Source Design You Trust  While the counterculture of the 1960s had an impact on the youth of the 1970s, they were also open to new styles. Disco, rock, and punk were popular among many. Platform shoes, bright, varied styles, and bell-bottom jeans were all in vogue. Environmental protection and social advocacy gained more and more…

Source Design You Trust  Grand Prize Winner: Yajun Hu In the smartphone age, everyone can be a photographer. The 13th Mobile Photography Awards celebrated this, displaying stunning images taken with mobile devices. Yajun Hu from Shanghai won the Grand Prize. Mobile photography continues to thrive as a powerful medium for self-expression and storytelling. More: Mobile…

Source Design You Trust  German-American artist Henry Jerome Schile was born in Oberharmersbach, Baden-Württemberg, in 1829. He emigrated to the US in 1851 and worked in New York in the middle of the 19th century. h/t: vintag.es Henry Schile’s work is described by Harry T. Peters in America on Stone as: “Though often German in…

Source Colossal   EXPO CHICAGO 2023. Photo by Justin Barbin Next week marks the biggest and busiest art week of the year in Colossal’s back yard, EXPO CHICAGO returns to the Navy Pier from April 11 to 14 with hundreds of galleries, site-specific projects, talks, and satellite programming across the city. Numerous galleries, museums, artists, and…

Source Artsy Shark  Christopher Springmann photographed Georgia O’Keeffe at her Abiquiú and Ghost Ranch homes in New Mexico for America Illustrated in September 1974. The post Featured Artist Christopher Springmann appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   Desmodus rotundus. All images © Guardabosques, shared with permission Bats can be found nearly everywhere on the planet, except for extreme deserts and the poles, and there are more than 1,400 species with an incredible variety of traits. The tiniest is Kitti’s hog-nosed bat, also known as a “bumblebee bat,” because it’s less…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Inspired by our human impulse to create, Chuck Sperry’s solo exhibition Only Human at Harman Projects underscores what it means to be a maker in the 21st century. The exhibition spans Sperry’s long and influential career, featuring new silkscreen prints from the artist’s ongoing “Muse” series and…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Can we call him our friend? Well, let’s do it, our friend and Summr 2023 cover artist and critically acclaimed British artist David Shrigley is launching a silk scarf adapted from one of his fastest-selling limited editions of all time Untitled (It’s Just One Fucking Thing After Another)…