Canva is giving digital creatives a new way to design, illustrate, and edit photos on their iPads, and it doesn't have to cost them a thing. After relaunching the Affinity creative suite as an all-in-one desktop app last year, Canva has now introduced Affinity for iPad, which provides the same pro-grade tools for vector graphics, photo editing, illustration, and page layouts in a format optimized for Apple Pencil and touchscreens.

Affinity for iPad has a new Sketch Studio that's designed for freehand drawing and simplifying sketch-to-vector workflows, including optimized tools for masking and automatically converting rough sketches into cle …

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The Match Archive is my new favorite place to "joy scroll" on Instagram. This page showcases all sorts of gorgeous antique matchboxes. Gone are the days when match companies put creativity and art into each little box of matches, but wonderful pages like this let you experience the joy of decorative matchboxes. — Read the rest

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Davey Barker's TitleArt recreates the classic style and feature-set of WordArt ("Make text like it's 1997"), the surprisingly fun and unusually well-crafted type design tools built-in to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint back in the day.

I wanted to make a faithful recreation of the original WordArt so I went through the various screenshots I could find and tweaked the built-in styles by eye.

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These stone face artworks by Chen and Kai make me so happy to look at. These decorative works can be placed on your bookshelf, coffee table, or wherever else you choose. Each one features a spooky and simple face carved from a slab of stone. — Read the rest

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I promise I would never take time out of my day to write about something as mundane as a football team changing its logo unless it was whipping up a frenzy. Most NFL logos feature cool animals in profile, but the Falcons have taken theirs a step further. — Read the rest

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