BLN LOV by Simone Hutsch
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
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.
Directed by Alessandro Novelli
Hidden
Hidden is a triptych video installation created by DBLG that merges the world of fashion, music and visual art. Inspired by the debut couture collection of fashion designer Vincent Lapp, who won Nick Knight’s SHOWStudio Fashion Film Award, explores the connection between form and elemental forces, taking the viewer on an arresting visual journey.
To mark the start of London Fashion week 2019 the film has been designed to be shown simultaneously across three huge portrait screens immersing the audience in coloured light and surround sound.
Music for the film is composed by experimental choral trio Blood Moon Project. Approaching the film in chapters they interpreted each of the garments graphic language as instrumentation blending synths, salvaged church organs and percussion.
Delicatessen on 6th by Lucy Sparrow
Lucy Sparrow strikes again. After her successful show of felted and knitted grocery store “8’ Till Late” that sold out in a few days she’s back with a new pop-up shop “Delicatessen on 6th” with a lot of felted and knitted fresh food, seafood and other veggies we adore so much! Head to Rockefeller Center, NYC to grab your piece of art for the affordable price. The project is the biggest activation to date in Art Production Fund’s “Art in Focus” public art series.
Opened through October 20, 2019
Abstract Aerial Art
Two brothers JP and Mike Andrews settled on a life-changing trip leaving harsh UK life behind and spent a year in a wild Australian main lands. They continued hunting extraordinary among ordinary around the world making their aerial photography a masterpiece of composition caught in time.
Marcus Chaloner
Marcus Chaloner is a Art director and motion designer working at FutureDeluxe in London but what we adore most is his personal CG works he shares on Ello profile
Future You by Universal Everything
How do you feel when you see a synthetic version of yourself?
In Future You, you are faced with a unique reflection of your potential, synthetic self. Starting as a primitive form, it learns from your movements to adapt, suggesting an agile, superior version of you. This artwork evolves, creating a new visual response for each visitor, generating 47,000 possible variations.
Commissioned by The Barbican, London for the entrance of the exhibition AI: More Than Human, open 16 May through 26 August 2019.
Creative Director: Matt Pyke
Creative Technologist: Chris Mullany
Realtime Look Development: Adam Samson
Sound Design: Simon Pyke
Exhibition Designer: Tonkin Liu
Studio Manager: Simon Thompson
Executive Producer: Ben Young
Commissioned by The Barbican, London
The future ain’t the same as it used to be
New work from Chris Labrooy. The irreverent meets the sublime in this animated short film that follows an all star automotive cast from around the world. Elegant british classics mixed with Inflatable german auto’s and chopped up American metal
Sam Chivers Illustration
Talented British illustrator Sam Chivers shows off his skills by sharing commercial and personal projects
Desso - Human Fascination (Directors Cut)
“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than one seeks”
Carpet as landscapes, and landscapes as carpets. A new film for DESSO directed by Thomas Traum as part of their “HUMAN FASCINATION” campaign. Four types of carpets were matched to four landscapes with four characters exploring these landscapes. Additionally, CG artefacts provide a visual link between both worlds, the carpets and the landscapes.
Kokosmos by Anna Radchenko
Kokosmos is a purely visual, experimental piece inspired by space and our fascination with the unknown. A surreal fantasy, aimed to extend our perception of reality by letting us wonder over the existence of a higher being and our connection with her.
Shot in Moscow by the award-winning director and photographer Anna Radchenko, Kokosmos is a tribute to Russia’s infatuation with space.
Somewhere between a fashion film, a music piece and an experimental video, Kokosmos embraces reality and extends it through magical realism by visually answering the question: what if? The video is Radchenko’s first piece combining CGI with real footage, a direction that she is looking to explore with her future productions.
Kokosmos is a collaboration with model Yana Dobroliubova, recognised for her striking and ethereal looks which break away from traditional beauty standards. Inspired by Dobroliubova’s unearthly aesthetic, as well as Japanese manga artist Shintaro Kago, Radchenko expresses our constant need to explore and search by focusing on the concept of the all-seeing eye.
The music and sound was custom made specifically for this piece. Collaborating with creative music and sound design duo Playhead, they worked with the London-based singer songwriter Alyusha Chagrin to create an otherworldly-sounding language to fit the scenario.
Similarly, the choice of clothing and make-up is also meant to fit with post-soviet space theme; Radchenko brings in elements of folklore by specifically selecting Russian fashion designers and sticking to a neon color palette featuring bright shades of green and purple.
““Growing up in post soviet Russia I’d be constantly dreaming about space, the unknown and what was out there, almost like an unknown entity we were trying to reach out to. With Kokosmos I wanted to express exactly that: my vision of what space and this god-like presence would look and feel like”
Joe Kibra Illustrations
Talented illustrator and art director Joe Kibra creates unforgettable black and white illustrations using contrast forms and stripes as a main visual tool
Lee Broom is celebrated as one of United Kingdom’s most successful, theatrical, and respected, lighting designers.
Park Life lighting show by Lee Broom
Lee Broom draws a parallel between the 18th century and present-day social attitudes in his latest lighting installation, Park Life, for Space Furniture.
We’ve been following Lee’s carrier path since his debut on London Design scene more than 10 years ago. Attracted by the way he works with light and materials we can’t skip his recent milestone “a whirlwind tour of the Indo Pacific with Space Furniture, his exclusive retailer in Australia, touching down in Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand“
“And so 2019 marks Lee Broom’s second visit to Australia, and the Park Life installation sees it become an unforgettable moment in time for all”
Park Life draws on the very British history of the Pleasure Garden, at its most popular in the 18th century.
“Conceptually, Park Life draws on the very British history of the Pleasure Garden, at its most popular in the 18th century. According to Lee, they were typically places for the aristocracy and the middle class to see music, art, fashion and dine and drink. Like an architectural display, they were designed with miniature waterways, mazes and pagodas. Although it was a period of high culture they became infamous for facilitating debauchery.” - continue reading on @habitusliving
Santa Fe Opera illustrations by Stuart McReath
London-based illustrator Stuart McReath was commissioned to create posters for new season of Santa Fe Opera
BIFF
“Biff is a multi-faceted illustrator, designer and creative personality. A limitless imagination and diverse skill-set not only enable him to champion a brief but also stand him in great stead for generating impulsive projects and original ideas. His relaxed yet distinctive and on-point style has won him clients from all over the world, and his ever-expanding use of new tools and media is a testament to his versatility and professionalism. Inspired by every aspect of the world around him. Biff's creations are fresh, current, comedic and instilled with immeasurable character." - Emily Beeson, Young Gold Teeth.
London Fireworks 2019
As a small tradition we share the most beautiful New Year Countdown Firework that’s taking place in London every year. “London is Open” is a new campaign for this multi-cultural melting pot went as a red line during the show last night.
Full recording from BBC Live
Dots and Lines by artist Butler
Butler is a Nigerian born, London based multidisciplinary artist whose practice focuses on the intentional removal of informational excess through a subtle, minimalistic approach. His work fixates on the significance of clarity in content, while upholding an uncompromising attitude towards achieving figurativism in a minimalistic art form. Butler grasps at the purity of objects in their rawest form, depicting just how possible it is to dissect the physical personality, without eliminating the elementary aspects of allure that many contemporary individuals relate to.
FIRMAVERA
FIRMAVERA is the artistic practice of Natalia Romanova, based in London. Her product design ethos stems from her soviet childhood’s constructivist heritage and her experience as an industrial designer. She is influenced by an appreciative knowledge of engineering and industrial processes as well as the radical honesty of utilitarian and brutalism architecture.
The unpretentious beauty found in these disciplines informs her artistic practice which expands into experimentation through shape and perception. The frequent use of ceramics is a suitable canvas to convey a truthfulness to material while elevating the functional aesthetic into objects that are celebrations of that raw utopian vision.
Exposed overstructures, pattern repetitions and modularity hint at mass-production techniques and a brutalist rejection of ornaments. Ethical and functional intentions incidentally become malleable materials. The objects of FIRMAVERA are therefore playing with the notion of form and function, reconsidering their relationship in order to question the traditional norm of beauty.
firmavera.com
BBC2 Idents by Future Deluxe
Future Deluxe recently worked with BBC Creative and Superunion to design and produce a set of unique idents to help launch BBC2’s first identity update in over 25 years.
