Awards Racing

A browser drift-racer built with three.js and Bullet physics, mixing arcade racing with vehicular combat in a design-world setting: a young nominee racing to the top, dodging angry jurors and rivals. Physics-driven VFX, stage progression, and beat-synced characters.

Keiji Yano Art Book Launch Fair

Starting October 31 (Sat), I'll be holding a special fair at Daikanyama Tsutaya Books to celebrate the release of my first art book. Along with an advance release of the book, the fair will feature six new illustrations from my "Beyond" series, as well as new merchandise created especially for the occasion. The key visual was designed by Ozaki, who also worked on the design of my art book. If you're in the area, I hope you'll stop by! ?Keiji Yano Art Book Launch Fair? October 31 (Sat) ? November 15 (Sun), 2026 Daikanyama Tsutaya Books, Building 2, 1F Tokyo, Japan

Dreamy Digital Illustrations by Rebecca Zwanzig Tap into Art History and Nostalgia

From the atmospheric tones of the Pacific Northwest to Victorian-era textile patterns to antique dishware designs, Rebecca Zwanzig—the artist behind High West Wild—draws on a wide range of influences. “I grew up in the bluegrass state of Kentucky, and some of my earliest visual memories come from going to auctions and estate sales with my grandma in rural Kentucky,” the artist tells Colossal. “I was always drawn to the patterns on old plates, the embroidery on tablecloths, vintage textiles, and all of these little objects and keepsakes that had clearly belonged to someone and had a life before they...

Paralelo Transversal organises Chilean house under cantilever roof

Chilean studio Paralelo Transversal has designed a rectangular house with a large hip roof and a terrace that cantilevers over a ravine in Puerto Varas, Chile.

Completed in 2025 on a 1.2-acre site near Lago Llanquihue, the 155-square-metre house, known as Casa Ensenada, was oriented around its roof.

Gloom

Временные режимы

Как вы, возможно, знаете, режимы в интерфейсе — это плохо. Но ещё хуже временные режимы. Такое часто встречается в бытовой технике и разных приборах.

Режим — это состояние интерфейса, в котором одинаковые действия пользователя приводят к одинаковым результатам. В разных режимах одни и те же действия дают разные результаты. В Фотошопе — множество режимов: клик по изображению может сделать что угодно в зависимости от выбранного инструмента и его параметров. Проблема в том, что пользователь не всегда помнит, в каком режиме находится интерфейс, и из-за этого ошибается: хотел нарисовать линию, но случайно сделал градиент.

Представим телевизионный пульт. Кнопки «влево» и «вправо» регулируют громкость, а «вверх» и «вниз» переключают каналы. Эти же четыре кнопки используются для навигации по меню. Если пользователь, находясь в меню, захочет сделать погромче и по привычке нажмёт «вправо», у него ничего не выйдет:...

Scott Kahn Invokes Dreams and Liminality in Atmospheric Landscape Paintings

Until a few years ago, painter Scott Kahn was living in his cousin’s attic, with a studio filled with work that he hadn’t had a lot of luck selling. Then, he began a chance correspondence with the late Canadian artist Matthew Wong, who related to Kahn’s own self-taught background and interest in magical realism. “Matthew was really a great champion of my work,” Kahn told Artnet News. “The only way I can explain it is that we were soulmates.” When Wong’s career took off in 2018, Kahn’s atmospheric, often surreal landscapes also found their audience.

Mostly working in oil...

A Good Idea for a Lamp for Ferrari Fanatics

This vintage desk lamp is by VEB Zweckleuchtenbau, a state-owned East German lamp manufacturer of the 1970s. It's a pretty basic Communist-era design, with no mistaking where the switch is.

You can adjust the lamp's tilt by moving the stalk in the little channel in the base.

Which makes me think: If you took a vintage Ferrari shift gate, and made a lamp like this with a more Ferrari-esque shade, I bet you could sell it for an absurd amount of money.

Drawing with Absurdly Long Pencils

Scenic artist Nikolay Laukhin creates large-scale backdrops for the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. And I mean seriously large-scale:

You might wonder how many levels of scaffolds he has to erect in order to paint one of those pieces. The answer is, none. Here's how he and his team do the work:

I remember a Foundation Year exercise where they had us draw with a pencil on a stick, but it wasn't that long!

Laukhin's got lots of behind-the-scenes footage here.

Improvised Tools: A Creative "Juggad" Leak Detector

In Hindi, the term jugaad means something like "jury-rigged" in English. With jugaad, the idea is that you don't have the tool or material you need, so you rig something up with what you do have.

Here's an example. The established way to locate a leak in a tire is to spray it with soapy water, then look for the bubbles. This guy either didn't have access to water/soap/spray bottles, or maybe just wanted to make his work more fun. Here's his jugaad leak detector:

For those with poor eyesight, it's also a darn sight easier to see...