shapeflow.

Shapeflow is an open-membership French art collective that seeks to engage and inspire designers, artists, and illustrators to share and contribute their work to the collective. The work on the site is divided into “issues”, each with a theme that then puts out an open-call on the site for anyone to submit their work for inclusion.

The current theme, “Springtime” (which I find pleasingly optimistic since most of Northern Europe is locked down in a record-breaking cold snap right now) has brought forth some bright, geometric, and inventive work, including some illustration and some interesting web-sourced data visualization.

Via Yay! Everyday!

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anitabling.

This next post is sort of a big delicious colourful enigma for me. These multi-media works from anitabling’s Flickr stream are totally up my alley: graphic, bright, multi-layered (literally), and geometric. And almost geologic, with the multi-hued stacks, slowly piling up on top of each other, layer by layer, to create an incredibly detailed strata when cut into from the side. Like some sort of otherworldly hyper-coloured canyon or rainbow rock formation.

Though some of her taller sculptural works, housed inside acrylic boxes, are displayed like museum pieces, she also references the cutting technique in some of her other unbordered pieces by literally driving knives or saw blades into them. Haphazardly, like a knife left-over in the butter dish after a hurried breakfast, as if more chromatic cutting and splicing and slashing is left to be done once she returns.

Unfortunately, her Flickr page (I’m going to assume for now that she’s a girl named Anita) doesn’t link to another site and it’s all in Spanish. So I’m not sure what the rest of her details are. She’s shown a few times in Montevideo, so I think she could possibly be Uruguayan.

If anyone has details on anitabling, or speaks Spanish and can translate some of the info from Flickr, I’m dying to know more and my usual internet searches turned up nothing. Feel free to email me or leave updates in the comments.

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michael fragstein: a wet day.

A haunting, dark, and deceptively simple-looking short from German artist Michael Fragstein.

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matthieu chedid + stéphane berla: est ce que c’est ça.

I love the phosphorescent, x-ray, almost 3D quality to the animation in this video, directed by Stéphane Berla, for French singer-songwriter Matthieu Chedid.

Via Antville

charlotte cornaton: vanitas.

I love it when you stumble across something that proves yet again that no matter how often a technique is used, it’s the idea behind it that creates art. Stop motion is anything but new or underused, but with a vision and unique take from Charlotte Cornaton, “Vanitas” becomes an original entity unto itself.

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selfburning: field.

An intense and amazing experimental short from Russian animation and experimental motion team Selfburning.

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jonathan boulet + special problems: community service announcement.

There is nothing to not like about this. A simple but eye-grabbing execution from New Zealand directing collective Special Problems for Jonathan Boulet’s “Community Service Announcement.”

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christian robinson + daria tessler: dinosaur song.

Dinosaurs. Automatic win. A sweet little memory trip animated by Christian Robinson to a poem by Daria Tessler.

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anthony burrill: acid washed.

No words. Should’ve sent a poet. Some vintage-tinged graphic kick ass from U.K. designer Anthony Burrill.

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more soon: tales of the unexpected.

Wow. This is two years old, but I had to post it. Commissioned by Denmark’s Ei’Kon, More Soon’s ‘Tales Of The Unexpected” is simply one of the best pieces of motion design I’ve ever seen. Ever.

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