+...YuLiA BrOdSkAyA...+

Yulia Brodskaya was born in Russia, where she started out as a fine artist produced contemporary office decoration artwork for Moscow based companies while studied for her first degree in Graphic Design.

In 2004, she moved to London, earned her M.A. in Graphic Communication and since then she have been busy with parallel careers as an illustrator and a freelance graphic designer.

1st prize in the Russian Conceptual Packaging Design Competition; in recognition of typographic achievement that she have been elected a Member of the International Society of
Typographic Designers (2006). Her clients include Orange, RedBull, BBH, How2 T-shirts, International Organ Festival, ARMI, Touchnote cards and CUBE magazine.

Image courtesy of Yulia Brodskaya

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+...FLaRe-BeLLe EpOqUe...+

"Flare-Belle Epoque"
Photographer Chris Nicholls

Thanks 2 Foto Decadent

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+...TRiXy PiXiE...+

I love Mariah Kordzadze's works (23 year old) , who is known as Trixy Pixie (Deviant Art). She is Russian but lives in Australia.

Image courtesy of Trixy Pixie

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+...DoNgYuN LeE...+

Barack Obama. The Progressive Magazine, December 2008 issue

Hope

DEUX VERRES, BONJOUR LES EBATS. GQ France, December 2008 Issue

The Sublime Years. Paste Magazine, November 2008 Issue

SOUS LES JUPES DES HOMMES. GQ France, October 2008 Issue

Yellow Camera

After Dongyun Lee has received his BFA in Visual Communication Design, he has worked as a graphic designer for a while in Korea. Then he moved to United States and received his MFA degree in Illustration as Visual Essay at School of Visual Arts. Currently Dongyun Lee lives in New York City and focuses on editorial work and gallery shows.

Image courtesy of Dongyun Lee

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+...ThE LoVe ExPLoSiOn...+

The Fantasy Collection by Jaime Hayon
The most explicit gesture of love is captured in a creation combining fantasy and reality in equal measure. With a spectacular design, this armchair hides and at once reveals a lady who receives the gift of a heart, the most direct sign of love that exists, from The Lover, the central character of the collection.

This piece is also based on a symbolic element in Jaime Hayon’s career, his original chair designed for the Showtime Collection by BD Ediciones de Diseño. It is an excellent example of how, in the creations in The Fantasy, the Lladró world receives the positive cross-contamination of Jaime Hayon.

Thanks 2 Yatzer

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+...HeNRiK HaLvArSsOn...+

Henrik Halvarsson, born 1969, is one of Sweden’s most sought-after fashion, beauty, and portrait photographers.
Henrik’s photography is characterized by unconventional beauty and the desire to render what is simultaneously quirky and attractive. His bold imagery is distinguished by his unexpected use of colors and light. This results in photography that the viewer takes in with all senses.

Today, Henrik divides his time equally between commercial and editorial assignments. Among his advertising clients are Diesel, Nokia, Ikea, JC, NK, Indiska, Volvo, and Kia. Editorial assignments include magazines like Bon, Flaunt, Spruce, Café, Amica, Visionaire, Russian Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Italian Elle.

Henrik has shot a great number of magnificent and timeless portraits. Among others he has photographed Mikael Persbrandt, Victoria Beckham, Thorsten Flinck, Örjan Ramberg, Peter Wahlbeck, Jocke Berg, and Jonas Åkerlund.
He has also collaborated with Åkerlund as a film photographer and filmed iconic videos for The Prodigy and Madonna.

Image courtesy of Henrik Halvarsson
Thanks 2 Lundlund

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+...CoR...+

Project Cor
Scope 480 000 sf
Architecture/Interior finishes by Oppenheim
Date of estimated completion 2011
Location Design Distric, Miami, Florida

Cor is the first sustainable, mixed-use condominium in Miami, it represents a dynamic synergy between architecture, structural engineering and ecology. Rising 400ft above the Design District, Cor extracts power from its environment utilizing the latest advancements in wind turbines, photovoltaic, and solar hot water generation while integrating them into its architectural identity.

A hyper-efficient exoskeleton shell simultaneously provides building structure, thermal mass for insulation, shading for natural cooling, enclosure for terraces, armatures for turbines, and loggias for congregating on the ground. Comprising commercial, office, fitness, live/work, and pure presidential spaces, COR provides a uniquely flexible platform for lifestyle enhancement.

Thanks 2 Design Scene

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+...KaRa WaLkEr...+

Kara Walker (American, born in 1969) is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes that examine the underbelly of America's racial and gender tensions. Her works often address such highly charged themes as power, repression, history, race, and sexuality. Born in Stockton, California, Walker moved to the South at age 13 when her father, artist Larry Walker, accepted a position at Georgia State University and her family relocated to Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta. Focusing on painting and printmaking in college, she received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994.

Walker was included in the 1997 Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Later that year, at the age of 27, she became the youngest recipient of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's "genius" grant, which launched a public controversy around her work. In 2002 she was chosen to represent the United States in the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in the collections of major museums worldwide. The 2007 Walker Art Center–organized exhibition Kara Walker: My Complement, My Oppressor, My Enemy, My Love is the artist's first full-scale U.S. museum survey. Walker currently lives in New York, where she is
a professor of visual arts in the MFA program at Columbia University.

Image courtesy of Artadox

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+...AnDrEy GoRdEeV...+

Talented Russian illustrator Andrey Gordeev takes you
"around the world for twelve months"

Image courtesy of Andrey Gordeev

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+...CoLoUr Of ThE YeAr...+

Kate Winslet in her cobalt Narciso Rodriguez gown

Amy Adams in her deep purple Giambattista Valli gown

Laura Linney in her coral one-shoulder Michael Kors gown

The Best Dressed from Screen Actors Guild Awards 2009

Thanks 2 People

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+...I CaN'T WaiT...+

to see...........A U S T R A L I A ............!!!!
from my favourite director Baz Luhrmann

In northern Australia, at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

Image courtesy of IGN Movies & Australia

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