Source Colossal   Whether weaving plastic pony beads into a monumental sculpture, adorning figures with mother-of-pearl buttons, or mosaicing ceramic tile across a New York subway station, Nick Cave has continually returned to one question: how does this material help bring people into the work? “I have to think about the journey and how I get…

Source Design You Trust  Brazilian graphic designer and illustrator Rafa Miqueleto reimagines music legends as vibrant, quirky paper toys, blending craftsmanship with digital techniques. From 2020 to 2023, he created hand-crafted caricatures of icons like Bob Marley, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, and David Bowie for Belas Letras, a publishing house celebrating music and pop culture.…

Source Design You Trust  Originally trained in painting, Malaysia-based artist Alsoguppyme has shifted into commercial design while maintaining a deep artistic vision. Her work explores themes of monsters, symbolizing human fears and desires, a narrative she enhances through AI technology. Continuously evolving, she merges traditional motifs with modern innovations, pushing the boundaries of her creative…

Source Design You Trust  ‘Cyberpunk 1977’ envisions the past through a retro-futuristic lens, wrapped in an orange-green palette. Rooted in a utilitarian aesthetic reminiscent of the Iron Curtain era, it integrates gothic, psychedelic, and vintage-futuristic elements alongside crude technology. Rather than conforming to traditional cyberpunk, it serves as a prequel or parallel subgenre, depicting the…

Source Colossal   In physics, quantum entanglement describes how particles being generated, interacting, or in proximity to one another cannot have independent quantum states. Albert Einstein referred to this phenomenon as “spooky action at a distance.” In short, once particles have interacted, they remain connected, even if they are millions of light years apart. For artist…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist Alina Lloyd presents a collection of colorful nature-inspired paintings that celebrate the senses. The post Featured Artist Alina Lloyd appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Downtown Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery is proud to announce its next major solo show. Costume Obscura, featuring new works from Canadian artist and illustrator Ryan Heshka, is set to premiere February 1st in Gallery 3. Heshka’s surreal and dreamy paintings–associating comic books, science fiction, pulp magazines,…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  It comes as no suprise that Pablo Picasso, who, in collaboration with Henri Sennelier in 1949, helped refine and advocate an oil pastel that could be of use for artists in their studio practice. What Sennelier was able to create were richer colors, which of course expanded the…