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Transmissions: Matt Dixon Paints Rusty Robots Wandering a Quiet World That No Humans Ever Reached
Source Design You Trust Matt Dixon is a UK-based freelance illustrator and concept artist who has worked in the video games industry since 1988, with credits including Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Electronic Arts, and Blizzard Entertainment. Dixon is best known professionally for his colorful, over-the-top card art — his style has become closely associated with…
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Eugene Golovanchuk’s Cyberpunk Surrealism Has Quietly Reshaped Digital Fashion Design
Source Design You Trust Eugene Golovanchuk is a self-taught 3D artist and Visual Systems Director based in Kyiv, Ukraine, known for cyberpunk-tinged dark surrealism and digital fashion. Golovanchuk began working in 3D in 2016 and built his signature style through a self-imposed daily practice called “Everyday Art,” where he produced a new piece each day…
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Professional Illustrator Steve McDonald Builds a Bridge Between Traditional Illustration Craft and the Age of AI Art
Source Design You Trust Steve McDonald is an award-winning Canadian illustrator, a founding member of the artist collective Drawnonward, and an international bestselling author with Chronicle Books, now working at the intersection of traditional illustration and AI-assisted art. McDonald graduated from the Ontario College of Art & Design in 1992 and spent two decades with…
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A Short Film Sheds Light on the Garfield Phones Washing Up on a French Beach Since the ’80s
Source Colossal Amid the rugged, wave-churned shoreline of France’s Breton coast, a surprising tidbit of pop culture has kept beachcombers returning for more than 40 years. The short film “Silly Little Plastic Cat” transports us to this slice of Brittany, where local residents grew up collecting parts of a 1984 Garfield-themed plastic telephone on the…
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Featured Artist Shannon Rios
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Monumental Painted Wood Carvings by Jiang Miao Center Mindfulness
Source Colossal The spiral is one of the most ubiquitous, universal symbols. Or perhaps it is more apt to describe the motif as mimicked from nature, where it occurs in the form of seashells, flowers, and curling waves. From Neolithic stone carvings at Newgrange in Ireland to swirling motifs on prehistoric pottery discovered in Thailand,…
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‘Bodega Cats of New York’ Advocates for the City’s Beloved Feline Shopkeepers
Source Colossal In 2022, New York resident and bonafide feline devotee Dan Rimada felt that something needed to be done to shine a light on the city’s cats. The Big Apple not only has a real feral issue, but many of these creatures make their homes in iconic shops found around the city: bodegas. Over…
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Enigmatic Narratives Unfold in Aron Wiesenfeld’s Dreamy Oil Paintings
Source Colossal Whether playing a game of Uno on the back patio by the light of a headlamp or wading into a preternaturally still body of water on a pitch-black night, the figures in Aron Wiesenfeld’s works calmly exist amid an air of mystery. His enigmatic paintings and drawings entice viewers into a world of…