Yoshitaka Amano: Elevating Anime Yoshitaka Amano (天野 喜孝) is a...

Yoshitaka Amano: Elevating Anime

Yoshitaka Amano (天野 喜孝) is a Japanese painter, character designer, illustrator, set & costume designer for theatre & film. He first came into prominence in the late 1960s working on the anime adaptation of Speed Racer. Amano later became the creator of iconic & influential characters, such as Gatchaman, Tekkaman, Hutch the Honeybee & Casshan. In 1982, he became a freelance artist illustrating for numerous best-selling novel series, such as The Guin Saga & Vampire Hunter D. He is probably most famous for his concept art for the video-game franchise, Final Fantasy. Since the 1990s, Amano has been exhibiting his iconic retro pop icons in galleries around the world, painting on massive aluminium panels with acrylic & automotive paint. | Previous Post

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Jorge Hernández’s Disconcernting PaintingJorge Hernández’s...

Jorge Hernández’s Disconcernting Painting

Jorge Hernández’s disconcerting works seek to destabilize our ideas about familiar images. We often see pop art suffused with images from the 1950′s to the 1970′s that are tied to advertising or movies and co-opted for art. Jorge Hernández’s art works against this imagery.  Thanks to Architect’s Gallery 

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Volkswagen LUNA : An Autonomous Concept Car with Integrated Drone

Volkswagen LUNA was born during Danilo Makio Saito’s internship at Volkswagen, Brazil. It’s a new concept transportation with integrated drone that can be used for a wide variety of tasks, especially data collecting in hard-to-reach areas. You can read Danilo’s explanation below.

The project was developed during an internship at Volkswagen in Brazil. We had 8 months to develop this project with the assistance of the whole design team, including designers, clay modelers, 3D modelers and so on. The goal of Volkswagen was to provide the opportunity to interns to experiment the whole process of developing a car by developing a new concept car with ideas and shapes that people had never seen before.

The inspiration came when I started to research about drones and the many applications in which they can be applied in the future. There are many opportunities in this market, that’s why companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google are investing a lot in this technology. So my idea was to propose to Volkswagen to invest in this technology that will be the future of means of cargo transportation and many other applications, and to become a company that provides different mobility solutions. That’s how I came up with the idea of integrating a car with a drone.

Designer : Danilo Makio Saito

The idea is a vehicle for exploring and monitoring the landscape. It’s an autonomous car which works as a workstation. It’s is composed by 3 parts: an autonomous platform, which is also a drone riding on land; a cabin which people use as a workstation, and the drone itself, to visualize and collect data in the air. The cabin can detach from the platform and stay in a strategic area for monitoring while the self-driving platform can ride itself to collect samples in the land. The user can visualize what the drones are seeing and control their trajectory and the data they are collecting inside the cabin via displays around the interior.

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Daniel Serva - Emotive Self-PortraitsBorn in Venezuela, but...

Daniel Serva - Emotive Self-Portraits

Born in Venezuela, but creating from Paraguay, Daniel Serva has found an outlet within his photographic endeavors. “I don’t usually talk about my feelings,” Serva told Instagram Blog, “but with the help of photography, I can have a catharsis.” This emotional release is clear to read in Serva’s images which seem to capture a sense of wonder and surrealism, as though sharing glimpses into his own personal dream world. To see more of Daniel’s striking surrealism, follow @daniel_serva on Instagram.

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Intricately Carved Wooden Animal Sculptures by Guiseppe Rumerio...

Intricately Carved Wooden Animal Sculptures by  Guiseppe Rumerio Leap to Life

Rippling muscles, thick horns, and fur so realistic that you can almost feel the wind blowing through it—Guiseppe Rumerio sculpts lifelike animals with the most intrinsic anatomical details to bring his wooden creatures to life. Tucked away in Ortisei, a small town in Northern Italy, this gifted sculptor has made a name for himself in the woodworking community with his breathtaking carvings, clearly expressing his fascination with nature. All of his wood sculptures are painstakingly hand-carved, exhibiting intricate details that reveal an authentic sense of life flowing from artist to creation.

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Each of his pieces begin life uniquely, as Rumerio draws upon a variety of elements including books and pictures in order to create his dynamic and animated menagerie. “My great passion is observing animals,” Rumerio admits, “therefore much of my work shows them in their natural style.” With over 30 years of experience, the sculptor has fine-tuned his techniques, taking cues from masters before him. In fact, woodcarving is a 300-year-old tradition in Rumerio’s community and the artist himself began his first apprenticeship at the age of 14. Today, he is a master carver with a global reputation, creating striking works from his little studio that serves as a shrine to the magnificent nature that surrounds and inspires him.

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