With brave new worlds and tropical wonderlands, two key trends coming through for Spring/Summer 2014, Patternbank wanted to share the amazing work of Russian graphic artist Tatiana Plakhova. Her complex and mesmerizing digital paintings trace natural floral forms and biological studies in intense mathematic linear state. Check out her portfolio site for a glimpse into her science fiction-like botanical garden complexitygraphic.com
Patternbank discovered these amazing woodblock prints by artist, John Buck, who’s recently been a featured on Pinterest. Buck primarily a sculptor, started his career in the early 1970s and lives and works in Hawaii and Montana. These prints featuring bottled, botanical scenes in vivid colour and pieces in monochrome, showing images of human life and the world have particularly inspired us. Find more of his work at johnbuckart.com
There’s not much we can tell you about Bryan Cook other than he’s an artist from Dallas Texas specialising in surreal digital photo manipulation, graffiti, and abstract art. We love these particular pieces for there reflective, textured and earthy feel that fit perfectly with our Photographic Board on Pinterest. Check out more of his great work on Flickr.
Pushing digital boundaries in computer aided art can be powerful and visually stimulating. Berlin based ZEITGUISED are masters in digital expression and are at the cutting edge of computer based image manipulation. Their portfolio is full of inspirational visual projects but this collection, Sample Sample caught our eye. Here ZEITGUISED explore the micro structures of woven fabric and recreate as amazing digital 3D sculptures. Check out more of their inspirational pieces on their site. Zeituised.com
After visiting the recent Bread & Butter show in Berlin, the Patternbank team saw that photographic prints are still featuring strong for Spring/Summer 2013 graphics. Colourful, surreal prints are still a main focus for many brands for next summer. With this in mind we thought we’d share these imaginary photo collage prints from Beth Hoeckel. Mixing realist and surrealist Hoeckel’s work plays with the juxtaposition between foreground and background objects. Baltimore based Hoeckel is a collage artist and photographer who loves the control of real paper, ink and adhesive.
The Patternbank team cant wait to get their hands on Olaf Hajek’s new book, Black Antoinette. A collection of Hajek’s most recent editorial contracts and commercial portraits. Olaf Hajek, who was born in 1965 in Rendsburg, Germany and is now based in Berlin, is currently one of the worlds most successful and well-known illustrative artists.
If you happen to be in Berlin this week, check out Gestalten Space, which is exhibiting some of the works to celebrate the book launch. July 5-29th
