Source Colossal   Through vivid sculptural paintings, Los Angeles-based artist Estefania Ajcip peers in on the fractures families face when split apart. Ajcip spent much of her childhood in Guatemala, while her father worked in L.A. and missed pivotal moments of her youth. In a new body of work titled Folded Memories, the artist contends with…

Source Design You Trust  Kilian Eng is a Swedish graphics artist based in Stockholm, born in 1982. He’s widely regarded as the natural heir to Moebius’s throne of retro-futurist sci-fi illustration. Eng graduated from Konstfack, Stockholm’s University of Arts, Craft & Design, in 2010 with a bachelor’s and master’s in Graphic Design and Illustration, and…

Source Design You Trust  Endrit Marku (@endritmark) is an architect, visual artist, and lecturer from Tirana, Albania, who draws to explore and question the phenomena of our built environment. Marku holds a PhD focused on the relationship between space and authority, using Tirana’s shifting urban history across different political periods as his case study. Until…

Source Design You Trust  Manabu Yashiro is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator best known as the author of “Tank Chair” (戦車椅子), currently serialized in the monthly Shonen Sirius magazine, with volume 9 already published. Yashiro’s core series, Tank Chair, follows a protagonist named Nagi Taira piloting an armored, weaponized wheelchair through a chaotic, industrial…

Source Design You Trust  Matt Schu is a children’s book illustrator and fine artist based in Portland, Oregon. He’s represented by Chad W. Beckerman at The CAT Agency for book illustration work. Schu studied art and design at the University of Oregon, then worked as a graphic designer and editorial illustrator before shifting focus to…

Source Colossal   At ICD Brookfield Place in Dubai, a vibrant collection of smiling inflatables sprouts from a vaulted ceiling, creating a suspended pool party of colorful forms. The spirited installation is titled “Under the Sun” and the latest project by duo Craig & Karl. “We wanted to capture the warmth, vibrancy, and joy of summer—distilled…

Source Colossal   Enter The Magician’s Room, and you’ll encounter a brawny horse with a serpent coiled on its back, a flock of headless birds diving into a central star, and a fluffy white rabbit framed by an unblinking circle of eyes. This surreal, liminal space is the setting for a new body of work by…

Source Colossal   From the late 18th century through the end of the Civil War, the Underground Railroad was a network of safe houses where freedom-seekers from the South could find safety and shelter as they traveled north, sometimes all the way to Canada to escape capture and prosecution. It’s possible that there may have even…