gsbm/web-avant-gardes

💇‍♀️ Collection of experimental, radical, or unorthodox websites

💇‍♀️ Collection of experimental, radical, or unorthodox websites.

What does 'avant-garde' mean ?

The avant-garde (/ˌævɒ̃ˈɡɑːrd/; French: [avɑ̃ɡaʁd]; from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society. It may be characterized by nontraditional, aesthetic innovation and initial unacceptability, and it may offer a critique of the relationship between producer and consumer. (Source: wikipedia)

Website collection

Over 400 websites, monthly updated.

★ Editor's pick

Categories

1. Personal pages, portfolios
2. Studios, agencies
3. Shops, furnitures
4. Miscellaneous
5. Unclassified

Personal pages, portfolios

• Adam Clarke (Colourist)
  
• Adam Ho (Designer)
  
• Agnes Lloyd-Platt (Photographer)
  
• Alex Kryritsis (Designer)
  
• Alexander Coggin (Photographer)
  
• Alexandra Margetic (Designer)
  
• Alvaro Canovas Puigmarti (Designer)
  
• Amos Abel Yong (Photographer)
  
• Andrew Tyson (Filmmaker)
  
• Andrew Walsh-Lister (Designer)
  
• Anthony Kolber (Designer)
  
• Anthony Scime (Designer)
  
• Aristide Benoist (Designer)
  
• Armin Unruh (Developer)
  
• Athena Tian (Designer)
  
• Ayaka B. Ito (Designer)
  
• Barbara Dragan (Orchestra Conductor)
  
• Ben Sifel (Designer)
  
• Beverly Semmes (Artist)
  
• Bharat Sikka (Artist)
  
• Boniface (Photographer)
  
• Bram Vanderbeke (Artist)
  
• Bruno Tomé (Designer)
  
• Candy Chiu (Designer)
  
• Caroline Dussuel (Photographer)
  
• ★ Chad Miller (Designer)
  
• Charlotte Debauge-Cahen (Designer)
  
• Chengcheng Hou (Designer)
  
• Chrissie Abbott (Designer)
  
• Christopher Paul Sharpe (Photographer)
  
• Dan Flynn (Designer)
  
• Dan Holdsworth (Photographer)
  
• Daniel Martins (Designer)
  
• Danny Gray (Designer)
  
• Davided Mascioli (Designer)
  
• Diane Martel (Visual artist)
  
• Diego Funken (Designer)
  
• Dries Bos (Creative developer)
  
• Elias Derboven (Photographer)
  
• Élise Rigollet (Designer)
  
• Eric Price (Designer)
  
• Erwan Sene (Artist)
  
• Esther Hovers (Artist)
  
• Fabian Dornhecker (Designer)
  
• Faris Kassim (Designer)
  
• Fiona Jane Burgess (Film director)
  
• Florentijn Deboer (Artist)
  
• Florian Monfrini (Artist)
  
• Floris Schrama (Designer)
  
• Frederico Cavalieri (Designer)
  
• Fried Rosenstock (Artist)
  
• Gaëtan Thirion (Designer)
  
• Geordie Wood (Photographer)
  
• Gian Visi (Designer)
  
• Gianfranco Panza (Architect)
  
• ★ Gio Pandone (Designer)
  
• Grafik (Designer/Developer)
  
• Gwennina Moigne (Designer)
  
• Hrvoje Živčić (Designer)
  
• Ilari Laamanen (Curator)
  
• JT Grauke (Designer)
  
• ★ Jacob McKee (Colorist)
  
• Jacobs Slum (Historian)
  
• Jason Miller (Art director)
  
• Javi Medialdea (Designer)
  
• Jeff Staple (Designer)
  
• Jennifer Heintz
• Jenny Nordberg (Artist)
  
• Jeremie Dussault-Lefebvre (Designer)
  
• Jihee Lee (Designer)
  
• Jisu Kim (Designer)
  
• Johannes Schnatmann (Artist)
  
• Jon Gacnik (Designer)
  
• Jules Morin (Designer)
  
• Julia Schaefer (Designer)
  
• ★ Julian Galay (Compositor)
  
• ★ Julie Cristobal (Stylist)
  
• Juliette Lepineau (Artist)
  
• Junki Hong (Designer)
  
• Juraj Molnár (Designer)
  
• Kai Udema (Designer)
  
• Karin Sander (Designer)
  
• Kay Schuttel (Artist)
  
• Kellen Renstrom (Designer)
  
• Khoa Lê (Filmmaker)
  
• ★ Kostas Murkudis (Designer)
  
• Kristen Cabrera (Designer)
  
• Kristin Rosch (Designer)
  
• Kristina Bartosova (Designer)
  
• Laurel Halo (Musician)
  
• Lindsay Howard (Curator) DOWN 👷‍
  
• Loup Lopez (Designer)
  
• Lucas Haider (Designer)
  
• Lucas Hesse (Designer)
  
• Lucas Le Bihan (Designer)
  
• Manu Rosaleny (Photographer)
  
• Mara Züst (Artist)
  
• Marcos Rodrigues (Designer)
  
• Mariana Lobão (Designer)
  
• Mariya Pepelanova (Photographer)
  
• Mark Hurrell (Designer)
  
• Martin Wecke (Designer)
  
• Marx Design (Agency)
  
• Mary Gaudin (Photographer)
  
• Matteo Campostrini (Designer)
  
• Max Siedentopf (Visual artist)
  
• Melike Turgut (Designer)
  
• Melvin Ghandour (Designer)
  
• Michael Speichert (Designer)
  
• Michell Dipp (Designer)
  
• Mun Jiwoo (Artist)
  
• Naho Kubota (Photographer)
  
• ★ Nam Huynh (Designer)
  
• Nathan Young (Designer)
  
• Nelson Heinemann (Stylist)
  
• Nicholas C. Eckhardt (Photographer)
  
• Nick Losacco (Designer)
  
• Nicolas C. Eckhardt (Photographer)
  
• Nicolas Delaroche (Artist)
  
• Niklas Rosén (Designer)
  
• Olivier Charland (Designer)
  
• Oliviero Fiorenzi (Artist)
  
• Oscar Gómez (Designer)
  
• Pavel Kedzich (Designer)
  
• Pedro Cardoso (Designer)
  
• Philip Heckhausen (Photographer)
  
• ★ Philipp Polder (Designer)
  
• Pierre Choiniere (Photographer)
  
• Pleun Verhoofstad (Designer)
  
• Rachel de Joode (Artist)
  
• Ransom (Agency)
  
• Romain Tronchin (Designer)
  
• ★ Ricardo Baez
• Ricardo Ferrol (Art director)
  
• Rui da Paz (Designer)
  
• Sacha Maric (Photographer)
  
• Sam Fraser (Designer)
  
• Sam Velenne Reith (Designer)
  
• Sammlung Walter (Designer)
  
• Samuel Bloch (Designer)
  
• Samuel Coronado (Designer)
  
• Samy Rio (Designer)
  
• Sandra Autukaite (Designer)
  
• Sara Maia (Stylist)
  
• Sara Marandi (Photographer)
  
• Sasha Ng (Designer)
  
• Scott Reinhard (Designer)
  
• SKY H1 (Music producer)
  
• Slava Kirilenko (Type designer)
  
• Sonia Rentsch (Art director)
  
• ★ Son La Pham (Designer)
  
• Sophia Goedecke (Designer)
  
• Stefanie Tam (Designer)
  
• Stephanie Jeong (Designer)
  
• Sungbum Heo (Architect)
  
• Sven Stuckenschmidt (Artist)
  
• Svyat Vishnyakov (Designer)
  
• Sylvain Julé (Designer)
  
• Talia Cotton (Designer)
  
• Tanya Ermolaeva (Designer)
  
• Tatitana Egoshina (Designer)
  
• Thomas Hervé (Designer)
  
• Thomas van Ryzewyk (Designer)
  
• Veronica Calfat (Artist)
  
• Victor Clemente (Designer)
  
• Vincent Tavano (Designer)
  
• Xevi Fernandez (Stylist)
  
• Yan Tomaszewski (Artist)
  
• Yannis Karpouzis (Artist)
  
• Yoshihiko Ueda (Photographer)
  

Studios, agencies

• 10011.co (Creative studio and talent agency)
  
• 101 (Design studio)
  
• 205TF (Type foundry)
  
• ★ 2SJ Architekturfotografie (Photography studio)
  
• 3 & 7 (Filmmaking studio)
  
• 56 (Creative agency)
  
• 56 (Design studio)
  
• 6th Finger (Creative collective)
  
• 97cm (Atelier)
  
• ★ Another Studio (Design studio)
  
• ANTI (Design studio)
  
• Air Studio (Recording studio)
  
• Apelido & Apelido (Design studio)
  
• Approximate Type (Type foundry)
  
• Atelier Dreibholz (Design studio)
  
• Atelier Florian Markl (Design studio)
  
• Auwää (Design studio)
  
• Azab (Architecture studio)
  
• Barkas (Design studio)
  
• Basebranding (Design studio)
  
• Belen Tenorio (Design studio)
  
• Bertrand Bosc (Guide)
  
• Better Half (Creative studio)
  
• ★ Blank Architects (Architecture studio)
  
• Blaze Type (Type foundry)
  
• Bleed (Design studio)
  
• Bretagne (Type foundry)
  
• Brill Brill Studio (Photography studio)
  
• Bureau 205 (Graphic design agency)
  
• Bureau Blamage (Design studio)
  
• Bureau Bordeaux (Design studio)
  
• Bureau Mirko Borsche (Design studio)
  
• CCKW (Design studio)
  
• CUSP (Creative collective)
  
• Cactus Club (Production company)
  
• Carr (Architecture studio)
  
• Central studio (Design studio)
  
• Climate (Design studio)
  
• Collins (Design studio)
  
• Colllectttivo (Type foundry)
  
• Combination (Design studio)
  
• Common Works (Design studio)
  
• Compagnie 7273 (Choreographers)
  
• Contemple (Design studio)
  
• Contempt (Design studio)
  
• Convicts (Creative agency)
  
• Cortese/Mazza (Architecture studio)
  
• Counterpoint (Artist association)
  
• Crevv (Design studio)
  
• Crown & Owls (Creative direction studio)
  
• DIA (Design studio)
  
• Demande Spéciale (Design studio)
  
• Diplomats (Creative studio)
  
• Dreams Office (Design studio)
  
• Dunne & Raby (Design studio)
  
• ★ DVKB (Kitchenware design studio)
  
• Elkin Editions (Video production studio)
  
• ★ ELF Pictures (Filmmaking studio)
  
• Experimental Jetset (Design studio)
  
• extrabrut.shop (Type foundry)
  
• ★ Extraset (Type foundry)
  
• ★ Ezekiel Laquino (Programmatic design studio)
  
• FP01 (Architecture studio)
  
• Farbe Designbüro (Design studio)
  
• Folder Studio (Design studio)
  
• Foolscape Studio (Architecture studio)
  
• From A to B (Design studio)
  
• Funeral Studio (Design studio)
  
• Futur Neue (Design studio)
  
• Future Simple Studio (Architecture studio)
  
• GDW (Design studio)
  
• Gallery by Toko (Design studio)
  
• Geckeler Michels (Product design studio)
  
• Gina Guasch Team (Design studio)
  
• Girlpunk (Design studio)
  
• ★ Haha (Design studio)
  
• HAWRAF (Design studio)
  
• HalloBasis (Design studio)
  
• Heller (Space architecture studio)
  
• HelloMe (Design studio)
  
• helloMuller (Design studio)
  
• High5 (Design studio)
  
• House of Folk (Design studio)
  
• International Magic (Design studio)
  
• Inventory Studio (Design studio)
  
• Jaapsmit (Design studio)
  
• July (Design studio)
  
• Kruger Buro (Design studio)
  
• LM Chabot (Photography studio)
  
• LUMO architecten (Architecture studio)
  
• MMAATTCCHH (Filmmaking studio)
  
• Made in Buro (Creative agency)
  
• Maria Danos (Architecture studio)
  
• Markus (Creative agency)
  
• Marx (Brand strategy studio)
  
• Math Practise (Design studio)
  
• Maud (Design studio)
  
• ★ Maximage (Design studio)
  
• Metis Foundry (Type foundry)
  
• Michael McManus Architects (Architecture studio)
  
• Middle Name (Branding and design studio)
  
• Mint Art Haus (Design studio)
  
• Moscow Mule (Design studio)
  
• ★ Moy (Dry fruits)
  
• Namespace (Design studio)
  
• NewTab studio (Design studio)
  
• Nike Circular Design (Design studio)
  
• No plans (Design studio)
  
• Norgram (Design studio)
  
• Non-verbal Club (Design studio)
  
• Nonymous (Communication agency)
  
• Nord+ (Design studio)
  
• Official Business (Design studio)
  
• OMA (Architecture studio)
  
• ★ ON (Digital experience studio)
  
• OTK Studio (Design studio)
  
• Oak Park Studio (Design studio)
  
• Open Studio (Design studio)
  
• Orior (Furniture design studio)
  
• Osk (Design studio)
  
• Other Office (Design studio)
  
• PATAWA (Artistic direction)
  
• PLAYLAB, INC. (Design studio)
  
• Patchwork Architecture (Architecture studio)
  
• Pizza Pizza (Digital product studio)
  
• Pol Solsona Studio (Design studio)
  
• Polar (Design studio)
  
• Porter Packaging (Production studio)
  
• Porto Rocha (Design studio)
  
• Practice (Brand strategy agency)
  
• Purho (Design studio)
  
• RTA Studio (Architecture studio)
  
• Random Ltd (Photography studio)
  
• Represent (Recruitement agency)
  
• Republish (Type foundry)
  
• Ruttens-Wille (Design studio)
  
• Sabato studio (Design studio)
  
• Say (Design studio)
  
• Scholz and Associates (Agency)
  
• Section80 (Production company)
  
• Services Généraux (Creative agency)
  
• Simon Type (Type foundry)
  
• ★ Sometimes Always (Design studio)
  
• Spassky Fischer (Design studio)
  
• Special-Offer (Design studio)
  
• Spin (Design studio)
  
• ★ Studio Almond (Design studio)
  
• Studio Andrea Guccini (Graphic design agency)
  
• Studio Dumar (Design studio)
  
• Studio Lin (Design studio)
  
• Studio MUT (Design studio)
  
• Studio Monozygote (Design studio)
  
• Studio Mærtens (Industrial design studio)
  
• Studio Nanneke Boomgaard (Furniture design studio)
  
• studio òbelo (Design studio)
  
• Studio Otto (Design studio)
  
• Studio Push (Design studio)
  
• Studio Rejane Dal Bello (Design studio)
  
• Studio Vedet (Design studio)
  
• Stuuudio (Design studio)
  
• Superimpose (Creative agency)
  
• SUVA Type Foundry (Type foundry)
  
• Switch (Design studio)
  
• Syndicat (Design studio)
  
• TMPM (Industrial design studio)
  
• Tableau (Design studio)
  
• Temporary State (Type foundry)
  
• Tennent Brown (Architecture studio)
  
• The Grammar of Frames (Brand experience studio)
  
• The new company (Design studio)
  
• ★ The Royal Studio (Design studio)
  
• TIGHTYPE (Type foundry)
  
• Translation (Design studio)
  
• Twenty Nine (Design studio)
  
• Two much (Design studio)
  
• Typical Organization (Design studio)
  
• Ui ui (Artist management studio)
  
• Unu o unu (Artist association)
  
• UsVersus (Design studio)
  
• Visibility (Industrial design studio)
  
• VVorkroom (Graphic design agency)
  
• Visual Adaptater (Design studio)
  
• Wade and Leta (Design studio)
  
• ★ WAKA-WAKA (Furniture design studio)
  
• Wedge (Design studio)
  
• Writing Man (Copywriting)
  
• WWWORK (Design studio)
  
• Zero Turns Two (Design studio)
  
• Zero (Design studio)
  

Shops, furnitures

• Antenne Books (Books shop)
  
• Balenciaga (Apparel)
  
• MSG (Apparel)
  
• ★ PAL (Furniture catalogue)
  
• Studio Kaze DOWN 👷‍ (Apparel)
  
• Temporary Mark DOWN 👷‍ (Apparel)
  
• TOOL (Goods shop)
  
• Won Hundred (Apparel)
  

Miscellaneous

• !!! (Chk Chk Chk) (Band)
  
• 10011 Magazine (Art magazine)
  
• 4mcube (Art center)
  
• A big mood (Blog)
  
• A plus A (Art gallery)
  
• A-okay (Translators)
  
• Advance-Copy (Fashion)
  
• Album Colors Of The Year (Exprimental)
  
• Alien magazine (Magazine)
  
• All your days (Band tour)
  
• Also Known As (Gallery)
  
• Andmarq (Artist management)
  
• Antwerp Art (Contemporary art plateform)
  
• ★ Antwerp Art Weekend (Contemporary art event)
  
• Art en grève (Movement)
  
• Atlas of Places (Educational collection)
  
• Autobahn (Experimental)
  
• B'Est Movie 2019 (Movie)
  
• Beakermag (Magazine)
  
• Bee Home (Diy blueprint)
  
• Bergen Assembly (Contemporary art event)
  
• Bi Scriptual (Book)
  
• Black Artist Fund (Funding initiative)
  
• Bonde (Design event)
  
• CC/magazine (Lifestyle magazine)
  
• CPT (Research center)
  
• Club Collecte (Editorial archives)
  
• College of Social Sciences and Humanities (Education)
  
• Common Sans (Typeface)
  
• Coral Agency (Musician Agency)
  
• Creative Ecosystems (Art directory)
• Danish Design Center (Think tank)
  
• Dateagle Art (Art journal)
  
• Demo Festival (Design festival)
  
• Design Systems International (Experimental)
  
• ★ Designing women (Art history)
• Designing Writing (Experimental)
  
• ★ diadia614 (Magazine)
  
• Digital Underground (Book)
  
• Dutch Design Awards (Awards)
  
• ECAL Typefaces (Student foundry)
  
• Edouard Malingue (Art gallery)
  
• Empire (Publisher)
  
• Entireworld (Clothes shop)
  
• ★ Ethics for Design (Documentary)
  
• Film Truck (Movie)
  
• Fingerspelling (Learn sign language)
  
• Forward Festival (Design festival)
  
• Found color (Color scheme)
  
• Future London Academy (Educational program)
  
• Golden Suisse (Bank)
  
• Good Glyphs (Typeface)
  
• Goodbye (Publisher)
  
• Google Fonts + Korean (Fonts directory)
  
• GT Maru (Typeface)
  
• Guggenheim (Art museum)
  
• ★ Han Kjøbenhavn (Clothes shop)
  
• Harvard Design Magazine (Magazine)
  
• HyperText (Experimental typefaces)
  
• I will Seoul you DOWN 👷‍ (Blog)
  
• ★ Index Art Book Fair (Art program)
  
• ★ Indiecon (Book fair)
  
• INFRIGE (Hairdressing)
  
• ★ Inonica (Art magazine)
  
• IOTA Editions (Publisher)
  
• Illuminating Radioactivity (Educational)
  
• Julia Stoschek Collection (Art collection)
  
• LATERAL (Design school)
  
• La modernité viennoise (Culture)
  
• Landscapes of Fulfillment (Architecture seminar)
  
• ★ Live Talk From (Live talk)
  
• Longform Edition (Listening collection)
  
• Luz Mística (Color therapy)
  
• Man-made disaster (Art exhibition)
  
• Marco (Ice cream)
  
• Marianne Brandt Award (Awards)
  
• Mate Act Now (Activism)
  
• Matter of Art(Art biennale)
  
• Middle Child (Sandwich shop)
  
• Middleplane (Book)
  
• Modern Matter (Magazine)
  
• Modeselecktor (Band)
  
• Monkeybuzz (Music news)
  
• Morgenstern (Ice cream)
  
• Mould Map 7 (Experimentals comics)
  
• Mucem (Museum)
  
• No Foundry (Type catalogue)
  
• Novembre (Inspiration plateform)
  
• Ochre NYC (Skincare)
  
• Officesss (Zoom backgrounds)
  
• Oikon Hospitality (Management)
  
• ★ Oto Nove Swiss (Contemporary music festival)
  
• Over Covid (Guides)
  
• PC Graphic Design Dpt. DOWN 👷‍ (Educational program)
  
• Paid Interns (Company list)
  
• Pathêmes (Art book)
  
• Point of No Return (Exhibition)
  
• ★ Pushforward (Culture program)
  
• RISD GD Triennial (Exhibition)
  
• ★ Reading Machines (Publishing plateform)
  
• ★ Rekki (Application)
  
• Revue Lagon (Magazine)
  
• Revue faire (Issues)
  
• Richard Rogers Fellowship (Design program)
  
• Ricky Michiels (Artist management)
  
• Route (Artist management)
  
• Sabina advertising (Advertising agency)
  
• Schemas of Uncertainty (Research project)
  
• SSHH (Open space)
  
• SeMA (Art museum)
  
• Secret Friend (Experimental showcase)
  
• ★ See In Black (Photography showcase)
  
• Sheffielders (Directory of creatives)
  
• Sifang Art Museum DOWN 👷‍ (Art museum)
  
• Spinny Nights (Showcase platform)
  
• Stay Sane/Stay Safe (Poster collection)
  
• Stephanie Nelson Dancegroup (Dance ensemble)
  
• Stubio (Clothes shop)
  
• Swiss Art Awards (Awards)
  
• Swiss Design Awards Blog (Design blog)
  
• Taipei Art Book Fair (Book fair)
  
• Temper (Onepage builder)
  
• Terén (Performance art)
  
• ★ TeTuhi (Art exhibition)
  
• The Global Studio (Study program)
  
• The Periodic Table of Elements Issue (Scientific issue)
  
• The Physics Room (Art gallery)
  
• ★ Théâtre St-Gervais Genève (Theater)
  
• Timetable (Music label)
  
• Trambisera Marmi (Construction materials)
  
• Typographic Singularity 2020 (Design event)
  
• Uncut (Type catalogue)
  
• Untitled Sans (Typeface)
  
• ★ UTS Design Futuring Report 2020 (Design report)
  
• V-A-C Sreda (Podcast)
  
• Various Objects (Curated collection)
  
• Very Good Films (Movies catalog)
  
• Visual Society (Fashion label)
  
• WM Artist Studio (Artist management)
  
• Waka Waka, Collection N.02 (Furniture design collection)
  
• Weltformat Festival (Design festival)
  
• Where We Stand (Design challenge)
  
• ★ World (Experimental)
  

Unclassified

• 032c (?)
  
• Aires Libres (?)
  
• Dreamlaser (?)
  
• Ecosistema del Diseño Español (?)
  
• Embassy of Internet (?)
  
• Futurimpose (?)
  
• Kunsthalle Osnabrück (?)
  
• Latitude (?)
  
• Lubalin 100 (?)
  
• Marini marmi (?)
  
• Masters 2018 (?)
  
• Mediateca libre (?)
  
• Museum At Large (?)
  
• OBDN (?)
  
• Orto (?)
  
• Participant Inc (?)
  
• Postcards from Isolation (?)
  
• SILO (?)
  
• Stormwender (?)
  
• TIGHT Top 2018 (?)
  
• Take a walk on the wild side (?)
  
• Tanzkongress 2019 (?)
  
• The Confort of Books (?)
  

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