Source Colossal   From happenstance and humor to solemnity and tension, the images topping the 2026 Pure Street Photography Awards run the gamut of daily scenes. The annual contest is organized into two categories: black-and-white and open. Reflections of New York City meet dramatic views of urban spaces and pensive tableaux in rural communities, emphasizing timely…

Source Design You Trust  Matías Vivanco Brellenthin is a 3D digital artist and director from Santiago, Chile. He specializes in surreal sci-fi and fantasy imagery built entirely in Blender, and has worked with clients including Nissan, NVIDIA, Lil Nas X, and TCHAMI. Brellias started in 2017 making posters purely to practice color and composition, and…

Source Design You Trust  Eugene Golovanchuk is a self-taught 3D artist and Visual Systems Director based in Kyiv, Ukraine, known for cyberpunk-tinged dark surrealism and digital fashion. Golovanchuk began working in 3D in 2016 and built his signature style through a self-imposed daily practice called “Everyday Art,” where he produced a new piece each day…

Source Design You Trust  Matt Dixon is a UK-based freelance illustrator and concept artist who has worked in the video games industry since 1988, with credits including Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Electronic Arts, and Blizzard Entertainment. Dixon is best known professionally for his colorful, over-the-top card art — his style has become closely associated with…

Source Design You Trust  Steve McDonald is an award-winning Canadian illustrator, a founding member of the artist collective Drawnonward, and an international bestselling author with Chronicle Books, now working at the intersection of traditional illustration and AI-assisted art. McDonald graduated from the Ontario College of Art & Design in 1992 and spent two decades with…

Source Colossal   Amid the rugged, wave-churned shoreline of France’s Breton coast, a surprising tidbit of pop culture has kept beachcombers returning for more than 40 years. The short film “Silly Little Plastic Cat” transports us to this slice of Brittany, where local residents grew up collecting parts of a 1984 Garfield-themed plastic telephone on the…

Source Artsy Shark  Painter Shannon Rios interprets the landscape and all of her subjects in a distinctly personal creative style. The post Featured Artist Shannon Rios appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   The spiral is one of the most ubiquitous, universal symbols. Or perhaps it is more apt to describe the motif as mimicked from nature, where it occurs in the form of seashells, flowers, and curling waves. From Neolithic stone carvings at Newgrange in Ireland to swirling motifs on prehistoric pottery discovered in Thailand,…