The new issue of Tempus Magazine celebrates the 10th birthday of Vantage Media’s flagship luxury lifestyle publication with its first ever animated digital cover.
The special edition magazine explores the rising impact of digital art in all its forms, and our cover features a work of art exclusively created by rising star of the art world, Diana Tupilus. Meet Diana in our cover story, and scan the cover’s QR code with your smartphone to see the illustration come to life in AR form.
Elsewhere in the issue, I meet the world’s greatest explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, head to Madrid to discover the history of women’s watches with Omega and Alessandra Ambrosio, and visit the French Riviera. These special features sit alongside our regular Luxe List, Re:View and style column by fashion influencer Rikesh Chauhan.
Read my Editor's Letter in full:
"Back in 2012, when Tempus first launched as a luxury magazine, digital art was a new concept, tied to the rise of the iPhone and burgeoning social media apps like Instagram and Snapchat. Digital art was about e-books and video games, and collaborative hackathons that saw coders and artists collide to create moments of creativity that could be shared with an online audience.
Looking back over 10 years of remarkable and ground-breaking disruption, we can now identify the beginnings of a movement that is shaking up the art world today. Digital disruption is no longer a future trend, but the spark that is shaping the very heart of art in this decade. Today, we’re talking web3 and the metaverse, augmented reality and NFTs. We’re talking about decentralisation of power, and the shifting sands of supply and demand that has seen technology become the launchpad from which artists, galleries and collectors can begin to highlight the most important movements and issues of our day.
Another way to look at it, as I discovered when I spoke to Sotheby’s Institute of Art’s Leo Crane, is that art is where technology and communities intersect – and digital art is about to become truly canonised in art history. Representation has never been more vital – or had such vitality.
Digitalisation has made it easier for artists to take more ownership of their craft, too. Take, for example, artists like the brilliant Diana Tupilus, who is working with Pictorum Capitis to drive a purposefully and thoughtfully curated collection. The Romanian artist fuses painting and graphic design to create a rare collection of multiplatform pieces, inspired by the diversity of cultures and individuals she has been introduced to while living in London.
We are delighted to collaborate with Diana, who has created a bespoke portrait for our first ever digital cover. Find out more in our art special on page 38, and view the animated artwork in AR by following the steps below or scanning the QR code on the cover with your smartphone camera.
We’re not just living in the future when it comes to art, either. Elsewhere in our new, bigger and bolder quarterly edition, we explore the intersection of fashion and technology (66), catch up with the legendary Brora distillery a year on from its fully sustainable revival (74), and speak with the world’s greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, about his new documentary, Explorer (18)."
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