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Photo of a small booklet titled Within: The New Reality of Therapy resting on a white box outdoors. The booklet features a soft gradient design, and the box below it bears the phrase “Take a look within” in pink iridescent lettering.

Packaging and starter guide for Within, a virtual reality therapy service
Patrick Dimond

A three-panel oil painting of a nude figure lying horizontally across the canvases, the body painted in shifting rainbow hues of yellow, green, blue, and pink against a white background. A pink animal-like form looms above the reclining figure.

Fragmented mordançage portrait of a man in a suit, partially obscured by distressed white textures.

Mordançage
Jared York

A painted black bra hanging on a hanger, featuring handprints and written text on the cups.

Hidden Scars I
Rachel Cecilia Merritt

A handmade wooden chessboard with a warped, wavy surface texture, featuring black and white squares and a few chess pieces on top.

Two-panel mockup of The Sauce Cult website, featuring bright pink, yellow, and orange branding, scattered sauce jars, subscription details, and an "About the Cult" section.

Website for The Sauce Cult
Krysta Glova

A colored-pencil composition styled as an interlocking jigsaw puzzle, with fragmented images of everyday objects, tape measures, and product labels. The words "LOADING..." appear on blank white puzzle pieces.

Absolute Reign logo on smartphone app
Evan Johnson

Group of students posing on the steps outside a grand stone building beside a large lion statue, with city buildings and trees in the background.

An open book on a wooden desk showing a spread analyzing the design of Refuel magazine, with a bold red cover featuring a guitar and article layouts inside.

Pages from The Books: A Survey of Bible Design
Joshua Knapp

Woman in scarf holding seashell to her ear.

A digital composite of a giant combat boot descending over a small girl running away from a tiny cabin between huge mushrooms in a forest.

Sculptural teapot shaped like a dark, angular UFO resting on metal fins, with a tall, olive-green handle.

Two people wearing white T-shirts promoting the Blue Ridge Folkfest in Asheville, NC. The front shirt design features colorful abstract instrument shapes with the festival name, while the back lists event dates, performers, and location details for Summer 2024.

T-Shirts for Blue Ridge Folkfest
Juliana Maurer

A Full Moon Farm Collective newsletter bordered with tomatoes, featuring a "Giving Tuesday" headline, a staff photo with produce crates, a "2025 Big Successes" section, and a honey-drip footer offering a free jar of honey and T-shirt for $150 donations.

Full Moon Farm Giving Tuesday Newsletter
Abby Kroboth

Three horizontal graphic prints installed in a vertical arrangement, featuring abstract shapes, animals, botanical patterns, and diagram-like imagery in teal, magenta, yellow, orange, and maroon tones on a white wall.

Family Tree
Oliver Germini

Three amber-colored cosmetic bottles labeled “laldie” featuring wavy line graphics and minimalist typography for hair care products, set against a light green background.

Package design for Laldie
Samuel Caldwell

Ice hockey players celebrating a goal on the ice.

A colorful lemonade can with illustrated goldfish stands amid splashing bright red liquid and droplets.

A close-up of a design publication showing green and pink geometric linework resembling molecular structures with the name “Sean Burgess” printed beside them.

Closeup of pages in 45 Symbols book
Sean Burgess

A person wears a purple, retro-style television box over their head while typing on a matching purple keyboard, with the screen reading "Prove you're not a human? ARTIST."

Moody sepia-toned close-up of a hanging mop, with blurred shapes in the background.

Christian Brown

A brown leather belt threaded through a large fish-shaped metal buckle decorated with circular inlays and engraved scale and fin details.

Caroline Connor

Interior of a dimly lit restaurant with dark green walls, leather banquettes, hunting-themed artwork and taxidermy mounts, pendant lights, and a fully stocked bar in the background.

Stylized painting of a purple patterned bag tangled with dark looping cords, set against a bright yellow and orange background with organic flowing shapes.

Hailey Whitehead

Small, oxidized green bronze figure of a draped woman with her arm raised.

Blue T-shirt design with a white graphic of a person in sunglasses and a suit, set against an American flag background with the text “2024 Cooper Anderson.”

T-Shirt Graphic
Dalton Leonhardt

A surreal digital painting in the style of Hieronymus Bosch featuring pale, bird-like creatures around egg-shaped houses in a dark landscape.

Yakira Gurganus

This is a simple graphic presenting the name of a typeface, "LAGNIAPPE," in large, white, stylized serif letters against a textured dark blue background. Beneath the name, smaller white text provides the pronunciation and definition: "(LAN-yap): A little something extra." The typography features a whimsical, vintage quality, particularly noticeable in the highly ornamental 'G' and 'P' characters.

Lagniappe, a custom typeface
Katie Randall

Sepia-toned photographic portraits arranged in a grid, featuring costumed figures, staged poses, and symbolic objects mounted on a gray gallery wall.

There Ought to be Clowns [ Detail ]
Kelsey Riso

A seated person in a striped shirt and crocheted blanket poses in the doorway of a weathered wooden structure with old photographs and a rusted mailbox hanging nearby.

Expressive charcoal portrait of a stylized human face drawn in an abstract manner. The features are asymmetrical, with exaggerated eyes, lips, and nose. Scribbled text appears throughout, including “EYELASH IS…” along the left side and “EARS RINGS!” near the lower right. Loosely sketched lines and smudging create texture and tonal contrast, giving the drawing a raw, emotional energy.

Abigail Cleveland

A round ceramic plate densely embroidered and beaded with a still life of fruit, including citrus slices, grapes, berries, and a pear, worked in thread and glass beads in oranges, yellows, purples, and greens, on a gray background.

Side-by-side product shot of two white Reebok hockey helmets with frosted face shields, photographed against a black background with crisp detail.

Decorative plates featuring leaves and animals mounted to wall in gallery

Painting of a woman seated in tall grass beneath an orange sunset, her body blending with curling green vines as she raises a hand to shield her face from the glowing sky.

A typographic poster displaying a custom geometric alphabet in pink and blue isometric forms, arranged in rows on a white grid background.

Chromatic typeface
Max Hoffman

Embroidered artwork on a crumpled, rust-patterned metal sheet depicting a person leaning over the open hood of a car with a toolbox on the ground.

Chloe Vuncannon

A sepia-toned photographic print of a garden statue carved as a fairy with wings and floral details, surrounded by foliage.

Logo for Truthseekers
Basil Banuelos

A laptop on a café table displays the Avian Action Washington DC website homepage, showing teal-toned pigeons on an orange background with the tagline about supporting feathered neighbors.

Website for Avian Action
Basil Banuelos and Piper Nelson

A textured monoprint featuring overlapping leaf imprints in earthy orange and indigo tones. The composition blends abstract and natural elements, with soft gradients and subtle details creating a dreamlike, atmospheric effect.

Alice Giardini Granato

Stylized reinterpretation of the U.S. flag with vertical red and white stripes. The blue field with white stars includes a large white keyhole shape at its center, suggesting ideas of access, security, or hidden meaning.

Kristen Mithcell

A black-and-white photo of friends gathered around a car with a missing tire while someone skateboards through the foreground.

Installation view of a grid of sepia photographs framed by red velvet curtains like a small stage or proscenium.

There Ought to be Clowns
Kelsey Riso

A grid of twenty colorful square prints featuring overlapping images of green hands, houses, leaves, and sunburst shapes in vibrant layers of red, yellow, pink, and teal.

Variegation
Juliana Maurer

A Dior Fahrenheit perfume bottle glowing with warm light, set against a vivid red backdrop with stylized flame shapes.

Christy Franklin

A triptych of three bold oil paintings of a reclining nude figure against vivid red and blue fabric, painted in a flat, graphic style with blue outlines. The panels show the figure's torso and form in cropped views, with small spiral and circular motifs.