Source Design You Trust  Sıla Şehrazat Yücel is an Istanbul-based artist who blends her background in landscape architecture (Istanbul University, 2010) and master’s degree in design with experience as art director in cinema and theater. Her practice spans digital painting, AI-generated art, jewelry, and decorative objects. Yücel’s signature aesthetic is surreal, evocative, and asymmetrical, featuring…

Source Design You Trust  Tim Tadder is a self-taught advertising photographer, director, and conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. Tadder’s early exposure came from his father’s darkrooms; he later became renowned for high-concept series like “Water Wigs” (high-speed captures of exploding water balloons on bald heads). His commercial work serves Nike, Amazon, and Getty Images,…

Source Design You Trust  Kim Collister is a mixed media artist based in Conway, Arkansas, creating vibrant, textural journals, collages, and altered books that celebrate experimentation with paper, paint, and found objects. Collister’s aesthetic is whimsical yet layered, featuring gessoed substrates, vintage brushes, reflective paints, and stenciled patterns. Recent series explore color theory (“The Untruth…

Source Design You Trust  Fabian Oberhammer (previously featured), known as The Dizzy Viper, is an Italian digital artist born in 1997 in Merano, South Tyrol. Since February 2017, he has created a daily digital artwork—over 3,000 pieces—without missing a single day, building a monumental “Everydays” project. Oberhammer specializes in hyper-realistic 3D renders of supercars, luxury…

Source Design You Trust  Justin Parpan is a San Diego-born writer, producer, animator, and visual development artist. A CalArts graduate (2006), he is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at USC Cinematic Arts and Creative Director at Parpan Creative (co-founded with brother Josh Parpan). Parpan has 15+ years in animation, art directing Disney TV series like…

Source Design You Trust  Christian Miller (aka Xtian Miller) is a Detroit-based graphic designer and visual artist renowned for his experimental typographic posters that fuse Swiss modernism with Japanese minimalism. Miller’s signature kinetic typography creates optical tension through distorted, layered letterforms that pulse with rhythm and motion. His ongoing NAZARUNE project explores Christian theology through…

Source Design You Trust  Monastery Jewellery is a handmade jewelry brand created by Ashleigh McCulloch, operating from studios in Amsterdam and Johannesburg. The pieces fuse ancient, mythic forms with punk edge—heavy, raw, and deliberately austere. McCulloch crafts heirloom-quality items using lost-wax casting and traditional metalsmithing in sterling silver, gold, and bronze. Each piece is unique,…

Source Colossal   “Play is how we give permission,” says Vitor Freire, co-founder of the Amsterdam-based studio Imagination of Things. “Permission to challenge what’s fixed, rehearse what doesn’t exist yet, and close the distance between people who wouldn’t otherwise meet.” Freire and co-founder Monique Grimord take play seriously and, in a new project, their studio created…