The 6th Affordable Art Beijing (AAB) fair is officially taking place on May 14-15, 2011 at 798 Space. Founded in 2006, Affordable Art Beijing (AAB) has grown to become one of the most highly anticipated art fairs of the year. Founder, Tom Pattinson, and his team have handpicked over 1,000 works of original Chinese contemporary art, from small prints...
JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. In this TED talk, he makes his ‘TED Prize wish’; to use art to turn the world inside out. This is an incredibly moving and inspiring talk about art, culture and who we...
With typography from Albin Holmqvist, check out these beautiful commercials for EF Language Schools. Directed by Gustav Johansson D.O.P Niklas Johansson Produced at Camp David
Adam Schokora and Sean Leow, NeochaEDGE co-founders NeochaEDGE is both a Shanghai-based creative agency and a bilingual web-magazine dedicated to celebrating Chinese creativity. As an agency, NeochaEDGE represents a wide range of upcoming Chinese creative talent (from various disciplines) under the EDGE Creative Collective. This is cleverly complimented by an web-magazine, which showcases the inspiring content from these young designers,...
Portuguese born graphic designer Renato Pequito began his career with a degree in engineering. Quickly realising his passions laid elsewhere, Renato began a design course. In 2005 he moved to the Welsh capital of Cardiff and in 2008 graduated with a First Class Honours in Design for Media from the University of Glamorgan. After four months of perseverance Renato...
At the end of September 2010 Creative Everyone was launched by Daniel Howells, founder of London based digital agency Kulör, and Mike Sullivan director of Glasgow based design and communication studio Mister. Together they have designed and built Creative Everyone to be “a single, go-to guide to all the most interesting creative-oriented events guide.” Creative Everyone has now established...
British photographer and videographer, Sean Gallagher (who we interviewed in May), was recently awarded a second grant by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The result is a body of work that addresses a quiet crisis taking place in China’s wetlands, which cover some 65 million hectares, ranking first in Asia and representing 10% of the world’s total wetlands....
Georgios Cherouvim was born in Athens in 1981. While doing compulsory national service in the Greek army he discovered the world of computer graphics and analog photography. In 2001 he joined the top UK course for Computer Animation at Bournemouth University. 3 years later, Georgios graduated with a first class degree and an award for the best final year...
‘The ethical issues and paranoia surrounding the laws of photographing children in today’s society are confusing and somewhat farcical. But at what point will the photography of children be completely forbidden?’ This is the question posed by Class Portrait, a collaborative photographic project by Kingston University graduate designers Anna Brooks and Samantha Harvey. Class Portrait was awarded Best in...
Sean Gallagher is a British photographer based in China. He has lived and worked across the world, spending extended periods of time in locations as diverse as Japan, Brazil, New Zealand, the UAE and Europe. His most recent work focuses on social and environmental issues, such as desertification and its effects across China, and has recently been published in...
