New Media

(Photo by: Dara Scully, EK Flickr Pool Submission) Welcome, ladies n’ gentlemen, lads n’ lasses… gems n’ germs. The EMPTY KINGDOM Top 100 Artist of 2011 is here!
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Drew Millward is an illustrator from Coventry, UK. Millward prefers his illustration done ‘the old fashioned way’ using primarily pencils and pens rather than taking an exclusively digital route. His subject matter and style ranges from methodically detailed to a sort of psychedelic art nouveau.  His work has been commissioned by clients such as Arctic Monkeys, Nike, Epitaph Records, Disturbia Clothing, Bon Iver, Sonic Youth and Flight of The...
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Becha is an illustrator and graphic designer hailing from Novi Sad, Serbia. I went a little happy with this post…and by happy, I mean putting more images than I usually do. Happy Sunday.
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Michael Schmid is a graphic designer hailing from Germany.
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Current students of Rochester Institute of Technology, Ayaka Ito and Randall Church’s project ‘Cinema Flash Showdown’ creates a series of digital shredded lines. By using HDRI sphere lighting & 3D flash applications they blend their photographic background to achieve the organic finish.
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Mikhail Smolyanov is a designer currently based out of Моscow, Russia who designs awesome concept motorcycles. If I’m to die, I want to die screaming on motorcycle.
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Tim Jarosz is a photographer and graphic designer currently based out of Chicago, Illonios, USA.
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A messenger delivers an unknown mechanical box in The Gift. An intensely strange and slightly mysterious short by Big Lazy Robot VFX.
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Simple dots and circles evoke the complex visual music in Sonar. A 2009 piece by Renaud Hallée of Possible Metrics.
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Brock Lefferts is a graphic designer, photographer, and illustrator based out of Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Ladies and gentlemen ready your hallucinogens…not that EK endorses illegal drug use or would know what that would be like.
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Andy Gilmore (Rochester, NY) is a new media artist that has a detailed range of abstract design work. On his personal blog/website he’s putting up visually retrospective pieces every few days. When you look at his website as a whole, you’ll be amazed with the hundreds of work he’s pumped out within several years.
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Richard Perez is a designer and illustrator originally hailing from Pico Rivera, California, USA. Perez has a really cool retro look and feel in his work that we’re digging. Perez is currently based out of our own very backyard of San Francisco, California.
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Zelig Sounds is a Sound Studio located out of London, UK. They we’re contacted to do sound work and fill out a moving conceptual piece. When finished, the video rendered out engaging concepts with such organic sound designs and score. Zelig and the whole production team ended up creating beauty in poetry through sound...
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The Lost Type is a type foundry that distributes fonts from designers all over the world. 100% of sales goes to the designers. Lost type takes no cut of sales and holds no funds.
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A very special in-depth interview with Cabinodd Director Ella Buzo. Cabinodd’s partnership for 2011 BLOOOM is excited to be the world’s first interdisciplinary presentation platform for artists and art projects in the creative industries. The second edition of BLOOOM will take place from OCT 29 – NOV 1, 2011 // STAATENHAUS AM RHEINPARK, COLOGNE. Check...
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‘The Oracle’ is created by Berlin based firm, MongrelNation. A series of corporate key-visuals for the new website of Fork Unstable Media, a digital agency based in Hamburg, Germany. MongrelNation is a practice for imagery and art direction run by Swiss-Japanese Maiko Gubler.
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BOY OH BOY! The wonderful people at CABINODD (Netherlands) are back at it with another art exhibition with some of our favorite artists (Buddy Nestor, Kirsten Wilmink, Kwon Kyung Yup, Mr. Sauli, and well as Birgitta Sundström Jansdotter and Ludmilla van der Spoel) at the BLOOM ART SHOW from October 29 – November 1,...
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This is the must-download app for any iPad owner. KILLMAG is the first visual interactive art magazine of it’s kind all wrapped up and packaged into an iPad app, and beside it’s functionality and interactive design being totally sick – it’s FREE-ninety-nine! You just have to check out KILLMAG for yourself because I’m not...
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