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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…)
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…)
Playful Objects (Photography)
Posted in Visual, Art, Photography on September 13th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of “Petit Coup de Pouce” by Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle]
Taking pictures of playful objects can turn in a photo-stock picture style, if the final image has nothing new to say about how the picture was taken. (more…)
Through the Viewfinder (Photography)
Posted in Visual, Art, Photography on August 30th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of “Fuschia“, from Russ Morris]
History has witnessed how we humans can’t never get enough of experimenting with the images we perceive, creating new ones. (more…)
Wires, boards, moleskines and studios
Posted in Visual, Art, Design, Illustration, Photography, Typography on August 16th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
This week we’d like to present to you the inspiration wires and boards, the creative studios and sketch moleskines of some of our favorite artists and designers.
Take your time and dive into the creative world of others. (more…)
Michael Hughes (Photography)
Posted in Visual, Art, Photography on July 5th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
Michael Hughes is a photographer from London that one day came up with something new: capturing different layers of reality. (more…)
Marc-Elliott Pierre-Louis (Sensorial Architecture)
Posted in Visual, Art, Design, Video on June 28th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
Marc-Elliot is a sensory architect and a vusician. A visual alchemist.
We believe that Pierre-Louis’ work, framed in the fields of marketing, entertainment and environmental design, is based in the neurological condition of Synesthesia: that in which two or more bodily senses (more…)
Dominique Donois (Paper Sculpturing)
Posted in Visual, Art on June 21st, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
Dominique Donois lives in France, near a castle. She creates “wonderful dreams” unbelievably made out of paper (papier-mâché). Unbelievably because they seem alive cartoons. (more…)