Monday, November 22, 2010
“Maybe a good description of my work would be a dark, futuristic Dr. Seuss on acid.”
Pixelmack collaborator Daniel Poynton is not your average Photoshop tinkerer, following trends and creating friendly glossy web 2.0 artwork. An up and coming graphic artist living in London, England by way of Brighton, Dan’s art runs the gamut of emotions. From light and whimsical, to dark and malevolent, to somewhere in between the two, Dan’s work forces the viewer to face the dark corners of their psyche.
The artwork is so detailed (some of his pieces contain over 500 individual photoshop layers), that the viewer has to dive into a piece to hunt for previously undiscovered details. Dan’s style is industrial organic, if such a thing is possible – shapes and textures that shouldn’t go together meld seamlessly to create hyper realistic, yet impossible objects that are usually reserved for the most vivid of dreams.
“I try to be as varied as possible,” he says. “I’m drawn to metal structures and just metal in general. I notice the random things that normal people wouldn’t think twice about, I can be on a train and notice a pile of rails leaning against [a] few barrels or something and think to myself “that would look sick in a design” or “I want to turn that into a weird, dark, mechanical robot.”
Dan has worked on several music album covers including Shanghai Dub and Memoirs Of An Afterlife, and has been featured in a double-page spread in Knowledge Magazine. He is currently creating a children’s book featuring a yellow lab’s dream escapades with his best friend, a blue elephant – we’ve already pre-ordered a copy.
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See more of Daniel Poynton’s selected work
Contact Dan to inquire about custom artwork
“Audio Brighton”
“Fury”
“Atheous”
“Night And Day”
“Zion”
“CYX52″
“Katie”
“Proviant Audio”
“Untitled”
Daniel Poynton
Friday, September 17, 2010
Originally from Split, Croatia, Goran Tomcic is a mixed-media artist living in Berlin. We at Pixelmack have had the pleasure of working with this amazing artist, and we love his fresh, inspiring work. Goran is one of those artists whose pieces make you take a step back and reassess your surroundings; Using thousands (even millions) of holographic stickers, he creates a three-dimensional effect that transports the viewer to another world, where even the darkest recesses are filled with light.
Goran creates his masterpieces by painstakingly (he describes it as obsessively) adding layer upon layer until the shimmering effect is so deep that it becomes disorienting, similar to staring down at water as it flows across sand on a beach. Perhaps the most amazing part is Goran’s ability to transform objects ordinarily loved by children (stickers, pom-poms, etc.) into beautiful works of art, whose meanings are so difficult to interpret, that your best plan is perhaps to just give up trying to rationalize and enjoy the feeling.
See more of Goran Tomcic’s work
See past and present installations
Makes you want to dive in…
Goran, installing one million silver heart-shaped sequins…
The final result
“Eternal Embrace;” illuminating life’s darkest hour
Jasper Johns meets the 21st century
“Silver And Red”
“All Things In Life”
“David”
“Dance Macabre”
Mobile made from hanger wire, beaded flowers, silk, shells, buttons,sequins, and found materials
Goran Tomcic