Simon Stålenhag (b.1984) is a Swedish artist, musician, and designer specializing in retro-futuristic digital imagery focused on nostalgic, alternate, historical environments of the Swedish countryside. The settings of his works served as the basis for the 2020 Amazon television drama series Tales from the Loop. –BDT

In the ‘big move,’ we lost his earliest introductory post (“Pass the dutchie”), but he’s someone I always like to share. His images are unlike anything else I’ve seen, being sort of photo-realistic yet cartoony at the same time. His mastery of lighting always sets a memorable mood, and his imaginative landscapes of all different genres are almost universally awe-inspiring in a cinematic sense.

There’s more stuff by him posted here, including a spectacular dinosaur collection:
https://piefed.social/search?q=Stålenhag&community=eurographicnovels