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Talented watercolour painter and philosopher from Brazil, Marcos Beccari has mesmerising portraits to share on Instagram
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Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane, together with Japanese watchmaker CITIZEN, has created an amazing piece of installation art that breathes magic and life into an otherwise mundane object. Their installation, called “LIGHT is TIME,” features 65,000 watch baseplates hung on black thread in a black room, making them look like shimmering golden raindrops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emUXDop7k9s
Explore the decadent illustrations of Saint-Petersburg raised artist Nikita Kaun (Instagram). I'd like to have few of him on my loft once he rolls out full collection of prints
Seattle-based travel photographer shares the best of his nearly cinematographic shots on Instagram and seems that's more than enough for him and his 100K+ army of followers.
Konstantin Kofta created his own label, Kofta which combines seemingly contradictory elements outside the traditional canons of the fashion industry. His garments are sensual, effortlessly elegant, practical and wearable. Kofta uses rough skin, irregular shapes and unique scents to create a totally new vision of the attire as a whole. Designer Konstantin Kofta combines rural and urban perceptions, and embraces the unintentional and unexpected, which provide inspiration for current and future collections. Each collection appears as a form of art installation.
Mini skipped the car business entirely at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show and rode a new path to miniaturisation with the Citysurfer Concept electric scooter. Conceived as a last-mile solution for urban commuters, the folding two-wheeler enables the motorist to park the car and scoot to the office through dense (bicycle-friendly) city traffic.
The Citysurfer’s electronic bits, including a lithium-ion battery pack, are mounted inside the weather-resistant body work. A rear-wheel hub motor, operated via a thumb throttle, can propel the scooter as far as 15 miles and to a top speed of 15mph. The scooter includes charging cables for a conventional household outlet and a 12-volt automotive socket. When completely discharged, the electric motor simply switches off and disengages, and the journey continues on leg power. via BBC Autos
Colombian art director Gilbert Franco shares a little self initiated project with digitally distorted fashion photography (using photos of Nino Yap, Carlos DiQuercia, Joanna Wilinska, Zean Vo, and Charudutt Chitrak). As we can see Gilbert did it with passion and using software, so you can try beat him using the famous Glitche app which considered the best editing tool by leading fashion photographers like Nick Knight.
Snarkitecture is a collaborative practice operating in territories between the disciplines of art and architecture. Working within existing spaces or in collaboration with other artists and designers, the practice focuses on the investigation of structure, material and program and how these elements can be manipulated to serve new and imaginative purposes. Searching for sites within architecture with the possibility for confusion or misuse, Snarkitecture aims to make architecture perform the unexpected.Snarkitecture was established by Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham.
Creative directors Raul Mandru and Mihai Botarel, founders of Raul X Mihai, made the piece as an independent project. For their floating surfboard effect they used a special stand that allowed them to keep the original shadows. After each surfboard image, they shot a second photo of the street and removed the stand for the final cut.
http://vimeo.com/110802755
Via Yatzer: "The Lisbon-based architecture studio AVA is behind the interior design and renovation of this eye-catching apartment in Portugal’s capital city. Situated on the first floor of a 1983 building, the so called ‘Três Marias Loft’ is owned by a married couple of engineers with two small children. The designers chose to intervene upon the existing space as little as possible, preserving much of the apartment’s old wooden floor and the existing layout of the rooms, with the only exception being the installation of two bathrooms in what used to be the pantry. Harmoniously combining contemporary elements with the property’s history, the designers have created an airy and calm living space that also exudes a sense of playfulness and humour."
Photos by José Campos.
With the nostalgic flashback to Soviet epoch designer Anastasia Genkina and art director Misha Gannushkin have created these beautiful branding and packaging designs for Gorky Park ice-cream, which are also shot in a fantastically playful way by Grigory Sobchenko.
“This ice-cream has been a treat inseparable from a walk in the Moscow Gorky Park for decades. It`s special taste of creamy vanilla and waffle cone became a memory of childhood for several generations, and it has remained true to the old fashioned recipe. The aim to connect the historical value with modern recognition through design was achieved by developing patterns, inspired by key symbols of the Park`s life. Each pattern corresponds with one of the six flavours.”
UK graphic designer and artist Chris Labrooy riffs on custom car culture in his latest digital illustration series, “Tales of Auto Elasticity.” A follow-up to last year’s “Auto Aerobics,” in which Labrooy placed his bendy, sculptural low riders in a city park, “Tales of Auto Elasticity” shows pick-up trucks with yogic flexibility bending to extreme degrees in a rural parking lot. via Hi-Fructose
A set of personal lettering projects showing Louis's deep love for coffee. It is a part of his 365 lettering project on Instagram.
For her graduation project at the Design Academy Eindhoven Pleunie Buyink made limber gems, a project consisting of 3 laying gems in circular shapes in the color of gold, dark green and golden orange. This elegant jewelry for the interior is bold and humble at the same time, reflecting its landscape and light. Made of a newly developed material containing rubber, the gems can be made in every size or shape, convenient for everything between a design shop and a reception waiting room.
Ukrainian digital artist Elena Vizerskaya aka Kassandra manipulates with photos and audience as a magician
Barcelona-based designer Maud Bury rebuilt the Argentinian restaurant Anahi located on a non descript Marais backstreet in Paris. Read complete review on Yatzer
All photos by Alexandre & Emilie {Persona production} for Yatzer.
Designer Maud Bury Anahi© LaJeuneRue
HEROTIME is a new fashion label and the creative canvas of artist Lora Zombie.
Born in a small town in Russia, in 1990, Lora Zombie was set on becoming an artist a very early age. The self-taught painter first gained recognition in the late 2000s as her work circulated online, reaching millions of people through blogs, news outlets and social media as well as on Designcollector (search).
In recent years, Lora has taken the gallery scene by storm with exhibitions in Los Angeles, Toronto, New York and Russia - bringing in the interest of collectors and fans worldwide. In 2010 Tom Co-Founded Eyes On Walls after seeing an opportunity in the market for publishing and promoting a collective of talented young visual artists, connecting their work with a new generation of art buyers. In the 4 years since then Eyes On Walls and Lora have created and sold hundreds of thousands of Prints, Limited Editions and Originals of Lora's work around the world. They also produced 3 solo art shows in Toronto (Canada), SoHo (New York) and Brooklyn (New York).
In the search of inspiration for a name for this new concept of a brand centered around Lora's artistic vision, we studied her vast archives of work.
Among countless other subjects and ideas, we found a frequent theme of superheroes portrayed as much more human than we are used to. Lora's superheroes were often depressed, distraught, unsure of themselves, and performing mundane everyday tasks instead of saving the world. On the other hand, the everyday characters in Lora's works were often the most brave, acting as you would expect superheroes would. Protecting innocence, facing fear, and overcoming adversity.
It was on the concept of these everyday heroes that the name and core principles of HEROTIME were born.
Lora created an initial series of work building on the "Tom" panda character she created for the logo.
She also experimented for the first time with creating art designed specifically for apparel.
You can support Herotime on Kickstarter by pre-ordering sterling or golden "Rabbit Bomber" Pendants and other apparel as well as posters and different types of artwork.
Star Wars characters and superheroes' pictures would look a little bit different if they lived in the Renaissance era, photographer Sacha Goldberger (Facebook) illustrates in an exhibit. Photographer Sacha Goldberger put cosplayers on display at an exhibit in the Grand Palais in Paris from Nov. 13 to 16. Characters have a Renaissance spin in both the clothing and the ambiance in the photos.
Many of the cosplayers wear ruffs, a ruffled neckpiece men, women, and children wore separately during the latter half of the Renaissance. Dresses are floor-length, and each piece of clothing has detail work in embroidery and patterns, along with puffier sleeves, and many layers of fabric.
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South-Russian indoor mural artist Konstantin Shalev (Facebook) shares his new works since our last review of his crazy street art characters we did at OFFF2011
