Source Design You Trust  Mook Phoungbut is a New York–based VP Design Director whose work spans branding, typography, illustration, campaigns, and digital experiences. Her practice is driven by the idea that design should be purposeful as well as visually distinctive: a strong visual system is not decoration, but a way to make culture, identity, and…

Source Design You Trust  Electro Futurescapes is a UK-based anonymous AI-art curation account. Its formula is clear and intentional: futuristic concept art generated with AI is paired with electro tracks to tell short dystopian stories, turning each post into a miniature audiovisual world rather than a standalone image. The account’s visual identity sits between retro-futurism,…

Source Artsy Shark  Enjoy the fascinating world of photographer Calvin Schnure, who expertly captures wildlife in their natural habitat. The post Featured Artist Calvin Schnure appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   In the Oscar-winning film American Fiction, the irritable protagonist Thelonious “Monk” Ellison describes his work as follows: “I just invent little people in my mind and make them have conversations with each other.” The film, which director Cord Jefferson adapted from Percival Everett’s novel Erasure, grapples with stereotypes and the ways we’re asked…

Source Colossal   Headquartered in Stockton, California, Blackwing is about finding the joy in analog creative tools at a time when digital devices consume our attention. The manufacturer produces its signature pencils in a series of specialized factories in Japan, where the graphite cores are meticulously processed before being sent to a wood shop. In a…

Source Design You Trust  3D Beast is a New York–based architecture and computational-design practice focused on bio-engineered wearable structures. The central idea behind 3D Beast is the translation of architectural systems into things that can be worn. Instead of treating buildings, garments, and digital models as separate disciplines, the practice develops complex structures that operate…

Source Colossal   In his essay “The Passing Wisdom of Birds,” environmentalist and writer Barry Lopez rued how scientific methodology doesn’t take into consideration our senses or perception, how data is divorced from the experience of nature. “Biology should borrow here from quantum physics, which accepts the premise that, under certain circumstances, the observer can be…

Source Design You Trust  Lora Zombie is a self-taught Russian contemporary painter, born in Voronezh in 1990, best known for her explosive “grunge art” style — a collision of pop culture, punk attitude, comic-book imagery, unicorns, and social commentary. She began drawing as a child, built an international following through DeviantArt and social media in…