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June 22, 2026

MakeBuild at Cannes Lions

For the first time, MakeBuild were on the ground at Cannes Lions this year

Allie Asprou
Content Marketer

Our co-founder and Creative Director, Tim Janes, spent a few days at Cannes Lions this year - his first visit to the festival!

For a studio that thinks about designing for the web all day, every day, it was a chance to step outside the usual conversations. Tim swapped the familiar circles for a week among CMOs, immersive media agencies, and plenty of people well outside the web design world.

What he brought back (along with a few funny anecdotes!) was the firm belief that bold ideas are still the ones that matter.

Rather than the AI hand-wringing you might expect, the mood at Cannes was firmly about human creativity and a willingness to take risks.

As a Webflow Premium Enterprise Partner, designing for the web is pretty much all we think about. Spending time somewhere that takes creativity this seriously felt like exactly the right place to be.

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