Otto Baum (b. 1979, East Berlin) studied textile and surface design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, and now lives and works in Berlin.

He is currently creating stunning videos of himself making murals, usually large format, geometric and monochromatic while testing his latest OttoTools. OttoTools are his investigation of trying out various everyday tools for large-format painting mediums. He usually uses wooden slats, a few brushes, and screws and combines them into a new painting tool.

 

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Hand lettering and abstract painting

Otto holds multiple accounts for his art practice, ranging from prints to objects to murals and letterforms. He calls a project of much of his hand lettering work “Wallphabets,” a hybrid of alphabets written directly onto walls. For him, it’s about the craft itself, the shape of the letters, and transferring them analogously to the wall, so he practices his skills with the brush to draw these beautiful writings by hand.

Baum is fascinated by simple forms, the feel, and the structure of materials such as wood and paper. He is interested in how unpredictable analog printing techniques such as linocuts or monotypes can be.

 

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KLUB7 Collective

Otto Baum has been part of the KLUB7 since 2004, an art collective of visual artists based in Berlin and Halle, Germany. Their focus is on producing large-format murals and site-specific performances in public spaces. As KLUB7, they have all gained excellent visibility and experience from different backgrounds in the arts over the years.

KLUB7 uses graphic, pictorial, abstract, and figurative works between fine and applied art. They have shown their work at international exhibitions and are involved in interdisciplinary projects. Through synthesizing their styles, they have developed a group style that is both playful and handcrafted. Go here to discover more. https://klub7.de/

Old Yellow Creative Studio

Defined as his ‘main job’ in his link bio on the Instagram profile, Otto is proudly part of a Berlin-based creative studio founded in 2014. Old Yellow works at the intersection between art and design for clients, agencies, architects, and interior designers to create inspirational objects or spaces. Old Yellow ranges from art consulting or small designs to extensive concepts comprising all kinds of artistic media. 

Go here to learn more. https://oldyellow.de/

Otto Baum NFTs on OpenSea

Discover Otto Baums’ recent NFT collection on OpenSea.

He says on his OpenSea profile page: 

My focus is on the analog process. This means producing specific sequences with a rigid drawing tool to create large-scale shapes and patterns that I can then adorn ornamentally. 

Go here to discover more. https://opensea.io/collection/ottobaum-collection

LINKS:

https://www.instagram.com/ottobaumart/

https://oldyellow.de/ – https://www.instagram.com/oldyellowberlin/

https://www.instagram.com/otto_baum/

https://www.instagram.com/ottobaumshop/

https://klub7.de/

https://artists.klub7.de/ottobaum/

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Amrit Pal Singh is a visual artist, 3D illustrator, and art director. He revels in play, world cinema, and the occasional side of fries. He is known for whimsical, diversity-driven designs, illustrations, and NFTs.

For over a decade, he collaborated with domestic and international clients to create mobile apps, picture books, digital toys, and more. 

Amrit Pal Singh became famous in February 2021 when he minted his first NFT – Frida Toy Face – which sold for 3.9 ETH. Since then, he has evoked nostalgia worldwide with his collection of Toy Faces & Toy Rooms, resulting in over 94 NFTs and 384+ ETH in direct sales.

Talking About Toy Face

“As a visual artist,” he says, “my primary goal is to create artwork that connects with people on an emotional level. My chosen medium for achieving this is Toy Faces, a collection of portraits reminiscent of childhood toys that evoke nostalgia and comfort.”

Each Toy Face captures the subject’s unique features, personality, and spirit. Amrit pays special attention to the colors and patterns on each portrait, using them to enhance the toy-like aesthetic.

 

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Artist Statement

He continues: “My inspiration for Toy Faces comes from my love of toys and the memories they bring. Toys have a unique ability to transport us back to when life was simpler and full of wonder. With each Toy Face, I aim to tap into that sense of childlike curiosity and create a connection between the viewer and the subject.

Toy Face is a reminder of the power of simplicity in a world that can sometimes feel overwhelming and chaotic. I hope Toy Face brings the viewer comfort and joy, reminding us that there is always room for playfulness in our lives.”

 

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THE ADVENTURES OF ✦ THE TOY MAKER

After four years of making Toy Faces, I am excited to welcome you to the next chapter, The Adventures of The Toy Maker. It is a tale of a whimsical journey that unfolds with each artwork. FOLLOW THE JOURNEY >

 

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Toy Faces Library

Toy Faces is a fun, diverse library of 3D avatars for your design mockups and commercial use. DOWNLOAD NOW >

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UART MEDIA FEST is organized by the Gulliver multifunctional complex, which has the largest facade screens in Europe, in cooperation with the international company MEET FUTURE.

Motion designers, 3D visual, and light designers are invited to participate in the international multimedia contest and festival UART MEDIA FEST 2024. Contestants may win grants to develop their projects and have an opportunity to showcase their videos on the largest facade screens in Europe for thousands of festival visitors. The participants may compete in two areas: tech-heavy media art and digital & crypto-art.

Why Participate to the UART MEDIA FEST

The festival will take place on the 5th of October, 2024 in the heart of Kyiv, Ukraine. The works of talented motion designers from all over the world will be showcased to thousands of visitors on the large facade screens. The final screening of the participants’ works on the screens of the Gulliver multifunctional complex will take place on the 5th of October, 2024.

The winners, who will be determined by eminent industry representatives, will receive grants for the further development of their projects. The two winners of the UART MEDIA FEST competition will receive an award of $3000 for the best video and $1000 for NFT and the opportunity to cooperate with MEET FUTURE, i.e. the opportunity to present their work on the largest international media platforms.

Creative studios or individual designers can submit their video works that were created before or create content specifically for the festival. The topic of the second UART MEDIA FEST is “The Universe in Everyone”. For more information about participation and conditions, follow the link.

Gulliver shopping mall always strives to be at the forefront of cultural and social events. We are pleased to organize such an innovative festival, which confirms our status as a leading cultural center of the capital. Together with our partners MEET FUTURE, we continue to write the creative history of the country together, telling about our endless possibilities. Kateryna Zhurakivska, Marketing Director of the Gulliver shopping mall, comments. MEET FUTURE, the international company, the expert and trendsetter in innovative technologies and events, has become the organizational and executive partner of UART MEDIA FEST. The festival will be part of the big birthday celebration of the Gulliver shopping center, which celebrates 11 years in October. The event will combine traditional art and digital installations of the future, united by the topic of artificial intelligence.

UART MEDIA FEST was the first event of this scale in Ukraine, which took place in October 2023 in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Gulliver shopping mall. The festival attracted both national and international audiences: 22 artists from different countries took part in the contest, and their works were seen by 1000 festival visitors offline and 4000 viewers during online translation. All works were distinguished by their unique style and concept, but were united by the theme “The Light in Everyone”. This event became the starting point for a new format of cultural events in the country, combining contemporary art and digital tools of the future.

UART MEDIA FEST has won the 14th edition of the Eventex Awards 2024, the world’s most prestigious marketing award.

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Bang Sang-ho is a (digital) illustrator artist from Seoul, South Korea. His work is mesmerizing both visually and mentally for his unique, elaborate, yet remarkable style. Bang’s layouts have so many things going on that they might seem animated at first glance. By staring at Bang Sang-ho’s images, one is slowly driven into a designated colorful and fantastical world, amazed by the number of surprises he prepared for the viewer. Hidden in his dynamic and multicolor aesthetic lies Bang’s acuity towards his feelings, sophisticated imagination, and aesthetics.

 

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Digital Painting

Painting is an emotional medium for Bang, employed whenever he feels happy or depressed. He draws more often when he wants to escape daily strain or distracting thoughts. The organic form and psychedelic colors reflect the best representation of Bang’s unconscious feelings.

Bang produces everything manually when it comes to personal work by transferring all the random images that pass through his head onto paper. He usually creates his artwork using digital tools, but he will never deny the pencil stroke. Bang values manual sketching and will always consider this his first creative action. After the sketch satisfies his ideas, he will finalize it digitally and then paint it. Recently, I’ve felt uncomfortable with digital work’s textures and expressions. Thus, I have been creating digital work and works by hand, such as acrylic paintings, at the same time. 

 

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Discover Bang’s latest NFT collections on SuperRare >

Click here to follow Bang Sang-Ho on Instagram, or go to his website here >

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Juan García Segura (Murcia, Spain- b. 1980) is a director and 3D motion graphic designer. He moved to Berlin in 2012 where he lives with his wife and children.

After receiving his degree in Audiovisual Communication in 2006, he spent a few years as a lead motion designer in a local tv station. He then moved to Munich in 2008 to work with several 3D motion design studios.

In 2012, he relocates to Berlin. There he works for animation and filmmaking production studios like Sehsucht, Storz & Escherisch, Optix Digital, and OM Studios. 

Juan focuses on translating design-driven photorealistic 3D animations into Commercials, Broadcast Design, Events Visuals, Product Visualization, and Titles Sequences.

As a matter of fact, Segura directed the on-air redesign of Spanish channels NEOX and Xplora. He also collaborated extensively in the broadcast design of german and international tv channels.

Current Projects

Juan currently works directly with clients of high caliber. Some of these include the mobile bank N26, the payment technology company Sumup, the curated network of professionals, and creators Factory Berlin.

He is available for commissions. To contact him, go here. 

NFT Project: States of Matter

“This is the first NFT minted from my ongoing series States of Matter.

You see a digital smoke simulation in a morphing glass cast generated through particles advection. This process takes several days of computer calculation: over a hundred hours and 12 million particles were necessary to create the 206 images that compose this animation.

Years of refining the technical part of this process allow me to pay special attention to shapes, color palettes, and illumination.”

NFTs at Foundation

NFTs at Makersplace

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Charlie (Charlotte) Moon began refining her craft in digital image editing and vector graphics software from a young age and later studied fashion design in Amsterdam, keeping her love for digital art alive. 

Alongside her art, Charlie Moon founded an international business focused on social media and content creation. Using her skills in storytelling and digital platforms, she helps businesses and individuals create engaging content that connects with people worldwide.​

Hello Charlie. When or how have you understood you wanted to become an artist?

I was born for this.

Can you briefly tell us about your technique and what drives you to make art?

I’m hypersensitive to shapes and colors. When I’m experiencing an emotion and close my eyes, I see shapes and colors related to the emotion. Sometimes I paint, sometimes I draw digitally, sometimes I prompt. Technique rooms in being intuitive. I am addicted to colors and shapes as I can go hard on them!

What is the main feature that has changed in your works or practice throughout the years?

I went from traditional painting to digital drawing and now I am into prompting. I LOVE technology and its developments!

Which artist primarily inspires your work? And is there something else, outside visual arts, that keeps you motivated?

I never get inspired by other artists. I get motivated by femininity, animals, and nature. And the power within humans. Mama-earth is my source. It sounds like a clichè, but it’s true.

How would you like people to engage with your work?

I want to offer people the same feeling I get from shapes and colors. It’s dopamine!

Spread the word! Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?

I will sell NFTs via Foundation soon and start presenting my work in the first-ever virtual museum in the Metaverse.

Follow Moon on Instagram or go here to visit Charlie Moon’s website.

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KAFT is a design brand that tells stories in wearable forms. It is now launching the second edition of the Hybrid Minds project, built on the representations of artwork in both physical and digital universes. 

The limited-edition t-shirt design represents the physical universe of the project, and the single-edition NFT form of the artwork represents the digital ecosystem.

You can check out the one-edition NFT and 100 limited edition t-shirt designs of Crimson Fumes here.

KAFT and The Hybrid Minds project

The Hybrid Minds project continues to grow and evolve as a new artist participates each month. 

KAFT’s trademark is about designs with stories behind and collaboration with many great artists worldwide, such as Cinta Vidal, Monassi, and Seungyea Park. KAFT has reached 85 different countries so far.

The Hybrid Minds project swiftly found its collector in the NFT ecosystem with its first edition and keeps on evolving with the participation of artists all over the world. The project’s new collaboration, “Crimson Fumes,” is about the story of a character coming from the fantasy worlds created by Reza Afshar.

For its first collaboration in the NFT universe, KAFT combines the brand culture and the creative process in the digital and physical world. 

NFTs emerged in parallel with the digital evolution and have recently been used by many artists worldwide to present their works. It represents the existence of artworks in the digital universe while also creating a unique, original signature for the owner.

“A collaboration in a physical and digital universe”

The limited-edition t-shirt design represents the physical universe of the project. The single-edition NFT form of the artwork represents the digital ecosystem.

The first collaboration of this project is “Wired Again,” prepared by Oscar Llorens. The famous artist reinterpreted the Wired illustration he made for KAFT for the Hybrid Minds project.

KAFT Culture

KAFT is a design brand founded on two values: creativity and care. It appeals to people in pursuit of beauty: to art-lovers who don’t shape their preferences by popular culture. A platform full of art and unique ideas based on underground culture, and full of art events and projects for all disciplines.

To view all the designers participating in KAFT, go here. 

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There are many NFT Artists of 2023 to mention, but as the year is ending, fellows of the NFT space look forward to a vast assortment of unique art from some of Web3’s most noteworthy creators.

The following is a selection of NFT artists we believe caused an impact in 2023.

These NFT Artists of 2023 are creators from disparate sectors of the NFT market to help readers diversify their social feeds over the next year, and each is a creator of culture that deserves to be recognized.

Cath Simard

Cath Simard is a Canadian-born photographer, digital artist and a central figure in the NFT community. One of the most prominent artists in NFT photography, she’s now almost entirely focused on NFTs.

Simard blends reality and imagination in her landscape composites. Collectors instantly recognize her aesthetic – surreal, cold, blue, mountain nights. Her innovative style and willingness to take bold risks are a result of her desire to be unique. 

A self-professed introvert, Cath feels she produces her best work when she’s alone in the mountains.

To create a single image, she’s walked as much as 250 kilometers, trekked 18 days in the mountains and shot at an elevation as high as 5,900 meters. Due to her lengthy creative process, Cath only creates and releases 5-7 images a year.

She created the world’s first image to have its rights released after its 1/1 NFT sale on the blockchain: #freehawaiiphoto. As one of the top NFT artists in the world, Simard has continued to advocate for fair compensation and recognition for artists while also using her imaginative composite images to raise environmental awareness. Having been auctioned off by both Sotheby’s and Christie’s in 2022, she is surely poised to continue her admirable mission over the next year.

 

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Daniel Isles (Dirty Robot)

Daniel Isles is a UK born illustrator based in Hokkaido, Japan. His preferred tools are pencil and ink, which allow him to create clean lines in a unique style.

He is deeply inspired by eastern and western cultures, that he combines to great effect to create highly original pieces. The focus of his work often depicts characters wearing interestingly-cool attire in moments of time. There is also a sense of spirituality about them and the world they inhabit.

He continues achieving sizeable sales throughout the entire year with his own 1/1s, making him a definite one to follow in 2023.

 

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Emonee LaRussa

Emonee LaRussa, a 27-year-old digital artist from Sacramento, California, made visuals for Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign, and the Internet. Today, her colorful, psychedelic animations are part of the GRAMMYS x OneOf NFT partnership.

You might recognize her from her YouTube channel, her Emmy Award-winning animation, or the excellent tutorial she did for some online MoGraph school. Emonee is also the founder and CEO of Pamanama Studios LLC., an animation studio specializing in music visuals by diverse digital artists, specifically artists of color.

 

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Grant Yun

Grant Yun is a man of many hats.

Despite being a medical student by day and a break dancer by night, the Milwaukee resident has managed to make his mark on the digital art market with six-figure sales and auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. His Neo-Precisionist artwork frequently explores landscapes and scenery native to the Midwest and has become instantly recognizable in the NFT space.

In 2022, Grant Yun emerged as somewhat of a poster child for fine art NFTs. While he insists that his entrance into the NFT space was somewhat of a leap of faith, his Neo-Precisionist style continues to stand out in the now PFP-saturated NFT market. 

 

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Markus Magnusson

In the same vein as Bad Robot, the 2022 PFP market would’ve been nothing without digital artist and animator Markus Magnusson. Known professionally as Motion Markus, his slick, clean animation style has garnered hundreds of thousands of fans across social media. Although his 1/1s consistently fetch a pretty penny, Magnusson is best known in the NFT space as the creator of the popular large-scale generative avatar collection Invisible Friends. With his new project Garbage Friends on the horizon, his sway within the PFP NFT market has only seemed to increase, prompting countless imitators to follow in his footsteps.

 

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Join crypto art enthusiasts in Amsterdam for an exclusive ETHDam side event dedicated to digital art and collectibles lovers.

Cryptorefills, in the st-Art studio, proposes an amazing event dedicated to all the members, with lovely surprises and amazing art displayed by st-Art artists.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to be a part of the vibrant digital art scene in Amsterdam. Reserve your spot today!

About the organizers

st-Art is a platform created by and for artists. It was born out of a need to support artists world wide, by developing them and offering them a chance to display their works and to tell their story. They feel that art should be accessible to all and free from boundaries related to business. Indeed, their core business are workshops (painting, sculpturing, ceramics, digital art).

CryptoRefills allows you to buy mobile top-ups, gift cards, e-gifts, and vouchers with Ethereum, Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies on the most important L1s and L2s.

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Event Highlights

• 6:15 PM – Meet web3 enthusiasts during an aperitif accompanied by drinks and a buffet

• 6:45 PM – St-Art event introduction
• 6:50 PM – Cryptorefills talk about Atomicrails and how it impacts the NFT market

Location

St-Art Studio: Kinkerstraat 2 – 1053 LV Amsterdam

This art gallery is just 5 minutes from the city center and a 30-minute bus ride (or 15 minutes by bike) from the ETHDam conference venue.

Special Gift

All participants will receive a special gift from Cryptorefills; find out everything about it at the launch of Atomicrails!

Whoever buys an artwork from the exhibited collection in the St-Art studio will receive the corresponding NFT as a gift.

See you there!

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Catello Gragnaniello, aka Catelloo, is a 3D and NFT artist from Naples, Italy. A student of the Naples’ Academy of Fine Arts, Gragnaniello grew up during the rising years of the internet and the evolution of computer and tech art tools. With time, his passion for science-fiction and technology merged with his home city’s unique view of art and lifestyle. 

 

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Creative Investigations

His art investigates the most powerful human feelings, such as love and loss. Catello’s characters are usually faceless, a choice to show how an individual’s look cannot tell a story as much as lighting, posture, shape, and color. This way, his humanoid figures may look like models for a tech-digital experiment. Indeed, a permanent leitmotiv of his works relies upon the question: How human are we? 

By examining topics of this depth, Catello represents both the utopic and the dystopic perception, leaving the viewer free of interpretation. His art is an aesthetic manifestation of human feelings, moved by the day-to-day of his life; that might be a chat or a melody, always something that prompts him, and, through this articulation of the non-human, we get to see the human. His humanoids live in an ethereal space with no time to highlight his dilemma of belonging or not to this world. 

Catelloo’s drops are on SuperRare.

 

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