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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
- Photoshop's controversial new AI tool is dividing opinion
- This pixel art game lets you destroy almost any website (including ours)
September 29
- 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?
- Lexus just dropped the most twisted car design I've ever seen – literally
- 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
- CorelDRAW adds Text-to-Vector AI in the September update – is it a good move?
- Viral AI animation sparks controversy over familiar character design
- 2026 is the year of the cancelled ad
September 27
- "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
- This digital typewriter is the distraction-free writing tool I've been searching for
- 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
- 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
- Sticker addicts rejoice! Cricut just released two really cool label and sticker makers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- New Taylor Swift Patient 0 cover accused of Photoshop mishap
- The Brand Impact Award Winners 2026 have been revealed!
- Apple's perfect iPhone Duo TikToks nail foldable phone marketing
- First McDonald's, now Disney is dejoying its store designs
- Coyote Vs Acme's $100m takings show fan campaigns CAN succeed
September 22
- First impressions of the beastly new Bambu Lab R1 laser cutter
- 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
- 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
- Converse forced to remove ad over racist allegations
- 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
September 20
- 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
- Is this the worst typography cockup of 2026?
- 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
- Forget iPhone 18, this creative is doing street photography with that new Dyson electric toothbrush
- This city's new logo is inspired by Irish script and has a clever hidden meaning
- 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
- BFI London Film Festival’s new identity is more hand crafted than meets the eye
- The new Hunger Games billboards are absolutely terrifying
- Massive Canva update adds 100 features to new ProSuite
- 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)
September 16
- The latest Washington Commanders logo controversy has sparked calls for a change in the law
- I thought the Evercade Nexus was too big – then I played Banjo-Kazooie on it
- Airbnb orders independent guesthouse to change its logo
- This student Oscar winner looks like stop motion, but it's actually 3D animation
- 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
- The Digger poster strikes graphic design gold
- The branding of Apple's rumoured iPhone gaming controllers is kind of weird
September 14
- “A kick in the face to every woman”: Sydney Sweeney torn apart for racy sports ad
September 13
- The huge Nintendo Switch 'tariff refund sale' has begun, and there's 30% off iconic games
- These cat animation designs look nothing like what I expected
- 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
September 12
- 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
September 11
- Ad platform sparks brand romance with 100 love letter billboards
- Fans think Beyoncé’s $1000 empty wooden box is a sign
- Guinness's new billboard ads are lovely (literally)
September 10
- The Metroid Dread sequel takes a surprising horror-esque direction with a shocking new mechanic
- 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?!
- Are the controversial new Harry Potter logos actually more historically accurate than the movie designs?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Viral video tries to prove AI is the death of Hollywood... and fails miserably
- Apple's new iPhone lineup confirmed! New foldable iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro gets a huge camera upgrade
- 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
- This gorgeous fountain pen is nearly 50% off for Labor Day
- Maryland University tangled in unlikely logo dispute
- How two tweets cost Elon Musk the Twitter logo
- Huion's new Kamvas Pad 12 could fix the biggest problem with Android tablets for art
- As a longtime fan, I was disappointed with the Crazy Taxi: World Tour Gamescom demo
September 6
- Alien: Isolation 2 continues the original 1979 film's aesthetic but takes the horror outside
- 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
- OpenAI's controversial ChatGPT-6 Astra advert paints a sad vision of the future
September 5
- 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
- These cute cat ads don't seem to make sense – which is why they're genius
- 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
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
- Parker only went and made those viral anti-AI pen billboards real
September 3
- 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
- Street Fighter's 'world-first' playable trailer is a hadouken to traditional movie advertising
September 2
- The Evercade Nexus is the retro antidote to modern gaming's anti-physical and expensive dead-end future
- Castlevania: Belmont's Curse is a glorious return to the series' 2D roots with a more modern 2.5D aesthetic
- 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
- The new Disney World logo design is actually kind of genius
- Making your own Backrooms in Blender is surprisingly easy
September 1
- This city's controversial logo redesign has hit a bum note
- The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past's lush new location and remaster improvements have me excited to be Geralt again
- 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