Small Talk for Adult Swim
Friday’s small talk directed by Chris Rutledge (@tokymegz) & Tom Goulet (@tomgoulery) created for Adult Swim
Kirill Maksimchuk
Russian digital artist Kirill Maksimchuk known by collaboration with us on Digital Decade 5: Cyberia exhibition and DJ Carnage cover art shares his latest cyber works and jaw-dropping reel and step in to the NFT scene with his Cyberia citizen “Cybermancer”
Cybermancer
Cryptomancer
Neomancer
IKEA Allen key lamp
Japanese design studio Gelchop has created a lamp for IKEA that takes the shape of an oversized Allen key in a nod to the company's flat-pack furniture legacy.
The lamp forms part of a 10-piece homeware collection created by IKEA in collaboration with five different artist and designers including Sabine Marcelis and Snarkitecture co-founder Daniel Arsham.
Read more on Dezeen
Duality by Ash Keating
Melbourne-based visual artist Ash Keating creates larger-than-life site-specific murals with paint-filled fire extinguishers. He has been painting explosively overseas and across Australia since 2003 - having exhibiting extensively in galleries as well as creating numerous large-scale, site-responsive outdoor projects.
Titled Duality, Keating’s latest works are a series of textural paintings which need to be seen in person to be fully appreciated.
On the view at Linden New Art Gallery with the title show “Duality” through 16 May 2021
The World's First Digital NFT Home by Krista Kim
Contemporary artist Krista Kim, who was a part of our latest Digital Decade 2020 edition and had collaborations with brands such as Lamborghini and Lanvin, has ventured into the crypto-creative field, announcing her design of the first digital home available for purchase as an NFT file. Krista is not the only designer to do shift to digital work; just a few weeks ago, another friend of us, the Argentinian designer Andrés Reisinger sold 10 virtual pieces of furniture in an online auction.
2021 Citroen Ami
Long time no cars? Sustainable cars indeed. Here is a new drop from Citroen - the Ami is a tiny electric quadricycle with a chic of a Frenchman. We love it as it has a feeling of gendarme Ludovic Cruchot in it chasing crypto artists on the run.
Katsuyo Aoki Ceramic Sculpture
Katsuyo Aoki is best known for her ceramic sculptures that apply delicate, swirling forms to dark subject matter. Aoki trained first as a painter before taking up ceramic as her primary medium, though she sometimes creates abstracted images on her ceramic surfaces using glazes in monochromatic palettes.
Aoki is best known for her works in relief or in the round, and an ornate style that draws from a range of decorative styles. Her works often look radically different from varying perspectives. Frequently used motifs and forms include the skull, the crown, and dismembered parts of animals—allusions to historic narratives and mythologies.
Charlie Gray Photography
Charlie Gray is a British international fashion and portrait photographer based in London. His playful vision and dedication to the art of narrative grew out his love of theatre and early documentary photographic projects.
Charlie has captured some of the most iconic faces of our time, Robert de Niro, Mike Tyson, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Keira Knightley, Bill Murray and sir Anthony Hopkins amongst others. equally, Gray frequently shoots poetic fashion stories with film and theatre’s faces of tomorrow.
Recently Charlie entered NFT art market from a position of a photographer, what make the whole buzz around cryptoart shaping more sense by delivering quality works ahead of CG experiments. Follow or bid on his works by the link below:
Entropy dir. Matan Portnoy
Entropy - the degree of disorder of particles during a chemical reaction.
Passionate and painful relationship in the chaotic retrospect of a faded memory.
This is the entropy of a relationship.
When everything is over, are we left alone with the memories of our loved ones or is it that those same memories are what keep us from being alone?
Written & Directed by Matan Portnoy
Director Of Photography - Tom Riechart
Producer - Noa Cymerman
Behind the scenes
Borja Alegre
Motion and Digital Artist based in Barcelona Borja Alegre shows off his skills
Lisa Odette
Lisa Odette, digital artist, illustrator and animator currently based in Madrid, Spain. Passionate about colours and composition, she tries to bring unique visual voice to all the imagery sit in her portfolio and available for bidding online
Arch McLeish Photography
New York-based photographer and art director Arch McLeish likes the solace of empty places. His photography embraces traces of people, freeing up the space they leave behind for a myriad of interpretations.
Louis Vuitton Travel Book Saint Petersburg by Kelly Beeman
Living in this masterpiece city always a pleasure to see how travelling artists accept it and admire its beauty. NYC-based Kelly Beeman was commissioned by Louis Vuitton’s Travel Book Series to create a body of work that play off the many unique traits of the city.
Soft Sculpture by Sergio Roger
Sergio Roger’s work is born from his constant search for inspiration in the ancient artistic representations of beauty. The artist reinterprets iconic elements of art history and decorative arts to break away with preconceived ideas by creating unique and elaborated textile sculptures.
Each of Sergio Roger’s works is Unique and is created from antique fabric remnants. The artist himself carefully selects these materials from antique collector stores. He chooses fabrics such as old linens and velvets, which carry the passing of time and bring soul to the work. For example, in his series of linen busts, he brings a new vision on this subject by replacing stone or marble with delicate pieces of antique linen. With this gesture, the artist wants to reflect on the idea of permanence and majesty that we associate with this traditional art form.
NASA MARS 2020 Mission Identity by Tobias van Schneider
For the 2020 launch of the Mars Rover, NASA asked House of van Schneider to design a symbol capturing the energy and legacy of space travel, while celebrating the engineers who worked tirelessly on this mission.
At once an abstract representation of the iconic rover and blocks reaching up to the sky, the logomark works as beautifully on the rover as it does on a 191-foot tall rocket ship.
Do you know any other designer around whose work travelled to Mars? We know only Tobias! Proud to meet him during OFFF Festivals in Barcelona.
Mari Mad Maraca
Voxel artist (3D pixel) Mari Mad Maraca shares her magic worlds available for collecting as Prints or Digital Tokens
Jordi Diaz Alama Art
Artist and director of Barcelona Academy of Art Jordi Diaz Alamá has a vast relationships with academic and abstract ways of painting.
“Alamà offers through this series of saturated, vivid and imposing reds, a privileged peek inside the universe of the painter’s studio, the practice of working with life models and the vast plurality in sensuality. Red Studio synthesises the many layers of technical research the artist has acquired over the last decade. Academicism and abstraction coexist again on the canvas: a new aesthetic chapter carried out by an overwhelming expressive force in the form of a dance between the measured and the vigorous brushstroke.”
“Red Studio has been developed in parallel with another of Alamàs’s ambitious series of paintings illustrating scenes of Hell in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Both series have grown in the same space – the artist’s studio – a place that can too often become hell in itself. The fire of the Dantesque Hell seems to crawl into these classical anatomical studies and envelop the figures with an abrasive red enamel, the main unifying thread of the series. Similarly, the works from the #ClásicosDesollados series also make an appearance, engulfed in flames and hung at the bottom of the Red Studio‘s works.” - words by Albert Navales
Ilia Zharkov Tattoos
Time to refresh our #tattoos collection with a new masterpieces from Moscow-based ink artist Ilia Zharkov
Beeple: The First 5000 Days
Being a pioneer of digital art promotion - Designcollector is always looking for the breakaway artists whose intuition way ahead of the main peloton. Groundbreaking digital artist Mike Winkelmann known as Beeple is one of them. Since 2007 Mike has created 5,000+ digital artworks by following a simple rule: one image per day. The diligence paid off when the rise of NFT trading burst like a fresh wave onto the digital art scene just at the moment of another lockdown after another lockdown during 2020. Beeple played a huge role in reinforcing beliefs in quite an ephemeral way of selling unique artworks for cryptocurrency by imprinting them “forever” into Ethereum blockchain.
His January’s drop of a dozen phygital artworks (non-fungible token JPG + physical collectible including a certificate “signed” by artist’s hair in a capsule) rocketed the NFT scene by a one week auction on Nifty Gateways platform.
And here come Christie’s what means art institutions started to look (if not late) onto the opportunity to catch an NFT wave by putting Beeple’s EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS - a huge stitched image featuring all images he created over 13 years. Organised in loose chronological order, zooming in on individual pieces reveals abstract, fantastical, grotesque, and absurd pictures, alongside current events and deeply personal moments. The NFT is minted on another platform Makersplace and is available for bidding on Christie’s website
“The notable difference between the pictures from Day 1 (1 May, 2007) and Day 5,000 (7 January, 2021) reveals Beeple’s immense evolution as an artist. At the project’s inception, Everydays consisted of basic drawings. Once Beeple started working in 3D, they took on abstract themes, colour, form, and repetition. In the last five years, however, his digital pictures have became increasingly timely, often reacting to current events.” says Christie’s in its groundbreaking article
“Art should be everywhere and everyone should live like an artist and create their dreams. In a decentralized world, this is possible.”
Follow up our affair with NFT scene on Twitter @designcollector
George Greaves Surreal Illustrations
“By gradients and contrasted monochromes, Bristol based George Greaves displays a work as minimal as intrigued, where perspective is cropped, casting doubt on different dimensions, oscillating between motion and stylised angular shapes”
“Surrealist and colourful works from modernist artists like Matisse and David Hockney are the main inspiration of his images. To build these framed scenes, he uses bold design as base material, delimited by shadow and noise play. George’s creations make up half of Printed Goods products and are available right here”
