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3D Artist Gal Yosef Reimagins Pop Culture Legends in Unique Blend of Playfulness and Provocation » Design You Trust — Design Daily Since 2007

Gal Yosef is a self-taught Israeli 3D artist known for his vibrant and edgy digital sculptures of cartoon characters. He started creating 3D art at the age of thirteen, inspired by iconic animations like “Toy Story”. Yosef’s unique style mixes nostalgia with sharp contemporary themes, often reimagining beloved characters in provocative new scenarios. His works […]

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Artist claims fashion brand Urban Revivo stole her work

These days artists have the technologically enhanced spectre of AI to worry about, but large language models aren’t the only cause for allegations of copyright theft. An independent artist has taken to social media to accuse the expanding international fashion brand Urban Revivo of using her work without permission in its products. Celine Ka Wing […]

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The Artist Whose Fauci Portraits Enraged the White House

In 2019, Hugo Crosthwaite became the first Latino artist to win the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s (NPG) prestigious triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The Tijuana-born and San Diego-based illustrator received the contest’s grand prize: $25,000 and a portrait commission for the museum’s permanent collection. He chose to depict Anthony Fauci, then the director of the […]

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Artist Agnes Denes Grow a Field of Wheat in in Lower Manhattan, New York, 1982 » Design You Trust — Design Daily Since 2007

In 1982, conceptual artist Agnes Denes transformed a barren landfill near Wall Street into a two-acre wheat field for her project *Wheatfield – A Confrontation*. Commissioned by the Public Art Fund, the work involved months of labor, including soil preparation, hand-digging furrows, and planting seeds. Denes and her team maintained the field through irrigation, weeding, […]

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Colorado Town Settles With Native Artist Who Brought Free Speech Lawsuit

Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta painter Danielle SeeWalker has settled a civil rights lawsuit with the town of Vail, Colorado, more than a year after the municipality cancelled her artist residency over a pro-Palestine artwork. Brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado, the suit claimed that the town had violated the artist’s constitutional right to […]

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