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Clash of the History of Art with Pop Culture in Digital Collages Shusaku Takaoka

Shusaku Takaoka is a Japanese graphic designer and an expert at turning history into a hipster. His works hilariously transform some of the classical art world’s most iconic faces into modern city slickers, and we actually wouldn’t be surprised if we saw any of these made-over canvas characters chilling on the subway, or strutting the latest trends on Broadway. But Takaoka didn’t stop there - he’s also reimagined them as movie stars, magazine covers, and even baristas. For more check out his Instagram.

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Bees and Bombs:  New Work

New work from Cross Connect favorite Dave Whyte, otherwise known as Bees and Bombs.  Dave Whyte lives and works in Dublin as a freelance motion designer.  He has a PhD in physics and uses the software Processing to create his elegant and mesmerizing gifs.  You can read a longer interview with him here

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Riding with Pixel8or

The artist responsible for this work is trained in illustration, graphic design and multimedia production.  In their own words   “My work as Pixel8or comes from enjoying being a passenger, it’s about preserving visual moments and presenting them as endless meditations.“  Their work, done in the genre of looping motion called cinemagraphs, is hypnotic and beautiful.

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Geometric Wooden Gems by Victoria Vagner

Victoria Wagner is an artist who is fascinated by unlikely pairings. Her set of gem-like sculptures called Woodrocks are comprised of wood and decorated with color, as she explains:

My eye generally and naturally tends toward tessellation and pattern, seeking a rhythm that mimics regular pulse. On the one hand, visual order provides a place for the senses to rest, while color relationships create problems for the brain to solve. I like this simultaneity.

The natural material and the unnatural oil pigments combine to create a precious object that’s small enough to be held comfortably. Woodrocks serve as an iconic reference to the downed tree. They’re salvaged from local materials and painted to follow organic growth patterns and feature gradient spectrums. 

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The Art of Fumage by Steven Spazuk

Artist Steven Spazuk uses a technique called Fumage using fire and soot to create his art.  This gives his work an ephemeral quality.  You can see our previous post of his work HERE.  See more of Steven’s work on Instagram.  h/t Faith is Torment.  

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John Ueland:  Stylized Gif Toys

John Ueland, based in San Francisco, has been a professional illustrator for over 20 years and has a long list of impressive high end clients.  You have probably seen his work in a publication or website you looked at recently.  A few years ago he did a series of richly textured and gritty animated gifs in which the motion serves to bring the uniquely styled drawings to life, like a beat up old metal wind up toy, or a damaged set of legos.

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Chromo Valdez:  Glitch Landscape Gifs

Chromo Valdez is the art project of a touring musician who delivers appliances for money and creates glitch art for fun.  He has created a series of fascinating glitch landscapes that are a perfect representation of the glitch aesthetic; deconstruct the image of the world you THINK you are seeing on the computer screen into what it really is:  digitized circuity fooling your eyes.  Here nature and the computer are presented to your eyes simultaneously, and the results are both beautiful and thought provoking.

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An Anthology Vol.1 by Yukai Du

Yukai Du is a UK-based illustrator and animator. Graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2014, she has been exploring and establishing her work in both still images and motions. - from her website.

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