Angie Crabtree the Diamond Painter

March 26, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, USA, 2018

Angie Crabtree, known as The Diamond Painter™, is widely regarded as the first and only professional diamond painter. Using oil paint, she creates magnified portraits of real diamonds.

@angie_crabtree

Baby cream: gypsum • acrylic • lacquer • synthetic hair, 240 x 30 mm

Synth Pop Objects by Katia Lyubavskaya

March 26, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Instagram, Portfolios, Sculpture, Art, 2018

Moscow-based artist Katia Lyubavskaya shares her ongoing synth pop project on Ello with the following statement

Bubble gum
matte glass ball • synthetic hair, 600 x 200 mm

“The world of post-truth is not just a simulative copy of the real world, but a hyper-saturated version that seeks to surpass it.
This is about media and politics, where the facts have lost power and turned reality into fake, which is accepted as true. Let us imagine that the perception of the objective world exists by the same rules. While alteration of elements and scales is a lie, the image remains recognizable and gives a delusive sense of truth - the victory of emotions over facts. The reality here is physically distorted, almost surreal, filled with anxiety and frustration.
Synthetic hair - a material, that unites all objects, symbolizes the femininity, its strength and magic. The same way as the power of words is used to distort facts in media, I use the power of hair, archetype, lying deep in the subconscious, to manipulate the perception. This literally soft, anti-monumental material revives objects so you want to touch them. In the era of cyberspace subject of tangibility is more relevant than ever.”

Dessert ?
paraffin • synthetic hair, 300 x 200 mm

In a rose I trust
artificial rose • acrylic • synthetic hair, 950 x 220 mm

Perfect temperature
tap • acrylic • synthetic hair, 320 x 190 mm

@magic.yes

Motion Art of Peter Tomaszewicz

March 23, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2018

Peter Tomaszewicz is a talented digital artist and motion graphics designer based in London. Check his latest works below, you won't be dissapointed

@petertomaszewicz

Animotion by Dmitry Grozov

March 23, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

Russian illustrator Dmitry Grozov aka Ahriman is doing his best by redrawing famous movies scenes as Anime in his ongoing project "Animotion"

@megagrozov

Sport Calligrafuturism by Pokras Lampas

March 22, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, Portfolios, Russia, Street Art, Lettering, 2018

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Pokras Lampas

It was not even a week since a beastie boy of Russian art calligraphy Pokras Lampas shares a new worldwide collaboration he made for Reebok. The company commissioned artist to create a print with a hidden message "Cross Fit" he did in his own style "calligrafuturism".

@pokraslampas

OFFF Milano 2018 Main Titles

March 22, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in OFFF, Motioncollector, Italy, China, 2018

Chinese visual designer Xiaolin Zeng was responsible for creating motion titles for Digital Design Days / "OFFF on Tour" Festival went in Milan last week.

“ The starting idea is from real life experience that I had several travels to my father’s hometown where is the rural area of China, and the visual of electric Tower and woods hiding in the mist struck me. Also, I was living in a city where construction is going very frequently, which influenced my mood a lot. As a result, I’d like to make a film which the storyline goes from misty woods to industrialized city where construction is heavy. I looked into lots of materials in which have a giant as the main character and find several films and concept art, like Simon Stalenhag, Jakub Rozalski and EVA in which I learned a lot from their shot composition, and also give me a clear vision that the giant should be in a thin and incomplete body shape. While making the title sequence, I encountered the Netflix new TV series called “Dark”, I learned a lot about its color set also its soundtrack inspired the sound designer as well. This work is a huge combination of inspiration, but it starts with a real-life experience.The original color set is black and white, but I decided to use more natural color and make the sequence more like an old century film.”

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Colourful Splashes by Ruslan Khasanov for MAC

March 21, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Graphic Design, Portfolios, Instagram, Russia, 2018

MAC Cosmetics approached talented "liquid designer" Ruslan Khasanov to create a unique and creative instagram content to highlight brand's lip color products

@ruskhasanov

Infinity - Temporal dir. GMUNK

March 21, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Agencies, Motioncollector, USA, 2018

The fine folks at 72andSunny came to Munkowitz (GMUNK) late in 2017 with a bold idea – they wanted to explore the relationship between Humans and technology and explore the notion that together, this union is more powerful than ever. They wanted Munko to create a series of films that spotlight the all-new INFINITI QX50 through the relentless cycle of man pushing machine—and machine pushing man.

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Weird Type AR Application

March 20, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Mobile Applications, Typography, 2018

Zach Lieberman and Molmol Kuo’s AR app Weird Type lets you paint with type in space.

Zach is an American artist and computer programmer whose daily sketches with code have earned him an impressive following on social media. Together with his partner Molmol they have released Weird Type – an iOS AR app that lets you draw with typography in 3D space.

A post shared by zach lieberman (@zach.lieberman) on Mar 12, 2018 at 2:12pm PDT

Available here, the application enables users to input type and choose from a variety of scenes that manipulate that type in different ways.

Weird Type App

Paper Art by Raya Sader Bujana for DOIY

March 19, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Graphic Design, Portfolios, Sculpture, Spain, 2018

Venezuelan artist Raya (previously) and photographer Leo living and working in their studio in Barcelona. They were commissioned to create a new narrative with by Folch for Doiy Design - a joyful objects store in Barcelona too, with an aim to generate meaningful collaborations with diverse creatives. Inspired by the Mexican architects Luis Barragán and Ricardo Legorreta and Doiy’s recent Scala collection, together Raya and Leo created and filmed an artwork made entirely from paper that plays with textures, colours, clean cuts, light and perspectives.

@littlerayofsunflower

@DOIY

Malavida: Melting Digital Art

March 19, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Illustration, Portfolios, France, 2018

Alycia Rainaud is a French graphic designer and digital artist. Originally influenced and passioned about publishing and hybrid books, she started working more than one year ago as a digital artist also known by the name of Malavida, mostly experimenting with new technologies, digital painting, programming, and visual effects.

On Ello

@maalavidaa

EMPOWERMENT: Exhibition by Creative Debuts ╳ Nasty Women

Creative Debuts

March 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Events, Motioncollector, United Kingdom, 2018

Our friends and partners Creative Debuts are famous for organising neat art events in London being the gatekeepers of the creative scene online. To celebrate International Women’s Day they joined forces with Nasty Women movement to celebrate the work of international feminist artists.

Artists Exhibited

@creativedebuts

Tape Project by Veronica Azaryan

March 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Fashion, Photography, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

Russian designer Veronica Azaryan shares her conceptual photo shoot on Ello Network

"The main idea of the project is to esthetize kinesiotherapy and to popularize the possibilities and techniques of applying this method through a series of advertising posters.
The concept of the tape project is to show the relationship between functionality and aesthetics.
Each kinesiology method has its own dynamics, plasticity and graphics. Therefore, visual images divided into directions to represent a certain method of taping, functionally confirmed. In addition to distribution by methods of taping, images are built on the difference of colors and lines contrasts."

@ronny_azaryan

Reality to Idea by Joshua Vides

The Seventh Letter Gallery

March 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Street Art, USA, Portfolios, 2018

Artist Joshua Vides making real-life objects appear as simple, black and white sketches. His ongoing experiments in Op Art went crazy when you see Air Jordan 1s, basketball hoops, street signs embellished in white paint with black sharpie lines drawn by hand. For Joshua’s next illusion, he took over The Seventh Letter Gallery in Los Angeles, California last week to present his new exhibit titled “Reality to Idea.”

@joshuavides

@realitytoidea

WC Tiles for Urban Architects

March 15, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Interior Design, Lithuania, Lifestyle, Portfolios, Agencies, Photography, 2018

This modernist photo tiles won't let you down (in case you are architect) while visiting a bath. WC Tiles is a self-initiated project created by Lithuanian design studio Gyva Grafika

Illustration sketches by Karina Yashagina

March 15, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

It's been a while since we focused on Russian illustration (THB our catalogues: RIW1 | RIW2) and just found a new gem - Karina Yashagina creating beautiful illustrative sketches

@Karinaias

Art of Photography by Flora Borsi

March 14, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Photography, Portfolios, Hungary, 2018

It's not a first time we review the ultra talented art photographer Flora Borsi but it worth to explore her recent artworks she created in the past year

@floraborsiofficial

*No. 1005 v. 25, digital algorithm painting, 2015*

Krista Kim for Lanvin RTW Fall 2018

March 14, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Fashion, Portfolios, USA, France, 2018

Artist Profile

Krista Kim

We have been following the self-initiated movement "Techism" started by New York based artist Krista Kim since the beginning. She currently exhibits in galleries and at art fairs globally in New York, Paris, Miami, Basel and Brussels, and is writing a book on the "Techism" that she hopes to have published next year. Recently she was approached by Lanvin creative director Olivier Lapidus to produce a collection based on her vivid digital artworks.

*Look 22 from* *Lanvin's FW18-19 ready-to-wear collection at* *Paris Fashion Week*

"Her digital images of LED lights informed the color palette of the clothes, which ranged from bold block colors to gradient effects on satiny coats and shimmering evening gowns. The latter were made from a specially developed silk Neoprene that conferred both structure and lightness." via WWD

*No. 671 v. 2, digital algorithm painting on Pleximuseum, Digital: 2015, Pleximuseum: 2016*

Apart from this fashion debut Krista "works with teams of up to six technicians in the most advanced specialised Pleximuseum labs in New York City and Paris. To reproduce the effect of a LED screen, production is high cost and high risk, as some pieces have to go through three or four runs to achieve the desired level of perfection and quality. It took her two years of experimentation and research into the latest technology to find the labs that could accurately recreate the vibrancy and luminosity of the colors in her artworks from the screen to the large format on Pleximuseum she required, as they had never before used pigments to the same level as she had been using and certain colors cannot be produced. She is the only artist who uses this particular kind of technology in these materials, style and scale. Requiring from six months to a year to complete just one piece, sometimes up to two years, and two months for production, prices of her artworks range from €38,000 to €85,000" via Forbes

*No. 1 v. 19, digital algorithm painting, Pleximuseum: 2017*

Krista Kim's 8x8 light and sound video installation with music composed by Tenille Bentley

The Micro Wallet

March 13, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Design, 2018

As you may know we support a lot of Kickstarter projects even some of them never happen to deliver :D But with our next pledge to the Micro Wallet we believe it take a place in your heart too. Showcasing 7 brand new designs by cutting edge artists worldwide, the Micro Wallet is a slimmest, strongest design yet.

After two successful Kickstarter campaigns, Paperwallet is excited to announce the launch of their next project, the Card Wallet. The Card Wallet is an ultra-slim RFID protected wallet made from Tyvek and is designed with awesome artwork from artists around the world.

Paperwallet was born out a of desire to fuse function with design and comfort in our everyday carry accessories

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Artist challenge from Ello x Paperwallet

Submit your work to be featured in Paperwallet's newest product – The Micro Wallet – and be a featured artist on the Kickstarter campaign page.

ON Running — “No Room For Grey Areas”

March 13, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Branding, Germany, Graphic Design, Motioncollector, Portfolios, 2018

Traum Inc. was commissioned by ON Running to promote their new shoe Cloud X released in a special all black and all white version.

Shot in Iceland the film creates a world of black and white, brutalist and wild but technical, balancing sublime landscapes with technical closeups and 3D renderings of the shoe. The film pits a runner agains his alter ego, chasing each other until it comes to a final stand off between both.

DIRECTOR
Thomas Traum (TRAUM INC)
CREATIVE DIRECTION
Alex Griffin (On-Running), Thomas Traum
EDITING
Nikolaj Beltzer (OKAY Studio)
GRADING
Ludovic Roussaux (OKAY Studio)
DOP
Ruaraid Achilleos

1ST AC
Matthew Choules
TALENT
Kazeem Temiday
STYLIST
Erna Bergann
VFX
TRAUM INC (Safwaan Motara, Hayden Martin, Thomas Traum)
PRODUCTION
TRAUM INC

Traum Inc