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TOP STORY
💎 Sketch releases “Athens”
This week, Sketch released "Athens," their largest update ever, introducing "Stacks," their long-awaited auto layout feature that lets designers create flexible, adaptable layouts that automatically adjust as content changes.
The release brings Sketch up to speed with modern design tool capabilities that competitors have had for years.
How it works: Simply select layers and press Cmd/Ctrl + L to create a stack—Sketch automatically applies the most logical layout settings based on your layer arrangement.
Examples of what you can build with Stacks:
Smart buttons that grow and shrink based on text length
Complex nested layouts that adapt to different screen sizes
Modal dialogs with consistent spacing that adjust to content length
Any UI component that needs to be responsive and maintainable
In addition to “Stacks,” Sketch also released the following updates:
Frames (replacing Artboards) for UI design that can be nested, styled, and work with Stacks.
Graphics for icons and illustrations with fixed proportional sizing and a focused inspector.
The new Command Bar allows you to insert and swap components directly from the Command Bar using shortcuts like Y for Symbols and ⌃T for Text Styles.
There are 100+ other refinements across workflows, styling, and productivity features, as apart of this update.
Why it matters: This release is critical for Sketch's survival in the design tool wars.
Once the industry standard for UI design, Sketch has watched competitors like Figma and Framer rapidly outpace them by shipping advanced layout systems, real-time collaboration, and web-based accessibility.
While Sketch remained a desktop-only tool with basic Smart Layout functionality, designers migrated to platforms offering auto layout, component systems, and seamless team workflows.
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SOUND DESIGN
🔊 ElevenLabs releases “Voice Library”
This week, ElevenLabs expanded its “Voice Library,” now featuring 5,000+ professional voices (and 750 “high-quality voices”) with enhanced discovery and organization features.
The expanded Voice Library is available now through the ElevenLabs web app.
ElevenLabs announced it has paid out over $5 million to voice actors on its platform, with creators earning royalties each time their voice is used.
The platform also introduced several key improvements:
🔍 Enhanced voice filtering - Expanded filter options make it easier to find specific voice types based on your needs.
🔥 Personal Collections - Save voices from the library to create custom collections for easy access across projects.
🆕 HQ badge system - All new 750+ voices now carry “High-Quality” badges, guaranteeing they've been manually reviewed by audio experts for clarity, consistency, and proper recording quality with no echo or distortion.
🤌 Handpicked Collections - Browse curated voice collections alongside the ability to create your own.
💬 Curated language collections - Browse voices organized by language and regional accents for localized content creation.
These updates make ElevenLabs' voice selection process more streamlined for content creators, podcasters, and developers who rely on consistent, professional-grade AI voices for their projects.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🔥 Black Forest Labs releases “FLUX.1 Kontex”
This week, Black Forest Labs released "FLUX.1 Kontext," a new AI image model that excels at maintaining character consistency across different scenes — addressing a major challenge that many AI models struggle with.
The models are available through partners including KREA AI, Freepik, Leonardo AI, and more, available in private beta.
left: input image; middle: edit from input: “tilt her head towards the camera”, right: “make her laugh”
What makes Kontext special:
✅ Character consistency: Preserve unique elements like reference characters or objects across multiple scenes and environments
🖼 Local editing: Make targeted modifications to specific parts of an image without affecting other areas
🎨 Style reference: Generate new scenes while maintaining unique styles from reference images
⚡ Interactive speed: Iterate with minimal latency, up to 8x faster than current leading models
Unlike traditional text-to-image models that only work with text prompts, Kontext enables true in-context generation and editing.
This means you can modify existing images with simple text instructions, preserve character consistency across different scenes, and make targeted edits without affecting the rest of the image.
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Flux Kontext is going crazy viral right now 🤯
AI can now instantly restore old, damaged photos to razor sharp in seconds.
Faces stay same.
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OTHER STORIES
Everything else in creative news 🗞
ElevenLabs announced that its iOS app is now available for pre-orders.
Stitch (by Google) can now generate 10 designs at the same time.
Rive released a new “Data Binding” feature for images, allowing you to dynamically swap images in the Rive Editor and at runtime — currently available in Early Access.
Descript’s AI co-editor, “Underlord,” is now available for everyone to use in open beta.
Spline announced it’s adding “Progressive Blur” and "Gradients” to Hana.
Framer released a new plugin, Quick Action menus, improved numeric inputs, new layer icons, and tons of fixes in its May update.
Descript redesigned its timeline, integrating scene thumbnails in the video transcript.
Runway released “Layout Sketch” for “Gen-4 References,” allowing you to start from a blank canvas or draw on top of an existing image to add new elements and compositions.
Pikzels announced that “Pikzels 3.0” is now available.
Suno has open applications for “Suno Content Ambassadors.”
Restream has added support for Substack live-streaming.
Adobe Premiere Pro has added a new sound effects “SFX” tab.
Adobe Premiere Pro has added support for .MKV files.
Adobe Premiere Pro exports files faster than ever before with enhanced codec support.
Webflow CMS edits now auto-save in Webflow.
Webflow released a new AI-powered workflow in “Webflow Optimize,” that provides AI-driven suggestions, generates test-ready copy variations, and launches experiments, all without leaving your design environment.
Descript added a new “Split” tool to the timeline.
Jitter released Bezier handles for curved paths, allowing users to sculpt motion paths with more precision.
Riverside released several new updates including: a Graphic EQ feature that allows for precise audio shaping, a new re-record button, “Animated Clips,” and the ability to select playback control speed.
DaVinci Resolve 20’s final release is now available.
Manus released “Slides,” allowing you to create stunning, structured presentations, instantly.
Reframe’s API is now available.
Freepik added support for Flux Kontext and Kling 2.1.
Rive added support for “Mac Catalyst” in the Rive Apple runtime — now you can use the same Rive files across iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, tvOS, and macOS with a single runtime.
Runway “Gen-4 References” now supports single image generation and both 720p and 1080p outputs.
ElevenLabs released “Conversational AI 2.0,” enabling companies to build voice agents, now with a new state-of-the-art turn-taking model, language switching capabilities, and more.
Pika released a new 90s nostalgia Pikaffect.
Leonardo.Ai released “Omni Editing,” allowing users to edit any image right inside the editor with a single prompt.
Rive has added updates to its MCP, including the ability to build layouts with text and shapes.
Visual Electric has added support for “Flux Kontext.”
FLORA has added support for “Flux Kontext.”
Visual Electric added a search function to its AI image gallery — now you can search across millions of AI generated images from the community.
Freepik introduced a new Pro plan that comes with 3.6 million credits/year, quicker image generation, and early access to features & future AI tools.
Runway Image and Video models are now available to integrated with ComfyUI API nodes.
KREA AI released “Dough,” a new AI model designed for image editing.
Freepik added support for two image references when using the Flux Kontext model.
KREA AI added support for “Flux Kontext,” allowing users to edit images like ChatGPT but preserve the original content much better.
KREA AI added support for Kling 2.1, an AI model that produces hyper-realistic motion, supports image inputs, and is super fast.
ElevenLabs is now a verified launch partner for the n8n.io Community Nodes program.
