Architecture Archives - TettyBetty TettyBetty Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:24:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 This Architecture Has a Passion for Color https://tettybetty.com/this-architecture-has-a-passion-for-color/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:57:00 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=32322 Emmanuelle Moureaux’s approach to architecture and the ways in which space can be divided is very much informed by color. “I want to give emotion through colors,” writes the French architect on her website, “whether it is architecture or an art piece.” Through her work, she hopes people can see, touch, and feel colors, using their […]

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Emmanuelle Moureaux’s approach to architecture and the ways in which space can be divided is very much informed by color. “I want to give emotion through colors,” writes the French architect on her website, “whether it is architecture or an art piece.”

Through her work, she hopes people can see, touch, and feel colors, using their senses. “The overflowing effects of colors in space will show that colors can give more than a space, but a space with additional layers of human emotion,” she explains.

Moureaux’s use of color is unique, treating colors as three-dimensional elements, much like layers, that create and divide spaces, rather than finishing touches applied on surfaces later on.

Her unique approach was inspired by a week-long trip she made to Tokyo as an architectural student, which according to her gave her “the passion for colors.” “It was the flow of staggering colors pervading the street that built a complex depth and density, creating three-dimensional layers in the city of Tokyo,” she writes. “I felt a lot of emotions seeing all these colors, and in that very moment, I decided to move to this city.”

Now based in Tokyo, Moureaux’s architectural designs are based on the layers and colors of Tokyo that provide a complex depth and density, as well as the Japanese traditional spatial elements like sliding screens. She calls this approach “shikiri,” a word that literally means “to divide space using colors.”

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Distort, Exaggerate, and Repeat: Vasco Mourão’s Architectural Experiments https://tettybetty.com/distort-exaggerate-and-repeat-vasco-mouraos-architectural-experiments/ Wed, 29 Jan 2020 07:04:28 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=32095 Having studied and worked as an architect, illustrator Vasco Mourão understands the ins and out of urban environments. His monochromatic illustrations of cityscapes are a testimony to that if nothing else. “Basically, I learned how to design and build through architecture, and now I can distort, exaggerate and repeat all those architectural elements that make […]

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Having studied and worked as an architect, illustrator Vasco Mourão understands the ins and out of urban environments. His monochromatic illustrations of cityscapes are a testimony to that if nothing else. “Basically, I learned how to design and build through architecture, and now I can distort, exaggerate and repeat all those architectural elements that make up a building or a city and rearrange them in my drawings,” he explained in an interview with Form Finding Lab.

But of course, his detailed illustrations are much more than architectural exaggeration. Made using only a pen, his canvases vary between paper, wood, and metal, with his techniques acquired through trial and error. The result is a fascinating exploration of the many ways space is organized. Sometimes disorienting, other times claustrophobic, his art invites you to step inside his endless maze.

Originally from Portugal, and now based in Barcelona, Mourão’s clients include Apple, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. “Probably the hardest thing to figure out for me was to learn to deal with mistakes,” he says. “Being a perfectionist is a curse in disguise because it’s very easy to get lost in an endless loop of do-undo and never get to the end of a piece. That’s why I decide to work on a medium where I can’t erase or undo. With pen and paper, there’s no backdoor.”

It also means he has to be 100 percent focused when working on his illustrations. Take a look for yourself.

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Cinta Vidal Agulló’s Artwork is Seemingly Realistic – Until You Step Inside https://tettybetty.com/cinta-vidal-agullos-artwork-is-seemingly-realistic-until-you-step-inside/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:46:11 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=32152 Barcelona-based artist Cinta Vidal Agulló invites you to step inside her disorienting paintings, but if you manage to step out it’s entirely up to you. Using acrylic on wood panels, her artwork explores the complicated ways in which we navigate through space. These ways aren’t necessarily straight forward, as we’d like to imagine. As such, […]

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Barcelona-based artist Cinta Vidal Agulló invites you to step inside her disorienting paintings, but if you manage to step out it’s entirely up to you. Using acrylic on wood panels, her artwork explores the complicated ways in which we navigate through space. These ways aren’t necessarily straight forward, as we’d like to imagine.

As such, her artworks portray buildings and interiors that seemingly defy gravity – a world in which the ceiling is actually the floor and vice versa. “I want the viewers to recognize what they are seeing, but to see it in a very different, unstructured, broken way,” relayed Vidal Agulló in an interview with Hi-Fructose Magazine.

“With these un-gravity constructions, I want to show that we live in one world, but we live in it in very different ways,” she went on to explain. “Playing with everyday objects and spaces, placed in impossible ways to express that many times, the inner dimension of each one of us does not match the mental structures of those around us.”

These everyday objects and interiors are drawn in a realistic fashion, so as to make them recognizable. In this, supposedly realistic space, the viewer can recognize the paradoxes that prevail are day to day existence. “The architectural spaces and day-to-day objects are part of a metaphor of how difficult it is to fit everything that shapes our daily space: our relationships, work, ambitions, and dreams,” she adds.

Peek inside.

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The Key to Sonal Jadhav’s Digital Art is Composition https://tettybetty.com/the-key-to-sonal-jadhavs-digital-art-is-composition/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 11:22:25 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=32129 3D artist and illustrator, Sonal Jadhav, invites us to step inside her digital landscapes. Born in India and currently based in the Netherlands, her expressed goal is to deliver imagery that surpasses the brief – creating art that is pleasing to the senses, whilst focusing on color and composition. As such, her imagery attracted clients […]

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3D artist and illustrator, Sonal Jadhav, invites us to step inside her digital landscapes. Born in India and currently based in the Netherlands, her expressed goal is to deliver imagery that surpasses the brief – creating art that is pleasing to the senses, whilst focusing on color and composition. As such, her imagery attracted clients around the world, with her illustrations featured in advertising campaigns and editorials alike.

But like all good things, it took Jadhav some time to establish a coherent style and artistic voice. After years of playing around with different aesthetics, she says that she found a passion for creating surreal digital spaces.

“When I am creating an illustration in 3D, I start by collecting a lot of real-life references,” she relayed in an interview with Ballpitmag. Inspired by photography, architecture, modern art and textiles, she’s also a fan of artists like Constantin Brâncuși, Peter Tarka and Cabeza Patata.

“Once I visualize it in my head, I go straight to 3D and build basic shapes,” she explained. “I spend a good amount of time on creating compositions with those basic shapes.” According to Jadhav, composition is key. “At this stage, I prefer lighting my scene as it helps me in composing and see how shapes react to light,” she adds. “Then I get into adding details to those 3D shapes, play with materials and render to bring my imagination to life.”

Here are some highlights from her Instagram page.

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The Ambiguity of Space: Scott Tulay’s Unsettling Drawings https://tettybetty.com/the-ambiguity-of-space-scott-tulays-unsettling-drawings/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 07:29:06 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=31984 Scott Tulay’s abstract architectural drawings aren’t intended to be easy on the eyes. A feeling of unease, of disorientation, or suffocation might awaken in the viewer. “My daughters, who are eight and five, consistently complain that my drawings are ‘too scary,’” admitted Tulay in an interview with Mass Cultural Council. “Once in a while, however, […]

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Scott Tulay’s abstract architectural drawings aren’t intended to be easy on the eyes. A feeling of unease, of disorientation, or suffocation might awaken in the viewer. “My daughters, who are eight and five, consistently complain that my drawings are ‘too scary,’” admitted Tulay in an interview with Mass Cultural Council. “Once in a while, however, I’ll do a drawing, and they’ll tilt their heads to the side and say ‘Not bad, Dad.’ This scares me.”

Inspired by built form, as well as nature, his art is cerates as a way for Tulay to investigate the ambiguity of space. Coming from a background in architecture, this ambiguity intrigues him greatly. “As an architect, I meticulously create drawings to reveal and describe a building’s design and construction,” he writes on his website. “In my art studio, I am able to break from all these conventions and push the gravitational and spatial boundaries of these spaces I imagine.”

Light, or what looks like atmosphere or fog, is engaged in either defining space or dematerializing the landscape or architectural elements depicted in his artwork. This treatment of light, combined with an unclear relationship of the viewer’s place in relation to the ground plane, creates a spatial disconnect with an ambiguity of depth and motion.

Take a closer look.

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Edoardo Tresoldi’s Absent Structures are Nothing Short of Incredible https://tettybetty.com/edoardo-tresoldis-absent-structures-are-nothing-short-of-incredible/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:00:51 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=31844 Cited by Forbes among the 30 most influential European artists under 30, Edoardo Tresoldi isn’t want to shy from making a statement. His awe-inspiring sculptures and installations, meticulously crafted out of wire mesh, take after architecture. The result is ghost-like structures that blend into their surroundings. “I see in wire mesh poetics the depiction of a […]

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Cited by Forbes among the 30 most influential European artists under 30, Edoardo Tresoldi isn’t want to shy from making a statement. His awe-inspiring sculptures and installations, meticulously crafted out of wire mesh, take after architecture. The result is ghost-like structures that blend into their surroundings.

“I see in wire mesh poetics the depiction of a mental projection or, when related to history, the representation of what used to exist but is no longer there,” Tresoldi told Designboom. “Through transparency, I’m also able to keep a direct link with the environment and to establish a new kind of immersive experience for visitors.”

One of his more remarkable installations includes a restoration of the Basilica paleocristiana of Siponto. With this installation, he reimagined the architectural remains of the 13th-century chapel. The result is a unique convergence between contemporary art and archaeology.

“I deeply feel the charm of places and I recognize their expressive potential,” says Tresoldi. “My main interest is the relationship between the different elements of the landscape and how contemporary languages dialogue with each other, building its emotional structure”

Step inside his ghost-like structures.

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S I M B I O S I is the site-specific installation conceived for @artesella sculpture park, the renowned open air museum in Italy’s Trentino Valley. The artwork is a turning point in Tresoldi’s evolution: for the first time, he hybridizes the transparency of the Absent Matter, expressed through the wire mesh, with the materiality of local stones. Entirely open towards the sky and reaching a height of 5 meters, "Simbiosi" composes a space of rest and contemplation, a ruin suspended between architecture, nature and temporal dimension. The artwork seems to challenge the force of gravity, like a body in suspension that levitates between consciousness and unconsciousness, between the material and immaterial world. A living organism, permeable yet intimate: an emotional communication channel with nature. • S I M B I O S I è la nuova opera site-specific per il parco artistico Arte Sella, in Trentino. L’opera si pone come un’opera di svolta nel percorso di Tresoldi che per la prima volta ibrida la trasparenza della Materia Assente, espressa attraverso la rete metallica, con la materialità delle pietre locali. Interamente aperta verso il cielo e alta 5 metri, l’opera compone uno spazio di sosta e contemplazione, una rovina sospesa tra architettura, natura e dimensione temporale. L’installazione sembra sfidare la forza di gravità, come un corpo in sospensione che levita tra coscienza e incoscienza, tra mondo materiale e immateriale. Un organismo vivo, permeabile ma intimo, un canale emotivo di comunicazione con la natura. Ph. @ilcontephotography • • • • #Edoardotresoldi #Artesella #Simbiosi #EdoardoTresoldixArteSella #ArteSella2019 #ArteSellasculpturepark #ruin #architecture #nature #AbsentMatter #mesh #wiremesh #transparency #Contemporaryart #ValdiSella #Trentino #VisitTrentino

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Jacky Cheng is at a Crossroads Between Paper Art and Paper Architecture https://tettybetty.com/jacky-cheng-is-at-a-crossroads-between-paper-art-and-paper-architecture/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 13:16:42 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=31770 Jacky Cheng’s paper cut art is the result of her clever layering techniques – techniques that wholly rely on her background in architecture. Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, she received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, but put architecture on hold in order to pursue her other love: art […]

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Jacky Cheng’s paper cut art is the result of her clever layering techniques – techniques that wholly rely on her background in architecture. Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, she received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, but put architecture on hold in order to pursue her other love: art creating.

Now based in Australia, her work itself revolves around paper, using sometimes a large sheet of paper which she layers inwards, and other times a tiny piece of paper which she works outwards. But most often than not it’s a combination of both – inwards and outwards layering – depending on what the design needs. This technique is sometimes regarded by Cheng as “paper weaving”.

“I often regard the style as a topographic technique, as they really do resemble the natural layers of our environment,” she explained in an interview with Strictly Paper. “The idea of layering became more apparent when I started to draw with my penknife,” she added. This process includes cutting and layering one layer after another, “no drawn plans, no guide, just the knife, paper, and glue.”

Enjoy her work in the gallery below.

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Husband and Wife Create Enamel Pins Inspired by Architecture https://tettybetty.com/husband-and-wife-create-enamel-pins-inspired-by-architecture/ Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:53:00 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=29927 Drop-a-Pin is a brand from Tel Aviv, Israel run by a husband and wife who love architecture. They turn the world’s most famous buildings into miniature enamel pins that can be worn as fashion accessories. Most of the buildings they feature in their work are the ones they got to see and study in person […]

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Drop-a-Pin is a brand from Tel Aviv, Israel run by a husband and wife who love architecture. They turn the world’s most famous buildings into miniature enamel pins that can be worn as fashion accessories. Most of the buildings they feature in their work are the ones they got to see and study in person while they were traveling around the world for five years. 

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“We developed a simple method we learned at the university in a course called Basic Design,” they told This Is Colossal. “The first and only law is to maintain the minimum number of lines necessary so that the building can still be identified. Once the lines in the design could no longer be erased, we reached the destination.”

They’re currently raising funds for this project on Indiegogo, where you can preorder your favorite design and support them. Until now, they gathered more than 10 times the amount they wanted and the orders just keep coming. If you’re a fellow architecture lover or know one, you know where the next gift is coming from.

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Thibaud Herem Draws Buildings Brick by Brick https://tettybetty.com/thibaud-herem-draws-buildings-brick-by-brick/ Fri, 09 Aug 2019 11:50:55 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=28000 Thibaud Herem fine-line illustrations are painstakingly detailed. Working with pencil and Indian inks, the French-born, London-based, illustrator specializes in architectural drawings, created with an incredible level of hand-drawn detail. Origianlly trained to be a graphic designer, it was Herem’s first illustrated book Know Your Rodent, that drove him to further develop his skill. Now working full time […]

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Thibaud Herem fine-line illustrations are painstakingly detailed. Working with pencil and Indian inks, the French-born, London-based, illustrator specializes in architectural drawings, created with an incredible level of hand-drawn detail.

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Origianlly trained to be a graphic designer, it was Herem’s first illustrated book Know Your Rodent, that drove him to further develop his skill. Now working full time as a freelance illustrator, his creations are followed by thousands of fans on Instagram.

“I always wanted to be on the illustration side of things rather than the design side,” he told Uncube Magazine. “I’m very interested in the aesthetic aspect of architecture and I find that graphic design allows me to learn about this through the construction of images of buildings. In this way I learn about the history of buildings too.”

“Drawing a building brick by brick allows me to understand its structure and composition much better,” he went on to explain. “The tiniest details are uncovered and the personality of the building itself is also revealed through this process, which is a very lengthy and slow one. During this, I tend to let my mind roam free and often imagine a building’s construction process, trying to picture how many people worked on it, how long it took, the different type of skills they must have had – and then try to produce a drawing in respect to these thoughts.”

Take a closer look.

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The Crooked Little House in Poland https://tettybetty.com/the-crooked-little-house-in-poland/ Thu, 30 May 2019 06:00:15 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=24881 A building in Sopot, Poland is known for how distorted and unreal it looks. The building called, Krzywy Domek, which translates to the crooked little house, is made up of crooked lines and distorted shapes that remind us of cartoons and also gives us a headache. Interestingly enough, the back of the building looks pretty […]

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A building in Sopot, Poland is known for how distorted and unreal it looks. The building called, Krzywy Domek, which translates to the crooked little house, is made up of crooked lines and distorted shapes that remind us of cartoons and also gives us a headache. Interestingly enough, the back of the building looks pretty ordinary. When you first see the pictures, you’ll have trouble believing it’s even real!

The crooked house is actually an entrance to a building where you can find  a few restaurants and clubs. Needless to say, it’s a tourist attraction and you should check it out if you’re nearby.

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ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Architecture Archives - TettyBetty TettyBetty Tue, 04 Feb 2020 06:24:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 This Architecture Has a Passion for Color https://tettybetty.com/this-architecture-has-a-passion-for-color/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:57:00 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=32322 Emmanuelle Moureaux’s approach to architecture and the ways in which space can be divided is very much informed by color. “I want to give emotion through colors,” writes the French architect on her website, “whether it is architecture or an art piece.” Through her work, she hopes people can see, touch, and feel colors, using their […]

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Emmanuelle Moureaux’s approach to architecture and the ways in which space can be divided is very much informed by color. “I want to give emotion through colors,” writes the French architect on her website, “whether it is architecture or an art piece.”

Through her work, she hopes people can see, touch, and feel colors, using their senses. “The overflowing effects of colors in space will show that colors can give more than a space, but a space with additional layers of human emotion,” she explains.

Moureaux’s use of color is unique, treating colors as three-dimensional elements, much like layers, that create and divide spaces, rather than finishing touches applied on surfaces later on.

Her unique approach was inspired by a week-long trip she made to Tokyo as an architectural student, which according to her gave her “the passion for colors.” “It was the flow of staggering colors pervading the street that built a complex depth and density, creating three-dimensional layers in the city of Tokyo,” she writes. “I felt a lot of emotions seeing all these colors, and in that very moment, I decided to move to this city.”

Now based in Tokyo, Moureaux’s architectural designs are based on the layers and colors of Tokyo that provide a complex depth and density, as well as the Japanese traditional spatial elements like sliding screens. She calls this approach “shikiri,” a word that literally means “to divide space using colors.”

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Distort, Exaggerate, and Repeat: Vasco Mourão’s Architectural Experiments https://tettybetty.com/distort-exaggerate-and-repeat-vasco-mouraos-architectural-experiments/ Wed, 29 Jan 2020 07:04:28 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=32095 Having studied and worked as an architect, illustrator Vasco Mourão understands the ins and out of urban environments. His monochromatic illustrations of cityscapes are a testimony to that if nothing else. “Basically, I learned how to design and build through architecture, and now I can distort, exaggerate and repeat all those architectural elements that make […]

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Having studied and worked as an architect, illustrator Vasco Mourão understands the ins and out of urban environments. His monochromatic illustrations of cityscapes are a testimony to that if nothing else. “Basically, I learned how to design and build through architecture, and now I can distort, exaggerate and repeat all those architectural elements that make up a building or a city and rearrange them in my drawings,” he explained in an interview with Form Finding Lab.

But of course, his detailed illustrations are much more than architectural exaggeration. Made using only a pen, his canvases vary between paper, wood, and metal, with his techniques acquired through trial and error. The result is a fascinating exploration of the many ways space is organized. Sometimes disorienting, other times claustrophobic, his art invites you to step inside his endless maze.

Originally from Portugal, and now based in Barcelona, Mourão’s clients include Apple, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. “Probably the hardest thing to figure out for me was to learn to deal with mistakes,” he says. “Being a perfectionist is a curse in disguise because it’s very easy to get lost in an endless loop of do-undo and never get to the end of a piece. That’s why I decide to work on a medium where I can’t erase or undo. With pen and paper, there’s no backdoor.”

It also means he has to be 100 percent focused when working on his illustrations. Take a look for yourself.

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Cinta Vidal Agulló’s Artwork is Seemingly Realistic – Until You Step Inside https://tettybetty.com/cinta-vidal-agullos-artwork-is-seemingly-realistic-until-you-step-inside/ Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:46:11 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=32152 Barcelona-based artist Cinta Vidal Agulló invites you to step inside her disorienting paintings, but if you manage to step out it’s entirely up to you. Using acrylic on wood panels, her artwork explores the complicated ways in which we navigate through space. These ways aren’t necessarily straight forward, as we’d like to imagine. As such, […]

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Barcelona-based artist Cinta Vidal Agulló invites you to step inside her disorienting paintings, but if you manage to step out it’s entirely up to you. Using acrylic on wood panels, her artwork explores the complicated ways in which we navigate through space. These ways aren’t necessarily straight forward, as we’d like to imagine.

As such, her artworks portray buildings and interiors that seemingly defy gravity – a world in which the ceiling is actually the floor and vice versa. “I want the viewers to recognize what they are seeing, but to see it in a very different, unstructured, broken way,” relayed Vidal Agulló in an interview with Hi-Fructose Magazine.

“With these un-gravity constructions, I want to show that we live in one world, but we live in it in very different ways,” she went on to explain. “Playing with everyday objects and spaces, placed in impossible ways to express that many times, the inner dimension of each one of us does not match the mental structures of those around us.”

These everyday objects and interiors are drawn in a realistic fashion, so as to make them recognizable. In this, supposedly realistic space, the viewer can recognize the paradoxes that prevail are day to day existence. “The architectural spaces and day-to-day objects are part of a metaphor of how difficult it is to fit everything that shapes our daily space: our relationships, work, ambitions, and dreams,” she adds.

Peek inside.

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The Key to Sonal Jadhav’s Digital Art is Composition https://tettybetty.com/the-key-to-sonal-jadhavs-digital-art-is-composition/ Sat, 25 Jan 2020 11:22:25 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=32129 3D artist and illustrator, Sonal Jadhav, invites us to step inside her digital landscapes. Born in India and currently based in the Netherlands, her expressed goal is to deliver imagery that surpasses the brief – creating art that is pleasing to the senses, whilst focusing on color and composition. As such, her imagery attracted clients […]

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3D artist and illustrator, Sonal Jadhav, invites us to step inside her digital landscapes. Born in India and currently based in the Netherlands, her expressed goal is to deliver imagery that surpasses the brief – creating art that is pleasing to the senses, whilst focusing on color and composition. As such, her imagery attracted clients around the world, with her illustrations featured in advertising campaigns and editorials alike.

But like all good things, it took Jadhav some time to establish a coherent style and artistic voice. After years of playing around with different aesthetics, she says that she found a passion for creating surreal digital spaces.

“When I am creating an illustration in 3D, I start by collecting a lot of real-life references,” she relayed in an interview with Ballpitmag. Inspired by photography, architecture, modern art and textiles, she’s also a fan of artists like Constantin Brâncuși, Peter Tarka and Cabeza Patata.

“Once I visualize it in my head, I go straight to 3D and build basic shapes,” she explained. “I spend a good amount of time on creating compositions with those basic shapes.” According to Jadhav, composition is key. “At this stage, I prefer lighting my scene as it helps me in composing and see how shapes react to light,” she adds. “Then I get into adding details to those 3D shapes, play with materials and render to bring my imagination to life.”

Here are some highlights from her Instagram page.

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The Ambiguity of Space: Scott Tulay’s Unsettling Drawings https://tettybetty.com/the-ambiguity-of-space-scott-tulays-unsettling-drawings/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 07:29:06 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=31984 Scott Tulay’s abstract architectural drawings aren’t intended to be easy on the eyes. A feeling of unease, of disorientation, or suffocation might awaken in the viewer. “My daughters, who are eight and five, consistently complain that my drawings are ‘too scary,’” admitted Tulay in an interview with Mass Cultural Council. “Once in a while, however, […]

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Scott Tulay’s abstract architectural drawings aren’t intended to be easy on the eyes. A feeling of unease, of disorientation, or suffocation might awaken in the viewer. “My daughters, who are eight and five, consistently complain that my drawings are ‘too scary,’” admitted Tulay in an interview with Mass Cultural Council. “Once in a while, however, I’ll do a drawing, and they’ll tilt their heads to the side and say ‘Not bad, Dad.’ This scares me.”

Inspired by built form, as well as nature, his art is cerates as a way for Tulay to investigate the ambiguity of space. Coming from a background in architecture, this ambiguity intrigues him greatly. “As an architect, I meticulously create drawings to reveal and describe a building’s design and construction,” he writes on his website. “In my art studio, I am able to break from all these conventions and push the gravitational and spatial boundaries of these spaces I imagine.”

Light, or what looks like atmosphere or fog, is engaged in either defining space or dematerializing the landscape or architectural elements depicted in his artwork. This treatment of light, combined with an unclear relationship of the viewer’s place in relation to the ground plane, creates a spatial disconnect with an ambiguity of depth and motion.

Take a closer look.

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Edoardo Tresoldi’s Absent Structures are Nothing Short of Incredible https://tettybetty.com/edoardo-tresoldis-absent-structures-are-nothing-short-of-incredible/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:00:51 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=31844 Cited by Forbes among the 30 most influential European artists under 30, Edoardo Tresoldi isn’t want to shy from making a statement. His awe-inspiring sculptures and installations, meticulously crafted out of wire mesh, take after architecture. The result is ghost-like structures that blend into their surroundings. “I see in wire mesh poetics the depiction of a […]

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Cited by Forbes among the 30 most influential European artists under 30, Edoardo Tresoldi isn’t want to shy from making a statement. His awe-inspiring sculptures and installations, meticulously crafted out of wire mesh, take after architecture. The result is ghost-like structures that blend into their surroundings.

“I see in wire mesh poetics the depiction of a mental projection or, when related to history, the representation of what used to exist but is no longer there,” Tresoldi told Designboom. “Through transparency, I’m also able to keep a direct link with the environment and to establish a new kind of immersive experience for visitors.”

One of his more remarkable installations includes a restoration of the Basilica paleocristiana of Siponto. With this installation, he reimagined the architectural remains of the 13th-century chapel. The result is a unique convergence between contemporary art and archaeology.

“I deeply feel the charm of places and I recognize their expressive potential,” says Tresoldi. “My main interest is the relationship between the different elements of the landscape and how contemporary languages dialogue with each other, building its emotional structure”

Step inside his ghost-like structures.

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S I M B I O S I is the site-specific installation conceived for @artesella sculpture park, the renowned open air museum in Italy’s Trentino Valley. The artwork is a turning point in Tresoldi’s evolution: for the first time, he hybridizes the transparency of the Absent Matter, expressed through the wire mesh, with the materiality of local stones. Entirely open towards the sky and reaching a height of 5 meters, "Simbiosi" composes a space of rest and contemplation, a ruin suspended between architecture, nature and temporal dimension. The artwork seems to challenge the force of gravity, like a body in suspension that levitates between consciousness and unconsciousness, between the material and immaterial world. A living organism, permeable yet intimate: an emotional communication channel with nature. • S I M B I O S I è la nuova opera site-specific per il parco artistico Arte Sella, in Trentino. L’opera si pone come un’opera di svolta nel percorso di Tresoldi che per la prima volta ibrida la trasparenza della Materia Assente, espressa attraverso la rete metallica, con la materialità delle pietre locali. Interamente aperta verso il cielo e alta 5 metri, l’opera compone uno spazio di sosta e contemplazione, una rovina sospesa tra architettura, natura e dimensione temporale. L’installazione sembra sfidare la forza di gravità, come un corpo in sospensione che levita tra coscienza e incoscienza, tra mondo materiale e immateriale. Un organismo vivo, permeabile ma intimo, un canale emotivo di comunicazione con la natura. Ph. @ilcontephotography • • • • #Edoardotresoldi #Artesella #Simbiosi #EdoardoTresoldixArteSella #ArteSella2019 #ArteSellasculpturepark #ruin #architecture #nature #AbsentMatter #mesh #wiremesh #transparency #Contemporaryart #ValdiSella #Trentino #VisitTrentino

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Jacky Cheng is at a Crossroads Between Paper Art and Paper Architecture https://tettybetty.com/jacky-cheng-is-at-a-crossroads-between-paper-art-and-paper-architecture/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 13:16:42 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=31770 Jacky Cheng’s paper cut art is the result of her clever layering techniques – techniques that wholly rely on her background in architecture. Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, she received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, but put architecture on hold in order to pursue her other love: art […]

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Jacky Cheng’s paper cut art is the result of her clever layering techniques – techniques that wholly rely on her background in architecture. Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, she received her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, but put architecture on hold in order to pursue her other love: art creating.

Now based in Australia, her work itself revolves around paper, using sometimes a large sheet of paper which she layers inwards, and other times a tiny piece of paper which she works outwards. But most often than not it’s a combination of both – inwards and outwards layering – depending on what the design needs. This technique is sometimes regarded by Cheng as “paper weaving”.

“I often regard the style as a topographic technique, as they really do resemble the natural layers of our environment,” she explained in an interview with Strictly Paper. “The idea of layering became more apparent when I started to draw with my penknife,” she added. This process includes cutting and layering one layer after another, “no drawn plans, no guide, just the knife, paper, and glue.”

Enjoy her work in the gallery below.

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Husband and Wife Create Enamel Pins Inspired by Architecture https://tettybetty.com/husband-and-wife-create-enamel-pins-inspired-by-architecture/ Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:53:00 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=29927 Drop-a-Pin is a brand from Tel Aviv, Israel run by a husband and wife who love architecture. They turn the world’s most famous buildings into miniature enamel pins that can be worn as fashion accessories. Most of the buildings they feature in their work are the ones they got to see and study in person […]

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Drop-a-Pin is a brand from Tel Aviv, Israel run by a husband and wife who love architecture. They turn the world’s most famous buildings into miniature enamel pins that can be worn as fashion accessories. Most of the buildings they feature in their work are the ones they got to see and study in person while they were traveling around the world for five years. 

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“We developed a simple method we learned at the university in a course called Basic Design,” they told This Is Colossal. “The first and only law is to maintain the minimum number of lines necessary so that the building can still be identified. Once the lines in the design could no longer be erased, we reached the destination.”

They’re currently raising funds for this project on Indiegogo, where you can preorder your favorite design and support them. Until now, they gathered more than 10 times the amount they wanted and the orders just keep coming. If you’re a fellow architecture lover or know one, you know where the next gift is coming from.

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Thibaud Herem Draws Buildings Brick by Brick https://tettybetty.com/thibaud-herem-draws-buildings-brick-by-brick/ Fri, 09 Aug 2019 11:50:55 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=28000 Thibaud Herem fine-line illustrations are painstakingly detailed. Working with pencil and Indian inks, the French-born, London-based, illustrator specializes in architectural drawings, created with an incredible level of hand-drawn detail. Origianlly trained to be a graphic designer, it was Herem’s first illustrated book Know Your Rodent, that drove him to further develop his skill. Now working full time […]

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Thibaud Herem fine-line illustrations are painstakingly detailed. Working with pencil and Indian inks, the French-born, London-based, illustrator specializes in architectural drawings, created with an incredible level of hand-drawn detail.

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Origianlly trained to be a graphic designer, it was Herem’s first illustrated book Know Your Rodent, that drove him to further develop his skill. Now working full time as a freelance illustrator, his creations are followed by thousands of fans on Instagram.

“I always wanted to be on the illustration side of things rather than the design side,” he told Uncube Magazine. “I’m very interested in the aesthetic aspect of architecture and I find that graphic design allows me to learn about this through the construction of images of buildings. In this way I learn about the history of buildings too.”

“Drawing a building brick by brick allows me to understand its structure and composition much better,” he went on to explain. “The tiniest details are uncovered and the personality of the building itself is also revealed through this process, which is a very lengthy and slow one. During this, I tend to let my mind roam free and often imagine a building’s construction process, trying to picture how many people worked on it, how long it took, the different type of skills they must have had – and then try to produce a drawing in respect to these thoughts.”

Take a closer look.

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The Crooked Little House in Poland https://tettybetty.com/the-crooked-little-house-in-poland/ Thu, 30 May 2019 06:00:15 +0000 https://tettybetty.com/?p=24881 A building in Sopot, Poland is known for how distorted and unreal it looks. The building called, Krzywy Domek, which translates to the crooked little house, is made up of crooked lines and distorted shapes that remind us of cartoons and also gives us a headache. Interestingly enough, the back of the building looks pretty […]

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A building in Sopot, Poland is known for how distorted and unreal it looks. The building called, Krzywy Domek, which translates to the crooked little house, is made up of crooked lines and distorted shapes that remind us of cartoons and also gives us a headache. Interestingly enough, the back of the building looks pretty ordinary. When you first see the pictures, you’ll have trouble believing it’s even real!

The crooked house is actually an entrance to a building where you can find  a few restaurants and clubs. Needless to say, it’s a tourist attraction and you should check it out if you’re nearby.

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