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In ‘Ascent,’ Debra Baxter Explores the Power in Vulnerability, Mysticism, and Time
Source Colossal From elemental materials like alabaster, quartz, garnet, and bronze, Debra Baxter assembles jewel-like sculptures that explore consciousness, nature, anatomy, and spirituality. For her most recent body of work on view now in Ascent at Roq La Rue, the artist meanders into a more mystical side of history, infused with a tinge of punk…
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Art History and Pop Culture Converge in Frederich Kunath’s ‘The Nearest Faraway Place’
Source Colossal Frederich Kunath describes that he aims to make his paintings “feel like songs.” The logo for the band Oasis turns up in a top corner of “Sometimes I’m Almost There,” and there is a kind of surreal, set-like quality to his vibrant, cinematic works. “Kunath explores themes of distance and (re)location, where a…
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Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Celebrates 25th Anniversary With Silver Exhibition
Source Colossal The most reflective element on Earth, silver has transformed the ways in which humans perceive, record, and understand the world. Presented on the occasion of the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s milestone 25th anniversary, A Material Inheritance employs silver as both subject and lens, inviting reflection on the institution’s past while considering the…
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Featured Artist Laura Moser
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Artist Builds a Glitching, Bio-Mechanical Universe Where Electronic Music, CGI, and Body Horror Become One Continuous Story
Source Design You Trust Cat Soup is the multidisciplinary project of California-based artist and musician Logan Walden. The work brings together electronic music, 3D animation, CGI, graphic design, merch, and an evolving fictional universe called Nanophage — a strange, colourful, body-horror-inflected world where synthetic organisms, consumer technology, mutation, and internet-era surrealism all coexist. Cat Soup…
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Nicolas Lopardo Turns Maps, HUDs, Data Systems, and Glowing Screens Into the Invisible Architecture of Modern Science-Fiction Cinema
Source Design You Trust Nicolas Lopardo is a Toronto-based graphic, brand, and interface designer whose work helps define the visual language of modern blockbusters and AAA games. He specializes in FUI — fictional user interfaces — the screens, HUDs, command systems, maps, and data visualizations that make invented technologies feel believable on film. His credits…
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Rhubarbes Lab Reimagines Dystopian Character Design Through Alien Pilots, Armoured Animals, and Brutal Industrial Silhouettes
Source Design You Trust Rhubarbes Lab is an independent AI-driven visual-design project that explores dystopian worlds, speculative machines, bio-mechanical creatures, alien pilots, and collectible-toy concepts. Built on a background in automotive design, the project uses generative image tools including Niji and Magnific AI to test what futuristic vehicles, characters, and artifacts might look like when…
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Daniel Widrig Uses 3D Printing and Robotics to Create Objects That Feel Less Like Machines and More Like Strange Living Organisms
Source Design You Trust Daniel Widrig is a London-based artist, architect, and designer whose work turns digital models into physical objects that look grown, eroded, stretched, or caught mid-transformation. His practice spans sculpture, furniture, fashion, architecture, glass, and public art, using 3D printing, robotic fabrication, CNC milling, and experimental materials to collapse the distance between…