Source Design You Trust  Overall Contest 1st Place Winner: “Toxic Lake” by Radek von Hirschberg The 2025 reFocus Photography Awards have once again celebrated the art of visual storytelling, with black and white photography emerging as a powerful highlight. This year’s 33 award-winning monochrome images strip away color to reveal raw emotion, striking form, and…

Source Design You Trust  The Peel Trident, built between 1965 and 1966 on the Isle of Man, is one of the smallest cars ever produced. With its clear bubble dome, compact frame, and seating for two, it looked more like a toy spaceship than a car. Powered by a 49cc engine, it reached a modest…

Source Design You Trust  Los Angeles-based commercial photographer Alexander Gusev, the visionary behind Snapshot Studio LA, transforms humble LEGO bricks into breathtaking visual narratives. With masterful lighting, ingenious compositions, and a cinematic sensibility, he elevates miniature scenes into grand, film-like moments. Whether it’s an action-packed standoff frozen in time or a quiet, heartfelt exchange between…

Source Colossal   Forty minutes east of Montpellier on France’s Mediterranean coast sits a midcentury complex once disparaged as “architectural pollution” by L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui. The seminal work of architect Jean Balladur, La Grande Motte — which means “the big mound” — is a modernist development comprising buildings inspired by pyramids and mastabas that rise above the…

Source Artsy Shark  Artists can develop meaningful connections with potential collectors through authentic conversations about their art. The post How to Speak About Your Artwork appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Drew Dodge’s first exhibition at Semiose “Earth Song” in 2024, was a jolt of gentle, unsettling and goofy strangeness. With his upcoming exhibition, the painter demonstrates that his universe, consistent to the point of obsession, is in a phase of continual development.

Source Colossal   Teenage Engineering, a Stockholm-based electronics company, has introduced a quirky and charming new lineup to its selection of audio systems. The Choir, a line of linkable digital speakers is an eclectic octuple of sweet, robotic, wooden characters. Comprising eight distinctive designs, each beechwood figurine has its own vocal range. Olga, for example, is…

Source Colossal   In porcelain, bronze, glass, and stone, Karen LaMonte’s sculptures explore ideas around femininity and conventions of beauty throughout history. She nods to time-honored sculptural traditions with silhouettes redolent of, for example, the three marble goddesses of the Parthenon pediment that have shaped classical sculpture and exemplified ideals of beauty for millennia. LaMonte conceives…