My Adobe MAX experience in London started off, well, rocky. I attended as a writer for PRINT, but I’m also a professional designer, and it’s this latter identity I couldn’t ignore during the two-hour keynote.… Read More »Adobe’s Identity Crisis: Pro Tools in a Creator Economy
The creative software giant has unveiled a new brand identity developed in collaboration with Mother Design. Read on to find out what’s changed and what designers can learn from it. In 2025, branding and design… Read More »Mother’s new logo and branding for Adobe are brilliantly self-assured
This archival Daily Heller originally ran on March 29, 2023. For those who have been Blab! fans for many years, this “Premiere Issue” may seem oddly named. Blab! was an anthology edited by Monte Beauchamp… Read More »The Daily Heller: Gabbing About the Gift of “Blab!”
Faced with an existential threat from AI, the leading liberal newspaper is fighting back with a major redesign focused on flexibility and mobile-first design. When I first got into journalism in the 1990s, it was… Read More »The Guardian’s 2025 redesign is the upgrade readers deserve
Blending architectural photography and graphic storytelling, Civic is a striking new book by 51 Studio and Dom Moore that documents the Civic Centre’s in-between moment, capturing the stark beauty, civic baggage, and future uncertainty of… Read More »Landmark, Eyesore, or Icon? New book captures Plymouth’s Civic Centre in liminal transition
As cannabis moves from counterculture to mainstream, Super Okay’s rebrand of California-based THC Design plants its flag in ambition, clarity and craft, steering the brand away from clichés and toward icon status alongside Levi’s and… Read More »Rolling with intention: How Super Okay is turning THC Design into the Great American Cannabis brand