Source Colossal   Kim Dacres gravitates toward renewal and care, transforming worn rubber into expressive sculptural portraits. The New York-based artist twists and braids tired treads into sleek buns and rows typical of Black hairstyles, which she embellishes with gear-like crowns and jewelry made of metal bike chains. Spray painting the material to mask marks, Dacres…

Source Design You Trust  Otto is a 22-year-old self-taught French painter who works in Paris and has exhibited at Very Art Gallery. His dark, minimalist expressionism features elongated ballerinas, contorted figures, and emotional abstraction on paper using ink, charcoal, and paint. Recurring motifs include addiction, memory, contrast, and choice (“No choice,” “Addiction,” “Souviens toi”), blending…

Source Design You Trust  Elliot Wair (born 2003) is a South East England-based contemporary painter working in acrylic on panel. Wair’s surrealism portrays complex emotional ideas through otherworldly concepts—floating figures, crab-roofed houses, dissolving forms, and shadow-collecting scenes (“Collecting My Shadow Before I Have Finished With It,” “I’m Scared Of Dissolving Into You”). He maintains childish…

Source Design You Trust  Ivana Belianska is a digital pixel artist who creates nostalgic, detail-rich illustrations blending retro gaming aesthetics with contemporary storytelling. Her work features pixel self-portraits, Spirited Away homages, post-apocalyptic Nintendo 64 scenes, and custom pixel portraits. Belianska holds a master’s in art and invests 10+ hours per piece, emphasizing tiny details and…

Source Colossal   Home might be a mutable concept, but some objects retain the aura of belonging and comfort even outside the walls we reside in. For Monica Rohan, those items are patterned fabrics and bentwood dining chairs, which venture outdoors in her vibrant oil paintings. The Brisbane-based artist has long depicted the supple folds and…

Source Design You Trust  Perry Lam is a Hong Kong-based architect, vaporwave visual artist, and AI image creator. Lam blends architectural photography (Marina Bay Sands, Tokyo skyscrapers) with vaporwave edits, dreamstate compositions, and AI-generated art (“Crystal Cove,” “Lucid State,” “Quiet Happiness,” “Lucid Land”). His aesthetic fuses neon futurism, nostalgic grids, and urban melancholy. More: Instagram

Source Design You Trust  SERIFA is the collaborative studio of Nastassja Abel and Christian Otto, founded in 2021 south of Munich. Originally editorial designers specializing in book covers, they now produce daily AI-assisted visual art. SERIFA’s philosophy generates ambiguous, abstract images blending human creativity with AI unpredictability. Their style features distorted portraits, fluid organic shapes,…

Source Design You Trust  An Improbable Future is the speculative design project of a New York-based industrial designer who uses text-to-image AI (primarily Midjourney) to envision retro-futuristic vehicles, gadgets, and architecture. The work presents curated relics from an alternate timeline—80s-inspired consoles, brutalist cars, modular interfaces—blending nostalgic familiarity (Casio, Nokia) with alien futurism. Themes explore industrial…