Populus by _DreamCult_

Populus imagines a future where humanity and technology have merged at the physical level. Born out of the question ‘What if evolution and annihilation are the same thing?’, Populus envisions a world where humanity has broken with its biological origins and found new ways to augment and amplify its material capacities. In this ‘new order’, much as in our current one, access to privilege and power is unequal, with unsettling ramifications for society as a whole. As some individuals are elevated to godlike status by their technological hybridization, others are condemned to madness, marginalisation, or servitude.

Offering a strikingly fresh spin on the profile pic (or PfP), Populus consists of 150 full-length character designs ranging from the ethereally beautiful to the nightmarish. Each character is named with a fragment from Victorian or Edwardian poetry, and assigned traits of varying rarity – including the social caste to which the character belongs. The result is a diverse and startling collection of portraits of impossible beings from an increasingly possible future - fascinating, sometimes alluring, often terrifying, and utterly unique.