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May 31
- Retro Bruce Lee ballet posters blend Way of the Dragon with Saturday Night Fever
- Fox Sports' World Cup of artists is already causing controversy
May 30
- AI Hideo Kojima wears Prada in controversial sci-fi campaign
- These slick FIFA World Cup posters are works of art
- Why the Ferrari Luce is so controversial, and how the car brand should respond
May 29
- This Tim Burton-esque Mexican stop-motion movie is finally coming to Netflix
- New Enola Holmes 3 poster slammed with AI allegations
- "Women are not disappearing. The industry is failing to keep them.”
- KPop Demon Hunters fans are fuming over Amazon's AI "mockbuster"
May 28
- Dear Apple: if your new icons need a manual, they're not working
- These parody Google icons are better than the new update
- Yeti's no-name logos show the power of good branding
- This hand-drawn video game looks like an eerie animation masterpiece
- BTS Oreo cookies could be the biggest brand collaboration the world has seen
May 27
- What's driving the lowercase type trend?
- This coffee shop's branding showcases handcrafted brilliance
- Jonny Ive's Ferrari Luce is even more controversial than the new Jaguar
- The McDonald's charity logo finally got the redesign it desperately needed
May 26
- On paper the new Sennheiser Momentum 5 looks like the perfect consumer headphone
- How the Nobody director turns World of Tanks into a punk-fuelled action music video
- 007 First Light has a secret Jaguar Type 00 – is the rebrand redeemed?
- Why are senior creatives so desperate to impress their Gen Z interns?
- These typefaces could be ruining your brand's designs. Here's why
- Why the McDonald's logo is blue on Nike's new shoes
May 25
- Epic's Unreal Engine 6 reveal got a standing ovation, but not everyone's happy
- Bob's Red Mill rebrand is the Cracker Barrel logo controversy all over again
- Read Creative Bloq on the go with our brand new app
- Unity or Godot Engine? This dev made the same game twice to test both, and his verdict might surprise you
May 24
- 'It was humbling': The cast of 007 First Light on acting in a video game
- Lego Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight vs Batman movies compared
May 23
- Rugrats is the retro game revival no one saw coming
- How an 'AI' Monet painting fooled 7M people
- Bold, optimistic, empathetic: How a retirement company perfected its look for Gen Z
- "The future is one person making a whole film," says director of AI movie that hijacked Cannes
- As violence breaks out over design drops, who's taking responsibility?
May 22
- D&AD Pencils 2026 winners reveal a geographic shift in global creativity
May 21
- BAFTA Young Game Designers finalists revealed, from Blade Runner-inspired concepts to bullet-hell boss-fighters
- Game Maker Sketchbook 2026 celebrates the unsung heroes of game art
- The original concept for KPop Demon Hunters has me intrigued
- Canva uses handcrafted animation to challenge polished design culture
- After a week with the reMarkable Paper Pure, I finally get digital notepads
May 20
- South Park's tiny Trump penis was a win for handcrafted animation
- Fans love the look of anime Scooby-Doo, but there's one controversial change
- Nintendo shocks fans with surprise launch of Pictonico! – but what is it?
- My family loves the Nex Playground – and it just launched in the UK
- I went to Reggio Emilia for the art, Kate Middleton went for education, and we both discovered something amazing
- Google’s new app icons were desperately needed
- If Nintendo won't make a Mario Kart maker, this indie game could be the next best thing
- Wikipedia’s most underrated logo finally gets the love it deserves
May 19
- Bin your Apple AirPods Max! Sony's new luxury cans have dropped
- How the em dash got caught in the crossfire in the war on AI writing
- As a James Bond fan, I'm personally affronted by Trump's latest AI stunt
- This shocking new advert looks like a trailer for a horror movie, but it has a deeper message
- Has Xbox turned rebranding into fan service?
- Microsoft's "ironic" GitHub Copilot logo sparks controversy
May 18
- We won, the new Spotify logo is being laid to rest
May 17
- Why this skincare brand is selling Avocados for $302
- How Hoppers went from hand-drawn storyboard to polished 3D animation in 5 steps
May 16
- This vibrant radio rebrand has Gen Z written all over it (literally)
- The rotating horse optical illusion is just as perplexing in real life
- The Iran war could be an unexpected test of the best brand identities
- The Dua Lipa v Samsung debacle should be a warning to every brand
- Can a new logo help Threads escape Instagram's shadow?
May 15
- New Spider-Man logo frustrates fans thanks to one tiny detail
- Controversial halftime show could change World Cup branding forever
- This retro indie game rekindles the spirit of a James Bond classic
- Believe it or not, that 'VFX fail' in The Punisher special was filmed with a real stuntman
May 14
- Subnautica 2 uses Unreal Engine 5 to make the ocean feel psychologically hostile
- KPop Demon Hunters are going on tour, and fans have questions
- Spotify’s new logo is already getting torn to shreds
- I definitely didn’t expect a Nothing X Charli XCX brand collab - but it's genius
- Daniel Craig's design input on a James Bond poster has sparked a heated debate
- Lady Gaga and Apple are facing a design controversy, and it shows public perception of AI is shifting
May 13
- Laika's Wildwood takes stopmotion animation to an epic new level
- Netflix's Swapped got panned, so how's it broken one of KPop Demon Hunters' viewing records?
- Don't rule out these top stationery deals
- Apple's folding iPhone suddenly doesn't sound so 'Ultra'
- People can't believe this indie game achieved such realistic faces with a retro technique
May 12
- Operation Epic Furious is a video game inspired by Donald Trump's Iran War
- These tropical wood earphones could be the prettiest small things you ever own
- The Switch 2 price hike: Everything you need to know
- One of the world's most popular typefaces gets an upgrade
- People can't work out the person who inspired this strange McDonald’s ad
- "Every caricature that I create is a challenge"
- The good, the bad and the AI of World Cup 2026 adverts
- Can you tell which stars are missing from these iconic red carpet photos?
May 11
- Apple really wants to be king of the fruit logos
- This game's 3D graphics are made entirely from text
May 10
- Sony PlayStation's AI plans have gamers concerned
- This astounding optical illusion art feels like pure witchcraft
- Tesla's mysterious new logo design has sparked some surprising theories
- Yes, James Bond should be in video games
May 9
- The Star Fox controversy shows how easy it is to overdesign a beloved character
- Charli XCX buries BRAT with minimalist new single cover
- This super subtle rebrand is as smooth as butter
- Is Chris Brown's retro album cover an iconic homage or lazy mimicry?
May 8
- The KPop Demon Hunters comic is finally here, and you can order it today
- 4Creative’s "perpetually unfinished” logo doesn’t care for conventionality
- Autodesk's free new tool offers an easy way in to 3D modelling
- Stranger Than Heaven stars Snoop Dogg, Ado and an actor who died in 2014 – and it looks epic
- New John Lennon documentary will be a controversial test for AI video
May 7
- The Obsession movie campaign is starting to get really concerning
- Nintendo’s new Star Fox characters look more realistic, and fans aren’t sure that’s good
- Pixar almost had its own Kpop Demon Hunters moment
- How Pixar fixed Hoppers' most painful scene
May 6
- The promise and panic of Unity AI’s open beta rollout explained
- Godiva's nostalgic handcrafted animation celebrates a century of artistry
- Airport logo falls victim to Trump’s goldwashing Presidential plague
- Master anatomy with issue 266 of ImagineFX
- This experimental open-source AI turns prompts into playable Marvel, Star Wars and Harry Potter games
- I'll never get over the audacity of this 2015 movie poster design
- Why AI brands are obsessed with serif fonts
May 5
- Iconic Looney Tunes characters just got a wild Japanese makeover
- Why Kpop group IVE's new album cover feels so unsettling
- Buying a Mac just got more expensive – but this time, it’s not Apple’s fault
- 'Embarrassing,' 'Shameless', 'Pathetic': Military logo scrapped after fierce backlash
- Ingenious McDonald's print ads are going viral (again)
- From Vine to Friendster, why is retro social media coming back?
- How a Devil Wears Prada 2 artist nailed AI slop
May 4
- Does the Oscars' AI ban really mean anything?
- I promise this optical illusion wasn’t made in MS Paint
- This Unreal Engine 5 Star Wars racer has surprisingly old-school art direction
- Pixar’s new Bug’s Life poster just hit me right in the feels
May 3
- This is not a drill: Target's Pokémon collection drops today
- Disney and Pixar love this latte artist's delightful animations
- I just discovered you can 3D print chocolate, and now I’m hungry
- The Taylor Swift Toy Story rumours explained
May 2
- Why Splatoon Raiders' single-player focus is a ray of sunshine in a sea of competitive shooters
- This hefty tome takes book design to a whole new level
- New fake Taylor Swift TikTok scam reveals scary reality of AI deepfakes
- Why everyone's talking about the Cadillac Championship trophy
- Did Apple inspire the new Xbox logo?
May 1
- The new Rogue Trooper movie poster looks like it fell out of a ’70s cinema
- This is the most magical thing Disney's made in a long time
- I’m cautiously excited for the return of Vine