Source Design You Trust  Competition winner: “Mesmerizing spider threads” by Dr Martín J. Ramírez. Sample obtained by Dr Jonas Wolff he 2025 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition brought science to life through breathtaking images from around the world. Scientists submitted photos across categories like Astronomy, Behaviour, Earth Science, Ecology, and Microimaging, resulting in stunning visual…

Source Design You Trust  Akira Kusaka (日下 明) is a contemporary Japanese illustrator and graphic designer based in Osaka, known for dreamy, poetic scenes where small human figures, animals and architecture float in vast, quiet spaces. Working entirely in Photoshop, he creates softly lit, surreal images that feel like visual haiku—night skies, moons, bicycles, houses…

Source Design You Trust  Gérard DuBois is a French‑born, Canada‑based visual artist and illustrator known for quietly surreal, narrative images that blend classical painting sensibility with contemporary editorial bite. Working largely in traditional media (acrylic, oil, gouache) and then adapting for print, he creates atmospheric scenes with muted colour, careful light and slightly distorted figures…

Source Colossal   One of the top comments on a new video from the Victoria and Albert Museum reads as follows: “I think it is time to have a renaissance of mourning. In this age of sanitized and hidden grief, it would be a welcomed relief for a more refined mourning experience.” This commenter is responding…

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  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  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…