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Visual Mixtape Winner Announced

Download Elwira Banki's winning album artwork from the Visual Mixtape challenge, complete with the playlist that inspired it here.

15 Nov 2011

Winners: HUGO Create – The Game

In HUGO Create – The Game, we asked you to join the world of cutting-edge technology and collaborate with us in our creative iPhone game. Today we are proud to announce the 10 winners.

Every entrant who joined in with the creative spirit of The Game, and made their own level for others to enjoy, was entered into a raffle to win $500. The 10 lucky winners, selected at random, are…

Kara Bedrihan from France

Steve Vestinos from USA

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9 Nov 2011

Filippo Minelli

We fell in love with Milanese artist Filippo Minelli’s Shapes series as soon as we saw it. The juxtaposition of artificial smoke in an organic setting is equally as mysterious as it is fascinating.

So we caught up with the man who has takes his urban ideas to rural settings. We wanted to see what inspired him to make ideas that are urban by name, and urban in nature.

HUGO Create: How did you get to this stage in your artistic career?

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3 Nov 2011

Jessica Kerbawy

Jessica Kerbawy is an artist from the USA. We stumbled into one of her creations recently and couldn’t get enough of it.

With this work, Jessica took a set of crayons and instead of drawing with them, went at them with a hairdryer. The heat causes the crayons to run, to create a simple, yet beautifully unpredictable piece. 

We spoke to Jessica about why she thinks her work catches the eye.

HUGO Create: Can you tell me a bit about your creative background?

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31 Oct 2011

Ishac Bertran

It takes a special kind of creative to take one of the most beloved artistic vehicles of all time, vinyl, and not only modernize it, but make it even cooler too. But that’s what Ishac Bertran, a Barcelona-born artist who works in Copenhagen, has managed.

He recently blogged about creating music samples with vinyl records and his process amazed us.

Basically, he takes a vinyl record and cuts a section of it out with a laser:

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28 Oct 2011

Last Chance to Enter The Game

It’s your last chance to enter our challenge, HUGO Create – The Game, this coming Monday. So whatever you’ve planned this weekend, whether it’s being seen at the hottest underground club, or discussing the next trendsetting architect in the artsy quarter, make sure you make time to enter our challenge.

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10 Oct 2011

Kit Webster

Our current challenge is about celebrating bringing together technology and creativity. To illustrate what inspires us when it comes to creativity, we’d like to introduce you to the wonderful world of Kit Webster.

Kit is an Australian artist who uses technology, light and sound projection to experiment with space. His work involves regularly turning the real world into an abstract, magical laboratory.

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6 Oct 2011

Serge Salat

French artist Serge Salat caught our eye recently. This magnificent conceptual artist’s work would catch anyone’s eye.

His latest project, ‘Beyond Infinity’, is a bold and beautiful artwork made up of seemingly impossible architectural structures, illuminated by a wash of futuristic light.

To create this wonderful piece, Salat brought together some of the most advanced technological equipment and used it to mirror his cultural influences. We caught up with the visionary artist to discover what inspired this blend of creativity and technology.

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26 Sep 2011

Game On

We’re delighted to announce that the latest HUGO Create challenge is steering in an exciting new direction. We told you in our teaser that we had some creative fun on the way in the form of an iPhone challenge. Now the challenge is live we’re proud to reveal the rest of the details.

Prepare yourself to co-operate with creativity in the contemporary, forward-thinking world of technology. Take your iPhone, and revel in the fun of HUGO Create – The Game.

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16 Sep 2011

Pixelh8

Musical genres evolve constantly. Revisions of styles tweaked and altered to make brand new sounds. What empowers artists to manipulate rhythms to make new creations? Technology, usually.

Pixelh8 (real name Matthew Applegate) is an artist who has taken advantage of the emergence of new technologies to further his creativity. He employs his digital knowledge and expertise to make ‘chip-tune’ music.

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12 Sep 2011

Piet Hein Eek

Original artists are often inspired by the last thing you would expect. And that is certainly true of Dutch craftsman Piet Hein Eek.

While walking around a junkyard in his youth, Eek had the surprising realisation that old wood was more attractive than new wood. Since then he has crafted the finest, most desirable furniture from the often neglected material.

We love the idea of seeing things in a different way, so we asked Piet what his past inspirations were, and what his creative visions are for the future.

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