Design

The Creative Bloq Awards 2023 winners week continues today with the announcement of the results in the crafting and camera categories. These include the coveted title of Craft Machine of the Year, plus best cutting machine, craft accessory and art printer. As for cameras, we awarded offerings in a range of categories, from best phone camera to best luxury camera.

Today's announcements are just a few of the more than 40 categories in the Creative Bloq Awards 2023. We've been announcing the winners throughout the week, recognising the best creative tech released in the past year, from laptops to games (see below for the schedule and links to the other announcements). You can see the full CB awards shortlist to view the competition and the Creative Bloq Awards website for more information on the awards.

Meanwhile, new illustrations by Marina Glikman and Jessica Gracia cover icons, city icons and trophies. These designs follow GUT’s signature style and logo aesthetic, featuring the main brand ingredients in their texture, colour and shape.

The illustrations will also be used for key moments for the agency, such as new office openings and industry award announcements.

London-based photographer Jack Kenyon turns his lens to the fascinating world of prom nights and luxury car rental in his latest series called Dripped Out For Prom.

London-based photographer Thomas Bertie Taylor takes a different look at the world via abstract images that pick out and highlight mundane details.

You don’t need to travel far to take incredible photos. Just look at the work of Thomas Bertie Taylor, who splits his time between London and Brighton and manages to find new, entrancing takes on these well-worn haunts. By playing around with compositions and focus, Thomas has a knack for presenting the familiar in a new light and making you reappraise supposedly mundane details.

In the surreal world of Thomas’s photos, everything from a person washing a car windscreen to food being handled at a seafood market takes on a strange new energy. Even familiar locations like Brighton Beach feel new and alive, and a reflection in a glass fragment invites the viewer to engage with the image and create their own background story.

An American family sought Sydney-based interior design studio Hugh-Jones Mackintosh to design their home in San Francisco’s Bay Area, observing clear parallels between the two coastal cities and their outdoor-focused living. ‘Bay Blue’ seamlessly fuses the two distant corners of the world, reflecting its vibrant, cosmopolitan owners through a unique global lens.