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Meet the Lap Easel, a Portable Companion for Taking Creativity Anywhere
Source Colossal From birch plywood and select solid maple, birch, cherry, and other native hardwoods, Chicago maker and designer Bill Groot crafts handmade Lap Easels in small batches. The ingenious device is a portable, adjustable support that sits comfortably on your lap or tabletop. It’s perfect for a multitude of creative activities, like drawing and…
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Featured Artist Rob Sinkus
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Paul Ferney Paints Glowing Swimming Pools and Quiet Summer Nights That Feel Like Memories You Never Want to Lose
Source Design You Trust A swimming pool after dark becomes a different place in Paul Ferney’s paintings. The water glows against the surrounding night, and swimmers become softened shapes beneath the surface. These oil paintings capture more than a summer activity—they hold onto the feeling of a moment you wish could last a little longer.…
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A Look Back at the Halloween Nights When Homemade Treats and Drugstore Costumes Were Part of the Adventure
Source Design You Trust Halloween in the 1960s and 1970s was a neighborhood affair, filled with homemade decorations, school costume parades, and children heading out after dark with pillowcases ready for candy. For many kids, dressing up meant a Ben Cooper or Collegeville costume from the local drugstore: a thin plastic mask, a fragile rubber…
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Photographer Makes Familiar Faces Unfamiliar Through Miniature Scenes That Turn Everyday Expressions Into Visual Surprises
Source Design You Trust Marius Sperlich turns the human face into a stage for strange, sharply conceived visual jokes. Lips, teeth, eyes, and skin become the settings for miniature scenes that sit somewhere between beauty photography and surreal sculpture. His close-ups make you look twice—not simply because they are unusual, but because a familiar expression…
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Artist Roee Idah Sends Figures From Vintage Photographs Into Vast Cosmic Landscapes Where the Past Meets Another World
Source Design You Trust Roee Idah makes digital collages that look like memories from a world that never existed. Figures drawn from vintage photographs stand beneath enormous planets, while familiar landscapes open onto skies that belong somewhere far beyond Earth. The clothes and photographic textures recall the past; the surroundings make time and distance impossible…
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Featured Artist Donald Fox
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Digital Artist Charles Lopez Finds Romance in Silence, Storms and Landscapes That Don’t Care About Us
Source Design You Trust Charles Lopez creates cinematic images of a lone silhouette in vast, haunting landscapes. His work is about solitude, and he presents it as beautiful rather than sad. His scenes read like stills from a film that doesn’t exist. A plane sits abandoned in a dark field. The Eiffel Tower sinks into…