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Tom May

Tom May is a freelance writer and editor specialising in design and creativity. With over two decades in journalism, he is a regular contributor to Computer Arts, net, ImagineFX and Professional Photography.

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Photo: Sophie Jones
Inspiration Branding

Meet Party Cannon, the candy-coloured group turning death metal branding on its head

Photo: Dan Mills
Insight Art & Culture

My weekend at metal festival Bloodstock reminded me why creatives need to step outside their comfort zone

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Tips Career

Can you actually grow old as a creative, successfully?

Insight Graphic Design

Meet the design studio that's paid in wine, meals and travel rather than money

Resources The Edit

Luke McConkey on what making box art for a game can teach you about standing out

Resources Books

Two Berlin graduates asked 30 design leaders if AI has ended their industry. The answers were somewhat surprising

News Advertising

People don't know what a fund manager does, so T. Rowe Price built a giant art installation to explain it

News Graphic Design

For 100 years no-one noticed it, but this rebrand finally gives Gunnersbury Museum a reason to be found

Steel Riveters at Fire
Insight Art & Culture

The case for anonymous work: what today's creatives can learn from Ken White

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Insight Branding

The TikTok slang trap: why brands using it are already 'cooked'

Pearl Gaze
Inspiration Illustration

The seduction of discomfort: enter Wenjia Wang's unsettling, beautiful worlds

Yann Pissenem and Sam Mooney
Insight Creative Industry

Should agencies be worried? This launch suggests clients increasingly don't need them

All photos by the official festival photography team: Katja Ogrin, Steve Dempsey, Leigh van der Byl, Sophie Jones and Abbi Draper-Scott
News Art & Culture

Bloodstock 2026: inside Britain's biggest independent metal festival, and why it's more creative than you might think

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