WE AND THE COLOR

Every few years, the design world reaches for something that feels less engineered and more lived-in. Right now, that pull is stronger than ever—and Le Studio Nocturne by PeachCreme lands exactly at the right moment. It’s a handwritten font set that doesn’t try to compete with precision-drawn scripts or modernist geometry. Instead, it does something […] The post Le Studio Nocturne Font Set by Pea…

Some design books document a finished career. This one documents a transformation in progress. Breakout #2—100 Posters by Cihan Tamti, published by Slanted Publishers in May 2026, collects 100 selected works spanning 2022 to 2025—a period when Tamti’s personal daily poster experiments evolved into commissioned client work, community-driven initiatives, and collaborative design projects. The resul…

Without any doubt, something genuinely historic happened in April 2026. Adobe didn’t just release a feature update. It announced a new way of creating entirely. The Firefly AI Assistant—powered by Adobe’s creative agent—went into public beta, and with it, agentic AI in Adobe Creative Cloud became real, accessible, and impossible to ignore. If you work […] The post Agentic AI in Adobe Creative Clo…

The Viale font family by ParaType works quietly and confidently, with the kind of presence that earns trust before you consciously register why. Designed by Natalia Vasilyeva, Viale is a text serif with a slightly informal character that manages a difficult balance: it feels handcrafted without feeling casual and structured without feeling cold. That tension […] The post Viale Font Family by Para…

Honestly, I’ve seen so many portfolio templates that look like they were designed for a generic business, then retrofitted for design studios. But this one wasn’t. Tom Sarraipo’s interior design portfolio brochure template for Adobe InDesign is one of the rare exceptions—a layout that feels like it was conceived specifically for the way interior designers […] The post Interior Design Portfolio Br…

The question sounds almost too simple: where does art come from? Yet the answer has eluded critics, philosophers, and curious readers for centuries. Adam Moss, the legendary editor behind New York magazine’s most celebrated era, spent years obsessing over exactly that question. The result is The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing—a book […] The post The Work of Art—A Book by Adam Moss …

Bauhaus-inspired home decor has never felt more urgent. Spaces are cluttered with algorithmic trend cycles, fast furniture, and surfaces that perform personality without actually having any. Against that backdrop, the principles of the Bauhaus movement—functional beauty, geometric honesty, and material truth—land with a clarity that feels almost radical. This is not nostalgia. It is a […] The pos…

The Cherry Merlot font Is the Vintage Ink Script Typeface That Balances Edge and Elegance. Some typefaces announce themselves loudly. Cherry Merlot does the opposite—it draws you in quietly, and then you can’t stop looking at it. This vintage ink script by AnMark carries a rare internal tension: soft where you expect sharpness, structured where […] The post Cherry Merlot Font by AnMark appeared f…

Judging an architecture award is a strange kind of pressure test. Michele Rhoda, Principal at Cape Town-based studio ARRCC, walked into the WAN Awards jury room primed for the familiar signals—polished renders, confident diagrams, and the grammar of “design excellence.” The deliberations quickly demanded something else entirely. What she observed from inside the jury room […] The post What Good A…

Logo design is under pressure. Not creative pressure—systemic pressure. Brands now live across dozens of surfaces simultaneously: app icons, AR environments, motion graphics, thumbnail previews, embroidered patches, and LED billboards. A logo that can’t survive all of those contexts isn’t a logo anymore. It’s a liability. The logo design trends of 2026 aren’t emerging from […] The post Best Logo …

Latinotype’s Marcante Font Family Makes a Case for Typography With Real Presence. Seriously, I think that typography currently has a confidence problem. Scroll through Dribbble or Behance today, and you’ll notice it immediately—brands reaching for neutrality, headlines that whisper, logotypes that blend into the page rather than command it. Against this backdrop, the Marcante font […] The post Ma…

Street art rarely stops you cold. Most murals register as decoration—something large, colorful, and forgotten by the next corner. Marina Capdevila’s La Malika del regateo is not that. Painted on a building facade in Rabat, Morocco, during the 2026 edition of the JIDAR Street Art Festival, this mural announces itself differently. It presents an older […] The post Marina Capdevila’s La Malika del r…

Seriously, most job seekers spend hours cobbling together documents that look like they came from three different decades. The resume borrows a template from one site, the cover letter is a reformatted Word file from 2018, and the references page is plain text with a different font. Hiring managers notice this immediately. Presentation is part […] The post Job Application Template Set for Adobe I…

Something is shifting inside professional design studios. Quietly but unmistakably, designers who once flocked to Canva for its speed and simplicity are reconsidering. They are not abandoning quick design workflows. Instead, they are recognizing that Adobe Express has become a fundamentally different product—one that speaks their language and fits their actual creative stack. The Adobe […] The po…

Variable fonts are no longer a novelty. They are rapidly becoming the professional standard for type design, web performance, and brand typography at scale. If you’ve been watching the type world closely, you already know that creating variable fonts is one of the most searched and discussed topics among designers today. And for good reason. […] The post How to Create Variable Fonts: A Complete G…

Logo design sits at the center of every brand identity conversation. Yet most designers approach it without a real system. George Bokhua’s Principles of Logo Design: A Practical Guide to Creating Effective Signs, Symbols, and Icons changes that. Published by Rockport Publishers in 2022, this 224-page volume codifies what Bokhua has practiced across 15 years […] The post Principles of Logo Design …

Fineliners are personal. Ask any illustrator, pattern designer, or sketchbook obsessive, and they’ll tell you exactly which pen they reach for first—a Uni PIN 0.1, a Pigma Micron 05, or maybe a Winsor & Newton Fineliner for those slow Sunday afternoons. The tool matters. Its weight, its drag, its ink consistency—all of it feeds into […] The post These Adobe Illustrator Liner Brushes Replicate the…

Catalogs are not what they used to be. The era of cluttered, image-heavy product spreads crammed with competing fonts and mismatched grids is over. Today, the most effective furniture catalog design template does the opposite—it breathes, it frames, it lets the product speak. And this Adobe InDesign template by contributor Refresh does exactly that with […] The post This Adobe InDesign Furniture …

Five days ago, on May 20, 2026, WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” shipped. Named after jazz legend Louis Armstrong—the man who transformed jazz from an orchestral art form into a solo act—this release carries weight that matches its namesake. WordPress 7 doesn’t just add features. It reframes what the platform fundamentally is. After an unusually quiet 2025, […] The post WordPress 7 Is the Most Significa…

TipoType’s Mundial Font Family Is the Sans-Serif Typeface That Thinks Globally and Designs Locally Some typefaces arrive with a manifesto. Mundial is one of them. Released by the Uruguayan foundry TipoType, this 14-style sans-serif family carries a name that means “worldwide”—and that name is not decoration. It’s a thesis. The idea behind Mundial is deceptively […] The post Mundial Font Family by…