April 22, 2021

Clap your hands! Mind your head! Make some noise! Here they drop! KSOIDS! #NFT debut is tomorrow on @opensea! Made in 2013 by award-winning studio @myshli_com finally coming as NFTs! We will bring more news out about the KSOIDS cutielicious project! #NFTcommunity, stay with us! pic.twitter.com/y7L6ECj5rN
— One Thousand Ksoids (@ksoids_home) April 21, 2021

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.

ksoids.com

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

April 22, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Design, Japan, Portfolios

@_ikeuchi

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

April 21, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Cars, Design, United Kingdom

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.”

— Thomas Heatherwick, founder of Heatherwick Studio

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.