Where Technology Meets the Poetic: Ziyi Zhang
Ziyi Zhang is an art director and multimedia artist whose work bridges the poetic and the political, the emotional and the technological. Since beginning her professional journey in 2021, she has approached the creative industry with curiosity, openness, and a strong collaborative spirit. Grounded in both art and technology, Zhang’s practice blends dreamlike, romantic aesthetics with thoughtful reflections on humanity, social issues, and global concerns. We asked Ziyi about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Collages Inspired by a Lifetime of Travel: Apostolos Vafeas
Apostolos Vafeas was born on the picturesque island of Kythnos, Greece. A passionate traveler, he spent over 35 years working in the tourism industry before retiring and turning his attention to collage art — an interest he had cherished alongside his career for many years. His travels around the world have deeply influenced his artistic practice, with each piece reflecting glimpses of the places, cultures, and moments that have stayed with him. We asked Apostolos about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
The Beauty in Error: Devis Bergantin’s Semi-Automatic Art and Digital Distortion
Devis Bergantin is a visual artist, writer, and atelierist based in northern Italy. His artistic practice centers on experimental drawing and glitch art—often blending the two to explore spontaneity, unpredictability, and the beauty found in error. In addition to his creative work, Devis is also an expert in vegetable and wellness gardening, cultivating both land and imagination through interdisciplinary collaborations with independent projects and spaces across Italy and abroad. We asked Devis about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Purposeful Typography: Nancy (Xinxuan) Gao
Nancy (Xinxuan) Gao is a multidisciplinary designer with a focus on visual identity and typography. A graduate of ArtCenter College of Design, she discovered her love for branding and font design early on and has been exploring both traditional and digital approaches to design ever since. Whether working with paper or writing code, Nancy enjoys exploring how design can communicate and connect. We asked Nancy about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Turning Shadow Work into Surreal Collage Art: Unknown Deity
Unknown Deity is a collage artist based in Charm City, Maryland, whose work centers around the process of transmutation — transforming emotion and experience into evocative visual language. Through layered, surreal compositions, Unknown Deity explores the depths of the human condition, offering viewers gentle reminders that we’re never truly alone. We asked Unknown Deity about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
10 Digital Artists: Interactive Art and Design
In the world of interactive art and design, engagement is not just encouraged — it’s essential. The use of technologies like AI, VR, and real-time interactivity is allowing artists to create dynamic experiences that react to the viewer’s actions, decisions, and presence. From virtual reality worlds to interactive public installations, these 10 digital artists are creating groundbreaking works that invite us to engage, explore, and think in new ways.
Artist Interview: Juzo
Emerging from the “obscurities of Seattle,” Hong-Kong American artist Juzo creates introspective and thought-provoking 3D artworks, often accompanied by ambient-style music. His work explores themes of mental health, melancholy, and memory, drawing inspiration from his own experiences with depression and anxiety. We asked Juzo about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Sara Tepes
Sara Tepes is a Virginia-based artist with a love for all things cozy, beautiful, and unapologetically feminine. A longtime digital art enthusiast, she began sharing her work on Instagram at just 15 years old and have been building a dedicated community ever since. Over the years, her artistic journey has evolved from darker, somber themes to vibrant, joyful explorations of beauty — whether found in delicate emotions, the unfamiliar, or the simple comforts of everyday life. We asked Sara about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Rodrigo Villas
Rodrigo Villas is a multidisciplinary artist from Rio de Janeiro whose work is influenced by Brazilian modernism and its decolonial spirit. He explores themes of identity, cultural heritage, and visual storytelling through a diverse practice that blends traditional and digital media. We asked Rodrigo about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Paul Bojack
Paul Bojack is a Los Angeles-based writer, director, and artist whose work spans film, video, and new media. With a career rooted in bold, thought-provoking storytelling, he has been exploring new narratives and experimental filmmaking. Currently, Bojack is exploring participatory moving image art with Your Reflection/Change of Direction, a project that literally puts viewers inside the artwork. We asked Paul about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Vince Fraser
Vince Fraser is a digital artist and illustrator with over 20 years of experience in the creative industry. Known for blending a variety of skills, including film and motion, he believes in confronting current social, political, and cultural realities with an imaginative yet critical lens, using his art as a tool for change. We asked Vince about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
10 Digital Artists: The Art of Animation
Animation is the art of bringing still images to life, creating the illusion of movement through a series of frames. These frames, whether hand-drawn, digitally created, or crafted with models, are carefully sequenced to tell stories and capture emotions. In this article, we’re celebrating ten talented digital artists who are redefining the art of animation.
Artist Interview: Francesco Seren Rosso
Francesco Seren Rosso is a self-taught artist from Italy whose work blends digital glitches with the beauty of nature. His art often features landscapes where the natural and technological collide, revealing the unexpected beauty in imperfection and decay. Francesco experiments with glitch aesthetics, intentionally degrading digital files to uncover meaning in loss, and incorporates collage techniques to layer textures and materials into striking compositions. We asked Francesco about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Martin Došek
Martin Došek, based in Pardubice, Czech Republic, has been creating collages for over 35 years. His collages reflect the complexity of life, focusing on themes like love, connection, and our need to explore and understand the world. Each piece is layered and detailed, capturing emotions and moments that can’t always be put into words. We asked Martin about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Stephen Paré
Stephen Paré is an artist and writer originally from Ithaca, New York, who has lived across the United States. Now based in Houston, Texas, Stephen feels at home wherever his creativity takes him. Inspired by the art, stories, and music he’s loved, as well as the deep cultures and nuances of language, Stephen’s work aims for what James Joyce once called an “omnium gatherum” — a full representation of life, both profound and ironic. We asked Stephen about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Su Rankine
Su Rankine is a budding digital artist who brings her love for color, movement, and self-expression to her creations. Her journey began in a simple but serendipitous way — scrolling through Pinterest, she stumbled upon digital art that sparked her curiosity. From there, she discovered her first digital collage app and started experimenting, creating pieces that felt both fun and expressive. With time, practice, and an open mind, Su has found her flow in the digital art world, learning new skills and techniques as she goes. We asked Su about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Abhimanyu Krishna
Abhimanyu Krishna, known online as @visualalchemist, is an Indian digital artist. For him, nature is the ultimate teacher, sparking a childlike curiosity that drives his creative process. With a background in pure sciences and mathematics, he views the world as a network of data — from the chemical makeup of the air to the intricate patterns of leaves and flowers, all rooted in mathematical principles. This perspective extends to his art, where he decodes natural systems and translates them into generative frameworks, finding beauty not just in the predictable patterns but also in their random deviations. We asked Abhimanyu about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Trinity Yeung
Trinity Yeung is a New York City-based designer and writer originally from the Philippines, known for her fresh take on motion graphics, front-end product design, and editorials. Trinity’s work thrives at the intersection of color, texture, and narrative, drawing from her Southeast Asian heritage, pop culture, technology, and contemporary art forms. Her diverse background in feature writing, material research, and design strategy lends her a distinctive edge in design thinking. We asked Trinity about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Daniel Thompson
Daniel Thompson, the creative force behind BK Creations, is a visual artist whose work is inspired by two key muses — music and life experiences. Daniel’s art transforms emotions and moments into abstract realist visual expressions. For him, every song sparks a new world of ideas, while personal and shared experiences shape the themes he explores. We asked Daniel about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Matt Owens
Matt Owens is a designer, entrepreneur, and creative innovator based in Brooklyn, New York. His personal passion for experimental design took shape through Volumeone.com, a self-published quarterly that ran from 1997 to 2009 and is now part of SFMoMA's permanent collection. Entirely self-taught in digital tools, he embraced the web as a space for innovation and self-expression, exploring experimental intersections of motion, graphic design, and code. We asked Matt about his art, creative process, and inspirations.