Source Colossal   Perhaps best known for her luminous portraits in collaboration with legacy magazines and fashion houses, photographer Elizaveta Porodina has also captured the smaller, yet no less striking, creatures walking this planet. Commissioned for the climate-focused publication Atmos, a radiant series of images highlights beetles, butterflies, and mantises in her signature ethereal style and…

Source Colossal   This year, an international team of scientists announced the discovery of a new species of wild cat in Bolivia, and research initiatives like Ocean Census continue to document hundreds of new marine species annually. Yet species are probably disappearing faster than we can find them. It’s difficult to gauge what goes extinct every…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist and painter Wim Zorn creates dynamic abstracts using a bold interplay of color and emotions. The post Featured Artist Wim Zorn appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   In archaeology, discoveries typically prompt more questions than answers. For Max Lehman, who studies Pre-Columbian art history, what we don’t know—and may never—about ancient peoples and civilizations is what makes the discipline so compelling. The ancient Mayans, for example, bedecked their elaborate temples with images on carved rock slabs, and the Aztec sun…

Source Design You Trust  Ayan Nag, an Indian artist and illustrator from Jalpaiguri who works across plein-air painting, environments, concept art, and visual development. Based in Bangalore for much of his career, he balances travel-based observation with imaginative worldbuilding for studios and clients including Ubisoft, Psyop, Procreate, Passion Pictures, Technicolor, and ImagineFX. Nag’s work begins…

Source Design You Trust  CLAYZIQ is a cinematic-retro wall-art studio creating dreamlike scenes of glowing horizons, quiet rooms, palm-lined roads, beach drives, and neon-lit city nights. Its own phrase, “nostalgic therapy,” captures the idea: images designed to trigger the feeling of a memory you may never have lived, but somehow recognize instantly. The studio works…

Source Design You Trust  Thomas Albdorf, an Austrian artist and photographer whose deceptively simple still lifes, object studies, and sculptural images explore how easily photography can make reality feel unstable. A tomato may appear to change over time, an egg may float above a spoon, or ordinary material fragments may become an impossible spatial arrangement…

Source Design You Trust  Javier Demsky is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist whose practice began in graffiti in the early 1990s and has expanded into painting, sculpture, installation, animation, digital art, public murals, and experimental design. His unmistakable signature is the transformation of his own name into luminous, impossible structures that seem to fold through space…