Born and raised in Brescia, Italy, Paola Colombo (known as Pollaz) is a “hands-on” artist and designer who has always been linked to the world of manual skills. She loves fabrics, needle and thread, and for this reason everything that her mind imagines is then translated into creations of all kinds: she experiments with different techniques, loves to use fabric and draw on it with a sewing machine, cut out paper and assemble pieces or draw digitally thinking then how to make the design she creates three-dimensional.
Her brand “Pollaz,” officially established in 2008, now signs accessories, furniture complements and other fabric objects based on her illustrations, as well as papercuts and patterns intended for furniture and commissioned realizations for brands and companies.
The secret of her success? Always being original, dedicated to detail but above all keeping up with the times. Her creations are very varied, ranging in many different products and over time they have changed and evolved. We could say that in a way Pollaz has the ability to transpose all her imagination made of imaginary friends and imaginative worlds into illustrations and works.
“I have always loved filling sheets and notebooks with drawings and doodles looking for the best way to bring my designs to life. The home is a fundamental element in my work, from the drawings that depict it to the products intended to inhabit it. I have a boundless passion for miniatures, tiny little things, minute details but at the same time I am fascinated by simplification, which is why I like to range a lot in my work!”
Collater.al, together with BRILLO Magazine interviewed Pamcoc, asking her to take sides in what is utopically a world in which there always seems to be only two contrasting elements to choose between. This or That?
– Venice Biennale or Vatican Museums? Venice Biennale
– Coca Cola or Pepsi? Coca Cola
– Easy Rider or Fast and Furious? Easy Rider
– Zombie invasion or alien invasion? Zombie invasion
– Phone call or text message? Text message
– Ice cream cone or cup? Cup of course!
– Color inside the edges or outside the edges? Inside the edges
– Free beach or lido? Free beach
– NY or LA? I can’t choose, both
– Gen Z or Millennials? Millennials
– Instagram or TikTok? There are very nice kitten videos on both
– Bates Motel or Overlook Hotel? Both
– Mozart or Metallica? A little of one, a little of the other
-Auction House or crypto art? Auction House
-Win an Oscar or a Grammy? Oscar
– Survive in Squid Game or Hunger Games? None
– Having a doppelganger or a talking dog? A talking dog
– Suv or Spider car? I havn’t license
– A trip with a VolksWagen van or in an all inclusive hotel? Both
– Waking up early or going to bed late? Going to bed late
Testo: Collater.al e BRILLO Magazine
Austrian photographer Ness Rubey‘s shots are concepts that become reality. In fact, Rubey’s creative process differs from that of her colleagues because she reverses what normally happens.
If may perte of photographers start from an idea and try to turn it into an image, into something concrete, Ness Rubey almost always has the final result already clear in her head, the final shot already exists in her imagination, all the work is only to realize it, to be able to share it with the world.
She then finds inspiration in whatever surrounds her, from a city glimpse to a person she crosses at the supermarket. This results in deeply diverse projects ranging from portraits to landscapes to artistic nudes. For Ness Rubey, there are no limits.
Check out Ness’s entire output on her website and Instagram profile.
Looking out of the porthole of an airplane, it is always fascinating to see what the erra looks like from above, with its unexpected geometries and the shapes of lakes, roads and rivers that are hard to imagine from the ground. It is precisely because of this unusual vantage point that aerial photography or photography taken with flying devices is one of the most fascinating, so much so that each year the “Drone Photo Awards” elects the best of the past twelve months in a competition. Once again this year, the best shots captured by drones, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, hot air balloons, blimps, kites and parachutes were voted for by an international jury of photographers and experts.
Tens of thousands of photos participated in the Drone Photo Awards 2022, taken by professional or amateur photographers from a hundred countries, numbers that make the competition the most important worldwide among those dedicated to aerial video and photography. The shots are divided by categories, from nature and animals to sports and abstract photography. It is interesting to see from the award-winning photos the weight of the human figure in the landscape. The order of boats on the Buriganga River in Bangladesh, or skiers competing in the snows of Szklarska Poręba on the Czech-Polish border, show all the beauty and harmony of human activity embedded in nature. Winning the Drone Photo Awards 2022 was “Big Bang,” the shot by Frenchman Armand Sarlangue that shows a fissure opened near the crater of the Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall. A fissure that appears to lead straight to hell.
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It can happen sometimes, especially at the beginning and end of summer, that the warm light of sunset enters our homes and transforms those rooms that we are often bored with and would love to change. Rays ranging from yellow ochre, to deep orange, to fiery red envelop anything they encounter for a few moments before the sun disappears over the horizon. It is precisely in those moments that Magda Nałęcz unleashes her creativity, slinging her camera and capturing those colors and atmospheres.
Magda Nałęcz is a Warsaw-based photographer who is widely followed on Instagram, where more than 75 thousand followers are enraptured by the beauty of her shots every day.
These are images in which dining rooms, bedrooms, living rooms are illuminated by natural light, creating plays of light and shadow. In fact, the latter are the real protagonists of her compositions: feminine and sensual silhouettes are reflected on the walls of the houses.
Elements such as glass, windows and mirrors are all used to best frame the shadows of bodies. Thus, with originality and simplicity, Magda Nałęcz offers us extremely intimate photographs in which it is possible to mirror ourselves because the shadow of that hand caressing the neck of a wine glass could be our own.
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