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Creative Boom · Abbey Bamford

Studio DRAMA's Frankie Guzi makes the case that bespoke type has gone from luxury indulgence to strategic necessity — the glue holding a brand's voice together across apps, billboards, AR and packaging....

Seth's Blog · Seth Godin

Seth Godin borrows an insight from stereo-maker Paul McGowan: musicality isn't a feature you add to an amplifier, it's what's left when you stop ruining it. He runs the same logic through...

The Drum · Mark Challinor

Mark Challinor interviews Hope Frank of the Forbes Communications Council's AI Group, who argues the CMO is now a governor, not a storyteller. Her provocation: 'Brand used to be what you said...

Wallpaper* · Ellie Stathaki

Wallpaper's Ellie Stathaki guides you through the UK's biggest architecture festival — 400+ events across 11 London neighbourhoods, themed this year around 'Belonging'. Director Rosa Rogina frames it as a chance to...

Creative Boom · Tom May

Creative Boom's flagship survey of 882 professionals lays the year bare: 69% have hit burnout, 86% now use AI while only 10% think it's good for the industry, and nearly half of...

It's Nice That · Ellis Tree

Self-taught and only three years in, Blanca Doba treats branding as world-building — her identity for fictional body-care brand Bare Earth stretches an ornate, calligraphic signature across lace borders, pressed-flower photography and...

Creative Boom · Tom May

Love & War's identity for Shaver Hall, a new food hall inside the old Lord & Taylor building on Fifth Avenue, starts with a person rather than a mood board — naming...

Creative Review · Adam Woodward

María Ramos of Spanish-Swedish foundry NM type releases Sastre — Spanish for 'tailor' — a text family drawn from the marks tailoring patterns leave on fabric in her parents' Galician workshop. Beatrice...

Creative Review · Daniel Milroy Maher

Manual's Tom Crabtree and Patricia Callaway spent three years on the visual system for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago's South Side. They kept the Foundation's rising-sun mark but built three new...

It's Nice That · Paul Moore

Paul Moore reports back from Warsaw, where Alicja Kobza's recovery of Poland's forgotten female graphic designers sits alongside a Gen-Z 'New School of Posters' that trades legibility for mood. The detail that...

The Drum · James Lawton-Hill

APS Group's James Lawton-Hill argues the human-versus-AI framing is already out of date, and that the agencies pulling ahead aren't adopting tools so much as redesigning workflows — letting agentic systems absorb...

Seth's Blog · Seth Godin

Seth Godin names three flavours of operator error — products that let people do something they'll regret, interfaces that invite avoidable mistakes, and tools that amplify a user's impact before they're ready...

Creative Boom · Katy Cowan

Self-taught French animator Simon Vergély (SIC Film) builds roughness on purpose — grainy, shaky, gloriously imperfect films that channel '90s vinyl-crackle hip-hop and the wicked energy of Ren & Stimpy-era MTV. He...

Creative Boom · Ayla Angelos

Mother LA senior designer Aiqi Zhang refuses to treat format as neutral — a display typeface that becomes a woven blanket, a goldfish logomark abstracted from the fish tanks at a Chinatown...

Branding Strategy · Alex Murrell

Epoch strategy director Alex Murrell makes the case that brand identities, ads, taglines and even names (Syrn, Skylrk, Cécred) have all converged into interchangeable sameness — what Fast Company christened 'blanding'. He...

Seth's Blog · Seth Godin

Vintage short-sharp Seth: the more we surrender to the urgency of the moment, the more urgency we manufacture for ourselves. The next minute is probably not the last minute — but treat...

It's Nice That · Paul Moore

To mark Surrey Street market's 750th birthday, female-led practice Bob Design handed the visual identity to Croydon School of Art students — running participatory workshops that turned collaged cut-outs into a flexible...

The Drum · Mark Ritson

Ritson takes aim at Scott Galloway's Cannes claim that agentic AI is diligence fully automated and the era of brand is over. His counter: perfect information never killed brands before — reviews...

Branding Strategy · Dr. Derrick Daye

The Blake Project's Derrick Daye argues brand strategy shouldn't trail business strategy — it should help form it, because the most consequential brand decisions (markets, customers, pricing, portfolio) get made before anyone...

Creative Boom · Tom May

Cult cartoonists Modern Toss (Jon Link and Mick Bunnage) team up with University of Sheffield linguist Dr Chris Montgomery to build a UK Swear Map — press a button, hear a region's...

Creative Boom · Katy Cowan

Drinks-branding agency Thirst gives two M&S own-label beer ranges a proper rethink — a Continental line where every lager becomes a collectable vintage postage stamp with its own etched animal mascot, and...

It's Nice That · Ellis Tree

Montreal studio Supersystème (Eveline Lupien and Marie-France Gaudet) work at the point where 'typography operates simultaneously as language and image' — letters become puzzle pieces on posters for Festival des Faubourgs, or...