http://davybraun.com/nihon

Here it is: http://3ddm.yoz.sk/

Great work Yoz!

-K- is a close friend of mine. She’s in her early 20s, and she’s not a designer. But she’s one of the most creative force I’ve encountered in recent years (though she seems to be unaware of it). One thing I love to do with her is chatting while she’s drawing random stuff on sheets of paper. What I do afterwards is I carefully gather her basquiatesque artworks and start studying them carefully.

The following picture, cropped and highlighted from a much larger canvas of feminine, nervous, energetic and original imagery, is an example of the vast array of things that K does.

I’m seeing a bag here.
When she drew the shape, I quickly mentioned this.
She didn’t deny and went with the flow, spitting quick ideas as they came by before drawing something else and changing subject… new subject being more or less related to koi carp tattoos.

I later tried to re-work on designs based on this – a moment captured – with results leaving me more or less satisfied.
Being unable to get to the purity of this raw creativity, I can only try to approach it on tiptoe.

Click here to see the image gallery of the bag with explained details.

Oh…. yeah I know. I fucked up my newsletter (like, messed up the title and stuff). So don’t mention it.

-K-, thank you so much.

All of you, take care.

-Davy

Hover with your mouse cursor on the image/movie below.

I intended to use it subtly on some art piece I’ll start working on by the end of August.

For non-coders and non 3D-savvy, you may stop reading here.
It’s a displacement mapping done with a Pixel Bender shader. I had been working on a similar displace effect myself (with pure Actionscript – I have no knowledge of Pixel Bender) on my spare time for the last two months with no results whatsoever. So this comes very handy.

-Davy

I have also met up with friends and this is always enjoyable, especially when pretty much unexpected. I’m flowing with ideas and although it’s not always easy to find some time, I’ll keep on posting new works and concepts, as much as I can. You can find my latest works here and here.

- Davy

On these booties the same LEDs installment would look too weird (at least in my opinion) and too cumbersome, altering the overall shape of the shoe. I opted for a calf leather set of graphic elements cut and glued together on the varnished leather skin of the shoe, while the LEDs chains are to be found within the sole. The batteries are stuck inside the bottom part of the heel, and the electric circuitry transits from the heel to the front of the shoe via this extra “bridge” between the two.

- Davy

Varnished leather skin with matte plastic toe-cap and scales glued on the side. Fluorescent typographic print on the back. Round holes on the scales to place red LED lights in, and slightly convex plexiglas buttons on top of them so that the lights spread and diffuse evenly as a halo. Electronic circuitry hidden between the skin and scales: wires join at the sole where another LED light resides, near a pair of button cells (wrist watch batteries). Lights up on footstep, like an old school LA Gear Light Up.

More next week.
- Davy

I’m sorry I have not posted in a while. Work, many, many things to prepare.
But don’t worry, I’ll be posting new works soon.

Take care,

-Davy