Much like Takeshi Murata’s “Synthesizers”, Berlin-based art director and designer Maiko Gubler explores the intersection of the real and virtual. She manufactures imagery through combining sculpting and illustrations with 3D modeling technologies, presenting high quality contemporary media that questions photo-realism.

“Sometimes finding appropriate solutions isn’t exactly fun. But in the end, simply being able to create something out of nothing and turn it into a virtual or a physical reality is very satisfying”.

I’ve always been intrigued (and deadly frightened, thanks Treehouse of Horrors VI) by alternate realities ever since Homer Simpson found himself trapped in a three dimensional wormhole, which is why Gubler’s editorial illustrations for Dom Publishers (2008) leave me bewildered. In the wise words of Liz Lemon: “I want to go to there”, but only if Bart is at the ready to pull me out.

Maiko Gublers mixed realities embrace the virtual as actual and are oh so good to look at.
Check out more of her work via her website.