Source Design You Trust  Cinta Vidal is a Barcelona‑based painter, muralist and illustrator known for her gravity‑defying “un‑gravity constructions” — acrylic-on-wood worlds where architecture, rooms and people float in intersecting perspectives. Drawing on a background in theatre scenography, she folds time and space into stacked apartments, streets and objects to show how people can live…

Source Design You Trust  Brazilian illustrator Bruno Ferreira known for bold, stylized digital portraits of “cool girls in cool colours” that fuse fan art, pop art and graphic design. His work is built around sharp silhouettes, expressive faces, chunky shapes and saturated palettes, often referencing anime, games and pop culture while keeping a strong, instantly…

Source Colossal   Graph paper is commonly used for plotting, well, graphs, plus other spatial and mathematical visualizations. But for Pejac, its potential goes way beyond a two-dimensional gridded surface. The artist, who is known for his trompe-l’œil paintings and playful street art interventions, often turns to the precise geometry of gridded sketchbooks in order to…

Source Colossal   A fashionable bat, a melancholy sun, and a springtime spirit with seasonal allergies are just a few of the characters conceived by Cat Johnston. Drawing on childhood memories, folk art, and nature, the London-based illustrator and model maker creates expressive sculptures and puppets that inhabit dreamlike realms. Invoking historical costumes and cartoonish and…

Source Artsy Shark  Artists are always looking for ways to get in front of new audiences. One channel that has grown dramatically in recent years is podcasting. The post How Artists Can Get Podcast Interviews appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Casey Bolding’s paintings make memory material. Using plaster and industrial paint in concert with oil, acrylic, and Flashe, the artist builds up densely layered surfaces which he then scrapes and reworks, excavating embedded imagery drawn from mementos, photographs, and art history. As personal as they are process-based,…

Source Colossal   Mythology, landscapes, and technology converge in the meticulous, Afrofuturistic sculptures of Ekow Nimako. Using thousands of black LEGO bricks, the Ghanaian-Canadian artist explores legends and folklore of the African diaspora, creating figurative embodiments of allegorical creatures and spiritual beings. Through a single, modular medium, he highlights a wide range of cultural phenomena, from…

Source Colossal   Along with its reputation as the driest and lowest national park in the U.S., Death Valley is also one of the hottest places on Earth. It holds the air temperature record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit, recorded in 1913. But in spite of its macabre name, Death Valley is anything but lifeless. And over…