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MODULAR LOGO SYSTEM UNIFIES MAXON’S CREATIVE SOFTWARE layoutMotion designer Casey Gu creates the Maxon One Brand Expression Film to introduce a unified visual identity across Maxon’s suite of creative tools. The project translates a modular logo system into motion, establishing a visual connection between products spanning 2D and 3D design, motion graphics, and visual effects. Rather than treating each product as an isolated identity, the film explores how distinct visual characteristics can coexist within a shared brand framework. Led by Leo Hageman, Director of Brand & Creative, the new identity brings together Maxon One, Cinema 4D, Red Giant, ZBrush, Redshift, Universe, Capsules, Cinebench, Cineware, and Moves through a consistent geometric language. Its modular, honeycomb-inspired forms provide the structural basis for this relationship, creating continuity across a diverse range of tools while maintaining room for individual product identities.all images ©Casey Gumotion design balances abstract geometry with brand motifsFor motion designer Casey Gu, the central challenge was translating the modular visual system into motion while balancing abstraction with product recognition.

rethinking the future of hospitality designFrom November 17 to 19, 2026, IFEMA Madrid transforms into a hub of optimistic innovation as interihotel MAD26 returns for its sixteenth edition. Organized by the AMBIT Living Spaces Cluster, the event brings together around 350 exhibiting brands and over 200 international speakers. Under the theme of ‘Creative Rebellion,’ this year’s program directly challenges established hospitality conventions, using radical creativity and material experimentation to spark fresh paradigms for hotels and restaurants worldwide.interihotel MAD26 returns for its sixteenth edition | all images courtesy of interihotelthe anatomy of a rebellionUniting craftsmanship and industry insights, interihotel MAD26 structures its narrative across three dedicated thematic days. Day one, The Inside Rebellion, dives into design identity and human emotion, headlined by Stefan Sagmeister’s presentation No Doom, no Gloom, which blends data visualization with design to champion optimism, alongside discussions with Nini Andrade Silva and Astet Studio.

Hrag Vartanian on Cannupa Hanska Luger, Artavazd Pelechian’s cinema of connections, and a Ron DeSantis statue melts. In Cannupa Hanska Luger’s latest show at Garth Greenan Gallery, an abstracted bison crafted of ironstone clay and sumi ink sits on a burned and blackened 19th-century American dining table; elsewhere, a stack of the animal’s skulls rests on a surface with vintage axes for table legs. Haunting Luger’s monochromatic sculptures, which Hyperallergic’s Editor-at-Large Hrag Vartanian calls his “strongest work yet,” is the slaughter of the buffalo by European settlers under the violent banner of Westward expansion. “The beauty of the forms seduces you into almost forgetting that destruction, but that visual history is embedded into each element,” writes Vartanian in his review today. Climate change? What climate change? In Florida, a life-sized statue of right-wing governor Ron DeSantis is melting. Ahead of elections for DeSantis’s successor in November, a climate action group installed the gallium sculpture in front of a crowd of DeSantis supporters in Tallahassee, sending a clear, if rapidly deteriorating, message. Its title?

Demonstrators denouncing public funding cuts kept visitors out of the museum Monday morning. The post Protestors Block Entrance to the Louvre Following Nationwide Protests appeared first on Artnet News .

“By Grabthar’s hammer, by the sons of Worvan … you shall be avenged.”If you have seen Galaxy Quest, those words may bring you close to tears. They mark the moment when Alan Rickman’s character – a Shakespearean luvvie turned sci-fi sidekick – realises that the ludicrous catchphrase he has reluctantly uttered thousands of times does matter after all.1999’s Galaxy Quest is such a good sci-fi parody that it was once voted the seventh best Star Trek film of all time … by Star Trek fans. Its genre send-up is effective and affectionate, with gags about underwritten female characters and illogical spaceship design. It is also a genuinely fun space caper: there’s a properly scary baddie, a spaceship chase sequence, a high-jeopardy mission on a foreign planet and not one but two romantic subplots. There are Beryllium spheres and a rock monster and an Omega-13 (whatever that is). Rickman’s character, Alexander Dane, is one of a group of washed-up actors from a cancelled cult 1980s sci-fi show, now reduced to appearing at fan conventions.

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN YIELDS Stratum PARAMETRIC TIMBER BENCHSTRATUM is a monumental parametric wooden bench designed and manufactured by Zorka Furniture for Haywood Mall in Greenville, South Carolina. Spanning nearly 29 feet and featuring over 600 individually CNC-cut components, this sculptural installation transforms traditional seating into an interactive architectural landmark, combining innovative design, precision craftsmanship, and functionality in a contemporary public space.all images ©Zorka Furniture600 CNC-CUT PLYWOOD COMPONENTS FORM MODULAR ASSEMBLYThe structure by design and manufacturing studio Zorka Furniture comprises over 600 individually CNC-cut wooden components milled from roughly 100 plywood sheets. Assembled into a three-dimensional, layered mass, the varying profiles produce a rhythmic sequence of curves, integrated seating niches, and arched pass-throughs designed for visitor interaction. Weighing over 5,500 pounds (2,500 kilograms), the bench was fabricated into modular sections, shipped on five pallets, and assembled overnight to accommodate the mall’s operating hours.