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Mineral oil logos and automated web tasks point to a very strange Friday.
There is a peculiar obsession this week with translating tactile physical experiences into digital branding exercises. Apple Music reportedly shaped its new visual identity by submerging sound in a bath of mineral oil, as detailed by Creative Boom. Meanwhile, Mindsparkle highlights how Family Style managed browser automation tools into a grid-based identity for Browserbase, proving that software infrastructure can actually carry a distinct personality when it avoids trying to look like a spaceship. We are also seeing architectural precision trickle down into smaller objects, captured nicely when Norman Foster discusses the material scaling of his first watch with Designboom.
Branding
Identities, rebrands, graphic and editorial design
Campaigns
Advertising, art direction, visual storytelling
Digital
Websites, interaction, motion, UI
Typography
Typefaces, foundries, specimens, type in use
Visual Culture
Essays, criticism, art, technology, ideas
Framer
Updates, changelog and inspiration from Framer
Debat: Når AI kan kopiere et produkt på rekordtid, er marketing så den sidste ægte konkurrencefordel?
norman foster discusses his first watch with LEBOND and why good design transcends scale
studio loutsis integrates timber wayfinding into snøhetta’s theodore roosevelt library
CMS Update: Multiplayer Cursors
Clear in Focus. Sustainable in Action.
Browserbase: A brand family built to push the web's limits
8th Hour
The Daily Heller: Posters of the Will
Dutchscot brings a beautifully nuanced take on Parisian Belle Époque glamour to Brooklyn’s Bar Rêve
Vuoden Huiput
Arkitektfirma henter bureauprofil til at styrke brand og forretning
Henry Chalfant's legendary New York subway graffiti photos pull into Amsterdam at life size
The 5 Best Fonts for the Automotive Industry
The professional responsibility that’s not in your job description
How do I exorcise a nightmare client and ensure they don't rise from the dead?
Asset Panel Refresh
This floating sauna's brand uses a simple typographic trick to stunning effect
Debat: Apple Musics redesign er ikke genialt. Men det er processen bag
One Estate, Two Lives: The Identity of Relais du Castelet
Board
"Things start in really simple gestures" says Es Devlin of her Design Museum retrospective
Why Studio Atipus designed a wine label to look like it's been shot from a speeding train
Daylight
Atlas Garden editorial identity inspired by gridded paper & archives
Leder: Uventet kaos var et slag for lufthavnens brand
The Daily Heller: It’s Graphic Wit Day
Dirty Vine
Forbidden Fruit
Recent PHP vulnerabilities and why Framer is not affected
Elena Scott
How Mother Design turned a séance into a new identity for Purple Garden
What Matters to Caroline Garry
Økologisk Landsforening vælger nyt leadbureau
Every
HOW+HOW rebrand: A logo that works like an analogue volume dial
Go RVing
Singapore city branding trades its Little Red Dot for a sphere with gravity
The Daily Heller: Start This Week With a Little Joy
Apple Music's new logo was shaped by Fred Again and a bath of mineral oil
Royal portrait painter swaps palaces for a Barnsley chippy, a Catford corner shop and a pub run by 'Slugger'
Span's identity for Illinois Department of Human Rights turns a common piece of punctuation into a rallying cry
Heart & Soil
Framer MCP
Tom Hegen explores the landscapes that are paying an invisible price for clean energy
Inside Robin Hunter Blake’s stroboscopic photography
Muse
andstudio’s identity for new Rotterdam bar Werf is a brilliant lesson in graphic simplicity and abstraction
Speakeasy
Social Media Team of the Year 2026: Her er årets vindere
The Daily Heller: Express Kindness by Making a Poster
César Cid turns famous artists into letters in his playful alphabet series
TR Studio
FIG COFFEE: A Brand Identity Shaped by People
Limestone Books
Børn uden for fællesskabet er fokus i ny kampagne
As Thought Bubble comic art festival turns 20, meet the indie creators who could be the next big thing
Socialist Hotels: relive the concrete dreams of the Soviet era with these beautiful photos
12 marketing agency website examples
Olga Orozco – Lo sagrado, la magia, la poesía
Take a trip back to Perth’s rave scene in Simon Wright’s design retrospective
The NBC Chimes Museum
How AI has exposed the cracks in the creative industry
The best new typefaces for October 2026
Jane Sørensen stopper hos OMD: Vil tidligere ind i kampagnearbejdet
The New York Landmarks Conservancy
The mosaic identity that gives HelloAsso a face for every nonprofit it serves
The Daily Heller: A Happy Book About Death
Usages du bambou japonais
Uncommon's rebrand of global powerhouse White & Case ditches every law firm cliché
Mads P. i retten: HBO Max-brug af billeder skader mig kommercielt
Firewall
Vert magazine
Apple Music unveils logo that was physically "made by sound"
The Daily Heller: Peter de Sève’s Opening Night
International Assembly 2026: Glasgow's festival returns with a secret stage and a night in a castle
A look at Plantin
Mission Control
Debat: Ingen redder dig op af AI-hullet
Lego and Daft Punk's team-up highlights exactly how brands should interact with fans
The Geometry of the Oo
A design lesson from Major League Baseball
Michelle Gruppetta's riso-printed animation reveals what sound sensitivity actually feels like
How Music founded a football identity on lettering found at London's oldest stadium
12 small business website examples that actually convert
Stocksy's 2027 Visual Insights Report explores why some images connect with audiences so well
The Daily Heller: An Israeli Modernist Uncovered
Flatpay vælger ungt bureau til kampagne i syv markeder
Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Dez Bollardian
symbools
Tropez
What Matters to Gil Muińos
Absurd levels of clinical precision applied to a new KEBAB identity
P.A.C. bakery's identity turns a receipt printer into a design tool
Nyt AI-medie går i luften: ”Vi står foran den største shitstorm, når vi går live”
Kalok Yeung
Font Faces: Stefan Hattenbach
The Middle-of-the-Night Heller: An Insomniac’s Wake-Up Call
Kiln Studio designs identity for new weight-loss product, Reset
Four ways Grok Bot can help with your Framer project
Terreno Barrio Hotel
Spillemyndigheden åbner falsk børnekasino i ny kampagne
A pink block and a Fibonacci split put De Koffiejongens on the shelf
Typography is an accessibility, usability, and customer care issue, says Charles Nix
The 5 Best Fonts for Hotel & Real Estate Brands
An open A and one dropped word turn Alianza into a cultural brand
Seeing in Colour
Apple Music’s new brand identity is ‘made by sound’
Dansk bank samler Højlund og otte sportsstjerner i stor kampagne
What Matters to Dustin Black
Why's type measured in points?
Pentagram looks to Grand Central Oyster Bar’s iconic lettering for its gorgeously gaudy Storefront Gala 2026 identity
Dezeen launches "richer and more versatile" new website
Introducing Skills: Teach the Framer Agent to design more like you and your team
Adobe MAX, it's been a while: why Creative Boom is heading to Miami after 11 years away
The Vellum
The Image People
Podcastbureau henter profil i Viaplay
Fresh Out of History
Claystone
From Creative Boom's Instagram to a full rebrand: How Davy Denduyver met A Human Agency
Omega
The Daily Heller: Up Close With Lowell Thompson, Big Idea Man
SEA turns 30 with a new anniversary book celebrating design that lasts
Region Østdanmark vil begrænse fossile reklamer på busser
The 5 Best Fonts for Luxury Brands
Skills
Can a trust mark keep your face out of AI? UnitedUs thinks so with its rebrand for Twinnin
The Daily Heller: Revisiting the Lighter Side of 1984
Optical vs. Mathematical Alignment
Caserne eschews worthy sentimentality in its gorgeously vibrant, unapologetically modern identity for Let’s Grow Canada
Sofie Lindes kjole blev blikfang i pop-up om arbejdslivet
Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Ege Basalt
Casey Roarty digs through Facebook Marketplace listings and transforms his findings into art
The Daily Heller: Findings of a Monogrammarian
Innovation Endeavours
Booms & Shakes: October's strategy power moves, Manchester mergers, and why craft is the word of the month
Not so Early
Carlsberg og Schulstad vinder ny kampagnepris
The Daily Heller: Just Signs
Carnilove's 13-degree type tool takes a pet food brand to 80 markets
12 of our favorite graphic design portfolio examples in 2026
Peaches
Collins centres Remote's new identity on banknote colours and building blocks
Who gets to decide where power begins and ends?
GSAP
Meet Krea 3: the fast, easy-to-use tool built for editing (not replacing) your work
Chiliens ‘Chuck Norris’ spicer ny Burger King-kampagne op
Imogen: Agentic AI
New book In Clubland documents 35 years of rave culture, from acid house to the superclub era
Typewriters and the birth of digital letterspacing
The Daily Heller: Paper Engineering Makes Simplicity Into Complexity
Pentagram's design festival identity finds a clever way to give equal billing to Arabic and English
Diving into the classifications of type
Pinned Projects
Danske s360 bliver globalt bureau for cykelgiganten Canyon
Caroline Tremlett is bringing the Victorian jelly back, one wobble at a time
Kista
You need an observation practice
David Smalling turns mattresses, pearls and instruments into something unsettling and uneasy
Pina Ball
KreaKom fastholder kritik af betting-opstramning: “Proportionerne er for voldsomme”
DNCO creates Vermont’s first dedicated consumer tourism brand, aiming to “turn affection into action”
The Daily Heller: Peter Blegvad’s Gumbo of Mumbo Jumbo
Structure in Type Design
Taking a record label for a spin: Milkshake's car-culture identity
Stella Artois x Wimbeldon
12 of our favorite tech and SaaS websites in 2026
André Britz draws dimly remembered landscapes, in a book held together with a pink elastic band
BONUS: Live from Essence Fest – The Accounting
Sheba campaign turns cat owners from ignored to adored
Trial and Error – DIY music conference
Growth rings and dappled light give Little Green Rooms its headspace
The Best Technology Fonts for Tech and Digital Brands
How two simple dots gave Pictoplasma a fresh personality for 2026
BONUS: Live from Essence Fest – The Work Gets Personal
Why is a creative agency in New York asking women to 'send nudes'?
Where are typefaces being designed?
Kneading East and West
Côt Parrilla
The Daily Heller: Chwast is a Child at Heart
Pregnant Then Screwed subverts the conventions of retail design to highlight a vital gender issue
How to build a lead generation tool with Framer Agents
Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Zinkraft
Order creates a delightfully design history-steeped identity for Salt Lick on Salt Creek – but what actually is it?
Annoncekøbet følger ikke med væksten hos verdens største brands
Koto’s new branding for restaurant discovery app Franki feels lively, thoroughly human, and just the right amount of cute
S13 E4 DB|BD at Aspen: Dean Erika James Says a Prepared Leader is a Disciplined One
Betr's gaming super app now runs on one question: You In?
Veda
All Purpose’s identity for Two Tribes Brewing is resolutely ‘craft’, while also turning its back on all which that signifies
The Best Fashion Fonts for Apparel and Clothing Brands
Cricket Wireless turns voicemails into one-off vinyl records
S13 E6 DB|BD at Aspen: Motivating People is a Design Challenge with Deloitte’s Steve Goldbach
Oraio's soy sauce identity reads like a wine estate's cellar label
Readable vs Accessible
How Danny Sapio built a Framer membership business
Sapiens borrows newspaper type to give indigenous stories a modern voice
The Dock
S13 E7 DB|BD at Aspen: Proactivity is the Key to Survival With Edelman’s Dave Fleet AI
Erfaren SoMe-profil skal stå i spidsen for ny Nord-satsning
Soft shapes and rounded type turn Bombas into a comfort brand
Top 5 Off Type Fonts Designers Love in 2026
Top 10: Music Festival Branding
S13 E8 DB|BD at Aspen: Eric Ries Would Like to Apologize
Where type designers learn
Pizza With A Side Of Therapy
Rosemaund brings a Guy Ritchie flavour to English whisky
What are hidden characters?
Teaching Agents to design in 3D
Vrints-Kolsteren’s gorgeous identity for pizza restaurant Napoli on the Road brings a little mischief to minimalism
S13E5 DB|BD at Aspen: Innovation Requires Collaboration with Professor Linda Hill
Dickie's Ginger
Playing With Your Food
Oslo's grumpiest resident is back – and this time he's singing
Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Loopy
JKR’s Tropical Smoothie Cafe rebrand is deliciously on the nose, and all the better for it
S13E3 DB|BD at Aspen: AI is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time With Chris Hyams
Top 5 Serif fonts designers love in 2026
Tropical Smoothie Cafe
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