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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…)
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…)
When Turquoise meets Yellow (Color trend)
Posted in Visual, Design, Photography on August 9th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Palette by Vipanchi for COLOURlovers]
We’ve seen it everywhere in the last months, but we now believe it can start to be considered a real trend: the turquoise and yellow combo. (more…)
The Tilt-Shift Phenomenon (Photography)
Posted in Visual, Photography, Video on July 28th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of “I live in a dollhouse”, by Himitsu]
Last week we focused on diptychs and how they can help our images get closer to reality (to the reality of perception). This week, we’ll center on how tilt-shifting can make reality look unreal (more…)
The Dipthyc Effect (Photography)
Posted in Visual, Photography on July 20th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of “Looking Out”, from Ana Santos]
The creation of an image is always about picturing a concept, even if that was not our intention (interpretation is in the eye of the beholder). (more…)