Source Colossal   Anyone who’s decried the seasonal blip we call autumn knows how rapidly nature can swing from verdant greenery to leafless branches. The same goes for the missed watering of an overlooked houseplant: skip a week and bear witness to browning edges that curl into a crisp. As quickly as these natural changes occur,…

Source Colossal   Before digital fonts and the ability to reproduce graphics on a large scale, there were sign painters. Today, printers can spit out countless posters and ads, but there was a time when hand-painted promotional signage was needed for retail windows, and business names were often rendered just the same. Of course, it’s a…

Source Colossal   Dakotaraptor, a fossilized skeleton of which was discovered a little more than 20 years ago by paleontologists in South Dakota, was an extremely lethal prehistoric predator. Its feathered body, powerful legs, and huge jaw gave it an advantage as it roamed its territory some 66 million years ago. But it was really its…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  If you happen to be Antwerp this week, and maybe you are, Laurent Proux, one of our favorite French painters, is opening Out of the Blue with GNYP Gallery. 

Source Design You Trust  Victor Sillué is a Norwegian 3D surrealist artist who builds cinematic digital landscapes where dream and memory blur. Working primarily in Blender, he focuses on minimal, atmospheric scenes—dunes, lone figures, distant structures—shaped by light, scale and color to explore mystery, melancholia, escapism and the symbolic weight of myth and folklore. More:…

Source Colossal   In the age of the internet, we’re fortunate to have virtual access to museum collections around the world, thanks to objects in the public domain and programs like The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative. Through a searchable digital catalogue, visitors to the museum’s website can see hundreds of thousands of objects,…

Source Colossal   The construction of Grundtvigs Kirke in Copenhagen took nearly two decades, beginning in fall of 1921 and finally reaching completion in 1940. Designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, it transforms the humble brick into a masterpiece of Expressionist architecture. Its pointed interior arches and vaulted ceiling, stepped crenellations, and hulking exterior nod to medieval…

Source Artsy Shark  Artist Gary Carver presents a fascinating collection of handcarved bird sculptures that captures their expressions and behavior. The post Featured Artist Gary Carver appeared first on Artsy Shark.