Source Design You Trust  Meet Davi Augusto, a Brazilian illustrator with a remarkable portfolio of work that spans across different illustration styles. With his unique style, he blends hand-drawn sketches with digital manipulation in Photoshop, creating vibrant urban illustrations that feature youthful characters in various urban settings. In case you’ve forgotten, we’ve featured him in…

Source Design You Trust  National Geographic Traveller has revealed the winners of its 11th annual photography competition, celebrating the best in travel photography across categories like wildlife, landscape, food, people, and urban. The judging panel sifted through thousands of entries to come up with a shortlist of 18 finalists for each category, and from there,…

Source Colossal   Photo © Staffan Widstrand. All images courtesy of World Nature Photography Awards, shared with permission Moments of coincidental humor, stark cruelty, and surprising inter-species intimacies are on full display in this year’s World Nature Photography Awards. The winners of the 2022 competition encompass a vast array of life across six continents, from an elephant’s…

Source Colossal   “Unmapped realm,” 140 x 120 x 3 centimeters. All images © Lyndi Sales, shared with permission Cape Town-based artist Lyndi Sales translates life’s vulnerability and fleeting nature into colorful sculptures that appear to burst and rupture in vivid forms. Using painted strips of blank paper or fragments of printed maps, Sales layers abstract compositions…

Source artforum.com  In the prologue to her 1992 novel The Volcano Lover, a period piece set against the backdrop of Naples’s Mount Vesuvius, Susan Sontag describes the eponymous geological object as such: “It’s the mouth

Source artforum.com  In “On Sexuality,” the pioneering early art of Helen Chadwick and Penny Slinger took double-barreled aim at consumer society’s reproduction of traditional gender roles. Dating mostly from the late 1960s

Source artforum.com  When the Vorticist manifesto was published between the puce covers of BLAST in June 1914, there were two women among the eleven signatories: Jessica Dismorr (1885–1939) and Helen Saunders (1885–1963).

Source artforum.com  “THIS IS REAL LIFE,” a woman tells her bewildered newborn in Notre Corps, Claire Simon’s empathic nonfiction film about a Parisian gynecological clinic. The sentiment kept coming to mind amid the