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Design Studio Creates Sustainable Design That Does Not Hide Its Materials – It Lets Their Past Become Part of the Form
Source Design You Trust STANITEMS is a Paris-based experimental design studio founded by Stanislas Derrey, making sculptural furniture, collectible objects, and spatial works through 3D printing, material reuse, and hands-on prototyping. Its work treats discarded or “abandoned” matter as a starting point for new forms, combining sustainability with an unapologetically strange, contemporary object language. STANITEMS…
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Concept Artist Makes Automotive Art Feel Like Worldbuilding, Giving Every Car, Reflection, and Road a Sense of Motion and Character
Source Design You Trust Alex Blyzniuk — a Ukrainian concept artist and visual-development specialist with more than 15 years of professional experience in games and animation. He is based in Rivne and focuses especially on environment design, background art, and automotive illustration. Alex’s work has the speed and clarity of production concept art, but it…
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Artist Turns Y2K Nostalgia Into Glossy 3D Objects That Make Old Technology Feel More Futuristic Than Ever
Source Design You Trust SAY!, a Ukrainian 3D motion and brand-identity artist whose practice turns nostalgia into glossy, animated digital objects. Drawing on the visual language of 1990s and 2000s consumer culture — keychains, MiniDiscs, charms, toy packaging, chrome logotypes, and cult media references — the work makes familiar artifacts feel newly collectible and alive.…
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Nidia Dias Turns Geometry, Light, and Motion Into Abstract Visual Worlds That Make Complex Ideas Feel Instantly Human
Source Design You Trust Nidia Dias, a Portuguese creative director, art director, and 3D motion designer who turns abstract ideas into refined visual stories through geometry, light, shadow, material, and movement. With more than 15 years in 3D and motion graphics, she works globally from Portugal across creative strategy, direction, design, and hands-on execution. Dias’s…
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Gaia Alari’s Lilting Animations are Drawn Frame by Frame
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…
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Tomás Saraceno Returns to the Past to Envision a More Just Future
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…
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Wild Hijinx and Hilarious Happenstance Reign in the 2026 Comedy Wildlife Awards
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…
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3D Artist Builds Cinematic Worlds Where the Human Figure Is Tiny, the Planets Are Close, and Reality Has Quietly Stopped Working
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…
