Source Design You Trust  Czech designer Kostya Petrenko has taken his love for retro visuals a step further with a new project that imagines what famous city logos might look like if they’d been designed in 1984. After playing with global brands in his earlier 1980s Rewind series, he’s now turning that same nostalgic lens…

Source Design You Trust  Malene Hartmann Rasmussen is a Danish ceramic artist based in London and southwest France, known for her narrative figurative sculptures and installations blending fairy tales, mythology, and animism. Her hyper-realistic clay worlds feature forests, trolls, monsters, and “inner beasts” — initially whimsical and toy-like, but revealing dark, uncanny undertones upon closer…

Source Colossal   From Do Ho Suh’s ethereal architecture to Kimsooja’s irridescent mirrors to Lauren Halsey’s fringed tapestry, a new book from Monacelli celebrates a broad spectrum of light and color. Rainbow Dreams features more than 200 installations, sculptures, paintings, photographs, and more that revel in the possibilities of pigment. Bound in a smooth gradient that…

Source Design You Trust  Mrs. M spent all her savings in October 1982 to buy a new Renault 5 from the Sodirac dealership in Chalon‑sur‑Saône. She chose the five‑door TL version with the 1108cc engine and a four‑speed gearbox, and she even selected the uncommon Shale Blue Metallic paint, reference 602. h/t: vintag.es, Instagram The…

Source Design You Trust  John Gagne is a fantasy illustrator specializing in world‑building, watercolor character designs and surreal concept art like “The Ghost King” and “Crimson Wizards,” blending pop surrealism with dark, atmospheric fantasy themes. More: Instagram

Source Design You Trust  Ito is a Kyoto‑based Japanese watercolor artist and ghost storyteller who creates haunting, monochromatic illustrations inspired by Junji Ito, Japanese folklore and horror cinema, often with a “samurai heart” and “comic book hero” vibe. His work features temples, Batman with cats, snowy mountains and supernatural scenes on Arches Cold Press paper.…

Source Design You Trust  Teo Skaffa is a Netherlands‑born illustrator and character designer now living in a small Italian countryside village near Rome, represented by Bright Agency Publishing for freelance and publishing work. He creates “creepy‑cute atmospheric scenes and characters” for children’s books, with influences from graffiti, horror films, Studio Ghibli, cinema and photography, and…

Source Design You Trust  Cosmic Explorer is an astronomy content creator and “meteorophile” who shares atmospheric night‑sky photography and space‑themed visuals on Instagram, inviting followers to “embark on a cosmic journey” through stars, meteors and surreal space edits. His posts pair poetic captions (“a surreal space where time dissolves, and the mind aligns with the…