Zhiyu You and the Art of Quiet Unease
Zhiyu You is an illustrator and visual artist from China whose work blends fine art sensibilities with contemporary illustration. After studying Fine Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, she earned her BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in 2022 and is currently based in New York. Her images often explore psychological tension, identity, and quiet emotional narratives, balancing delicate detail with symbolic, atmospheric compositions. Zhiyu has created work for clients including The New Republic, Zócalo Public Square, Shenzhen Press Group Publishing House, and Tbaar, and her illustrations have been recognized by organizations such as Communication Arts, the Society of Illustrators, the London International Creative Competition, Creative Quarterly, and the 3×3 Illustration Awards.
“Motion Can Guide Understanding”: Jesseter Wang on Designing with Movement
Jesseter Wang is a motion designer based in New York, currently working at BUCK where she focuses on brand and product storytelling through motion and 3D. Her work often sits at the intersection of technology, narrative, and design, translating complex systems into visual experiences that feel clear, intuitive, and human. Outside of client projects, she’s increasingly interested in questions of identity, authorship, and how motion can express ideas and emotions that are difficult to articulate with words alone.
Structured Chaos: terrafold’s Mathematical Approach to Glitch
terrafold is a glitch and GFX artist whose relationship with digital tools began almost as soon as she could use a keyboard. At just five years old, she was experimenting on a family Commodore computer with MultiPaint, long before she had the language to describe what she was doing. By sixteen, she was teaching herself Photoshop, digital graphics fundamentals, and photo manipulation, building her skills through fan art, layered collages, and experimental edits.
Olga Larikova Paints the Energy of Music Into Portraits and Yantras
Olga Larikova is a visual artist whose practice moves between digital art, hyperrealistic pencil drawing, photography, and energy-based mirror paintings known as yantras. She has created album covers and visual work for musicians including Joelle James and Saweetie, translating sound, emotion, and presence into striking visual narratives. Deeply inspired by music and spirituality, Olga approaches each piece as an energetic exchange — whether she’s rendering a luminous digital portrait or constructing a meditative yantra designed to hold intention and vibration.
3D Motion Design and Cinematic Storytelling with Coco (Yuqun Huang)
Coco (Yuqun Huang) is a Los Angeles–based 3D motion designer and look development artist specializing in cinematic title sequences and narrative-driven motion design. She has contributed to projects for Disney, HBO, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, including the Emmy-nominated House of the Dragon title sequence, as well as look development for the main titles of Lilo & Stitch and Mufasa: The Lion King. Working at the intersection of graphic design and 3D craft, Coco focuses on clarity, mood, and cinematic detail, collaborating closely with art directors and production teams from concept through final execution.
Peilin Li on Drawing Ordinary Moments Before They Disappear
Peilin Li is an illustrator and designer based in Los Angeles whose work moves between editorial, branding, advertising, and motion. At the core of her practice is illustration — her most instinctive and personal way of working. Influenced by childhood picture books, comics, and a lifelong habit of sketching daily life, Peilin creates lively, character-driven scenes that capture humor, chaos, and tenderness in everyday moments. Her images are often exaggerated yet grounded, combining bold composition with emotional nuance, and aim to spotlight the quiet beauty of ordinary life while offering viewers a small sense of comfort.
From Darkroom to Dream State: Dlela Lombard on Visionary Flow and Digital Art
Dlela Lombard is a German photo and digital artist with roots in analogue photography, darkroom practice, and film-set work. Largely self-taught, her early career included book cover art and international exhibitions, and since the early 2000s she has developed an evolving digital practice grounded in intuition, sensory experience, and experimental image-making. Her work blends photography, painting, and unconventional digital techniques to explore ephemeral form, perception, and states of consciousness.
DAMN TRUE on Grief, Glitch, and Staying with Discomfort
DAMN TRUE works at the intersection of digital decay, memory, and emotional distortion, building a visual language from personal archives, neural glitches, and the raw textures of everyday life. Rooted in contemporary Russian urban experience, his still lifes and portraits hover between presence and disappearance, irony and grief — inviting viewers to sit with discomfort, notice what image culture often smooths over, and find beauty inside the broken.
From Freelancer to Studio Founder: Alex Safavinia on Motion Design, 3D Animation, and Kasra Design
Alex Safavinia is an award-winning creative director and founder of Kasra Design©, an animation studio specializing in 3D animation and explainer videos. He began his career as a motion graphics artist in 2006 and later started freelancing as an animator just as explainer videos were gaining traction alongside YouTube’s rapid growth. Spotting the potential early, Alex began building a team of talented artists, which eventually evolved into Kasra Design© — now operating offices in Singapore and Malaysia.
From Concrete Poetry to Digital Constructivism: Inside Robert Richardson’s Practice
Robert Richardson is a UK-based visual artist and writer whose practice moves fluidly between concrete poetry, constructivist abstraction, and digital image-making. Originally trained in Communication Design before later studying Education, he spent many years as a university lecturer before shifting his focus to independent creative work. He now produces artworks across media, with solo exhibitions in the UK, Germany, and Portugal, and his graphic art held in major collections including the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery Library and Archive, and the National Gallery of Australia.
Zoe Sophia on Daily Drawing, Creature Design, and Building Creature Nation
Zoe Sophia is a Swiss-American illustrator and digital artist known for her imaginative creature characters and playful world-building. Over the past ten months, she has committed to drawing one original creature every day — a personal challenge that has grown into Creature Nation, an ongoing YouTube series with over 7,000 highly engaged subscribers and more than 1.1 million views. Her creatures emerge from wordplay, visual themes, and family lore, often inspired by her miniature dachshund, Esmé, her ultimate creature muse.
Online and Offline Identities: Feixue Mei on Cross-Cultural Design and Diaspora
Feixue Mei is a designer, illustrator, artist, and educator from China, now based in Virginia, US. Her work often grows out of questions about whose stories get told, how they circulate, and what happens in the spaces in between cultures. She moves between client projects, books, installations, and self-initiated publications, with a particular interest in voices shaped by migration, diaspora, and cross-cultural dialogue.
almyre on Generative Art, Software Execution, and Creating Code as Performance
almyre (Benoit Baudry) is a Professor of Computer Science and a generative artist based in Stockholm. In 2019, he founded the re|thread collective, a platform for exploring the intersection of software and art through generative projects, plotter art, the restoration of digital artworks, and collaborative NFT initiatives such as folkfigur.
Di Lu on Duality, Emotional Memory, and the Courage to Let Work Get Messy
Di Lu is a visual designer working between Los Angeles and Beijing. Her practice sits at the intersection of design, culture, and storytelling, spanning typography, books, installations, and digital experiences. Moving between these two cities has shaped both her worldview and her visual language — one grounded in history, responsibility, and depth, the other fueled by experimentation, play, and creative risk. This constant negotiation between cultures shows up in work that feels poetic and emotional, yet bold and slightly off-balance.
Mizuki Tanahara on Algorithms, Urban Data, and the Art of Revealing Systems
Mizuki Tanahara is a London-based media artist who loves exploring the hidden systems that quietly shape how we move through the world — algorithms, data infrastructures, surveillance tools, all the invisible machinery behind our screens. Working across installation, moving image, data-driven sculpture, and performance, she creates research-led artworks that make these systems feel tangible, sometimes even emotional.
Inside María Sánchez’s Quantum-Mystical Approach to Digital Art
María Sánchez is an interdisciplinary artist based in Jupiter, Florida. Her work moves fluidly between traditional and digital painting, drawing, experimental poetry, and movement-based deconstruction. Drawing from psychoanalysis, quantum phenomena, mysticism, and technology, she blends paper, metal, and ink with digital techniques to create hybrid forms that sit between the organic and the synthetic. Her practice often reflects on the ways power structures shape perception, memory, and the unconscious, using both handcrafted and algorithm-inspired approaches to explore the blurred boundary between self and system.
The Mirror and the Map: Joe Karlovec on Buildings, Belonging, and the Metaphysics of Place
Joe Karlovec is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Wilmington, North Carolina, whose work investigates the metaphysical charge of everyday architecture — those familiar, vernacular spaces that quietly hold layers of history, mythology, and social meaning. Over the past decade, he has built a nomadic studio practice while moving through Ohio, Florida, South Carolina, and now North Carolina, letting each place shape the way he observes, archives, and interprets the built environment. He currently works as the Facilities Coordinator for a museum, where he oversees the preservation of three historic buildings, a role that deepens his relationship with the structures that occupy his artistic imagination. His latest video work is set to debut in Korea at the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art in 2026.
Half‑Lit Rooms and Half‑Remembered Lives: Inside David Miller’s Liminal Visual Worlds
David Miller is a UK-born visual artist whose work blends narrative, AI-assisted imagery, and painterly approaches to explore memory, ritual, and the quiet strangeness of childhood. A former filmmaker and scriptwriter, Miller creates cinematic scenes filled with emotional ambiguity, gentle ghosts, and half-remembered moments. His practice investigates the shifting boundary between what we recall, what we invent, and what continues to haunt us.
How Natalia Titova Turns Literature into Digital Collage Art
Natalia Titova is a digital artist specializing in literary-inspired digital collages. Since beginning her artistic practice in 2022, she has been developing a distinctive visual language shaped by her lifelong fascination with writers, their texts, and the emotional landscapes they create. Drawing on her background as a graphic designer, she embraces the freedom of pixels — a space without physical limits, where ideas can unfold, shift, and transform.
Between Mis-Translations and Architecture: The Graphic Art of Yinxue ‘Lucy’ Zou
Yinxue “Lucy” Zou is a Chinese graphic designer and visual artist currently based in North Carolina, working between Raleigh, Boston, and the New York area. Originally trained in architecture, she later completed her MFA in Graphic Design at Boston University. Lucy’s practice spans experimental posters, digital collages, and artist books that explore memory, dreams, migration, and the emotional “grey zones” of living between cities, languages, and identities. Her works often combine blurred photography, layered typography, and abstract forms to create quiet, atmospheric compositions.