Tools & Inspiration

Tue 27 Oct UX & UI Design Customer Reviews Are Brand Equity: Read the Pattern, Fix the Experience Customer reviews reveal how a brand performs in public. Their timing, recurring themes and replies offer more insight than a single rating.

Tue 27 Oct Graphic Design Werf’s Rotterdam Identity Turns Shipyard Slipways Into a Bold 20° Graphic System andstudio builds Werf’s bar identity around a 20° angle, two typefaces and colours that shift with the ships in its working Rotterdam yard.

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 UX & UI Design Lego and Daft Punk Turn Fan Participation Into a Shared Visual Identity A fan-built stage model, a cryptic teaser and a joined-up visual language give Lego and Daft Punk’s collaboration room to grow.

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 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.

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.

Tue 20 Oct Graphic Design UnitedUs Rebrands Twinnin Around a Holographic Verified Human Mark UnitedUs gives Twinnin a people-first identity built around a holographic trust mark and two clear choices: license a likeness or defend it.

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.

Fri 16 Oct UX & UI Design Benchmark Reports in 2026: Research, Design and Distribution A practical guide to benchmark research, from choosing fair comparisons and checking data to designing, publishing and promoting useful findings.

Wed 14 Oct UX & UI Design How Kaleidoscope Keeps Packaging Prototypes Precise on Tight Timelines Kaleidoscope’s prototyping process pairs early alignment, careful quality checks and experienced problem-solving to keep packaging work moving under deadline.

Wed 14 Oct Graphic Design Mirá Bakery’s Identity Turns Japanese-Brazilian Food History Into Fluid Design Estudio CRU gives São Paulo bakery Mirá an identity shaped by Japanese-Brazilian food traditions, irregular forms and Nikkei Maru typography.

Tue 13 Oct UX & UI Design Tim Thompson’s RevThink Helps Creative Studios Build Businesses Around the Work Tim Thompson’s RevThink backs creative-led businesses with strategy, and its Revolve program asks owners to rethink what clients value.