Source Design You Trust  Jay Chung, working as djay_studio, is a contemporary oil painter whose recent pieces include works like “Rocked” and imagery tagged under themes like cosmos. His paintings have been shared by curators and style agencies, and his tags (#painting, #oilpainting, #oiloncanvas, #contemporaryart, #visionguides) point to a practice grounded in traditional materials with…

Source Design You Trust  Мtox is a digital illustrator from Malaysia with the tagline “life and arts.” Her work is built around a soft, dreamlike aesthetic — summery tones, a sense of weightlessness, and poetic captions about searching and dreaming. She posts art reels introducing herself and her process, and responds directly to followers who…

Source Colossal   Since 1998, Fumiaki Aono has been interested in how objects circulate and what happens when they appear in new contexts. Questions of restoration and regeneration naturally followed, and wood became a prime medium for exploring these themes. Today, Aono continues to revitalize found objects, particularly discarded furniture. Dressers, chests, and cabinets stack into…

Source Artsy Shark  Artist Genie Appel-Cohen presents a delightful collection of artwork created in her distinctive signature style. The post Featured Artist Genie Appel-Cohen appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Design You Trust  Thomas Dubois is a French filmmaker, art director, and former architect from Montpellier who reinvented himself as a self-taught concept artist, digital painter, and 3D creator. His early online worldbuilding projects caught the attention of Gareth Edwards, leading to work on The Creator, and he later contributed to Netflix’s Love, Death…

Source Design You Trust  Rutger van de Steeg is an environment concept artist with credits on major franchises including Borderlands 4, Star Wars: Visions, Secret Level, and Star Trek Prodigy. His work moves between sci-fi and fantasy worldbuilding, aerial compositions, and cinematic environment design for games and animated series. More: Instagram

Source Colossal   The small settlement of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard is literally frozen in time. A former mining outpost for the Soviet Union, industrial operations ceased in 1998, and residents relocated. It wasn’t until 2007 that a handful of new inhabitants made the settlement home. Because Pyramiden was abandoned in a cold…

Source Colossal   “When I was really little, I wanted to be one of those stackable chairs you’d see in like a school auditorium,” Felicia Chiao says. “I thought they looked cozy.” This childhood memory is the basis for a playful drawing in which Chiao’s signature characters mound atop one another. Layering reigns in this imagined…