Source Colossal   While Coca-Cola decided to run with generative AI for its animated Christmas ad—a holiday tradition the brand is known for—Apple leaned into the world of practical effects with a troupe of woodland puppets. Titled “A Critter Carol” and featuring the latest iPhone model, the short film takes its cues from compassion, creativity, and…

Source Colossal   Taken from a vertical perspective, Kevin Krautgartner’s photographs of crashing waves conjure the power and beauty of our oceans. Captured along the coast of Western Australia, the images revel in the clarity and textures of the water and shoreline, where “wind, swell, and underwater topography creates some of the most powerful and visually…

Source Colossal   It’s the time of year when best-of lists make their rounds. As usual, we’ve deliberated and selected some of our favorite monographs, surveys, and whimsical tomes published in 2025. Several of these titles were also reader favorites and flew off our shelves as quickly as we could stock them (ahem, Dog Only Knows!).…

Source Artsy Shark  Artist Martina Noble transforms a lifetime of wanderlust, culture, and curiosity into artful jewelry rich with storytelling. The post Featured Artist Martina Noble appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Michael Werner Gallery, Beverly Hills is pleased to present Paradise Valley, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the painter Brett Goodroad (b. 1979 in Kearney, Nebraska). This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles and his first with Michael Werner Gallery. 

Source Colossal   Order up! The only two words you want to hear when you’re ravenous and seated at the laminate counter of a roadside diner. Artist Adrienna Matzeg takes this highly anticipated call as the basis for a new trio of punch-needle works. Through nostalgic embroidered tableaux, she whips up melty grilled cheese, waffles with…

Source Colossal   From pieces of everyday white paper, a series of delightful stop-motion animations illuminates how a simple material can be transformed into a sophisticated design. Created by Japenese designer Tomohiro Okazaki, who runs a studio called SWIMMING, “Paper Study” is a series of short intervals in which pieces of cut, folded, and sculpted paper…

Source Colossal   Enigmatic landscapes and metaphysical scenes unfold in the work of Gideon Kiefer. On canvas and panel, the artist paints countrysides dotted with small fires, pensive figures, and natural phenomena seemingly detached from reality by varying degrees, such as a wave crashing inside of an architectural enclosure or a chunk of purple-tinted landscape floating…