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[francescapozzi]

YELLOW COLOR | IL COLORE GIALLO Milan, kitchen. March 2024 Milano, una cucina. Marzo 2024 _ An artist’s photograph of an abstract painting, where the artwork becomes part of the scene it inhabits. A subtle Droste effect blends art with reality, capturing the essence of yellow’s vibrant presence. fine art photography by Francesca Pozzi tells a story about a painting by Francesca Pozzi

[cacpartmobile]

Ekua's Kwanzaa Stamp

We’re beyond thrilled to share some amazing news about our very own @ekuaholmes! 

Ekua has created a stunning stamp celebrating Kwanzaa for the United States Postal Service®!

The stamp was unveiled yesterday and is now available nationwide! Her beautiful design, inspired by a live performance at OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center in Roxbury, features a drummer and two dancers, perfectly capturing the essence of Kwanzaa—  family, history, values, community, and African American culture.  Ekua is in Pittsburgh this week celebrating the stamp’s launch! 

Congratulations, Ekua and thank you for the gift of this postal treasure!

[kimberly-balla]

Kimberly Balla

The Cure: Dill Weed

48 x 36 inches

Acrylic on canvas

2024

[storytimebyrk]

Architecture for Wellness: Designing Spaces That Promote Health and Happiness

In today’s fast-paced, screen-saturated world, the spaces we inhabit hold more power than ever to influence our mental, emotional, and physical health…. To read the entire article, please ➡️ click ⬅️ and head to my art and design blog. Happy reading.

[cityabyss]

[aegis-17]

One of my oldest fully digital pieces, and one i want to do more of. It was a big step forward for me. A fixed wing bomber of the Cacean republic, in the world of Lakeweaver. An Industrialized nation, roughly reaching the 1920s-1930s in development, with their roots in central american styled empires and revolution nearly a century before. A Lack of readily available and reachable crude oil led to their early electrical adaptation taking off. Most tech in their states tend to lean heavily electric, utilizing battery power for longer range travel. Their air force can be considered average for the time. their early 4 engined bomber more a focus of pushing their limits of heavy aircraft then offensive use at the point of its development. Yet for all their technological developments. Their lands and the jungles that sprawl around the bases of their mountain ridges and deep lake valleys hold many secrets about their past.

[artvinyl]

Uncovered: The Ninja Tales

3. Machinedrum - 3FOR82 (2024)

To complete our trilogy of ‘The Ninja Tales’, Part III takes a look at the hidden spot gloss ASCII artwork for Travis Steward's aka Machinedrum’s 11th studio album, 3FOR82 out on Ninja Tune on 24th May 2024. It is reported that Stewart crafted the album during a pilgrimage to Joshua Tree National Park, California, to seek clarity and inspiration, saying, “..I knew that I should, at some point in my life, go out there to work on something creatively.” 

Fascinated by the outwardly simple artwork that, in reality has many hidden depths, we caught up with graphic designer and Machinedrum's Creative Director, Joseph Durnan and Ninja Tune’s Head of Production, Sean Preston to understand more about the process for creating the album’s hidden code artwork using The Demoscene. For us mere mortals unfamiliar with The Demoscene, it is an international computer art subculture made up of a worldwide network of creative minds, focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations.

Joseph told us, “One component we latched onto early was the Demoscene's challenge of keeping file sizes as low as possible while maximising the complexity of the demos. ASCII art, halftoning, and duotone degrading helped express that idea, with legendary demoscener TPOLM's art and Travis' (Machinedrum) personal artefacts from his teenage years acting as source material. The words flooding the sleeve and hidden code are nods to personal messages within Demoscene culture—references to in-jokes, cryptic sayings and messages to other demo makers. I liked how this type of content could either seem conceptual and esoteric to an outsider, or something between total gibberish and a confusing nerdy joke. Blending this with the 3FOR82 process involved using personal numbers related to birth dates, in-studio references among the album collaborators, and redundant information about the WAV files for the album tracks.”

Accompanying the record is a 16-page boutique zine. Joseph explains, “The accompanying zine goes deeper into the archival aspect, including rules from a quest-style video game imagined by Machinedrum as a child and a transcript from his first-ever interview. It also features nostalgic cyber-culture-style artwork contributions from Sensory Works and bitmapped photos from studio shoots with Tinashe and AK the Saviour.”

The limited edition translucent yellow glow vinyl edition, includes an alternative Dinked album art oversleeve and Joseph told us more about this, “For the limited edition Dinked art, TDR's Ian Anderson "3FOR82" font was degraded via an online ASCII art converter, overlaid with the T-26 font "Bias” for the MACHINEDRUM type. The font non-coincidentally looks good with Ian's logotype because a lot of the T26 foundry's typefaces made their way into his designs in the 90s and early 00s - which is widely held up as an era defining body of work within that world. Something definitive of the visual language of electronic music was how much of the artwork developed with technology, mirroring the way the Demoscene visuals have mutated over the past 30 years.” 

Ninja Tune’s Head of Production, Sean Preston worked alongside Durnan on the album artwork and gave us his insight into the creative process.

He told us, “I think if anyone else other than Joe had come to me with the premise for the latest Machinedrum album I would’ve done all I could to put them off, but having suffered under the designer’s collaboration for several years, I was all too aware of his penchant for ASCII art, glitchy graphics, and secret gifts/traps buried deep within pixel data for me to find. Sometimes, where you land with the final packaging on a record, is more pleasing or rewarding because of the pitfalls laid before it, most of which in this instance we couldn’t have known ahead of the course.” 

Sean explains, "Initially pencilled for manufacture in Ireland, we had to pivot to printing some of the sleeves there, stickers, zine booklet and o-card (for the Dinked edition) in three separate locations in the UK, and pressing the vinyl in France. The danger in working that way is that most printers have their own calibration settings for sleeves and o-card sizes. It also presents a risk to hitting colour consistency across the print parts. Getting printers to talk about these things with each other isn’t always a harmonious of fruitful pursuit, but with a good amount of physical proofing, some nervy stress tests, the record comes together really well.”

We asked more about the 16 page zine insert and Sean explained, “The zine booklet, complete with French folds, feels like a real artefact, centring the artwork’s ambition on an uncoated offset paper and card. The outer sleeve is 6-colour, utilising a bright Pantone Green and Pantone Orange against a CMYK composite, overlaid with a blind spot varnish. A blind varnish is a varnish that doesn’t necessarily correspond to the colour artwork it is printed on. Often when you see this, the blind varnish is vibrant, blind only in name, and usually employed as large block text, which requires a certain level of legibility. I visited the printer near Dublin specifically to get the right amount of subtlety to the overlaid varnish. Because of the miniscule, dotted areas occupied by the varnish, the traditional method of varnishing wasn’t going to give us the fine detail desired. The beauty of working with the sort of printer we did (AngloPrinters in Drogheda, around 45 mins north of Dublin) is that they are experienced and agile enough to recognise intention and move to solutions that benefit the artistic purpose. The finished sleeve now holds a finely detailed varnish that is present in light, but subtle enough to maintain the overall clandestine aesthetic that pervades the album’s artwork and music.”

3FOR82 by Machinedrum is released on Ninja Tune on 24th May 2024. Artwork by Joseph Durnan [124 World]. Typography by Ian Anderson (The Designers Republic). Record FlipFrames by Art Vinyl.

[ottobloggs]

Floating Grace 🌸☁️

A serene scene of a graceful woman floating mid-air, holding a traditional Japanese umbrella, drifting gently past a beautiful pagoda. The gentle breeze and calm sky create a timeless, dreamlike moment. Inspired by classic Japanese art, now rendered in detailed pixel art.

[iodworld]

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[digilabinfinite]

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TIJON MIAMI X RAMSÉS MEJÍA

A rendez-vous between art and fragance.

Four illustrations inspired by iconic places in the city of Miami, created exclusively for the four signature perfumes of Tijon.

Perfume bottle replica designed by @onicemejia

Photography by @vcoproductions360

Tijon is a hand-crafted, luxury fragrance brand providing a curated retail experience along with award-winning fragrance labs providing custom perfume-making classes suited for small to large-scale groups and events.

Book this unique fragance making experience at:

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1600 Ponce de León Bldv Suite A

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The Significance of Modern Art and Design in Interior Spaces

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“I’m Queen Rhaenyra now. And you are all traitors to the realm.” — Rhaenyra Targaryen

Fan art by me. Feel free to follow me here: https://www.instagram.com/ymhuang_illos/

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🌟 Unlock the Secret to Stunning Design! 🌟

Ever wondered why some designs just feel right? The secret might be hidden in the Golden Ratio – nature’s perfect proportion! From iconic architecture to your favorite logos, this timeless principle creates balance, harmony, and beauty. In my latest blog, I break down: ✨ What the Golden Ratio is ✨ Why it works so well ✨ How you can use it in your designs 📐 Whether you’re designing a logo,…