Maxim Zhestkov, a motion-, graphics designer and video artist, is inspired by many different fields like for example: science, fashion, architecture and/or space. He creates architectural worlds where sounds blend with space and shape.

Zhestkov: “I have tried to reflect the concept of the universe between the infinite and border as a pulsating place of energy and magnetism.”

Modul By Maxim Zhestkov

Zhestkov: “Any composition needs to begin with one or two main elements. The smaller the elements, the greater number of them there should be. You need to start with one or two main ideas and gradually build up the smaller elements until the space becomes rich with life.”

Nokia By Maxim Zhestkov

Photos and video : Maxim Zhestkov | Vimeo

In a live visual event during the Branchage Film festival, Seeper and Flat-e have digitally attack Mont Orgueil Castle.

Using cutting edge 3D Projection mapping techniques the Castle was showered in light. The projections of light are morphing over time as the entire architectural form of the castle distorts and morphs. Objects pour out the windows, the walls unravel.

The below video gives an impression of the performance titeled the Battle of Branchage .

Photos and video: Seeper | Flat-e | Youtube

Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

Nowadays she is working on projects that range from master-plans in Singapore and Istanbul, to an opera house in China, a museum in Rome, and a skyscraper in Dubai. In 2007 Hadid opened two substantial buildings in Germany: a car factory for BMW and the Phaeno Science Centre, for which she was shortlisted for the 2006 RIBA Stirling Prize. Both demonstrated her ability to translate the essence of her virtuoso spatial invention in solid form.

The Johann Sebastian Bach Pavilion which she designed for the Manchester Hall project in 2009 is one of the remarkable examples of her work and vision.The “Floating band” is wrapped around a space and the spectators and shows once again the essence of architecture as the third skin and the shaping of space, light and sound. It is a metaphor of music and its effect on the environment.

Zaha Hadid was part of the recently ended exhibition Super Contemporary at the Design Museum. The exhibition showcased 15 new commissions from London’s most dynamic creatives, who had been asked what they would give back to London.

Photos by Zaha Hadid | Johann Sebastian Bach Pavilion

The Exhibition Fashion Room presents photographic strategies for staging of fashion in space and conceives the term “room” as the model of a conceptual space extending far beyond the space described by architecture. Every fashion photograph shows the era-specific perception of fashion, and with it the underlying relationship between fashion, culture and society. The selection fashion Room from the F.C. Gundlach collection, however, is not limited to fashion photography in the classical sense. A main focus of the exhibition is the dialog of the photographic moment: the interaction between fashion, space and pictorial surface over the course of time and photographic history.

Fashion Room is an exhibition of the F.C. Gundlach foundation commissioned by the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany and runs until the 8th of November 2009

Photos F.C. Gundlach collection | Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt