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Skin doesn't lie, even when your brands did

Culture

Apr 15, 2026

Skin doesn't lie, even when your brands did

How K-beauty didn't just change what we put on our faces — it changed what we demand from any brand that asks for our trust

Lucía Rivas Alfonzo

Spotify put goosebumps on a billboard and let your body do the rest

Campaigns

Apr 13, 2026

Spotify put goosebumps on a billboard and let your body do the rest

In a year of synthetic everything, a team in Cape Town got a freezer, some feathers and a camera — and made the most honest case for Premium Spotify has ever put out

Tom Mackay

The Weekly Rundown: The best creative work in the world isn't coming from New York or London. It never was.

The Rundown

Apr 9, 2026

The Weekly Rundown: The best creative work in the world isn't coming from New York or London. It never was.

Also: the beauty industry's most expensive open secret, stealing soul for your packaging mockups, and Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappé and Vinícius Jr. immortalised in LEGO.

Tom Mackay

The LATAM creative revolution didn't start at Cannes. It started in 1928.

Deep Dive

Apr 9, 2026

The LATAM creative revolution didn't start at Cannes. It started in 1928.

A Brazilian manifesto written nearly a hundred years ago describes exactly how the world's best creative work gets made. The industry is only just catching up

Tom Mackay

The new rule of beauty: don't look done, don't admit It

Culture

Apr 9, 2026

The new rule of beauty: don't look done, don't admit It

On the quiet rise of surgical results and the language designed to hide them.

Lucía Rivas Alfonzo

The runway heist: stealing soul for your packaging mockups

Design

Apr 7, 2026

The runway heist: stealing soul for your packaging mockups

What Moschino's "Argentina" runway can teach about the difference between packaging that looks expensive and packaging that feels alive.

Emi Cerutti

Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe & Vini Jr. immortalised by LEGO

Campaigns

Apr 6, 2026

Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe & Vini Jr. immortalised by LEGO

"Everyone Wants a Piece" solved the impossible brief hiding inside the obvious one

Tom Mackay

The Weekly Rundown: How the world's most celebrated restaurant destroyed itself in a single Instagram post

The Rundown

Apr 2, 2026

The Weekly Rundown: How the world's most celebrated restaurant destroyed itself in a single Instagram post

Also: how boring businesses are quietly going viral, ur curated list of nice things for March, and Dulux celebrating 65 years of a dog that wandered onto a shoot by accident and never left.

Tom Mackay

Inspiration

Apr 2, 2026

How to make boring businesses go viral

The biggest creative opportunity right now isn't in fashion, entertainment, or tech. It's in the briefs nobody wanted.

Tom Mackay

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Skin doesn't lie, even when your brands did

Spotify put goosebumps on a billboard and let your body do the rest

The Weekly Rundown: The best creative work in the world isn't coming from New York or London. It never was.

The LATAM creative revolution didn't start at Cannes. It started in 1928.

The new rule of beauty: don't look done, don't admit It

The runway heist: stealing soul for your packaging mockups

Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe & Vini Jr. immortalised by LEGO

The Weekly Rundown: How the world's most celebrated restaurant destroyed itself in a single Instagram post

How to make boring businesses go viral

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