Pop Pop Bang Bang Project by Anna Burns & Thomas Brown

Amazing performance…print some umbrellas, openning with a specific rhythm and ending with some extra sound, detail…This creative project is a collaboration between Anna Burns, creative director and Thomas Brown, Photographer. POP POP BANG BANG PROJECT.

Explosions, guns, and girls are the three themes that they chose for this project. Typical themes you always find in movies. They create their own conceptual, visually arresting settings in three different London locations.

If you want to watch a piece of the performance click here.

Autumn is coming, 2012.

Digital Painting by AES+F

Realism Painting. Digital Painting. Contemporany Painting. Blending history with current life.

This Russian Art Collective, AES + F, they create a new way of viewing the biblical moment of the reincarnation. The new Reincarnation. As one of the members says «this is the idea of some kind of new humanity, new man – maybe he will have a tail? We think humankind will have some kind of mutation in the future». In my opinion, they have achieved perfectly the combination between old insight  with contemporany technologies, tools and cloths. I like the small and important details of  movement of the hands, mouths and posture of the actors. They have developed a signature style of photography and high-end production, producing surrealistic art films rife with mythological and theological imagery.

Watch the artwork in this video.

   AES+F comprises conceptual artists, Tatiana Arzamasova and Lev Evzovich, graphic designer Evgeny Svyatsky and fashion photographer Vladimir Fridkes. They define their artworks as the union between Calvin Klein and Caravaggio. They have made some other films like this, such as Feast of Trimalchio.

Ten years of design.The London Design Festival 2012.

Hundreds of events and activities across the city of London. Design brings London alive. First staged in 2003, nowadays, The London Design Festival is one of the world’s most important design event during ten days of festival of contemporary design. It is a showcase of some of the best creative ideas from the UK and around the world. Have started on 14.9 and finishes on 23.9. During this days, Art and Design galleries, parks, roads, everywhere…you can breathe design pieces. Last year, I’ve been there and the atmosphere of the city was amazing. I learnt a lot and I received a big fresh air. A Design Shock. You can enjoy workshops, talks and tour visits. Victoria and Albert Museum, the world’s greatest museum of art and design, V&A collaborate for 4 years with the festival. The museum has a role as a Hub of the design. You can enjoy the permanent exhibition with some news pieces of the festival. Huge visual structures outside the museum, big space for relaxing around paintings and designs in the middle of a huge room of the museum and here you can get the information of the different design districts through London.   See the video.THE LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL at the V&A

www.londondesignfestival.com

Kokoro & Moi, World Design Capital Helsinki, Visual Identity Design.

K&M, KOKORO&MOI

kokoromoi.com is the creative agency which design the branding of World Design Capital Helsinki. Kokoro & Moi was founded in 2001 by designers Teemu Suviala and Antti Hinkula. The World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 visual identity is built around the idea of openness. Citizens are taken to the center of design and problem solving to develop ideas and solutions further. The brand identity features hundreds of graphic interpretations of the main themes (Open Helsinki – Embedding Design in Life, Global Responsibility, and Roots for New Growth), designed in Open Identity. OPEN HELSINKI. Kokoro & Moi has continued with World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 developing the Open Identity concept, visual identity, communication design, advertising and several other design projects from product to spatial and interactive design.

AESTHETIC: Colourful: Neutral and Nordic colors: Blue, White, Pink, Green, Wood Colour. Minimalist: Clean and simplicity. Powerful: Trees, Nature. Cardboard as imitation of wood.

Here you have some examples of small details that you can find in Helsinki City.

Hyperrealist aesthetic of Mary Katrantzou, Nature vs Nature.

When I saw yesterday by chance some designs of Mary Katrantzou, Greek fashion designer, I fell in love with her surrealist patterns, over the top combination of colors and her work of art. Listen to her talking about Spring-Summer 2012 Collection.

Nature vs. Nature in blocks of yellow, then fucksia, then red… blue, green, black! Classic prints + Contemporany illustrations = floral cacophonies, sea bed corals and scallop shells. I love Mary Katrantzou’s combinations of classic style with industrial style. She introduces agressive jewellery in her designs.

I’m going to show you some pieces and details of her SS2012. THE SHOW STARTS NOW!

AW 2012-2013 SOME DETAILS.

MARY KATRANTZOU, GREEK FASHION DESIGNER. www.marykatrantzou.com