DAFES | Design, Art, Fashion, Education & Startups

Dprofile Fest & Award 2024 Recap A weekend full of inspiration, talent, and creativity! From insightful panels and dynamic showcases to honouring outstanding creatives with the Dprofile & DAFES Awards, this year’s event highlighted design, art, fashion, education, and startups. Thank you to everyone who made it unforgettable! 💫 Stay tuned for more highlights and let’s keep creating! #DAFESevents #DAFESlive #DAFESawards

Yohji Yamamoto Yohji Yamamoto is a renowned Japanese fashion designer known for his avant-garde and minimalist approach to fashion. Born in 1943, he became prominent in the 1980s with his innovative designs that emphasized asymmetry, draping, and the deconstruction of traditional garment silhouettes. His work often features dark, muted colors, especially black, and challenges conventional ideas of beauty and femininity 👐 Yamamoto’s designs blend Japanese tradition with Western fashion, and he is a key figure in deconstructionist fashion. Beyond clothing, he has influenced the cultural dialogue around fashion, art, and identity, collaborating with artists and musicians to create distinctive, conceptual pieces. #daily_fashion

Pabe Pabe ✨PabePabe is a Hong Kong-based art accessories brand founded in 2018, known for its unique blend of everyday objects and bold visual design. Their creations, primarily leather products, challenge traditional notions of fashion accessories by emphasizing both functionality and "ridiculous beauty". The brand merges practicality with avant-garde aesthetics, offering experimental designs that convey deeper meanings and encourage individuality. Influenced by daily life and visual tension, PabePabe creates striking, unconventional items that stand out in the fashion world 👜 #daily_fashion

Common Subject by Sasha Zinkevich The brand features innovative, comfort-focused outdoor furniture and accessories. The Field Assistant collection includes an inflatable chair made from durable materials that inflates in under a minute and retains its shape for days. It has customizable covers and removable pockets for essentials 🍬 The L001 lamp is a versatile, weather-resistant lighting solution with a long-lasting battery. It can be hung from a tree or used as a floor lamp with a tripod or spike base, offering a practical and stylish lighting option 💡 🖇️ explore the project #daily_design

#dafes_follows Christoph Florin Christoph and Florin Schmidt, a Hamburg-based artist duo since 2009, create work that blends their art school and street art backgrounds. Their Window Views series, born during the pandemic, explores browser windows as "real windows," reflecting on isolation and societal issues through surreal still-lifes 🖼️🖌️ Their style combines sharp lines and geometric forms, inspired by 80s and 90s pop culture. Everyday objects are reimagined as sleek, graphic shapes within browser frames. Their process includes pencil sketches, vinyl masking, and spray painting, engaging viewers and encouraging reflection on digital connection ✨ #daily_design

Last weekend, we had the incredible honor of hosting the DPROFILE & DAFES Awards Presentation — a night dedicated to recognizing outstanding talent in design, art, fashion, education, and creative entrepreneurship ✨ From groundbreaking projects to innovative ideas, our community came together to celebrate those pushing the boundaries of creativity and collaboration. Thank you to everyone who attended and supported — let’s keep creating and shaping the future together! 💫 #DAFESevents

Self-Woven Carpet by Pavel Novak The "Self-Woven Carpet" project combines Soviet heritage with contemporary design by using fragments of Soviet-era carpets to create unique accessories through chainmail weaving. It symbolizes rebirth and transformation, merging different eras and materials 🧸✨ The project explores the socio-cultural contrasts between the Soviet past and the modern world, reinterpreting historical symbols through a modern lens and offering a fresh take on how the past shapes present creativity. 🖇️ explore the project #daily_fashion

Dprofile Fest & Award 2024 — A Premier Design Event 🌀 Date: December 14 Location: Moscow, Digital Business Space, 47 Pokrovka St. We invite you to Dprofile Fest & Award 2024 — a celebration of design innovation and excellence. The festival will feature:

• presentation of the DAFES Platform by Arseniy Meshcheryakov, head of HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL. • panel discussion titled "DAFES: networking, educational hub, and competition league for creative industries," with distinguished speakers, including Alexander Alekseev (ADCR) and Tatyana Rivchun (HSE University). • awards ceremony, recognizing top design projects in 11 categories, such as Project of the Year, Interfaces, Illustration, and Artificial Intelligence.

🔗 Tickets are available on the Dprofile website We look forward to your participation!

✨ Art meets technology in Shanghai! ✨ Explore “Russian Visual Chronicles”, a groundbreaking exhibition by renowned graphic artist and designer Igor Gurovich at Klein Blue Hills, Shanghai, until January 20, 2025.

What to expect: A fusion of traditional and modern formats — from large-scale posters to fabric installations — reflecting the transformation of visual culture and historical memory. This exhibition highlights how technology reshapes art and cultural codes, offering fresh perspectives on Russian culture through design and graphics.

Don't miss this celebration of art, design, and cultural dialogue! 🇷🇺🇨🇳 📍 Where: Klein Blue Hills, Pudong, Shanghai 🗓️ Until: January 20, 2025 #daily_design

#dafes_follows Takashi Murakami Takashi Murakami is a Japanese artist known for merging traditional Japanese art with contemporary pop culture. His signature Superflat style blends historical ukiyo-e with anime and modern design, exploring themes like fantasy, violence, and Japan’s cultural impact 🌼

We want to see the newest things... it is the moment in which we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.

Murakami’s iconic characters, such as Mr. DOB and his smiling flowers, reflect his playful yet profound approach. Murakami’s art challenges boundaries, drawing on both history and pop culture to create unique, immersive experiences ✨ #daily_design

Top Graphic Design Trends to Watch in 2025! 🌟 • Textured Grains: Designers are adding grain effects to digital art, making it feel more tangible and less flat. • Maximalism Illustrations: This trend embraces complexity, layering intricate patterns and details to create rich, engaging designs​. • Bold Minimalism: A stronger, more assertive form of minimalism, characterized by large fonts and stark contrasts​. • Unconventional Color Combinations: Designers are experimenting with bold, unexpected color pairings that feel jarring but are visually memorable​. • Pixelated Fonts & Branding: Pixelated elements are returning to design, evoking a sense of retro tech while modernizing branding​. #daily_design

Digital Tactility by Anastasia Archipova This project uses childhood memories of clothing to create virtual looks that evoke emotions and tactile sensations. By exaggerating designs to emphasize discomfort and nostalgia, it explores the interplay between physical memory and non-functional digital fashion ✨💿 Each piece symbolizes a specific childhood experience, challenging perceptions of comfort and intimacy in digital clothing. 🔗 explore the project #daily_design #daily_fashion

#dafes_follows Angela Ho Angela Ho, a Hong Kong-based artist and illustrator originally from Melbourne, creates dynamic works blending digital and traditional mediums, including augmented reality and spray paint. Her journey has been shaped by her diverse heritage and evolving identity as an "Australian-Hong Konger" 🐉 ✨

Having a base in graphic design and illustration has given me a broader perspective of creativity and skills I may not have gained otherwise.

Angela's works have been showcased in galleries globally, reflecting her versatile and experimental approach to art. #daily_design

LC RED7 Apartments by Olesya Vamush This unique interior embodies a desert-inspired ambiance with organic, natural forms like dunes, cacti, and an eclipse. A striking focal point is the Dragor Kre chair by Alun Heslop, a dynamic, animistic bronze piece that contrasts sharply with the minimalist Baxter Mongolian cashmere chair beside it 🪑⭐️ The interior harmonizes these elements with the clients' remote lifestyle, balancing natural forms with personal passions and a concept aquarium housing music equipment, creating a rich blend of desert landscape and organic design. 🖇️ explore the project #daily_design #daily_architecture

#dafes_follows Jimmy Simpson New York-based illustrator Jimmy Simpson brings a mix of retro nostalgia and playful surrealism to his work, inspired by skateboarding graphics, '90s culture, and artists like John Alcorn. His clean, bold designs and adaptable style have attracted clients like Spotify, Nike, and the Philadelphia Art Museum. Simpson's creative work for Spotify, Sony Music, and Vinyl Moon showcases his skill in illustration and animation, often blending personal touches with commercial briefs. He aims to expand into directing and branding, especially in the music and fashion spaces.

She is responsible for bringing modern punk into the mainstream 🤟🏻💗 Vivienne Westwood is a legendary British fashion designer and activist renowned for her role in shaping the punk fashion movement of the 1970s. She co-founded the iconic store SEX in London with Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, which became a hub for punk culture 🎸 Known for her rebellious, avant-garde designs, Westwood used fashion as a platform for political activism, addressing issues like climate change, civil rights, and anti-consumerism. Her work redefined luxury fashion with provocative cuts, bold patterns, and historic references that pushed traditional boundaries. #daily_design

Funky Monkey by Polina Barashkova Funky Monkey is a reimagined youth-oriented soda brand with vibrant, Depero-inspired designs. The packaging centers on a playful monkey character drinking fruit-infused soda, with each flavor marked by a distinct color 🙉🐒 This bold, colorful approach is designed to create visual impact on the shelves, attracting attention and emphasizing the fresh, fruity appeal of the product. 🔗 explore the project #daily_design

#dafes_follows Paul Octavious The project "Fungiture" is a creative furniture line inspired by mushrooms and their natural shapes. Each piece mimics the look and organic forms of fungi, merging art with functional design. The collection embraces a whimsical, nature-inspired aesthetic, celebrating unique textures and earthy tones that add both playfulness and elegance to interior spaces 🍄✨ Octavious aims to blur the line between nature and home decor, creating pieces that look like they belong in a forest as much as they do in a living room.

This Season's Hottest Beauty Trends 💅

Feathered Makeup | makeup with feather accents added fantasy-inspired texture. Printed Hair | hair matched clothing patterns for a unified fashion-beauty look, as seen at Chet Lo. Cracked Mud Texture | hair styled with cracked, earthy textures evoked natural elements. Crystal Embellishments | eyes sparkled with crystal adornments, bringing bold radiance. Tasselled Nails | nails featured tassels and crystals, adding movement. Smokey Eyes with a Twist | blended, earthy smokey eyes gave an understated, worn-in appeal.

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