Ah, Concord. Sony‘s $100m PS5 flop was one of the biggest calamities in recent gaming history – some say the worst since Atari’s E.T. in 1982. The game was taken offline in September after just two weeks due to poor sales. A lot of blame was put on Concord’s character design (I thought the problem
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Sorry, Ugly Sonic—you’re not going to have an Ugly Stitch to add to your friend group. Back in 2019, Paramount learned the perils of building a major movie marketing campaign around the reveal of a “live-action” version of a beloved animated character—in that case, Sonic the Hedgehog. When fans got a look at the film’s
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Why you can trust Creative Bloq Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Canva has established itself as the go-to design platform for non-designers and design newbies, and Canva Websites brings that same user-friendly approach to
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I will fully admit that I love labelling things. What could be more satisfying than sorting through your spices and giving them all labels or organising all your artwork with prices, ready to sell at a market? You could just buy a bunch of labels and create your own hand-drawn labels, but having one of
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Last February we brought you the urgent breaking news that a personality quiz describing what cake you are, and how that might affect your job prospects, was all over Instagram. Today we bring you the equally urgent breaking news that a new ‘Pro’ version of the quiz has landed, featuring ten new personality types –
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The most iconic car designs can mean several different things. It might be a car that is instantly recognisable, one that everybody and their grandmother around the world can identify and name. Equally, it might be a car that typifies an era, or a car that had a massive influence on everything that came after,
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I’m a proud owner of the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, one of the best camera phones that you can buy right now, and I’m always talking about how it can capture a pretty sharp shot without much effort. I also tend to use my phone camera a lot more than my Sony mirrorless camera for
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They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but as a man intrigued by the concept of judgement, the French philosopher Albert Camus would allow us to make an exception. Happily the covers for Vintage Books’ Albert Camus collection are sublime on multiple levels. At first glance, the black-and-white cover art appears
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When it comes to the future of graphics, Nvidia continues to run one step ahead of what’s being used in the industry. The updated Zorah tech demo made on the RTX Unreal Engine 5 branch showcases the power of Nvidia’s neural rendering – the latest cutting-edge RTX feature – and now you can download it
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The Volkswagen logo is one of the most memorable car logos around. Everyone knows what it looks like. And at first glance, it would seem the only changes in recent decades were to make the Volkswagen logo flat and to narrow the lines for a time. It’s a simple and distinctive brand identity. Surely there’s
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Although we’re only half way through the decade, the 2020s has already given rise to some highly memorable – dare I say potentially classic – print ads. Minimal branding, bold photography and playful use of form are the order of the day for these print ads, standing boldly apart from the moving images of the
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Portsmouth Historic Dockyard boasts an impressive collection of historical navel artefacts, but engaging a new generation with maritime history is no mean feat. Rewriting the rules of heritage branding, Portsmouth Dockyard has launched a new campaign bursting with a re-energised appeal to entice visitors young and old to its leading attractions, from The Mary Rose
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Earlier this week, Digiday reported that parties were trying to engineer a divestment of Yahoo’s demand-side platform, but who would buy such an asset, especially in this market? Now that the hard yards of reporting have been done, it’s time to reflect on the subsequent output of ad tech’s chattering classes to assess the likely
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CAD, or computer-aided design, has transformed design in many fields, allowing simulation and numerical data modeling in industries such as architecture, engineering, construction, product design and aerospace. But CAD is a broad term, so what are the different types of CAD? You can see a general overview in our What is CAD? piece. If you’re
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Why you can trust Creative Bloq Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Not all ergonomic chairs are pretty, and even fewer pretty chairs are really ergonomic. But the Flexispot BS5 chair is a good looking
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Beloved confectionary brand Twix has revealed a brand new visual identity, along with a new $70M campaign designed to focus on unity. Whereas previous marketing has used encouraged customers to “pick a side” when it comes to Twix’s two biscuits, now it’s all about inviting them to “have it all”. At the centre of the
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Why you can trust Creative Bloq Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. The Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 marks a statement of intent from the respected Taiwan-based computer hardware specialist. Traditionally, the ‘Master’ brand has been
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Why you can trust Creative Bloq Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. At Creative Bloq, we love a 27-inch monitor. I think there’s something strangely satisfying about the form factor. They provide the perfect amount
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SharkNinja, the company behind the Shark and Ninja household products brands, has opened the curtain on how it spends its $700 million advertising budget. The company, which sells 36 different types of products—everything from air fryers to vacuums to outdoor grills—is developing 60 products at any given time and typically launches 25 new products per
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SpeedTree is used in almost every CG industry these days, from video game development to film VFX and Archviz. It’s a powerful and flexible software that offers procedural modelling tech in an accessible way. You can read my step-by-step tutorial, ‘How to make lifelike trees and vegetation with SpeedTree‘, for a deep guide, but here
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