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September 30
- You can now use ChatGPT and Claude to speed up 3D art in Cinema 4D
- The next James Bond actor won't be who you think
- Samsung aims Galaxy Tab S12 Series at creatives with Photoshop preinstalled
- What the magic of Harry Potter's Hogwarts letter can teach brands
- This chair is so comfortable I haven’t got up in 3 days
- Meet the 3D printing tool I can’t believe I ever went without
- Tested: Is the Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo the year’s most expensive laptop?
- Photoshop's controversial new AI tool is dividing opinion
- This pixel art game lets you destroy almost any website (including ours)
September 29
- Bambu Lab’s massive Halloween sale is all treat, with up to 30% off 3D printing supplies
- Whimsymaxxing is the latest cure for the autumn blues
- Nintendo Switch 2 drops to lowest ever price in early Prime Day deal
- Two animators reveal the roles, risks and limits of making Don Quixote with AI
- You'll either love or hate the Formula E logo – and that's the whole point
- Here's an idea: what if Disney remade its live-action films as animations instead?
- RealityScan review: Epic Games' free mobile app has features I love, when it's not glitching
- Lexus just dropped the most twisted car design I've ever seen – literally
- PS5 or Xbox Series X for GTA 6? This is the one I’d buy
- The best IEMs under $500 offer crystal clear detail and warm, lush musicality
- A year after release, the $90 Truthear Pure remains the best warm-neutral IEM under $300
- A hard-hitting ad campaign throws shade at Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg to highlight the real tech innovators
- From Toy Story to Inside Out, Pixar's revealed the locations of an Easter egg hidden in almost every movie it's made
- How Unreal Engine 5 helped create Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight's dense open world
September 28
- These 9 kitchen items are icons of design, and they all have big discounts in Amazon's early Prime Big Deals
- The Wacom Intuos Pro is back to its lowest price ever with $80 off at Amazon
- Why are so many brands making disgusting food collabs?
- CorelDRAW adds Text-to-Vector AI in the September update – is it a good move?
- Viral AI animation sparks controversy over familiar character design
- Please stop calling every laptop an "AI laptop"
- 2026 is the year of the cancelled ad
- A library of over 10,000 abstract models is the starting point for this artist's compositions
September 27
- Marvel's Wolverine review: visually spectacular, but frustratingly safe
- We’ve got to talk about laptop battery life because this is getting ridiculous and not in a good way
- Gary A. Lippincott takes us on a tour of his inspiring home art studio
- "We have the kind of stuff AI wishes it could make": Why trust is more important than ever for the NASA brand
- Forget the Pokémon x Starbucks collab, get up to 60% off merch
- Inca Kola rebrands as the world's other cola war heats up
September 26
- The chair that puts the 'luxury' in budget ergonomic office chairs has $80 off in Amazon's early Prime Day sale
- The secret to Stuntman: Hollywood’s success is Hollywood itself
- This digital typewriter is the distraction-free writing tool I've been searching for
- “Fan art helps me escape my habits" – Recreating Distant Lands: Obsidian allowed this artist to explore colours, lighting and subjects beyond his usual repertoire
- Adobe Max 2026's lineup tells us a lot about the company's AI priorities right now
- New Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua poster features graphic design fail
- A solo developer not only drew this video game by hand, he also made all the music and sound effects with his own voice
- The Bentley Torcal is finally a luxury EV design that people like
- Nintendo Switch 2 has £65 off in a record-low limited-time deal
September 25
- This $30 phone charger gives speeds to rival wall plugs, and it's down to $23
- Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve review – bigger skies, more drama, same old rhythm, and I'm mostly fine with that
- GTA 6's $400 collector's box comes with a plastic crocodile, and it's genius branding
- Meta’s new AI avatar is making me feel infantilised
- Quote of the Day by Es Devlin: "I’ve learned that I make my most interesting work when I don’t know the rules and I don’t know what I’m doing"
- Sticker addicts rejoice! Cricut just released two really cool label and sticker makers
- This digital artist takes inspiration from Old Masters and orientalist paintings
- We were robbed of a 2D Ray Gunn movie and Hollywood’s to blame
- Sony has an idea for turning PlayStation controllers into payment devices, and everyone's saying the same thing
- No, that Apple Games advert isn't AI, and the brilliant BTS video proves it
September 24
- Amazon's early Prime Day deals include massive discounts on coffee makers of every kind
- How a studio created an "impossible" animated symphony using Autodesk's AI-driven mocap tech
- Canva adds 1000+ new Monotype fonts for global creatives
- Introducing the ergonomic office chair that’s designed to move with your body
- The Taylor Swift iPhone colour theory doesn't feel like a joke anymore
- This tactical RPG channels a classic Sega series while putting its own spin on the retro-modern HD-2D aesthetic
- Microsoft's dystopian new advertising idea sounds like a nightmare for gamers
- People think Disney is trying to erase every trace of Hexed's original concept
- People are treating Apple's MacOS 27 wallpaper 'design fail' like a true crime mystery to be solved
- IKEA transforms its iconic blue bag in quirky campaign
September 23
- How to make wooden pumpkins using the Bambu Lab R1 laser
- Amazon's October Prime Day day deals have started! These are the best offers for creatives
- This basic office chair has just raised the standard
- Improve your mood with the best monitor light bars
- New Taylor Swift Patient 0 cover accused of Photoshop mishap
- The Brand Impact Award Winners 2026 have been revealed!
- How Fusion Studio and expert compositing skills brought the striking animation Danse Macabre to life
- Apple's perfect iPhone Duo TikToks nail foldable phone marketing
- First McDonald's, now Disney is dejoying its store designs
- Chromebooks are not for serious creatives, are they?
- Coyote Vs Acme's $100m takings show fan campaigns CAN succeed
September 22
- First impressions of the beastly new Bambu Lab R1 laser cutter
- These earphones are the sonic equivalent of sunburn
- The bold new Apple Music logo signals the end of minimalism
- McLaren’s new logo looks like a luxury fashion brand
- This out-there branding is the bravest design I've seen all year
- This weird Walmart banana hack could save you $20 on Nintendo Switch games like Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, apparently
- I finally learned to enjoy 3D art with this workflow using 3DCoat, Quixel Mixer, Blender and Photoshop
- One of Disney's biggest flops has been reimagined as a beautiful hand-drawn 2D animation, and some fans think it's a big improvement
- The Tesla Cybercab has a pretty silly design fail
September 21
- Art students: save up to 53% on supplies before term starts
- The HP Omen Max 16 is everything a student laptop shouldn’t be – so why do I recommend it?
- Converse forced to remove ad over racist allegations
- Forget iPhone 18's Dark Cherry, these gorgeous cases let you play with seasonal colours in a less permanent way
- Autodesk's own AI film has a continuity error nobody could prompt away
- Forget Pixar: Laika is the animation house of the future
- Affinity 3.3 shows that Canva is serious about taking on Adobe
- See how this point-and-click game environment was made for The Mermaid Mask
- Silent Hill Townfall (PS5) review: satisfying horror and combat, but frustrating puzzles
- This iPhone 18 Pro deal aims to solve one of the biggest complaints about smartphones in 2026
- At $190 the Juzear Light Shuttle is one of the most compelling earphones of 2026
September 20
- "Everyone has a hundred bad games in them, and we did them really quickly": Adam Vian on the creation and evolution of Detective Grimoire
- Forget Frame TVs, this e-ink digital art frame is cheaper and nicer to look at
- "Failure isn’t the biggest thing to fear" :5 questions with Jessica Davey
- A creative studio built an "AI slop monster" sculpture as a promise never to make one again
- New Clayface poster gets creepier the more you look at it
- There's a new Super Mario logo, and fans think they know what it means
- "AI slop" was a great phrase, but now AI is getting better at video, we need a new one
September 19
- Blender 5.3 finally gets game-changing native Gaussian splat support
- This fountain pen has been a design icon since 1980, and it has up to 26% off for a limited time
- Is this the worst typography cockup of 2026?
- 7 artists reveal the breakthroughs that took their practice to the next level
- Greta Gerwig’s Narnia logo oozes magical energy
- People are calling Netflix's Cinderella rewrite "satanic", but Steps follows a long tradition of reimagining classic fairy tales
- An accidental 9/11 reference led this football club to scrap its new clothing designs
September 18
- There's up to $550 off 3D printers in the huge Anycubic anniversary sale
- Control Resonant review: Remedy turns Manhattan into a paranatural nightmare unlike anything I've seen
- "We can cut production costs by 95%": the AI tech taking on Hollywood
- The 20th anniversary Cricut warehouse sale has some im-press-ive deals
- How Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy puts this indie studio's Sicilian roots front and centre
- Forget iPhone 18, this creative is doing street photography with that new Dyson electric toothbrush
- This artist blends 19th century Japanese styles with Western Art Nouveau, and his process could help you get out of a creative rut
- This city's new logo is inspired by Irish script and has a clever hidden meaning
- Quote of the Day by James Gurney: "Working from imagination and from observation are indispensable to each other"
- New Balance sues rival athletics brand over shoe logo
September 17
- Autodesk says AI should give artists time to experiment, not make them work twice as fast
- Want Star-Lords' headphones? This modern version is only $30
- BFI London Film Festival’s new identity is more hand crafted than meets the eye
- Quote of the Day by Peter Max: "The Beatles captured the music mood of the late '60s and early '70s, I captured the visual."
- The new Hunger Games billboards are absolutely terrifying
- These 6 digital photo frames look good and offer great value for money
- Massive Canva update adds 100 features to new ProSuite
- This artist's dark fantasy concepts create a sense of unease and vast scale
- Why I'd pre-order the iPhone 18 Pro, even if it's already being written off as a flop
- This wholesome Bob the Builder ad just restored my childhood
- Laika's final Wildwood trailer as absolutely stunning, but would you know it's stopmotion animation?
- Why Canva hit the brakes on its huge AI rollout (and what other brands can learn from it)
- How Trails in the Sky gets it right when it comes to remaking a classic JRPG
September 16
- These headphones were $3,000 back in 2015 – at $949 today, they're my 'value' high-end cans of choice
- Rihanna’s shady new Savage X Fenty ad towers above the competition
- The latest Washington Commanders logo controversy has sparked calls for a change in the law
- The budget 3D printer we most recommend for beginners is now half price
- I thought the Evercade Nexus was too big – then I played Banjo-Kazooie on it
- Original Prusa MK4S review: the old guard of 3D printing
- Lenovo ThinkTab X11 review: built like a tank, but not really a tablet for the creative crowd
- Airbnb orders independent guesthouse to change its logo
- This student Oscar winner looks like stop motion, but it's actually 3D animation
- This artist blends traditional Chinese ink aesthetics with digital painting in Photoshop to create dynamic Three Kingdoms characters
- Autodesk’s AU26 AI pitch: let AI help you make more, not make it for you
September 15
- AI might kill humanity in 10 years, but Autodesk’s CEO sees a more immediate threat to artists
- Pre-order The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake: There's only one downside
- There's no way this Elon Musk movie poster isn't ironic
- The new US Space Force uniforms look like the Star Wars Empire meets the SS
- Oof! Turns out AI is as annoying in office chairs as it is everywhere else
- Embrace the Fashion Week flavour with these colourful kitchen accessories
- Final Fantasy VII inspired this artist to create her own worlds
- The Digger poster strikes graphic design gold
- The Lenovo Yoga Pro 27UD-10 review: an all-in-one monitor that earns its keep
- The branding of Apple's rumoured iPhone gaming controllers is kind of weird
September 14
- The only budget ergonomic office chair our ecom editor wanted to keep has $30 off
- These most luxurious Bluetooth headphones we've reviewed have a massive $580 off
- “A kick in the face to every woman”: Sydney Sweeney torn apart for racy sports ad
- The best Mac for content creators: These are our 4 tried and tested options for you
- Toaplan Arcade Garage: Flying Fire Shark (Switch) review – a shot of near perfect '80s arcade joy
- How to make things move in a 3D scene
September 13
- The huge Nintendo Switch 'tariff refund sale' has begun, and there's 30% off iconic games
- How I created a dramatic fight scene for the cover of a fantasy book in the aesthetic that I grew up with
- These cat animation designs look nothing like what I expected
- 'I'm conscious of remaining open and curious and uncynical': 5 questions with Tom Murphy
- Wait, people are even using AI flyers to advertise art classes?
- This bakery's clever branding was inspired by the irregular air pockets formed in dough
- This beautiful logo shows there's plenty of life in minimalist design yet
- Zoner Studio (2026) review: all-in-one image editing with a splash of video too
- Samsung Galaxy Book 6 Pro review: every inch the professional
September 12
- iPhone 18 Pro preorders are open – here's how to get it for free
- How I created a sense of scale, weight and halted motion in this epic serpent scene using Blender
- I hate to say it, but the backlash to this beer company's rebrand is justified
- Elon Musk's daughter's Tesla-trolling fashion advert is as cinematic as Star Wars
- This logo just turned 40, but it could have been made yesterday
- Geekom IT13 Max review: Max by name, but restricted by nature
September 11
- iPhone Duo is coming, but these rival tried-and-tested foldable phones have up to $500 off
- Ad platform sparks brand romance with 100 love letter billboards
- Fans think Beyoncé’s $1000 empty wooden box is a sign
- These are the only budget office chairs we can recommend after six years of testing, and three of them have big discounts today
- Discover Fall cosy craft DIY kits starting at $17
- Quote of the Day by Mary Cassatt: "I hated conventional art – I began to live."
- Nightmare Operator is like Resident Evil 4 and Shin Megami Tensei had a PS1 baby, then taught it fighting-game mechanics
- Guinness's new billboard ads are lovely (literally)
- This artist upcycles vintage artwork to give forgotten paintings a quirky modern twist
- Eizo FlexScan EV3450XC review: a well‑rounded ultrawide with everyday smarts
September 10
- Forget the iPhone Duo, these super cheap dumb phones offer the digital detox you're probably craving
- This teeny but powerful MacBook charger looks like it could be perfect for travel, and it costs under $90
- The Metroid Dread sequel takes a surprising horror-esque direction with a shocking new mechanic
- Final Fantasy VII Revelation hands-on: a beautiful game world now looks even more stunning
- Apple just revealed exactly which two products the iPhone Duo is designed to replace
- The iPhone Duo is perfect for people with uncanny alien fingers
- The brand new Sony ANC headphone... is the old Sony ANC headphone?!
- This artist designed a poker deck inspired by the crisp textures and geometric shapes of Cubism and Futurism
- Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival is the horror game AAA publishers have been too prudish to make
- Are the controversial new Harry Potter logos actually more historically accurate than the movie designs?
- Apidya' Special (Switch 2) review: this weird '90s Amiga shooter gets the remaster it deserves
- Can you spot all the clues that prove this AI 'photo' isn't real?
September 9
- The White House's dodgy Tetris copy seems to have hit a wall
- This $20,000 Master Home Agent would eat Alexa for breakfast
- Don't look at Tom Cruise’s new Digger poster if you're a perfectionist
- Everyone’s saying the same thing about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake
- Forget Spotify, these bargain retro CD players are perfect if you're holding on to your physical media
- iPhone Duo leaks coming thick and fast hours before launch
- Stop being mean to the new Japanese travel mascots
- Alien Deathstorm hands-on: a horror FPS that channels Half-Life and Alien, and feels surprisingly grounded
- Behind the scenes of Witchspire's spellbinding artistry
- Loewe’s lowkey logo sandals divide fashionistas
September 8
- The Nintendo Switch 2 Zelda 40th anniversary edition looks like a precious relic from Hyrule
- This typography artist is giving away 200 free fonts, but you need to be quick
- These are the best AI laptops for motion design and VFX
- This is what Nintendo's Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake actually looks like on Switch 2
- This free app could become the Blender of texture painting software
- Get inspired, learn this art trick: paint with fewer colours and bigger brush strokes
- RTX Spark's local AI wants to be your chief of staff, but it’s not ready to run the office yet
- Viral video tries to prove AI is the death of Hollywood... and fails miserably
- These wireless earphones offer sound quality to rival wired buds, and they're down by 32%
- Apple's new iPhone lineup confirmed! New foldable iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro gets a huge camera upgrade
- Sihoo M56C review: A cheap chair that's only good for short sits
- NVIDIA's RTX Spark showcase at IFA showed me a first-hand example of how DLSS is breaking out of the gaming sphere
- How I create epic boss battle scenes without the 'fake' 3D look
- Your AI-written brief might wreck your brand's chances of finding the right creatives
- This YouTuber spent four years learning 3D animation to make a "terribly handmade movie" about a forgotten 1960s superhero
- Some people are worried Apple's folding iPhone design could present a brand new health risk
September 7
- The best Labor Day drawing tablet deals include pen displays from just $149
- Frame TVs have up to $1,000 off for Labor Day, and the deals end soon
- This gorgeous fountain pen is nearly 50% off for Labor Day
- The best Labor Day speaker deals starting from $60
- Can NVIDIA and Adobe work together to get creatives to actually like AI?
- Hand-picked Labor Day savings to upgrade your desktop for a fresh start
- I saw NVIDIA's new AI video tool: why RTX Spark’s half‑frame trick might actually matter... and why creatives are right to be wary
- Maryland University tangled in unlikely logo dispute
- Save up to 52% on creative tech from Creality this Labor Day
- How two tweets cost Elon Musk the Twitter logo
- Clever and comfortable, the Bose QC Ultra 2 offers custom tuning and has $70 off for Labor Day
- The vibrant markers perfect for everyone from pro artists to children are reduced by up to 26% for Labor Day
- Huion's new Kamvas Pad 12 could fix the biggest problem with Android tablets for art
- AI tools for 3D artists: how to embrace AI without abandoning your workflow
- How Unreal Engine 5 allowed Hell Let Loose: Vietnam to capture the density of the jungle with incredible fidelity
- TourBox NEO review: Customisable and comprehensive without breaking the bank
- As a longtime fan, I was disappointed with the Crazy Taxi: World Tour Gamescom demo
September 6
- The Labor Day Apple deals are terrible this year, but these are the best around
- Alien: Isolation 2 continues the original 1979 film's aesthetic but takes the horror outside
- TourBox Elite Plus review: Fast, customisable, and it even works with tablets
- Animals from wildflowers? This unique illustration style shouldn't work, but it does - and here's why
- This indie tactics game is a tribute to 80s glam metal with some ingenious low-tech solutions
- Someone's making Doom 3 BFG edition with DLSS 5
- The best budget AI laptops under $1,000: Your laptop should make your life easier!
- OpenAI's controversial ChatGPT-6 Astra advert paints a sad vision of the future
September 5
- 7 massive Labor Day laptop deals that are actually good enough for creatives
- I enjoyed grappling with Stranger Than Heaven's unconventional combat, but I'd love to see more of its depiction of early 20th century Japan
- “Korean games and character art played a big part in inspiring me to become a 3D character artist"
- These cute cat ads don't seem to make sense – which is why they're genius
- TourBox Lite review: An entry-level console for editors who are tired of keyboard shortcuts
- The controversial new Harry Potter logos represent "the decay of art," fans say
- The GTA 6 'romance' controversy is everything that's wrong with the internet
- Quote of the Day by Tim Cook: "I'm not worried about AI giving computers the ability to think like humans. I'm more concerned about people thinking like computers without values or compassion, without concern for consequences."
September 4
- Genigods: Nezha is China's answer to God of War in Unreal Engine 5
- The White House just used Xbox and Sega logos to promote MAGA video games, and players want to know what's up
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword is another RE Engine triumph on Switch 2
- The Brand Impact Awards 2026 shortlist is now live
- The ingenious Lionel Messi font is based on real plays, and people are trying to work out which
- Noble FoKus Artemis review: this feels (and sounds) to me like the future of wireless ANC headphones
- Parker only went and made those viral anti-AI pen billboards real
- Quote of the Day by Pablo Picasso: “The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense"
- The HP Omen 35L for 2026 may be gaming-focused, but it delivers for creatives too
September 3
- These 11 Walmart Bricktember Lego deals are worth grabbing quickly, and 10 of them are under $50
- ArtStation is taking action against AI art, but there's one question it doesn't want to answer
- Meet Lamp: An "alive" Pixar-like desk robot that watches your posture, remembers strangers' faces and answers your emails
- iPhone 18 Pro leaks suggest photographers are finally getting the feature they've been waiting for
- Squeeze the stress away with these 12 beautiful and bizarre squishies – starting from £5.29
- This artist turns iconic characters like Spider-Man and Hulk into sculptural Marvels
- Orbitals review: a co-op playable anime dream
- Street Fighter's 'world-first' playable trailer is a hadouken to traditional movie advertising
- This premium 4K monitor from Eizo is a dream for photo editors
September 2
- The perfect slim and light back-to-school MacBook alternative has $450 off
- Yes, a Chromebook can be the perfect school laptop – and there's $170 off the best we've ever tested
- The Evercade Nexus is the retro antidote to modern gaming's anti-physical and expensive dead-end future
- The Blood of Dawnwalker (PS5) review: a smart vampire RPG that doesn't quite sink its teeth into the fantasy
- Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is a glorious return to the series' 2D roots with a more modern 2.5D aesthetic
- Designers, do you recognise this old-school equipment?
- Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis's Unreal Engine reimagining looks breathtaking but I'm concerned by some modern design creep
- Move over, Cosmic Orange – iPhone 18 colours just leaked online
- Damn! No sooner had I bought this clever e-ink digital frame, it gets a 25% discount!
- This 3D artist uses Unreal Engine 5 and Blender to achieve incredible detail in heroic character designs
- The best TourBox editing consoles: Legit shortcuts to creativity
- The new Disney World logo design is actually kind of genius
- Making your own Backrooms in Blender is surprisingly easy
- How to draw Sanrio characters like Hello Kitty the easy way
September 1
- This city's controversial logo redesign has hit a bum note
- The best e-ink art frames are starting to deliver on the early promise of the technology
- The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past's lush new location and remaster improvements have me excited to be Geralt again
- “Ideas for my art come from different places. In this case, I was inspired by an iron maiden paired with a goblin who takes great zeal in his work”
- A viral creative challenge just gifted Parker pens the perfect anti-AI billboard advert
- See how this 3D artist uses Blender to make scenes that look hand painted
- A new online archive tries to predict Microsoft's next confusing rebrand