Author: Tino Schwanemann
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The next Gem of Berlin Illustration: Mathis Rekowski
Mathis Rekowski is a German illustrator and photographer currently based in Berlin. With a background in advertising and filmmaking, he creates an amazing work full of colors and information. Mathis has a unique and very fresh style of illustration. A keen photographer, his acute creative eye comes up with intricately composed compositions, often a mixture…
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Manipulator Jill Greenberg
Jill Greenberg borrowed the name “Manipulator” from the 80’s German large format culture magazine, “The Manipulator”. It was one of the many pop culture influences along with “The Face”, “Interview”, and “W” which wallpapered her bedroom walls in high school. Greenberg has been manipulating her images manually as well as digitally since 1983 and 1990,…
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NYC’s Urban Art: DAIN
Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, the elusive DAIN is considered to be one of the more influential artists to emerge from the current New York City street art movement. DAIN faithfully produces works that are both evocative and beautiful in their composition. His love for old Hollywood glam is evident in much of his…
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New Look – Nap On The Bow
Director’s Tim & Joe at Colonel Blimp have shot a music video for New Look’s track Nap On The Bow using an XBox Kinect camera which emits thousands of infa-red dots to track a player’s movements in 3D… There is an obvious comparison to James Frost’s House of Cards video for Radiohead from 2008 which…
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The Colorful World of Kustaa Saksi
Color is at once both the most subjective and the most universal of design elements. For most of us, there is no particular rationale behind what we regard as our ‘favorite’ colours. But for a designer, making the right choice of color combinations can mean the difference between success and failure. Kustaa Saksi shows us…