Marketing & Design
Brand, creative, martech and the consumer, read for the decisions behind the work rather than the work alone.
Marketing and Design covers the work of making people want things, and the decisions that sit behind it. Three stories a weekday at 11: a rebrand and what it risks, a visual system and why it was built, a consumer shift and what it costs to ignore. The beats are brand strategy, creative and design, martech, and consumer insights, with a Funny lane for the campaigns that made us laugh, on purpose or otherwise. We write every summary ourselves and link to the publisher, because the reporting is theirs. What is ours is the choice, and the editor’s note under the day’s lead says why it was made. Readers here run marketing functions, design teams and agencies in India, the United States and the United Kingdom, and the stories are chosen for what travels between those markets.
Every story we have kept in Marketing & Design, newest first. Headlines link to the publisher; the tags below narrow the list.
Patty Studios Looks to the South of France for Its Debut Rug Collection
Portland studio Patty Studios launched its debut collection of six handmade wool-and-silk rugs, designed by Candace Cohu, Ally Hasche and Max Pluenneke and produced in Nepal, inspired by southern France.
Editor's noteThree designers leaving established studios to launch together is the quieter story here. Debut collections are expensive and slow, so the decision says something about how much room salaried design roles are leaving for authorship. Worth watching whether Nepalese production holds as the collection scales.
Cattle armchair by Design By Them among 13 new products on Dezeen Showroom
Dezeen's showroom feature rounds up thirteen newly released furniture and surface products, including a Design By Them armchair, plus tiles and lighting from Vipp, Iris Ceramica, Vitra and Andreu World.
Dezeen Showroom New Releases newsletter includes oak modular kitchen
Dezeen's quarterly showroom roundup highlights five newly launched furniture and lighting pieces, including designs from Vermland, Rakumba, Plank and Design By Them, curated from products published over summer 2026.
For the Designless, The death of the deliverable, iPhone Duo’s UX
A design-industry newsletter examines AI's effect on who can access design work, argues traditional deliverables like wireframes misunderstand design's real purpose, and critiques Apple's iPhone Duo for stretching apps rather than redesigning them.
Editor's noteThe argument that wireframes miss the point lands harder now that anyone can generate one. If the deliverable was never the value, the profession's defence cannot be craft alone. Watch whether design teams start being measured on decisions made rather than artefacts shipped, because that shift changes hiring before it changes tools.
zuckoff uses bluetooth to let you know when smart glasses are nearby
Developer Pawel Szydlowski built ZuckOff, an app that scans Bluetooth signals to detect nearby camera-equipped smart glasses like Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta and Snap Spectacles, alerting wearers to potential recording devices around them.
Charlotte Fox on painting the space between 'desire, repulsion, connection and fantasy'
A profile of Brooklyn painter Charlotte Fox describes her collage-based process transforming found imagery into paintings exploring longing, unease, intimacy and imagined narratives, following her recent exhibition Unravel at 303 Gallery.
Forget Frame TVs, this e-ink digital art frame is cheaper and nicer to look at
Swiss brand InkPoster's Affresco e-ink art frame starts at $499, using colour ePaper that reflects ambient light and a battery lasting up to a year, positioned against Samsung's Frame TV.
Seven buildings that demonstrate the versatility of bamboo
Dezeen rounds up seven bamboo buildings across South and Southeast Asia, including a Nepalese meditation centre by Abari and an Indian business-school pavilion by The Purple Ink Studio.
Editor's noteBamboo's appeal here is not novelty, it is proof at scale: a meditation centre and a business-school pavilion are institutional commissions, not craft pieces, which is a stronger signal for architects and developers weighing low-carbon materials than any individual showcase house would be.
Why the Mutti tomato tin is more than just food – it's ‘summer in a can’
Wallpaper's Objectify series has architect Carlo Ratti examine Mutti's red-and-gold tomato tin, tracing its packaging back to 1951 and arguing the design works as a cultural signifier.
Nothing has changed other than how we talk about it
An essay arguing AI agents do not replace design discovery but remove the excuses to skip it, describing agentic workflows that draft requirements while keeping human approval mandatory.
Nina lounge chair by Patricia Urquiola for Andreu World
Patricia Urquiola designed the Nina lounge chair for Andreu World, pairing upholstered seating with a recycled-thermopolymer back shell inspired by Velazquez and 1970s silhouettes.
Editor's noteA single chair leads the section because of what its back shell is made of. Recycled thermopolymer in a piece pitched at the high end, from a designer with this reach, moves recycled material out of the sustainability brief and into the part of the catalogue people actually buy from.
Ma Yansong and Daniel Libeskind join Dezeen Awards 2026 master jury in London
Dezeen named its 2026 Awards master jury, including architects Ma Yansong and Daniel Libeskind and Nike design chief Martin Lotti, who will select 49 winners from 392 entries.
Laneige Turns Skincare Customization Into a Four-Story Experience
Laneige opened a four-storey flagship in Seoul's Myeongdong district, designed by PlayLab, with personalised scent, shade and skin-formula stations turning skincare shopping into an architectural experience.
Editor's noteFlagship stores are usually brand theatre. This one is closer to a product line rendered as a building: each floor performs a step of personalisation that the brand otherwise asks customers to do online, which makes it a genuine test of whether retail space can carry that work.
Inside the creator economy’s AI reckoning
HubSpot's blog examines creators shifting from fearing AI to using it for editing, research and content hubs, while creator-economy leaders stress human judgment remains essential to authenticity.
The Cladding, Insulation, and Flooring of This London Loft Extension Are All Made of Cork
Office S&M Architects renovated a damp Victorian home in Walthamstow, London, using cork for cladding, insulation, flooring and render across a 1,290-square-foot extension.
Canva launches ProSuite bringing Affinity, Cavalry, Flourish and Leonardo together with more than new 100 features
Canva launched ProSuite, unifying Affinity, Cavalry, Flourish and Leonardo into one professional design platform with over 100 new features, including a Blend Tool, INDD import and a Claude connector.
Editor's noteCanva has been buying professional creative tools for years, and this is the week it stopped treating them as separate products. Four acquisitions arriving as a single suite is a direct move on the incumbent bundle, and the pricing question that raises for studios is the one worth watching next.
The eyes have it: How we're bringing Creative Boom's mascot to life in different time zones
Creative Boom animated its longtime eye mascot with motion designer Dan Silverstone, creating time-zone-responsive expressions, building on original 2017 design work by Samantha Wilkinson.
Seeking €820K, This Serpentine Home Is Perched Above a Pond in Southern France
A serpentine timber-and-zinc house in Fiac, France cantilevers over a pond and lap pool, listed for 820,000 euros with low-energy building certification.
London design "an international success story" says Sadiq Khan
London Mayor Sadiq Khan called the city's design sector an international success story, citing 2.2 million pounds of public investment that unlocked 1.23 billion, while acknowledging Brexit friction.
Editor's noteA mayor praising his own city's design sector is routine; the number under it is not. Two point two million in public money is claimed to have unlocked one and a quarter billion, and the same speech concedes Brexit friction is still costing studios talent. Both halves matter.
georgia o’keeffe: architecture and the artist’s homes, buildings, and landscapes
The Detroit Institute of Arts opens an exhibition of nearly 40 Georgia O'Keeffe paintings, organised geographically, tracing how the artist depicted barns, skyscrapers and New Mexico's adobe architecture.
These cat animation designs look nothing like what I expected
Studio Original Force revealed behind-the-scenes art for the Warrior Cats film adaptation, showing an expressive CGI style with elongated proportions rather than the glossy look of recent animated features.
Editor's noteAnimation coverage usually leads on release dates. This leads on craft instead: a studio showing elongated, expressive proportions where the current house style is glossy realism, which is a visible argument about where mainstream CGI goes next rather than a marketing beat.
What’s new in roaming homes big and small from the 2026 Düsseldorf Caravan Salon
Nine new motorhomes and caravans debuted at Germany's Caravan Salon, including a Mercedes-based luxury camper, a VW Crafter concept using bonded aluminium, and an expandable French caravan from 74,990 euros.
Whistles marks 50 years by casting 50 customers found through mysterious fly-posers across London
British retailer Whistles marked its 50th anniversary by casting 50 real customers found via cryptic London fly-posters, photographing them together and releasing a campaign film with agency Weirdo.
Editor's noteAnniversary campaigns usually reach for archive footage. This one went looking for actual customers using cryptic posters, then put the fifty it found in the work itself. The mechanism is the idea, and it is a great deal harder to copy than a nostalgia edit.
Hands-On With the iPhone Duo: The Crease is Still There, But Barely
Hands-on impressions suggest Apple’s first foldable iPhone delivers a premium design, minimal display crease, adaptive multitasking software, and iPad-like usability, though the device’s $1,999 starting price positions it firmly at the high end.
What Shakespeare got right about AI
AI’s greatest risks often arise from human interpretation, overconfidence, and wishful thinking, comparing chatbot outputs to prophecies that can be technically correct yet misleading.
Editor's noteWe chose this as the lead story because it explores a challenge every designer, marketer, and product builder now faces: understanding AI is as much about human behavior as technology. By drawing parallels between Shakespeare’s prophecies and modern AI outputs, the article offers a memorable framework for thinking about trust, interpretation, and decision-making in an AI-driven world.
The Youtube Game Show That Judges You by Your Bedroom
YouTube game show Interior Motives, hosted by Ben Mora, has grown to 140,000 subscribers and 6.9 million views by having contestants guess owners' identities from bedroom photos.
Editor's noteDesign coverage rarely looks at how people actually live with their rooms. A game show that asks strangers to read a person from their bedroom does, at scale, with an audience, and the numbers say the format found something that magazine interiors coverage keeps missing.
AI canvas, Synthetic self, The prompt is the product
A weekly roundup for designers, built around the shift from operating software step by step to describing an outcome and letting an agent choose the commands, files and tests.
Editor's noteThis piece groups three separate arguments under one banner: AI as a design surface, AI as a mirror that fabricates a public self, and AI as the interface itself. The unifying risk for design teams is that judgment about identity and trust now sits inside prompt engineering, not visual craft.
A new house in Croatia is broken down into components to create a curious composition
A two-storey private house outside Zagreb, set back from the road in a planted landscape, broken into components by its Croatian architects so it reads as several small buildings.
Hot Lab and Garage Italia give the Fiat 500 Spiaggina restomod a nautical makeover
The original Fiat 500 crossed every class line in its lifetime and became a design classic afterwards. Two studios have now given the open-topped Spiaggina version a boatbuilder's treatment.
Silk fashion collection informed by robins among projects from Häme University of Applied Sciences
Student work from a Finnish university includes hand-painted silk clothing taking its cues from robins, a collection shaped by Alvar Aalto's architecture, and a dress made from recycled denim.
The lab, the factory and the dentist
Three ways to organise work: the lab, where nobody knows the answer and failure is the method; the factory, where the answer is known and productivity rules; and the dentist, somewhere in between.
Thunderbird is OMI’s multidimensional orbital laboratory developed for Max Space
Space stations remain an irresistible brief for designers, and this proposed orbital laboratory leans in: pure function, dramatic light and weightlessness, drawn with the optimism the setting always invites.
OpenAI's controversial ChatGPT-6 Astra advert paints a sad vision of the future
A new advertisement for the latest ChatGPT release has landed badly with designers, who read its portrait of creative work as bleak rather than aspirational.
Editor's noteAn advertisement that upsets the people whose work it portrays is a reputational problem before it is a creative one, and the reaction is the story rather than the film. Worth watching whether the campaign is quietly retired, because that decision will say more about the company than the advertisement did.
About Our Super El Niño Climate Crisis–Accurate Hot Pilates Studio
A mock brand launch sells a pilates studio on the climate crisis itself, parodying wellness marketing that borrows the language of catastrophe to move a workout.
Nice Bottle Of Scotch For Fathers Day Confirms You Can Put A Price On Dad
After years of poor presents a father is handed a good bottle of scotch, satirising Father's Day gifting cliches and the sentiment sold alongside them.
Tomato Inside Toastie To Maintain Steady 5.5 Trillion Kelvin And Continue To Threaten The Collapse Of Universe
A toasted sandwich's tomato is reported holding a temperature last seen shortly after the Big Bang, giving an everyday kitchen injury the full apparatus of physics.
Editor's noteFraming a toastie mishap in cosmological units works precisely because the scale is absurd and the sensation is not. Reaching for the language of the early universe to describe a burnt tongue says the ordinary complaint has outgrown ordinary words, and only borrowed grandeur will do it justice.
Local Woman Struggles To Sleep Knowing Gen-Z Could Bring Back Fedoras Any Day Now
A woman lies awake at the prospect of Generation Z reviving the fedora, satirising fashion cycles and the particular dread of watching your own era come back.
Free Plastic Bags Are Back! What Happens When Green Policies Get Repealed?
The American Marketing Association covered a Journal of Marketing Research study showing that after Austin and Dallas repealed plastic bag bans, shoppers reverted to free bags, though Austin's elevated trash bag sales persisted longer.
Generic State University Pivots to Dark Academia
A public land-grant university rebrands around the dark academia aesthetic it has no history to support, satirising institutions that chase a look instead of a position.
Using LinkedIn for AEO: How marketers can use social media to improve their AI visibility [experiment]
HubSpot writer Mandy Bray tested whether three weeks of optimized LinkedIn posting could boost AI search citations, gaining ground on Gemini and Google AI Mode while ChatGPT and Perplexity results stayed largely unchanged.
Editor's noteAn experiment with a negative result in half the conditions is more useful than a case study. Three weeks of optimised posting moved Gemini and Google AI Mode and did nothing for ChatGPT or Perplexity, which says the citation mechanisms are not one market.
Enrollment and learning
Seth Godin argued genuine learning requires active enrollment from students and teachers alike, contrasting grade-driven compliance with curiosity-based and skills-based education, urging learners to absorb material before rejecting it.
Editor's noteA short piece leads the section because it names the precondition everything else in learning design assumes. Without enrollment on both sides, curriculum and delivery are just compliance mechanics, and the distinction explains a great deal of why corporate training does not stick.
Hender Scheme dresses Artek classics in leather – including ‘shoes’ for ‘Stool 60’
Tokyo leather brand Hender Scheme, led by Ryo Kashiwazaki, wrapped Artek's Stool 60 and Golden Bell pendant lamp in vegetable-tanned leather, launching the collection at London Design Festival ahead of an October 10 global release.
I questioned TWA's use of AI illustration in a branding project: here's their fascinating response
Creative Boom's Tom May questioned The Working Assembly's use of AI illustration for the Untold journaling app rebrand; founder Jolene Delisle said the adaptive AI system depended on sustained human creative direction, not cost savings.
Should you rebrand yourself this September, or just hold your nerve?
Creative Boom examined why creatives feel pressure to rebrand each September, advising them to test new directions quietly before committing, drawing on input from five design professionals including Caroline Addison and Paul Leon.
The call for an agentic standard: We need to stop shipping the same form four different times
Patrick Neeman argued the UX industry needs a shared agentic-interface standard, comparing fragmented AI assistant rendering from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic to the 1990s browser wars burdening interface maintainers.
A Pink Stair With an Atrium and Bookshelves Revives This 1930s Mexico City Home
Mexico City firm ZDA renovated a 1937 California-style home, restoring a lost double-height atrium and adding a pink helical steel staircase wrapped in an integrated bookshelf inside the original turret entrance.
Google Search Console AI Reports Rolled Out Worldwide via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google has rolled out Search Console’s AI performance reports worldwide, giving website owners visibility into impressions from AI Overviews, AI Mode, and AI-powered Discover features, alongside a new AI search opt-out control.
Before & After: It Was a Grocery Store, a Dance Hall, and a Factory. Here’s How It Became a Home
Red Dot Studio converted a San Francisco building that had served as a grocery store, dance hall and factory into a home for an educator and arts administrator couple in the Mission District.
Instagram cracking down on accounts that feature AI-generated influencers
Instagram is requiring AI-generated influencer accounts to use a new "AI-generated profile" label and will reduce the reach of unlabeled AI personas, limiting their visibility in recommendations and discovery feeds.
Editor's noteLabelling rules only matter if they carry a penalty, and this one does: unlabelled AI personas lose reach, which is the currency. That makes it a rare platform policy on synthetic influencers with an enforcement mechanism attached rather than a disclosure request.
Ten steps on the road to efficient
Seth Godin outlined ten principles for improving repeated production processes, drawing on Frederick Taylor, Henry Ford and W. Edwards Deming, urging measurement, standardization and systemic thinking before pursuing speed.
A Folding iPhone at Last? What to Expect From Apple’s Surprise and Shine Fall Event
Apple’s September 9 event is expected to introduce the iPhone 18 Pro lineup and Apple’s first foldable iPhone, alongside updated Apple Watches, AirPods, and other hardware under the “Surprise and shine” keynote.
Editor's noteThe folding iPhone led Marketing & Design not for the hinge but for what a new top tier does to every tier below it. A first foldable, the 18 Pro, new Watches and AirPods arrive together on 9 September, and the line is repriced by its ceiling. Watch the pricing, not the fold.
As a burnt-out millennial, this underrated dark comedy on Netflix hit me way harder than I expected
The Kid Detective on Netflix, arguing the Adam Brody-led dark comedy resonates with millennials through its portrayal of a former child prodigy struggling with burnout, unrealized potential, and adulthood.
This iPhone case is going viral for surviving a 100,000-foot drop from space — and it just earned a Guinness Book World Record
RhinoShield earned a Guinness World Record after an iPhone 17 Pro in its AirX case survived a 100,418-foot stratospheric drop over Sweden without a parachute, remaining functional after landing despite extreme temperatures and conditions.
'We don't want another damaged generation' — Inside the grassroots campaign demanding a ban on smart glasses
A grassroots campaign in the UK is pushing for restrictions on smart glasses, arguing they threaten privacy and normalize covert recording. Activists are lobbying retailers, venues, and lawmakers amid growing public backlash against wearable cameras.
Google Lens Nears 20 Billion Monthly Searches: What Visual Search Means for SEO
Google Lens is approaching 20 billion monthly visual searches, making image-based discovery increasingly central to search behavior. The article argues that brands must adapt SEO strategies to optimize images, visual content, and product discoverability.
Editor's noteTwenty billion visual searches a month is a search engine that takes no words, and that is why it led Marketing & Design. Every pack shot, storefront and product photo is now a query, and most brands have optimised none of them. If your search plan still starts with keywords, this says it now starts with images.
Meta addresses ‘pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaign
Meta has closed a privacy loophole in its AI smart glasses that enabled covert recording by covering the recording indicator light after capture began. The fix is accompanied by a public-awareness campaign to rebuild trust.
Editor's noteMeta closed the loophole that let its glasses keep recording with the light covered, and shipped the fix with a marketing campaign. That pairing is why it led Marketing & Design: the patch is engineering, the campaign is the admission that the reputation problem outlived the bug. When a product’s nickname is the story, a silent fix confirms the nickname.
GTA VI looks just as great as we could hope for
Rockstar’s 26-minute preview of Grand Theft Auto VI showcased its expansive world, detailed environments, varied gameplay activities, and cinematic storytelling, reinforcing expectations that GTA VI will be one of gaming’s biggest releases.
A Collaboration of Ampersands
A limited-edition book by Studio Sutherl& celebrating the ampersand through more than a decade of commissioned work, workshops, found forms, and creative collaborations, turning a typographic symbol into a study of connection and creativity.
Why more celebrity-led brands are shutting down
A number of celebrity-founded consumer brands are shutting down as early publicity fails to translate into sustainable growth. Their enduring success depends on product strength, distribution, customer retention, and sound economics rather than fame alone.
Editor's noteCelebrity brands are closing faster than they launched, and it led Marketing & Design because the reason is not the celebrity. Publicity buys the first month; product, distribution, retention and unit economics buy every month after, and fame covers for none of them. The uncomfortable version: awareness was never the bottleneck, only the part we were best at selling.
The internet mourns Dolly Parton, country music’s brightest light
Following Dolly Parton’s death at age 80, social media users, entertainers, and public figures shared tributes celebrating her music, philanthropy, humor, and cultural influence.
Editor's noteCultural obituaries belong in this section when the figure shaped how an industry presents itself. What the tributes keep returning to is not only the music but the philanthropy and the humour, which together are why her influence reached well past country audiences.
Instagram will now edit the first draft of your Reel for you
Instagram has launched First Draft, an AI-assisted Reel editing feature that automatically trims clips, removes pauses, and assembles an initial cut in seconds. The tool aims to reduce editing effort while keeping creators in control.
The Future of Trust: Where AI Meets Human Connection
As AI becomes embedded in everyday experiences, trust will increasingly depend on combining technological efficiency with authentic human relationships. Brands that balance convenience with empathy, transparency, and expertise are best positioned to win consumer confidence.
3D printed standalone alarm clock lets you smash a giant arcade button to wake up
Endothermal Systems built CinderClock, a 3D-printed alarm clock using an ESP32-S3 processor, OLED display, and physical arcade button, avoiding smartphone apps and subscriptions while publishing open documentation for repairability.
Editor's noteThe design argument here is the product. A device that does one thing, needs no account and publishes its own repair documentation is a direct answer to subscription hardware, and it leads the section because that answer is getting easier to build rather than harder.
Polaroid Put Pikachu on a $100 Camera Because Nostalgia Works
Polaroid’s Pokémon collaboration celebrates the franchise’s 30th anniversary with Pikachu, Sylveon and Poké Ball themed instant cameras, film and accessories. Priced from $100, the products rely on nostalgia, targeting adults who grew up with Pokémon.
Editor's noteNostalgia is the easy read and the headline says so. The lead earned its place for the harder read: a thirty-year-old franchise selling a hundred-dollar analogue camera to adults who never bought film. That is a licensing deal reaching a buyer the licensee could not reach alone. Judge brand partnerships on that, not on the mascot.
The feature was fine. So why did users keep hiding it?
A UX case study argues that users often reject products not because features are poor, but because those features conflict with identity, status signals, or self-perception, revealing a hidden gap between usability and long-term adoption.
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay
AI will remain transformative despite job displacement, accuracy problems, and market turbulence, predicting broader workplace adoption, continued automation of knowledge work, and growing influence from both proprietary and open models.
The making of Cursor’s icons
Cursor replaced its inherited VS Code-era iconography with a custom system of more than 600 hand-crafted icons, creating a unified visual language for AI-native concepts, workflows, and product features while maintaining backward compatibility.
Editor's noteSix hundred hand-drawn icons for a code editor is either indulgence or the clearest sign yet that AI-native tools need a visual language of their own. We chose the second reading. Inherited iconography carries inherited assumptions, and Cursor decided the old ones no longer describe the work. Read the reasoning, not just the gallery.
Brand marketers are adopting fan-first social media strategies
Major brands are increasingly prioritizing highly engaged fan communities over broad audiences, using social platforms for feedback, content amplification, trend spotting, and product development while adopting creator-style engagement strategies.
The Tablet Market Hits a Wall
Global tablet shipments fell in Q2 2026 as rising memory costs pushed vendors to increase prices. The downturn also highlights a broader challenge: tablets are struggling to define their role in an AI-centric device market.
Editor's noteWe ran an IDC shipments note in Marketing & Design because the interesting number is not the decline, it is the reason: memory prices forced list-price rises on a category that never settled what it is for. When a device has no job, a price rise is a verdict. Watch what the AI-first pitches do to the next quarter.
De Pé No Chão
Illustrated series reimagines iconic Brazilian samba album covers through simplified icons and forms, exploring visual memory and suburban cultural identity embedded within recognizable imagery.
Creative Boom IRL just got bigger! Here's how to join us
Creative Boom IRL, free in-person networking events for creative professionals, secured sponsorship from Affinity and Cavalry by Canva. Events are expanding to Glasgow, New York, Shrewsbury, Nottingham and other cities.
This dark Slavic fairy-tale game is like Devil May Cry with ballet combat
Tsareva: Age of Tales incorporates motion capture from professional ballet dancers to create a combat system inspired by Devil May Cry that emphasizes choreographed, dance-like fighting mechanics.
WEBTOON is turning 6 fan-favorite webcomics into microdramas
WEBTOON launches Short Dramas, six live-action vertical series adapted from popular romance webcomics, on August 17. The microdrama format condenses emotional narratives for smartphone screens, capitalizing on established fandoms and billions of cumulative views.
Raleigh's collapse proves that even iconic brands can't rely on nostalgia alone
Raleigh bicycles ceased operations after decades as an iconic brand, demonstrating that nostalgia and historical reputation cannot sustain a company without addressing modern market demands.
Before Betting on a New Flavor, Oreo Is Letting Consumers Choose
Oreo is allowing consumers to vote on a new limited-edition flavor that will be released in stores next year, democratizing product development decisions through customer input.
Your Outdated Content Lives Forever in AI Search: Here's How To Manage It
Outdated content can harm brand reputation when indexed by AI search engines. Marketing executives from Adobe, Sitecore, Acquia, and WordPress VIP discuss intervention strategies.
The ultimate phone case for art lovers: Casetify drops an exclusive Matisse collection
Casetify launches Henri Matisse-inspired phone cases and accessories featuring artworks from the artist's Jazz series and cut-out period, available worldwide August 13 at prices from £33 to £755.
Marc Jacobs Turns a Handbag Mix-Up Into a New York Microdrama Mystery
Marc Jacobs initiates a mystery-themed series exploring how fashion influences initial impressions and the narratives people construct about each other through a handbag mix-up scenario.
Yes, we saw the video. Heres how to clean your Ninja Creami.
An influencer's viral video showed maggots in her Ninja Creami ice cream. The issue stems from improper cleaning of the device's lid, which collects moisture in crevices where flies breed. Proper dishwasher cleaning and thorough
Brennan Lee Mulligan returns with Dimension 20: Toylight trailer
Dimension 20: Toylight, a new tabletop roleplaying season featuring Brennan Lee Mulligan and the Intrepid Heroes cast, launches September 16 on Dropout. Players portray toys defending an enchanted realm against a dying child's fading imagination.
Pokémon is coming to Toniebox, and pre-orders just went live
Tonies announced a Pokémon collection launching August 12 for pre-order at Walmart and tonies.com. The Pikachu starter set costs $149.99, while individual character figurines sell for $19.99 each.
Target just dropped its 2026 Halloween lineup — shop K-Pop Demon Hunters, Pokémon, and more
Target released its 2026 Halloween collection featuring costumes, decorations, and candy. Sixty percent of decor costs under ten dollars, with half of costumes and accessories priced below twenty-five dollars.
Suprey: Evolved nutrition
Suprey, a plant-based supplement company, developed a brand name, strategic foundation, and visual identity to communicate joy, innovation, and meticulous product development.
Has the world been too harsh on Disney's Hexed?
An analysis examines Disney's Hexed film and evaluates whether critical reception has been unfair, examining its adherence to traditional animation techniques through shot-level examination.
Do You Have a Beautiful New Project? We Want to See it!
Communication Arts invites designers and creative professionals to submit innovative projects for free featuring on their website and potential exposure to the global creative community.
The new 7UP rebrand is bound to be contentious
7UP undergoes its largest rebrand and taste reformulation in 15 years, a move likely to generate significant consumer and industry debate about the changes.
Adult Friend Finder app: Where to download the AFF app and how secure is it?
Adult Friend Finder lacks an official app due to Apple and Google's content restrictions on nudity. Users access it via mobile browser or create home screen shortcuts that function like apps while maintaining login sessions
Editor's noteNot a story about a dating site. It ran because it shows what happens to distribution when Apple and Google decide a category does not exist: the product survives as a browser shortcut, outside the store and outside its rules. Any brand one policy change away from that outcome should read it as a rehearsal.
People can't decide whether Newcastle United's logo design poll is a joke
Newcastle United conducted a logo design poll featuring three options that fans struggled to differentiate, sparking debate about whether the exercise was genuine or satirical.
Editor's noteA rebrand poll only works if the options differ enough to choose between. These did not, and the resulting argument about whether it was satire is more instructive than the logos: consultation that offers no real choice reads as contempt, whatever the intent behind it.
A Foundation for Multiple Dimensions
Typographer and designer Andrew Footit explains how he developed his distinctive color palette and two and three-dimensional illustration techniques through systematic experimentation with various materials and approaches.
Editor's noteAndrew Footit built his palette and his illustration technique the same way, by trying materials until one refused to behave. It led Marketing & Design because a style manufactured one test at a time is more useful to a designer than one discovered. The difference between a look and a practice is whether you can say how you got there.
The Simpsons might be ending, and millennials think they know why
The Simpsons faces potential conclusion as audiences debate the show's relevance and quality decline after multiple decades of production and cultural shifts affecting viewership engagement.
Editor's noteA show ending is a culture story when the show outlasted the culture that made it. The debate here is really about what a brand does with decades of accumulated goodwill and declining relevance, which is a question a great many older brands are quietly facing.
