Ivana Belianska is a digital pixel artist who creates nostalgic, detail-rich illustrations blending retro gaming aesthetics with contemporary storytelling.

Her work features pixel self-portraits, Spirited Away homages, post-apocalyptic Nintendo 64 scenes, and custom pixel portraits. Belianska holds a master’s in art and invests 10+ hours per piece, emphasizing tiny details and nostalgia.

She builds collaborative collections (free pixel portraits) and shares process insights.

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Elliot Wair (born 2003) is a South East England-based contemporary painter working in acrylic on panel.

Wair’s surrealism portrays complex emotional ideas through otherworldly concepts—floating figures, crab-roofed houses, dissolving forms, and shadow-collecting scenes (“Collecting My Shadow Before I Have Finished With It,” “I’m Scared Of Dissolving Into You”).

He maintains childish freedom amid soft creepiness, using poetic titles (“The yellow sky looks guilty today,” “The Courtyard of Sleepy Dread”) to provoke interpretation.

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Otto is a 22-year-old self-taught French painter who works in Paris and has exhibited at Very Art Gallery.

His dark, minimalist expressionism features elongated ballerinas, contorted figures, and emotional abstraction on paper using ink, charcoal, and paint. Recurring motifs include addiction, memory, contrast, and choice (“No choice,” “Addiction,” “Souviens toi”), blending pop art layering with classical dance inspiration.

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Perry Lam is a Hong Kong-based architect, vaporwave visual artist, and AI image creator.

Lam blends architectural photography (Marina Bay Sands, Tokyo skyscrapers) with vaporwave edits, dreamstate compositions, and AI-generated art (“Crystal Cove,” “Lucid State,” “Quiet Happiness,” “Lucid Land”). His aesthetic fuses neon futurism, nostalgic grids, and urban melancholy.

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An Improbable Future is the speculative design project of a New York-based industrial designer who uses text-to-image AI (primarily Midjourney) to envision retro-futuristic vehicles, gadgets, and architecture.

The work presents curated relics from an alternate timeline—80s-inspired consoles, brutalist cars, modular interfaces—blending nostalgic familiarity (Casio, Nokia) with alien futurism. Themes explore industrial design evolution, transportation archetypes, and AI’s role in visual language.

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SERIFA is the collaborative studio of Nastassja Abel and Christian Otto, founded in 2021 south of Munich. Originally editorial designers specializing in book covers, they now produce daily AI-assisted visual art.

SERIFA’s philosophy generates ambiguous, abstract images blending human creativity with AI unpredictability. Their style features distorted portraits, fluid organic shapes, dark/neon interplay, and signature grain texture. Themes explore anonymity, darkness, spiritual essence, and imperfection. Featured in Vogue and Unity Magazine, they sell prints via their online shop. Influences span fashion, Japanese culture, and editorial typography.

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Daniel Vega, known as THE CODEX NOIRMATIC, is a Chilean illustrator and worldbuilder specializing in surreal, gothic fantasy.

Vega creates the TERRA HYPNAGOGICA universe—a nightmarish, symmetrical realm of grotesque entities, many-eyed beasts, decaying landscapes, and otherworldly architecture. His bold-outlined, limited-palette illustrations evoke Lovecraftian horror with metallic silver, bone textures, and black voids.

Recent works include “Grand Beast Quar’voldok” and symmetrical horrors blending dream messages from the deep with scifi/fantasy elements. He shares 162+ designs for potential prints or NFTs.

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Maya Prokhorova is the founder of Mayaprodesign, an authorial industrial design studio operating from Paris. A graduate of Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (Saint Petersburg), she has won 9 Red Dot Awards, iF Design Awards, and CES Innovation Honors.

Prokhorova designs “objects for future functions” through experimental prototypes like the TA series (TA132, TA131, TA129, TA124). Her technical aesthetics prioritize emotional presence over immediate utility, creating visual worlds that expand industrial design. Process involves hand-sketching, rapid prototyping, and iterative refinement. Collections feature audio equipment concepts (TA108), modular objects, and non-production experiments.

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Vítor Esteves is a Portuguese photographer specializing in aerial and travel photography.

Esteves captures dramatic landscapes, urban aerials, and architectural geometry with a high-contrast, cinematic aesthetic. His work emphasizes Madeira’s rugged cliffs (“Island of Eternal Spring”), Hong Kong’s neon density, and Croatia’s heart-shaped islands. He documents 9-5 corporate life alongside 5-9 passion projects, blending professional drone footage with personal travel captures. Recent reels showcase Hong Kong footage and urban exploration.

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Soonbomb (순범) is a Seoul-based illustrator and tattoo artist renowned for his playful, emotionally expressive cat illustrations.

His signature black cat character appears in doodle-style tattoos, minimalist line art, and character-driven designs that blend cute whimsy with subtle narrative depth (“the cat pierced by the moon,” “I will be back”). Soonbomb works in Hongdae tattoo studios, offering mini tattoos and custom designs via email booking. He shares available designs (e.g., sleepy tigers, meowing cats) and process reels using Procreate.

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Chema Méndez is a Spanish digital collage artist based in the Canary Islands who has created mixed digital media works since 2009.

His practice merges classical paintings (public domain) with modern photography, 3D renders, AI, and personal sketches to form surreal, layered compositions. Méndez’s aesthetic blends M.C. Escher’s precision, René Magritte’s surrealism, Miles Johnston’s dreamlike atmospheres, and Eduardo Recife’s textured nostalgia.

Recent collections like Singularity explore variations within a single work (1/1 originals + gifted fragments), while First Impressions, Vanitas, and Principia tackle perception, memory, and timeless human experience. In 2024, he shifted from perfectionist weeks-long pieces to daily creation, embracing fluidity and experimentation.

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Sıla Şehrazat Yücel is an Istanbul-based artist who blends her background in landscape architecture (Istanbul University, 2010) and master’s degree in design with experience as art director in cinema and theater. Her practice spans digital painting, AI-generated art, jewelry, and decorative objects.

Yücel’s signature aesthetic is surreal, evocative, and asymmetrical, featuring dreamlike figures in olive groves, mirrored distortions, and vibrant, uncanny compositions. She explores reality-bending, wonder-seeking themes through deep thinker narratives. Recent works include equine series (“eye-catching equines”) and surreal portraits sold via ArtStar.com.

Alongside painting, she handcrafts jewelry and objects as “design tools to explore new forms beyond the screen”. Exhibitions include Dart Haus (Buenos Aires).

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Tim Tadder is a self-taught advertising photographer, director, and conceptual artist based in Los Angeles.

Tadder’s early exposure came from his father’s darkrooms; he later became renowned for high-concept series like “Water Wigs” (high-speed captures of exploding water balloons on bald heads). His commercial work serves Nike, Amazon, and Getty Images, blending dynamic lighting, vivid colors, and surreal props (liquids, powders, smoke).

Recent 365 AI Image project (ongoing since 2025) explores generative tools while maintaining his signature bold, provocative style. Fine art series address social themes: “United States of Purple” (2018) seeks unity amid division; “Black is a Color” (2020) challenges racial stereotypes using marbled paint on bald heads.

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Kim Collister is a mixed media artist based in Conway, Arkansas, creating vibrant, textural journals, collages, and altered books that celebrate experimentation with paper, paint, and found objects.

Collister’s aesthetic is whimsical yet layered, featuring gessoed substrates, vintage brushes, reflective paints, and stenciled patterns. Recent series explore color theory (“The Untruth of Blue”), memory challenges (Artful Memories), and floral symbolism (forget-me-nots, blue eyeshadow).

She embraces collage techniques, scribbled faces, and pop art elements, often sharing step-by-step processes like gessoing, background painting, and pencil scribbles. Her journals blend circus whimsy (“Life is A Circus”) with contemplative abstraction.

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Fabian Oberhammer (previously featured), known as The Dizzy Viper, is an Italian digital artist born in 1997 in Merano, South Tyrol. Since February 2017, he has created a daily digital artwork—over 3,000 pieces—without missing a single day, building a monumental “Everydays” project.

Oberhammer specializes in hyper-realistic 3D renders of supercars, luxury vehicles, and abandoned automotive scenes using Cinema 4D and Octane Render. His signature aesthetic merges automotive futurism with surreal, liminal atmospheres—think fog-shrouded racetracks, interstellar supercars, and crashed hypercars in desolate wastelands.

Recent collaborations include Automobili Estrema (official renderings) and viral series like Liminal Skies, Deep Talk, Fog Runner, and Interplanetary Condivision.

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Monastery Jewellery is a handmade jewelry brand created by Ashleigh McCulloch, operating from studios in Amsterdam and Johannesburg. The pieces fuse ancient, mythic forms with punk edge—heavy, raw, and deliberately austere.

McCulloch crafts heirloom-quality items using lost-wax casting and traditional metalsmithing in sterling silver, gold, and bronze. Each piece is unique, designed to “speak loudly in the quiet” through weight, strange shapes, and audible clank. Drawing from asceticism and hermeticism, her work celebrates discipline and devotion amid modern chaos.

Collections feature signet rings (e.g., Roman-inspired with jade), vestiges necklaces (Victorian keys), and statement cuffs—all handmade per order (up to 4 weeks) with recycled metals.

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Christian Miller (aka Xtian Miller) is a Detroit-based graphic designer and visual artist renowned for his experimental typographic posters that fuse Swiss modernism with Japanese minimalism.

Miller’s signature kinetic typography creates optical tension through distorted, layered letterforms that pulse with rhythm and motion. His ongoing NAZARUNE project explores Christian theology through bold, wall-ready graphics that merge sacred symbolism with modernist principles.

Recent collaborations include comprehensive album packaging (vinyl/CD artwork) and visual extensions for musicians. He also produces typographic chaos studies and conceptual logos that push perception.

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Justin Parpan is a San Diego-born writer, producer, animator, and visual development artist. A CalArts graduate (2006), he is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at USC Cinematic Arts and Creative Director at Parpan Creative (co-founded with brother Josh Parpan).

Parpan has 15+ years in animation, art directing Disney TV series like Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2014), background designing on Mickey Mouse Shorts (5 Emmys), Gravity Falls, DuckTales, and Big Hero 6. Recent credits include Victor and Valentino (Cartoon Network) and developing Scarecrow Joe (Nickelodeon/Warner Bros.). He authored the children’s book Gwango’s Lonesome Trail and publishes process essays on Substack.

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His personal work explores dreamlike, electric landscapes and small-town nostalgia through mixed media (paint, ink, digital). Series like “Quiet Electric Landscape” and pieces such as “Red House at Night” (recurring dream) or “Overpass at dusk” evoke isolation, memory, and twilight melancholy with loose textures and atmospheric light. He emphasizes texture, looseness, and knowing “when to stop”.

Luca Ponsato is an Italian generative digital artist, poet, and NFT creator. He is represented by Hilda Broom Management as Director of Artist Relations and has released multiple NFT collections on platforms like Raster.art (25 editions), Exchange.art, and Objkt.

Ponsato’s signature aesthetic is surreal, uncanny, and emotionally raw, featuring metallic figures, distorted anatomy, and cold, introspective compositions that evoke isolation, existential struggle, and the fragmented self. Works like “The Way I See Myself” (Narcissus-inspired), “Does Anyone See My Suffering,” and “And yet the sun still rises” pair stark digital renders with poetic captions exploring pain, pride, and fragile hope.

He leverages AI tools (likely Midjourney/Stable Diffusion) combined with post-processing to create his signature metallic sheen and uncanny realism, positioning himself at the intersection of technology and human emotion.

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Max Drekker is a UK-based illustrator and motion designer. He has collaborated with major tech brands like Amazon, Stack Overflow, Coinbase, and Google, as well as creating visuals for musicians, record labels, and editorial clients such as Harvard Business Review and Nature Journal.

Drekker’s signature aesthetic revolves around optical art, geometric abstraction, and futuristic luminescence. His recent series like “Fusion,” “Luminescence,” “Polarity,” “Refractions,” and “Frictions” feature crystalline textures, kaleidoscopic light refractions, and bold color gradients that create hypnotic, almost three-dimensional illusions.

He works across 2D and 3D software, blending transparency, refraction, and glowing accents to craft sci-fi-inspired visuals that challenge perception. Beyond static illustrations, he produces motion graphics and animations using Apple Motion. His work for music includes album covers, tour posters, and live show visuals.

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Joel Villegas aka Joel | RGB, is a San Francisco-based graphic designer, visual artist, and creative director Specializing in brand identity, print/layout design, and digital art, he works with clients across music, podcasting, and advertising—many visible on platforms like Apple Music and Spotify.

Villegas’s aesthetic blends glitch art, ambient textures, and experimental digital manipulation with a distinctly emotive, atmospheric quality. His portfolio includes striking album covers, visualizers (e.g., for Telltale), and NFT work minted on Async Art. He graduated from the Academy of Art University with a focus on Graphic Design and has 15+ years mastering Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and After Effects. Joel emphasizes social media branding strategies and collaborates on packaging, logos, and promotional visuals. His work often evokes shoegaze/post-rock vibes, as seen in pieces like “in the sunless woods i dreamt i was alive”.

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Luis Salazar is a street and creative photographer based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. His work celebrates the raw, unmanipulated beauty of daily urban life, proudly bearing the tag “No AI”.

Shooting exclusively on a Fujifilm X camera, Salazar’s aesthetic revolves around high-contrast light, architectural geometry, and human isolation within the city. His portfolio frequently features striking silhouettes against vast concrete walls, long dramatic shadows (“#SPi_Shadows”), and solitary figures navigating old, narrow streets.

His work leans heavily into minimalism, using negative space to evoke a quiet, contemplative mood in an otherwise busy world. Beyond the concrete of the city, he occasionally captures serene moments of coastal life, such as minimalist compositions of boats and sailing.

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desktopGeneration is an avant-garde digital art and design collective that describes itself as a “firm from a future beyond your understanding”. Operating with a highly curated, futuristic aesthetic, the group consists of multiple digital artists—including members like Andrew Bennett and “ntt.”—who pool their distinct artistic methods to create visual art that feels entirely novel.

The collective’s visual language is heavily rooted in cybercore, generative art, and digital surrealism. Their portfolio features a mix of hypnotic visual loops, CD designs, fractal art, and complex shader programming (using tools like GLSL). Thematically, their work often explores dystopian and cyberpunk concepts, such as societal control, digital glitches, and “the matrix,” presenting these ideas through striking, code-driven aesthetics.

In April 2026, desktopGeneration successfully launched their official online shop, expanding their digital footprint into physical merchandise and high-quality art prints.

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Clara Ohde is an Argentine artist, industrial designer, and educator from La Plata, Buenos Aires.

Ohde studied Industrial Design at the National University of La Plata (UNLP) from 2015 to 2021, where she now works as a professor teaching Ergonomics and Design. She describes her design background not just as a profession, but as “the lens through which I see the world”. This analytical yet highly tactile approach defines her art practice, which bridges traditional craftsmanship and the digital world.

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Karlo Lovrenščak is a Croatian AI visual designer, creative director, and digital artist based in Zagreb. He specializes in turning sound into visual identity, frequently collaborating with musicians, artists, and creative teams to build cohesive, story-driven cinematic worlds. In addition to his personal brand, he operates the digital art collective and creative studio Mirage Motion Pictures.

Lovrenščak’s aesthetic is deeply cinematic, often exploring liminal spaces, eerie narratives, and poetic, sometimes bleak, philosophical concepts—such as his recent work describing soil as “a thick and choking sludge of ancient failure”. Drawing on his background in film and photography, he leverages advanced AI generative tools (like Midjourney and Kling) to create highly atmospheric covers, short-form reels, and fashion editorials.

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Beyond just generating standalone images, his expertise lies in “visual world-building” and establishing structural creative pipelines. He uses prompt engineering and traditional design thinking to ensure his clients maintain aesthetic consistency and artistic depth across all platforms. His compelling approach to digital storytelling recently made him a candidate to exhibit on one of the iconic billboards in Times Square during the Frieze art fair.