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Julia Isaak Turns Architecture School Into A Photography Practice Built On Spontaneous Discovery
Source Design You Trust Julia Isaak is a master student of architecture splitting her time between Aachen and Bonn, and her photography page has quietly grown to nearly 30,000 followers. She leads with a disarmingly simple tagline — “I am just a girl with two eyes” — which sets the tone for work that is…
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Dollhouse Oddity Turns Blythe Dolls Into Gothic, One-Of-A-Kind Character Portraits
Source Design You Trust Dollhouse Oddity is the studio of a doll artist who has carved out a very specific corner of the custom doll world. The work centers on Blythe doll customization and one-of-a-kind gothic creations, with a visual language that leans heavily into darkness, precision, and collectible craft. What you notice first is…
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Jared Pike’s Vaporwave-Inspired Interiors Feel Like Half-Remembered Dreams
Source Design You Trust Jared Pike is a New York-based 3D artist who turned an internet obsession with liminal spaces into a fully realized visual language. Born and raised in Massachusetts, he now works out of NYC and has built a following of nearly 90,000 people who tune in for his hypnotic pool rooms and…
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Divination, the Renaissance, and Surrealism Commingle in ‘Tarot!’
Source Colossal When we think of tarot cards, there’s a standout that probably pops to mind right away: the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. It was illustrated by British occultist and artist Pamela Coleman Smith, and more than 100 years after its publication, it remains the most widely used deck by readers. But the cards are far from…
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Brendon Burton’s Enigmatic Photographs Preserve Traces of North American Life
Source Colossal As Brendon Burton continues to pursue the strange corners of rural North America, the Portland-based photographer has discovered a newfound interest in the people who once inhabited them. No longer entirely devoid of human figures, his isolated landscapes step into the walls of abandoned homes and provide a setting for enigmatic narratives. Burton’s…
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Artists Who Succeed Never Stand Still
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Artist Ramy Abi Antoun Bridges Architecture, Sculpture, And Technology In One Practice
Source Design You Trust Ramy Abi Antoun is an architect and maker whose creative practice refuses to stay in one lane. He works across architecture, technology, sculpture, and education, building a body of work that feels more like a connected ecosystem than a single portfolio. What makes his approach distinctive is the deliberate bridging of…
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‘Hold to This Earth’ Surveys the Abundance of American Indigenous Contemporary Art
Source Colossal From the beaded phrases of Jeffrey Gibson’s sculptural weavings to Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s canoe series to Raven Halfmoon’s fingerprint-textured tributes, a new exhibition marks the largest presentation of American Indigenous work in the U.K. to date. Opening next week, Hold to This Earth at Yorkshire Sculpture Park features nearly 70 pieces by 38…