French illustrator, film director and creative polymath Mathieu Bessudo, or McBess, is a London-based artist with an eye for incredible detail and a mind for a surreal rearrangement of the most simplistic of subject matters.
Same as our friends from Hobo and Sailor (that made an awesome DCN t-shirt for us) McBess inspires from earlier 20 century's studio Fleischer Cartoon
McBess also does music and videos, let's watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPsDFQWz3DI&feature=player_embedded
Chinese photographer Zhaohua Sen‘s photo series depicts bike riders floating in mid air and riding “invisible” bicycles.
Freelance is a great part of design process but what about mobility? Here is a great example of movable freelancer - Axel Peemöller works and live on a boat in Mediterranean Sea and is able to visit any customer around the shores. But even living as a sea wolf-designer he has established a remote team of developers and creative people able to pick up tasks with collective efforts.
One of the famous Russian motion designer Max Zhestkov released a new showreel of latest works! Must see on fullscreen
http://vimeo.com/44683468
Surrealism and haute-coutre mixed in a cocktail painted with vivid colours - that's how I see Jean-Francois Lepage photography. Lepage has set himself apart as both a fashion photographer and a visual artist with his innovative approach of merging the two worlds into his own conceptual universe of image making. With the use of drawing and deconstructed collage, Lepage further pushes his work to explore his insights on individuality, mortality, and the unspoken forces which guide the sublime emotional instincts of the human mind.
What can 10 Russian models, one Lamborghini, Dion Agius - The Surfer and a huge artificial electric blue wave do in one short film? They all cast in Joe G's conceptual film mad in the World's best pool for GLOBE TV. Are you still sitting on your chair? Go take day off for the local pool :)
http://vimeo.com/44253174
Jessica Walsh (@jessicawalsh & now @sagmeisterwalsh) is a multidisciplinary designer living and working in NYC. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines and books, and won design awards from the Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, SPD, Print, Graphis, among others. Recently he joined almighty Stefan Sagmeister as an art director and started working together on "Happy film" expected in 2013. Now they named Sagmeister&Walsh and you might seen that nude photo of them both circulating on design web. Designboom has a nice interview with them, read it out
Here are the works Sagmeister & Walsh did together, for a full Jessica's profile visit http://jessicawalsh.com/ (on Behance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUhm_beGBoA
"Sundays (working title) is a feature film idea created and written by Dutch commercials director Mischa Rozema. It is a project he has been living and sleeping with for the past years. It is the result of stories inhabiting his head, images that need to be visualised and the the desire to create a film completely different to anything we’ve seen before. The story is there, so is the research. What we are asking your help with is the opportunity to create a short film - the first step on the path to realising a feature film - using the skills and passion of Mischa and his team at PostPanic and Savage."
"We're raising money through Kickstarter to make this short film. We want to show what is visually possible when creative integrity is closely guarded from the beginning. We don’t want to risk diluting Mischa’s vision by 3rd parties forcing him to become more mainstream and commercial. We want to show what he is capable of as a storyteller when he has complete control over the direction."
Please check out details on www.postpanic.com/kickstarter/
http://vimeo.com/44102825
Chinese artist Zhang Weber doing interesting and a bit romantically naive illustrations for Beijing customers
Double or multiple exposed photographs is a distinctive feature of Christoffer Relander from Raseborg, Finland.
You might also like awesome double exposed photography from British artist Dan Mountford
Today I will speak for myself in Friday's "Appcollector Favourites". Here is a list of creative applications I use daily to keep Designcollector and myself in a good shape.
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As a visual hunter I can't spend a day without sticking for an hour on FFFFOUND imagery solaris. Their brand new iPhone app works fast and crisp with all that amount of data, and I like the way related images are organized so I can go deeper and deeper until I get obscene girls images on screen. App can glitch sometimes due to caching.[/twocol_one_last]
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Earlier this year Google has an attempt to shake up the online blogs and magazines scene with Google Currents publishing tool and mobile application. The tool allows blogs owners to create branded mobile Google magazines fetching data from RSS, Picasa, Youtube likes and Google Plus all together. We could not make that works together but released Designcollector on Google Currents, feel free to subscribe. In overall this is a very strong application for news reading (bonus: optional offline sync!). Most of favourite blogs and media publish their Google Currents Magazines but you can easily subscribe to plain RSS channels you like.[/twocol_one_last]
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My latest finding, thanks to Mashable. Gabi is a new way to visualize and interact with the world’s largest social network. Yes it is a sort of smart visual interface for Facebook, working smoothly with popular/unpopular content from your newsfeed, friends and yourself. It is not the application to chat with your friends and shower likes on the walls, it is more about getting the most interest content[/twocol_one_last]
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When I am getting tired from Google Currents I switch to the ultimate Google Reader mobile interface - Reeder app. It is good, has a clean UI, easy flow and a lot of sharing options. The only thing I am worrying about is offline image caching, that works randomly on a huge list of channels like mine. [/twocol_one_last]
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Svpply is a hand-selected collection of the world's best products from all across the world. The application has awesome interface without notorious skeuomorphism and interacts easily with a fun. Follow us on SVPPLY[/twocol_one_last]
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According to Manifest app with Russian roots, things divides to "Cool" and "Dumb". Connect your friends, take a snaps with your camera and rate them together. [/twocol_one_last]
In conjunction with its major Gerrit Rietveld retrospective, Vitra Design Museum has invited five of the most innovative designers from the Netherlands to join a partner from the region in developing a design project. The results will be shown from 12 June (Art Basel) until 02 September 2012 in the exhibition “Confrontations".Studio Wieki Somers teamed up with chocolatier Rafael Mutter to create the ‘CHOCOLATE MILL’. It will be installed and in use from 15 June.
http://vimeo.com/44097005
After Instagram Camera concept that we actually did not like for it's form lose function here goes a smart concept of Instagram Glasses from Markus Gerke.Instaglasses is a smart way to live "la vie en rose" or just "en Instagram". You activate the glasses by pushing “Insta” and option to choose between different filters. Then take a picture with your glasses and upload the image straight to Instagram. Voila!
Also worth to mention a concept made by Mauricio Thomsen for Ray-Ban Instagram (Ray-Ban has so many concepts floating around and still doing glasswork as it is still the 90ss of 20 century, shame on them).
Russian online city-guide portal "The Village" (a part of Look At Me) recently won Golden Mobile Cannes Lion for the uprising mobile equiped platform "Parking Douche". Update: The app exists, download it for iOS and Android and join the project on http://specials.the-village.ru/pages/specials/parking
http://vimeo.com/42188610
Beautiful experimental typeface based on lines and geometric structures created by Moscow based graphic designer Kir Rostovsky. For presentation he used unique silkscreened poster and a poker-work on wood - trop bien! Go grab you typeface copy on http://www.behance.net/gallery/Indy-Typeface/4192363
Barcelona based artist Conrad Roset caught all his Muses and coloured them on paper. Some of them remind me Egon Schiele's art but less obscene and manic.
Berlin based French visual artist and photographer Damien Vignaux aka Elroy shares his portfolio as 2 in 1. Today we will focus on his not that safe for work (NSFW) Photography portfolio top up by tattooed model shots and some fashion collaborations. Apart from portfolio he has a photo Tumblr with full sets of uncensored but still awesome shots.
http://vimeo.com/39964396
LiquiData is a multitouch application to explore your personal movement profile and to show other people engaging places by adding photos and comments with the help of your smartphone. It can be seen as a rating system that offers people the possibility to discover new spots in an unknown surrounding e.g. during a city-visit. Although a smartphone is not necessary to interact with the system, it offers you the possibility to give insights to your movements through the city and lets you compare your mental map with the reality. For instance, this system could give guests of a hotel (lobby) the option to share their walked trails and show other visitors their favorite coffee shops or parks.
Team: Gunnar Friedrich David Ikuye Pierre La Baume Christopher Pietsch Luis Grass
http://vimeo.com/43120464
