Spanish designer and illustrator Borja Bonaque graduated from the Polytechnic University of Valencia with a degree in Fine Arts. In 2009, he was named ‘Graduate of the Year’ by Wallpaper* magazine which opened relationships with future clients such as Financial Times, Wallpaper*, Washington Post and Converse. His work encompasses both graphic design, advertising and editorial illustration which he develops in his own studio in Valencia.
Revisiting the works of Benjamín García is always a pleasure and to find new ways he explores the nature or a portrait cannot leave anyone bored. First seen glitch textures and large brushstrokes at the end appear to be created by delicate and intricate work with oil on canvas.
“From the experience of the coronavirus pandemic that has gripped the world over the past two months, I realized that meditation is a universal tool to help us manage future instability and stress responses from massive disruption caused by future pandemic risk, climate change and automation. It is inevitable that our future will be unstable and chaotic for many years to come.
The world is ready to seek spiritually driven changes of how our civilization and economy are structured. Meditation has become a scientifically proven practice for the well-being of the individual and therefore, the well-being of society and the world. Millions of us are meditating en mass like never before and social media is helping us build community around it.
While in quarantine, I became inspired to create my vision of a world of meditativeness; my vision of how the practice of meditation can also be integrated into our every day lives through art, architecture, design and fashion. My vision is of a future based on the individual practice of meditation, extending to every aspect of our every day lives. I am inspired by Japanese Zen art, architecture and design. It’s very existence has shaped the world culture in profound ways, and will continue to impact art and design as it lives through my creations.
I believe there is hope for the future if more people meditate. We will manage stress, but most importantly, we can tap into our maximum creative potential. More than ever, creativity and collaboration are the antidote to fear and war. Beauty, collaboration, co-creation and meditation are the attributes that we must focus on collectively and globally in order to thrive and navigate opportunity amidst the chaos of disruption.
“I hope that we all gain insight, wisdom and compassion from this pandemic. I hope you are inspired to create a beautiful world.”
Photographer Philipp Bünger captures abstract ghost likely visiting him from avant-garde period of the previous century
Ultra talented digital artist Elena Romenkova shares a glimpse of the near future through her creations
The work by Japanese artist Takashi Kuribayashi (1968) explores the boundaries that separate human civilization from the natural world. Kuribayashi was struck by the division of Germany into Eastern and Western states, which led him into an on-going consideration in various media of the theme boundaries.
His work is the outcome of being confronted with ‘restricted zones’ or ‘no-go areas’ in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear accident. Being faced with the impossible long-lasting and yet invisible borders, he set himself to investigate this and making these borders visible in his work by weaving a new flow of time with his installations.
“The truth resides in places that are invisible. Once you are aware of that there is a different world out of sight, you will be living in a different way.”
Working on intersection of graphic design and applied arts and being a part of “Demande spéciale” team (@demandespeciale), Guillaume Lavallée creates visual dialogue with a viewer (in personal projects) and brand’s audience in commercial projects
Talented illustrator from Seoul Jordan Hongdae working under Womi moniker shares the best of their skills
Japanes photographer Yoshito Hasaka polishes his skills as hard as katana’s steel by revealing midnight shots of Tokyo he made on daily basis
Michael Chichi is an artist and designer based in Hawaii. His work explores various themes and interests — patterns in nature, sensuality & eros, beauty, environs, phenomenology, humanism, transcendence & perception. Here is his new series “Beauty Hangover” featuring our favourite artist-photographer Elena Kulikova (@elenakulikovastudio)
“Vienna is like.. “ a new mind-bending video from Fernando Livschitz whom we remember from his debut work Buenos Aires Inception Park in 2012
Florian Stumpe is a multidisciplinary Creative Director and Graphic Artist based in Berlin. He creates visual concepts and transforms them into various languages such as films, animations, physical spaces and objects.
The authenticity of his work lies in his creative process in which he blends his analogue and hands-on exploration approach with new digital tools. He narrates his stories through a fine aesthethic and the beauty in random coincidences - the result is a unique style that breaks through by reminding us of the human touch in a digital age.
“Creating visual concepts for various languages such as films, animations, physical spaces & objects.”
A work by French artist Leonard Combier is like a riddle that can never quite be solved. Something always slips your notice or escapes your eye, resisting your attempt to unravel every clue. What attracted us to his work is an ongoing project featuring “tattooed” passports of travellers that Leonard has been doing for the last five years. Now he wants to bring an attention for this cause in terms of global situation
“Léonard Combier’s work deals with causality and liberty. In a world where everything interrelates and can only be understood as a vast chain reaction, how is freedom conceivable? This applies as much to the artist who is caught in a system of his own creation, as to the viewer whose gaze finds no exit. The answer, I believe, lies in the Combier’s sense of humour. Humour provides the only solution, a multi-directional vector leading to different levels of interpretation, the choice of which is left up to the viewer. It pervades Combier’s entire work, from the bizarre figures to the comical texts, as the artist’s mischievous playfulness sets the scenes of his different worlds like those in a vaudeville play – save the final twist in the plot, which is never revealed. Yet there is always the mystery contact, whose phone number is etched into each work.”
Auckland-based art director and multidisciplinary designer Juliette Wanty creates imaginary spaces with a clear sense of modernism twisted with a movie scene from any of Wes Anderson’s. “Featuring scale cardboard models and continuously repainted wooden boards, Wanty’s spaces are realistic reinterpretations of interiors we’d probably inhabit in our dreams.” via @trendland
Martine Johanna’s practice revolves around the activity of painting, drawing and writing. She was born and raised in Gelderland, Netherlands and has studied at the Academy of fine Arts in Arnhem, obtaining a bachelors degree and a Masters degree. She has exhibited in multiple Solo shows in the Netherlands, Europe and the United States. Her work is part of several private collections and has been published in diverse books and magazines. Her paintings were also featured in two episodes of the HBO hit series True Detective.
Small studio from Zagreb, Croatia does big things for clients by developing graphic design systems and identities
Alex Kuznetsov’s painting practice is concerned with states of flux and impermanence, furthered by research into spatial and temporal concerns in a comparison of social and urban timeframes. His process-led, abstract painting practice employs a tempered gestural language where fluidity is a defining material concern and the process of erasure has equal importance to the intuitive application of paint. This examines states of presence and remembrance by exploring a tension between control and chance.
Digital artist Sasha Katz (known to you by our exhibition @digital.decade Cyberia 2017) had a quick call from Opera Illustration to create few works for @Burberry in a topic of “Togetherness”. The results went beyond reality
