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: Joe Giunta
Joe Giunta is a seasoned graphic artist, illustrator, and educator with a career spanning decades. Joe explores ways to infuse the energy and spontaneity of traditional art into the digital medium. His love for cartoons has been a constant throughout his career, inspired by the gag cartoons and comic strips he admired growing up. Over time, his style evolved into a unique blend influenced by his heroes from Mad Magazine, The New Yorker, and the Saturday Evening Post — with humor that continues to develop and delight audiences. We asked Joe about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: SURVIVETHETRAP
SURVIVETHETRAP is a seasoned art director with 15 years of experience creating impactful designs. Based in Orlando, Florida, he has worked with high-profile clients to deliver quality graphic design that transforms brands. His mission is simple: to create art that makes people stop, feel, and connect — even if they can’t put it into words. We asked SURVIVETHETRAP about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Annie Lok
Annie Lok is an Australian collage artist who merges traditional cut-and-paste techniques with digital technology to create thought-provoking works that explore identity, culture, and social issues. Drawing from personal and found photographic imagery, her practice reflects her fascination with art as a tool for criticism and change — a way to capture snapshots of identity and culture in tangible, lasting forms. We asked Annie about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Ryn Clarke
Ryn is a Cleveland-based visual artist, photographer, and educator who finds inspiration in the beauty of nature. Using both iPhone and digital SLR cameras, she explores a variety of photographic techniques, from composite photography to photopolymer gravure, encaustic art, and hand-colored prints. Ryn’s art practice is rooted in bringing together traditional and modern processes, allowing her to get creative while honoring the rich history of her craft. We asked Ryn about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
10 Digital Artists: Poetry in the Digital Age
Poetry in the digital age brings together the analog and digital worlds of text, incorporating poetic expression into various artistic media and bringing it out of the ordinary. Through the use of digital tools and platforms, poets and artists alike are transforming the genre, disrupting the linearity of text to create meaningful spaces where the poetic emerges in new and unexpected ways. Here is 10 of the best artists who are making waves in the world of poetry in the digital age.
Artist Interview: JJ
Jie Jian (JJ) is a Brooklyn-based artist, graphic designer, and type designer whose work explores racial and gender issues, particularly focusing on Asian female representations in the U.S. She also reflects on the present through the lens of nostalgic childhood experiences. Her projects are often bilingual, designed to bridge communication between Western and Eastern audiences. We asked JJ about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Audrey Chou
Yi-Han (Audrey) Chou is a dancer, researcher, and multimedia artist from Taipei, now based in New York City since 2018. Audrey’s work revolves around storytelling through movement, exploring the connections between embodiment, cultural identity, and diversity. We asked Audrey about her 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: David Van Eyssen
David Van Eyssen is a multimedia artist whose work reflects his fascination with time, memory, and the beauty of impermanence. Originally from London, he started as a painter and installation artist, later expanding his creative journey to Los Angeles, where he made a name for himself in entertainment and advertising. His art practice combines his painterly instincts with his experience in filmmaking to create video-based work, site-specific projections, virtual and extended reality pieces, AI-infused photography, lenticular images, and 2.5D prints. We asked David 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: Malu Zanelato
Malu Zanelato is a Brazilian visual artist specializing in collage, creating dreamlike imagery inspired by surrealism and dadaism. Her work beautifully explores the divine feminine, portraying women as mystical and ethereal beings deeply connected to nature. Through her collages, Malu visually represents the symbiosis between women, the universe, and its cycles, often drawing on the rich symbolism of tarot to add depth and mystery to her art. We asked Malu about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Simon McCall
Simon McCall is a British contemporary new media artist who blends traditional impasto painting with modern digital design to create stunning abstract landscapes. His work is inspired by the breathtaking beauty of the English Lake District and the Cumbrian coast, capturing the colors, textures, and light of these rugged scenes. We asked Simon about his art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Bala Nair
Bala Nair is a digital artist whose journey into art emerged from a unique path of self-discovery and personal growth. After two decades in product development, Bala took a step back to focus on his physical and mental well-being, finding inspiration through rigorous gym sessions and kickboxing, which reflect his passion for intense, dynamic disciplines. This period of transformation rekindled his childhood imagination — a resource he had long relied on, having grown up creating fantastical worlds from everyday objects. His inventive spirit, once responsible for turning straws into Wolverine claws and bottles into starships, found a new outlet in digital art. We asked Bala Nair 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.
Artist Interview: Jessica Ticchio
Jessica Ticchio is a digital artist and designer from Sydney, Australia, and the creative director of Studio Messa. Drawing inspiration from minimalism, surrealism, and sculptural forms, she explores the harmony between physical and virtual spaces through 3D art, AI, and VR sculptures, as well as immersive experiential designs. Her art, often surreal and dreamlike, invites viewers to question the boundaries of reality while encouraging introspection and wonder. We asked Jessica about her art, creative process, and inspirations.
Artist Interview: Juan Cañón
Juan David Martínez Cañón is a talented traditional and digital artist from Cali, Colombia, with a passion for blending modern tools and classical techniques. A graduate of Universidad del Valle with a BA in Visual Arts, Juan discovered the transformative power of artistic expression through his studies and his involvement in creative events and expos exploring the intersection of video games and art. Drawing since the age of four, he considers art not just a skill but a therapeutic escape, channeling his creativity through pencil sketches, charcoal work, and digital mediums like Photoshop and Illustrator. We asked Juan about his art, creative process, and inspirations.