Meaningful Creations

EDITION 24 / 2025

Hey Reader,! 🖤

As I mentioned last week, I've decided to TOTALLY revamp CanvaOS - we're talking new content, latest tools, updated workflows, fresh demos & more templates - this is gonna be CanvaOS Version 3.0.🔥

The new course is shaping up really nicely, but as I explained it is a LOT of work, and obviously has taken me WAY longer than expected. (Am I the only one?? 🤔) But, I want to do it right, and I so am excited to let you know that it will finally be available in January 2026.

And here's the brilliant news: as an existing CanvaOS member you're already in, and - come January - you'll get all the shiny, new, updated materials, videos and templates waiting for you in our course platform at no extra cost. My way of saying thank you for being part of the CanvaOS community. 🎉

I also wanted to give you a quick heads-up that next Thursday I'm launching my first ever Black Friday offer - 50% off for new students who want to join CanvaOS now.

You won't receive any sales emails about this offer (or you shouldn't - if you do for some reason, there'll be a link in the email to opt-out), but if you know anyone who you think would be interested in joining CanvaOS at 50% off - before the price goes up in January - I'd so appreciate it if you would ask them to sign up at www.createdbywayne.com/newsletter and they will be notified as soon as the offer is live next week. (Squeeeee! 😁)

Thank you again for being a part of CanvaOS. 🖤

I've got someone really special to share with you this week - a South African sculptor (now in New Zealand) whose work I genuinely find so powerful. Simon Max Bannister creates bronze and steel sculptures that somehow capture both the strength and fragility of nature in the most incredible way.

His process is also pretty amazing: for his bronze sculptures, Simon collects wood splinters from sawmills - fragments that look like feathers, bone, and sinew. He assembles them into birds, nests, and wings, then uses a lost cast technique where the wooden forms are incinerated to create the mould for the final bronze piece. It's a beautiful metaphor really - the original is destroyed to create something permanent, often immortalizing species that may not be around for much longer. And it's all natural materials.

What really gets me about Simon's work is that it's not just beautiful - it carries weight. Each sculpture is both a a tribute to the power of nature and a reminder of how fragile it all is.

Check out his work on his website or on Instagram, and tell him I sent ya. 😉