Maia Flore is a French artist born in 1988 and educated at l’Ecole des Gobelins, Paris. Her photography is inspired by what she perceives as the boundaries between reality and unreality. "One way to challenge the mundane everyday is to reveal surprises within it", says Flore.
Our friend and a resident of Hellohikimori Paris - legendary illustrator and professional master of grafitti tagging mr. Nairone (Instagram) released his nice collaboration done with London based studio UNIT9. Hoxton Square Bar&Kitchen asked them to decorate a huge street window. Watch it below
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Digital manipulator Jean-Charles Debroize plays an art direction role at Kerozen agency. I bet guys there never get tired of creating awesome digital pieces for advertising. Check their best below
http://vimeo.com/86325625
Born in S.Korea and living in Paris, Jung-Yeon Min works at the edge of surrealism and abstraction.
"The main characteristic of my works is a kind of duality which finds many ways to express itself: abstract versus realism, ubiquity, diachronicity, microscopic and macroscopic, and so on. I’m always trying to engage in extreme or contrary dialogue. In abstract compositions, some hyperrealistic figures will make you try to find some kind of space, but you will keep wondering if you really have to see it that way, because something flat will try to impeach you. Somehow, you will feel like you are hanging between two worlds."
"Paris & NY, like many large cities, have a lot in common ; transport, infrastructure, national monuments. I wanted to explore not only these comparisons but also the differences, in order to expose the beauty and individuality of each. What you cannot deny is the vibrancy and explosion of character each city has and I thought split-screen with timelapse would be a good way to help convey this." says director Franck Matellini.
http://vimeo.com/108552265
Strasbourg-based photographer Julien Douvier utilizes a variety of techniques to create these beautifully meditative cinemagraphs of urban life and nature. He films and edits every image with an obsessive attention to detail, a fact not lost on several fashion clients that have commissioned Douvier to bring their brands to life recently. You can follow more of his personal and commercial work on Tumblr and on Behance.
“Glitched” is a series of 3D printed dioramas in smoked glass cubes by artist Mathieu Schmitt. The artist allows for the 3D model data to become corrupt in such a way that objects are printed slightly deformed. The late-night settings and the misshapen objects create quite an eerie atmosphere.
Paris based commercial photographer beside his awesome shooting sets has an Instagram feed to die for. With over half million of followers VuTheara dreams about the perfect city on Earth. Enjoy your Paris too
Futuristic short film directed by Rafael Mathé and Etienne Larragueta. After a deep loading to the near future you can enjoy the moodboards of creators on skhelloworld.tumblr.com "In a close future, a private company developed a technology aimed at boosting our brain capacity. But it requires from its clients to store their memory data on one single server. In this highly controlled world, a young woman has the power to change things."
http://vimeo.com/70608937
You have never seen food motion video like this. The team of Food Film directors Michael Roulier and Philippe Lhomme together with food stylists Emmanuel Turiot and Gilles Poidevin created a short spot for Marks & Spenser Food. Don't forget to check their portfolio, especially if you work with food photography, pretty awesome examples over there www.foodfilm.fr
http://vimeo.com/105039041
Talented French couple of artist Alex & Marine (Facebook) use dot-tattoo technique and gold-leaves stamping to create epic murals for different locations
"For a photographer living in a major city filled with iconic architecture, museums, and myriad tourist destinations, the struggle to capture an authentic image is great. This was the exact situation photographer Michael Wolf found himself in after moving to Paris from Hong Kong in 2008. Surrounded in a city filled with sights that could easily be interpreted as cliché, Wolf pointed his camera away from the recognizable landmarks and instead focused on the dense rooftops surrounding the city. Packed with stout chimneys, tv antennas, graffiti, and numerous geometric forms, these shots present a strange abstracted view of a usually recognizable place." text by Colossal
French designer Philippe Starck teams up with Moustache Bikes on M.A.S.S., a collection of four four electric two-wheeler bikes presented at Eurobike 2014. The collection is an acronym for the four types of bikes designed for the expo: mud, asphalt, sand and snow. Each comes each equipped with technological specifications that offer users a unique experience in the various riding conditions from which they are named. Complementing the bike collection is a line of custom-made accessories including glasses, gloves and a backpack, alongside a range of helmets done in collaboration with Giro.
via HighSnobiety
French designer Ora-Ïto has developed a conceptual trainer with curved veneer sections to reference the work of Modernist furniture designers Charles and Ray Eames. Ora-Ïto pays tribute to the late American couple with the Nikeames shoe design, which he imagines could be produced by sports brand Nike.
It's an an homage to Charles and Ray Eames' Lounge chair – the most famous one with the wooden shell. The idea was to make a Nike Eames, like the Nike Air but playing with the Eames, translating the language and the forms and the aesthetic of the Eames armchair into a trainer.
Jérôme Lagarrigue is an award-winning French painter and illustrator, living and working in New York. The Franco-American artist combines figuration and abstraction in his paintings, transparencies and dilutions, reliefs and layers, in order to capture the double dimension of existence.
"Label Tania is a self-taught illustrator living and working between Bordeaux and Biarritz, France. She works for fashion, design and advertising. Her work is essentially drawn by hands, using traditional techniques with lead pencils and black pencils or more recently Bic. Combining multiple textures like pens and water-colors then, once scanned, she put the finishing touches to the drawing with Photoshop. Represented by Creasenso." via
If you follow us on Instagram you might mentioned our post about the latest work of talented French street artist JR. A huge container-sheep left Le Havre carrying a huge murals as a part of "Women Are Heroes" long-term project started by JR in 2007.
I fulfilled my promise. At 7am, the 363 meter long ship left the Port of le Havre, France to cross the world all the way to Malaysia In 2007, I started Women Are Heroes. To pay tribute to those who play an essential role in society, but who are the primary victims of war, crime, rape or political and religious fanaticism, I pasted portraits and eyes of women on a train in Kenya, a Favela in Brazil, a demolished house in Cambodia. They gave their trust and they asked for a single promise make my story travel with you. I did it: on the bridges of Paris and the walls of Phnom penh, the building of New York, etc. I wanted to finish Women Are Heroes with a ship leaving a port, with a huge image which would look microscopic after a few minutes, with the idea of these women who stay in their villages and face difficulties in the regions torn by wars and poverty facing the infinity of the ocean. It did not happen at the time But during the last 10 days, we pasted 2600 strips of paper on the containers with the dockers of the port And this morning we saw the ship leaving the port. I have no idea of what is in the other containers on the boat: stuff from people leaving a country to build a different life in another region, goods that will be transformed, worn, eaten in a different country. I have no idea where and how people will see this artwork but I am sure that some women far away will feel something today . And in Le Havre, we are exhausted and proud
One of the leading automotive photographer and art director at Citroën Design Centre - Laurent Nivalle visited Cafe Racer Festival on Autodrome de Linas-Montlhery near Paris. I feel these photos can bring a bit of atmosphere, sound and smell of this event, take a look!
Artist JR started his career illegally posting enormous photographic imagery in the streets of Paris. The French capital eventually approved of JR’s installations and started supporting his artwork in the outdoors of Parisian housing projects from 2004 to 2006.In JR’s latest endeavour, the Pantheon opened this month with his “Au Panthéon!” project. It showcases thousands of portraits taken in March of this year from a photo-booth truck, which made its way to multiple nations. The portraits are arranged in mosaics on ornate ceilings, floors, and exterior of the famous monument. via
