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Artist Kilian Eng Turns Architecture Into Poetry in His Richly Detailed Retro-Futurist Illustrations
Source Design You Trust Kilian Eng is a Swedish graphics artist based in Stockholm, born in 1982. He’s widely regarded as the natural heir to Moebius’s throne of retro-futurist sci-fi illustration. Eng graduated from Konstfack, Stockholm’s University of Arts, Craft & Design, in 2010 with a bachelor’s and master’s in Graphic Design and Illustration, and…
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Artist Matt Schu Illustrates Children’s Books That Feel Hand-Cut From Light and Pape
Source Design You Trust Matt Schu is a children’s book illustrator and fine artist based in Portland, Oregon. He’s represented by Chad W. Beckerman at The CAT Agency for book illustration work. Schu studied art and design at the University of Oregon, then worked as a graphic designer and editorial illustrator before shifting focus to…
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Manabu Yashiro Turns an Armored Wheelchair Into One of Modern Manga’s Most Brutal Visions
Source Design You Trust Manabu Yashiro is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator best known as the author of “Tank Chair” (戦車椅子), currently serialized in the monthly Shonen Sirius magazine, with volume 9 already published. Yashiro’s core series, Tank Chair, follows a protagonist named Nagi Taira piloting an armored, weaponized wheelchair through a chaotic, industrial…
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Endrit Marku’s Ambiguous Cityscapes Ask Viewers to Question Who Really Shapes Our Everyday Spaces
Source Design You Trust Endrit Marku (@endritmark) is an architect, visual artist, and lecturer from Tirana, Albania, who draws to explore and question the phenomena of our built environment. Marku holds a PhD focused on the relationship between space and authority, using Tirana’s shifting urban history across different political periods as his case study. Until…
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An Inflatable Pool Party by Craig & Karl Fills a Dubai Atrium with Summer Fun
Source Colossal At ICD Brookfield Place in Dubai, a vibrant collection of smiling inflatables sprouts from a vaulted ceiling, creating a suspended pool party of colorful forms. The spirited installation is titled “Under the Sun” and the latest project by duo Craig & Karl. “We wanted to capture the warmth, vibrancy, and joy of summer—distilled…
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On Vintage Boards, Lou Benesch Conjures the Fantastic World of The Magician
Source Colossal Enter The Magician’s Room, and you’ll encounter a brawny horse with a serpent coiled on its back, a flock of headless birds diving into a central star, and a fluffy white rabbit framed by an unblinking circle of eyes. This surreal, liminal space is the setting for a new body of work by…
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‘Stories in the Seams’ Showcases the Enduring Legacy of Black Quilts Across Centuries
Source Colossal From the late 18th century through the end of the Civil War, the Underground Railroad was a network of safe houses where freedom-seekers from the South could find safety and shelter as they traveled north, sometimes all the way to Canada to escape capture and prosecution. It’s possible that there may have even…
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Sift Through Grace Baldwin’s Giant Junk Drawer Filled with Nostalgia
Source Colossal We all have one, or at least some version of it: the junk drawer. Mine is a jumble of charging cables, old nails, a lanyard, matchbooks, a few key rings, scissors, an expired bottle of vitamins, every Allen wrench from every IKEA shelf I ever assembled, a few rubber bands, and frankly, who…