Yoshimasa Tsuchiya

Deer, Blue mermaid and Unicorn. Woodcarving, polychrome, crystal.

http://yoshimasa-tsuchiya.net/

1977 Born in Kanagawa, Japan
2001 BA, Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music
2003 MA, Conservation Course, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music
2007 Doctorate degree, Conservation Course, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music

via memelodia.

Vincent Olinet

1. Pas encore mon histoire, 2008 (Not yet my story)
2. Je vous aimes tous, 2006 (I love you all)
3. Rouge Santa Barbara, 2009 (Santa Barbara lipstick)
4. L'or forgé a la main (Hand forged gold) 2004
5. Je ne peux pas faire des miracles (I can't make miracles) III, 2007.

http://www.vincentolinet.com/

"The artist's intent is to subvert and play with roles, matter and dimensions. Olinet's fascination for childhood and fairytale, both classic and Walt Disney's, allows him to create fantastical sculptures which are simultaneously attractive and repulsive. His drums recall, from their shape and colour, a playful and circus-like atmosphere, but also hide a darker side to their creation, insomuch as the artist himself defines them as "martial".—Giulio Cattaneo

Vince Olinet (1981) lives and works in Brussels and Singapore.
Some images retouched by thescienceofdesign.

Constantinos Ginis

Constantinos Ginis is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator currently based in Athens, Greece. He often experiments with typography transformed into different elements, forms and tricky compositions. He believes that it's a big plus for a designer to have the ability to make a balance between shapes and ideas.

http://www.giniscostas.com

via Hugunited.

Rodrigo La Hoz

Rodrigo La Hoz is a peruvian illustrator and painter. He painted in oil a collection of portraits that he later used as stickers. Follow his latest projects on Flickr / Blogger / Myspace.

Wieki Somers

http://www.wiekisomers.com/

—Wieki Somers made his classes at the Design Academy Eindhoven. 'That is well after I realized my chances of having professors like Hella Jongerius and Gijs Bakker, one of the founders of Droog'. She remembers being an "unsociable" student, keeping her distance in front of an education where concept predominated. 'Students are not allowed to draw before they have thought, researched and identified an strategy'.

—What interests her the most are the materials, their transformation and the intuitive experimentation that goes along. She is convinced, like the classical sculptors, that in every material and every technique lies a hidden story waiting to be revealed.

—The bottle "Mattress Stone" was part of an experiment that involved a balloon in a fishing net and it was born in the EKWC (European Ceramic Work Center), a laboratory where artists and designers are invited to explore new applications of ceramic.

—Wieki Somers interviewed by Laurence Salmon and Catherine Scotto.. Extracts translated by thescienceofdesign.

Tanja Kolrus

http://www.tanjakolrus.com/


Tanja Kolrus is a freelance designer with passion for graphic, web, digital illustration, animation, usability and art direction. As a creative I'm always experimenting, following my visions and trying to get better. Follow her latest projects on Behance / Facebook.

Bela Borsodi

http://www.belaborsodi.com/

—In still life photography, every thing can be investigated in so many more and different ways. There are endless possibilities and each one of them has the potential to eventually change our perspective.

—It’s about playing with lots of objects all the time and trying things out, as long as it’s fun and worthwhile. I’m finished with a project when I’m happy with it and that’s when it all falls together and makes sense. The only purpose to reach an end is to finish a project - but it is really not that important to find all the answers. What is really interesting are the questions because they make you try things out, make you think and investigate. The process is what’s interesting and that can lead you to situations and possibilities that you couldn’t have anticipated. The results are then also a documentation of that process.

—If I can manage to have real joy with my projects this can likely also communicate my excitement to other people and perhaps inspire. That’s what I really want to share: humor, obsession, intelligence, curiosity, making an effort…
Interviewed by Pingmag.

Bela Borsodi was born in Vienna and has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1990s. He studied fine art and graphic design and often incorporated photography in his projects. His work offers a surreal imagery that makes clothing and accessories 3-dimensional. His “Foot Fetish” story for V Magazine received both negative and positive responses, which ended up sparking discussions on how the female body is sexualized and objectified in fashion and in art.

Some images retouched by thescienceofdesign.

Fernando Chamarelli

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lfchamarelli/

Fernando Chamarelli is a UNESP formed graphic designer, illustrator and visual artist. "Chamarelli's work employs mosaic, geometric elements, organic forms and harmonic lines connecting symbols, legends, philosophies, religions and customs of ancient and modern civilizations. It has a strong influence of Brazilian popular culture and pre-Columbian indigenous art."

via Elastika.

Carlos Cruz Diez

‘Chromointerference Mécanique’, a light installation. Photography by Hanneorla.

Carlos Cruz-Díez is a venezolan artist based in Paris.
http://www.cruz-Diez.com/

Yueh Alex Lu

1 Naked Brekfast, 2005 Acrylic and graphite on raw canvas
2-3 Winter palace for Peter the great, 2005

http://alexlu.com/

—'Painting is an illusion. Modernist painting is flat but as soon as you put a mark on a canvas, space is generated. As soon as a mark is made, the space is activated. One can perceive depth. In leaving raw, untouched surface, there is a relationship between what is there and what is not there'.

—Ropes are a repetitive theme in his paintings and they are a tool for illusion, one that creates movement. 'It’s like bonsai. The Chinese monks would meditate on the mountainsides and see the trees that grew curved and bent off cliffs. They thought it was very beautiful, like magic. So they began to grow trees and bind them with rope to grow a certain way. It’s about restraint as a form of creation, but also about ego in a way. Human beings are creators of nature. ‘Oh look, I can mimic nature, I can control it in a way.’
Interviewed by Workingclass.

Born in Taiwan, Yueh Alex Lu has a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and another MFA from School of Visual Arts in progress.

Paul Graves

http://www.paulgravescreative.com/

—I just try to tell a story, as I try to develop a three-dimensional object. Film, Photography, Product design, Books, Fashion and Sculpture is all the same, as long as one does not lose itself in the language or tradition of the individual.
—Snap Shot Reality, constructed, deconstructed, historical, post-production high-tech, low tech camera-related. Call it what you want - the magazines are full of it. I think the aesthetics of the moment is the one that you create for yourself. People want from you exactly what you've established for yourself.
Interviewed by seenby. Translated by thescienceofdesign.

Paul Graves studied sculpture at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna with Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera.

Ariane Spanier

http://www.arianespanier.com/

"Ariane Spanier is a graphic designer living and working in Berlin, Germany. After graduating from the Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin School of Art and spending some time in New York City including work at Stefan Sagmeisters design studio, Ariane works since 2005 for a wide range of international clients, most of them situated in the cultural field, as galleries, artists, publishers or architects. The main field of activity is design for all kind of printed matters."

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Kenichi Okada

Emotoscope, a digital camera with the feeling of the old films, with the clicking sound and the grainy images, to evoke nostalgia.

http://kenichiokada.com/

2006-08 MA Design Interactions Royal College of Art, UK
2004-06 BA GMD Interaction Design. London College of Communication, UK
1998-02 BA Department of Architecture. College of Engineering. Kanto Gakuin University, Japan

Javier Jaen Benavides

http://javierjaen.blogspot.com/

Javier Jaén Benavides is a spanish illustrator based in Barcelona, Spain.

Laura Bell

http://lbellphoto.com/

Laura Bell is an artist currently living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland.
BFA Film, Video and Photographic Arts; The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

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Maria Gil Ulldemolins

Available on her etsy site.

http://cargocollective.com/mgu

—I thought I was fascinated by objects, but, ultimately, I suspect that I am terribly curious about the people that use them, how they use them, why, what lives they lead. My work then is more of an exploration of what being human is like. I am interested in rituals (both festive and daily) and crafts (especially textile). I collect colors, textures and patterns.

—I started to draw because of a particular image I found. As I've mentioned, patterns and textures appeal to me like mad, so when I decided to draw that image, the drawing of hair became a graphic challenge (I draw hair slightly different every time). And then the whole narrative thing kind of jumped in: who are these women? We cannot see their expression, but we can see how they choose to present themselves.

A graduate from Product Design in Central St. Martins, London; Maria Gil Ulldemolins is currently studying Fine Arts in Barcelona. Follow her latest projects on her Blog / Coroflot.

Maximus Chatsky

Behance /Flickr
The work of ukranian designer Maximus Chatsky.

Benedita Feijó

http://beneditafeijo.blogspot.com/

Benedita Feijó is a portuguese designer, illustrator and co-founder of Interact Creative.
via krvKurvaDesign.

Heimo Zobernig

http://www.heimozobernig.com/

—With art I would like to raise questions and as a result produce things that put themselves in question.

Heimo Zobernig's work is a quest for the elemental. He dissects phenomena almost scientifically and presents their components in new constellations. The question is what art can produce.—Museums Quartier.

Drawing on various art histories he questions the principles and conditions which underpin them; challenging and reinterpreting them with a lightness of touch and an economy of material that is at times playful, dry, witty, unsettling and disarming. Born in 1958, in Austria, Heimo Zobernig's work includes sculpture, video, text, painting, installation, architectural intervention and performance. —Tate.

Andre Bergamin

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrebergamin/

—I work mainly with vintage illustrations from old magazine ads and from animal illustrated encyclopedias from the 80's. I have a major interest in vintage advertising and propaganda, and the way it explores icons that have always been so deeply ingrained in the collective unconscious. The illustrations in old animal encyclopedias are just beautiful and have a sort of fantastic attribute that always amuses me.

—I kind of believe that collage is the main artform of postmodernism and that you can identify it in lots of contemporary art, advertising and even in music. Since we have no more modernist avant garde movement to follow, everything is nothing less than a big cut and paste of different sources and references.
Interviewed by notpaper.

Andre Bergamin is a freelance graphic designer based in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. He graduated in Communication (with emphasis in advertising and propaganda) from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul and he is finishing a major in Graphic Design at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos.