Brand New's Spotted section notes an update to Sunlife's logo. The subscription-gated article categorizes the work within finance and tags it with Canada, circle, serif, and yellow.
Brand New's Spotted section features a new logo and identity for Rothfield by Julius Cruickshank. The publicly available article metadata identifies the project as Australian corporate work and tags it with printer, lines, thin, and uppercase.
Brand New's Noted section highlights a new logo, identity, and packaging system for P•TAL by Mother Tongue Design. The accessible article metadata identifies the work as a consumer-products project from India and tags it with brown, flared serif typography, illustration, and packaging.
This Brand New linked post, titled "Hot or Not: Type Edition," is restricted to subscribers. The publicly visible page promotes Brand New subscription access, including full content, polls and comments, RSS functionality, a podcast, and a weekly newsletter.
Creative Boom's October Booms & Shakes roundup tracks senior hires, promotions and mergers across design, advertising, digital and PR agencies. It identifies strategy, measurable commercial outcomes, human-led craft and responsible AI adoption as major industry themes, alongside consolidation in Manchester, York and the United States.
SourceType’s new book, Dictionary of the Illegible, investigates how unreadable or obscured typography can still communicate cultural, emotional and political meaning. In an interview, SourceType creative director Laurenz Brunner discusses a decade of research spanning metal logos, grawlixes, graffiti, historic engravings and online coded language used to evade censorship.
Justin Zhuang examines the proliferation of improvised A4 paper signs in Singapore MRT stations, arguing that they expose gaps in the network’s official wayfinding system as it expands. The article considers the 2001 and 2020 signage redesigns, Samuel Lim’s role in the latter, and the tension between consistent system-wide design and locally useful, human station-manager interventions.
Brand New presents a reviewed entry for the new Hard Rock Bet Casino identity, credited to 72andSunny, BUCK, and the client's in-house team. The publicly supplied article text is limited to the title, category, date, and tags, while the full review is restricted to subscribers.
Erotic Review director Lucy Roeber describes how the publication's name and erotic subject matter have led to payment freezes, blacklistings, SafeSearch filtering and restricted social-media visibility following its 2024 relaunch. Roeber argues that automated moderation and financial-platform policies disproportionately suppress independent sex-positive, feminist, educational and artistic voices while large pornography monopolies remain dominant online.
Canadian experimental animator and filmmaker Nik Arthur creates tactile, nature-led moving-image work using materials including algae, swamp water, wool, plants, fire and light. The article spotlights his A24 identity visual, made with Emi Takahashi from duckweed in a Montreal swamp, alongside work for J. Cole, Cosmos, YouTube and Jonah Yano.
Kat Wong answers a reader’s question about whether a design degree is necessary for long-term success in a creative career. She argues that experience, skills and self-study are more important indicators of progression, while suggesting structured study can still be valuable when it serves a specific interest or confidence need.
Music collaborated with F37 Foundry on an evolved identity for Fulham Football Club, rooted in hand-rendered lettering discovered at the club's Craven Cottage stadium. The resulting bespoke FFC Original typeface establishes a flexible visual system across matchday communications, retail, campaigns and motion, while connecting the club's heritage with its expanding digital, hospitality and cultural presence.
Adobe's 13th 99U Conference returned in 2026 after a five-year hiatus, convening creative-industry speakers to discuss AI, craft and creative judgment. The event argued for intentional AI adoption, emphasising that personal taste, iteration, analogue experimentation and community matter more as making becomes easier.
Melbourne studio Studio Hi Ho created the identity and packaging for Madeleine, a cultured butter maker founded by Jack Gaffney. The work combines a Highway Gothic wordmark, Plantin body typography, Pat Rogasch’s nostalgic butter-kneading illustration, butter yellow labels and waxed kraft wrappers. The system extends across core, collaborative and Limited Release butter products, supported by styled photography art directed by INTO IT.
Former Nike Brand Creative colleagues Daniel Whiteneck and Adrián Mora discuss founding Free Practice, an anti-disciplinary creative studio based in Málaga, Spain. The studio combines campaigns, identity, retail and experiential work for global clients including Nike and The North Face, using strategic insight and taste as foundations for its work.
Collins has rebranded global payroll and employment platform Remote with a visual system built around stackable, perspective-controlled cubes and a heavy custom geometric wordmark. The identity uses gradients inspired by international banknotes, Rotina typeface and a global campaign, "For a World That Works", that foregrounds workers being paid across borders.
Sponsored article introducing Krea 3, Krea's in-house AI image-editing model designed to help creatives modify their own work rather than replace them. The model supports plain-English edits, up to eight reference images, four dedicated style references and native 2K output, with Krea positioning it as faster and cheaper than competing editing models.
Pentagram partner Samar Maakaroun and her team created the identity for Design Doha Biennial 2026, using a single bilingual typographic composition that gives Arabic and English equal prominence. Extended, adaptable strokes connect the two scripts and allow the identity to flex across formats, while a palette of beige, maroon, orange and existing Design Doha blue links materiality, energy and continuity. Pentagram also developed a bolder related identity for the Arab Design Now headline exhibition.
Liverpool photographer Mark McNulty's new 240-page book, In Clubland: 35 Summers of Love, collects more than 550 photographs charting four decades of dance and rave culture. Published by Modern Sky on 5 November 2026, it moves from acid house and early legal all-nighters through the superclub era to contemporary Liverpool nightlife and Eurovision 2023. The article presents the work as an intimate, colourful and energetic document created by a photographer embedded in the scenes he recorded.
Brand New's Spotted section notes a new logo for The Document Foundation, created by Ura Design. The publicly available article metadata identifies the work as a non-profit identity project associated with Germany and tags it for its green color and icon.
Brand New's Noted section highlights a new logo and identity redesign for technology company Node by Brand Brothers. The available article metadata identifies the project through its wordmark, pattern, and twist tags, while the full project content is subscriber-only.
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Brand New’s Spotted section highlights a new logo and packaging redesign for London Truffle Queen’s truffle oil. The project was created by Red Dot Studio and is tagged with crown, tree, gold, green, and serif visual elements.
A Brand New Spotted post documents a new logo and identity for entertainment company SWSH. The redesign was created by New Studio Partners and is categorized with evolution, icon, and uppercase tags.
Brand New notes a new logo and packaging redesign for KINGS by BrandOpus. The available article metadata identifies the work as a colorful consumer-products project from the UK, while the full project coverage is subscriber-only.
Brand New's Spotted section notes a new logo and identity for The Blaydon Race, created by Channels Agency. The item is categorized under charity and tagged with brown, yellow, race, serif, and UK.
Brand New's Spotted section highlights a new logo and identity for IntimeCharme by Pascal Liénard. The article is categorized under the lifestyle industry and tagged with Belgium, italic, and script.
A Brand New Noted entry identifies LG2 as the studio behind a redesigned logo and packaging system for Attitude Fraîche. The subscriber-only article is categorized under consumer products and tagged with Canada, food, leaf, packaging, and serif.
Brand New's Spotted section notes a new logo and identity for ARC Team USA created by Interstate Creative Partners. The article is subscriber-gated, so no further project details are available in the supplied content.
Brand New's Spotted section features a new consumer brand for Basketball Australia created by Hulsbosch. The article is subscriber-gated, so no further project details or design specifications are available in the provided content.
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It's Nice That announces the November edition of Nicer Tuesdays London at EartH Hackney, with tickets available through DICE. The event will feature talks by multidisciplinary designer Yinka Ilori, illustrator and logo-maker Daryn Roongrawewan, and Wonderhood Studios' Simon Elvins and Roy Barker, alongside support from Affinity, Cavalry by Canva, El Rayo Tequila and Love Corn.
Brand New's Friday Likes 591 is a reviewed roundup highlighting work from Kingdom & Sparrow, Brandsummit, and Luminous Design. The publicly available article excerpt categorizes the post under consumer products and identifies Greece, Spain, and the UK through its tags, while the project details are subscriber-only.
It's Nice That announces its final 2026 Nicer Tuesdays LA event, taking place on 10 November at Lodge Room in Los Angeles. The programme includes talks from photographer and director Micaiah Carter and multidisciplinary artist Bijou Karmen, plus a live Q&A between Design Matters founder Debbie Millman and host Meg Farmer.
London-based design and technology agency Together created a new identity for Clusia, a US assurance platform that uses AI alongside accredited professionals to audit banks and fintechs. The system centres on a four-petal mark representing collaboration, pixel-based 3D illustrations, a forest-inspired palette, photography of real workers, and a typographic system using Die Grotesk and Vitruv Text.
New York branding studio Red Antler created Rovex's strategy, identity, messaging, digital design and art direction for Rovi, an autonomous robot that transports stable patients through hospitals. Built around the idea "Keep care flowing," the identity uses a connected-dot path system, a custom wordmark, electric yellow accents and grounded hospital imagery to make the technology feel trustworthy and familiar. Red Antler also redesigned Rovex's website, which reportedly increased monthly traffic by 130% and tripled lead capture.
The Brand New article "Earn Bagging Rights" is restricted to subscribers, so no project details are publicly visible. The available page promotes Brand New subscription access and offers temporary access for people who worked on the project.
Swiss sportswear brand On has launched Ondesign, an editorial platform revealing the people, processes and multidisciplinary teams behind its design, marketing, retail and spatial work. The feature explores how collaboration, iteration and the tension between Swiss engineering and human experience shape the brand's creative output.
Brand New reviews a new logo and identity for Salt Lick on Salt Creek, created by Order. The accessible article metadata identifies the project as a hospitality-related identity and tags it with border, hotel, menu, packaging, restaurant, and sans serif.
Jamaican-born, New York-based painter David Smalling creates highly polished oil paintings that pair lavish objects such as pearls, candelabra and musical instruments with mattresses and other unsettling arrangements. The article examines his process of engineering compositions through drawings, references and digital studies before layering oil on wood panel, as well as his forthcoming engraving experiments and solo exhibition at Templon's Brussels gallery.
Caroline Tremlett, a business-development consultant and collector of antique jelly moulds, uses her Instagram account Adventures in Jelly to revive elaborate Victorian jelly-making. Drawing on historic copper and ceramic moulds, she layers colourful jellies, documents their slow-motion wobble and shares the techniques needed to release intricate forms successfully.
DNCO created Vermont’s first dedicated consumer tourism brand for the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing. Informed by travel across 14 towns and more than 400 miles of research, the identity combines a Rob Clarke-refined wordmark, Meso typography, seasonal colours and an Alyssa McCabe-developed icon library rooted in local signage, culture and folklore. The author praises the iconography and wider system while finding the hand-lettered wordmark slightly too informal.
Baltimore-based designer and illustrator Sewell Killingstad explains how self-initiated work has led directly to high-profile commissions. A personal animation made from scanned buttercups became the basis for animated floral typography across Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields festival, while an unofficial Clairo merchandise concept led to an ongoing merch collaboration with musician Vanilla Mace.
Foam Magazine chief editor Katy Hundertmark and former art director Hamid Sallali appeared at Nicer Tuesdays London to discuss the photography publication's 25-year history. The talk covered Foam's continually evolving visual direction, thematic issues, and its use of archival photography to make the magazine a living creative medium.
Eternal Family, an anonymous collective operating an offbeat movie-streaming app, selects ten favourite posters from its archive of alternative and cult cinema. The choices span horror, comedy, animation and experimental film, with the collective highlighting their vivid colour, handmade qualities, surreal imagery and distinctive graphic compositions.
It’s Nice That has launched its annual 2026 Audience Survey to gather feedback on its platform, editorial coverage and the wider creative industry. Participants are asked about their creative work, interests and the brands or platforms that resonate with them, and are entered into a draw for a £200 Uniqlo voucher.
Stuttgart-based studio Hochburg created the name, positioning and identity for Flamid, a hand-made modular grill-barrel brand from Germany's Swabian Alb. The identity turns the logic of metalworking, maker's marks and technical drawings into a winged F symbol, compact wordmark, embossed metal nameplate, technical graphics and a photographic campaign.
Melbourne branding agency Willow & Blake created a new visual and verbal identity for Balense, a clinical skincare range originating at Australian Skin Clinics and reformulated for Gen Z. The rebrand uses a minimalist wordmark, a symmetrical four-petal icon, soft bespoke gradients and a tightly structured typographic system across 24 product SKUs. Following a phased July 2026 relaunch, Balense reportedly grew 53% year on year and expanded distribution to SILK Laser Clinics and Atomica stores.
A Brand New linked post highlights Arsenal’s new typographic work. The full article content is restricted to subscribers, so no additional project credits, design details, or collaborators are provided.
Brand New reviews a new logo, identity, and packaging redesign for Petra beer by Ana Couto. The visible article metadata identifies the work as a Brazilian consumer-products project and highlights Art Deco, mountain, sun, flare, orange, and semi-serif visual themes.
Vilnius-based andstudio rebranded Berlin character-design festival Pictoplasma for its 2026 edition, retaining the festival's artist-first spirit while giving it a more recognisable public face. Built around a customised version of Lift Type's Melun and two eye-like dots, the flexible identity extends across motion, print, festival spaces and guerrilla activations.
German graphic designer André Britz has published Gone with the Clouds, a 64-page collection of intuitive landscape drawings and collages made entirely from memory. Subtitled "memory landscapes 25-26", the publication uses an open binding secured by a pink elastic band, allowing its pages to be reordered in a material reflection of memory's shifting nature.
Pregnant Then Screwed's "Thanks for your service*" campaign uses brightly coloured retail-style "33% off" starbursts over women's faces to expose the UK gender pension gap, where women retire with pension pots roughly a third smaller than men's. Created by creative director Gemma Phillips and LA-based designer Rachel Many, the nationwide campaign also uses portraits, street activations and till-receipt imagery to visualise the financial cost of motherhood.
Rio-based Estudio CRU created the identity for Mirá, an artisanal São Paulo bakery combining Japanese fermentation techniques with Brazilian ingredients. The work draws on the history of Japanese immigration to Brazil through fluid, variable forms and the Nikkei Maru typeface, avoiding more obvious cultural motifs. Earthy colours, oversized Latin typography and close-up food photography give the bakery a contemporary yet historically informed character.
Bratislava design studio Andrej & Andrej refreshed the identity of Slovakia's Pohoda Festival for its 30th anniversary. The system combines a new logo, a custom rounded display typeface based on pre-2010 festival lettering, saturated colour treatments, revived stripes and 3D twin-baby mascots. The 3D babies, developed with Matej Martinec, extend across festival applications including a monumental inflatable sculpture and transparent keyring.
Graphic designer Núria Balinha creates prolific, fast-paced zines using found imagery, collage, drawing and deliberately distorted typography. Her fragmented visual narratives address subjects ranging from pop culture and personal experience to feminism and social inequality, prioritising instinctive work and audience reaction over overthinking.
New York and Barcelona-based studio SMLXL created the identity and campaign for MoMA PS1's 2026 Warm Up summer music series. Built around PS1 Sans, the system uses a custom tool that maps audio frequencies to distorted, dancing letterforms for motion graphics, artist announcements and posters.
London design studio Nomad created names, identities and animated monograms for six cityless clubs in the new Ultimate Sevens rugby league. The system gives each geographically defined club a distinct personality while maintaining a unified league world, extending across verbal identity, apparel and Reebok-produced kits.
Brand New's Noted section highlights a new logo and identity redesign for Güneş Ülkesi by Garip Studio. The project is categorized in education and tagged with dance, hand-drawn imagery, sun motifs, yellow, and Turkey.
This affectionate profile examines Tim Thompson’s path from Hollywood production and studio operations to founding RevThink, a consultancy that helps creative-business owners build sustainable, creatively led companies. It introduces Revolve, Thompson’s new six-week accelerator for creative entrepreneurs, and outlines his views on business strategy, client value, and the need to cultivate creative judgment as AI makes production easier.