Ulan Bator is so cock-frosting cold, homeless drunks live in hot water pipes underneath the city. Basque photographer Migel Aristregi travelled to the coldest capital in the world to document the lives of the city’s many homeless residents. [read an interview with Migel Aristregi at Don't Panic online]

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Horses are a recurring for Isabel Rock. Pastel colours, gnomes, glitter and unicorns adorn other pieces. But this light-heartedness is balanced with dripping illustrations, gushing elaborately in swirls and fat blobs. Block color and a feel for excess hint at the distraction of love, yet darker undertones of struggle and conflict exist.

Kate MccGwire graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2004 and has since exhibited all over London, winning a solo show at 2009′s Heart of Glass. Her most recent installations are taken from thousands of pigeon feathers, flowing water and even a mouldy growth on a wall. We asked her why she uses pigeon feathers: ‘I’m currently using pigeon feathers as they come from a bird that is generally reviled — regarded as vermin and referred to as “rats with wings”. I started to collect pigeon feathers that moulted from the birds in a shed next to my studio. I realized that they were actually very beautiful’.

The latest Don’t Panic poster artist to create free art for your walls is Johnny Kelly, who drew on the theme of Democracy. Rather than just opening Illustrator and vectoring out something about Obama and his dog, Kelly created a super-detailed paper sculpture of the human head as a giant machine, and then photographed it. Of the project, he says: ‘The model was first sketched out a number of times in my notebook. Once that was fully worked out, I planned out the model more rigidly on computer, then got cutting. After everything was stuck into place, my friend Linda Brownlee — a photographer — came over and shot it with a Hasselblad camera. The actual model is A1 in size, so we needed to shoot it on film rather than digital to make sure we could capture as much detail as possible’.

Christopher Sickels creates 3D illustrations which have appeared in numerous magazines, books, newspapers and adverts. He has conjured up a world full of endearing, intricately made puppets. Of his work, he says: ‘The desire to illustrate was what I pursued in college, but even as a kid, I always enjoyed taking things apart and making toys from things we had around the house. The interest in puppets and models really grew after college and it was then that I wanted to find a way to combine my love of building puppets with my passion for illustration’.

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Daikichi Amano produces weird films and photos involving girls with bugs, frogs, goldfish and eels. All of which they eat afterwards, to avoid wasteful animal cruelty.

Illustrator Nick Hamilton has designed a poster for the latest issue of Don’t Panic magazine which is a futuristic take on the concept of ritual, using minimal colours and crisp bold imagery.

Suzie Templeton is an award-winning writer and director, specialising in stop motion animation. Known for her Oscar-winning film Peter and the Wolf, Templeton takes us into a world filled with beauty and emotion. Her vulnerable characters are honestly depicted and unbelievably human.

At first glance Li Wei’s photographs seem to come from either digital gimmickry or are the work of a suicidal madman. But Wei is neither. He’s just fascinated with his environment. His stunning visuals are composed with the help of strategically positioned wires, mirrors and his own athletic prowess. Since stumbling into the art world at the turn of millennium he has grown increasingly prolific, exhibitions regularly all over the world.

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Installation artist Benedict Radcliffe creates wire cars, including a Lamborghini Countach, which are painstakingly crafted from ten millimetre welded steel tubes.

Valerio Carrubba is a hyperrealist painter. His images are anatomically accurate, showing his peaceful patients with their internal organs exposed. Shocking, realistic and, at the same time, extremely surreal, Valerio’s paintings are technically beautiful and provocative.

Riikka Sormunen’s paintings are stylised depictions of fantasy worlds. She also paints novelty figurines to immerse in these beautiful environments, where darkness seeps in, lending them unusual and thought-provoking qualities.

Brighton illustrator Sam Ashton depicts everyday objects in a unique way, drawing upon the ancient Japanese technique of woodblock drawing.

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With no survival advantage to gingerism, it has been suggested that the gene may die out. Is that really the kind of evolutionary progress we want to see? Photographer Jenny Wicks has documented this increasingly elusive breed in a photo series called Root Ginger.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, or ‘Le Corbusier’ is considered by many to be the most influential architect of the twentieth century. His designs are responsible for urban structures around the world, from the grid-city of Chandigarh in India to London’s Barbican Centre, which is currently hosting an exhibition of his work. But to peg him as an architect overlooks an awe-inspiring body of work that also takes in art, literature and even a new system of measurement. With this display, the first serious UK solo exhibition of his work for twenty years, we can finally appreciate the scale of his contributions.

This superbly original billboard culture jam from the FTW-Crew (Epoxy One, Mr Tailon and Baveux Production) in Berlin shows how much work goes into looking effortless.

The late great fifties singer-songwriter, Buddy Holly, is documented in a new photography exhibition at London’s Proud Galleries, which coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the first rockstar death in history. The show runs until April 26th.

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A high-definition 3D animated feature, Coraline took three years to complete and features the work of director Henry Selick, who employs old-fashioned stop-motion animation enhanced by computers to create the movie’s stunning visual effects.

Robert Crumb is the undisputed god of alternative comics. Only a few artists can even come close. Peter Bagge is one of them, snapping at Crumb’s heels and trying to trip him up with a long crooked stick. Crumb himseld is impressed, in his uniquely understated way: ‘I can count on one hand the number of comic artists whose work is as strong; maybe on two or three fingers. It’s a laff riot, what can I tell ya?’

Adrian Tomine is one of the finest cartoonists and illustrators of this generation, alongside the iconic Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes. He began his career Xeroxing copies of his comics for distribution, and stubbornly chooses to work in a medium as deliberately obscure as independent comics. While he continues to develop his ongoing series Optic Nerve (currently entering its fifteenth year of publication), he’s also the illustrator of choice for the New Yorker.