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Rhubarbes Lab Reimagines Dystopian Character Design Through Alien Pilots, Armoured Animals, and Brutal Industrial Silhouettes
Source Design You Trust Rhubarbes Lab is an independent AI-driven visual-design project that explores dystopian worlds, speculative machines, bio-mechanical creatures, alien pilots, and collectible-toy concepts. Built on a background in automotive design, the project uses generative image tools including Niji and Magnific AI to test what futuristic vehicles, characters, and artifacts might look like when…
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Nicolas Lopardo Turns Maps, HUDs, Data Systems, and Glowing Screens Into the Invisible Architecture of Modern Science-Fiction Cinema
Source Design You Trust Nicolas Lopardo is a Toronto-based graphic, brand, and interface designer whose work helps define the visual language of modern blockbusters and AAA games. He specializes in FUI — fictional user interfaces — the screens, HUDs, command systems, maps, and data visualizations that make invented technologies feel believable on film. His credits…
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Artist Turns Renaissance Paintings, Digital Fragments, and Dream Logic Into Surreal Worlds That Feel More Like Memories Than Collages
Source Design You Trust Chema Mendez, is a self-taught surreal digital-collage artist from the Canary Islands. Since 2009, he has created layered images that merge the visual gravity of classical painting with photography, 3D renders, hand-drawn elements, and carefully selected AI-generated details. The goal is not to make collage look fragmented, but to make it…
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Daniel Widrig Uses 3D Printing and Robotics to Create Objects That Feel Less Like Machines and More Like Strange Living Organisms
Source Design You Trust Daniel Widrig is a London-based artist, architect, and designer whose work turns digital models into physical objects that look grown, eroded, stretched, or caught mid-transformation. His practice spans sculpture, furniture, fashion, architecture, glass, and public art, using 3D printing, robotic fabrication, CNC milling, and experimental materials to collapse the distance between…
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Symmetry and Biomorphic Forms Characterize Roberta Gentry’s Sensual Paintings
Source Colossal Through brilliant oranges and moody shades of blue, Los Angeles-based artist Roberta Gentry renders vivid, balanced compositions that, as she says, take the senses seriously. Gentry has long been interested in the relationship between the constructed and the natural, cultivating abstract, biomorphic forms scaffolded by tall columns. Gravitating toward symmetry and restricted palettes,…
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Sara Anstis’ Soft Pastels Summon Mythology, Dreams, and the Renaissance
Source Colossal A figure appears to have been subsumed by a bookcase, and another is swathed in a green sleeping bag beneath a makeshift tent. Whether navigating a bathtub fitted with oars or sleeping in a bed while stacked like pancakes, the figures in Sara Anstis’ atmospheric drawings are immersed in curious activities. Hints of…
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Say Hello to PÉPET, a Pear-Shaped, Palm-Size Paper Pal
Source Colossal Have you ever imagined a pear or an apple with a personality? If the fruit suddenly had two eyes and a stem-like nose, it might look a little like PÉPET, the palm-size “paper friend” produced by TAKEO Co., Ltd. Originally designed by Masae Nagao, the colorful characters come with names like “Dandel,” “Fuji,”…
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Jack Oliva-Rendler’s Work Shows Why the Most Important Architecture of the Future May Be the Kind You Explore Before It Exists
Source Design You Trust Jack Oliva-Rendler is a Los Angeles–based architect, designer, researcher, and educator exploring how 3D modeling, GIS, algorithms, and artificial intelligence can reshape ecological and urban design. He is the co-founder and CEO of AURA Engine, author of Terrestrial Architecture, and a professor of architecture at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College. Oliva-Rendler’s work…
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