Source Colossal   Money manufacturers the world over are forever contending with counterfeiters. Before the U.K. introduced a new pound coin in 2017, for example, the earlier version was easy enough to fake that there were tens of millions of fraudulent copies in circulation. The same goes for paper bank notes, which over the years have…

Source Colossal   Just north of Cusco in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, a small studio draws on ancient Peruvian traditions. The town of Urubamba is home to Ceramicas Seminarios, a workshop founded by husband and wife Pablo Seminario and Marilú Behar in 1980. For decades, the pair and their team have been crafting sculptures,…

Source Colossal   Who said parking garages were just for cars? British artist and color devotee Liz West has transformed a single floor of a typical concrete structure into an immersive chromatic environment fit for skating, dancing, and basking in a rainbow glow. To create “Our Colour,” West covered hundreds of existing lights in the Cabot…

Source Design You Trust  Anka Yanovna is a digital artist creating whimsical, cosmic fantasy illustrations featuring chunky robots, wood bots, celestial seas, portals, mirrors, and heart motifs. The style blends playful, rounded organic forms with glowing, otherworldly elements — constellations in jars, star‑catching bots, dimension‑shifting mirrors, and blooming signals — often framed as narrative vignettes…

Source Design You Trust  Adipocere is a Melbourne‑based embroidery artist who crafts intricate, macabre illustrations on natural linen using hand embroidery, blending innocence with unsettling melancholy and surrealism. Themes draw from occult motifs, danse macabre, vanitas, death and the maiden, spiders, bats, skulls, and existential concepts like martyrdom and impermanence, often portraying raven‑haired maidens interacting…

Source Design You Trust  David Michael Wright is a Yorkshire‑based British freelance artist and illustrator who creates dark art, dark fantasy, horror and sci‑fi imagery, working mainly from his home studio in Royston, near Barnsley. Born in 1979 and raised on 1980s cartoons, movies and hand‑painted poster art, he cites Clive Barker, Graham Humphreys, H.R.…

Source Colossal   From dramatic aquatic encounters to deep caves to fish and amphibians closely guarding their eggs, there’s an entire world below the surface that few of us ever really get to see. That’s where images like those in the annual Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) come in, glimpsing some of the darkest depths…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  One of the leading postmodern painters of the last fifty years, David Salle’s art is one of juxtaposition, and his artistic “style” is the integration of disparate, contrasting styles. Since the 1980s, Salle has plucked compelling imagery from art history, print advertising and, most extensively, his own…