OFFF Barcelona 2015 Open Titles by Atelier

We are back! It's been a huge experience to visit the 15th OFFF Festival last week. We can't give you all emotions spread across the venue, so please save the link OFFF.ws to book the Early Bird tickets for their next events. Meanwhile enjoy the film created by ATELIER Masmachos Team a visual arts scholarship created by OFFF to open new talents. They also did a "Finally Fucking Fifteen" campaign to celebrate the anniversary of the festival. Also you can be the next person to create next OFFF festival branding, just apply for Atelier Courses here

Strophe A man’s existence. This is how routine affects us; absorbs us from the inside until we get consumed by it and get comfortable with repetitive patterns and accept changes along the way. We present to you Atelier school’s Opening Titles for OFFF Barcelona 2015. A modern poetic internal monologue inspired by the Greek playwrights Euripides and Sophocles, the British philosopher Alan Watts and the American writer Henry Miller.

http://vimeo.com/129067321

OFFF Barcelona 2015 Open Titles by Atelier

We are back! It's been a huge experience to visit the 15th OFFF Festival last week. We can't give you all emotions spread across the venue, so please save the link OFFF.ws to book the Early Bird tickets for their next events. Meanwhile enjoy the film created by ATELIER Masmachos Team a visual arts scholarship created by OFFF to open new talents. They also did a "Finally Fucking Fifteen" campaign to celebrate the anniversary of the festival. Also you can be the next person to create next OFFF festival branding, just apply for Atelier Courses here

Strophe A man’s existence. This is how routine affects us; absorbs us from the inside until we get consumed by it and get comfortable with repetitive patterns and accept changes along the way. We present to you Atelier school’s Opening Titles for OFFF Barcelona 2015. A modern poetic internal monologue inspired by the Greek playwrights Euripides and Sophocles, the British philosopher Alan Watts and the American writer Henry Miller.

http://vimeo.com/129067321

OFFF 2015 x Designcollector

Designcollector Blog is going to be quiet next week as we go to OFFF Barcelona Festival happening the 15th time during 28 - 30 of May to support them as a Media Partners! This is our 5th visit to this brainstorming festival. We are also happy to present our project "The Digital Decade 3" during the festival that has a debut at OFFF 2013 with the help of Depositphotos. Find me near the posters in a main venue at the time of the festival to cast your "Like" with a special stickers.

Meanwhile follow us on Instagram to get latest news from festival at its dates as well as to enjoy our Visual Overdose happening there, here and over there.

Amanda Charchian

LA-based artist Amanda Charchian uses mixed media to create captivating surrealist art. Her latest work, a collaboration with fellow artist Eli Craven, remixes studio nudes and photographs of stalactite and stalagmite caves from around the world to produce super cool/slightly disturbing images. She talked art, inspiration and being into suprasensuality with us. Read full interview on Oyster

Sean Yoro water murals

Artist Sean Yoro paints meticulous seaside murals while balancing on his paddle

Sean Mundy Photography

Sean Mundy (born 1991, Montréal, Canada) creates conceptual imagery through photography and digital manipulation. Working through self-doubt and questions of identity, Sean constructs austere, yet neutral and distant scenes of palpable tension and uncertainty. With a subtle, minimal approach he aims to disrupt, select from, and delete classical narrative formula to form scenarios that are reliant on subjective associations.

Matt Blease

London-based illustrator and designer Matt Blease (Instagram) creates clever illustrations that often poke fun on current youth culture.

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Illustrations by Kyle Cobban

Kyle Cobban is an art teacher, illustrator, wannabe designer from Illinois, USA. He strives to make things for people to enjoy. Follow him on Facebook and on Society6.

Sculptures by Tamsin van Essen

"British ceramicist Tamsin van Essen is fascinated by what she describes as the “the fragile boundary between attraction and repulsion,” a place where tension is created by the visible and the obscured. For her Erosion series Essen created layered blocks of alternating black and white porcelain which she then sandblasted to mimic biological forms similar to a parasitic virus in the process of devouring a host. " via Colossal

Charles Bierk

Toronto-based artist Charles Bierk (previously) paints large-scale photorealist portraits of his friends.

Art History in Contemporary Life by artist Alexey Kondakov

"For his ongoing series “Art History in Contemporary Life,” Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov takes scenes and figures lifted from classical paintings and drops them into modern-day life. Bouguereau’s Song of the Angels appears to take place on an empty subway car while a pair of men from Holbein’s famous The Ambassadors are transported to the table of a seedy bar" via Colossal

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See similar projects like "Emoji Nation" by Nastya Nudnik or Julien de Casabianca’s recent Outings Project

Floating House on the River Thames in London

Designed by Steve and Nick Tidball, creative directors of the TBWA agency, it includes two bedrooms, a working bathroom and a garden with real grass and an apple tree. It will meander up and down the river throughout the week, hosting various events and even some sleepovers.

Rain Water by Evan James Atwood

"21-year-old photographer Evan James Atwood (Instagram) created the series 'Rain Water', portraying men seemingly floating and drowning in water. Atwood says about himself that he's fascinated with expressing the darker range of human emotions while his work also often contains a strong element of hope. His photographs depict simple moments with a somewhat cinematic quality." via iGNANT

Audi - Birth by The Mill+

"Mill+ worked in close collaboration with BBH and Creative Consultant Rupert Sanders to push the boundaries of VFX, creating a fully CG commercial for Audi's 'Birth'. Directed by Mill+'s Andrew Proctor, the film sees Audi's iconic R8 model giving birth to the new sleek RS 3 Sportback in a futuristic and atmospheric birthing chamber. The Mill team of VFX artists carefully crafted the cars and environment entirely in CG to help create a powerful, mechanical and organic spot."

http://vimeo.com/126504539

The Digital Decade 3: The Final

To celebrate the 12th Anniversary of Designcollector Network we decided to run a special collaboration "The Digital Decade III: His Majesty The Glitch" that we divided and held in two phases during this April and May.First, together with our Exclusive Partner Depositphotos invited 12 Digital Artists to come up with the work reflecting the fragility of our Digital Age. Second, we did an Open Call for Arms and ran the first ever Glitch Art Competition that gathered around 30 diverse artists around the world. The best 3 works selected by our professional jury including Hector Ayuso (OFFF), Vladimir Shreyder (Glitche App), Tanya Smirnova (Depositphotos) and me Arseny Vesnin, as well as judged by 12 Artists we selected for the Phase 1.

You can see all 15 works on Digitaldecade.net now, and some of lucky you can see the posters live at OFFF Festival, Barcelona, 28-30 May.

London Sleeps by Matthew Joseph

London Sleeps is a series of quietly stunning images by photographer Matthew Joseph that show what our city would be like if none of us were around. All the sound and fury we insist on creating is absent, leaving London’s landmarks to bask in a stillness that is almost eerie.

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Samuel Burgess-Johnson

"The London-based designer, art director and typographer Samuel Burgess-Johnson made a name for himself by aptly representing numerous record releases through stunning album and singles artwork. Inspired by stimulating visuals and innovation through his creative capacity, Burgess-Johnson has designed a multitude of visual dreamscapes that enriches the sounds of artists such as Usher, Disclosure, Diplo, The 1975, Ta-ku and many more."

Alexander Grahovsky illustrations

Spanish illustrator Alexander Grahovsky (Instagram) based in Madrid specialized in pop, erotic and adult themed works.

The Art of Tomomichi Morifuji

Japanese artist Tomomichi Morifuji creates visual poems using simple photography. You can check his project ARHA as well as personal Tumblr

"arha = ah. When we moved, when we feel, when reminded something. We mutter 'ah'"

20 Years of Celebrities Getty Images

Getty Images celebrating their 20th Anniversary by tracing the photos of celebrities through two last decades (campaign done by AlmapBBDO), well you can do the same if you have face recognition in your photo library on machine.