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.
Designing Systems that Feel: UI/UX & Graphic Design by Yanming Chen
Yanming Chen is a graphic and UX/UI designer from Chengdu, China, with a Master’s degree in Communication Design from Pratt Institute in New York. Her practice bridges print, branding, and digital design, evolving from early projects in posters and typography to a strong focus on UI/UX and communication systems.
A Gift to the Ocean: The Art of Lhean Storm
Lhean Storm is a Filipino visual artist based in Manila whose work is deeply influenced by underground music culture. Lhean’s art often carries a trippy, psychedelic energy while remaining rooted in nature and the realities of life. Her imagery serves as a mirror for viewers, drawing them into vivid, dreamlike worlds that invite personal reflection and discovery.
A Visual Mixtape: The Collages of Ed Wolk
Ed Wolk is a Canadian artist who has been creating digital collages for over 25 years. With a professional background in radio production, Ed has long been drawn to the art of assembling fragments — whether through sound or image. His interest in collage began in Vancouver, when a large-scale work by the artist Famous Empty Sky inspired him to experiment with paper scraps. What started as a personal exploration eventually evolved into a digital practice that he continues to develop and share on his website today.
Screen to Skin: Digital Illustration and Tattooing with Haiwei Tai
Haiwei Tai is a tattoo artist and digital illustrator whose work bridges the traditions of American traditional tattooing with contemporary digital media. While his foundation lies in bold lines, iconic imagery, and narrative-driven compositions, Haiwei has embraced digital tools as an essential part of his creative voice. The iPad, for him, is more than a sketching device — it’s a space to refine ideas, experiment with composition and color, and expand tattoo aesthetics into new forms.
When Failure Becomes Freedom: Meet Artist Jin Liu
Jin Liu is an award-winning visual artist and illustrator from China. Drawn to image-making from an early age by the illustrated books of her childhood, she developed a strong visual sense that later guided her studies in Fine Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Her work spans a variety of media and approaches, always marked by rich color palettes, symbolic compositions, and emotional depth. Influenced by Maxfield Parrish, Jin brings both expressive feeling and formal clarity to every piece she creates.
Familiar Yet Strange Figures: Doğan Özdemir’s Art
Doğan Özdemir (aka Miskin Kukla) is an interdisciplinary visual artist and designer based in Türkiye. Working across photography, digital collage, illustration, and text, he explores themes of identity, transformation, memory, and displacement. His part human, part creature hybrid figures inhabit surreal narratives where the instinctual meets the social and the grotesque meets compassion.
A Life Between the Physical and the Digital: Vanessa Nawka on the Evolution of AR, VR, and the Greek Mati
Vanessa Nawka is a mixed media artist whose work bridges spirituality and technology. Rooted in both painting and sculpture, her practice focuses on reinterpreting sacred symbols—most notably the Aegean Glyphs, inspired by the Greek Mati—and creating sculptural visions of the Divine. Her pieces exist both physically and digitally, often expanded through AR and VR into immersive environments that invite viewers to step into a living, breathing artwork.
Golden Cracks and Self-Love: The Art of Shane Seivewright
Shane Seivewright is a visual artist from Ontario whose work centers on anthropomorphic characters — animal people that become vessels for self-expression, identity, and belonging. Growing up feeling like the black sheep, often called “weird,” “awkward,” or “nerdy,” Shane embraced those traits and translated them into art that gives voice to people who feel unseen.
“Beauty in What Others Call Decay”: Monorthern on Drawing What We Turn Away From
As a professional illustrator with seven years of experience, Monorthern specializes in creating captivating artwork for music albums, book covers, t-shirts, and custom product illustrations. His work is shaped by a love for black-and-white drawing, especially using stippling techniques, and often explores themes of death, myth, nature, loneliness, and sadness. Though he began with ink on paper, in 2023 he started experimenting with digital art, drawn in by curiosity and a desire for a more efficient workflow. Digital tools offered new possibilities without compromising the soul of his process.
What Digital Can’t Fake & Why That Matters to Alai Ganuza
Alai Ganuza is an artist, educator, and founder of one of the fastest-growing online communities dedicated to contemporary realism and creative learning. While she’s best known for her oil paintings, her creative process often begins in the digital world. From early fan art inspired by anime and video games to sketching ideas on a tablet during art school, digital tools have always been part of her practice. For Alai, painting is about exploring emotion, memory, and atmosphere, whether through canvas or screen.
Chaos, Trauma, and Digital Rebirth: Erdoğan Paksoy’s Reflections on Humanity
Erdoğan Paksoy is a Turkish visual artist whose work bridges classical fine arts and contemporary digital practices. Trained in traditional techniques, he began integrating digital tools into his practice during the pandemic, drawn by a growing curiosity for new media and technology. His entry into the NFT space marked a major milestone, expanding his international reach and allowing his work to find collectors and collaborators across the globe.
Virtual Psychedelics and the Art of Consciousness: A Conversation with Ls528
Ls528 is the digital alias of London-based artist and designer Laura Shepherd, whose work explores simulated psychedelic experience and the speculative potential of machine consciousness. Fusing high-definition vector art with organic, fluid forms, her practice creates multi-sensory encounters that transcend classical spacetime and gesture toward hyper-dimensional realities. Drawing from Art Nouveau, 1960s psychedelia, and emerging research in bioelectricity, she blends avant-garde aesthetics with critical reflections on wellness culture and technology as a medium for transcendence.
Art as Intervention: Roy Efrat on Technology, Identity, and What We Remember
Roy Efrat is a Berlin-based artist and PhD candidate at Freie Universität Berlin whose interdisciplinary practice spans painting, video, installation, and Augmented Reality. Drawing from queer theory, mythology, and personal memory, his work uses hybrid visual languages to explore how identities are shaped and subverted through images. Often layering physical and digital media, Roy creates interventions that disrupt dominant narratives and invite viewers to reconsider what is seen, remembered, or erased.
The Taste of Home in Digital Form: Stacey Chen
Stacey Chen is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Chicago, originally from Taiwan. Her practice moves fluidly between illustration, sculpture, toy and graphic design, industrial design, and digital media — united by a focus on the emotional and cultural resonance of everyday objects. With a background in industrial design, she’s drawn to the way form and function shape not just behavior, but memory and feeling. Her work reflects on the quiet power of the familiar, uncovering meaning in the textures, symbols, and overlooked items that surround us.
Pop Icons, Murder Mysteries, and Perfect Palettes: Inside Kelly McMahon’s Studio
Kelly McMahon is a Melbourne-based illustrator and graphic designer celebrated for her bold, minimalist aesthetic, marked by precise vector forms, striking color palettes, and a flair for visual storytelling. Drawing from pop culture, fashion, and childhood nostalgia, her work moves fluidly between commercial illustration, graphic design, and passion-driven personal projects. She has collaborated with high-profile names including Clerks III, Lego Ninjago at Skybound, and Kid Cudi’s Moon Man, and her pieces have been exhibited at Gallery 1988 and Hero Complex Gallery in Los Angeles.
Where Athena Meets CGI: Reimagining the Classical with Valentina Ferrandes
Valentina Ferrandes is a London-based visual artist and designer from southern Italy whose work merges CGI, procedural animation, and storytelling with archival and environmental materials. Drawing from classical iconography and archaeological sources, she crafts narratives that bridge past and present through immersive technologies. Her digital explorations often blur the line between representation and abstraction, transforming landscapes, objects, and recordings into dreamlike reinterpretations shaped by code.
From CGI to Ceramics: NastPlas on the Organic and Algorithmic
NastPlas is the artistic duo of Fran Rodríguez Learte and Natalia Molinos García, based in Palencia, Spain. Known for their visually striking work that blends CGI, 3D, and AI, they’ve spent over two decades exploring the shifting boundaries between the digital and physical. Their practice centers on the intersection of art, science, and technology — often using visual experimentation to reflect on humanity’s evolving relationship with nature in the face of rapid technological advancement. We asked NastPlas about their art, creative process, and inspirations.
Asemic Scores and Napa Cabbage: The Art of Sophie Ruoyu Zhang
Sophie Ruoyu Zhang is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. With a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, her work explores the intersections of post-humanism, material ecocriticism, and asemic expression. Drawing from both traditional and digital media, she creates poetic systems like “scores” or “scripts” that blur the boundary between human language and the autonomous gestures of nature and machine.