Source Design You Trust  Monsieur Cailloux is a Paris‑based ceramic artist and self‑styled explorer who has invented an imaginary planet, MRCX, populated by the “Cailloux Tribe” – small, blobby, stone‑like beings he sculpts in clay. Each ceramic “specimen” is unique, hand‑built, numbered, and glazed with soft gradients, speckles and tiny faces, then presented as part…

Source Design You Trust  Van Orton Design is an Italian creative duo of twin brothers Marco and Stefano from Turin, known for ultra‑colourful pop‑culture illustrations that look like stained‑glass windows crossed with 1980s poster art. Their style uses thick black outlines, geometric shapes, neon palettes and dot/line textures influenced by church glass, Roy Lichtenstein and…

Source Colossal   What do you want to express that you feel you can’t in everyday life? That’s the question composer and producer Max Cooper posed to his audience in hopes of unearthing some of the hidden parts of our shared emotional landscape. In return, he received more responses than expected, many of which tapped into…

Source Design You Trust  Nathan Durfee is an American painter and illustrator based in Charleston, South Carolina, known for whimsical pop‑surreal narratives packed with quirky animals, kids, and oddball objects in bright, storybook colour. A Vermont native and SCAD illustration graduate, he shifted from editorial work to full‑time painting around 2008–2009, developing large oil‑on‑panel pieces…

Source Colossal   An unwavering desire to play with scale, permanence, and fragility recurs in Rebecca Manson’s practice. The New York-based artist (previously) is known for magnifying the minuscule and preserving fleeting lifeforms in porcelain, a material regarded for both its resilience and delicacy. These dichotomies emerge through dynamic sculptures of butterflies and moths that drape…

Source Design You Trust  Series Winner – 1st Place: “Buzkashi” by Todd Antony Black and white photography carries a raw, emotional power that color simply can’t replicate, and the 2025 LensCulture Awards prove it once again. This year’s winning images go beyond aesthetics, telling profound human stories through shadows, light, and grit. The collection stands…

Source Design You Trust  Ulla Thynell is a Finnish artist, illustrator, designer and photographer based near Helsinki, best known for dreamy fantasy and fairy‑tale imagery rooted in forests, folklore and Nordic myth. She works mainly with watercolour, inks, pens and coloured pencils, often combining traditional drawings with subtle digital colour and texture, and has created…

Source Colossal   When designer Pedro Neves was an undergraduate student, he attended an advanced seminar during which students were charged with creating an alphabet using modular elements. “As someone with minimal experience with type design, I was struck by the excitement of generating letterforms simply by using pre-existing modules,” he says in a statement. Little…