Source Design You Trust  Underwater Photographer of the Year: “Radiance” by Remuna Beca Underwater photography carries a unique, almost otherworldly atmosphere that feels like entering a hidden realm. This year’s 2025 reFocus Awards highlighted that magic, with underwater winners presenting images that feel more like visual poetry than simple snapshots. Their photos capture everything from…

Source Colossal   By marrying the realistic with the fantastical and uncanny, Stephanie Temma Hier conjures tension: there’s a calf-hair necktie that morphs into a table fan, popcorn surrounding pink ballet shoes, and a rapt snake framed by orange igneous rocks. The Brooklyn-based artist is formally trained as a painter and self-taught as a ceramicist, and…

Source Design You Trust  Mariusz Lewandowski was a Polish surrealist painter (1960–2022) from Działdowo who lived and worked in Górowo Iławeckie, Warmia and Masuria, creating oil‑on‑canvas works dominated by mystical, apocalyptic and otherworldly motifs. Without formal art training, he started by painting shop signs and funeral ribbons while working at a metal factory, then sold…

Source Design You Trust  Bill Mayer is an American illustrator and painter based in Decatur, Georgia, celebrated for exquisitely rendered gouache paintings that fuse classical still life and portrait traditions with strange, whimsical and sometimes dark fantasy characters—royal frogs, masked lemurs, birds in suits, flowers with human faces and more. A Ringling School of Art…

Source Design You Trust  Xavier Ortiz is a Sacramento‑based dark‑fantasy illustrator working primarily in watercolor (often mixed with pastel), known for haunting yet tender images of witches, spirits, skeletons and seasonal beings wrapped in misty, glowing atmospheres. Under the tagline “ANCIENT ꩜ FEELINGS,” he builds a personal cast of characters like VVARDEN and VVARLOCK—armored guardians,…

Source Colossal   In 1666, the marriage of Emperor Leopold I and Infanta Margarita Teresa of Spain solidified a political alliance between the Austrian and Spanish sides of the Habsburg family. They were also both uncle and niece and first cousins, such was the intense insularity of royal marriages intended to gain or maintain power across…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Richard Heller Gallery is pleased to present, Planet Circus, a new exhibition of paintings by Granada, Spain-based artist, Paco Pomet. The show brings together recent works that reaffirm the artist’s distinctive approach to contemporary figuration, combining technical precision with humor, irony, and subtle narrative disruption.

Source Colossal   The world’s largest island that isn’t its own continent, Greenland spans more than 836,000 square miles. As we’ve been reminded recently, the territory is part of the Realm of Denmark, although it has its own systems of local government. Greenland is home to only about 56,000 people, the vast majority of whom are…