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Creative Bloq
Creative Bloq
Technology
Tom May

The one design trend I want to see more of in 2026

A highly detailed, vibrant illustration focusing on the bandaged head and exposed muscular anatomy of a figure surrounded by ornate laboratory equipment and flowers.

When I think back on the year just gone, there are two pieces of creativity that truly stand out for me personally. Not because they were the best or the cleverest or anything. But because when I first encountered them, they filled my internal world with more joy, excitement and wonder than anything other than falling in love or the birth of a child has any right to do.

One was watching Taylor Swift's The Fate of Ophelia brought to magical, Busby Berkeley-inspired life on the silver screen, which felt like the future of cinema. The other was unexpectedly seeing the poster for the forthcoming film Wuthering Heights on a bus stop. The moment it entered my eyeline, my heart starting racing and my mind screamed: "I have to see this movie!!!"

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