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Figma, Framer, UI/UX and brand identity news collected from industry publications. Every story credits and links to its original source.
Adobe MAX 2026: what the session list says about AI and craft
Adobe’s creativity conference runs 10–12 November in Miami Beach. Read alongside the agenda, the message is clear: AI is pitched as support for craft, and the buyer is increasingly the enterprise.
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The 2027 Volleyball World Cup logo packs five ideas into one mark
The emblem for the 2027 FIVB Men’s Volleyball World Cup in Poland combines the trophy, the Earth, the net, reaching hands and a wave of fans. Creative Bloq asks whether that is too much for one logo.
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Benelli redraws its lion for a cleaner, single-colour identity
Presented at EICMA 2026 in Milan, the motorcycle maker’s refreshed emblem keeps its heritage but simplifies it for screens and products.
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Freightliner’s new logo shows how to rebrand after an acquisition
The UK rail freight operator keeps its name but adopts a cleaner logo and livery that align it with new parent CMA CGM.
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Clio’s new identity, with Wolff Olins, marks a shift from tool to platform
The legal software company retired its checkbox-and-clock logo at ClioCon 2026 in Boston, replacing it with a square surrounded by eight circles.
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EA Sports FC 27 turns its logo into a flexible identity system
London and LA studio DixonBaxi has reworked the EA Sports FC identity, reshaping the 2023 triangular mark into a free form that can take many different visual treatments.
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Sun Life becomes Sunlife in its first major brand change in 25 years
The Canadian financial services group has merged its name into one word, simplified its sun symbol and introduced the line “Making life brighter”.
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Figma Specs and code layers: Figma’s plan for designing with agents
At its first Config in India, Figma introduced Specs, a Markdown editor for design rules, and opened code layers to everyone in beta.
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Michelangelus: a Microsoft font built from Michelangelo’s handwriting
Made for the 400th anniversary of St Peter’s Basilica, the typeface adapts Michelangelo’s letters from the Vatican archives into a modern script for signage, print and screens.
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Framer Skills: teaching the agent how your site is designed
Skills let Framer teams write down how pages, CMS content and checks should work, so the built-in agent produces on-brand first drafts.
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WCAG 3: what the September 2026 working draft means for designers
The W3C published a new WCAG 3 draft. It is not a standard yet, and WCAG 2.2 AA remains the target, but the direction is worth knowing.
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Vi refreshes its identity with a three-dimensional sphere
India’s Vodafone Idea updated the Vi logo, turning its signature mark into a 3D sphere, as the first step of a wider brand evolution.
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Instagram’s first brand refresh in a decade puts script back at the centre
Meta has introduced a bolder, simpler script wordmark for Instagram, an updated Instagram Sans, a new handwriting face called Instagram Pen and a more restrained use of the gradient.
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7UP puts lime first with its biggest brand change in 15 years
Keurig Dr Pepper has reformulated 7UP as “Lime Lemon” and given it new cans with a vertical logo and bolder colours, rolling out across the US from mid-August.
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ShieldFont: a free web font designed to confuse AI scrapers
Playtype and Brazilian studio Seneda & Abrucio have released an open-source font that shows readers normal text while swapping words in the source that scrapers collect.
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Coca-Cola unifies its look under one global visual system
The Coca-Cola Company is rolling out a single identity system across more than 200 markets, strengthening the red, the Dynamic Ribbon and the Spencerian script, and giving Zero Sugar a black ribbon.
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Config 2026: Figma Motion, shader fills and generative plugins
Figma’s main Config event brought a native animation timeline, shader fills and plugins you can build by describing them.
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Adobe brings AI Assistants to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
Adobe’s new creative agent powers in-app assistants that can resize assets, version files from a spreadsheet or apply brand updates across layouts, now in public beta.
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Framer 3.0 brings AI agents, branching and a new Community
Framer’s biggest release of the year puts agents on the canvas, lets teams test changes in isolated branches and connects outside AI tools.
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iOS 27 refines Liquid Glass, and adds a transparency slider
A year after introducing Liquid Glass, Apple focused on readability: more even refraction, better contrast, sharper icons and user control over transparency.
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Figma and Anthropic launch Code to Canvas
A new workflow sends interfaces built with Claude Code into Figma as editable layers, so teams can compare and refine them on the canvas.
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Pantone picks Cloud Dancer, a soft white, as Color of the Year 2026
Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer is described as a calm, airy white neutral and a deliberate statement of simplification.
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