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The Art of Alex Varanese – The Imprint
He has a fabulous intergrated Design Style. Everything he designs melts in the same Design look, but it is never boring, rather more facinating, that he creates a world perfectly fitting. He understands himself as an artist more than a Designer. He doesn’t want that Design objects only have an aesthetic and beautiful appearance. The matter, the idea, the context and an all- embracing topic is the creator of his work.
“Our formative years are spent in a sponge-like state, our minds pummeled by an onslaught of stimuli that carves and etches a landscape in our grey matter like a planet being formed in a shower of asteroids, until adolescence arrives, our muscles tense, and we make our first attempt at standing up in the face the fusillade.”
But see for yourself and decide. His he either an Designer or an Artist. The Art of Alex Varanese
Data Visualisation and tools
In a previous Article I pictured Data Presentations of Visual Complexitiy It intends to be a resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. And to present complex network structurs in a visual language system. Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive.
In the following article I want to show you interactive tools working for example with music like this one narratives2.0 and tools for creating your own visualizations. Most Data Graphics are unfortunately not for free but they allow us an insight in visual and structural thinking an inspiring graphic work. Thats why I am posting these information graphics, there are beautiful though they have so many details to capture. Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information. The best are summarized here.
Kunal Anand – looks del.icio.us
Sanna Annukka – Illustrator
She is half finnish and half english. She grew up in the landscapes of Paltaniemi, a village in Finland, swimming and fishing in Oulujarvi and exploring the forests. I can recognize that her childhood must be really intense filled with nature outdoor activities..The colours are showing us how much fun it has been grewing up with a lake and forest so close. Why i choosed her to get a place in the blog, is because of her great feeling of form and composition. The individual forms are floating in between the the main form. Nothing is bothering the the shapes and figures.
visit her website for more information.
Visual Complexity
We are flooding more and more our consciousness with information and short lasting knowlegde. It’s hard to figure out what is really important for ourselves and what we should keep. We try to organize and structure our life to clear our mind, we are multi plane and try do everything simultaneously. So we see life needs training, but the good thing is human nature gave us the talent of seeing beauty and creating it and even the chaos of things become beautiful if some smart guys put them in aesthetic order.
Like http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ and find your favorite to visualise your life pattern.
MUSA: Portuguese Design Collective
I’d like to indroduce you to MusaCollective. I found these guys in the IdN 15th Anniversary Edition, where you can find 250 highly talented creators who have collaborated-sharing their thoughts on the past; and their visions of the future.
And I thought maybe one of our authors, Lukas, is interested in their work. He is currently visiting his homeland Portugal, staying in Lisbon. Maybe he knows these Designers.
MusaCollective was formed in 2003 by Raquel Viana, Paulo Lima and Ricardo Alexandre, a Lisbon-based collective of graphic designers. Musa works with as many aspects of design as possible, from artistic/experimental to commercial. The first headline-making event that the collective was involved in was the “MusaTour” in 2004, in support of the MusaBook project, the first Portuguese emergent graphic-design book ever compiled, published by IdN.
For more inspirations visit their website
Alex Trochut
So, get lifted by this guy from Spain, currently living in Barcelona. Alex Trochut is an independent designer and illustrator, who has design in his genes. I reckon he never draw childish pictures, when he was kid. His trees were almost a perfect copy of nature and when he wrote Mama the first time, he invented a new typography. Ok, jokes beside. I was mesmerized by his work and, in turn, I was engaged, surprised and touched by its variety and intensity. His Typography work is vivid and playful with intelligent patterns and merges with his illustration style. The phrase less is more becomes rightly useless in his interpretation of structures and compositions. Even though the work is so vivid, he found the pure form contained within itself.
His website link in your bookmark list is a must have > Alex Trochut
Follow this link to read more information about him > It’s Nice That
Here some pieces of his Portfolio.
The Guardian G2. Cover Illustrations.
Sixpack.Illustrations.
Paper Art and Paper Sculptures
Almost forgotten, the haptics of paper, the smell of fresh prints, the different structures and the view of all colours on natural material, light and gently or heavy and bulky holding in our hands.The magic of keeping informations without memorising and the possibilitiy to take these information with us. Magazines, books and newspapers are still in our minds, but the market is highly competitive, just because of the new digital leader of our information flow. For our memories of the old times( it seems ages away), I want to display the
Masters Of Paper Art And Paper Sculpture collected by Hongkiat.com.
Here are my favorites:
The Forming Game by Malcolm Sutherland
I like this playful animated short film from Malcom Sutherland. There’s such a beautiful interplay between the soundtrack & the animation, which is one my favorite aspects. I enjoy to see how the abstract shapes can form characters, typography, animals and storys in just a couple of seconds. Sometimes it looks like liquid, just because of the fluently movement of the forms. You can find the animation group on Vimeo.
Forming Game (HD) from Malcolm Sutherland on Vimeo.
Worst Case by Andrew Thomas Huang
This works by Andrew Thomas Huang are enormous. Dark and mystery mood. Especially his new short film “RIFT”. An impressive worst case animation. It reminds me to the scientific experiments like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN) near Genf(CH).
Listed among Creativity Magazine’s Top 25 “Directors to Watch” in 2008, Andrew Huang’s work has been increasingly recognized by his trademark combination of live action, animation and visual effects. He is represented by William Morris Endeavor and is managed for commercials in North America by Moo Studios and Trouble Makers in Europe.
Audiovisual Mapping by Telenoika
Telenoika Cultural Association was founded on February 2000. It is a non-profit organization and intends to provide a platform for new artistic, social and cultural experiments through new audio+visual technologies. Telenoia’s definition by Roy Ascott describes the critical and connected soul of Telenoika, projecting how TV is affecting the society we are living in and how we reject it to open and share our minds in global networked connectivity.
The latest work by Telenoika is the Audiovisual Mapping @ the Jardí Theater facade on the first edition of Ingravid Festival in Figueres (ES) 9/2009. Firsttime i saw it i get these incredible possibility’s you could create with such an mapping of sound and light-projection, very impressive.
Telenoika Audiovisual Mapping @ Ingravid Festival, Figueres 9/2009 [FULL] from Telenoika on Vimeo.
Illustrations by Pat Perry
I really like some of Pat Perry´s work! Visit his website for more..
via unstage
designshard.com – inspiring tutorial blog
The purpose of design shard is to produce a valuable resource for designers ranging from design tips, inspiration and free resources such as photoshop brushes or textures to be downloaded.
Max owner of this blog, a web designer who specialised in css and xhtml, love to be inspired either by web designs or digital art and had a passion for illustration and typography. A few guest authors on the blog each writing articles about what they are intrested in, in the design world….so watch out & get inspired
Wilhelm Staehle
Wilhelm Staehle! There´s not much to be found about this Artist…just these sarcastic pieces from the “Silhouette masterpiece theatre” Series.
He´s connected to 2 Websites: silhouettemasterpiecetheatre.com and www.dollardreadful.com.
I´ve never seen anything like it! Great work!
via acidolatte
Happiness in Business by Bud Caddell
This Venn Diagram – Happiness in Business by Bud Caddell. So true…
found via todayandtomorrow
RekaOne
I want to intodruce you to a very famous Artist from Melbourne. RekaOne. He is belonging to the street art scene. Of course he is not only a illustration genius by painting a wall. His illustration gave us a insight in a surrealistic and curious world of unique characters. Tomorrow I will visit a Club in Fitzroy, Melbourne, he created the wallpaintings. So I will see how his work looks in real.
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