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October 9th, 2008

Niko

Nicolas Lesaffre aka Niko is an animation director with great sense for character development, dig his marvelous work fill it up with magical and surreal worlds.

September 30th, 2008

Zamak

"I like working fast to have a quick result, that’s why I use simple forms to start. Then I leave the creation for awhile—hours, days, weeks—and [when I come back to] work on it again [I] add accessories, details, refining lights, shadows, texture. What really [matters to me are] not details but the [overall seductive] aspect."
-Olivier Bucheron aka Zamak

Check out also an interview at Newton.

September 24th, 2008

The Lobster chair

Lobster chair is produced by Strictly Design in Denmark.
The shell is laminated, bend wood with a walnut veneer at the back. Is a bit like the sub-aquatic version of classic Eames Lounge & Ottoman.

Oh Yeah!

Christina and Hans Christian, the minds behind the interesting graphical work of Oh Yeah Studio from Oslo, Norway.

September 22nd, 2008

Lee Towndrow

Was a designer upon starting out. Made album covers. Was moved by kissing robots to become flame* artist. Built a darkroom, made bread (the kind you eat). Moved to Buenos Aires to try to grow up. Learned spanish, loved, lost. Worked with great artists. Became a photographer.

September 15th, 2008

Cesar Moreno

Cesar Moreno just updated his portfolio with some great new illustration work, the outstanding piece above is a poster (90X60 cm) made for MadinSpain 2008 exhibition and apparently is a tribute to Radio Head.
Enjoy!

September 14th, 2008

DOU

“Visially I am inspired by culture of fashion and surrealists. I often shock peple. I try to create the my personal aesthetics of the works, I try to combine reality with artificiality.” - Oleg Duryagin

The impressive art of young russian photographer-artist Oleg Duryagin aka DOU.
Check out more of his work here.

September 12th, 2008

Obama Force One

Obama Force One sneakers by Portland based Art Director & Copywriter at Wieden+Kennedy, Jimm Lasser.

September 11th, 2008

Fruit under the microscope

A new book - written by two experts from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - reveals the ingenious and often devious strategies which plants have developed to help ensure their continued existence.
Watch some of the tactics explained in this BBC-news video accompanied with amazing and colorful images.

August 22nd, 2008

Shiva > Austin TV

After an intense record time of one month finally the music video of single SHIVA from indie-instrumental band Austin TV from Mexico City is out. The idea is based in one of many stories from Mario Lupo's diary that comes with the album Fontana Bella, this fictional character an his Xoloscuincle dog, Kerdoc, fell accidentally in a hidden magical forest which at the end result in the Devil's cave.

Credits.
Director & Illustration Art : Alberto Cerriteño
Main Animator & Compositing : Diego Huacuja
Music: Austin TV
Supporting Animators: Gabriela Badillo / Humberto Zamorate

See additional material in this Flickr set.

August 11th, 2008

Smoke & Mirrors

Are you a magician who does design in your spear-time? Or a designer who does magic card tricks to impress friends? Then you need to get these new classy card sets called Smoke & Mirrors produced by Dan & Dave, devotees to the art of magic in collaboration with the well known illustrator Si Scott.
As always his work never disappoints!

Organic Figures

Annie Woodford an artist from London who makes some really interesting art.
"Her work is about frozen environments, about capturing a fundamental essence of humanity. The resulting pieces are often disturbing objects that appear to be hybrids of cellular organisms, torture implements, tribal tools and early medical utensils. Title such as Savage Trap, Innocent Intruder and Trace Shifter heighten this sense of darkness and danger, of an encounter with some kind of primeval lifeform."