Computerlove | Connecting Creative Talents

Adhemas Batista

2009-01-05T19:28:34-07:00

Ever amazing Adhemas Batista after 1,5 year of silence has just released an amazing update.

Martini Asti

2009-01-05T19:08:00-07:00

Ars Thanea and XRS have just released brand new website for Martini Asti
Click & drag, click & drag...

Objectified trailer

2009-01-05T17:28:00-07:00

Itâs impossible to cram a full filmâs worth of people, ideas, and images into a 90-second trailerâ¦ so think of this as a small taste...

Popular this week

2009-01-05T16:59:00-07:00

21-19

2009-01-05T13:23:14-07:00

In Motion : an homage to ping pong, a conceptual study of ball and racket ( moving > ping pong ). From creative Australian studio 21-19

Nike & Beautiful Losers

2009-01-05T13:21:44-07:00

Nike & Beautiful Losers: Make something from nothing â¦ In conjunction with the documentary ... Nike brings this series of art based workshops.

Hypefortype

2009-01-04T17:16:00-07:00

"Hypefortype is the new online digital type foundry from Thinkdust , launching in 2009. Every 3 months, the most sought after designers from around the globe will work together with us to bring you the freshest typefaces on offer. For volume one you can expect limited edition creations from the likes of Si Scott , Alex Trochut , Luke Lucas , and Jon Burgerman ."

Well worth keeping in your bookmarks, if you ask me. This is only bound to get even better...

Popping out of the frame

2009-01-04T09:22:19-07:00

Vanna Bowles creates mostly monochromatic spectacular illustrations usign relief which adds drama to her vignettes and builds emtionally charged mechanical paper sculptures.

Underwater photography by Zena Holloway

2009-01-03T23:03:24-07:00

Underwater photographer Zena Holloway, Who at 18 traveled the world working as a scuba instructor developing a passion for underwater photography and film.

Via flylyf.com

Source: flylyfCrew

Kim HÃ¸ltermand

2009-01-03T08:32:00-07:00

Kim HÃ¸ltermand from Denmark make this impressive minimal photos with an eye in Danish Architecture.

+ Kim HÃ¸ltermand

Justin Thomas Kay

2009-01-02T15:33:29-07:00

Justin Thomas Kay is a Milwaukee based art director and graphic designer with a strong focus in creating work based on basic explorations of shape,color and typography.

Experimental JetSet updates

2009-01-02T15:22:17-07:00

Experimental JetSet or renewed modernism in the Netherlands. Enjoy.

Sebastian Onufszak has updated

2009-01-02T10:19:44-07:00

Sebastian Onufszak has just released a bunch of fresh new works at In Graphics We Trust, check it out.

Happy new year 2009

2009-01-01T14:35:43-07:00

Shoebox is 100% Recycled. But Wait, There's More...

2008-12-31T16:53:21-07:00

Newton Running
Pretty rad.

Mother Nature & her children...

2008-12-30T20:26:31-07:00

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Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley

In this ambitious work, Hans Silvester turns his photographic eye toward ancient Africa, the birthplace of humanity. Silvester was essentially adopted by his subjects during his travels, and his stunning color photographs present a rare, intimate view of their world.

The first volume of this deluxe two-volume set presents the everyday lives of the Omo people, their rituals, parades, childrenâs games, and even their battles. In the second volume, each photograph becomes a masterpiece of abstract art, revealing close-ups of the tribesâ traditional body paintings. Silvesterâs accompanying text traces his journey to the Horn of Africa, revealing the fascinating beauty of a world now in danger of extinction.

Iron Sky

2008-12-28T04:40:00-07:00

In 1945 Nazis went to the moon, in 2018 they are coming back.
Iron Sky.

Show Us Your Style Contest

2008-12-26T21:22:29-07:00

FAIRspot is holding its first contest to see who can design the best background for the FAIRspot.com site. This is your chance to show usâand possibly the entire FAIRspot communityâyour personal style.

PRIZES: Three (3) Winners will receive a hand-signed copy of Brand Nu's book, Book of Colours and their art will be rotated on the site starting February.

DEADLINE: January 31, 2009

MORE INFO: Show Us Your Style

Source: FAIRspot

ND10 Call for entries

2008-12-26T18:15:00-07:00

Netdiver just turned 10 and we are staging a number of on-going design competitions as a way of celebrating and you are invited ! How about designing cool merch for the occasion? Brief info and guidelines for 1 inch button (badge) and 4x6 postcard.

A panel of leading creatives will select the top designs that go into production for the Feed your Eyes limited edition - vintage collection to be released next Spring (2009). Nice huh?

Let's Talk, HelloVon

2008-12-26T18:12:00-07:00

London-based illustrator Von produces work that is emotive and technically complex. Influenced by the worlds of music, fashion, and design his work combines traditional and digital mark making techniques. In addition to commercial work for clients like American Express, Nike, and The New York Times Von has been hard at work on pieces for an upcoming solo show next year at Cerasoli-LeBasse in Los Angeles. I recently had the chance to talk with Von, here's how our conversation played out.
-Matthew Newton

What first attracted you to art and how did you refine those interests to get where you are today?

I suspect my story is pretty much the same as many in the industry in that drawing and painting has been my one constant favourite thing to do since I was a child. After university I carried on trying to find my feet creatively whilst working a normal job before getting in as a junior designer at a small design studio. It was there that I picked up on how to and not to do a lot of things which provided a firm apprenticeship in the day-to-day running of a small creative business. After around a year I left there and I set up studio HelloVon at the start of 2006 and took it from there. Managing your own career from promotion and finances to actually getting the work done is always going to be a huge learning curve but I've been lucky enough to manage ok so far.

The scope of your work is diverseâtypography, illustration, and painting. Do you favor any one medium over the other?

I see it all as one really. Whilst my paintingâand drawing-based work can have a very different atmosphere and evoke quite different reactions they are essentially created with the same method of mark making and I couldn't pick one over the other.

In seeing all three mediums as one, is your approach always the same then?

The thought process that goes into constructing the shapes to build up the content and composition is pretty much always the same. It is that, I would hope, that gives a coherence or consistent language to the work overall.

Your biography mentions that you are heavily influenced by music, fashion, and design. Can you explain how these elements inform your ideas?

Music is a huge influence on me and my work in general. It is stating the blindingly obvious but sounds conjure all kinds of imagery, for me a lot of it very abstract, and over the years I've noticed it finding its way into my work more and more. I guess it manifests itself most regularly in the fluid marks I use with the bubbles and brush strokes. Sometimes it can be a lot easier to imagine a mood or atmosphere in sound than images and the challenge of then translating that into a visual that works is something I relish chasing. Equally, lyrics are a very rich source of inspiration for images as they can be so specifically emotive yet ambiguous at the same time leaving your imagination to pluck from them what it will.

As a commercial artist, graphic design and product design is as appealing to me as any kind of fine art. Like many people a huge section of my bookshelf is dedicated to old Penguin books purely for the covers alone. Aside from it's intended use I don't really make a huge distinction between commercial and fine art that I like in terms of holding one above the other. Design is just composition/balance in one form or another and a well designed image, whether it be from a fine art gallery or commercial editorial design, is what appeals to me mostâespecially when it is combined with a strong element of craft.

In terms of fashion, I'm not a huge follower of particular designers or trends in the sense that my own personal fashion is very average. My girlfriend is the one that knows designers inside out. I get inspiration from fashion more by looking through shoots in various magazinesâthe styling, atmosphere, etc. It's a much more anonymous experience for me but nevertheless inspiring. Having said that someone I would highlight that I recently came across is Martin Margiela.

Looking at your drawings, I would imagine the process is time-consuming. Do you work from photographs, memories, or elements altogether different?

With a lot of commercial jobs there is often a portrait involved and so I will be provided photographic reference to work from. With personal work it is a combination of my own photography, found reference, memories, and so on.

Your paintings seem to be an extension of your drawings, but somewhat softer around the edges. Does working in a different medium change the way you are able to capture a subject?

With each medium you have to find your own way of controlling and manipulating it. As mentioned before, in terms of the shapes and thinking involved in the painting, it is pretty much the same as drawing. However, ink by nature is very different in the way it touches the paper, how it can be applied, and consequently the final result it gives. Ink and brush will always give a softer, friendlier feel than pencil or graphite, and most of the time jobs definitely stand out as working better in one medium than the other.

Artists who draw and paint don't always create their own typography as well. The type you create appears handcrafted, but is it also fully functional?

The typefaces are all hand-drawn. But as to whether they functions fully as a typeface in the everyday sense, I'm not sure. I know very little about type theory and have a huge respect for people in the design field that can produce such beautiful work time and time again with typography in the traditional sense. When it comes to laying out the typography I have done, I don't treat the compositional method much differentlyâaside from the legibility factor of courseâfrom any other image I make. I love doing it and will be doing more. But I think a lot of professional designers would have a thing or two to say about my name and the word typographer appearing in the same sentence.

What are your thoughts on the way so many designers/artists are viewed as art stars?

It stands to reason that the people that produce work that is of an extremely high quality, innovative, uniqueâregardless of their industryâwill be recognized for their hard work, raise to the top of the game, and be revered for doing so. More often than not blood, sweat, and tears have gone into those people being in the position they are in and they've earned it.

What are you currently working on that has you excited?

The biggest thing, and most overwhelming, would be preparing for my LA solo show next summer, which I'm incredibly excited about.

When you think about the future, what do you hope to look back on and feel a sense of accomplishment about?

To have achieved all of my goals and to not be bored by my own work.