Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven are two emerging photographers who have been experimenting with high quality cameras since their perhaps not-so-innocent youth. From frozen lakes to empty theatre stages across Eastern Europe, the duo have snapped haunting images of the surroundings available to them, often emanating a dark or eerie mood. http://www.synchrodogs.com/
ILL&MATES is an illustration agency based in revolutionary Kyiv, Ukraine. The agency offers all types of illustration services. Among famous artists who work with ILL&MATES are Conrad Roset, Robert Tirado, Dmitry Ligay, Fil Dunsky, Sergey Maidukov, Victoria Janis, many other Ukrainian and international illustrators.
After enormous success of "Russian Art get Simpsonised" students from Moscow high school of Art and Design BSHAD strikes again. I am really jealous they have a tutor like Dmitry Karpov, this time he "beats" out lumps of creative out of their heads. The brief was short - migrate Russian (Soviet) Cartoons personages to Foreign Animation Families like Adventure Time, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park and SpongeBob SquarePants. The idea of a study to explore new boundaries of multiculturalism and reveal tolerance and patience. To get more fun you must be Russian and grown up on Soviet animation, otherwise enjoy the project itself. You might find few works responding to the hot political topic around Ukraine's issues, but take it with a smile rather than seriously.
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Saint Petersburg based illustrator and graphic designer Ooli Mos has an awesome set of works in her portfolio. Everything from infographics to black and white illustration, from signage to tattoos is an object to collect and save for further inspiration. Ooli is a part of creative duo working under the name Orka Collective creating commercial work for editorials and independent stores.
Collaboration splash. Motion design by Alex Frolov http://vimeo.com/80416903
A prank video shows an “art student” meticulously copying the Suprematist works of Kazimir Malevich for a portfolio, then going around and showing his work for admission to a number of art academies under the anagrammatical name of Michael Mikrivaz. This prank’s conceit: that Malevich, or “Mikrivaz,” would be rejected by today’s art establishment, or something. via
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJCxrUpQBI8
Janol Apin’s “Métropolisson” is a creative project that illustrates the literal translations of the names of various Parisian Metro station stops. The collection of photographs features more than 100 images of Apin’s friends posing in the underground subway stops; from an astronaut in the Champ de Mars station, to a couple dancing tango under the Argentine stop, he leaves nothing out.
Helvetica The Perfume™ is the first limited edition product from Guts & Glory, a creative collective based in Oakland, California. Yes, this is actually real, it is not a concept piece. It is an expertly produced object available for purchase and perfect for gifting. For the price of $62 you get a 2 oz of distilled water and 24k gold printing on bottle in, of course, Helvetica. Perfect gift for your friend "Designer" (at least if you cannot spend 800$ for a full original Helvetica typeface)
Skull Armchair is an ominously powerful looking piece of furniture by French designer Harold Sangouard, aka Harow, that seems fit for anyone interested in comfort as they plot sinister moves. It definitely reminds me the work of another designer Maximo Riera with his series of "The Animal Chair"
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Japanese based studio Nendo recently designed a limited quantity of chocolate-paints for the Seibu Department Store in Japan. They describe their new creation as a "...design that combines the childhood excitement of opening a new box of paints and the thrill of opening a box of chocolates you’ve been given unexpectedly." The twelve boxed chocolate-paint-tubes are flavoured with a different syrup according to the colour of their labels (which also play the role of wrappers)
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Hope everyone remember drawing studies with Écorché sculpture, disgusting human without skin showing off its muscles. Designers Constantin Bolimond (Russia) and Dmitrii Pacukevich (Belarus) pay a tribute to the time spent in art schools and created clever concept of "Écorché Energy Drinks" peeling "a skin" from famous bottles like Coke, Evian and etc.
Director Selina Miles filmed graffiti artistes Sofles, Fintan Magee, Treas and Quench.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv-Do30-P8A
Alejandro Monge‘s (Zaragoza, 1988) work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions: in IAACC Pablo Serrano Museum in Zaragoza, at the Center House Madrid’s Retiro Cows or Miguel Bers in Cologne (Germany). In late 2012 he opened his first solo exhibition in Zaragoza and was the winner of the tenth edition of the Biennale of Painting Prize ‘Government Delegation in Aragon’ with his work ‘Old school new generation’. via
The Mill agency just posted an awesome ad for freshly built Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. They collaborated with Commonwealth and MJZ to bring this hollywood action movie concept to roaring life, injecting a polished feel to the fast paced car chase in downtown Los Angeles.
2D Lead, Kyle Cody "This is every Sci-Fi film mixed into one epic 90 second Spot, and was a great team effort and a huge undertaking for the sheer volume of Hollywood visual effects in one commercial."
Director: Nicolai Fuglsig
Agency: Commonwealth
Production Company: MJZ
Campaign: Anthem
Editorial: Rock Paper Scissors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT1OPO7cWY0
Official video for Corvette 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z49duwQ4Zao
Russian officials are going crazy next year, but let's leave all politics and take a look at the new amateur Olympic Pinup Calendar created by Andrew Tarusov (check his previous work "Apocalypse Tomorrow Calendar"). The new Calendar is a kind of humorous answer for the whole political situation around upcoming Winter Games. I won't translate mottos from each page, so please enjoy the Soviet aesthetic graphics below. If you read Russian you can order print version on https://boomstarter.ru/projects/tarusov/pechat_sportivnogo_kalendarya_na_2014_g
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The master of facial-art illusions, photographer Alexander Khokhlov is back with a new project "2D or not 2D". The project is made in collaboration with a make-up artist Valeria Kutsan and digital artist Veronica Ershova View more on http://www.behance.net/gallery/2D-or-not-2D/12233947
Some of you might remember the first ever video created with Instagram "The Plastics Revolution – Invasión" and some of you who are curious enough to follow TED speeches might remember Blaise Aguera y Arcas speaking about Photosynth - a photo-visualiser using a crowd-sourcing photography from sources like Flickr. Here is a merge of both ideas. As Instagram has its own engine to give access to photos so French director Thomas Jullien made each image a little less ordinary, by weaving hundreds of these similar images together to create a stop-motion video. Jullien aimed to “create structure out of chaos”, and he does so beautifully with 852 different pictures from 852 Instagram users.
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Yes, by Helmut Newton and you are not reading Designcollector Back to the Future digest. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its annual calendar, tire company Pirelli has made the decision to release a set of vintage Helmut Newton portraits from 1986 for its 2014 calendar. The calendar will feature 12 black and white never-before-seen photographs shot on location in Monte Carlo and Chianti. According to The Cut, Newton had to abandon the 1986 shoot due to personal issues, and the photos were stored in the Pirelli archives until earlier this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSrr49gCPSg
A passport allows you access to different countries, and hopefully leaving it around will give Miruna Macri access to a job interview as well.The designer’s “passport” is actually her portfolio. The description showcases her resume, and samples of her work can be found as “visas” on various pages. She has deliberately left behind these “passfolios” in her favorite agencies in New York City in a bid to get a job, and we are quite sure that someone will take note of this cool and creative endeavor.
via Designtaxi
