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2012-02-01 : FROM EAST TO WEST: E7 DESIGN
Evan Tsei is a professional graphic designer and illustrator. Born in Taiwan, raised in the states and now working and getting a life in Taichung, back in Taiwan. He likes bright colors, superheroes, kung fu, and funny things.
E7 Design is his graphic design studio, where he seeks innovation, exploration, and renovation in its design practice. E7 Design celebrates design through the juxtaposition of new and old ideas, the harmony of type and image, and the fusing of fashion and manga.
Evan consider himself a sneakerhead, pop culture addict, japanese street aficionado, and film fanatic. He has tried to keep himself engaged and busy in these changing times by drawing upon and fusing ideas of the east with the west, which is probably why his work tends to have a sense of the blending of many different ideas. “Life’s too short to be limited to one style. Keeping one’s eye open and observing how a brand lives and evolves is one of the most fascinating things in the world. I’ve always kept my eyes open in the complex and brillaint world of graphic design for inspiration. Observation is a big factor in my work and I look for beauty in the elegant details, whether it’s a simple or complex design.”
2012-01-30 : THROUGH CHRISTINA BOTHWELL
Born in New York City in 1960, Christina Bothwell employs glass, clay, wood, paint and found objects in her revealing sculptures. In her work she is drawn to the processes of birth, death, and renewal. What lies below the surface fascinates her and she tries to capture the qualities of the "unseen" that express the sense of wonder that she feel in her daily existence. “I am attracted to glass because it can do everything that other sculptural media can; in addition, it offers an inner space and transmits light.”
The subject matter of Christina's work includes babies, animals, and children as they embody the essence of vulnerability that is the underlying theme in her work. Currently Bothwell is exploring metamorphosis as a topic, and has been incorporating figures within figures in her pieces. Within each glass figure there is a smaller figure seen through the surface of the glass. “I think of these pieces as souls, each being pregnant with their own potential, giving birth to new, improved versions of themselves.”
The depiction of images, legends, and organs engraved or encased in the surfaces of Bothwell’s pieces suggest inner lives and thoughts, and act as a metaphor for delving below the surface. “I am fascinated with what lie below the surface, the things in life I cannot readily see or define. I am constantly trying to get an understanding of the mysteries of life, such as the lives of saints and mystics, the workings of the unconscious, and the ways in which animals communicate.”
2012-01-19 : Interview with KILIAN ENG
If we would have to choose which graphic artists have been our favorite of 2011, probably on the top of the list we will find the name of Kilian Eng. If you are a restless soul sure you've encountered his work in a different occasion, well reviewed and posted at an art and design blog, or through his popular profile in the Behance community. And if not, then it's time to discover his work through the interview (behind the cut) that we've made especially for Belio's readers.
In middle December was published Object 5, the first book that covers the work of Kilian. It is a small and modest American edition published by Floating World Comics. An object or book that certainly marks one more step in the promising career of Kilian Eng. Below you can read the interview we did to him this week:
For some years I have been working hard in creating an atmosphere for my work that has kind of a dreamy and unreal feeling, not only because I tend to repeat sci-fi and surrealistic themes but also because I usually like to think that my images are taking place on a film set or on a theater. When it comes to my inspiration, I'm very interested in all kinds of architecture: baroque, art nouveau and minimal and futurist, to name a few. In general, I like to observe what's around us in the space. Many people have noticed similarities with Moebius (Jean Giraud) in my work and I must confess that I am a big fan of him and many others that are part of the Ligne Claire. Other artists that I often look at are Maxfield Parrish, François Schuiten and Winsor McCay's Little Nemo stories.
Regarding my influences, I think people speak really quickly when is about point out what they can see in my work. I receive e.mails almost every day from people telling me that my works reminds them to... whoever. The usual "Hello, your style looks exactly like this or that...". OK! that's interesting but not always a constructive reflection. I just don't get what's the point of it.
2. Your first book has just been released in December, published by Floating World Comics. How do you feel about the idea of seeing your work published in a real book, a physical object, precisely in this over-technified days? Do you think objects like books have a place in a future advanced society?
For me it's a great experience. Get to see all these images finally published in a book. I think is the best way for some people to discover my work. Personally, I think that books have a very important role as the physical object it is. I don´t like the idea of choosing one or the other, technical progress is great and we will continue developing different and fantastic solutions, which offer us more and more ways of experiencing different mediums. But the book is still a must and I don't think we need to get rid of this format, at least for a very long time yet.
3. The book is entitled OBJECT 5 but we don't know anything else about the content. OK, it's your work, but... Is there a story behind the images going on page after page? Or is it just a compilation of your best works?
I would like to see OBJECT 5 as a book with many stories. The book is a collection of different works and doesn't tell one specific story. But when you look trough the different pages, you will probably feel that some images are connected, although most of them are separated. We just wanted to collect my artworks and present it in a 64 pages filled with adventures, mysteries, dreams, horror, happiness, sadness, etc. I want to use this opportunity to thank Jason Leivian, the publisher of the book and owner of Floating World Comics in Portland. This books was possible thanks to him.
4. Apart of all the visual side, we know you are involved in a music project called DW with your friend Amir Zaino, a pop-electronic project. How important is the music as an influence in your graphic style? What kind of music and which musicians would you connect with the images that you create?
Yes! that's right, at the moment DW is sleeping but the plan is to wake it up again this year and release our delayed debut EP. But also start working in new stuff, I really think that the project still has a lot to offer and I miss working on music.
Like it usually happens for many visual artists, music is one the greatest source of inspiration. Lately, I have been listening a lot of ambient genre. Tangerine Dream, Vangelis and Ralph Lundsten are often in my speakers / headphones. I think most of their music is the perfect soundtrack to work with. The Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis has been on loop countless times in my music player, for me that's the perfect soundtrack.
5. Make a wish for 2012! One for you, one for the human kind and one for the universe.
I would like to make a work-related wish for myself: I truly hope to release my animation project during 2012, the good side is that it's everything up to me. I just need to work in it. So, it should be possible.
For the human kind, I can only wish that this year will be better for those who had a tough 2011. And that it will continue being great for everyone who had a good past year.
For the universe and everything that is out there, perhaps my wish would be that someone pays us an (official) friendly visit, it's about time.
Thanks for your words and time, Kilian, and good luck to you too!
2012-01-17 : ALVARO TAPIA HIDALGO, with that nose
There is a place reserved for very few illustrators, situated between the more arty personal style and the most commercial customer demand. Indeed, the world of illustration can be an steeplechase when it comes to dealing with a client. You can be talented, you can get lucky, you may be constant, but you also need all of these factors combined properly. Then you can make a good name. In this race is our hero today: Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo.
2012-01-13 : CARLES RODRIGO: ONE DAY
The beginning of a new year is not always marked by change minds and new purposes to fulfill. If things go great, what you have to do is to maintain it. That must be the way the people from Espai Tactel have decided to face the new year. They start with a new show that will be opening today, Friday 13. And the chosen one to open the year is: the photographer Carles Rodrigo and his show One Day.
2012-01-11 : PAWEL FABJANSKI, hunter in strange world
In our daily tracking of the world in search of new talents, we leave the door open for surprises... And so that's what has happened with the work of Paweł Fabjański that has come in the form of presentation e.mail and have surprised us by its quality, but above all by the air of mystery surrounding his photographs.
2012-01-09 : One year of CLEMENS BEHR
Among the many different branches of urban art, we felt special sympathy for those artists who understand the street as a continuation of trends in contemporary art for galleries. That is, those proposals aside the obvious messages and figurative forms, looking for an aesthetic concept and especially experimenting with the idea of figure and its context. This is the case of Clemens Behr.
2011-12-26 : THREE CUBES COLLIDING
Today we won't give you too much explanations, we are on holidays mode, but just tell you that we love cubes, we like them a lot, close to the obsession. So, we loved this project:
2011-12-23 : BELIO: MAKE A WISH
After giving this question, it does not come to our mind the child Jesus, not Santa, not even a slight intention to criticize or defend a celebration of consumerism. We celebrate that we are here, we're alive, that we keep creating and we have many people you share all this. Not only our family and closest friends, but you all: fans, readers, sporadic visitors, fans, creators, collaborators, infinite players, etc. Because if there is a reason for continuing Belio day by day, that is to discover, share and enjoy the creative talent that is all around the globe. Our reason for being and exist.
This year has been a difficult one for everybody, a year full of surprises, riots, incidents and historical events, a life and death roller coaster. Nor can we say that it was good or bad. Only the distance in time and space allow us to discover the positive aspects of our decisions and actions taken. Therefore, do not worry, enjoy and celebrate. Because there is always something to celebrate, even a warm ray of light that caresses your skin on a lonely winter walk.
But above all we encourage you to enjoy the present moment, wherever you are, with an abstract thought in your mind: the idea of a bright future, a dream come true, the certainty of a wish that will be fulfilled. So, now: Make your wish!
2011-12-22 : CHAD VERRILL: 2011 PROSPECTUS
When this year started, how many of you self-imposed targets to achieve? Well we do not have to remember you that we are in the final stretch, there are less than 10 days to finish 2011. And as Chad Verrill said is better to do 10 things at 100% than trying to make 100 things at 10%. Is this your case?
Here you can see the collection, with nine images at the moment, with which you can get an idea of Verrill style: abuse of spot colors, basic lines, reduced color scale, symmetries and geometries. But perhaps what makes his style more recognizable is that debt with the aesthetics and stories from old myths and legends. His illustrations might well be taken from a medieval manuscript, a scroll from the ancient Greece or an old book of alchemy, but his creations are kept within a contemporary context, often as part of books, comics or silkscreen print collections. We strongly recommend you to visit his website, so you can appreciate the richness of his work ... And maybe see if he accomplish his project 2011 Prospectus.
2011-12-21 : TANT & BROKENFINGAZ CREW
Haifa, the Israeli harbour city, is full of bad attitude towards its street artists. Tant and the Brokenfingaz crew are based there and have made no attempts to move. Tant has been painting and illustrating since a long time. A couple of years ago he joined the Brokenfingaz crew with his friends Unga, Kip and Deso.
Masters of Mystery. Tant + Unga
Tant’s work is inspired by a big bunch of different things, from drugs, dreams, comics and old movie posters to old masters such as Albrecht Dürer, Alphonse Mucha and Toulouse-Lautrec as well as contemporary artists like Mike Giant, Parra, Espo, D-face or Faile, just to name a few.
For Tant, most of the time, the first idea is the best one. He just goes with his basic instinct and try to do a lot, to never stop, whatever it is he is doing, don’t letting any thoughts block his creativity. This is the mighty impulsive Tant and his art.
MAKOM ENSOFI. Tant + Unga
Beijing 2010: Deso, Kip, Unga & Tant
Borkenfingaz t-shirt.
Sketchkbook, 2011.
Fluxpavilion & Cookie Monsta.
Tant + Unga
Crissy Criss poster.
FLUX PAVIOLION.
Nu Stoli.
2011-12-20 : DIANA AL-HADID: Play the Wolf Fifth
There is an impossible universe halfway between the structures of the mind and the projected architecture, places described in myths as the labyrinth of the Minotaur or the tower of Babel, perhaps visually caught by geniuses like Escher and Piranesi. Or maybe it was the other way around, the artist trapped in his own thoughts, a geometric and fractal place like nature itself. No wonder that the imagination of an artist seeks an architecture to stay, of course: an impossible architecture. This is the case with Diana Al-Hadid.
At the present time you can visit two solo exhibitions of Al-Hadid. On the one hand, the Nasher Sculpture Center of Dallas has invited the artist to make an installation within its program Sightings. On the other hand, the Contemporary Art Centre La Conservera in Murcia hosts until January 8, 2012 an exhibition entitled Play the Wolf Fifth, with some of her most representative works.
2011-12-19 : LAURA BIFANO & HER PIXELATED FRIENDS
Laura Bifano was born and raised on the east coast of Vancouver island where she spent the better part of her childhood drawing demented pictures. Her paintings range from being whimsical and lighthearted to macabre and subtly disquieting. Her characters exist in their own quiet world, immediately accessible and distant.
Educated at the Alberta College of Art and Design, Laura has worked as a concept artist, storyboard artist and editorial illustrator for clients like The Weekly Alibi, Exclaim!, Canadian Running Magazine, Briarpatch Magazine, Cricket Magazine, Modern Dog Magazine, Parks Canada, University of Alberta, Uppercase Gallery, Beatroute Magazine, Avenue Magazine or New Machine Studios, among others.
Her last solo show was "Menagerie", a series of 10 polygonal animal paintings inspired by her love of nature and classic video games. It took place in the Intent Gallery at Art Central, Calgary.
2011-12-16 : FREDERIK HEYMAN, Nonstop
No doubt we live in a indefinable time. Some say we live in a continual revival of past trends, for others the avant garde is the non-style as flag, and a some others enjoy watching the amalgamation of elements drawn from different sources and combined in impossible ways. A continuous juxtaposition of modes, neither old nor new, neither art, nor design, nor trend, nor performance, nor... And all at once, like a roller coaster. That's the way we could classify Frederik Heyman and his work, although he probably would not define himself with a simple label.
2011-12-15 : HELEN WARNER'S IMAGINARY THATRE
"I try to create photographs that allow us escape into fictional worlds, mainly influenced by mythology and legends. I like my shoots to be full of movement, theatre and expression, it's a complete collaboration between me and the models." Helen Warner, a Belfast based photographer, shows to world what is behind the curtain of her theatre.
Warner was born in 1981 and since she was a child her family encouraged her interest in photography. "I have always had a camera kicking about since I was a child. My father was quite into photography and he bought me my first camera for my eighth birthday." she said.
Helen’s photography evokes a dark frozen theatre, her models seem to be acting in a drama that is taking place in the middle of the nature. She approach photography from a storyboarding angle, taking pictures as stills for a possible film idea. "I think there is a sense of dark romanticism in my photography, themes such as death, love, loneliness and feelings of being lost are quite prevalent throughout."
2011-12-14 : ANISH KAPOOR: LEVIATHAN
Last spring we heard that the great sculptor Anish Kapoor had been invited as guest artist for this year edition of Monumenta 2011 at the Grand Palais in Paris. If you know in advance the work of Kapoor, expectation is just an small word for such a project. And so, last summer the Parisians could enjoy this wonderful and epic installation titled Leviathan.
Dirty Corner:
Orbit (project for the Olimic Games 2012):
Between Shit and Architecture:
Untitled:
2011-12-13 : ZUTTO'S WORLD
Her real name is Alexandra, but she is better known as Zutto and is a very talented illustrator and graphic designer from Russia. Her illustrations are full of vibrant colors, fantasy characters and dreamy scenes. She says that her magic eyes can see the unusual in a usual things, which leads her to creative and nostalgic illustrations.
Zutto was born in a small city called Miass, at the South Ural, in Russia. Her city is surrounded by mountains which are covered by beautiful pine and birch forests and dozens of lakes. Zutto grew up climbing these mountains and walking in the forests, therefore she really loves nature.
She always liked to draw. Even when she was 2 years old, she used to draw everywhere she could reach. So when she left school, she entered the university to study interior design and after graduating she moved to Moscow.
Zutto doesn’t have any special education for illustration. She just tried to do what she likes, to make illustrations! So she started working in different agencies and learned graphic programs in a very fast way. Later, when she became a freelancer, she worked a lot on her skills and style in order to express her own ideas in a better way.
2011-12-12 : TRUSTOCORP: LIFE CYCLE EXHIBITION
Not even a year ago in February of this year we presented you (right here) the installations that TrustoCorp had created for Art Basel Miami 2010. Although we do not like to repeat artists in our home-site, in some cases is honorable obligation. This time, we want to present you the new works that form part of the Life Cycle last show by TrustoCorp.
2011-12-09 : MACHINES'R'US - New zip-hoddie jacket by BELIO
We present you a brand new design that we have done for a Belio zip-hoodie. We want this jacket to be something exclusive and limited, so it will be available in presale only. This means that only those copies ordered in advance will be produced, no one more. Then, there won’t be any possibility to get it. The sale price, including the shipping, will be 50 euros for Spain and 60 euros for other European countries.
If you like it and want to order a copy, don’t hesitate and send us an email (store@beliomagazine.com) before 2011 December the 15th with the size you want and we will give you further instructions. Later will be late!
We offer it now, before the christmas season, because maybe is a good gift idea for someone.
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