Paint 3D Crystals and Coral With Free WebGPU Code
Codrops just published a deep-dive on Geometry Painter, an open-source Three.js tool that lets you literally paint 3D objects onto a scene — glowing crystals, molten cracks, aurora silk, bioluminescent coral — using WebGPU shaders that render live as you draw. Developer Chiro Visuals built it as a stroke-to-shape engine, and the tutorial breaks down exactly how the surface-picking and procedural-geometry system works.
Pentagram Built a Music Brand From John Cage's Chaos
Pentagram partner Marina Willer just unveiled a full rebrand for Muziekcentrum De Bijloke, a 13th-century former hospital turned Ghent concert venue. Instead of starting from a blank page, she built the entire identity system around composer John Cage's unconventional methods — oscilloscope-like swirls, a color palette pulled directly from the building's actual walls and ceilings, and generative patterns that shift for each performance type.
She Lost Her AI Race, Then Bet on Her Hands
Illustrator (and practicing dentist) Nosheen Ahmed watched AI wipe out her Etsy clip-art side business almost overnight — pieces that took her weeks, AI could fake in minutes. Instead of competing on speed, she rebuilt her whole creative identity around hand-drawn book cover illustration. Her reasoning: "I love drawing. I love using my hands. My hands are part of how I think and understand the world."
12 Days Left: Adobe's Global Award for Young Creators
Adobe's MAX Creativity Awards are open for entries through August 24, 2026 (11:59pm PT), across five categories — Design, Image Making, Motion, Photography, and Video. Each category has a dedicated Young Creator track for ages 18–22, it's free to enter, and judging is based purely on creativity, execution, and originality.
Kolkata Studio Turns City Signage Into a Type Safari
Design studio Kwazi Design just published Type Around Town, a visual archive documenting Kolkata's hand-painted shop signs, street lettering, and everyday typography — the result of founder Arshdeep Singh intentionally wandering the city and noticing letterforms he'd walked past his whole life.
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