Food Stylist Linda Lundgren made this drop shaped food compositions for supermarket Scandinavian supermarkets Hemköp.

Glenn Arthur is a really good rapresentative of the west coast lowbrow art. In his artworks you can find Audrey Kawasaki’s, Sylvia Ji’s or Brian Viveros’ beautiful girls with a personal touch, but always with that “sex+death” double feeling.

Maurizio Bongiovanni (1979) is an italian artist. His work is placed right in the middle between realism and abstraction. This kind of research is mainly expressed in his birds series. In these oil on canvases streams of colors are generated from realistic colorful birds, in a perfect mix between different kinds of art styles. The result is stunning.

Massimo Gammacurta is an italian photographer, based in New York. He worked for Details, Forbes, Nike, Lexus, Surface Magazine and Esquire UK, among others. His conceptual work “Lolli-POP” started as an experiment on the internet, but the success between bloggers and fashion and art lovers make it becoming a book.

Paint factory Sherwin-Williams ads by McKinney agency are simply beatiful. A 3D world made of color chips, great concept and awesome animations.

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Production Co: Buck
Creative Director: Orion Tait
Executive Producer: Kate Treacy
Producer: Kevin Hall
Lead Art Director: Ben Langsfeld
Art Director: Joshua Harvey
Design: Ben Langsfeld, Joshua Harvey
Storyboards: Pete McDonald
CG Supervisor: Joshua Harvey
3D Modeling: Arvid Volz, David Soto
3D Animation: Joshua Harvey, Pete Hamilton, Chris Hendryx, Arvid Volz
3D Character Animation: Jordan Blit
3D Rigging: Lee Wolland
3D Lighting/Shading: Kevin Couture, Lars Holmgren, Chris Hendryx, Hanwei Wu
Composite: Daniel Oeffinger, Conrad Ostwald, Joshua Harvey
Additional Design: Jon Gorman

Agency: McKinney
Producer: Josh Eggleston
GCD: Ellen Steinberg
Copywriter: Jenny Nicholson
Art Director: John Hagerty

Color Grade: Company 3
Colorist: Tim Masick

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Directed by: Buck
Production House: Buck NY
Creative Director: Orion Tait
Executive Producer: Kate Treacy
Producer: Kevin Hall
Lead Art Director: Ben Langsfeld
Art Director: Joshua Harvey
Design: Ben Langsfeld, Joshua Harvey, Thomas Schmid, Mike Lee
Storyboards: Joshua Harvey
CG Supervisor: Joshua Harvey
3D Pipeline Manager: Chris Hendryx
3D Modeling/Layout: David Soto, Scott Hubbard, Arvid Volz, Dan Fine, Adam Pearlman
3D Animation: Joshua Harvey, Jordan Blit, Pete Hamilton, Jason Wolley, Ryan O’Phelan
3D Lighting/Shading: Ylli Orana, Kevin Couture
Lead Composite: Daniel Oeffinger
Composite: Conrad Ostwald, Seth Ricart

Agency: McKinney
Producer: Josh Eggleston
GCD: Ellen Steinberg
Copywriter: Jenny Nicholson
Art Director: John Hagerty

MUSIC
Studio: Beacon Street
Artist: Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau.
Lyrics: Jenny Nicholson, Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau

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Executive Producer: Sally Heath
Flame Artist: Nathan Kane

Bratislav Milenkovic is a graphic designer/illustrator from Serbia. In his portfolio I found this interesting experiments and illustrated typography works.

Scott Campbell is a famous tattoo artist from Brooklyn, NY. As almost all tattoo artists he also works in other arts fields. In this series we can see lasercut money wads with tattoo style subjects.

I had the chance to meet Mauro Gatti at Cut&Paste 2009 in Milan, where he was in the jury and I was contestant. Then I met him in his awesome art toys shop in Milan, Atomplastic, so we arranged this interview about him and vinyl toys.

K3- Who is Mauro Gatti?

MG- I am an Italian illustrator and designer. I love to draw and put on paper all the ideas swimming in my head. A smile is the cheapest way to be happy, that’s why I always try to make people smile through my drawings. As I always say “Welcome, stranger, while you’re in my territory no boring thoughts will fill your head.”

K3- What about Mutado? When did it start? What does it offer?

MG- In 2004 I founded Mutado, a creative studio, in Milan together with my longtime friend Lorenzo. Our goal is to entertain, engage and mix all the different talents inside the studio to produce some quality work that ranges from print, to video, illustration and mobile.

K3- When did your passion for art toys begin? When did you design your first toy? What was it?

MG- My passion started a long time ago, I am an avid and loyal collector of James Jarvis’s toys. My house is filled with toys, my office is crowded with toys and my mind is overloaded with toys All my illustrations are conceived to become a toy but I’m not rich enough to make this happen! But I do remember that the day I drew the Carrot Slayer I had the feeling that it was time to stop daydreaming and to try to enter the magic world of vinyl.

K3- Let’s talk about your new businesses: VeryBravo & Atom Plastic Milan Shop

Very Bravo was born out of a question: What if we could see all the bad things in life through an optimistic lens? My answer was simple, let’s add a touch of humour to everything that is frightening!
The first character that came to my mind was the Death, usually an icon of sorrow and pain.
I created a funny Death making the OK gesture and a mocking sneer and turned it into the brand’s mascot.
The Ghetto Reaper flirts with the hip-hop culture in an ironic and funny way, starting from its name, the golden tooth and the large bling jewelry with the RIP symbol around his neck.
The Carrot Slayer is Very Bravo’s tribute to the vegetarian movement: a funny executioner that, being against the murdering of people and animals, decided to put himself to the test in the art of cookery, cutting and chopping vegetables with his axe. His sidekick is a little freshly chopped carrot

Talking with my friend Piero, the owner of Atom Plastic, I mentioned that Milan was lacking an 100% toy shop and in a few minutes we decided to join our forces, Mutado’s creativity and Atomplastic’s experience, and open an Atomplastic Shop in Milan. Every Saturday I go to the Shop to meet some people and it’s like living a dream… being surrounded with toys and smelling the vinyl vapors that make you high

Once we joined our forces we also decided to create a toy production company called Superpowers and to produce Very Bravo under its name.

K3- Can you explain us the process of creating a vinyl toy, from the design to distribution?

The first step is obviously to design the toy. When I was happy with my design, I got a sculptor to make it into a toy out of polymer clay. When this was approved, I had a factory make a rotocast mould from the sculpture, cast it in vinyl and colour it the way I had planned (they produce colouring masks and tampons for this). The first prototype was ready. Once I approved the test shots the factory sent me, the assembly line could make as many toys as I wanted. That’s basically it, really! In the meanwhile someone works on the packaging and distribution.

Nick Lepard is a young painter from Vancouver. His style reminds Jenny Saville’s work, but focused on portraits.

“I was born in 1986 and raised in the small town of Ellsworth, Michigan. With a family full of artists I found my interest for drawing at a young age. I recently just received my BFA as an illustrator at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan.”