Hey everyone I'm Lukas, a co-founder of Hello Velocity and co-creator of Piyenji!
Piyenji is the first curated iMessage gallery for digital art, showcasing small collections of digital work from artists, animators, and illustrators! Layer, collage, and combine stickers in your message feed canvas to create new compositions. Piyenji features new artists on a bi-monthly basis.
We are currently showing 3 AWESOME artists: Jacqueline Jing Lin, He+Hu, and James Orlando.
Here is a little more about each artists:
HE WEI is co-founder to creative collective HE+HU and also Chewing Art, an upcoming curatorial/residential practice focusing on exploring human relationships and cultural communication through interdisciplinary art and dining culture. HE gained a BA and an MA from Tsinghua University, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
JAMES ORLANDO is the founder of cultural video game Hyper.Zone, creating a gamified fashion and e-commerce world in VR. As a forward thinker, image maker and digital pioneer, he is constantly evolving his vision of media from print to digital experiences. Previously, Orlando was a co-founder of Bullett Media.
JACQUELINE JING LIN is a multimedia artist from Taipei based in Brooklyn. She enjoys making playful works and creating artificial universes. Her works have been screened in the Loud and Proud Festival and Queer Week in Paris, as well as featured in digital magazines such as Milk Media and Ladygunn.
Curated by Hello Velocity.
We're (hello velocity) an arts+tech group that makes odd things on the web! if you have any thoughts (or would like to make stickers) I'd love to hear from you either here or by email (lukas@hellovelocity.com). Would also love to see your any fun iMessage sticker compilations you make if you're so inclined! :)
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