Source Design You Trust  Zhao Li is a Chinese artist and illustrator. Public bio snippets point to a background in fine art studies in Xi’an and Torino, which fits a practice grounded in both academic training and international exposure. The work appears to center on dreamy, decorative, emotionally saturated imagery rather than minimalism. A related…

Source Design You Trust  Juan Carlos Beltrán is a Mexico-based visual artist whose work reimagines modernist architecture, brutalism, glass-block structures, shadow, and overgrown landscape through a highly stylized digital lens. His public bio also points to prints, projects, and commissions, with a studio identity connected to firma norte. Beltrán’s images often combine desert architecture, monolithic…

Source Design You Trust  Ande Wittenmeier (Ande Witt) is a creature illustrator known for whimsical, hybrid animal characters that feel friendly, slightly surreal, and full of personality. With over 82K followers, she runs a postcard & sticker club, sells prints, and engages her audience with process videos and character-focused content. Her work blends animal features…

Source Colossal   Fusing elements of Persian architecture with Christian altarpieces, Arghavan Khosravi grapples with the structures and ideological strictures that shape our lives. The Iranian artist has long reckoned with women’s fight for equality, particularly amid censorship and religious dogma in her native country. Through vibrant gradients that radiate across her sculptural paintings, Khosravi entices…

Source Colossal   In Everything Now All At Once at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the title says it all. Dozens of works from the likes of Nick Cave, Ai Weiwei, Nina Chanel Abney, Wangechi Mutu, and many more represent a slice of the contemporary art world in which globalism and diversity are…

Source Colossal   Typically gravitating toward dreamy palettes of soft blues, grays, and oranges, Scottish artist Andrew McIntosh opts for a sanguine red in a new body of work. The crimson paintings continue McIntosh’s otherworldly landscapes that cast familiar forms like mountains and valleys in a strange, uncanny light. Glowing orbs float among the craggy terrain…

Source Colossal   Milan-based Filipina designer Mirei Monticelli creates biomorphic lighting fixtures that toe the line between sculpture and utility. Undulating outward and glowing from within, the artist’s works feel as if they are alive, quietly dancing wherever they stand or hang. These gestural, biodegradable structures are crafted with hand-woven Banaca fabric made from Abacá, a…

Source Design You Trust  Carson Teal is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Canada whose practice blends stained glass, collage, mixed media, and animation-adjacent image making. His work is built around light, memory, transformation, and layered hand-built forms, often crossing between craft and contemporary design. Teal’s pieces feel like colorful reliquaries: translucent surfaces, symbolic forms,…