Have Your Cactus and Eat It Too

Colorful portraits, prickly cakes, and neon for miles. [View this email in your browser]( [Colossal: Art, Design, and Visual Culture]( Prismatic Portraits by Lui Ferreyra Form a Collision of Geometry and Color Denver-based artist Lui Ferreyra has spent the last decade honing a technique that portrays faces, hands, and landscapes as [dense fields of geometric color](. While evoking a tone that clearly references the digital age, Ferreyra also draws inspiration from artists like Chuck Close and Egon Schiele who famously worked with aspects of pointillism and geometry. Kniterate: A New Digital Knitting Machine Lets You ‘Print’ Fashion Designs Kniterate is a compact industrial knitting machine created for designers and entrepreneurs that facilitates the one-off creation of garments. Built by London-based designer Gerard Rubio, Kniterate is meant to act as a sort of [3D printer for knitwear]( allowing you to create digital designs in Photoshop and turn them into a wearable garments in just a few hours. The machine is capable of knitting scarves, sweaters, dresses, ties, or even the components of shoes. Kniterate could dramatically reduce lead time for a fashion business or design school in need of quick prototyping, or help a more ambitious artist in the fabrication a completely unique wardrobe. Digital Artist Ingrid Tsy Uses Adobe Stock Assets as the Foundation of Her Wildly Imaginative 3D Artworks (Sponsor) Inspiration for a creative endeavor can come from anywhere: music, art, movies, or maybe a good book. While digital artist [Ingrid Tsy]( relies on many of these to kickstart her 3D renderings, her process isn’t as straightforward as picking up a pencil or camera. Tsy instead draws a direct influence from existing imagery—like assets found on [Adobe Stock]( the foundation for her digital designs that have caught the attention of clients like Adobe, Lexus, and the Coachella music festival. In this new series, Tsy used a number of [photographs and textures available through Adobe Stock]( as the building blocks for her inventive digital sculptures. The London-based designer shares much about her process in this [Artist Spotlight](. Like Tsy, you can find inspiration for your next creative project at Adobe Stock. Adobe Stock is seamlessly integrated into Creative Cloud applications, so you can search, view, edit, and license photographs, videos, illustrations, vector graphics, 3D assets and more without leaving your creative workflow. If you’re interested in selling your own stock photos and videos, visit the [Adobe Contributor Portal](. Amazing Terrarium and Flower Cakes Created by Iven Kawi Jakarta-based pastry chef Iven Kawi says she made her first honest attempt at baking in December of 2013 when she made a batch of Christmas cookies for her daughter’s school. As you can see, things have progressed quite a bit. Kawi now runs a bakery shop out of her home in Lippo Karawaci called [I]( Oven where she creates elaborately decorated baked goods. Among her specialties are [cakes adorned with terrarium environments]( where buttercream frosting is sculpted into an abundance of cacti and flower petals atop beds of crumbly sand or dirt. Dizzying New Kaleidoscopic GIFs by Anna Taberko Illustrator and animator Anna Taberko continues to produce [lovely kaleidoscopic animations]( that depict the blooming of flowers, the evolution of animals, and the flight of bees. Most of her pieces begin life as traditional hand-drawn cel animation before being digitized and turned into sequential loops. Moody Views of a Frigid Chicago Captured by Mike Meyers Chicago photographer Mike Meyers shot some [amazing views of the windy city]( this winter, capturing unusual ice patterns on Lake Michigan, trains blasting through snow, and skyscrapers swallowed by clouds. More Than a Mile of Abstract Neon Lighting Suspended Within Tate Britain Suspended from the ceiling of Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries is Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans' latest installation, over a [mile of bright neon lighting broken into abstract lines and monumental curves](. The piece, Forms in Space… by Light (in Time), changes with perspective, each of the work’s three sections continuously morphing as one walks around the clusters of kinetic energy. These abstract symbols appear as marked movements in the air, a direct intention by Wyn Evans who was greatly influenced by Japanese Noh theatre and choreology—the practice of turning dance into notational form. From The Colossal Shop: Homeward Bound Whether you feel most at ease in a vibrant spring forest, a cozy country cottage, or in the urban jungle, brother and sister team 2of2 goods captures [the spirit of home]( in their handmade wooden models. A few of our favorites — the verdant [Miniature Spring Forest]( quaint [Bud Vase House]( and iconic city [Water Tower]( — are now in stock in [The Colossal Shop]( Copyright © 2016 Colossal, all rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list]( [MailChimp Email Marketing](