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fromItsnicethat
1 day ago

Miggie Bacungan's graphic design challenges the artificial flavouring of pop culture imagery

Miggie Bacungan uses design to tell stories, blending nostalgia with social commentary through vibrant, chaotic visuals inspired by Filipino culture.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 day ago

Miggie Bacungan's graphic design challenges the artificial flavouring of pop culture imagery

Miggie Bacungan uses design to tell stories, blending nostalgia with social commentary through vibrant, chaotic visuals inspired by Filipino culture.
fromColossal
4 days ago

Anarchic Cats Are Ensnared in Chaos in Leo Forest's Dynamic Drawings

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist. Sacred to ancient Egyptians, domestic cats share more than 95% of their genetic makeup with tigers, and they can leap five times their height.
Arts
Graphic design
fromDesign Milk
4 days ago

F5: Peter Pelsinski Talks Shadows and Light, Color, Play + More

Peter Pelsinski transitioned from aspiring astronaut to architect, co-founding SPAN Architecture and emphasizing collaboration and creative processes in design.
fromArtnet News
1 week ago

Painting Has Entered Its Performance Era | Artnet News

Much of Instagram's video content is organized around transformation-the virtual magic of the before-and-after and clips that show cause and effect. A person makes pasta from scratch in 20 seconds via edits that compress time-intensive labor.
Arts
Graphic design
Branding is crucial in the AI market due to low product differentiation, with visual identities evolving to create a friendly and distinct appeal.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Steve DiBenedetto's Cosmic Sense of the Absurd

Steve DiBenedetto's paintings serve as a functional structure to help viewers navigate collective trauma.
#illustration
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 week ago

"Nothing is new" to Dave Bowers, so he illustrates the familiar in his own style

Dave Bowers creates simple, whimsical illustrations inspired by his daughter, focusing on spontaneity and personal enjoyment rather than a specific message.
Graphic design
fromBOOOOOOOM!
3 weeks ago

Illustrator Spotlight: Kristina Tzekova

Kristina Tzekova's work transforms fleeting moments from media into contemplative drawings, exploring the boundary between contemporary media and emotional belonging.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 week ago

"Nothing is new" to Dave Bowers, so he illustrates the familiar in his own style

Dave Bowers creates simple, whimsical illustrations inspired by his daughter, focusing on spontaneity and personal enjoyment rather than a specific message.
Graphic design
fromBOOOOOOOM!
3 weeks ago

Illustrator Spotlight: Kristina Tzekova

Kristina Tzekova's work transforms fleeting moments from media into contemplative drawings, exploring the boundary between contemporary media and emotional belonging.
#photography
fromItsnicethat
3 weeks ago
Photography

Gideon Tsang's blurred and distorted work is nature photography as you've never seen it before

Photography
fromItsnicethat
3 weeks ago

Gideon Tsang's blurred and distorted work is nature photography as you've never seen it before

Gideon captures the essence of time and change in photography, focusing on the ephemeral rather than traditional beauty or detail.
Photography
fromColossal
1 month ago

Ben Zank's Portraits Teeter Between Surrealism and the Mundane

Ben Zank's photography captures faceless subjects in ordinary settings, evoking complex emotions through uncanny realism.
Arts
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Painting With Blood: Who Does It and Who Collects It

Blood is used as a medium in contemporary art, challenging traditional boundaries of artistic practice.
Graphic design
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Your article about AI doesn't need AI art

The New Yorker uses AI-generated art, raising questions about artistic integrity and the role of human creativity in the process.
#art
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

a rich palette of saturated hues meet industrial precision in mara's renewed digital identity

Mara enters 2026 as a global interior design protagonist, expanding from office and hospitality into residential markets while strengthening its digital identity and sustainability commitment.
Pets
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Why Everyone Has a Doodle Now

Doodles originated in 1989 as hypoallergenic guide dogs and became popular as healthier alternatives to purebreds, combining desirable traits from multiple breeds while appealing to social media culture.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 weeks ago

Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds

The Jewish Museum presents the first US exhibition focusing on Paul Klee's late work, highlighting his response to 1930s fascism.
Graphic design
fromMedium
3 weeks ago

Disruption has a shape. Design history shows us what it is.

AI is causing anxiety in design, echoing past technological disruptions like the printing press and desktop publishing.
Design
fromArchitectural Digest
1 month ago

"Neo Deco" Is the Designer-Approved Trend of 2026

Contemporary designers are reinventing Art Deco by combining its opulent aesthetic with understated, curated sensibility, creating a more livable and personalized design approach called Neo Deco.
Arts
fromArtnet News
4 weeks ago

More Than 300 Yayoi Kusama Works Take Over a German Museum

The Museum Ludwig in Cologne celebrates its 50th anniversary with a comprehensive exhibition of Yayoi Kusama's works, showcasing over 300 pieces including new installations.
fromBoard Game Quest
2 months ago

Sand Art Review

Sand Art is a game by Kory Jordan and published by 25th Century Games for two to four players ages 10 and up. It takes about an hour to play, and has you collecting resources and then coloring in a bottle, making art in a bottle out of sand, in case the name didn't give away the plot. Gameplay Overview: Sand Art has you gathering and mixing sand, which is used to fill your bottle.
Board games
UX design
fromIlyabirman
2 months ago

Design is dead, it's all evolution now

Digital products increasingly evolve through incremental, ad hoc changes rather than coherent, intentional design, producing tangled, inconsistent interfaces that confuse users.
Remodel
fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

Accent Walls May Be Back - But Here's What No One Tells You

Select wallpaper before paint color and commit fully to mural designs for successful room transformations.
Miscellaneous
fromColossal
1 month ago

Delve in to a Psychedelic Self-Portrait of Animator Jake Fried

Jake Fried's 'Strange Light' is a looping one-minute animation exploring the uncanniness of vision through ink, Wite-Out, and digital enhancement with psychedelic, glowing colors.
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
2 months ago

Union of Opposites

Originally from Dallas and now based in New York City, I approach photography as an exercise in atmosphere, trust, and control. Trained in the discipline of film and later in fashion photography, I work with both natural and artificial light to construct images that feel cinematic and psychologically charged. Moving fluidly between studio and location, I transform spaces into environments that heighten mood and presence.
Fashion & style
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Can an Art Exhibit Answer a Zen Koan?

Koans are paradoxical Zen prompts meant to disrupt habitual analytical thinking and open access to deeper, nonconceptual awareness.
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Abstracted organica: The design trend taking root in Naarm, and the designers doing it best

The ridges of eucalyptus bark, the geometries of shell formations, moss-covered trees, Indigenous grasslands and the hidden networks of fungi beneath the soil. These landscapes produce organic yet abstract patterns - natural systems that quietly shape the way we see and design the world around us.
Graphic design
Mental health
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Whimsy is the word of the moment. So, I added more of it to my life. Here's what happened.

Small, playful whimsical changes in daily life can provide accessible emotional relief and lighten grief and anxiety during difficult seasons.
Photography
fromAnOther
1 month ago

AnOther Thing I Wanted to Tell You ...

AnOther Magazine's 25-year portrait portfolio features hundreds of creative figures discussing personal inspirations, from artists to designers, celebrating diverse cultural achievements and individual perspectives.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Artists Set Islamic Futurism Into Motion

Contemporary Muslim artists use calligraphy, installation, and speculative image-making rooted in Islamic philosophy and medieval traditions to imagine and shape Muslim futures.
Remodel
fromApartment Therapy
2 months ago

People Are Obsessed With This Whimsical Art Hack, and This $36 Anthropologie Find Makes It Even Easier

Anthropologie's Pattern Drench Frame offers ready-made, affordable patterned frames that replicate the viral DIY "drenched" look across multiple sizes and designs.
Design
fromDesign Milk
3 months ago

DiscoRectangle Turns Abstract Geometry Into Color-Drenched Rugs

Hand-tufted DiscoRectangle rugs by Sam Buckley and cc-tapis use bold abstract geometry and vibrant color on Himalayan wool to create joyful, dance-floor-inspired statement pieces.
Design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

Visual communication that challenges convention: Phantasia on how graphic design can forge true collaboration

Phantasia, a Barcelona-based design studio founded in 2021, prioritizes meaningful projects that serve communities through intentional collaboration, diversity, and accessible communication.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Haroutiun Galentz: The Form of Colour

A new monograph repositions Armenian-Lebanese painter Haroutiun Galentz as a cosmopolitan modernist whose work transcends national boundaries and demands cross-border interpretation.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
1 month ago

"A poster is a bit like a song": Jakub Zasada's geometric works are a thing of beauty

Jakub Zasada creates midcentury-inspired digital posters using minimal software functions and scanned materials, prioritizing functional design for public spaces with universal accessibility.
#contemporary-art
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Edward Zutrau Was a Chromatic Rebel

Edward Zutrau fused reductive Abstract Expressionism with Japanese ink-painting principles to create a distinctive, underrecognized mid-20th-century painting practice.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Remembering Dora Maurer, Isaiah Zagar, and Peter Stampfli

Multiple artists across diverse disciplines and geographies recently passed away, each leaving significant contributions to visual arts, community engagement, and artistic innovation.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Matt Midgley Paints Razorsharp Geometric Acrylics So Precise They Barely Look Handmad

Death Anxiety Comics Inspired By Our Fears "Sunkissed": Beautiful Feminine Illustrations by Emilija Savic Artist Creates Honest Illustrations About Relationships And Everyday Life Artist Yana Tarakanova Creates Superb Explicit and Bizarre Comics About The Society The Dark, Incredibly F*cked Up Comics Of Joan Cornella Chris Keegan by Cosmic Creatures 6 Feet Covers: Duo Artists Re-Designed Iconic Album Covers To Promote Social Distancing Artist Spent Three Years Painting Her Readings Mom Prepares Healthy Meals As Cartoon Characters For Her Son How To Teach Yoga Like Slav: Top 10 Drunk Yoga Positions
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Arts
fromColossal
2 months ago

Minimal Shapes Layer into Dynamic, Abstracted Murals by James Reka

James Reka favors public murals that respond to local history and community, using geometric abstraction, layered color, and architectural details to create site-specific narratives.
Arts
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago

8 signs you appreciate art, music, and culture on a deeper level than most people - Silicon Canals

Some people experience art deeply, reacting emotionally and perceiving subtle artistic cues that reveal heightened sensitivity and meaningful connections to creative expression.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

Stunning Daily Renders Blending Cinema 4D And AI Into Otherworldly Scenes by Will Toulan

Dad Gets Tattoo So His 6-Year-Old Daughter Wouldn't Feel Different 21 Watercolors That Show How The Sun And Shadows Change Cities The Designer Reveals His Suggestions for Redesigning Famous Brands Naive, Super: Lovely Paintings by Angela Smyth Creative Spontaneous Sketches of Faces and Figures by Pawe Ponichtera Logo Artists Reinterpreted 38 Of The Most Recognizable Logos With A Single Unbroken Line Artist Paints While Under The Influence Of 20 Different Drugs The Uncannily Realistic Landscapes Of Carolyn H. Edlund
Arts
fromHi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
2 months ago

Cayce Zavaglia & The Haphazard Beauty Found behind Her Fiber Portraits - Hi-Fructose Magazine

What gives me encouragement to continue to use my family as inspiration is that, if you look back in history, the famous portraits that Van Gogh did are portraits of people he knew, the postman or his friends. Intimate friends that, once you get that distance of time, you don't think, 'Well, this is someone he knew and that's kind of boring. It's portrait, in and of itself.
Arts
Arts
fromColossal
3 months ago

Clouds Billow and Caverns Melt in Gabe Benzur's Mystical Landscapes

Gabe Benzur paints surreal, color-forward oil landscapes blending digital rendering, imagination, mythology, and cartoonish forms into uncanny, transcendental scenes.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Does It Have to Mean Something to Be Great?

Joanne Greenbaum combines diverse media and mark-making to create cohesive paintings where individual elements retain distinctiveness, blending stillness with accelerating movement.
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