October 2026

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Marketing Week · Emily Manock

Emily Manock talks to Autotrader's head of brand Roxanne Nedaj about 'It's time for Autotrader', a platform built with IMA to survive longer than one campaign cycle. The insight worth keeping is...

Seth's Blog · Seth Godin

Godin's distinction this time is blunt rather than layered: the mass market is powerful but only slightly interested, while its opposite isn't a bigger market, it's special — people who've actively chosen...

The Dieline · Bill McCool

Bill McCool works through his own conflicted reaction to lettering artist Jessica Hische announcing — almost apologetically — that she'd designed the icon and logotype for Meta's agentic AI, Muse, her newsletter...

Colossal · Kate Mothes

Kate Mothes goes behind the scenes of how Blackwing actually makes a pencil — graphite cores machined in Japan, individual pencils sandwiched between wood slats before being sliced into their signature hexagon,...

The Dieline · Chloe Cordover

Chloe Cordover on honey, peanut butter and chili paste moving into the aluminium tube — a format borrowed from toothpaste and artists' paint since 1841. The pitch is pure utility: no spoon,...

Creative Boom · Tom May

Derek&Eric ditch the Tuscan hillside for Drzzl, Natalia Rudin's olive oil brand — a poured wordmark drawn with Studio Drama, leafy green against orange and yellow, and squeezy bottles instead of glass....

It's Nice That · Paul Moore

Portland typographer Emily Klaebe treats a typeface as a small world, with type as "the ambassador of sentiments and culture". Kickdrum's lollipop-and-snail-shell swirls sit beside Missive Serif and its grid-built embroidery sibling...

Marketing Week · JP Castlin

JP Castlin traces 33 years from Peppers and Rogers' one-to-one dream to today's AI-driven optimisation, and argues metrics now lead strategy instead of informing it. Programmatic's 96–99% waste was tolerated because clicks,...

It's Nice That · Andrew Bell

Andrew Bell walks from agency frustration through six years freelancing to an inattentive ADHD diagnosis in 2026. Visual timers, task apps and daily routines gave him external structure, and he now looks...

designboom · Kat Barandy

Foster + Partners and Luis María Uriarte lift ‘Agravitas’ — roughly 6,000 square metres of galleries — 55 metres across tubular V-shaped columns above Bilbao's 1945 and 1970 museum buildings. Underneath, the...

Seth's Blog · Seth Godin

Seth Godin on why consistency earns a premium in products — phones, hotel rooms — but quietly kills creative work. "Excellent" as meeting spec is the wrong yardstick for art, where the...

Creative Boom · Katy Cowan

NB Studio — founded in 1997 by Alan Dye, Nick Finney and Ben Stott, around 50 D&AD pencils to its name — closed in June, and Dye reflects on starting again as...

Marketing Week · Richard Shotton

Richard Shotton pulls together the evidence on AI and sameness: stories written with ChatGPT were 9–11% more similar to each other, and human-generated idea lists stayed the most diverse. The useful twist...

It's Nice That · Paul Moore

Love and Money builds the world around Orchid, the chord-led synth from Kevin Parker's Telepathic Instruments: a customised PP Editorial Neue wordmark with bleeding ligatures that feel like a note fading, plus...

It's Nice That · Rob Alderson

Depop's Steve Dool argues a brand is defined as much by what it skips as by what it says — the test is whether it has any right to speak in a...

Colossal · Kate Mothes

Knight's seascapes treat water as atmosphere — star-filled skies, fog, rain falling from a heavy cloud — and use long exposures to resist quick consumption in an age of instant and AI-generated...

It's Nice That · Olivia Hingley

Four years, a hand-drawn three-weight blackletter, and "iteration 2,000 of the G". David Rudnick and Arsenal's Johnnie Campbell on Rocastle, a typeface named for the late David Rocastle, where almost every letter...

It's Nice That · Ayla Angelos

Barkas builds Kuda's identity on "More Life", a phrase borrowed from Jamaican slang, with chunky geometric letterforms, a custom Naira sign and hand-drawn Lagos traffic scenes. Fintech branding that actually has a...

It's Nice That · Ellis Tree

A fake Coachella merch design for Clairo led to real merch work, and buttercups spotted on walks became the animated floral type for Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields festival. Baltimore designer Sewell...

Creative Review · Adam Woodward

A look inside the Design Museum's Laika show: 236 puppets, 49 animators, 2,775 shots and a life-sized golden eagle, all made by hand and then digitally scanned for the VFX pipeline. A...

Fast Company · Nika Simovich Fisher

Jarrett Fuller on his book Graphic Designers After Graphic Design, which profiles practitioners such as Mindy Seu and Silvio Lorusso working across publishing, research and performance. His line that "every generation gets...

Marketing Week · Katie Matthews

Lloyds ran AI videos of its black horse, then admitted they were "degrading our brand" and said it would never do it again. Suresh Balaji's line, "AI can raise the floor, but...

System1

System1 borrows the 60/30/10 colour rule from interior design and tests it on outdoor ads: Jaffa Cakes' blue with a white accent scores 88% Fast Fluency, 28% above the UK average. Restraint,...

Motionographer · Carlos El Asmar

From a Kubrick screen test at seven to Imaginary Forces and seminary, Tim Thompson now coaches creative businesses through RevThink. His "mastery paradox" idea about AI-generated polish is the interesting part. Worth...