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Stina Persson
Posted in Visual, Art, Design, Illustration on December 7th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of Untitled for Apoteket by Stina Persson]
Stina Persson is an illustrator based in Stockholm, Sweden, and a master of watercolor. She uses this technique as we all would like to do: obtaining beautiful illustrations without giving up on what watercolor (more…)
Business Cards: Drawing your Company’s ID
Posted in Visual, Design, Typography on November 30th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of Koichi Sato’s business card]
Being able to define a concept visually is the big challenge for all visual creators. That is, in fact, the essence of our work: there is the objective information to be transmitted, but then also the values (more…)
Jan von Holleben
Posted in Visual, Photography on November 23rd, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of “Superman” by Jan von Holleben]
Jan von Holleben is a 30 year old South West German very attached to Berlin and London, where he studied photography. Today, his work is widely published in magazines and books and he has had solo exhibitions in London, New York, Berlin and Paris. (more…)
Raquel Marín
Posted in Visual, Illustration on November 17th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of “Sombra” by Raquel Marín]
I first saw Raquel’s work last week in Le Cool, and it had such a good impact on me. I love simple illustrations that trick your eyes enough to allow you directly inside the scene. (more…)
Egomedia: the creation of your own image
Posted in Visual, Animation, Design, Illustration, Video on November 11th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
We’ve seen it in contents: Internet is the citizen media and citizens have created the tools that let them express in a variety of ways. We can reflect a point of view, a feeling or even what we are (or what we’d like to be). (more…)
Devil Stripes
Posted in Visual, Art, Design, Illustration, Photography, Video on November 2nd, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
Media Coolhunting Visual is a playgroung where we try to give names to visual trends we spot around the web. This is not going to change, but this week the challenge was taking a consolidated visual tendency to try to go deeper on it an explain its roots. (more…)
Mini-Trends: Happy Objects, Darkening the Edges & Surreal Hyperrealism
Posted in Visual, Art, Design, Illustration, Photography on October 18th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of “Sleeping #1” by Josh Keyes]
Happy Objects: the Japanese brand Decole started the trend selling smiling teapots, glasses and pencils… Now we’ve seen it several times mainly in TV spots and music videos where objects or food (more…)
The Wabi-Sabi Aesthetic
Posted in Visual, Animation, Art, Design, Illustration, Photography, Typography, Video on October 13th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of “my toaster” by (ku)nihito]
Wabi-sabi (in Kanji: 侘寂) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic that is sometimes described as one of Beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent and incomplete”. (more…)
Illustrating the “Qi”
Posted in Visual, Design, Illustration on October 4th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of a Neil Duerden work for Urban Organic]
Qi is, according to the traditional Chinese Culture, a kind of “life force” or “spiritual energy” believed to be part of every living thing that exists. It is frequently translated as “energy flow,” or literally as “air” or “breath”. (more…)
Cult of the Amateur Look (Video)
Posted in Visual, Video on September 28th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Frame detail of a “LonelyGirl15” episode]
Video has very varied forms in the Internet, normally depending on why the video was created, depending on how the video was meant to be consumed. (more…)