This is a personal favourite. Leif Podhajsky is an artist and Creative Director. His work explores themes of connectedness, a psychadelic experience and the relevance of nature. Creating his designs for a number of brands, labels and musicians around the world such as: Tame Impala, Bonober, Nike, Wird Magazine, Sony Music etc.
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"Come dip your toes into the psychedelic stream of Leif Padhajsky’s imagination for some striking abstractions of nature – mirrored vistas, engulfing waves, rippling, melting cosmic landscapes."
"Come dip your toes into the psychedelic stream of Leif Padhajsky’s imagination for some striking abstractions of nature – mirrored vistas, engulfing waves, rippling, melting cosmic landscapes."
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| Wired Magazine |
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| Young Magic - Melt Album Cover |
Damien Hirst
A painter, sculptor and a printmaker. Studying at Goldsmiths, London he quickly became a leading figure in the group of 'Young British Artists'. Working closely with the fundamental dilemmas of human existence, including the constant theme of the fragility of life, societies reluctance to confront death, and the nature of love and desire.
The use of dead animals are frequently used in Hirst's installations, forcing viewers to consider their own and society's death. Applying subject matter by containing these dead forms in containers.
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| The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991 |
‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ has become embedded in popular culture as one of the most iconic images of contemporary art. Conceived by Hirst in 1989 whilst at Goldsmiths, the ‘Natural History’ work consists of a thirteen-foot tiger shark preserved in a tank of formaldehyde, weighing a total of 23 tons. The shark is contained within a steel and glass vitrine three times longer than high and divided into three cubes.
According to the artist, the title was, “just a statement that I had used to describe the idea of death to myself”. Thought of prior to the sculpture, it was taken from Hirst’s student thesis on Hyperreality and the work of Robert Longo and Umberto Eco. Hirst recalls liking the title’s poetic clumsiness because of the way it expressed, “something that wasn’t there, or was there.”
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| Sympathy in White Major – Absolution II, 2006 |
“I’ve got an obsession with death … But I think it’s like a celebration of life rather than something morbid.”
Coming across Hirst in the final year of A-level, was a huge inspiration to the project. His butterfly work in particular, the patterns he generated looked to be something that could be reproduced on a larger scale more multiple purposes. Choosing to print on other products to show a created branded design. Learning similiarly from Paul Smith products. Paul Smith also uses a brand design which creates brand identity which he then establishes on a range of products, which also gives a design longevity and practical use.
A-Level finals to demonstrate how they inspired, working practice in my work.
"In 2006, we set out to put control into the hands of countless creative professionals suffering from inefficiency, disorganization's, and careers at the mercy of bureaucracy."
Behance
The leading online platform to showcase & discover creative work. The creative world updates their work in one place to broadcast it widely and efficiently. Companies explore the work and access talent on a global scale.
- based in New York City.
Designers found through Behance:
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DADA
Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I, and the nationalism, and rationalism, which many thought had brought war about. Influenced by ideas and innovations from several early avant-gardes - Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism - its output was wildly diverse, ranging from performance art to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting and collage. Dada's aesthetic, marked by its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, proved a powerful influence on artists in many cities, including Berlin, Hanover, Paris, New York and Cologne, all of which generated their own groups. The movement is believed to have dissipated with the arrival of Surrealist in France.
Leading figures of the dada movement:
- Marcel Duchamp
- Francis Picabia
- John Heartfield
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| Marcel Duchamp - Fountain |
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