Sebastian Weiss is photo columnist for AD Architectural Digest Germany and passionate about concrete aesthetics and the beauty seen in city shapes.
Superb light and a myriad of elliptical, angled, curvy, triangular architectural shapes soaring or flat.. His keen and artful eye produces a mix of awe and how he dunnit – for us viewers.






I always had a weak spot for bar codes: products – desktops – wrapping – and still do.

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Upon discovered attraction – started designing with these back in early 2000 – we even had a website with these. As you can see – the love lingers in my vintage pixel avatar.

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He has an exceptional eye for composition – like none other. Geometric compositions. Can I say that? The collision of graphic grid meets architecture head-on is generating extraordinary. The results are splendid. Saturated colors.
Who wouldn’t want those ‘turquoise’ on a wall to look at in the dead of Winter as shown in the Spektrum Eins project?
Matthias Heiderich is a self taught photographer and an outstanding one as that – check his folio out. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.





August 4 (14) 09:40 am
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food —
staging
Mittongtare stunning compositions and vibrant food photography. The staging is kept to essential and deliciously appealing as well as the juxtaposition of two different shots – expands a theme.
Mostly shot in his brightly lighted loft equipped with state of the art kitchenware.




A unique photo reportage and inside peek into how ordinary people show their street (or not) smart fashion styles: Hel Looks.

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Project is part of the Best of the Year roster in 2005.

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One of the longest lasting street style project – started in 2005 (in Helsinki) and still going strong! Full archives available.
Notice much changes?

circa 2005
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circa 2014
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Factum: One of the project co-founders – Sampo Karjalainen turns out to be co-founder of the Moves app acquired by Facebook in April / 14. Wow!

July 31 (14) 14:56 pm
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They are in way better shape than I will ever be! Guess that football has got some fontaine de Jouvence included. Funny + refreshing approach for this ad campaign.
Scoring handiwork by Rogerio Miranda!




Andric is a ND alumni whose photographic skills have become non-short of extraordinary. His people + space collections consists mainly of one subject and an incredible background.
Totally awesome immersive poetic landscapes unsaturated hazy faded colors and expansive horizons draw you in.
Lucid dreaming.





Baby you can drive my car.. or in this case – maybe not! A-m-a-z-i-n-g mind boggling 3d photo montages and typography involving four or more wheels vehicles suspended (or not) in mid-air by Chris Labrooy.
How does one ever get the inner vision and imagination to pull something like this?




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I paint abstract with pretty colours ~ I play with mobile apps to create unique generative art.
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Mind-blowing visual feats and original designs I recently discovered.
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They LUV drawing! #3
Illustration is probably the largest creative area to express (mostly without words) a message.

Previously: #1 - #2
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A type of Show #5 – I love typography - these projects caught my eye.
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Moodboards #1 – Branding collaterals staged and served with conceptual brilliance.

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