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Why this portfolio stands out in a world of samey 3D characters

Why this portfolio stands out in a world of samey 3D characters

Kevin Beckers didn’t start out making characters, which kind of explains why his work feels a bit different straight away, as his roots are in architectural visualisation and product rendering, work where everything has to be clean, precise, and believable, which still runs through what he does now, even as things have loosened up creatively.

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The Standards Powering The Agentic Web

The Standards Powering The Agentic Web

This is Part 3 in a five-part series on optimizing websites for the agentic web. Part 1 covered the evolution from SEO to AAIO. Part 2 explored how to get your content cited in AI responses. This article goes deeper: the protocols forming the infrastructure layer that make everything else possible. The early web needed

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Your AI governance gap is bigger than you think

Your AI governance gap is bigger than you think

Across every industry, AI governance is now a pressing challenge for C-suite executives and senior leaders. Some of the most common questions I’m hearing right now all circle back to a similar issue: How do you govern AI that’s already being used across your organization? Don’t ask. Assume AI is already being used, with or

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The Shape of Silence :: Behance

The Shape of Silence :: Behance

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How To Identify And Solve Click Fraud In Paid Media – Ask A PPC

How To Identify And Solve Click Fraud In Paid Media – Ask A PPC

This week’s Ask a PPC addresses one of advertisers’ most frustrating fears: “I suspect my account has click fraud. What checks can I do to confirm this, and what can I do about it?” Click fraud is easily one of the most frustrating pitfalls in managing a paid media account. Whether it shows up as

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Horizon bets the future of ad buying is the layer no one has built yet

Horizon bets the future of ad buying is the layer no one has built yet

Agency trading desks spent a decade trying to live down what they were. Horizon Media thinks it’s finally figured out what they should become. It’s building what it describes internally as an “orchestration and intelligence” layer that sits above ad tech rather than alongside it. The idea: plug every relevant media marketplace partner – demand-side

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Bravas Graphix’s explosive posters and stickers strike a balance between the punk and the academic

Bravas Graphix’s explosive posters and stickers strike a balance between the punk and the academic

There’s semantic lore behind Bravas Graphix, a Brussels-based design duo composed of Paul Peyrolle and Jules Rousselet, who describe themselves as the “two protagonists” behind the mini-studio. Bravas comes from the dialect local to Sommières, a village between the Camargue and the Cévennes, where the duo are from, and it means brave or kind. In

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Keep WordPress Out Of Your Mouth

Keep WordPress Out Of Your Mouth

WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg responded to Cloudflare’s announcement of EmDash as the spiritual successor to WordPress by invoking Will Smith’s Oscars slap, telling Cloudflare to keep the WordPress name out of their mouth. Cloudflare’s CEO responded with a tweet that invoked the WordPress name. Mullenweg ultimately edited his blog post to tone it down. Screenshot

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Here Are the 2026 Q1 Morning Show Ratings

Here Are the 2026 Q1 Morning Show Ratings

These are the morning show ratings for the first quarter of 2026 and the week of March 23. First Quarter 2026 The conclusion of the first three months of 2026 continued with the status quo, with NBC News’ Today being the most-watched morning show in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo. It’s now back-to-back

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This game concept artist explores fantastical ideas in historical settings

This game concept artist explores fantastical ideas in historical settings

When it comes to personal work, Felix Riaño is always looking for “happy accidents”. Born and raised in Colombia and currently working in the UK at Atomhawk, he draws inspiration from comics, movies, and weird internet stories. Felix is a senior concept artist whose work sits at the intersection of technical precision and imaginative world-building.

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The 5-Pillar Framework For AI Content That Audiences Actually Trust

The 5-Pillar Framework For AI Content That Audiences Actually Trust

When I started updating an online course I’m teaching, I kept returning to the same uncomfortable observation: The content marketing profession has gotten remarkably good at producing content nobody wants to read. That’s not a knock on the people doing the work. It’s a structural problem created by an industry that optimized for volume at

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Martech stacks are holding back sales and marketing teams

Martech stacks are holding back sales and marketing teams

Sales and marketing alignment has been a “priority” for years. And yet, for most organizations, it’s still more aspiration than reality. New data from Unbounce’s “The Anatomy of Aligned Go-To-Market Teams” report shows that just 56% of GTM professionals consider their organizations highly aligned — meaning shared goals, shared data and a unified system. Another

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Hotel Vila Inglesa :: Behance

Hotel Vila Inglesa :: Behance

Hotel Vila Ingle​​​​​​​sa is part of Campos do Jordão’s collective imagination. Founded in 1948, it directly influenced the city’s architecture, giving guests an elegant atmosphere and panoramic views. It even hosted Brazil’s national team in 1962. A true symbol of tradition and affection, it offers an exceptional stay for families and visitors looking for comfort.

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New Acquisition Channel Or Just Another Brand Tax?

New Acquisition Channel Or Just Another Brand Tax?

A lot of PPC managers are going to get asked about ChatGPT Ads over the next few months. That was probably inevitable the moment OpenAI moved beyond testing ads and started building a real monetization story around them. The initial pilot was easy enough for most advertisers to ignore. It was invite-only, expensive, and limited

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How brands navigate the 2026 budget crunch

How brands navigate the 2026 budget crunch

Between the Super Bowl, 2026 Winter Olympics and FIFA World Cup, there is no shortage of sports marketing opportunities this year. But global ad spend has increased, and brands like Grey Goose, John Deere and Lavazza coffee brand are investing in pre-existing, long-standing partnerships instead of chasing this year’s live sports calendar. ‘Keeping the coin

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“What if everyone started making out?” Andrea Marti’s horny photo series tackles Gen Z’s lack of intimacy head on

“What if everyone started making out?” Andrea Marti’s horny photo series tackles Gen Z’s lack of intimacy head on

After discovering an essay by Raquel S. Benedict titled Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny, surrounding characters in film that may be presented in sexually suggestive ways but are not shown having or even talking about sex, Andrea started to think that there was even more ground for her photographic exploration of intimacy

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Google Core Update, Crawl Limits & Gemini Traffic Data – SEO Pulse

Google Core Update, Crawl Limits & Gemini Traffic Data – SEO Pulse

Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how Google ranks content, how its crawlers handle page size, and where AI referral traffic is heading. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Rolls Out The March 2026 Core Update Google began rolling out the March core update this week. This is the first broad

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ABC News Anchor Reportedly Exiting

ABC News Anchor Reportedly Exiting

Top of the Ticker: ABC News has declined to renew the contract of Janai Norman, one of the co-anchors of the weekend edition of Good Morning America. The Status newsletter was the first to report the news. When TVNewser reached out to ABC News, the network declined to comment on the situation. However, a person

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The ultimate logo quiz: think you know your 1960s logos?

The ultimate logo quiz: think you know your 1960s logos?

Previous quizzes have seen us test you on 1920s logos, 1930s logos, 1940s logos and 1950s logos but what about the best logos of the 1960s? The internet is awash with ‘guess the logo’ quizzes so we haven’t gone for that angle here, think of this as more of a logo trivia extravaganza. We include

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Why Agentic AI Shopping Feels Unnatural And May Not Threaten SEO

Why Agentic AI Shopping Feels Unnatural And May Not Threaten SEO

Google, OpenAI, and Shopify insist that the next revolution in AI is agentic AI shopping agents. Shopping is a lucrative area for AI to burrow into. The thing that I keep thinking is that shopping is a deeply important activity to humans; it’s literally a part of our DNA. Is surrendering the shopping experience something

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