Source Design You Trust  Elizabeth Hurley’s teenage years were very different from her later red-carpet image. In the early 1980s, she embraced punk and goth style in Hampshire, Brighton, and London, bleaching her hair, wearing a nose ring, and even singing in a local punk band called the Vested Virgins. She later said the look…

Source Design You Trust  Wenqing Yan, known as Yuumei, makes art that feels like it has something to say. The work is full of fantasy, environmental themes, and emotional tension, but it never loses its sense of wonder. What stays with me most is how the images feel both beautiful and pointed. There’s a real…

Source Design You Trust  Photon Tide feels like someone making art out of inner weather. The work is psychedelic, emotional, and a little cosmic, like it’s pulling images straight out of a dream and giving them shape. What hits first is the mood. There’s loneliness, motion, and a kind of beautiful unease running through the…

Source Colossal   In the ever-expanding pantheon of open-world video games where combat, survival, crafting, and anarchy reign, the simple idea of taking a virtual walk while chatting with a few friends might seem pointless. A new video game from Melbourne-based developer House House begs to differ, though, turning a casual stroll across dreamy landscapes into…

Source Colossal   The Colombian artist Delcy Morelos describes her hometown of Tierralta as “a paradise full of butterflies and unpaved streets.” In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Morelos spent her days in her grandmother’s garden, running barefoot and gleaning what it meant to live in connection with the land. When paramilitary and guerrilla troops…

Source Colossal   As collector Jochen Raiß (1969-2022) scoured flea markets and antique stalls for the better part of three decades for snapshots, he began to notice a running theme. Over time, he amassed a trove of photos by anonymous photographers with an unusually high number of portraits of women posing in trees. Swiss newspaper Züricher…

Source Colossal   “Matter is memory, and memory is a medium,” says artist Annalise Neil, whose surreal cyanotypes brim with animals, fungi, geological specimens, shells, and more, which she augments with watercolor. Recently, the artist has been adding rich, earthy tones with natural dyes such as wild strawberry leaf, oak gall, loquat leaf, and chestnut. She…

Source Artsy Shark  New Zealand artist Bill Rainey presents a collection of majestic mountain landscapes created in a striking signature style. Enjoy more of his work by visiting his website.     I have had a lifelong engagement with mountains, as a climber, a hiker, and an observer moving through alpine environments over many years.…