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Soft, Color-Rich Compositions And Precise Line Art That Make Every Illustration Feel Like A Page From A Gentle, Philosophical Storybook
Source Design You Trust Norino Shi is an award‑winning digital artist, illustrator, director and visual narrative artist, born in China and now based in New York. She focuses on uncertainty about the universe, life and death, using digital illustration, experimental short films and installation sculpture to build poetic, symbolic worlds. Her work often features female…
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Incredible Surreal Sci‑fi Architecture by Darius Puia Inspired By Ghost In The Shell, Video Games And A Lifelong Obsession With Futuristic Design
Source Design You Trust Darius Puia is a digital artist based in Germany who creates hyper‑detailed cyberpunk, sci‑fi and surreal worlds, often combining 3D and 2D to build futuristic cityscapes, dystopian architectures and enigmatic objects like torus portals. His work is driven by a love of intricate sci‑fi structures, strong lighting and color, and “thought‑provoking…
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Álvaro Urbano Suspends Fleeting Moments of Decay in Metal Plants
Source Colossal Anyone who’s decried the seasonal blip we call autumn knows how rapidly nature can swing from verdant greenery to leafless branches. The same goes for the missed watering of an overlooked houseplant: skip a week and bear witness to browning edges that curl into a crisp. As quickly as these natural changes occur,…
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‘Lettres Décoratives’ Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters’ Vibrant Letterforms
Source Colossal Before digital fonts and the ability to reproduce graphics on a large scale, there were sign painters. Today, printers can spit out countless posters and ads, but there was a time when hand-painted promotional signage was needed for retail windows, and business names were often rendered just the same. Of course, it’s a…
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Grant Garmezy Molds a Full-Size Dakotaraptor from Molten Glass
Source Colossal Dakotaraptor, a fossilized skeleton of which was discovered a little more than 20 years ago by paleontologists in South Dakota, was an extremely lethal prehistoric predator. Its feathered body, powerful legs, and huge jaw gave it an advantage as it roamed its territory some 66 million years ago. But it was really its…
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Laurent Proux “Out Of The Blue” @ GNYP Gallery, Antwerp
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Desert Dreams By Victor Sillué, Norwegian Surrealist Who Paints Worlds Between Memory And Sleep
Source Design You Trust Victor Sillué is a Norwegian 3D surrealist artist who builds cinematic digital landscapes where dream and memory blur. Working primarily in Blender, he focuses on minimal, atmospheric scenes—dunes, lone figures, distant structures—shaped by light, scale and color to explore mystery, melancholia, escapism and the symbolic weight of myth and folklore. More:…
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The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects
Source Colossal In the age of the internet, we’re fortunate to have virtual access to museum collections around the world, thanks to objects in the public domain and programs like The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative. Through a searchable digital catalogue, visitors to the museum’s website can see hundreds of thousands of objects,…