London based illustrator Ruben Ireland uses ink, dirty water, acrylic, weathered paper, a wacom tablet and Photoshop to create his lyrical illustrations. Strangely enough after employing all of this media his work retains an almost vector-like quality. His images are very clean and stylistic but his subject matter is often playful. He has recently updated his portfolio.
Michael at Ventilate is a very nice person and I had the opportunity to exchange several emails with him in the past few weeks about a project I hoped to initiate but just didn’t have time to pull together. Fortunately, Michael grab the reigns and put together the ‘Ventilate Japan‘ project to help pool some money to put toward the relief effort in Japan. A lot of news has happened since the earthquake in Japan but there are so many still suffering and they really do still need global support in any way we can get it to them.
Ventilate managed to pull together some very talented artists who really put some passion into designing some great posters for the cause.
Thank you so much Michael and Ventilate.
Director Kristoffer Borgli gives F5 a little slice of his stark, evocative and emotional style and of course the result is a memorable piece of direction.
Credits
Woman – Inga Longvastøl Flem
Thief – Inge Alexander Karstensen
DoP: Jon Gaute Espevold
Editor: Mikael Svartdahl
Sound design: Daniel Angyal and Bård Farbu
Online: Ivar Rystad
As a new parent, all kinds of thing affect me emotionally in ways they didn’t before the birth of my son. This T.V. spot for Mtv resonated with the protective parent in me that is always trying to keep my little boy out of harms way.
Director: Jonathan Gurvit
Production Company: primobuenosaires.tv
DOP: Atahualpa Rojas Bermudez
Art direction: Sole Calvano
Stylist: Clarisa Furtado
Postproduction: PICKLE
Colour: Cinecolor
Music: Papamusic
I rediscovered the work of Frank Magnotta today. There really is nothing like his graphite drawings. They are just strange, yet familiar and genuinely imaginative. The dimensional quality of his drawing is seriously impressive and it’s difficult to devise how exactly he goes about generating his unique images.
“‘Plum Flower Deer’ began in 2009. Originally intended as a piece for F5, a design festival in New York, but was never competed and was not screened there. The film grew and became a rumination about love, hope, the natural world and rebirth.
Crush art director, Yoho Hang Yue, and his wife Queenie, also an art director, developed the story about a pair of Plum Flower Deer, (native to parts of China), who are separated by an act of man but are rejoined in spirit. The Plum Flower Deer is one of the most auspicious, divine animals in Chinese culture. The Plum Flower Tree itself has been the subject of innumerable paintings and poems, representing courage and elegance. The film drew on Chinese tradition, and art. The film’s closing poem, by 12th century Southern Song Dynasty Chinese poet Lu You, tells of the rebirth of spring and the courage of the plum flower through winter.
‘We wanted to bring this story to life using modern tools, but we wanted to keep the timelessness of the poem intact,’ says Yoho Yang Yue. ‘It is an ageless story that draws on the rich legacy of Chinese culture.’
The film took two years to complete and to create it Yoho used After Effects, Cinema 4D and shot elements to create this moving painting. Crush contacted Didier Tovel at Apollo Studios in Toronto to create a score and sound design that captured the mood of the visuals. The score takes its cues from traditional Chinese music without falling becoming a shallow pastiche, and still maintains a contemporary feel.”
Story, Design & Animation: Yoho Hang Yue
Production Company: Crush
Additional Story & Art Direction: Queenie Zhu
3D Modelling: Jacques Dell, Yoho Hang Yue
Sound & Music: Apollo Studios
Special Thanks: Gary Thomas, Crush
Kim Holtermand updates yet again with even more stunningly gorgeous photography now nestled within a new portfolio website. His work has emerged as some of the most popular on the Behance network and founder Scott Belsky is apparently a big fan of his work.
Conor Cronin is a young art director originally born in South Africa but now residing in Barcelona, Spain. He has a knack for color, image and style. He’s good at combining them to create some memorable images. In short, he’s a damn fine art director with a very bright future.
Our friends at ‘Friends of Mine‘ who we have collaborated and worked with in the past have updated their website and rebranded themselves. We have always enjoyed working with them, and even though we are all running different studios here in Denver we maintain close relationships with our brothers in arms here and consider them good friends. So we were super excited to see they have been cranking out some great work lately and their new website looks wonderful. Congratulations guys and we look forward to working with you more in the future.
Victo Ngai’s unique cultural heritage is alive and kicking in her illustrations. Her images are simple and accessible in subject but rich in color and movement. They retain a distinctly asian influence that references Japanese and Chinese ink prints. She spent some time on her bio, so as opposed to butchering it in my own words, you can read on below:
“Victo’s real name is Ngai Chuen Ching.
She was born and raised in Hong Kong.
She got her English name, Victoria, when she was in a British kindergarten as Ngai Chuen Ching was too hard to pronounce for the foreign teachers.
However, “Victoria” was too hard for her fellow Chinese classmates, so they started calling her Victo instead. Since “Ngai Chuen Ching” was only called/yelled by teachers or parents when Victo got into troubles, she decided she likes the name “Victo” better.
Victo has been wondering who she really is, where she really belongs to for all these time.
Victo’s cultural background is hard to nail down: she speaks Chinese(Both Cantonese and Mandarin), English and Japanese. She attended Christian schools, but is not Christian. She holds a British National (Overseas) passport but is not truly British. She is a Hong Kong citizen but does not have a Chinese ID card. Her parents live in Hong Kong; her grandparents are Chinese American living in the west coast of the States; and Victo went to Rhode Island School of Design on the east coast.”
Benoit spent some time on this one and his dedication shows.
Director _ Benoit Millot _ lepotagerdesign.com
Production_Goodideas – goodideas.fr
Images _ Benoit Millot et Sébastien Jousse
Écriture _ Sébastien Jousse et Benoit Millot
Montage_ Franck Littot
Ingénieurs du son_ Arnaud Devillers _Jérôme Pierrot_Christophe Millet
Charles Ludig_Olivier Millo_ Louis Boulloche
Interprète_Simona Calza
Garphisme After Effect_ Nicolas Lichtlé
Sound Design & mixage_ Pocket Studio
Musique_ Cezame music agency_ cezame-fle.com
Agence _Villadelesia&Co – villadalesiaandco.com
Client_CELC Masters Of Linen – linenandhempcommunity.eu
Camila do Rosário has a masterful hand when it comes to generating fashion-influenced watercolor and pencil illustrations. Her portraits exude a feminine sensibility in both image and technique that is complimented by the employment of a unique color palette. The clincher of course is that she also hails from one of the most beautiful cities in Brasil.
Unless you have been living under a rock (slight pun intended) then you must have heard that one of the most notorious men on the planet was killed yesterday by U.S. Navy Seals. Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistani estate, yes estate which was far from the ‘cave’ he was always supposed to be hiding in, was raided and Bin Laden was shot dead. Lets just hope that this effectively draws to a close an era of U.S. politics that has cost this country trillions with little to no explanation as to why this took so long, cost so many lives and now finally ends in a ‘mansion’ where Bin Laden may have been living for years. Our hearts go out to all who lost loved ones on 9/11 as well as the families who gave their sons and daughters in servitude to our country. We have lost many freedoms since that fateful day and now it is time to rebuild and restore.
How does this news make you feel. This is a globally trafficked blog and out of pure curiosity we would love to hear your thoughts.
FutureDeluxe releases their latest reel of excellent work for 2011 set against a musical backdrop from Lykke Li with the aptly titled song ‘Get Some’. So go ahead and do as the song says and take it in.
I just can’t get enough of Leif Podhajsky and I don’t think I am the only one. It doesn’t make it easier that he is continually producing work from Tame Impala who has been one of my favorite bands in the past couple of years. They are lucky to have employed his skills while they could still afford them. He’s updated yet again with more work for the band that is again simple yet inspiring. I’d love a print of the above image.
Illustrator Ricardo Fumanal updates with some beautifully rendered new illustration work primarily for fashion based clients. His work is smooth as butter and stunning to behold which makes the application for fashion a perfect match.
Weird, colorful and just plain fun works of design, illustration and typography are being produced by Spanish creator Osman Granda. He’s not afraid to experiment with color and just about everything else and that’s where the fun comes into play.
The Node is a new project from the imaginative mind of Murat Pak.
“‘The Node’ is a project of time-image represented as pixels, which is connected to its reinterpretations done by various frequency artists.
“The Node” should be considered as a virtual installation including a collection of recurrences. Each audial redesign of ‘The Node’ will be made by the pure minds in the list below. A notification will be made when each version goes online.”
Antfood, Audionerve, Box of Toys Audio, Calvin Markus, Combustion, Cypheraudio, David Della Santa, David Kamp, Drasko Vucevic, Ece Pak, Echolab, Jeff Dodson, Mutant Jukebox, Studio-Takt, Nikolai von Sallwitz aka Taprikk Sweezee and Wiener Music
