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Visual Inspiration from China, Vol. 8

NeochaEDGE — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:52:24 +0000

Visual Inspiration from China brings Koi Koi Koi readers examples of fresh creative content from five emerging Chinese creatives. The series is courtesy of K3 guest contributor NeochaEDGE, a daily-curated, bilingual website and discovery engine dedicated to showcasing leading-edge creative content and emerging youth culture in China.

#1 Waver_h – graphic designer

#2 Nato – urban artist

#3 Minikinpo – accessory design

#4 Luo Yang – photographer

#5 Graphicairlines – illustration

BLU’s latest piece: BIG BAG BIG BOOM

Jellyfish — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:24:14 +0000

See below for BLU‘s latest piece: a mixture of wall-painting and stop-motion animation with a powerful message, produced by ARTSH.it. The soundtrack is by Andrea Martignoni.

“BIG BAG BIG BOOM: an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.”

Enjoy!

BIG BAG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Maurizio Bongiovanni, between reality and abstraction

Rubens — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:18:10 +0000

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.

Altered magazine covers by Christopher Coppers

Dalila Piccoli — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:19:21 +0000

Christopher Coppers is a Belgian artist who specializes in ripping up accurately magazine covers to create beautiful works of art.

Check out Christopher Coppers’ Flickr page to see more works.

Visual Inspiration from China, Vol. 7

NeochaEDGE — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:23:01 +0000

#1 Brainempty – illustrator

#2 Phoebe Jin – photographer

#3 Kim227 – painter

#4 Wang Meng – animator (“Back to the Future” MV for Chinese 8-bit music producer Baifan)

Click here to view the embedded video.

#5 ABS crew – street art collective

Francoise Nielly’s colorful portraits

Dalila Piccoli — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:56:04 +0000

Francoise Nielly is the canvas painter who creates this amazing colorful and massive portraits.
The French artist paints with oils and her palette knife to portray exotic faces from black and white photos. Is very interested watch her create them in this video posted on her site.

Digital Inspiration from Romania Vol. 1

Jellyfish — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:31:41 +0000

The following showcase presents KoiKoiKoi readers with some examples of creative talent from Romania in the field of digital arts & design. It is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather to offer a glimpse at the incredible creative potential of this country. We have featured the artists in no particular order and hope that you will enjoy their works just as much as we do!

Matei Apostolescu (aka Beaucoupzero) is a Bucharest-based artist, who masters a great variety of styles and mediums: drawing, vector, photography, manipulation, sometimes even animation and clay modelling. His works are incredibly colorful and literally explode with intricate detail and shapes. Read an interview with the artist on Computerarts. His Behance portfolio is definetely worth a visit for some insane close-ups! We highly recommend downloading here 21 high-resolution free prints by the artist.

Claudia Cimpan is a young, self-taught designer from Arad. Her focus lies on apparel graphic design, print, and illustration but she has also worked in the fields of logo and typographic design.

Andrei Ograda (aka coOPERATIVA) is a designer based in Bucharest. When he is not recovering from injuries caused by his freeriding enthusiasm, he likes to work on typographic and poster designs. He takes his inspiration from bathroom and hospital tiles, books, ink splatters and graffiti.

Stefan Lucut is a digital designer and illustrator from Timisoara. His work is a mix of typography, photography, vibrant colors and vector elements. Stefan is a student at the University of Arts in Timisoara, majoring in multimedia design. He is founder of Baubauhaus (successful blog for creative inspiration) and a proud member of The KDU Network. You can read an interview with him at Fairspot or, a more recent one, at Wallpaperart. Make sure you check out his Behance portfolio for more of his works, he has some of the most wicked poster designs we’ve seen.

(above: collab with Magomed Dovjenko)

Cristian Ienciu is a digital artist from Timisoara. Although we have decided to share some of his more abstract works, you can visit his Behance portfolio and check out some of his excellent poster designs.

Sorin Bechira is an award-winning CG and multimedia designer from Timisoara, who likes to work with both traditional and digital techniques. He is creative director at slashTHREE artgoup, art director at X3 Studios and proud member of The KDU Network. Make sure you check out his Behance portfolio and read this interview with him on Psdtuts.

Fuco Ueda’s Surreal Artwork

Jellyfish — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:31:52 +0000

Fuco Ueda is a Japanese artist who paints with acrylic (which she thins to achieve a watercolor effect) and powdered mineral pigments on paper, cloth, and on wood.

Her paintings describe a bizzare world, dominated by female characters, and various nature elements (animals, marine fauna, flowers, bees, mushrooms etc.). You can read an interview with the artist here.

Nick Lepard’s paintings

Rubens — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:16:54 +0000

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

Photo Collages by Lola Dupré

Jellyfish — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:31:32 +0000

Lola Dupré is an artist from Glasgow who creates bizzare images, sometimes scattered, other times contorted.

Her collages are all made by hand: She multiplies a photograph, then cuts it by hand using the scissors and re-assembles the bits to reshape the image and create something new. Sometimes she combines several images for one piece and occasionally her works include pen and paint.

Check out her Flickr stream for more of her works.