Nav Gill, Women’s Sportswear Marketing Manager at Nike, challenged our artists to explore what movement meant to them.
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Ilce Tarin Perez, Director of Content at Universal Music Group , set the tone for our roster, asking them to create a visual representation of their favourite music genre.
Simple, silly and sleepy characters, soaked in music and sound loops – that’s how Juan R Lage describes his world.
Soaked is the right word: his signature soft grain feels like encountering a mirage, emerging from the heat.
Childhood cartoons fuel Juan’s world: from Rocko’s Modern Life to Hello Kitty and the Teletubbies. You can trace this playfulness in his process: hand-drawings which bloom into dizzying rhythms. 90s nostalgia meets late-night TV shows meets heat-hazed highways, in an “exploration of movement’s plasticity.”
Layered with appreciation for Argentine cartoonists like Quino and Caloi, Juan’s work also draws from what he calls the “aesthetics of failure” – from old car washes to bands that never made it. Building on his work for major names like Spotify and K-Pop supergroup Red Velvet, Juan’s first project with us sees his dreamy textures illuminate the world of Kenzo.
Tune into Juan’s work here
Stephan Dybus find the funny in the melancholy.
Stephan blends acrylic painting, plasticine sculpting and digital art to create oddball figures who stumble through hyperreal worlds with a humming clumsiness.
It’s his miniature theatre, staging a sharp blend of black comedy meets slapstick.
After graduating from art university with what he calls “sad little black and white paintings,” Stephan shifted direction, asking himself: why not communicate life’s complexities with humour? He soon began creating layered watercolour illustrations, before turning to Blender to hone his skills in 3D.
By subjecting his characters to the messy, real-world laws of physics, Stephan’s focus on lifelike movement turns a mirror on our own flaws. But the goal isn’t just realism – it’s to “make people chuckle.” No wonder his dream is to build a theme park with his world of characters. Our advice? Strap in for the ride.
Tumble through Stephan’s work here.