Your Majesty — 10 things
July 28th · Issue #286

Hey ,

In this week’s issue we loved learning about the freelancers, across the world, who are using generative AI to inspire and further their creative processes - something we feel excited about too. 

The internet has been hot pink with the success of Barbie’s release, closely followed by Twitter’s new brand, erm, transformation. Transformation usually implies a positive change, but this one has been met with a branding backlash - read what designers really think about ‘X’. 

Plus, the ‘Untouchable Day’ - a productivity hack we all need. 


Until next time,

⚔️ Your Majesty

This week's artwork is by our Associate Designer, AJ

 

1. The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution


An exploration into how freelancers across the world are making the most of generative AI to help inspire and improve their creative processes. 
 

Read more

 

2. Designers react to Twitter’s ‘X’ rebrand


“Pure comic book,” “empty” and “an HR nightmare” - industry experts give their honest POV on Elon’s latest, and boldest move at Twitter. 
 

See the opinions

 

3. Greta Gerwig on the Blockbuster ‘Barbie’ Opening 


With a $100m+ marketing budget and a record breaking opening weekend, it’s all anyone has been talking about, whether they liked it or not. 
 

Hear from Greta herself

 

4. Why You Need an Untouchable Day Every Week 


Learn how one creative improved his productivity 10 fold. And the good news? You can do it too.
 

Find out how

 

5. Remote And Hybrid Workplaces Are Hiring People Twice As Fast As Full-Time Office Employers


We pride ourselves on a hybrid model, so we’re not shocked - giving people flexibility is definitely the future of successful business. 
 

Read the report

 

6. Google’s Bard chatbot finally launches in the EU


After a few data privacy concerns, Bard is now available in the EU and supports more than 40 languages - give it a try for yourself
 

Learn more

 

7. Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder—but Memorability May Be Universal


When visiting an art gallery, how many paintings do you actually remember? Turns out, we’re remembering the same ones as everyone else does. 
 

Read more

 

8. Biophobia: search trends reveal a growing fear of nature


Scared of bugs, spiders, snakes? Through internet data, these researchers looked into how urban living is fuelling our fear of nature. 
 

Read more

 

9. Moving AI governance forward


OpenAI and other leading labs reinforce AI safety, security and trustworthiness through voluntary commitments.
 

Read more

 

10. Meet FreeWilly, Our Large And Mighty Instruction Fine-Tuned Models


One of the AI lovers - brand new Large Language Models (LLM) form the basis of Stability AI’s new research experiments. 
 

Learn more

"Don't be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered."


— Michelle Obama

Creativity with purpose 

Exciting news - after receiving a brilliant reception from the industry, Otrium’s 2022 Impact Report has been nominated to be Awwwards site of the day. This project gave our team the chance to be creative yet with an important purpose and we’d love to see it win the daily award! Check out the report and give us your vote right here

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