Source Design You Trust  At the National Museum of Funeral History, one exhibit carries a story far more human than its unsettling appearance first suggests: a large wooden casket built for three people. h/t: vintag.es It was commissioned in the mid-1930s by a young couple after the death of their infant daughter. Devastated by the…

Source Design You Trust  Steven Haulenbeek, an American artist and industrial designer who turns unpredictable natural processes into collectible furniture, lighting, and sculptural objects. His best-known works use carved ice and molten bronze, or reclaimed foundry sand and resin, so that weather, gravity, heat, texture, and chance become co-authors of the final design. Haulenbeek’s signature…

Source Design You Trust  Tye Martinez, a multidisciplinary artist and concept artist whose images merge photography, Photoshop, horror, science fiction, and personal emotion. His practice does not document reality so much as bend it into unsettling visual metaphors: empty houses, impossible shadows, hovering figures, spider-like bodies, suburban dread, and places where something is clearly wrong…

Source Artsy Shark  You spent years building a body of work and carefully selected images for your portfolio. Then what happened to it? The post Make Your Art Portfolio a Powerful Marketing Tool appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   Reuben “Rube” Goldberg (1883-1970) was known for his comic strips, political cartoons, and unique inventions. His most enduring legacy, however, is arguably the Rube Goldberg machine. Still bearing his name, these contraptions are often comical or playful due to their “overengineered” nature, using complex sequences of simple chain reactions like rolling ramps, weight…

Source Colossal   Known for his fantastical paintings of hybrid flora and fauna, Jon Ching channels the otherworldly in vibrant and meticulously detailed canvases. His precise renderings of regal creatures conjure elemental energies like fire and water, merged with the personalities of mammals, birds, and marine life. Inspired by his island upbringing on O’ahu, Hawai’i, Ching…

Source Design You Trust  Alan De Cecco, an Italian artist based in London who has been writing the name SODA since 1993. Emerging from graffiti, he has developed a precise visual language of deconstructed letters, floating geometry, and monochrome trompe-l’œil — work that makes flat walls appear to open into shifting architectural space. SODA starts…

Source Design You Trust  404.zero is an audiovisual art duo formed by Kristina Karpysheva and Aleksandr Letsius. Since 2016, they have created generative performances, immersive light installations, modular electronic music, and TouchDesigner tools that treat sound, image, code, and physical space as one living system. 404.zero does not use visuals as a backdrop for music.…