Simen Johan
Until The Kingdom Comes
The images of Simen Johan speak to me because of their perfection, showing us the animal kingdom in a supernatural…
Simen Johan
Rajni Perera
(M)otherworlds
Rajni Perera paints a vibrant sci-fi universe ruled by hybrid deities, demons, and powerful black heroines.
Jonathan Zawada
Metamathemagical
On these grounds, all perception is a gamble. A meta-level is always just around the corner, and Zawada’s hyperreal imagery is a vivid glimpse into an expanded perceptual bandwidth.
Rebel Wisdom
Sensemaking in the Time of Chaos
Rebel Wisdom uncovers the most rebellious ideas in philosophy, human potential and transcendence to find direction through the chaos of the time.
Klea McKenna
Automatic Earth
Automatic Earth refers to what I see as a ‘blue print’ that exists within nature; a plan within each organism to automatically generate a particular form or pattern that is then, inevitably flawed.
María Medem
Dancing between Earth and Sky
A perfect summer night and the mental state of being truly present to the current moment in time.
Linda Westin
Illuminated Dendrology
These portraits of the woods are influenced by imaging neuroscience. Especially the colors are reminiscent of the artist’s experience with fluorescence microscopy.
Hasui Kawase
The Quality of Light
Especially the persistent interest in depicting light characterizes the dreamlike atmosphere in the woodblock prints of Hasui Kawase
Piotr Kamler
In Search of Time
Polish animator Piotr Kamler explores the unfathomable and mysterious relationship between movement and time, matter and space.
M. C. Escher
Hyperbolic Dreams
Escher reveals a world far away from our general perception of reality, a world of mathematics, a world of abstractions, anticipating deep features of modern day cosmology.
Tom Killion
Californian Topophilia
The woodcut prints of Tom Killion speak of a deep love for the landscape, a passion for the poetics of…
Maxfield Parrish
The Doctrine of Divine Light
Maxfield Parrish captures a light mood in his paintings that feels supernatural and very real and tangible at the same time.
Michiel Schuurman
The logic of replication
The base of Michiel Schuurman’s graphic work is a certain logic – whether natural, scientific or historical. Geeky algorithms, natural…
Jacque Fresco
The Venus Project
Today I picked up one of my favorite books, Island by Aldous Huxley, his radical blueprint for a better world.…
Frieder Grindler
Posters 1963 – 2005
Frieder Grindler is one of the big names of German poster design in the second half of the 20th century.
Buckminster Fuller
Everything I Know
R. Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life’s work. These thinking out loud lectures span 42 hours and examine in depth all of his major inventions and discoveries.
Jonathan Zawada
Over Time
Landscape topographies derived from graph data were modeled in 3D and then oil paintings created from those 3D renders.
Étienne-Louis Boullée
The Temple of Death
Étienne-Louis Boullée is the master of monumental cenotaphs. His most emblematic project is his cenotaph designed for Isaac Newton.
Theo Jansen
Kinetic automata
I follow Theo Jansen for many years now. What I like so much about his design approach is the playfulness…
Markus Kayser
Solar Sinter
This 3D printing project is so extraordinary because of it’s self-sufficiency. It creates objects out of sun and sand. Of course it’s still in the early stages of development. But imagine what this could do in the future.
Places of work
Hans Roth
My father’s home and studio became very inspiring to me. I find it very interesting to see people’s characters reflected…
MYST
Creating digital worlds
In 1993 the brothers Robyn and Rand Miller created MYST — a video game unlike any other before. It’s a…
