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Illustrator Creates Stories Where Weird Folktales, Magical Girls, and the Loneliness of Growing Up Meet in Full Color
Source Design You Trust Isa Hanssen, a Filipino-Mexican-American storyboard artist, comic creator, indie game developer, illustrator, and occasional writer. Her practice blends weird regional folktales, magical-girl energy, cinematic storyboards, introspective comics, and emotionally direct character work. Hanssen’s visual universe is built around the kinds of stories that make everyday life feel porous: local legends, strange…
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Artist Makes Digital Worlds Feel Real by Giving Them the Weight of History, Weather, Architecture, and Survival
Source Design You Trust Guillem H. Pongiluppi, a Barcelona-based freelance concept artist, digital illustrator, and matte painter specializing in historical reconstruction, virtual archaeology, fantasy, and science fiction. Pongiluppi’s artwork is grounded in real visual history. His interest in historical research and virtual archaeology informs fictional cities, ruins, spacecraft, battlefields, and landscapes, giving even his most…
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This Artist Builds Digital Cathedrals for the Feelings We Cannot Easily Put Into Words
Source Design You Trust Jesperish is a Dutch visionary digital artist who uses architecture, abstract symbols, and immersive spatial compositions to explore identity, anxiety, spiritual searching, and the desire for balance. His work creates what he calls “energetic environments”: imagined spaces that invite reflection, inner movement, and a different way of sensing oneself. Jesperish does…
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Daniel Reid Turns Digital Painting Into a Dream-State Where Accident, Intuition, and Cinematic Storytelling Collide
Source Design You Trust Daniel Reid aka Papa.png is a Montreal-based senior concept artist, experimental digital painter, and film director. His work moves between cinematic keyframes, surreal image-making, character design, visual development, and personal paintings drawn from dreams and subconscious associations. Reid’s images often begin with an emotional or intuitive impulse rather than a fixed…
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Jeremy Fenske Uses Light, Color, and Simple Shapes to Turn Everyday Places Into Cinematic Worlds Worth Stopping For
Source Design You Trust Jeremy Fenske is a Los Angeles–area concept artist, art director, and visual-development artist with more than 15 years in AAA games. He has contributed to The Elder Scrolls Online, Destiny 2, and Palia, and is currently listed as a principal concept artist at Squanch Games. Fenske’s work has the clarity and…
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David Spriggs Turns Transparent Sheets of Paint Into Sculptures That Float Between Reality, Illusion, and Light
Source Design You Trust David Spriggs, a British-born, Canadian artist who creates sculptural paintings from layers of transparent material. Instead of placing color on a flat canvas, he suspends it in space, building images that seem to appear, dissolve, and change as the viewer moves around them. Spriggs pioneered his signature technique in 1999: he…
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On Concrete Remnants of London’s Aylesbury Estate, Harriet Mena Hill Preserves a Community
Source Colossal Built throughout the 1960s and ’70s, the Aylesbury Estate is an enormous public housing complex in South East London that at its peak, boasted 11,000 residents. Like other social projects of this kind, Aylesbury has struggled with violence and vandalism throughout its run, and in 2005, local officials decided to demolish the estate…
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Three Artists and Two Writers On Surrealist Painter Remedios Varo’s Influence
Source Colossal Like the Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin, the first time I found myself in front of a painting by the Spanish-Mexican artist Remedios Varo (1908-1963), I was stunned. Who was this elegant owl-figure with dainty fingers and feet? What was animating the creaturely machine at her side with tentacle-like brushes as hands? And, would…
