Curate Magazine - The Digital Issue by Curate Magazine

TRADITION? Many designers and artists of the so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Digital Ageâ&#x20AC;? face criticism from those who follow a set of archaic ideals called tradition. Not that those routes to producing creative work are less superior than digital avenues, but we do live in an era where hand-rendered artworks, as appealing as they may be, are not always necessarily the best that exist. Tradition exists for the sole purpose of confining current/upcoming generations in a set of particular ideologies made by people of the past. This, to me, proves tradition to be flawed concept as each new generation has different desires from the last and has different and new ways to facilitate these desires. In Bruce Mauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth, he suggests that as artists we should hybridize tools and use as many different platforms, mediums, techniques, etc. as we can to achieve results. So, whether you use a computer, a pen or both, that should not matter. What should matter the most is that you achieve your targeted goal effectively, on time and to the best of your ability. What should matter is that you used the right tools to achieve the desired results, regardless of whether the tool is by Bic or Wacom. This issue features multiple extremely talented and mostly cross-disciplinary artists who have contributed phenomenal work within the realm of digital art and other fields. From almost all over the globe, this compilation of artworks and artists is a testament to the direction art is taking towards a more open-minded future. This issue offers a new perspective and proof of how far the envelope can be pushed once the idea of tradition is met by evolution and change with open arms. Many, many thanks to each of the artists who contributed to this issue. You continue to inspire and educate everyone viewing this with your astounding talents and willingness to share your work. The Curator

FEATURED aRTISTS

emi haze david belliveau shwedoff yura tony rodriguez rita kazakevica BĂĄrbara bezina guido iafigliola Ä&#x152;rtomir Just

emi haze Monfalcone, Italy

emihaze.com

Graduated from the Institute Design Palladio in Verona with a degree in Graphic Design and Advertising Design, Emi Haze currently works in the north-east of Italy as a self-employed freelance digital artist and illustrator. Art and painting connected through technology have always been his strongest passions and his digital works are a mixture of graphic elements and hand-drawn ink marks, acrylic or watercolour stains. Piles of tree branches, clouds forming hair, faces that melt with air and sky, human silhouettes that arise from expanses of earth and roots; the “ethereal world” in which Emi resides, human body merges with nature or rather with the four elements of fire, air, water and earth, and even with a fifth esoteric element: the Aristotelian ether, that includes all the others, the essence of celestial bodies, eternal and unchangeable in comparison with the earth as a place of change.

The result is the vision of his imaginative world hanging between reality and fantasy, dream and utopia and in which colour and sensitivity have the predominant role. His works have been published on digital arts magazines, specialized websites all over the world and are on sale in many art galleries. Recently he collaborated with the agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco and Adobe to be part of the Photoshop 25th Anniversary special advertising campaign. His artwork “Cosmogony Reloaded” is in a short-film advertisement that was featured during the Academy Award Oscars 2015 ceremony and also used in other media as part of a bigger international campaign.

EMI HAZE MONFALCONE, ITALY

‘NATURAL HEART MOTHER’

EMI HAZE MONFALCONE, ITALY

‘ANOTHER EARTH RELOADED’

EMI HAZE MONFALCONE, ITALY

‘SOUL SYMPHONY’

EMI HAZE MONFALCONE, ITALY

‘COSMOGONY RELOADED’

EMI HAZE MONFALCONE, ITALY

‘MNEMOSINE’

EMI HAZE MONFALCONE, ITALY

‘CRYSTALLINE’

EMI HAZE MONFALCONE, ITALY

‘ZEPHIRUS’

david belliveau MontrĂŠal, Canada

davidbelliveau.com

David Belliveau is a French-Canadian illustrator from Montréal, Canada. After over 10 years working as a graphic designer, he has come to realize that his true passion was illustration. In 2011 he discovered and fell in love with digital drawing and been pushing his own limits since then. David’s work has a look that is uncommon; he uses hard edges and a grungy approach that reminds one of the most iconic comic book illustrations paired with soft pastel colours, creating a subtle textural juxtaposition that is

rarely seen in illustrations. The hand-drawn aspect of his style is evident in his art and it is what adds personality to his pieces and the subjects he portrays. David’s attention to the foreground and background, his arrangement of objects in the picture plane, his subject choices and the approach he uses for each of them are all of the things that make his work so attractive not just to me but the many others who purchase his prints online.