Ribbonesia is the art project which artist and illustrator Baku Maeda has been working on. As an artist, Baku has been using brush and pen as extension of his hands and imagination. Last couple of years, he found more interest in the way of expression in 3 dimensional and sculptural way of using ribbon and other fabric materials. He has been always obsessed in varieties of animals and its expressions and habits since his early ages. His obsession towards animals becomes his major motif of his daily creation. Recently, he is working with many colors of ribbon and creating various animals expression. This simple repetition os twist and bend sublime such rich expression of animal and it often capture the essence of life.
Baku Maeda, born and life in Sapporo, Japan. In creation of his distintive style, he has been working in various media nationally. As he is working in his home town, Sapporo with rich nature environment, he is more and more interested in wildlife as theme creation.
Benjamin Ducroz. Inspired by the forms, patterns, and movement found in nature and the built environment, Benjamin works with found objects and visual abstraction to create dynamic single channel videos and animations.
Made with a blend of stop motion animation and computer graphics, benjamin’s big bangs propel the viewer into a kaleidoscope of form and movement, creating mini-choreographies.
Benjamin’s work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals internationally including the asian art biennale (taiwan), australian centre for the moving image (Australia), f5 festival (Usa), rencontres internationales (paris / berlin / madrid), d/art festival (Australia) and next wave festival (Australia).
Alongside his art practice benjamin is an accomplished motion designer, and has worked for the likes of superfad and mtv.
Benjamin Ducroz was born in 1980 and currently lives and works in Melbourne.
Hello everyone! My name is Nastia Zabrodina. I’m not sure what else I can say about myself, so I asked Jovan to help me and tell everybody my story. So he did:
Nastia is a wonderful person who currently lives in Moscow, Russia, and she’s working as an illustrator and graphic designer because she sort of loves doing that.
And, coming to think about it, that alone makes her quite a successful young lady if you ask me. Yes, I do know that nobody ever asks me, but the whole story about one doing what one loves and lives happy because of that actually does sound believable. So, here’s unexpected bit of free advice – “if you don’t like moving boxes, you shouldn’t be in the box-moving industry”. You just quit that and you’ll be as happy as she is, that’s for sure.
Anyway, we really should get back to her story. As you probably don’t know, since you had no way of finding that out, in the past she had changed some of occupations and places. She traveled around a lot, smiling politely and stating that “meeting people is easy” and “hey, now, that’s just zany!”. She studied graphic design in Moscow academy of prints and celebrated that by having a remarkably red hairdo for three consecutive years. Also, she worked for a whole bunch of different companies around the world, which were unusually happy while she was there with them and a lot less happy after she would leave. Oh, and she considers herself to be a tornado expert because she lived in Germany for couple of years and there’s nobody currently here to prevent her from claiming she’s a tornado expert.
On this site you can have a look at her various works. That, actually, is the purpose of it, so I don’t really know why did you bother reading all this. Also, I planned to say something about her work here, but unfortunately it turned out that I don’t have any first hand experience with this whole “looking at other people work and judging it” thing. Besides, I don’t really want to go into how great her work is since my opinion would be kind of preconceived and biassed. Just bear in mind that pictures you’ll find here will blow your socks so far off that they will fly all the way around the earth and hit you in the back and then blow off socks that you put on while they were flying around the earth.
Feel free to contact her anytime. She’s always interested in good jobs and projects. Or so I’m told. Besides, she’s just nice to people and loves chatting about things.
XimeraLabs is an ongoing archive collecting freeform and self-initiated work that lives outside the client brief: sketches, visual experiments, remixes, design tests, etc… Designed by Tom Muller.
Chrissie Macdonald,
art direction & design
Mi-zo. Photographer Zoren Gold and graphic artist Minori Murakami met in Los Angeles and started collabrating as a photographer duo since 2000. The duo had been based in Tokyo for the past 7 years. Now, they live and work in Los Angeles.
Graffiti Analysis is an extensive ongoing study in the motion of graffiti. Custom software designed for graffiti writers creates visualizations of the often unseen motion involved in the creation of a tag. Motion data is recorded, analyzed and archived in a free and open database.
Them-And-Us is an initiative aimed at bringing together 20 European and 20 African visual artists, designers, illustrators and photographers. The project aims to explore the similarities and differences between first and third world views and aesthetics by pairing up artists from Europe with their African counterparts.
Through a series of 20 double sided posters, artists are invited to explore the notion of ‘Them–And–Us’ and the broader theme of tolerance (or intolerance).
Working in two prescribed colours, each artist will create a poster. The reverse will feature a poster designed by an artist from the other continent. Each pair of artists will be paired and introduced at the outset of the project. Together each team will choose a specific theme, such as ‘Light–And–Dark’ or ‘Smart–And–Dumb’ and communication and cross polination will be encouraged. The final outcome should be two posters that talk to each other yet are distinctly the product of their respective makers.
The final 40 posters will be packaged together along with a 64 page publication profiling each of the artists involved and detailing the purpose and process of the project. Them–and–Us will be exhibited in Durban, Cape Town, Stockholm and London early in 2010. All proceeds from sales will go to Amnesty International to help in the global fight against intolerance.
Them–And–Us is curated by South African design studio, disturbance, Stockholm resident and graphic designer, Noel Pretorius and British designer/writer Adrian Shaughnessy who will also write and edit the accompanying publication.
Design digital art Andres Valerio
“We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.” P. P.
încotro sets out to be a benchmark, a launch pad, a source of dialogue and an interface between the Romanian and the international visual universes.
The second edition of Romanian Visual Survey gathers some of the best visual works produced in 2009 in Romania and by Romanian visual artists in general.
This year’s selection includes the work of 49 visual artists active in the field of photography, graphic design, illustration, painting and digital animation, among others.
Although it is representative of the Romanian visual universe, the selection is not exhaustive.
Selection of Works & Visual enthusiasm by Deepu Sasi Kumar
I´m not an artist, an animated gif paranoia about nonstop design workers
Meredith Dittmar is an artist living and playing in Portland OR. Born near Boston Mass, she grew up in a world of pet pigs, horses, hay-forts and spy games . Follow this with an education in computer science, a career in interactive design, a compulsive need to create, and a drive to Seek and you get the major elements of her person and work.
Dittmars human-animal-plant-energy amalgams contain threads of common elements and colors to express deep levels of union across themes of biology, technology, and consciousness . Her characters are frequently involved in quiet expressive moments, or lounge facing their audience so they can share their inner space. Dittmar believes it is this space we recognize in ourselves, and through convening in that space, the interconnectedness of all things is revealed. She sees the act of spontaneous artistic creation as part of a larger practice of being present, and a way to better understand herself and reality.
Dittmars work is featured in the books Dot dot Dash and Mascotte 2, along with numerous magazines and online publications. In conjunction with her artwork she works as an independent character designer and maintains her company Corporatepig, through which she continues to create thousands of unique handmade characters called “My Guys”.
Paul Roberts was born in Tiverton Devon in 1948. Brought up by artist parents in Wales. He studied at Newport, Cardiff and Goldsmiths colleges of Art. Gaining early recognition in the 1970’s his career as a painter was interrupted when he had worldwide success with th rockband Sniff’n'The Tears in 1978. Commitments to music meant that until 2000 time needed to develop his career as a painter was to some degree curtailed. In 1988 he moved with his family to Somerset, where he has continued to paint and make music. His work can currently be seen at the Plus One Gallery London.
Jonathan Zawada is a Sydney based artist who uses his multi-disciplinary talents to survive. Jonathan exhibited his first solo show in 2005 and has created commercial works of art for Ksubi, Modular records, The Presets and TIna Kalivas.
Archan Nair
Archan Nair is a self developed artist , Art Director and illustrator, based out of New Delhi, India.
Specializing in Mixed media, Illustration, and Digital Art, he has been producing visual art and interactive designs for Canon, Tiger Beer, Boss, Dodge, Microsoft, GQ, Sony etc. and he has been featured in various publications like Computer Arts, Digital Arts, Advanced Photoshop,GQ, Bak, Vanity Fair, and has been featured by Music Artists like Kanye West and more.
His vision has been to create highly intricate work inspired by various phases or moments of life.
Grzegorz Domaradzki is gabz.
Artist, Illustrator and Graphic Designer.
I received my masters degree in Graphic Arts and Drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań in 2003 before starting a career in Graphic Design.
After the studies for few years I worked for various advertising agencies first as an illustrator and later as a graphic designer.
Now I work as a freelancer and I share my time between art, illustration and commercial work which includes storyboards and graphic design.
When my work is done I’m probably spending time with my future wife Agnes, watching a movie, playing PlayStation 3 or reading.
Extracts of Local Distance
Countless fragments of existing architectural photography are merged into multilayered shapes. The resulting collages introduce a third abstract point of view next to the original ones of architect and photographer.
Digital scans of analogue architectural photography form tiny pieces of a large resulting puzzle. The original pictures are being analysed and categorised according to their vanishing-points and shapes. Based on this analysis, slices are being extracted from the source image. These slices retain the information of their position corresponding to their original vanishing-point and thus form a large pool of pieces, ready to be applied to new perspectives and shapes.
Using the extracted image segments, it is now possible to form collages of originally different pictures with a new common perspective. In order to compose a collage, a perspective-grid is defined and a lining of matching image segments is being applied. The segments are not altered to match the frame but fitting ones are chosen from the sheer mass of possible pieces. By defining additional keywords which describe the content of the original photographs, the selection of segments used for the final composition can be influenced. Thus a contextual layer is added through the semantic linking with the source material.
The recompositions mix and match the views and perspectives of both the architect and the photographer with a third, newly chosen frame. The resulting fine-art prints are entirely unique each time.
Ronald Kurniawan graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Inspired by ideograms, syllables, letterforms, beasts and heroic landscapes, he slowly but surely continues to create a visual language where the wilderness and civilization could merge happily together. With the belief that the sublime and nuclear age could coexist, he paints romantic environments and breaks the quiet scene with juxtaposed imagery taking the shape of icons and letterforms. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles where he paints meticulously and happily accompanied by his pug Ruffles, an avid artist himself.
Diy, swiss graphic design
Chad M. Hagen, an artist and designer, lives in Minneapolis, MN
