Source Design You Trust  Orkhan Isayev, a visionary Azerbaijani artist, has embarked on a journey of creative expression with his unique project, “Utopia.” Combining his passions for art deco, cyberpunk, and illustration, Isayev transports us to a retrofuturistic world where cities from across the globe are reimagined in breathtaking detail. With an eye for the…

Source Design You Trust  Masao Kinosh ita is a Japanese artist who specializes in creating figurative sculptures that have their outer skin removed to reveal the underlying skeletal and muscular structures. He starts with clay prototypes and then casts them in FRP with a plaster mold. To finish his sculptures, he prints them with oil…

Source Colossal   Gyu Seob Shim, Republic of Korea, 1st Place, National Awards. All images © the photographers, shared with permission courtesy of the Sony World Photography Awards From the sinuous lines of a leaping cat, to a giant tortoise gliding alongside a snorkeler, to a lone cyclist illuminated on a road juxtaposed against a looming…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Waterman: Coloring the Stranger explores the adaptation of a stranger in a new place. Jiyoun Lee-Lodge began this series as a journal-like notation when she moved from New York to Utah, and struggled to settle in. The persona of Waterman acts as a stand-in for both personal and…

Source artforum.com  Kamilaroi and Bigambul artist Archie Moore will represent Australia at the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, becoming only the second Indigenous artist to be given charge of the country’s pavilion at the

Source artforum.com  The Des Moines Art Center has announced Kelly Baum as its new director, effective this May. Baum arrives to Des Moines from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was Cynthia Hazen Polsky and

Source Colossal   “Untitled (Grand Stairway)” (2013), folded paper, 70 x 50 centimeters. All images © Simon Schubert, shared with permission In Simon Schubert’s intricate folded compositions, bars of sunlight dash across door frames, ornate cornicing, and parquet floors in a complex interplay of geometric forms. Relying exclusively on the way light rakes across the surface…

Source Colossal   “Liminal Waltz.” All images © Lou Benesch, shared with permission Fantastic creatures with keen attitudes and fragments of human anatomy occupy the vivid watercolor illustrations of Lou Benesch. From her studio in Paris, the French-American artist visualizes the characters that populate folklore, Greek myths, and classic fairytales through distinctive renderings of animal hybrids.…