Mark Broyer is an art director and photographer based in Hamburg, Germany. He studied graphic design and worked as a freelance art director for several design and advertising agencies. Since 2013, he has been focusing on his own photographic projects at the same time
““For “Let there Be”, Max asked me to think about the two key words “infinite” and “birth of humanity”. Everything came naturally to this process I was working on, involving two types of liquids blending in forever, progressively. I choose to represent the light of Kabbalah that Max once told me about, blending a very luminous and pearly white with a very dark black. Once I had a satisfying shot, I added with Max a variety of neolithic paintings and illustrations spreading out from the center where the lights were coming from.”
“I wanted to start the project with the earliest visual example of the infinite I could find reference to - the bright white light of Kabbalah. The magician of liquid systems, Thomas Vanz told me he had a new secret recipe which could deliver what I needed, so I set about scoring to this idea based around what I know of Thomas’ work. The whole project functioned in this way, starting with my written descriptions of each chapter, then finding a visual artist to carry out that side of things, while in parallel I scored the music to the imagined final result. At some point down the line the first visual and musical sketches arrived and things could be refined at each end to marry the music and visual together seamlessly.
The music for this chapter needed something with a feeling of grandeur and space, mysteriousness and mysticism. It all came down to some really sparse drawn out chords and plenty of different layers of saturation with pedals (plenty of Metasonix F1, Moogerfooger overdrive, Industrialelctric RM1N, Fairfield Circuitry Meet Maude, WMD Geiger Counter), with smatterings of more distorted hits running through a heavy (Big Sky) plate reverb to punctuate the scale even more.
Visually, we complemented Thomas’ growing light animation with ancient cave painting imagery in order to tie the visual abstraction to the human story, and the birth of our yearning for the infinite.
For the live show I use two layers of screens to first show the structure hovering in front of stage, then to slowly reveal the rear backlit screen and my position between them, as a means of slowly adding a 3-dimensional depth effect as the music and visual peaks.”
The most titled graphic artist of Designcollector - Ruslan Khasanov is totally unstoppable when it comes to experiment with colour, forms and textures. “Destroying Rainbow Books” video is a continuation of Ruslan’s experiments with old-school Compact Disc - or simply Disctortion.
Berlin is a city in Germany that never stands still. This surrealistic series of Simone Hutsch features a mix of popular pre-and post-war buildings.
The Guardian is a free interpretation of the parable "Before the Law" from Kafka's book "The Trial". A peasant after traveling the world arrives in front of a gate, controlled by a fearsome Guardian. The peasant tries to pass through but the Guardian denies him entrance. Peasant and Guardian are the same character, the peasant, like each one of us, in front of his own fear; the guardian, something shapeless, that surround and control him. The Door/Gate the possibilities we encounter during our life.
You can enter at any given point and go whichever way you please. The circle has no
beginning and no end, no direction either. Too much freedom causes confusion, so people
have come up with their own notion of time that goes “clockwise”, following the hands of
time, on a growing scale. Increasing numbers, mounting years. Tic toc.
Death is transformation, like birth. Big events set the clock to zero again. Have you ever felt you’ve experienced a moment before? Relax, it’s because you have. In fact. Before. Or was it after.
In order to learn something, our previous self has to painfully shed the skin of previous
failed experiences to give our future self some advice for the road. No need to reject or
deny the feeling that sometimes you just know. In advance. For certain. Stuff that hasn’t
happened yet. Your inner feeling is correct. It’s possible to go there as well.
AVIVA is a circle of life in all its forms. Aviva as a palindrome; a word that moves both ways. A viva, as “up from the dead” in Latin; up from the dead, towards life, in the opposite
direction. Despite its static nature, the circle of “Aviva” is not a still life, nature morte, dead nature. The seemingly silent pictures aspire towards life, to light. A moment freezes and time will become nothing but an arbitrary construction, shackles we don’t need any longer.
You can enter at any given point and go whichever way you please
Zhang wanted to be a classical oil painter and Knight wanted to be an opera singer. Now they make beautiful films.
Directors: Zhang + Knight
Producer: Luke Tierney
Production Company: @friend_london
Talented illustrator Viktor Miller Gausa is back with updated portfolio of portraits made in b/w and colourful digital techniques
The way to the top is long and arduous. Most give up early, others are forced to retreat later. Only the best hold out to the end and overcome all obstacles.
The cineastic homage to the power of will shows in a spectacular way how the exceptional athlete fights his weaker self, defies all injuries and adversities and fights until he finally arrives at his destination: at the start of the most demanding downhills in the world.
Written & Directed by Fabian Weber
Cinematography by Jan Mettler
Denitsa Toshirova is a Bulgarian-born portrait and editorial photographer currently based in Berlin. Her personal work explores topics such as identity and the body and it is often situated within the genres of experimental and fine art photography.
Vicki Ling is a visual artist and illustrator currently based in Chicago, USA, has a strong eye for detail and a unique ability to convey emotion through her fictional imagery.
Madrid-based artist Rocío Montoya, specialized in illustration and mixed-media collages shared her latest project: “Hybrid flowers and other tales” as part as her new venture into digital illustration.
Once we call a “Digital Art”, an art itself, it automatically drops “time” as a measure of its actual value. After it is created and approved by art mediums, it gains appreciation and reactivates the new meanings during the life. Here is 5 years old project from Bangkok, Thailand, CG artist Kontorn Boonyanate that reflects on antique beauty canons using modern digital interpretations.
“Classic icon must be distorted when they’ve got through all the journey of time and culture. What I can do is that just assume the PAST filtered through these thick and blur lenses. So, What I paint would not be the icon itself but the surface of lens of time, which might be just stretched, or by which the image could be deformed or vaguer.”
“A Mach unit characterizes flight speed compared to the speed of sound. We use the Mach unit to characterize our graphics.”
Based in Bogotá, Colombia, Carolina creates colourful illustrations depicting the transitional state of mind being between dream and reality. She is also known as a member of our @Digital.Decade family
“Using his iPhone only, Prince Gyasi captures both resiliency and strength through his striking silhouettes placed against brightly altered landscapes and vivid backgrounds.”
“He creates images that are bold, hopeful, and tell the stories of marginalized individuals who are often pushed aside in society. Most of his images are created in his hometown of Accra, using the surrounding landscapes and community as his muse.” via @trendland
Born and based in Accra, Ghana, artist is represented by NIL Gallery Paris @nilgalleryparis
Each year OFFF raises bar in creativity. Each year they release tons of endorphins in different locations around the world. This time the destination was Kyiv, Ukraine and with some epic talks and amazing team behind the festival they delivered an amazing visual experience created by Eugene Pylinsky (@pylik) & Eugene Lekh (@e_lekh)
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