Lenancker Romain

Ren Rox

Leif Podhajsky

Leif Podhajsky is an artist and designer, co-running AND - a graphic design and art direction studio in Melbourne Australia.

Bartholot | Carefully crafted imagery

Serial Cut™ | Imagemakers since '99

Serial Cut is a Madrid based studio, established in 1999 by Sergio del Puerto, working on a wide variety of worldwide projects, but focussing mainly on Art Direction. Serial Cut works alongside an ever-growing team of professionals, who specialize in different areas such as photography, design, motion-graphics and 3D design.

Qian Qian

Qian Qian is a multi-disciplinary designer, illustrator and art director from China, now living and working in New York City. (via savedem)

Radio active art-design-illustration by Yoshi Tajima

Yoshi Tajima is educated at Temple University and the American Intercontinental University in London, BA in Commercial Art 1995. He started his career as a freelance graphic designer. Radio is a design office found in 1998, now doing art direction, design and illustration in a variety of fields.

Deadbeatt

Deadbeatt.com is the graphic portfolio of designer Justin DeWalt - Illustrations, Photo Finishing and Digital Medium, Art Direction.

Scream in Bucharest

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art direction by lowant / photos by bogdan catargiu.

photoshopate.ro | mircea mocanu photography, art direction, graphic design

Robert Horvath | Massive Luxury Overload

Robert Horvath / artist statement: 'We live in a society where celebrity worship and an obsession with wealth and luxury goods can coexist daily with news of impending pandemic threats and worldwide political and religious warfare. Gaudy displays of physical vanity and self-aggrandizing behavior have become an acceptable means to define our cultural persona. Tempted by the glow of the spotlight, and seduced by its excesses, we are told by our political leaders that we can solve the world's problems simply by shopping.

In my oil paintings on panel I am exploring this relationship between two realities: a shiny sparkling surface world and a dark and troubled world of fear. Young beautiful bodies vogue and pose in empty, acidic-colored spaces. Exposed skin takes on a cold, other worldly sheen wrapped in the latest designer fashions. Lurking behind the glitter, the desire for status motivates and defines the search for an advantageous mate. Viral entities, gas clouds and bubbling pink sores begin to roll in as if from a fog machine to obscure or engulf the figures in mid-come-on. This combined imagery forces a visual duality: the escapist pop culture youth can no longer hide from the horrors of reality.

With our attention being pulled in so many directions by media over saturation and the cult of celebrity, our society seems to turn its assessing eye further and further inward and away from the darkness of the world’s problems. Is this candy land we have created a beautiful barrage of harmless luxury, or will this insidious viral nature lead to our extinction?'