Source Design You Trust  Jesse Manfre is a self-taught graphic designer and illustrator creating under the name J.WAV Design. His work combines bold graphic abstraction, surreal atmosphere, music-world visual language, and a distinctly eerie, dreamlike sense of place. J.WAV’s visual world sits somewhere between a late-night radio transmission, a vintage arcade screen, an abandoned beach…

Source Design You Trust  Sebas Velasco, a Spanish painter and muralist whose expressive oil paintings turn the ordinary streets, apartment blocks, aging cars, and anonymous residents of the Balkans into cinematic studies of memory, place, and time. Born in Burgos in 1988, he began in graffiti and later developed a practice spanning studio painting, illustration,…

Source Colossal   Vibrant, amorphous shapes intersect with squiggles and occasional geometric lettering in the murals of Chicago-based artist Emmy Star Brown. She describes her studio practice as a space where her inner child emerges, paring down her expressions to formal qualities of line, shape, and contrast. In her large-scale installations on urban buildings, which draw…

Source Colossal   It’s all things avian at Bird Photographer of the Year, the world’s largest contest dedicated to images of feathered creatures planet-wide. This year, the program welcomed more than 24,000 entries from photographers around the globe, capturing diving penguins, urban denizens, mating rituals, dramatic flights, and more. Highlighting birds of all kinds, the competition…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist Nancy Smyth creates delightfully whimsical pastel portraits of pets and wildlife. Enjoy her portfolio. The post Featured Artist Nancy Smyth appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   In our era of digital screens and virtually endless images and videos, it’s a challenge to imagine the time before photography existed. Two centuries ago this year, French inventor Nicéphore Niépce successfully captured the first known permanent image. He called his new process héliographie, or “sun writing,” employing light-sensitive bitumen dissolved in lavender oil,…

Source Colossal   Through vivid collages layering fragments of paper and fiber, Clotilde Jiménez echoes his own mélange of experiences and histories. The Mexico City-based artist was born in Honolulu to a Puerto Rican mother and African-American father, and he grew up in Philadelphia, before attending university in Cleveland and London. Both his heritage and ties…

Source Colossal   On the International Space Station (ISS), a module known as the Cupola allows astronauts to float into a small, window-filled viewing area. It’s used for observing high-tech exercises, spacewalks, and incoming vehicles, but it’s also a spectacular place to view what’s right outside: Earth. Astronauts often take thousands of photos and videos of…