Taipei City -based studio HAO Design focuses on the intersection of Chinese practices and Nordic minimalism by creating aesthetic forms of living. In their recent project they transformed a loft into a playful penthouse with a lot of hidden elements that can transform space during the day.
“The master of this property likes the traditional Chinese style while the mistress likes the light and simple Nordic style. They hope to build a unique playground with a slide for their two daughters, which is also in line with the long-term use of the space.”



Cuban artist Darian Mederos transforms his passion for the human figures and the study of Masters like Rembrandt, Caravaggio, and Diego Velazquez, that brought him to explore the ubiquitous human features.
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'SUNSET WAVES' is a fine art series by visual artist and landscape photographer Jan Erik Waider based in Hamburg. His focus is atmospheric and abstract landscape photography of the distant North. All images were taken on the black sand beach of V'ik 'i M'yrdal on the south coast of Iceland.







Talented CG artist Luke “Wengles” James casted self-initiated posters of famous movies in a digital clay by using 3D tools




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"French Exit" is a CG Art installation made using dried grass and hung on the ceiling. Created by Tadao Cern as a practice in finding new visual code of a life meaning
“French exit is a term that describes the act of leaving a social gathering or bad date without saying goodbye.
It is the same as ghosting, Irish goodbye, and Dutch leave.
The French exit is often performed by people who don’t want to take the time to say goodbye to others.”



Australian graphic designer Nick Barclay pours his love of typography, colours and broken grid into personal and commercial work. As the result everyone get visual satisfaction.







Darya Shnykina is an illustrator from Moscow blurring a thin line between contemporary figurative painting and illustration. "With restrained and soothed color palette she’s capturing calm, introspective moments in her artwork. Using a sketchy, wavering line, she’s able to humanize and personify emotions. Although created using digital techniques, Darya’s artwork retains the charm of traditional material and textures."






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Relationships of men and objects. While forming space, men create and surround themselves with product designs, objects, that have always been a major source of influence of humane conscience, mood, behaviour and attitude. Lightness of Being comes through the awareness of one's purpose.
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Media.Works Studio led by Maxim Zhestkov share their view on Designing the Future by delivering 3 conceptual forecasts for the near future
“For one of our weekly explorations, we divided in three teams that received the task to create a prototype of a physical object. It did not necessarily have to be in the realm of speculative design, yet some of the created items deal with experimental technologies, not seen in mass-produced products.”
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Renowned portraiture and landscape photographer Nadav Kandar famous for his long-term projects depicting the power of nature and humanity. In his recent series “Solitude - Quietude - Contemplation” Nadav explores the solitude in the times of lockdown
“I think of a quote by Rilke: “Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.” So many feelings are at play and I was aware that in this quiet time there was a much bigger picture playing out, and it will continue to play out in our future.”





Born in Tehran, Sasan Nasernia began his career primarily as a calligrapher and typography artist. Exploring different avenues in Persian classical and also modern calligraphy, he has since expanded his practice to include painting, print, digital work and installation. In his search to find a personal format of calligraphy, he has found a novel way of intertwining letters and words, which he refers to as “Crazy Kufic”.





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Digging the art of Paco Pomet is like constantly finding a golden nugget after another nugget and each time its getting better and bigger.






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Oslo-based illustrator Kine Andersen retrospects the normality through the colourful pop-art lens . Her visual technique, beyond being consistent in narrative content, multiply the isolation and angst of small-town life in the north. Despite this fact she is not spending much time on self-reflection but creating a lot of commissioned work for leading editorials.
“I have a hard time understanding my own feelings, so it is easier to draw them. I felt like an alien most of my teenage years, therefore my illustrations are very lonely.””





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Gada Jermy is Jordan-based illustrator creating beautiful imaginary portraits in her own style






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Moscow-based artist and fashion designer Anastasia Pilepchuk recently got an invite from Instagram for Business to create a series of masks inspired by the topic of “harmony breaks silence”. In collaboration with another artist Moritz Simon Geist they created an interactive versions of them
Another great example of how digital art can be applied to commercial industry is a video for Diamond Sneakers created by @Media.Work studio led by ultra-talented Maxim @Zhestkov
Even the work has been done in 2019 it is worth seeing and inspiring


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Shanghai-based visual artist Jie Ma creates mind-bending manipulations by using all possible digital tools, from rendering to illustration. Just look!







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Levitating 3D printed sculpture “Panopticon”
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Amanda Berglund is a Swedish illustrator creating imagery for magazines and books, using pixels and pigments. She also runs a studio for graphic design and art direction with her partner under the name of Amanda & Erik.






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Russian artist working under Scheme moniker creates mind-blowing colourful mandalas of plywood by spraying and applying resin on small cutouts and than assembling it into 16- or more layered wall pieces.






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