At the end of their first year they discovered that their design approach worked well together while helping each other in separate projects, and from then on they have been collaborating with a common focus on using contemporary and digital techniques combined with a variety of different creative outputs.

They have recently launched the duo name “twomuch“ and their new website.

“We bounce ideas off each other and aren’t afraid to challenge each other’s work which I think is important. If we don’t like something the other has made we don’t dance around trying to find a nice way to tell them,” says Ben. Their portfolio incorporates sophisticated motion graphics and a surprisingly wide range of skills for designers so early in their career. They indeed enhance the importance of a good collaboration, to balance each other’s weaknesses and strengths so to deepen the final creative result as a duo.

What their work highlight is a clear and natural ability to turn very simple ideas into intriguing visuals. We only have to wait for what’s next, for them to finish their studies and to evolve into the professional world and to create “twomuch” other amazing artworks.

Meantime you may discover more about Ben Chan & Malone Chen also on their Instagram page.

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Japanese Kota Yamaji has grown up in Tokyo. He majored in graphic design and digital art at Tokyo’s Art University and has always been manga and animation passionate. For this, his style became what he defines as surreal pop art.

Recently, Kota created a series of Pop Art 3D digital illustrations, produced using Maxon cinema and 4d Pixologic Zbrush, which is influenced by Tokyo’s neon lights.

THE WORKFLOW OF KOTA YAMAJI

Kota chooses bright and bold colors to depict his truly surreal subjects. He surprises boys with lime faces, cube or tree faces, and human beings portrayed as mad, with fake teeth and unusual outfits.

Polka dots are a running theme used to depict the Japanese culture. Objects of everyday Japanese life are everywhere, such as Kimonos and typical paper-made umbrellas. Kota’s inspiration resides in Renè Magritte’s and Salvador Dalì’s surrealist approach to art. 

Their procedure leads both to chaos and to a vision of concrete beauty and of the surrounding world.

Kota also plays with graphic shapes and colors inspired by Japan’s tradition, such as the bright pink of the blossomed trees or the rising sun’s yellow.

FUTURE PROJECTS

For Kota Yamaji, the future focuses on gaining inspiration from contemporary Japanese fashion art and music. The international scene also interests him, and he looks forward to working with people worldwide.

To discover more about him, go here.

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As a kid, Thomas has always opted for paper and crayons rather than computer games and has always been fascinated by the magic of creating something totally new out of a blank sheet of paper. Years after, he studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and The School of Design in Copenhagen.

He currently lives in Berlin, where his workplace is also a big collection of books and sketches, a space where he works by himself and gets inspired by daily events and the whole world wide web. Thomas is always working on creating playful and experimental artworks besides he always looks out for different materials and new drawing techniques as he gets easily bored with conventional typography. His works though often start from a black and white approach, as he strongly thinks that “… if it will work in black and white it will also work in colors”. He believes all colors are great, they just need to be combined in the right way.

One of the best pieces of advice he earned was from one of his academic teachers Charlie Meaker who challenged him to think differently and to break the norm, quoting the phrase: “Break the rules and give em’ hell!”. This is still the most valuable starting point of all Thomas’s works.

To view more about him, go here.

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