Source Design You Trust  At first glance, Haevan Lee’s enormous paintings look like joyful explosions of color. Swirling pinks, soft yellows, turquoise waves, and delicate floral patterns spread across canvases that sometimes seem too large for the walls surrounding them. There’s an almost psychedelic beauty to these imaginary landscapes, but behind their cheerful appearance lies…

Source Design You Trust  Imagine catching a falling star in your hands, wearing the night sky like a delicate veil, or sitting quietly on the edge of the world while the universe unfolds around you. These are the kinds of beautiful impossibilities that fill the illustrations of JIA, an independent artist whose ethereal fantasy scenes…

Source Design You Trust  In Anna Podedworna’s world, even the wolves look like they could take down an entire army. Her fantasy illustrations are packed with snarling beasts, battle-hardened warriors, monstrous creatures, and enough dramatic action to fill several epic adventures. Whether she’s depicting a desperate confrontation with an enormous predator or a mysterious sorcerer…

Source Design You Trust  A golden forest glows beneath the evening sun. A mysterious creature stands beneath a perfect crescent moon, while an enormous celestial disc rises above a restless ocean. In the imaginative world of British artist Ed Perkins, these scenes feel like illustrations from an ancient book of myths that somehow survived into…

Source Colossal   In the second stanza of “How to Be a Poet,” Wendell Berry wrote: “There are no unsacred places; / there are only sacred places / and desecrated places.” When it comes to preserving important historical locations, such as monuments, parks, and buildings, a new interactive public art installation asks, “what happens when preservation…

Source Colossal   Celestial filmmaker Seán Doran is back with a new project that interprets stellar snapshots from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The footage-like video tours the sun and reveals its fiery surface complete with brilliant solar flares, all depicted in a distinctive crimson. To create the film, Doran attributed various pinks and reds to different…

Source Design You Trust  There’s a particular kind of nostalgia that lives in old Soviet apartments. The patterned carpets hanging on walls, lace curtains filtering the afternoon sunlight, battered wooden furniture, and cluttered rooms filled with objects nobody ever thought to throw away. Russian 3D artist Grigory Proskurin captures these details with remarkable precision, recreating…

Source Design You Trust  There are places that look perfectly inviting until you notice the crooked windows, the strange shadows in the forest, or the enormous creature lurking somewhere beyond the horizon. British concept artist Andy Walsh has a particular talent for creating such places. His atmospheric fantasy illustrations transport viewers into mysterious villages, abandoned…