The Best Art of 2013

We are happy to present you the set of Art Top lists of the year 2013 in Painting, Drawing, Sculpting and Performing creative industries. Please seat back and enjoy forty selected posts from Designcollector.

Let's start with best 10 artists

Damian Loeb

Cesar Santos

 

Paolo Troilo

 

Thomas Sailot

 

Ivan Alifan

 

Slava Fokk

 

Vonn Sumner

 

Juan Carlos Manjarrez

 

Mitch Griffiths

 

Alec Huxley

 

10 Best drawing artists

Edward Fairburn

 

James Mylne

 

Cath Riley

 

Kevin Okafor

 

Franco Clun

 

Pat Boas

 

Jacob Everett

 

Dasha Pliska

 

Constantine Lianos

 

Alex Konahin

 

10 Best Art Projects

"From the Knees of my Nose to the Belly of my Toes" by Alex Chinneck

 

"Some Assembly Required" by Michael Johansson

 

"Balance from Within" by Jakob Tonski

http://vimeo.com/72826106

 

Wolfchrom by Pavel Platonov

 

VW Beetle as a Sphere and Cube by Ichwan Noor

 

2 million straws by Tokujin Yoshioka

 

Ice Typography by Nicole Dextras

 

Anamorphic Paintings by Felice Varini

 

Sculptural Waves by Mario Ceroli

 

Birds Of Aperture by Paul Octavious

 

10 Best Sculptors

Camila Valdez

 

Rein Vollenga

 

Li Hongbo

http://vimeo.com/54967505

 

Gehard Demetz

 

Wolfgang Stiller

 

Bernardi Roig

 

Willy Verniger

 

David Mesguich

 

Alex Seton

 

Hedi Xandt

The Top 10 Most Visited Posts in 2013

This is the 5th separate post of upcoming Designcollector's Top 2013. Please enjoy our Top 10 most visited posts of the year 2013.

Living Spaces: Inspiration Set 1

From the series of Interior Design inspiration

Shortology Movies Collection

DCMAG n°02

Sculptures by Takahiro Iwasaki

Follow Me To.. by Murad Osmann

He recently took part at Miami ArtBasel

Hyper Realism in a bowl by Keng Lye

Thanks God I am a man

Our abandoned series of beauties photography from Tumblr

Dmitry Maximov "Tebe Interesno" Illustrative World

Russian Art get Simpsonised by BHSAD Students

Watercolour-like tattoos by Sasha Unisex

PYE Store by Lesha Galkin

Talented StPete based designer Lesha Galkin from Dopludo was commissioned by "Pimp Your Eyes" eyewear store to create sales point at Moscow FLACON Design Factory. The idea came quickly - modular parts of a spaceship, worth to mention Lesha completed architectural university and Le Corbusier's Modulor is his midnight fellow. The interior was made up from 477 module pieces cut from a plywood, smart and light-weight choice for exhibitions. The results are posted below, don't forget to watch a video. http://www.behance.net/gallery/PYE-Store/12374703

http://vimeo.com/79806945

The Top Motion Pictures of 2013

That was a great year for Creative Motion Pictures and it is worth to mention our presentation with Russian Motion Design on Filmteractive Festival in September. Many of you might remember Designcollector's Top 2013 Summer video mashup and now it time to watch all the best videos we selected from our flow Motioncollector.

Givenchy Le Rouge

Directed by Hellohikimori http://vimeo.com/56977646

Be Yourself at the Chalkboard

Directed by Soon http://vimeo.com/56277909

Paperman short animation

Directed by John Kahrs at Disney http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QAI4B_2Mfc

Good Deeds Fair mapping

Directed by SILASVETA http://vimeo.com/59092035

FITC 2013 Titles

Directed by GMUNK http://vimeo.com/59892998

Life Drawing at The Book Club

Directed by Wriggles & Robbins http://vimeo.com/62126310

Shave It

Directed by 3dar Studios http://vimeo.com/63528500

Umbrella

Directed by Tell No One http://vimeo.com/64542720

Jaguar F-TYPE presents Desire

Directed by Ridley Scott Associates http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eylRo0p1nq0

Screengrab

Directed by Willie Wittie http://vimeo.com/64686559

5m80

Directed by Nicolas Deveaux

Instagram Is

Directed by Paul Tellefsen http://vimeo.com/66938184

OFFF 2013 Main Titles

Directed by Ashley Govers, Jurjen Versteeg and Wouter Keijzer http://vimeo.com/68024871

Paper City

Directed by Maciek Janicki http://vimeo.com/67658001

Record

Directed by Wriggles & Robins http://vimeo.com/72287275

Filmteractive 2013: Russian Motion Design

Composed by Alex Frukta http://vimeo.com/75110594

SCRIPTURA VITAE

Directed by Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic http://vimeo.com/77675378

The Bear and The Hare: London Christmas 2013

Directed by Blinkink and Adam & Eve DDB http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWig2WARb0

A Parting Glass

Directed by Laurence Dunmore at RSA Films

Sofles – Limitless

Directed by Selina Miles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv-Do30-P8A

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P.s.

Designcollector's Top 2013 Summer http://vimeo.com/72883754

The Top Russian Projects of 2013

It time to show you the best Russian projects we posted on blog this year. Most of them gained a lot of attention and were warm welcomed by the world based audience so we decide to focus even more on Russians in 2014.Enjoy the selection of best 20 various projects from the year 2013 below!

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Photography illusions by Ben Zank

Ben Zank was born in Bronx, New York. At the age of 18, he began taking photographs for fun after he discovered a Pentax ME Super in his grandmother’s attic. His work is essentially portraits and self-protects, aiming to stretch the viewer’s imagination and express his feelings when words fail via

Alice Macarova

Beautiful animalistic and ornamental artworks made with ink pens and watercolour by StPete based illustrator and my university co-ed Alice Macarova. I personally admire Dali related prints pity Society6 still has no delivery to Russia.

Architectural Photography by Pavel Bendov

Pavel Bendov is a New York based photographer who grew up in Belarus and moved to United States in 2010. he is specialized in architecture, landscape, still life and product photography. He is also the founder of New York Explorer instagram blog. Urban Lines Project is his latest photo project about our modern architecture, the lines and shapes of our big cities. via

Rebecca Adams

Rebecca Adams is an artist based out of Providence, USA. Her paintings focus on black and white portraiture referencing stylized and graphic photography and film. I personally liked them all, view her artworks below

Illustrations by Sergey Kardakov

Freshly found excellent character illustrations done by Russian artist Sergey Kardakov

Martin Tremblay

"Fortune Cookies" is a photo series by Canadian photographer Martin Tremblay, in which he turns his subjects on their heads—literally. The project was commissioned by the fashion magazine Schön!

Paintings by Alec Huxley

Paintings of figures dressed in business attire wearing space helmets that alludes to some sort of narrative, while also combining the architecture of San Francisco with fantasy and film noir. That is Alec Huxley

It all began when I bought a Soviet space helmet on eBay. I was playing around with a bunch of space-themed work for my first show at D-Structure and painted two pieces in that style. Something in the cinematic and graphic look just clicked with me, so I started to explore it more.

via

Surreal Munich by Victor Enrich

"As part of his latest project NHDK, photographer Víctor Enrich challenged himself to digitally reconfigure the same building in Munich, Germany in 88 different configurations. The Barcelona-based artist is known for his warped and skewed interpretations of architecture in locations around the world including an extensive series of images shot in Tel Aviv." via Colossal. http://vimeo.com/81182837

Double Exposure shots by Francesco Paleari

With these photographs, Italian photographer Francesco Paleari want to show that the buildings of a city are instrumental in shaping the lives of people.

The Grand Kind Haiyan Print Auction

Grand Kind Haiyan Print Auction is a charity auction organised by Grand Neue that aims to raise funds for the Disaster Emergency Committee in support of their current relief efforts in the Philippines. This charity print auction has secured close to 100 great art prints donated by leading contemporary illustrators and designers including Mr Bingo, Patternity, Hvass&Hannibal, the Peepshow Collective and Nous Vous.All auctions will be ending over the course of this week from Tuesday (10 Dec) to Saturday (14 Dec).

Pasta Architecture

The Gourmand food and culture journal commissioned London-based designer Gemma Tickle and photographer Aaron Tilley to create five different settings made of five different types of pasta, paying homage to Italian architecture. The final result is a photo series which depicts the brittle beauty of structural and decorative architectural elements.

Surreal photography by Mikael Aldo

Captivating photo manipulations (that are hard to distinguish) creates cold atmosphere of solitude following by the struggle with personal inner daemons. That's what I see on portfolio of beautiful photographic images made by Mikael Aldo

Laura Eddy

These extraordinary drawings are by Australian artist Laura Eddy, who renders celebrities and models like Dita Von Teese and Cara Delevingne in painstaking pencil work. Her imagery is full of skeletons, ice cream cones and confetti which adds a playful, feminine side to her art. One marvels at the time spent creating these wonders. via

Hyper-realistic iPad painting

When I was 5 years old I clearly remember a guy that was looking for us kids in a kidergarten. He owned an Edge-a-Sketch (actually its Soviet version called "Magic Screen") tool and did portraits while we had a siesta. That was impressive and realistic sketch portraits of his girlfriend (our nurse obviously) and I was wondering why he can do that and someone else cannot. That's how I got close to the definition "talent".I truly believe that no tools are the magic wand in the hand of creator but his talent and skills are. For trained oil painter and illustrator from UK Kyle Lambert an iPad is a tool and please have look what he did using only fingers and application Procreate. A hyper-realistic portrait of actor Morgan Freeman. Even after watching the video several times, you probably still won't believe that he created something so realistic using the same device your niece uses to play Angry Birds, so check out some bonus videos below for further proof.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEdRLlqdgA4

Original photo of Morgan Freeman is made by Scott Gries

P.s. For those who cares, it believes that the video is not a fake, read the statement from Procreate CEO "There's been some controversy over the veracity of the Kyle Lambert painting video we shared earlier this week, and our CEO James has addressed these comments. Following the controversy we analysed the source file extensively, and determined that it is genuine. That this is hard to believe is testament to Kyle Lambert's exceptional work. Read the full statement here: http://procreate.si/press2/download.php?file=releases%2FKyleLambert-MorganFreeman.pdf "

Drawings by Alex Konahin

Latvia-based artist Alex Konahin creates extraordinarily ornate, detailed and beautiful drawings like these using just pencils, pens and india ink. We did a review on his works year ago covering his art done not only by classic materials but even personal blood. For now please check his latest painstakingly intricate series of floral insects and other creatures.