Joe Chiappetta on Silly Daddy Comics, NFTs, and Over 25 Years of Digital Art
An award-winning cartoonist and digital art pioneer, Joe Chiappetta has been creating art since long before “digital” was a common word in the studio. Originally from Chicago and now based in California, he is best known for Silly Daddy Comics and ArtVndngMchn, with a career spanning the Independent Comics Publishing Movement of the 1980s to today’s Rare Digital Art and Cryptoart scenes. His work blends humor, family, and faith, often reflecting a lighthearted yet deeply personal perspective.
Jingyuan Huang on Motion Graphics, Branding, and Turning Everyday Moments Into Digital Stories
Jingyuan Huang is a Maryland-based graphic designer and motion creative whose work merges clean, thoughtful aesthetics with engaging storytelling. With experience in marketing design and a growing focus on social media visuals, she creates content that balances strategic intent with artistic expression. Her projects span motion graphics, digital campaigns, and visual identities, reflecting both precision and emotion, as she seeks to connect audiences through movement, color, and narrative.
Hacking Systems of Power with Glitter: Gretchen Andrew on Her Whitney Museum Acquisition
Known for “hacking systems of power with art, code, and glitter,” Andrew has long blurred the lines between traditional painting, internet performance, and technological critique. From her viral “vision boards” that hijacked Google search results to her powerful Facetune Portraits, Gretchen Andrew’s work continues to question who gets to control images, narratives, and visibility in the digital age.
How Xy Arnaldo Turns Personal Reflection into Cinematic Digital Art and Animation
Xy Arnaldo is a digital artist and designer based in Metro Manila, Philippines. Her work spans digital art, animation, public art, and visual storytelling — often blending personal reflection with emotional resilience and dreamlike narrative flow. Through introspective imagery and layered storytelling, she transforms inner thoughts and memories into poetic visual worlds that resonate with quiet strength. Balancing freelance design work with her fine art practice, Xy is steadily carving her path in the digital art and animation landscape, guided by curiosity, sincerity, and a love of narrative form.
A Visual Haiku: Wenwen Zhu’s Quiet Worlds of Imperfect Grace
Wenwen Zhu is a Chicago-based animator and illustrator whose work lives in the space between surrealism and wabi-sabi — where imperfection, stillness, and mystery quietly coexist. Moving between 3D animation and drawing, she builds poetic worlds that invite viewers to linger and feel rather than decode. Her images often explore the subtle ties between people, society, and nature, revealing emotion through restraint and atmosphere instead of narrative clarity. Each piece feels like a visual haiku — spare, ambiguous, yet deeply resonant.
Go With The Flow: Raymond Giuffrida on Art as Survival and Self-Discovery
Raymond Giuffrida is a multidisciplinary artist, screenwriter, songwriter, and founder of Compass Charlatan Publishing, a creative hub where he writes screenplays, books, and songs while also producing digital art. His visual works, often crafted from photographs and digital paint programs, come to life during road trips or periods of introspection at home. For him, creativity is both grounding and exploratory — a way to stay balanced while questioning how art shapes (or escapes) our personal biases.
Digital Art Before the Internet: Victor Acevedo on 40 Years of Digital Experimentation
Victor Acevedo is one of the early pioneers of desktop digital art, creating fine art images and videos with computers since 1985 — long before digital art became mainstream. His journey began even earlier, in 1983, when he started experimenting with computer graphics under the influence of legendary artists Frank Dietrich and Tony Longson. Rooted in geometric abstraction yet often intertwined with figuration, his hybrid imagery carries a metaphysical sensibility that bridges technology, philosophy, and form.
Between Algorithm and Memory: Pioneering Digital Artist Martine Jacobs on Early Internet to AI
Martine Jacobs is a Dutch artist whose work moves between the digital and the handmade, blending AI generation with delicate pastel interventions. Her recent series, Four Hybrid Works – Between Algorithm and Memory, explores what happens when beauty, once central to art, begins to fade into memory. Each piece starts with artificial intelligence and ends with her touch — a quiet act of resistance that brings warmth and humanity back into the machine-made.
“A Fantastical Space to Escape Reality”: Yuanhao Tang on the Power of Illustration
Yuanhao Tang is an illustrator known for his bold line work, flat colors, and distinctive storytelling flair. Working primarily in the book and editorial illustration markets, his art combines a sharp graphic sensibility with thoughtful, conceptual depth. Rooted in a lifelong love of comic books; beginning with a well-worn Batman issue from his childhood, Yuanhao’s art practice started with years of traditional drawing and painting before evolving into the digital realm.
A Pause Between Worlds: The Metaphoric Art of Yueming Li
Yueming Li is a visual artist whose work explores how images can tell stories and reveal the inner world through metaphor and symbolism. Drawing from everyday life, she creates visual narratives that invite viewers to pause, feel, and reflect. Having lived across different countries, Yueming sees art as a universal language — one that transcends words and connects emotions across cultures. Her works often feel meditative, guiding viewers into quiet, contemplative spaces where familiar moments take on a timeless, poetic quality.
Design as Choreography: Junrong (Arving) Wu on Sound, Rhythm, and Emotion
Junrong (Arving) Wu is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual designer based in New York City. His practice spans motion graphics, branding, and art direction, merging conceptual storytelling with sleek visual precision. A Gold Winner at the London Design Awards and recipient of the DNA Paris Design Award, Junrong currently works with DE-YAN NYC, where he contributes to high-profile branding and experiential media projects. His work often bridges the physical and digital, transforming memory, perception, and cultural identity into immersive visual experiences.
Nothing Is Ever Ordinary: Xinyu Yu on Still Life
Xinyu Yu is an award-winning artist and designer whose practice bridges the lyricism of Eastern traditions with the innovation of contemporary Western art. Born and raised in China, she trained rigorously in ink, watercolor, and oil painting before expanding her perspective through studies at Pratt Institute in Interior Design and at the University of Pennsylvania in Sustainable Design. Now based in Phoenix, Arizona, she draws inspiration from the region’s diverse landscapes and cultures, blending her cross-cultural background into a body of work that is both grounded in history and open to transformation.
“A Nostalgic Filter to Comment on the Present”: Pixel Art with Jude Buffum
Jude Buffum is a Philadelphia-based pixel artist and illustrator whose work reimagines 8-bit aesthetics for the present day. With over two decades of experience, he has collaborated with major brands like Disney, Marvel, Sony, Hasbro, ESPN, WWE, Taco Bell, and Target. A graduate of Temple University’s Graphic Arts and Design program, Jude began his career in book design before founding his own studio in 2007, where he has since become known for vibrant, retro-styled illustrations and conceptual storytelling through pixels.
BorrowedTime and the Poetics of Code: Cubist Heart Laboratories
Cubist Heart Laboratories is a global collective of scientists, artists, and shamans “found wherever electrons move,” founded by Creative Director John See Landry. Based in Boston, Landry is a visual artist with a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design, whose work explores the intersections of art, technology, and time. With projects like BorrowedTime — a daily clock built with React that remixes found internet imagery — the collective creates experimental works that blur the boundaries between design, computation, and poetic expression.
Surreal, Punk, Big-Eyed: Shannon Bulrice on AI as a Tool, Not a Threat
Shannon Bulrice is a multidisciplinary artist who blends punk aesthetics, emotional storytelling, and emerging technologies. Her work is known for surreal, character-driven imagery that explores identity, softness, and defiance, using both traditional tools and AI-enhanced design. Shannon creates worlds where rebellion and tenderness coexist, inviting viewers into spaces that feel both strange and deeply human.
Painting Life’s Mysteries: Nacho Frades on Art, Writing, and NFTs
Nacho Frades is a digital painter whose luminous, minimalist works blend the spirit of classical painting with contemporary technology. He began drawing as a child, inspired by El Greco and endless museum visits, and went on to study with realist master Antonio López, who instilled in him the discipline to follow his own path. After years working in animated films, Frades shifted fully to digital painting in 2005, developing a body of work that feels both introspective and futuristic. His art has been exhibited internationally, from museums to billboards in Times Square, and is held in collections around the world.
A Surreal Theater: The Baroque Intensity of Ada Crow
Ada Crow is a multidisciplinary artist and art historian from Asturias, Spain. With a background that bridges traditional art history and contemporary practice, her work reinterprets iconic imagery through photography, oil painting, drawing, AI, and stop motion. Influenced by Surrealism, Flemish painting, and the Baroque, she seeks a balance between visual beauty and conceptual depth, always circling back to the question of what it means to be human.
Drawing the Personal, Finding the Universal: Wenqing Gu
Wenqing Gu is a Las Vegas–based freelance illustrator and visual storyteller whose digital artwork spans children’s books, 2D animation, and editorial projects. Drawing inspiration from both her Chinese heritage and American experiences, she brings warmth, humor, and a touch of wonder to her illustrations, inviting audiences of all ages into imaginative worlds.
From Literature to Design: Jun Lin on Research-Driven Creativity
Jun Lin is a Los Angeles–based graphic designer and illustrator with a background in Literature. Her work spans branding, print, digital, packaging, and illustration, brought together by a methodical, research-driven, and empathetic design sensibility.
In Mexico, Inspiration Comes from Anywhere: Guillermo Flores's Digital Collages
Guillermo Flores is Mexican designer and illustrator based in Guadalajara, specialized in advertising illustration, retouching, post production and digital collage. He created unique images for advertising campaigns, as well as collaborating in the publishing world, developing illustrations for magazine covers, editorial articles and books.