Source Colossal   Gaia Alari’s works are defined by a distinct, effervescent visual language. Made from thousands of handmade drawings on paper, the artist’s elaborate animations put on strikingly tactile performances as fleeting marks of oil pastel and charcoal dance across the screen. Meandering botanical forms, gestural bodies, and sweeping birds converge into fluid loops that…

Source Colossal   How might we visualize the inextricable web of space, time, and matter, enormous concepts that are so systemic they can almost become abstract? Rendering these connections in a tangible, accessible, and even participatory manner continues to ground Tomás Saraceno’s multidisciplinary practice. Born in Argentina and based in Berlin, the artist plays with scale…

Source Colossal   The year’s best roundup of the funniest animal photos is back with its list of 2026 finalists, taking on a kind of blooper reel-like quality with some of the goofiest happenstances and candid moments photographers captured. Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 celebrates the wild, wonderful, and wily in habitats around the world. From…

Source Design You Trust  Liam Pannier, a French freelance CG artist, 3D motion designer, and art director based in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. He creates surreal, space-centered imagery that combines astronauts, luminous planets, zero-gravity scenes, dramatic scale, and quiet emotional storytelling. Pannier’s signature images often place a lone astronaut in an impossible situation: floating above a…

Source Design You Trust  Eric Hallquist, a digital concept artist and illustrator building an original dark-fantasy universe through character designs, haunted forests, monumental ruins, strange guardians, and fragments of a broken world. Hallquist’s work favors dense forests, fog, tangled organic forms, deep shadows, washed-out morning light, and creatures or structures that blur the line between…

Source Design You Trust  The Red Prince is an anonymous AI-artist behind the a dark-fantasy project centered on the aftermath of power: fallen kingdoms, dethroned rulers, ruined fortresses, cursed knights, and candlelit throne rooms. Its images draw on Renaissance-style chiaroscuro, deep burgundy-and-obsidian palettes, gothic architecture, and the cinematic atmosphere of a graphic novel. The project’s…

Source Design You Trust  Thomas Cian, a Milan-born Italian illustrator and fine artist known for remarkably intimate charcoal and graphite portraits. A graduate of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, he treats drawing not as a preliminary step toward another medium, but as a complete language for observation, memory, and emotional presence. Cian’s subjects are…

Source Colossal   Avant-garde style, technology, and performance converge in a fantastical, joyous competition every year in New Zealand. World of WearableArt is a vibrant multimedia competition established in 1987, which continues to invite entrants from around the world to sew and sculpt their most ambitious garments. Whimsical and technically impressive, many of the works call…