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 La Colombe and Uncommon. "Must be the coffee"

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La Colombe and Uncommon. "Must be the coffee"

When brands stop casting characters and start telling the stories of real communities, advertising becomes culture.

Jul 8, 2026

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
You don't style an icon into existence

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You don't style an icon into existence

Daft Punk's helmet, Björk's album cover, the shoes Gaga couldn't walk in — three design legends, and not one of them was the work of a single mind. A look at why the lone-genius creative is a myth the best work never believed.

Jul 7, 2026

Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Curated list of nice things - June edition

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Curated list of nice things - June edition

Our monthly collection of objects, ideas and details we think deserve your attention.

Jul 1, 2026

Valentina Borroni
Valentina Borroni
Fonts actually worth licensing in June

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Fonts actually worth licensing in June

Four typefaces worth licensing this month — from Klim's monumental Mānuka to Dinamo's beautifully conflicted Laica.

Jun 24, 2026

Valentina Borroni
Valentina Borroni
Don't Disappear: the campaign we built for the GLP-1 generation

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Don't Disappear: the campaign we built for the GLP-1 generation

Somewhere between client projects we asked ourselves what it would look like to build a real campaign from scratch — strategy to screen, zero budget, zero original footage. This is the answer.

Jun 23, 2026

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
We created a brand the GLP-1 category forgot to make

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We created a brand the GLP-1 category forgot to make

One in eight Americans is on a GLP-1. The brands built around them all made the same error without realising it. This quarter we built the one that didn't. Introducing Verve.

Jun 15, 2026

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Design for the user who can't be polite

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Design for the user who can't be polite

The world's first art exhibition for dogs is a better case study in sensory-first design than anything your agency has pinned to a mood board.

Jun 10, 2026

Emi Cerutti
Emi Cerutti
Fonts actually worth licensing in May

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Fonts actually worth licensing in May

Four typefaces worth licensing this month — from Type of Feeling's quietly authoritative condensed serif to Blaze Type's dark editorial system, now gone global.

Jun 1, 2026

Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Thailand, duck noodles, and everything I didn't expect to learn about design

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Thailand, duck noodles, and everything I didn't expect to learn about design

From Bangkok street stalls to Koh Tao duck noodles — why the best creative inspiration rarely comes from a mood board.

May 26, 2026

Valentina Borroni
Valentina Borroni
Curated list of nice things - May edition

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Curated list of nice things - May edition

Objects, spaces and the occasional weird idea we couldn't scroll past.

May 20, 2026

Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Natalia Gomez Uyabán
The inspiration workflow that changed how our team thinks

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The inspiration workflow that changed how our team thinks

Why we moved our entire inspiration workflow to Cosmos — and what happened when the whole team came with us

May 13, 2026

Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Curated list of nice things April

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Curated list of nice things April

Curated monthly inspiration from the objects, spaces, and weird ideas that got our attention.

May 6, 2026

Emi Cerutti
Emi Cerutti
The golden age of title design is here

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The golden age of title design is here

Sixty seconds of motion, type, and psychological easter eggs doing real work before a single line of dialogue.

Apr 28, 2026

Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Fonts that caught our attention in April

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Fonts that caught our attention in April

Four releases from foundries that actually had something to say this month — industrial grit, pre-modernist friction, a Futura successor that works, and one free option that keeps punching above its weight class.

Apr 20, 2026

Valentina Borroni
Valentina Borroni
The Amazon wrote its own brand. FutureBrand just found the letters.

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The Amazon wrote its own brand. FutureBrand just found the letters.

How 25,000 kilometers of river became a typeface, and why the best detail has nothing to do with satellites

Apr 15, 2026

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
How to make boring businesses go viral

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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.

Apr 2, 2026

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Curated list of nice things for March

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Curated list of nice things for March

Curated monthly inspiration from the objects, spaces, and weird ideas that got our attention.

Mar 31, 2026

Emi Cerutti
Emi Cerutti
Fonts worth licensing right now in March

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Fonts worth licensing right now in March

Four typefaces earning their keep this month — from a Buenos Aires collective's variable masterpiece to Google finally releasing its most-tested UI font to the public.

Mar 24, 2026

Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Natalia Gomez Uyabán
We made a spec ad for Airbnb without shooting a single frame

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We made a spec ad for Airbnb without shooting a single frame

Somewhere between client projects we asked ourselves what it would look like to build a real campaign from scratch — strategy to screen, zero budget, zero original footage. This is the answer.

Mar 16, 2026

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Inside the Nike x IKEA collection we built without either brand knowing

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Inside the Nike x IKEA collection we built without either brand knowing

Those AI collabs dominating your feed? We made one from scratch—strategy, art direction, prompts, and the workflow behind every shot.

Mar 10, 2026

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Justified Studio made enterprise AI branding stop apologizing for itself

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Justified Studio made enterprise AI branding stop apologizing for itself

The Fractal Glass identity for Indicium AI is what happens when a studio refuses to treat corporate as a constraint

Mar 4, 2026

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
How&How built a sleep-friendly ice cream brand the rest of the freezer aisle couldn't touch

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How&How built a sleep-friendly ice cream brand the rest of the freezer aisle couldn't touch

The entire ice cream category is designed for sunny afternoons. Most people eat it at 11pm on the sofa. Nobody had done anything about that. Until now.

Feb 26, 2026

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Studio OKGO turned a Seoul café into a storybook about ordinary time

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Studio OKGO turned a Seoul café into a storybook about ordinary time

The Ephemera rebrand works because the concept drove the design — not the other way around

Feb 19, 2026

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Tango learned Gen Z reads design systems the way boomers read copy

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Tango learned Gen Z reads design systems the way boomers read copy

Bloom built a rebrand that treats digital disruption as behavior, not decoration—which is either brave or the only option left

Feb 12, 2026

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Norwex made cleaning cloths look like skincare

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Norwex made cleaning cloths look like skincare

The Workroom turned a 30-year MLM business into something Sephora shoppers might actually consider

Jan 24, 2026

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
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