joshua davis
Posted on | November 16, 2007 | No Comments
joshua davis is a design troublemaker. “a lot of printers ask me how I created my work,” he says mischievously. “because technically, it’s not actually possible.”davis creates electronically generated graphic compositions of almost unimaginable complexity and individuality. equally at home with print and electronic media, he builds his own Flash-based programs to combine and recombine colors borrowed from nature with forms that include organic shapes, text elements, and other symbols.
an image from Davis’s “tropism” exhibition, inspired by a 1908 book of floral dissections, at the Espeis Gallery in Brooklyn, NY
a generative composition created for BMW, based on forms found on the Z4 coupe
shiseido
Posted on | November 16, 2007 | No Comments
seems like we need some weird craziness these days (probably always has been that way) to get attention but right now every good commercial has to be “hand made” to be cool. dare you to do cgi, that’s OUT! visuals and the latin music don’t work well together and leaves you with this awkward kind of “huu?”.
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psyop
Posted on | November 11, 2007 | No Comments
another (not recently released but still cool) visually intriguing piece directed by todd mueller and kylie matulick (produced by psyop). the new york motion animation and special effect house psyop is run and owned by both todd and kylie, but compared to many competitors they do direct and create a lot of their work inhouse and don’t concentrate on special effects only. nice shop.
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florence & johann
Posted on | November 10, 2007 | No Comments
florence tétier and johann besse are a lausanne, switzerland based graphic design, photography and illsutration team (not a couple) which finished studies in 2006, graduating from ECAL – an in 1821 founded fine and applied art school, now officially university of art and design.
the two have an interesting mix of disciplines and work on their site. often combining different media to create its own style. i’d describe it as somwhere between psychedelic introverted and forward agressive.
graffiti research labratory
Posted on | November 6, 2007 | No Comments
“Both Roth and Powderly relish telling companies no, and like to point out that most companies are too lazy to look on the site and make the devices themselves, preferring to give up and move on when GRL gives them the finger. Occasionally advertisers do co-opt the ideas, as evinced when the throwie technology was appropriated for a street-level marketing campaign to promote the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie, resulting in the ridiculous, so-called ‘Boston Terror Hoax.’ GRL rolled their eyes when clueless reporters started calling, assuming they had anything to do with it.
Their L.A.S.E.R. Tag and Mobile Broadcast Unit is a far more interesting project for them and they’ve begun to make it available gratis to various arts organizations and community groups. The LASER Tag is basically a camera, computer, and projector, mounted on the MBS. The camera tracks the light of a laser pointer you use to ‘write’ with on whatever surface it’s pointed at and the writing is projected as the movements are processed. Throw some high-end speakers on the back and you have a moveable graffiti party, art exhibition, or whatever you want. It can also be used for showing films, slides, or multi-media performances.
Roth and Powderly hope that by making their project available to the public new uses will be discovered.” (from dazzeddigital)
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richard may
Posted on | October 24, 2007 | No Comments
richard may, co-founder of wyld stallyons, pixelsurgeon and black convoy is an artist, illustrator and designer who has published editorial work for clients such as time, ray gun, wired, vogue and many more as well as commercial work for nordstrom, waterstones and the french car manufacturer peugeot. he also did numerous exhibitions showing is art work. think his unique and expressive style, mixing graphical 2d and photo 3d elements, is great. while most of his work is not “loud” and busy at all there is quite a bit of depth in his work that you need time to explore all details in it.
philipp schilling / digital artists – part 1
Posted on | October 21, 2007 | No Comments
philipp schilling, a 19 year old german artist and creative mind uses mostly photoshop, freehand, illustrator, ableton live and photography sessions to combine real and fantastical worlds, artisitc and photographic elements to create his colorful and expressive visual pieces. still attending an art college he works freelance on the side and is the originator and editor of mcxu, a blog for digital design artists.
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PHILIPP UNPLUGGED
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WHERE DO YOU LIVE AND WORK RIGHT NOW?
at the moment i’m living in a town called plauen in
germany, i attend the advanced courses on collage
for design e.o. plauen.
DO YOU LISTEN TO MUSIC WHEN YOU WORK AND
IF SO TO WHAT?
oh yeah, i listen to music 24/7 without kidding, music
is a big part of my life so its clear that music has a
big influence on me and my work.
WHAT WOULD YOU DESCRIBE AS YOUR BEST SOURCE
OF INSPIRATION?
everything that is part of my live, things that i’m realy
affected by are for example the sega megadrive, daft
punk etc. but generaly a lot of technology and stuff that
i came in touch with in the 90′ies.
DO YOU HAVE A DREAM PROJECT YOU WOULD LIKE TO
REALIZE SOME DAY?
for sure, i wanne produce the covers for my own band
WHICH CLASSICAL ARTIST DO YOU ADMIRE MOST?
by far Salvador Dali
DO YOU REMEMBER YOU FIRST ART PIECE, WHAT
WAS IT?
no, i can’t 
but i guess it was something like a sun
and a guy painted with a simple pen on paper.
HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU SPEND IN AVERAGE ON AN
ART PIECE FROM THE FIRST THOUGHT TO A FINISHED
VERSION?
hmm, that depends from piece to piece but on average
i would say 8-9 hours.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE MOVIE?
cool movies are for example a german independet one
called “hotte im paradies” but also trashy stuff like death
proof and stuff like this know to please me
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU HAD ONLY 30 MINUTES LEFT
TO LIVE BEFORE A METEOR HITS THE EARTH?
totaly fall in panic? haha, nah i don’t know man - that
would be a shame. 
DO YOU BELIEVE IN EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL LIFE?
not until i see it with my own eyes. 
but i hope if it exists its funky!
THANKS.
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neuarmy
Posted on | October 21, 2007 | No Comments
some cool illustration and design samples done by design studio neuarmy.
fiat500 with art from tracey emin
Posted on | October 13, 2007 | No Comments
… “The Fiat 500 is the car that defined post-war, Continental style. So when the Italian car maker decided to follow in the tyre marks of the Volkwagen Beetle and the Mini by creating a new version for the 21st Century, they faced a challenge: just how do you do you make the ultimate in bijou chic even cooler?
The answer: get Britart phenomenon Tracey Emin to do a paint job on four of them. Emin has painted the cars as part of her mobile exhibition in London Frieze week. Emin examples aside, the Fiats will arrive in the UK in the New Year and the first of the new 500s are hitting the Continent’s roads now.
Tracy Emin used one of her customised versions of the car to drive to the Royal Academy of Art’s annual dinner, where she was guest of honour. The car, entitled You Go Around Me, featured a drawing of a kneeling, naked woman on the front door in the artist’s simple, signature style. Beneath the woman is the stem of a plant, that goes right around the exterior of the car, flowering just above the headlight.
“I really enjoyed working on the Fiat 500, which I refer to as the ‘mouse car’”, the artist said. Emin deliberately chose not to play up to the size of the car with saccharine drawings, instead opting for more shocking works, featuring naked figures in sexualised positions. “It was tempting to make them even more super-cute, but instead I decided to give them an edge”, said Emin.
The series is called “Drawings in Motion”, and the four painted cars will drive around central London from 9 October to 21 October, throughout the Frieze art fair. The chauffeur-driven artworks will also be available for art enthusiasts to flag down free of charge to travel between galleries.” …
published in “THE INDEPENDENT”, full article here.
humus
Posted on | October 12, 2007 | No Comments
originated and created by zerouno design humus is an online magazine to deliver content on “a territory where images, creativity, thoughts and expressions have no border line or demarcation line”. you can download flash-based issues to click through for either mac or pc. the work is interesting and diverse, featuring basically everything creative from graphic design, art, photography, drawings and poems.
city wildlife
Posted on | October 12, 2007 | No Comments
simple but surprising, the wildlife and other street art projections done from a car driving through urban landscapes. “they’re investigations of some ideas i find interesting, either suggesting stories, metaphors, or commenting on some issues i think are important.”, says karolina sobecka.
karolina is a los angeles based designer and animator and also part of the design studio tinygravity (take a look at their website as well, some interesting work on there).
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great wall painting animation
Posted on | October 11, 2007 | 3 Comments
amazing wall painting-animation. check out the blublu website for great images and more “real animation” quite creative endresult and i guess a lot of work to put this stop-motion together – respect.
evgeny kiselev
Posted on | October 10, 2007 | No Comments
you can find some very interesting illustration work from evgeny kiselev (represented by creative syndicate in paris and ny) on his website.
talking about
Posted on | October 6, 2007 | No Comments
… illustrations and visual artists. check out ashley woods work , pretty cool stuff.
theo gennitsakis
Posted on | October 6, 2007 | No Comments
look at this! it’s rare to find really unique and inspiring new stuff. there is some amazing graphic design work and illustrations (http://greekdesign.free.fr/theogennitsakis/). greek visual designer who lives and works in paris.
