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Rik Oostenbroek Soaks Up Sunsets and Street Textures, Then Turns Them Into Digital Worlds
Source Design You Trust Rik Oostenbroek is a self-taught Dutch visual artist, designer, and art director based in Hilversum, Netherlands> Oostenbroek’s career began almost by accident: with no creative background, he discovered Photoshop around 2006 after a friend showed him CGI work by an Austrian designer. He started posting abstract images on DeviantArt, and at…
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Artist Olivier Menanteau Paints a World Where Human Bodies and Plants Grow Into One Another
Source Design You Trust Olivier Menanteau is a French illustrator and art director from Nantes, born in 1978. He began as a graffiti artist in 1993 before formal art school training led him into a career as a graphic designer and agency art director. After eight years working in agencies and later teaching graphic design,…
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Kronos Homes Bets That Great Architecture Can Make Housing a Work of Art
Source Design You Trust Kronos Homes is the design-led residential development brand of Kronos Real Estate Group, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Madrid, focused on high-quality, architecture-driven housing across Spain and Portugal. Kronos Homes’ guiding principle, which they call “PureDesign,” centers on implementing modern architecture in a way that integrates seamlessly into each city’s…
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Estefania Ajcip’s Sculptural Paintings Unite the Memories of a Separated Family
Source Colossal Through vivid sculptural paintings, Los Angeles-based artist Estefania Ajcip peers in on the fractures families face when split apart. Ajcip spent much of her childhood in Guatemala, while her father worked in L.A. and missed pivotal moments of her youth. In a new body of work titled Folded Memories, the artist contends with…
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Artist Kilian Eng Turns Architecture Into Poetry in His Richly Detailed Retro-Futurist Illustrations
Source Design You Trust Kilian Eng is a Swedish graphics artist based in Stockholm, born in 1982. He’s widely regarded as the natural heir to Moebius’s throne of retro-futurist sci-fi illustration. Eng graduated from Konstfack, Stockholm’s University of Arts, Craft & Design, in 2010 with a bachelor’s and master’s in Graphic Design and Illustration, and…
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Endrit Marku’s Ambiguous Cityscapes Ask Viewers to Question Who Really Shapes Our Everyday Spaces
Source Design You Trust Endrit Marku (@endritmark) is an architect, visual artist, and lecturer from Tirana, Albania, who draws to explore and question the phenomena of our built environment. Marku holds a PhD focused on the relationship between space and authority, using Tirana’s shifting urban history across different political periods as his case study. Until…
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Manabu Yashiro Turns an Armored Wheelchair Into One of Modern Manga’s Most Brutal Visions
Source Design You Trust Manabu Yashiro is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator best known as the author of “Tank Chair” (戦車椅子), currently serialized in the monthly Shonen Sirius magazine, with volume 9 already published. Yashiro’s core series, Tank Chair, follows a protagonist named Nagi Taira piloting an armored, weaponized wheelchair through a chaotic, industrial…
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Artist Matt Schu Illustrates Children’s Books That Feel Hand-Cut From Light and Pape
Source Design You Trust Matt Schu is a children’s book illustrator and fine artist based in Portland, Oregon. He’s represented by Chad W. Beckerman at The CAT Agency for book illustration work. Schu studied art and design at the University of Oregon, then worked as a graphic designer and editorial illustrator before shifting focus to…
