Denni Bakardji

Shopping illustration for www.iMama.tv homepage

2011-11-20T14:03:00.007Z

Illustration for the recent shopping section launch on iMama.tv. Illustration on the homepage

Week by week foetal development illustrations

2011-07-24T19:51:00.009Z

Week by week foetal development illustartions for iMama.tv.

I had to create all 40 stages of the foetal development. Here I am presenting just a few of those.

Check out the rest of the glitter babies

Team member of the week on iMama.tv

2011-03-28T20:27:00.010Z

Thank you iMama ladies!!!

iMama.tv stings

2010-12-11T16:50:00.015Z

Stings for iMama.tv - parenting site with over 5000 video clips of advice from pregnancy and birth to babies and beyond.

Rough Justice

2010-10-18T09:10:00.012Z

These short animations are part of a documentary for the BBC about miscarriages of justice. It throws out a hint that the person convicted of the crime could not possibly have been the real culprit. The footage illustrates something that has been staged by an investigative team.

Global Warming

2010-09-07T22:35:00.035Z

Pitch for a documentary on Global Warming. Blender 3D experiments.

Dying for Democracy

2010-07-15T09:34:00.002Z

2010-07-13T19:25:00.001Z

2010-07-12T10:08:00.001Z

2010-07-10T09:32:00.001Z

2010-07-10T09:28:00.003Z

2010-07-10T09:17:00.003Z

2010-07-09T19:40:00.004Z

Expulsion, imprisonment, physical beatings and the denial of educational and medical services are among the manifestations of the religious conformity in large areas of the Latin America.

It was during this same period that the Liberation Theology movement within the Catholic Church had come to exercise a major influence in Central America.

Liberation Theology is based on a "preferential option for the poor", and its proponents' involvement in the struggles of the poor and marginalised sectors of the population gave them common cause with the leftist revolutionary movements active in the region at the time. As a result, the Catholic Church came to be viewed by some as a dangerously "Marxist" institution.

Evangelical Protestant denominations were backed by the U.S. government and the (Ronald) Reagan administration to collaborate with the military dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s and to combat anything that appeared somehow linked to communism in Guatemala.

You have to be shameless to be a Protestant," declared the cardinal of Guadalajara, Mexico,....."these sects are like flies that ought to be swatted with a newspaper."

Short animations for a documentary called Dying for Democracy. Senior animator Christian Krupa, Juniour animator Denni Bakardji.

Up Town

2010-04-20T11:39:00.008Z

Photos by Christian Krupa; Collage by Denni. Print for a Magazine

Leaflet

2010-04-19T09:21:00.000Z

Leaflet for Plush music tv and the Masterclass foundation, London

Alchemist Cookbook

2010-03-08T14:49:00.009Z

Screenshots

2010-03-08T13:59:00.007Z

The "Alchemist Cookbook" is a game created at the Blender for Game Artists workshop part of the TOSMI - Trainings in Open Source Multimedia Instruments

2010-03-08T12:11:00.016Z

Creators:
Biser Georgiev .............................. Peter Applerock
Goce Mitevski ............................... Stoyan Bozhkilov
Iana Krachunova ............................ Victoria Gospodinova
Martin Ruskov ............................... & me Denni

Show Reel 2009

2010-03-07T11:31:00.004Z

Show Reel from Denni Bakardji on Vimeo.

Archifashion

2009-12-31T15:58:00.004Z

Archifashion from Denni Bakardji on Vimeo.

2009-12-30T16:33:00.002Z

People and architecture create the identity of cities. The city is a device. The city is a social machine. The city is a medium. New living conditions serve as a background where new society is constructed and new identity of people is revealed.
Clothes and accessories are device too used to present, to protect, or to hide oneself. It is a semiotic medium showing power, social status, background, racial or group belonging, religious affiliation, and so forth. Clothing is also a manipulation tool; why not a safety tool as well?
The city is a place where people meet and exchange ideas and feelings, where everyday life is also a struggle for survival.. Are we satisfied with the atmosphere of the contemporary cities? Do the pace and the life-style in the today’s industrial cities suggest our connection with nature and keep us intact and safe? Events are milestones in this scenario revealing the motivation of the characters to break with the routine and to develop a new reality. A new fictional urban landscape is created according to the social demand.
This animated story is about a community that resembles Eastern Europe in the last two decades during the period of transition from socialism to the market economy. People have to be inventive and resourceful in their attempt to raise children, to work, to love, to create and to maintain faith, sanity and humour in an almost unbearable environment. The members of this community have experienced an endless chain of absurd events such as: an electricity regimen, a water regimen, a coupon system, a massive inflation, currency denominations, a currency board, a grain crisis, a milk crisis, a toilet paper crisis, a gas crisis, ethnic cleansing, friendly fire, random bomb droppings, political scandals, etc. This society is not governed or organized and there is an intentional lack of desire to fight crime, corruption, mafia, emigration of young people, and the destruction of people’s homes and destinies. As Bill Bryson writes in his book “Neither Here Nor There” some parts of Eastern Europe are not countries; they are experience close to death.
Inspired by Hussein Chalayan’s ‘After Words’ collection, I have depicted some of these events through which my characters use transformable clothing capable to turn into tents in an amusing way for facing difficult situations.
People of my animation have become equipped to live in any place and in any time they wish to. This has been influenced by the British group of artists, Archigram’s ‘Walking City’ and ‘Suitsaloon.’ My aim has been to make them utterly free, mobile and independent of home and attachment. My characters are able to migrate thanks to the comfort of their clothing that is gradually transformed into shelters and dwellings. This interactive couture is a crossing point of the two fields – fashion and architecture which provides a new expression of the packaging of the body and of the appearance of the home. Human beings are provided with a new sense of warmth, protection, with a new urban identity and above all with a new attitude towards themselves. Dressed in portable homes that are their transformable clothing and wearing accessories that are their personal belongings, people experience change of relationships between them, due to newly gained sense of freedom. They are politically and economically out of reach.
It seems that the destiny of the mobile person of the 21 century is already predicted in someway. People are constantly on the move and take with them what they need creating alternative settlements thus escaping manipulation. People need positive alternatives.
I have chosen to use 3D as the basic language of my project. I have added the additional technique of line drawing to my animation in order to give the characters a more personal feeling.

2009-12-30T11:39:00.003Z

Sketches Archifashion

2009-12-30T10:22:00.002Z

Script Archifashion

2009-12-30T09:30:00.002Z

Camera Shifts

2009-12-30T08:16:00.007Z

Behind the scenes Archifashion
Motion Studies of Human Movement

2009-12-30T07:40:00.005Z

Greenscreen shooting

3D environment - Blender 3D

2009-12-30T07:26:00.004Z

Textures for Archifashion

2009-12-30T07:20:00.006Z

Photo References by Denni Bakardji for Archifashion

2009-12-29T16:26:00.003Z

Images Archifashion Build with the physics engine BLENDER 3D

2009-12-28T16:16:00.003Z

Created with Adobe Illustrator; Photoshop & Blender 3D

Inspirations Archifashion

2009-12-27T16:16:00.004Z

Salvador Dali

2009-12-27T14:49:00.002Z

Eastern European Animations (social & animation techniques inspiration)Fiodor Khitruk "Story of ones crime"/Федор Хитрук "История одного преступления"

Nina Shorina "Door"/Нина Шорина "Дверь"

2009-12-27T12:25:00.001Z

Motion Graphics Inspiratons

Soki So "Homogeneous Multiplicity"

2009-12-27T11:32:00.002Z

Graham Young "Landing Lights"
Ben Marzys "Dystopian Dreams"
Anca Risc & Joji Tsuruga "Lillium Urbanus"

Jan Schoenwiesner "Amon Tobin music video"

2009-12-25T22:52:00.003Z

Social behaviors research Archifashion The Sims

2009-12-25T12:14:00.000Z

Second Life

2009-12-24T12:59:00.003Z

Architectural InfluencesSantiago Calatrava; David Fisher

2009-12-24T06:04:00.000Z

Living ArchitectureArchigram

2009-12-24T05:08:00.000Z

Temporary & Wearable DwelingsLucy Orta
Andrea Zitel

2009-12-24T00:12:00.000Z

TransformablesHussein Chalayan
CP Company
Hella Jongerius

Logos

2009-11-25T00:24:00.001Z

2009-11-24T20:36:00.003Z

2009-11-24T19:59:00.004Z

Work in progress for Demos sting

Risky Business

2009-11-24T19:03:00.004Z

Music at Plush

2009-11-23T02:00:00.002Z

Logo proposal for the Music at Plush festival

Deniiise

2009-11-23T01:33:00.002Z

http://deniiise.com

I've lost my strings

2009-10-24T09:27:00.005Z

I've lost my strings from Denni Bakardji on Vimeo.

Bonds sprout from bonds. Affection sprouts from affection. Creativity sprouts from creativity. I have grown up in a house where four generations of women lived together with the only man soul � the much spoiled and loved tomcat. Even now the bonds are tremendous, nursing me like roots sucking juices from the soil in times of troubles, restricting me like golden chains, stirring up my forgetful desire for freedom.

I’ve lost my strings is a short animation I have always wanted to make. It is a personal story of a family of three women at different stages of their lifes. It is a metaphor of the contradictions that arouse between them in their everyday life. It’s starting point is inspired by the play “Three tall women” by Edward Albee. I’ve lost my strings is also about a madness caused by change and an escape from a previous life with all attachments and sentiments one used to cherish.

In an attempt to liberate myself I have developed a concept which is close to my previous studies in textiles and fashion design, but I have been looking at it in a new perspective using different media. I have modified my themes according to my changed understandings of life and creativity after my arrival to the Western Europe using new media and technologies. Instead of using a needle and a thread I have presented my work with illustrations, video, flash and 3D, exploring my dreams and virtual travel across time and space.

I started to experiment with this animation trying to present a dream of a girl who wants to break the chains of limitations and to unshackle the irritations in her life. I am trying to present it as a struggle and growth, sometimes taking shape of a surrealistic dream. I have played and experimented with the different dimensions with the help of a 3D program. I have imported and exported multiple times my scenario in the 3D space and putting it back again in the two dimensional environment.

I have changed the scissors of my grand-mother into a montage with the help of digital programs and eventually cut the old that holds me back, giving a new shape to the fabric of my life. I have transformed the needle of creativity into a visual collage of animated flash images, a new design transformed the traditional hand-woven and dear to me fabrics inspired of my grand-grand-mother into a magic flying animated video carpet. These metaphors are very much inspired by admired to me artist from Eastern Europe like Jan Svankmajer and Qauy Brothers. I am very interested in the way they present narrative trough objects.

I have also tried to work in the achromatic colours, inspired by children’s illustrations and by old movies that give a special perception of time. My intention was to maintain the personal touch and feeling of a designed motion graphic piece that describes an exiting journey forth and back through time and space.

This travel across the time and space suggests a method of incorporation of a sound map. I have used the music of Gershwin. His music based on a characteristic American blues and jazz creatively mixes its elements with the heritage of European classical music. I believe that his experience of an American in Paris is pretty much similar to the experience of the nowadays foreigner in London.

2009-10-22T20:17:00.001Z

Script "I've lost my strings"

2009-10-22T19:28:00.000Z

Illustrations "I've lost my strings"

2009-10-22T18:41:00.001Z

Screenshots footages "I've lost my strings"

2009-10-22T17:53:00.001Z

3D "I've lost my strings"

Build with Blender 3D

2009-10-22T16:18:00.007Z

Inspirations "I've lost my strings"Mitsunari Kawamoto; Yoko Hasegawa; Satomi Mizuuchi
Jan Svankmajer "Street of Crocodiles"

GregoriSaavedra.com; Diesel Dreams; Chuck Jones & Maurice Noble "The dot and the line: A romance in Lower Mathemathics"; Field Music - In Context; NotBlu

Travel

2009-10-21T17:45:00.002Z

A project about future travel, dream travel, a dream of freedom of ones boundries and limitations!

The Glowing People

2009-10-20T01:20:00.002Z

More images available on: http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Glowing-Textiles/352045

2009-10-19T23:27:00.000Z

The glowing people
http://deniiise.com/glow

Let’s brighten our lives! This is the motivation of my project. My original concept was to create textiles for clothing that communicate with electronic devices. The textiles would be acting as a screen. This idea is too ambitious to complete at this time so I reduced it to a more basic concept.

In my research my attention was drawn to the integrated circuits fabrics in the materials library. After spending some time reading about those I got more and more fascinated of how something that looks like fabric can contain information. It was like a dream come true reminding me of a project I did in 2005 inspired by Christo’s work.

My idea at the time was to create rich textiles and clothing resembling the sculptured work of Christo. I made specific clothes for this, onto which I then projected video and music. The whole concept was to use the clothes as a screen. The problem was that the images were limited by the beam of the light from the projector.

Following more research I became interested in the work of Joanna Berzowska, specifically her work on “Memory Rich Clothing: Second Skins that Communicate Physical Memory”. She focuses on clothes’ physical memory by attaching lights that react by contact if a person is touched in certain areas. The more lighted a piece of garment is meant that there was more physical contact with it. The lights fade away and eventually disappear the more time has past from the physical contact.

In the integrated circuit fabric I saw an opportunity to create the material which would contain the data: the video I would like to project on clothing without the restrictions of the projector. As an idea it sounds fantastic but creating it is very ambitious for somebody with no scientific knowledge. I then decided to imitate the screen on clothing by using lights that would look like pixels. After all, images on screens are made out of million of pixels.

To do so I started to consider using light in my project. First of all I tried to research a way to make my pattern by making my own electrical circuit. The hindrance was that I do not know much about electronics. My next step was to start looking at Christmas lights and party lights; this is when I came across glow sticks. I chose to work with them because they are flexible and because they do not need any electrical supply as well as they look very friendly and call you to play with them.

As a result I created multi-layered light patterned fabrics with pockets to conceal the glow sticks. I made drawings that reminded me of pixels which I laser cut into dark and hard fabrics so as to hide parts of the glow sticks. I then screen printed my fabrics with images that resembled pixels with glow in the dark UV paint. I chose light and transparent materials to put under the first layer of fabric giving extra playfulness to the light. I also used digitally printed polysportex material which gave extra texture to my fabric because of its holes. The fabric I have created changes according to different light conditions.

My idea is to use the fabric for party clothing because the light at clubs changes constantly. The most suitable clothes for my fabrics are corsets, because of their hard boning and the glamorous associations which are suitable for the clubbing atmosphere. My target group is young women between the age of 16 and 30 years of age.

My outcome is multi layered fabric for clothing that emits lights which are removable and customisable according to the user’s desires.

House Ads for iMama.tv

2009-09-12T23:07:00.000Z

ОБУС

2009-09-11T20:04:00.003Z

Letterhead and logo design for United Bulgarians for Sustainable World

Redesign for a webpage for people suffering from Phenylketonuria (PKU)

2009-09-10T16:44:00.001Z

Glovel

2009-09-09T00:38:00.009Z

Glovel is a Deutsch webpage for dating which is not online at the moment.

The concept I have used is based on the idea that we are all children in the field of dating. After all it is a guessing game to meet that special person.

Bigger images can be found at
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Glovel/336999

Posters

2009-08-30T22:13:00.011Z

Poster design by Denni for the BA fashion show of Industrial design-Fashion 'o6 in National Arts Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria. It was an honor to be the one to create the poster for our show!

'' Елегантност във Вериги" / 'Elegance in chains' is a poster design created to represent my BA final project.

2008-10-19T22:31:00.003Z

Inspiration by Christo from Denni Bakardji on Vimeo.

2008-10-18T22:01:00.000Z

This project was inspired by the American-Bulgarian artist Christo and his wife Jeanne Claude. The approach is based on idea of "packed" figers created by me trough moulage technique. I made this video which was projected on the clothes during a fashion show. The music was composed especially for the video and for the show and was based on the sounds recorded in the umbrellas fields of Christo in 1991. Other natural sounds enriched the music.

2008-10-18T13:29:00.002Z

2008-10-18T11:27:00.001Z

2008-10-18T10:24:00.001Z

2008-10-18T09:21:00.001Z

Germs & Parasites

2001-01-09T01:39:00.003Z

Inspirations for a future project
http://drzeus.best.vwh.net/Art/Photos/Mult.html

2000-01-09T23:36:00.000Z

2000-01-09T23:21:00.002Z

http://www.riken.go.jp/engn/r-world/research/lab/cdb/germ/result.html
http://www.research-horizons.cam.ac.uk/spotlight/germ-cells--the-route-to-immortality.aspx

2000-01-09T23:06:00.001Z

http://www.brc.riken.go.jp/lab/mcd/mcd2/cn7/pg45.html

2000-01-09T22:32:00.000Z

http://www.nig.ac.jp/section/saga/saga-e.html

2000-01-09T22:28:00.000Z

http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/cial/gallery/8ar3d/

2000-01-09T01:16:00.002Z

1999-01-09T01:22:00.008Z

1997-01-09T01:34:00.004Z

1996-01-19T20:30:00.003Z

Herpes simplex virus infection (Papanicolaou, ×600)

1996-01-19T20:23:00.006Z

Trichomonas vaginalis with squamous cell change and filamentous bacteria (Leptothrix). (Papanicolaou, ×600).

1996-01-19T19:36:00.000Z

Pseudohyphae of Candida albicans. (Papanicolaou, ×400)

1996-01-19T19:34:00.008Z

Tenia_solium_scolex

1996-01-19T18:42:00.006Z

Superficial cells showing keratohyaline granules and isolated anucleated squames. (Papanicolaou, ×600)

1996-01-19T11:06:00.002Z

A: Parakeratotic cells without atypia. B: Atypical parakeratotic cells. The nucleus of the parakeratotic cell is enlarged and opaque. C: LSIL. The dysplastic cell has a marked enlarged atypical nucleus, with coarse granular chromatin. (Papanicolaou, ×600).

http://www.glowm.com/?p=glowm.cml/section_view&articleid=18&SESSID=uingsn4uar3n4m9808fq2nulq7