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…

Source Design You Trust  Not every fantasy world needs dragons breathing fire or armies preparing for an epic battle. Sometimes, all it takes is a cat sitting beneath an enormous moon, a glowing swan illuminating a quiet garden, or an angel spreading her wings against a sky filled with stars. American illustrator Sam Perin creates…

Source Design You Trust  Somewhere beneath an impossibly large moon, a little girl sits alone, watching the stars. Elsewhere, a quiet city glimmers in the rain, a mysterious tree sparkles with thousands of tiny lights, and distant planets fill a sky that seems far too beautiful to belong to our world. These gentle, dreamlike scenes…

Source Colossal   Looking at the serene paintings that emerge from Sky Glabush’ s studio, it’s easy to feel a soft breeze sliding off bare summer shoulders or hear the crunch of leaves underfoot, their parched fibers reverberating across the autumn landscape. Transportive and atmospherically charged, the landscapes harness the allure of texture to draw the…

Source Colossal   A confection of arches and windows has emerged in the Gospel Oak neighborhood of Camden in northwest London, thanks to Peter Morris Architects and a unique collaborative ownership approach. “The Cloud House,” which actually comprises two side-by-side townhomes, practically froths from its foundations. One side is occupied by the architect himself along with…