Source Design You Trust  Einar Nerman (1888–1983) was a Swedish artist, illustrator, caricaturist and designer celebrated for his elegant, highly stylized Art Deco drawings of people and performers. After studying in Paris, he worked across painting, set and costume design and even composing, but became best known internationally for his commercial and editorial illustration, including…

Source Design You Trust  Jeon Pil‑hwa (Pil Hwa) is a contemporary South Korean artist and illustrator known for quiet, surreal digital paintings where humans and animals—especially cats—share small, intimate moments in soft, muted worlds. Originally trained in mechanical engineering, he moved into independent art and built a distinctive style using mainly Procreate: blurred edges, simple…

Source Design You Trust  Cong Ming is a contemporary digital artist and illustrator who builds cinematic, character‑driven scenes that mix cute, gothic and quietly brutal elements into single‑frame stories. Working primarily in Procreate, she focuses on young women, cats and small domestic spaces, then injects cartoonish violence, body horror or emotional twists to talk about…

Source Design You Trust  Beekeepersklub (also signed as Relm) is an illustrator and designer who creates clean, minimal, character‑driven drawings—mostly bees and bee‑people living everyday, slightly whimsical lives. Using simple lines, soft colour and plenty of white space, the artist turns tiny scenes of reading, stretching, drinking coffee or working into gentle visual jokes and…

Source Design You Trust  Caroline Gaudreault is a Canadian magical‑realist figurative painter from Alma, Québec, known for strange, classical‑looking portraits of animals and humans that sit somewhere between fairy tale, allegory, and fine art. She paints in oils (and sometimes watercolor) with a refined, almost academic touch, then inserts surreal details—anthropomorphic cats and birds, ornate…

Source Design You Trust  risten Margiotta is a Delaware‑based contemporary oil painter, illustrator, and art instructor whose work blends classical portrait skills with lowbrow / pop‑surreal influences like Tim Burton and Edward Gorey. A graduate of the University of Delaware’s Visual Communications/Illustration program, she has over 20 years of professional practice, developing a signature world…

Source Design You Trust  Canadian Photographer of the Year 2024: Shane Turgeon The 2024 Canadian Photos of the Year Competition honored 14 outstanding winners who captured Canada’s breathtaking landscapes and wildlife. From lightning striking a golden canola field to an octopus mother guarding her eggs, the images highlight photography’s power to illuminate fleeting beauty. Judged…

Source Colossal   Located in the Yangtze River Delta, Hangzhou is enmeshed in waterways. The city’s center abuts a large lake and sits just north of the Qiantang River, infamous for its magnificent tidal bore that sweeps through the region each fall. For their latest project presented in the Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art at Zhejiang…