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Illustration of framed artworks floating in a glowing grid around a search barNews2 Oct 2026
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The Last Museum lets you search six million artworks by mood

A free search engine that understands plain descriptions like ‘japanese woodblock print of birds’ just became the best reference board on the internet.

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Illustration of a colour swatch fan, a vice squeezing files and a magnifying glass over typeNews2 Oct 2026
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Three small tools worth a look this month

A free palette generator, a local file squeezer for Mac and a typography checker for InDesign. None of them need a subscription to be useful.

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Illustration of a glowing griffin badge on the grille of an electric car at nightNews1 Oct 2026
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Vauxhall's griffin loses its flag for the first time in 121 years

The British carmaker has flattened and sharpened its emblem again, this time so it reads clearly when it lights up on electric cars.

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Illustration of a museum visitor looking at data postcards, a large map and dreamlike memory imagesNews30 Sept 2026
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MoMA's new show asks what information design looks like in the AI era

Full Disclosure runs until June 2027 and puts handmade data postcards next to AI images generated from people's memories.

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Illustration of a night-time conference stage among palm trees and art deco buildingsNews29 Sept 2026
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Adobe MAX 2026 is set for Miami Beach, 10 to 12 November

Adobe's big creative conference returns in November, in person and online. Here's what we know so far and how to follow along.

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Canva can now build a brand kit from a website address

September's Canva update also turns hand-drawn shapes into image frames and adds analytics and payment links to Canva websites.

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Midjourney's V8.2 edit model lets you change images with plain instructions

Inpainting, outpainting and up to four reference images arrived over the last month, along with live style previews.

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McLaren's new logo comes from a garage sign in Auckland

An all-caps wordmark, a custom typeface and a palette pulled from an old photo of Bruce McLaren. Heritage done with restraint.

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Affinity 3.3 lands with a Blend tool, InDesign import and a new ProSuite

Canva's free all-in-one design app gets more than 60 features, and now sits in a professional bundle with Cavalry, Flourish and Leonardo.

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Illustration of colourful folders nested inside each other, many layers deepNews5 Aug 2026
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Figma projects become nested folders, ten levels deep

Teams can finally organise files the way they think, and admins get per-person limits on AI credits.

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