Source Design You Trust  Kapi Michalska is a graphic designer and expressive portrait painter based in Szczecin, Poland, working primarily in Procreate. Michalska’s signature style layers semi-realistic facial features with bold, abstract shapes and colorful, expressive brushwork, so the shapes she draws don’t just decorate a portrait but actively bring new meaning to it. Her…

Source Design You Trust  Roberto Giacomucci is an Italian architect and designer from Ancona. Giacomucci built his professional career as an architect and industrial designer, founding Studio Giacomucci Design in 1994. He has collaborated with major galleries and design houses including Rossana Orlandi in Milan, Fragile Milano, Mint London, Matter of Stuff London, Bontempi, and…

Source Design You Trust  David Díez is a Spanish illustrator and draftsman from Salamanca. Díez specializes in detailed pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations of robots, cyborgs, and creatures that blend cyberpunk, steampunk, and what he playfully calls “licantropunk” aesthetics — a personal mashup of werewolf mythology and punk machinery. His work often depicts intricate mechanical dragons,…

Source Colossal   From materials we normally discard like padded packaging or the mesh sleeves that protect fruit from bruising, Suzanne Jongmans summons elegant and dreamlike Renaissance portraits. The artist drapes models in lush velvet fabrics and typically positions them against deep backgrounds in the vein of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” (1489-91) or…

Source Colossal   Scientists have long studied how magnetic energy powers solar activity. The constant motion of plasma particles and the sun’s rotation are major contributors to its cycles and events, such as flares and coronal mass ejections, which lob huge quantities of plasma and gas into space. Sometimes these explosions reach the earth’s magnetic field…

Source Artsy Shark  You may have found yourself wondering whether you should lower the prices on your artwork just to make a sale. The post Pricing Your Art in a Weak Economy appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   Like many kids, I struggled with bedtime. I was a naturally anxious child with a vast imagination and siblings who loved to watch scary movies, leaving me capable of generating an endless array of terrifying things that could happen once the lights went out. To remedy this problem, my mother designated a particular…

Source Colossal   Described by its anonymous creators as “the largest search engine for museum art,” The Last Museum is a veritable trove of the the world’s great works. It currently includes pieces by more than 290,000 artists, which are held across 4,903 museums and represent 304 cultures and nationalities. A lot of the works are…