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DASH Water Pink Lady Apple Packaging by Horse Is the Collaboration Design of Summer 2026

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:52:23 +0200

DASH Water Pink Lady Apple Packaging by Horse Is the Collaboration Design of Summer 2026
Award-winning London studio Horse designed the limited-edition DASH Water Pink Lady Apple collaboration can for summer 2026, available in Tesco from June 2. Building on a five-year creative partnership with the B-Corp sparkling water brand, Horse made the bold decision to remove DASH’s signature painterly dash marks entirely—freeing up space for a metallic green-to-pink gradient that directly references the natural skin of a Pink Lady apple. The iconic Pink Lady heart seal, familiar from produce stickers in supermarkets, was applied as a quality and taste motif. The result is a premium, visually distinctive collaboration edition that merges DASH’s clean-label credentials with Pink Lady’s decades of cultural familiarity in the UK—brought together through restrained, confident packaging design that prioritizes clarity over complexity.
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The Minimalist InDesign Resume Template Creative Professionals Choose Over Word or AI

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:51:52 +0200

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The Minimalist InDesign Resume Template Creative Professionals Choose Over Word or AI
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The Best Board Games for Designers

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:26:48 +0200

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The Best Board Games for Designers
The best board games for designers—7 picks chosen for visual intelligence, art direction, and tactile quality.
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TAN Malone Font by TanType

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:57:15 +0200

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TAN Malone Font by TanType
TAN Malone is a retro display font by TanType, priced at $19 on Creative Market. Built on the visual language of vintage American motel signage and Art Deco geometry, it features tall proportions, soft geometric curves, and a bold-but-approachable character. Best used at headline scale for restaurant branding, packaging, posters, editorial layouts, and logo design. Ships with multilingual support and free future updates.
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A Portfolio Design Presentation Template for Adobe InDesign

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:56:35 +0200

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A Portfolio Design Presentation Template for Adobe InDesign
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Dupioni Font Family by SilkType

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:20:47 +0200

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Dupioni Font Family by SilkType
Dupioni is a high-contrast display serif typeface designed by Rakel Tómasdóttir and published by SilkType (Reykjavik) in 2026. Inspired by dupioni silk—a textile woven from two different silkworm threads—the family balances sharp, precision-bracketed serifs with flowing italics and subtle organic irregularities in stroke transitions. It spans 16 styles across eight weights (Thin through Extra Bold), each with a matching italic, and ships with over 80 decorative ligatures, OpenType alternates, and extended language support, including Vietnamese. Designed for fashion branding, luxury packaging, editorial headlines, and expressive campaign typography, Dupioni is available in .otf, .ttf, .woff, and .woff2 formats.
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Slanted Magazine #47

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:16:17 +0200

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Slanted Magazine #47
Slanted Magazine #47—Digital Tools is a 224-page English-language issue published by Slanted Publishers in May 2026. Edited by Lars Harmsen, Jacob Tessmann, and Julia Kahl, it examines how digital tools—ranging from experimental open-source projects and custom scripts to widely used commercial software—shape aesthetics, workflow, and creative authorship across graphic design, type design, illustration, 3D, web, generative design, and creative coding. Designers, developers, and artists contribute interviews and essays reflecting on how their tools influence their thinking and practice. The issue is produced with full-color offset printing and spot colors inside and a cover featuring hot-foil embossing by Gallery Print, with Swiss brochure binding by Buchbinderei Spinner.
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The Atlas of Brutalist Architecture by Phaidon Editors

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:47:18 +0200

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The Atlas of Brutalist Architecture by Phaidon Editors
The Atlas of Brutalist Architecture by Phaidon Editors is a 568-page hardcover survey documenting over 850 Brutalist buildings across 102 countries, organized into nine continental regions. It spans postwar icons and contemporary structures, featuring architects from Le Corbusier and Marcel Breuer to Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid. Using architectural photography as its primary language, the book is the most geographically comprehensive documentation of Brutalism ever published—a definitive reference for architects, designers, historians, and preservation advocates.
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The Native Record Font Trio

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:23:40 +0200

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The Native Record Font Trio
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Pitch Deck Presentation Design Template for Adobe InDesign That Actually Works Under Pressure

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:59:18 +0200

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Pitch Deck Presentation Design Template for Adobe InDesign That Actually Works Under Pressure
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Le Studio Nocturne Font Set by PeachCreme

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:22:26 +0200

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Le Studio Nocturne Font Set by PeachCreme
Le Studio Nocturne is a handwritten font set by PeachCreme comprising six distinct styles: Standard (everyday use), Bold (headlines), Superfine (hairline titling), Aged (softly distressed), Thin Rough (pencil texture), and Cross Stitch (dotted, embroidery-adjacent). The set includes advanced OpenType features—one alternate per uppercase letter, two per lowercase, alternate numerals, 13 auto double-letter ligatures, and full Latin Extended-A coverage with diacritics and ß. Designed for perfume branding, weddings, editorial, menus, and artisan packaging, Le Studio Nocturne delivers a professional multi-weight typographic system rather than a single-style decorative script.
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Breakout #2—100 Posters by Cihan Tamti Proves That Daily Practice Builds a Design Language

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:24:49 +0200

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Breakout #2—100 Posters by Cihan Tamti Proves That Daily Practice Builds a Design Language
Breakout #2—100 Posters by Cihan Tamti, published by Slanted Publishers in May 2026, collects 100 selected graphic design works created between 2022 and 2025. Building on Tamti’s earlier Breakout—100 Posters, Homebound, and New Wave, this volume documents the evolution from self-initiated daily Instagram experiments to commissioned client work, community initiatives like the COVID-era “Local Support Posters,” and collaborative projects with other designers. All 100 posters are presented with equal weight, regardless of origin or context. The book is printed in full-color offset, bound in softcover with flaps, thread stitching, and hot-foil embossing, and features a foreword by Götz Gramlich. A limited bundle adds a screen-printed tote bag and the custom Yolcu typeface. At 128 pages and 16 × 24 cm, it is both a collectible object and an essential reference for anyone serious about poster design, typography, and the development of a personal visual language in graphic design.
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Agentic AI in Adobe Creative Cloud Is Changing How Designers Actually Work

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:16:41 +0200

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Agentic AI in Adobe Creative Cloud Is Changing How Designers Actually Work
The article covers the April 2026 launch of Adobe’s Firefly AI Assistant—the company’s first fully agentic creative tool—and what it means for the design profession. It explains how agentic AI in Adobe Creative Cloud differs from earlier generative AI features: rather than responding to single commands, the creative agent plans and executes multi-step workflows autonomously across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, Express, and more from one conversational interface inside the Firefly app.
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Viale font family by ParaType

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:41:45 +0200

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Viale font family by ParaType
The article examines the Viale font family by ParaType—a 12-style text serif designed by Natalia Vasilyeva—through the lens of design criticism and practical typographic guidance. It introduces three original editorial frameworks: Elastic Stem Architecture (the concave vertical strokes that give the letterforms visual energy), Penographic Residue (the preserved calligraphic trace in the entry and exit strokes), and Crafted Authority (the typographic register that signals premium, handmade quality in branding contexts). A fourth framework, the Craft Signal Hypothesis, positions Viale within a forward-looking prediction: that visible typographic craft will become a premium differentiator as AI-generated aesthetics proliferate.
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Interior Design Portfolio Brochure Template

Sun, 31 May 2026 20:23:12 +0200

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Interior Design Portfolio Brochure Template
26-Page InDesign Layout Built for Studio Pitches
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The Work of Art—A Book by Adam Moss About How Something Comes from Nothing

Sun, 31 May 2026 14:42:20 +0200

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The Work of Art—A Book by Adam Moss About How Something Comes from Nothing
The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing (Penguin Press, 2024) by Adam Moss is a visually rich, 432-page nonfiction book that documents the creative process behind specific finished works by more than 40 leading artists across disciplines—among them Kara Walker, George Saunders, Sofia Coppola, Louise Glück, Stephen Sondheim, and Ira Glass. Drawing on in-depth interviews and archival materials—napkin sketches, annotated manuscripts, journal entries, and preliminary drafts—Moss traces how each work evolved from first impulse to final form. A New York Times bestseller and one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2024, the book argues that creative greatness is not a product of inspiration but of rigorous, uncertain, often failure-laden work. Moss, himself a practicing painter and former editor-in-chief of New York magazine, brings both editorial precision and artistic empathy to a subject he has spent a lifetime studying.
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Bauhaus-Inspired Home Decor Makes the Strongest Case for Modernist Living Right Now

Sat, 30 May 2026 14:26:51 +0200

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Bauhaus-Inspired Home Decor Makes the Strongest Case for Modernist Living Right Now
Bauhaus-inspired home decor is more relevant in 2026 than at any prior moment—positioned against trend fatigue, fast furniture, and AI-generated aesthetics as a disciplined, sustainable, and intellectually coherent alternative.
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Cherry Merlot Font by AnMark

Fri, 29 May 2026 15:04:55 +0200

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Cherry Merlot Font by AnMark
Cherry Merlot is a vintage ink script typeface designed by AnMark, available on Creative Market. It combines soft calligraphic movement with a confident structural foundation, creating a fluid yet disciplined letterform style with a subtle retro undertone. The font is positioned at the intersection of editorial elegance and handwritten warmth, making it well-suited for wedding stationery, signature branding, beauty and lifestyle packaging, boutique logos, cocktail menus, and fashion-inspired editorial layouts. Its clean ink simulation and fashion-forward sensibility give it strong performance across both print and digital applications.
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What Good Architecture Actually Looks Like: ARRCC’s Michele Rhoda on the WAN Awards Jury Room

Fri, 29 May 2026 12:34:43 +0200

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What Good Architecture Actually Looks Like: ARRCC’s Michele Rhoda on the WAN Awards Jury Room
Michele Rhoda, Principal at ARRCC, reflects on her experience judging the WAN Awards across the Adaptive Reuse and Future Leisure categories. The article extracts three original frameworks from her observations: Operational Legibility (designing for long-term use, not opening-day imagery), Disciplined Comfort (minimalism that genuinely serves occupants rather than just photographs well), and Social Infrastructure Thinking (treating shared space as deliberate public infrastructure rather than a symbolic gesture). The piece grounds these frameworks in specific jury insights, references ARRCC’s Wave Villa and a Neri&Hu project as illustrative examples, and argues that these three criteria should reshape how the architecture profession evaluates and rewards built work.
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Best Logo Design Trends of 2026

Thu, 28 May 2026 17:57:46 +0200

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Best Logo Design Trends of 2026
The article introduces the Recognition Pressure Framework—the idea that every 2026 logo must achieve structural legibility, behavioral coherence, and emotional specificity simultaneously.
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