ARTIST EIKO OJALA (EIKO OJALA)
three-dimensional artwork made of paper, looking at that literally transports you to another world
In contemporary art can find a host of new and varied methods, techniques, findings author resorted to young artists to Express themselves and gain recognition. An interesting approach to the illustrations for the covers of books and magazines found a young Estonian artist Eiko Ojala. So, looking at the graphic collages of the masters, with their excellent sense of shape, color and style, the viewer is fascinated with minimalism, bright color and extraordinary imagination and creativity.
Eiko Ojala (Ojala Eiko)(born 1982) is an Estonian Illustrator, graphic designer from Tallinn, using in his work a unique technology of paper silhouettes, which are expertly modify in a graphics editor. Before you engage in the art of illustration, he studied interior design, and it should be noted that very successfully. But by chance, fascinated by the unusual technique of illustration, was the winner of the competition of Young Illustrators competition ADC Young Gun in 2013.
Since then, the work of Estonian artist became the cover of many books, and among its main customers – major magazines: New York Times, the New Yorker, Dwell Magazine, Wired Magazine and Harvard Business Review. In addition, his brilliant ideas, well thought out and carefully crafted purchased the world"s airlines, museums, scientific journals, book publishers.
the creative process of the author is to play with light and shadow that it creates various solid shapes and dynamic images. And cut paper collages, as well as possible, submit to this innovative idea. The volume effect the artist achieved by simulation, namely, combines hand-cut elements from paper with digital processing.
Contemplating the illustrations of talented graphics, impossible to understand, where we have used the usual cut silhouettes, and where graphical editors. What is interesting, the author never uses 3D computer technology. All the shadows in his works created on the computer manually. Bright color and incredible minimalist illustrations Eiko amaze with the depth of the transmission of images and characters. But the main effect is derived from their volume and layering.
In my short career as an Illustrator began in 2012, Eiko Ojala, living in Estonia, then in New Zealand, annually conducts several major solo exhibitions around the world. And today on account of a talented Illustrator, was able to so vividly visualize complex ideas, many different prizes and awards received at international competitions.
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