
Creative Bloq reports Canva pulled in 144.5 billion web visits between May 2025 and April 2026, and its acquisitions of pro-grade tools like Affinity have turned it into a genuine competitor to Figma and Adobe. Despite the numbers, plenty of working designers still treat Canva like a beginner's tool they're embarrassed to admit using.

To promote its upcoming film, Coyote Vs Acme placed out-of-home ads across cities designed to look like Acme products have physically crashed into billboards, bus stops, and street furniture β turning the movie's premise into a stunt people walk past in real life.

D&AD's new "Cost of the Shortcut" report warns that as studios lean on AI to handle layouts, first drafts, and mockups, they're quietly cutting the entry-level jobs where junior creatives used to build judgment β meaning fewer people are left learning to become seniors.

Figma shipped a feature letting organization admins mark specific templates, plugins, libraries, and "Make" kits as officially recommended, flagging them with a checkmark so members can tell vetted resources apart from the noise of Figma's massive Community library.

Instead of a normal poster, Tyler the Creator's Camp Flog Gnaw festival revealed its 2026 lineup through a set of word-jumble puzzles on its website, forcing fans to decode cryptic one-line clues to find out who's actually performing.
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