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Beyond the Black: Emotional Macabre Storytelling at the Edge of Fantasy by Sarah Breen
Source Design You Trust Sarah Breen is a Las Vegas-based artist specializing in pen and ink drawings with a distinctly dark, surreal edge. After spending fifteen years in the motorcycle industry, she transitioned to art full-time—quickly gaining recognition for her meticulous fine line work and macabre, emotionally resonant subject matter. Her pieces often explore themes…
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Spectacular Award-Winning Street and Travel Photographs from the Chromatic Photography Awards
Source Design You Trust 1st Place winner: “Tokyo Revengers” by Riccardo Roan, Italy The Chromatic Photography Awards spotlight the transformative power of a skilled photographer’s eye, turning everyday scenes into visual masterpieces. This year’s Street and Travel category winners showcase how color, emotion, and timing can merge to create striking, cinematic moments from places like…
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Social Realism and the Surreal Converge in Bryce Wymer’s Evocative Sketchbooks
Source Colossal Mysterious light sources, geometric puzzles, disjointed figures, and bold hues characterize the diverse, narrative compositions of Bryce Wymer. The Brooklyn-based artist is known for his enigmatic, emotive murals, paintings, and illustrations. Merging the analog and the digital, Wymer’s pieces often explore themes of social interactions and power dynamics, often through a lens tinged…
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The 2025 Comedy Wildlife Awards Showcase Furious Brawls and Relatable Mishaps
Source Colossal As it turns out, humans aren’t the only animals with a flair for drama. The 2025 Comedy Wildlife Awards (previously) presents another collection of angsty, surprised, and utterly terrified creatures around the globe. This year’s competition highlights several characters that would be right at home in a neighborhood yoga studio, from the elegant…
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‘Lo—TEK Water’ Wants to Reshape the World Through Indigenous Technologies
Source Colossal From record-breaking droughts and catastrophic flash floods to contaminated pipelines and increasingly thirsty AI farms, water is at the nexus of the climate crisis. The life-giving liquid is both scarce and too abundant, causing half the global population to lack sustained access to fresh drinking water, while much of the world is subject…
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Pop Culture Redux: Vivid and Humorous Illustrations of Niclas M.
Source Design You Trust Niclas M., (aka Monkeymouthart), is a Guatemalan-born artist specializing in kitsch and lowbrow art, illustration, and graphic design. His work exhibits a vibrant, contemporary style infused with humor, surrealism, and a playful take on pop culture themes. Niclas merges traditional and digital techniques to create vivid, narrative-rich images that often feature…
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Classic Tattoo Art Collides with Pop Culture in Stunning Illustrations of Dave Quiggle
Source Design You Trust Dave Quiggle is an American artist, illustrator, and tattooer known for his unique blend of midcentury-inspired flash art infused with modern graphic sensibilities. Raised in a small town, Quiggle was influenced by monster magazines, cartoons, and punk music, which shaped his creative vision and distinctive style that combines whimsy with intellectual…
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Land Between the Lakes: Blake Daniels @ Bremond Capela, Paris
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Close your eyes. A creature crawls through the forest at dawn. Dew drops cling to its skin. An ear peeks out from a tuft of damp vegetation. Saliva drips slowly onto the moist earth. The scent of awakening soil rises gradually. This creature is you—your double, your…