Delight in the Color and Symmetry of YoAz’s Kaleidoscopic Digital Illustrations

Animals, architecture, celestial phenomena and more merge with vibrant patterns in kaleidoscopic illustrations. YoAz focuses on repetition, color relationships, and maximalist compositions in his digital works. Drawing on the legacy of 1960s psychedelic posters and evocative of circus imagery and M.C. Escher, the artist emphasizes color, symmetry, and line through motifs that often include faces, flowers, eyes, suns, birds, and more.

Keep up with the artist’s work on Behance and Instagram, and purchase prints and stickers in the artist’s Redbubble shop.

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La Doyenne Renovation and Extension / NatureHumaine

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Crafting Radiolaria Sculptures – from microscopic life to art

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We’ve created a set of 4 limited edition Radiolarian sculptures that are now available in our shop. These limited edition sculptures are inspired by Radiolaria, microscopic unicellular sea creatures that create skeletons from silica. Their skeletons are among the most beautiful and complex natural microstructures, resembling elaborate filigree or latticework. Artists like us have long been fascinated by Radiolaria dating back to Ernst Haeckel’s drawings in the late 19th century. We studied his drawings alongside scanning electron microscope images to create a series Radiolaria-inspired sculptures exploring their diversity of form.

The video above goes over the process of creating the...

East Street Insurance ? Illustrated Campaign

This project was created for The Basement as part of the new brand identity for East Street Insurance. The agency led the art direction, copywriting, and animation. My role was to develop the full illustration system used across the campaign. East Street wanted a visual world that felt warm, human, and optimistic ? a contrast to the usual fear-based tone of the insurance industry. The Basement built a narrative centered on clarity and genuine service, and I translated that into a set of expressive characters and scenes designed for animation and digital use. The illustrations were created as vector artwork and became...

Heatherwick Studio unveils stadium surrounded by 12 chimneys for Birmingham City

Architecture practices Heatherwick Studio and Manica Architecture have revealed the design for a 62,000-seat stadium surrounded by brick chimneys for Birmingham City Football Club in Birmingham, UK.

Set to be the centrepiece of the Sports Quarter in the east Birmingham, the stadium is the first stadium designed by Heatherwick Studio. It was created in collaboration in US studio Manica Architecture and director Steven Knight.

Named the Powerhouse, the stadium will be home to Championship team Birmingham City Football Club.

It will have a unique design with 12 brick chimneys, which were directly informed...

Californian national park art museum among projects from University of Southern California

Dezeen School Shows: a proposal for an art museum at the Joshua Tree National Park, which considers its Californian topography, is among the projects from the University of Southern California.

Also featured is a series of private art studios in the park, and a gallery space designed to preserve its surrounding nature.

Institution: University of Southern California
School: School of Architecture
Course: ARCH 500 Comprehensive Architectural Design Mid-semester Models
Tutors: Selwyn Ting, Yo-ichiro Hakomori, Vlanka Catalan, Jose Herrasti and Alejandra Lillo

School statement:

"The Joshua Tree Art Museum will serve as a cultural centre dedicated to showcasing the breadth of California's artistic legacy –...

The Eureka Bottle: A Modular, Easy-to-Clean Thermos

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Several years ago, British industrial designer Jake Naish designed this Forss bottle. The brilliant concept was that the interchangeable sections provide a thermos that you can easily clean, and adjust the volume of.

Alas, it remained just a concept. But now an Oregon-based startup called Eureka is bringing a similar design to market.

The Eureka Bottle consists of a base—tapered to fit in an automotive cupholder--and two different Boost sections, one with a handle, one without.

You can thus carry 20, 40 or 60 oz with you.

The...

Simon Laveuve’s Scaled-Down Tableaux Reveal Post-Apocalyptic Lifestyles

There is always something a bit uncanny about Simon Laveuve’s playful miniatures. Whether a ramshackle residence is built impossibly tall or seems to be both upside-down and right-side-up at the same time, we’re drawn into a strange yet alluring world filled with a range of precisely rendered homes and hangouts.

Laveuve is known for his meticulously sculpted miniatures that evoke post-apocalyptic settings, from stilt houses hovering precariously on rock formations to playful amalgamations of numerous “found objects” like tires and old windows. Typically crafted at 1/24 or 1/35 scale, these tiny tableaux are devoid of people yet feel lived in, as...

Hardware is the New Salt: AI, Creativity, and the Human Edge

When I think about AI and product design, I often go back to a simple, illustrative example: when we first put a camera on a mobile phone. At the time, something like that required a fifty-page document to capture the requirements. Today, I could ask an AI, "We're adding a camera to a phone—what are the technical considerations?" It would instantly generate a decent draft. That part of the process can be automated now. But what about the idea of putting a camera on a phone in the first place? That spark—that's human. That's the boundary I see with...

House AL / N2B Arquitetura

© Carolina Mossin architects: N2B ArquiteturaLocation: Vila do Golfe, BrazilProject Year: 2023Photographs: Carolina MossinArea: 1124.0 m2

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