creative catalyst

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Featured Student Dale Lawrence

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Featured Student Lauren Redman

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Konstantin Atchkow

“My interest in the Tensegrity sculpture and my experience, have naturally led to my future development in the direction of the same style. Further improving my know-how as a PhD student, I was looking for applying the Tensegrity style in the furniture design. In my opinion, this is a new basis of the form-creation, demanded by the logics of minimalism and the natural approach not only to sculpting, but also in architecture. Moreover, the Tensegrity constructions give flexible behavior to the furniture and encourage its self-adjustment to the terrain or to the body. The Tensegrity furniture brings the sensation of flying in some elements, carried by tense ropes. This specific kind of tectonics touches the feeling of anti-gravitation and beautiful geometry. They require intelligent decisions that attracted me to follow the challenge to find my solutions in the construction of this type of furniture.”

- Konstantin Atchkow

Source: text by Marcia Argyriades for Yatzer

The Moulding tradition of Formafantasma

Tradition can be a heavy weight and at the same time it can be the strongest source of inspiration. It’s the same with history, politics or love. Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin from Formafantasma have combined all the aforementioned and have managed to leave us openmouthed with their Moulding tradition series. Their inspiration comes from the baroque Caltagirone district of Sicily, famous for its ceramics and the purported local tradition. More specifically, the core was a Sicilian artwork called “teste di moro”. These are copies of vases of the 17th century that display the face of a native African- or Arab-looking man or woman. These artifacts refer to a period of Sicilian history when Arab-African people conquered Sicily. Due to this invasion the tradition of majolica started in Italy and later in other European countries.

Source: text by Apostolos Mitsios for Yatzer

Brooke Nipar

New York and Los Angeles based photographer Brooke Nipar has worked for editorial clients such as Complex, Marie Claire, Maxim, Nylon, Teen Vogue and Vibe. Her commercial clients include Converse, Lady Footlocker, EMI Records, and Wrangler.

Source: dont stop design

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Featured Student Johan Truter aka The XPRS

Johan is part time owner of Suburbs Clothing, take a look!

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Visit Johan's Blog

Email: t_xprs@yahoo.com

Packaging... Great success!

Source: Ffffound,
Keywords: Foil, Tison Incense, Nude skincare

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Levi Van Veluw

Levi van Veluw is a multidisciplinary artist, he lives and works in the Netherlands.Born in 1985 Hoevelaken, the Netherlands 2003-2007 ARTEZ institute of the arts, Fine art, Arnhem the Netherlands

Other Activities:

2009 Art Teacher, Photography department, Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Source: Levi Van Veluw

Bison Art and Design

Just a peek at some of their latest work.

Source: Bison

The Motel Illustrations

Done for Egg and Velocity

Source: The Motel

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Alex McLeod

At first glance these artworks look like they are part of a real environment! And we are just wondering…How quickly these 3D rendering programs are growing!! That’s why Alex McLeod, a young designer from Toronto, says that “I have to keep on the ball. Before I know it I'll have to teach myself how to make art again.

e uses a number of 3D programs, three or four in total for each artwork. Some programs are good for sculpting, some for fluid simulation others for rendering. He believes that It is possible to achieve similar results with many of the leading software manufacturers releases. McLeod is working part-time in Museums and as a free lance 3D graphic designer. His 3D artworks are pretty romantic and according to his words he uses too much pine to be futuristic. His first solo exhibition will take place in the Switch Contemporary gallery, from 8 June - 5 July 2009. (2217 Dundas West, Toronto,ON).

Source: Yatzer

Gregoire Alexandre

Interview & text by Apostolos Mitsios for Yatze

Well, Grégoire, how did your passionate relationship with photography start?
My first attraction for images came through cinema that I studied for a few years. Although I was into cinema, practically I felt more confident with the photographs that I was taking at that time. I liked especially the fact that I could practice on my own. Photography didn't require the same amount of energy, money and self confidence that, by the way, I was lacking at that time.

Do you have any particular working process? How do you decide the concepts? Is there any team behind them?
I like to work on commissions. That gives me the impulse to do things, the basis to build on. Then it's a combination of thinking, feeling and mixing ideas and memories. There's no team behind the concepts but, at some point, there is a discussion with some other people involved in the project (set designer, stylist, model...)

The use of bold imagination is one of the trademarks of your work that is full of onirical details. Which are your inspirations?
My inspirations are very diverse. It can be other images, paintings, films or any other piece of art, but beyond that my inspiration is often photography itself and its possibilities and limits. I must say that I find the tool quite interesting.

Which is the biggest difficulty in order to maintain your artistic principles while shooting fashion editorials or advertisements?
The biggest difficulty is to develop another level of understanding in the picture without affecting the first main principle that consists in showing one specific thing. I like to bring photography a little further than expected. Advertisement is something quite different because I’m not the author of the creative part (that comes from the agencies), so don't consider it, neither I present it as my work.

Source: Yatzer