Illustration & Art

Tue 27 Oct UX & UI Design Inside Socialist Hotels: Elena Amabili Photographs Eastern Europe’s Striking Architecture Elena Amabili’s new photo book records 153 hotels, from austere concrete towers to buildings balanced above lakes and hillsides.

Tue 27 Oct Illustration & Art César Cid’s Artphabet Turns Famous Artworks Into 3D Letters César Cid builds an alphabet from artists’ colours, shapes and materials, translating familiar art into sculptural 3D forms.

Tue 27 Oct Illustration & Art Simon Wright’s Drawing on the Future revisits Perth’s rave design archives Two volumes gather Simon Wright’s flyers, sketches and experiments from Perth’s underground music scene, showing how design and DIY print culture met.

Mon 26 Oct Graphic Design International Assembly 2026 Brings Design Workshops, Poster Art and a Secret Stage to Glasgow Glasgow’s International Assembly runs 12–22 November, pairing talks with hands-on workshops, a student Live Project and a 190-work poster exhibition.

Mon 26 Oct UX & UI Design Stocksy’s 2027 Visual Insights Report Turns Image Making Into a Grammar of Connection Stocksy’s five prepositions offer a practical way to brief images around authorship, audience, context, tension and convention.

Thu 22 Oct Illustration & Art Thought Bubble at 20: Eight Independent Comic Artists to Watch Thought Bubble marks its 20th year with 600-plus exhibitors, eight artists picked by its directors and panels on craft, careers and comics.

Thu 22 Oct Tools & Inspiration Yard NYC Turns “Send Nudes” Into a Breast Awareness Reminder Yard NYC’s New York street posters recast “send nudes” as a prompt to photograph your own breasts and notice changes over time.

Wed 21 Oct Graphic Design Sue Todd’s Digital Linocut Illustrations Bring Song to the Picture Book Page For Blue Boat Home, Sue Todd pairs digital ink with linocut texture, carrying Peter Mayer’s song through bold lines, layered color and shifting scenes.

Wed 21 Oct UX & UI Design How teamLab Builds Immersive Art Around Living Flowers, Air and Movement At OFFF Barcelona 2026, teamLab’s Saka Naka explains how a specialist collective makes artworks that respond to people and place.

Wed 21 Oct UX & UI Design SEA at 30: Bryan Edmondson on a small studio built for lasting design SEA marks 30 years with a silver-edged book, long client relationships and a close-knit team still looking for what to make next.

Wed 21 Oct Tools & Inspiration Creative Boom Returns to Adobe MAX in Miami After 11 Years Away Creative Boom’s founder returns to Adobe MAX in 2026, bringing a journalist’s questions and a decade of growth in independent publishing.

Wed 21 Oct Graphic Design Davy Denduyver Gives A Human Agency a Hand-Stamped Identity for Its Fifth Year A hand-drawn wordmark, soft cream palette and “For Humans. By Humans.” motto give A Human Agency a crafted identity built to frame its artists’ work.

Tue 20 Oct Graphic Design Casey Roarty Turns Facebook Marketplace Finds into Unexpected Art Casey Roarty recasts awkward, blurred Marketplace photos as expressive images, finding human detail in the clutter of second-hand listings.

Tue 20 Oct UX & UI Design Halfdan Returns in VisitOSLO’s Winter Musical, “It’s Totally Even a City” VisitOSLO and NewsLab bring back Halfdan for a snowy Christmas musical, shifting the deadpan Oslo film into a new season and format.

Mon 19 Oct UX & UI Design Google’s 2026 Halloween Searches Span Squishy Toys, Spooky Snacks and Horror Buddy the Unicorn leads costume searches, while cauldron drinks, novelty candy and gothic horror round out Google’s Halloween trend report.

Sat 17 Oct Illustration & Art David Goldman’s Six Practical Rules for a Sustainable Illustration Career David Goldman shares six ways illustrators can build visibility and client connections as freelance work grows harder to secure.

Thu 15 Oct Graphic Design DNCO’s Vermont Identity Uses Local Icons, Meso Type and Seasonal Colour DNCO builds Vermont’s first consumer tourism identity around local signs, handmade details and a palette that shifts with the seasons.

Mon 12 Oct UX & UI Design Further Ther’s Lisbon Home Turns Furniture and Craft into a Living Showroom Tomás Fernandes and Natasza Grzeskiewicz bring stone, ceramics and furniture into a Lisbon home that lets visitors experience design in use.

Mon 12 Oct Typography & Fonts Modern Calligraphy Alphabet: Build Letters from Repeated Strokes A practical guide to the shared shapes, pen lifts and letter connections that make a modern calligraphy alphabet easier to practise and adapt.

Mon 12 Oct Typography & Fonts 14 Design Choices for a Distinctive Modern Calligraphy Style From baseline bounce to stroke weight, 14 practical adjustments show how to shape modern calligraphy with intention.