Noper Updates

Noper is a Romanian illustrator with a thing for animation. He currently lives in Bucharest and works as Art Director with an advertising agency. In his early carreer he often found himslef juggling with various illustration styles, but his more mature work clearly underline his passion to create fabulous and bizarre characters and worlds. His final works are always ellaborated, always yearning to be watched thoroughly in order to discover all the details. He finds his muses in every-day life, be it a funny event or a month-old frustration. That's why the majority of his surreal characters often are a "day to day" satirical quotation. He never plans or sketches a drawing, but prefers to pump every bit of his spontaneous creativity on any type of canvas he has in front: a piece of paper, a tablet, a wall or a napkin. This is how every work gets an organic, unique feeling. He goes by the motto "If I see it, maybe i'll feel it. If I feel it, fuck I'll draw it".

Zhou Fan

Zhou Fan - Chinese Contemporary Artist: "A series of my paintings is based on dreams that I had as a child of many many jellyfish floating in the sky, some of which fell to the ground on parachutes and became mushrooms. These dreams had a strong impact on me, and I remember them vividly. Somehow I feel that it is easier to focus on dreams than reality. In one particular painting, there is a boy crying because he keeps things within him, is easily sad, and he refuses to face reality."

Dominique Fung

Inspired by popular culture, and the secrets hidden within the world we all know, Dominique Fung's work often explores a creative relationship, one that occurs through her use of design and fine art in conjunction with one another. Currently residing in Oakville Ontario, Dominique plans to move this fall to either New York, Toronto or Los Angeles.

Devin McGrath

Julien Pacaud | Perpendicular Dreams

Julien Pacaud: "Before becoming an illustrator, i was, by turns: an astrophysician, an international snooker champion, a hypnotist and an esperanto teacher. I hope i can someday have enough free time to devote myself to my real passion : time travel."

Alexis Rockman

Mark Weaver

Parc

Parc was established in 2009 as a platform for art and design rooted in experimentation across type and image making, illustration and composition.

Shohei Otomo

Kazuki Takamatsu

Michael Steele

Michael Steele explored various mediums and styles such as, illustration, oil painting and digital media: " With this new series of artworks that I have created as part of the "Cluster" series, I have been able to explore various styles, techniques and mediums by portraying what I see around me and then present these influences artistically. These influences that I have portrayed come from various avenues, such as the media, memories, people, textures, technology and so on. A Cluster to me resembles images or objects grouped together to form something larger. I feel this gives images or objects a stronger presence, rather than being displayed by themselves, creating a much more dynamic experience for the viewer." (via TGM)

alvvino

alvvino is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator who has lived and worked in England and Italy before settling in Berlin, Germany.

Mathis Rekowski

Mathis Rekowski - Berlin based illustrator: site / flickr / blog

încotro | Romanian Visual Survey

încotro is an independent project which aims to bring together the best visual projects made in 2007 and 2008 by Romanian authors, irrespective of the country they live in. încotro wants to be a benchmark, a launching ramp, a source of dialogue and an interface between the Romanian and international visual art worlds.

Samuel Green

Alex Trochut

Beata Boucht

Pins | Paul Insect

Paul’s work has evolved considerably. Victorian graphics have been replaced by Dada-ist collages fusing adolescence, aggression, and rough-around-more-than-just-the-edges pornography. These motifs are tempered by a joyous use of colour and an ambitious style. Equally, the images are provoking and provocative: dripping as much with sensitivity and gravitas as they are with sex and death. Moreover, they are a window onto the mind of the frustrated modern male: boiling over with unkempt aggression and sexuality, but yearning somehow for a higher moral purpose than the gradual accumulation of acceptance. Clowns crack and go on the rampage; kids in cowboy outfits contemplate the worth of their peers; and babies are contented to consider the consequences of the quantum age. (via chestionabil / lazarides)

Erik Mark Sandberg

Spacetrash | Works by Brendan B. Larsen