When the “Hex Kite” by Wind Architecture Studio takes flight, it looks like an alien is making contact with Earth. But we assure you it’s not an extraterrestrial—it’s one of the past winners of the A’ Design Award! The lightweight creation won big in the “Arts, Crafts and Ready-Made Design” category last year. Now it’s […]
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Inside the 15th Annual Art Tattoo Montreal Show
Scene360 recently had the pleasure of attending the Art Tattoo Montreal Show, a massive tattoo convention held at the beautiful and historic Gare Winsdor near the city’s downtown core. Now in its 15th year, Art Tattoo showed no signs of stopping, bringing together artists from all over the world to share and create their art […]
Call For Entries Open for the 2018 A’ Design Awards
When the quirky pasta packaging by Nikita Konkin made its debut last year (see below), the designs quickly went viral. Using strands and shapes of the dry noodles, they doubled as “hair” for the women printed on the boxes. It’s a simple but ingenious idea—no wonder it was one of the winners in the A’ […]
Inside the 27th Berlin Tattoo Convention
The Berlin Tattoo Convention is known as the oldest tattoo convention in Europe. It isn’t about being the most popular—although 27 years of their existence has its obvious merit, it doesn’t require forced promotion—the event is best known for having character and being one of the more alternative venues out there. With such a diversity […]
A’ Design Awards: Roundup of Winning Projects From Past Years
How do you view the world? What can you say with your unique visual language? The international A’ Design Awards and Competition is the chance to express yourself by showing off your best work. While this could be a serious message, the competition also welcomes clever fun. Designer Duncan Shotton for instance, was inspired by […]
Scene360’s Tattoo Convention Tour of 2017
There’s nothing like experiencing creativity first hand. For many years, we have covered the film festival circuits and spoke with renowned directors and artists at Cannes, SXSW, the London Film Festival, and more. Now, we’re expanding our in-person coverage—and complementing our specialization in tattoo art—to feature tattoo conventions around the world. Our reporting of these […]
Inside the 1st International Setubal Tattoo Show
It was an unusually windy and cold weekend in June at the first-ever “Setubal Tattoo Show,” held at the Sado Hotel in Setubal—a city that is only a 30-minute drive from the capital of Portugal. But nothing stopped the 90 confirmed artists from traveling to the venue; the majority were Portuguese, well-known photorealists Mauro Amaral […]
UltraWide Monitors Leading the Future of Creative Thinking
The digital nomad might be en vogue—after all, what’s more enticing than traveling the world with your laptop? But, this romantic idea comes with one big drawback. You’re probably working on a small screen. And whether you realize it or not, you’re less productive because of it. With a 13 or even a 15-inch laptop, […]
Announcing the Winners of the 2017 A’ Design Awards
It’s that time of year that we always look forward to—the A’ Design Award and Competition has just announced its winners. Each year, it seems like the caliber of work only grows better and better as it spans wide-ranging fields, from product design to architecture to animation and illustration. The international contest is as large as it […]
2017 Scene360 Awards: Win a $500 Ello Art Grant
The 2016 Scene360 awards were a huge success! That is if you go by the number of entries in different categories and the quality of work on display. What was witnessed was an array of artistic creations from hyperrealistic drawings, tattoos, sculptures, music videos, spray painting, fashion shoots, documentaries, and photos resembling past-century paintings. This […]