Source Design You Trust  Syd Mead (1933–2019) was an American “visual futurist” who designed future cities, vehicles and technologies. Many of them became the look of late‑20th‑century science fiction. Mead’s first feature film was Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), where he visualized the interior of the V’Ger entity. Ridley Scott hired him for Blade…

Source Design You Trust  Pavel Pletnev turns the overlooked details of everyday urban life into miniature worlds. Originally from Omsk and now working in Saint Petersburg, the artist creates objects and installations that draw on the worn, improvised environments of contemporary Russia. His childhood fascination with model-making has become a way of examining the city…

Source Design You Trust  Alexander Parnassus creates AI-generated imagery that brings anime references, chrome futurism, supernatural characters, and imagined nightlife into the same visual world. His recent projects include Chrome Runner, The Girl Who Fell Into the Future, A Night in Tokyo, and Presence of Evil — titles that suggest scenes from films or stories…

Source Design You Trust  Booter is a digital artist whose published imagery brings together religious symbolism and fantasy: angels, hooded figures, a white rider, and a winged cross above a cemetery. The artist’s self-description, “Gods plan, not mine,” provides a spiritual frame for this body of work. Booter’s published captions include brief phrases such as…

Source Colossal   “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,” economist and computer scientist Herbert Simon warned in 1971. In our era of digital overload, it feels increasingly urgent—ironically—to remember to slow down. Too often we’re distracted by one thing or the next, looking down at our screens or paying attention to our surroundings…

Source Colossal   “I left my hometown / My hometown appears,” begins a poem by artist Shuling Guo titled “Temple II,” which shares its name with her forthcoming solo exhibition at Hollis Taggart. Drawing on sacred symbolism and nature, Guo delves into her memories of growing up in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, China, and the area’s unique mixture…

Source Colossal   Stumbling upon a battered end table or lost mitten is an opportunity for magic in Woo Jin Joo’s mind. The Seoul-born artist is known to gather furniture, garments, and other objects that have been left behind while walking near her home in London or commuting to her studio in Deptford. “I am not…

Source Colossal   Flowers for eyes, a horizon for a mouth… a popsicle for a holy relic? Rafael Silveira has long been interested in what he describes as “visual synonymies,” which he likens to “formal correspondences between seemingly unrelated things, moments in which one image unexpectedly recognizes itself in another.” The Brazilian artist’s surreal paintings replace…