Source Colossal   Hailing from the French West Indies in the Caribbean—specifically the island of Guadeloupe—and currently based in Montréal, multi-disciplinary artist Eddy Firmin is deeply interested in the history and politics of colonization and identity. His home region’s inextricable ties to the dark legacy of slavery informs a practice that interrogates how knowledge is shared…

Source Design You Trust  Steven Haulenbeek, an American artist and industrial designer who turns unpredictable natural processes into collectible furniture, lighting, and sculptural objects. His best-known works use carved ice and molten bronze, or reclaimed foundry sand and resin, so that weather, gravity, heat, texture, and chance become co-authors of the final design. Haulenbeek’s signature…

Source Design You Trust  At the National Museum of Funeral History, one exhibit carries a story far more human than its unsettling appearance first suggests: a large wooden casket built for three people. h/t: vintag.es It was commissioned in the mid-1930s by a young couple after the death of their infant daughter. Devastated by the…

Source Design You Trust  Long before tattoos became a language of fashion, fandom and self-invention, they were often viewed with suspicion. These remarkable photographs come from a special 1934 issue of *Crocodile*, a bi-monthly journal published by the medical interns of Lyon’s civil hospitals. Its subject was the “physiognomy” of tattooing in France: not simply…

Source Design You Trust  Tye Martinez, a multidisciplinary artist and concept artist whose images merge photography, Photoshop, horror, science fiction, and personal emotion. His practice does not document reality so much as bend it into unsettling visual metaphors: empty houses, impossible shadows, hovering figures, spider-like bodies, suburban dread, and places where something is clearly wrong…

Source Artsy Shark  You spent years building a body of work and carefully selected images for your portfolio. Then what happened to it? The post Make Your Art Portfolio a Powerful Marketing Tool appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   Reuben “Rube” Goldberg (1883-1970) was known for his comic strips, political cartoons, and unique inventions. His most enduring legacy, however, is arguably the Rube Goldberg machine. Still bearing his name, these contraptions are often comical or playful due to their “overengineered” nature, using complex sequences of simple chain reactions like rolling ramps, weight…

Source Colossal   Known for his fantastical paintings of hybrid flora and fauna, Jon Ching channels the otherworldly in vibrant and meticulously detailed canvases. His precise renderings of regal creatures conjure elemental energies like fire and water, merged with the personalities of mammals, birds, and marine life. Inspired by his island upbringing on O’ahu, Hawai’i, Ching…