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Affinity finally comes to iPad, and illustrators get a free all-in-one app
It's official. Canva has launched Affinity for iPad today. The single app doesn't just make your life easier – the core tools won't cost you a penny, either. If you've ever sketched in one app, turned...
How&How launches a new name, strategy, visual identity and website
Six years after launching in the midst of the pandemic, the London and LA studio is taking its own advice and turning up its truth. Rebranding a company is a lot of pressure. Multiply that tenfold whe...
Wildwood: a big leap forward for animation that you need to see on a big screen
Laika's handmade epic blends stop motion and CG like nothing before it, and it deserves to win at the box office. Last week I walked into a sold-out cinema screening, and let me tell you: it's been a...
Swiss Typefaces crafts a warmer, friendlier custom font for Swiss Post
Creating a typeface for Switzerland's postal service took three years, and it came with many challenges. When it comes to custom typefaces, designers are often faced with a dilemma. When clients have...
This celebrity ad shows what a difference it makes when you don't use CGI
We're so starved of practical effects; even a spot promoting financial services can be magical in the right hands. Ads for financial services are not something I go out of my way to watch. I tend to b...
Christmas adverts 2026: Scrooges, Muppets and a BFG with the sniffles – the best festive ads so far
Ghosts of Christmas past, old school pals and a friendly giant with a cold: we're rounding up 2026's biggest festive ads as they land. Then we'll ask some industry experts to pick the winners, the los...
Henry Chalfant's legendary New York subway graffiti photos pull into Amsterdam at life size
Amsterdam's Straat offers a masterclass in the tricky balancing act of bringing graffiti out of the streets and into the museum: its new show of Henry Chalfant's sublime documentation of New York's na...
How do I exorcise a nightmare client and ensure they don't rise from the dead?
With Halloween almost upon us, we've picked a Dear Boom missive that reads like the opening of a horror film. A creative writes: "I've been working with a client for nearly two years. Every job s...
A new Halloween game turns your unread emails into zombies you can actually kill
The Unread is a free, gory browser game that hooks into your Gmail, and every zombie you take down is a spam email you'll never have to see again. I'm going to be honest with you. I'm no fan of the ho...
Why Studio Atipus designed a wine label to look like it's been shot from a speeding train
The design for Maria Rigol Ordi's first still wine takes the name's literal meaning and runs with it. Creatives often wax lyrical about finding inspiration in the most unlikely of places: a rusty ship...
Royal portrait painter swaps palaces for a Barnsley chippy, a Catford corner shop and a pub run by 'Slugger'
In Coca-Cola's latest campaign, four independent business owners get something usually reserved for kings and queens: an oil-on-canvas portrait by artists who've sat opposite the late Queen, King Char...
How Mother Design turned a séance into a new identity for Purple Garden
The London studio began rebranding the psychic services platform with a chakra reading and a little charcoal, and the result is a rich, purple-hued brand world that feels alive. It's almost Halloween,...
Tom Hegen explores the landscapes that are paying an invisible price for clean energy
In his new book The Mineral Age, Tom Hagen takes aerial photographs of the mineral mines essential to our transition to low-carbon living. Everyone knows about the climate crisis. It's almost impossib...
Span's identity for Illinois Department of Human Rights turns a common piece of punctuation into a rallying cry
Inspired by the posters and placards of past civil rights movements, the rebrand makes people's rights easier to see and use. Since 1980, the Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR) has investigate...
Socialist Hotels: relive the concrete dreams of the Soviet era with these beautiful photos
A new photo book documents the hospitality architecture behind the Iron Curtain. We all dream of staying in a luxurious hotel fit for royalty. Most of us settle for something half-decent, as long as i...
The best new typefaces for October 2026
From an industrial slab named after a hardness scale to a display face woven from memories of lace, this October brings a bumper crop of new typefaces. Is it that time already? The clocks have gone ba...
César Cid turns famous artists into letters in his playful alphabet series
The creative lead at CESS has created a fun new Artphabet featuring 26 notable artists. It's a testament to an artist's talent that their paintings can be abstracted and remain recognisable. César Cid...
Uncommon's rebrand of global powerhouse White & Case ditches every law firm cliché
Uncommon Creative Studio's visual identity swaps corporate restraint for kinetic type. We find out more. For decades now, it feels like there's been an unspoken rule about law firm branding. That thes...
Take a trip back to Perth’s rave scene in Simon Wright’s design retrospective
Drawing on the Future is a two-volume series that documents the Australian city's underground music scene at the turn of the millennium. It may be hard to believe, but it's been 26 years since we ente...
International Assembly 2026: Glasgow's festival returns with a secret stage and a night in a castle
Here's everything you need to know about the November event. We get it: it's cold, raining, and you just want to stay inside for the next six months. But you know, in your heart of hearts, this only l...
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