These are the highly visual mixed media fashion collages by Laguna Beach based graphic designer Carl E. Smith. His original fine art works, realized primarily as collages, convey the beauty, excitement, ruin and rebirth of iconic elements from
The Art Director for Volcom girl’s Emily Hoy contacted us to introduce us to her great collages. Mixing geometric forms and pastel colors with cut-out fashion editorials. Her final visual compositions is very on par with Trendland’s love for mixed-media collages.
We are in LOVE with this editorial for U.S Import by Soulland. Soulland is a Danish brand that emerged in 2002 by Silas Adler. Soulland opened their first store in Copenhagen entitled U.S Import, inspired by the red, white and blue sign that hung over the
In 2008 we covered artist Justine Smith for her innovative money art. After a wave of nostalgia I went back to her site for some visual indulgence and was pleasantly surprised to find a new series of
With the right illustrator, a fashion drawing can commemorate the subtle nuances of a style, develop the essence of a brand, and capture the spirit and spontaneity of a designer in a intimate way unmatched by a photograph. A look into the Trendland fashion illustration archives says as much without words. For all of those [...]
Amazing! I love discovering talented collage artists! This is the work of 20 years old Russian Jenya Vyguzov, there is no information about him online, but I guess his collages speaks for themselves.
These very beautiful and fashionable mixed media illustrations are the work of German/Japanese artist Niky Roehreke. It is not the first time we review her work and we like it so much that we wanted to show you her latest illustrations. You should also watch her great video interview below.
I just discovered the work of Swedish illustrator/paper artist Hanna Albrektson, and I must say that I really enjoyed looking through her portfolio. Especially striking are her beautiful drawings over photographs and her shoes and bags made from paper. She is very talented and technical and is always open to receiving new types of assignments. [...]
As you might know by now, we are very fond of mixed-media collages and consider it as a very skillful Art of its own. These carefully composed works take extensive research. They mix illustrations and vintage imagery with creative backgrounds to tell a whole new story. The work of Polish graphic designer Franz Falckenhaus illustrates [...]
These are some great handmade mixed media collages by British artist Joe Webb. His collage work uses the basic rule of sourcing just two or three images. Then Webb presents them as a reinvented single image with the objective of communicating a new message or idea. He started making these simple handmade collages as a
I am really feeling the vibe of these abstract collages by Malin Gabriella Nordin. The concept of mixing texture, color and shape in this way is a great formula for mood boarding. It leaves a nice window for a designers interpretation while also initiating a strong direction.
Marine Hugonnier‘s newspaper color-blocking covers were another great discovery from Art Basel. The French artist, who lives in London created most of her cutouts from Ellsworth Kelly’s book “Line Form Color” for “Art for Modern Architecture”, her ongoing project since 2004 in which she investigates the role of the image by pasting color-block collages on the newspaper front page [...]