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Someone Behind the Software
Karri Saarinen on why software still needs a person behind it.
karrisaarinen.com · #367
Machine Gods
The former Hard Fork hosts are back with a new show on NPR. Great hosts, bad taste in design. We offered to brand it; they didn't care.
machinegods.fm · #367
Apple Music's New Look
Its Nice That's behind the scenes on the carefully orchestrated Apple Music rebrand.
itsnicethat.com · #367
Mariko Mori
Highsnobiety on the Japanese artist who predicted our AI future 30 years ago.
highsnobiety.com · #367
Iteration, a Coral Reef Film
Colossal on a hypnotic film about a coral reef.
thisiscolossal.com · #367
Tangerine for Mac
A viral little app that converts all those files of yours into other file types.
tangerineformac.com · #367
The Status Economy
Highsnobiety's report on status as currency, wrapped in beautiful, hand-drawn analogue design.
highsnobiety.com · #366
n8n vs Claude Code
Aakash Gupta puts a workflow automation tool next to an agentic coding tool and asks which one you actually need.
news.aakashg.com · #366
DELIVERED: Customer Journey Management, with IKEA's Felipe Camara
The latest episode of DELIVERED: Felipe Camara from IKEA on how a global brand manages the customer journey. (Yes, this one's ours.)
Your Majesty · #366
The Craft Crisis
doc.cc takes a hard look at the state of craft in design, and why it feels like it's in crisis.
doc.cc · #366
A New Home for Global Design
Our Design Director, Joost, launched a new home for his global design community. Check it out.
globaldesign.group · #366
War, by Imaginary Forces
A title sequence worth watching, and another signal that analogue, human-made creative direction is coming back as a protest against AI-generated content.
creativereview.co.uk · #366
A Typeface for Arsenal
David Rudnick and Johnnie Campbell on Rocastle, the typeface they made for Arsenal.
itsnicethat.com · #366
A Pokémon Hack for the SLOP Game Economy
A fan-made ROM hack mixes retro sprite battles with Pokémon Stadium gameplay. Welcome to the SLOP game economy: lawyers will have some suing to do.
retrododo.com · #366
AdNight, the Recording
Missed AdNight? Here's the recorded session with Nils Leonard (Uncommon London), Patricia Varella (Polaroid) and Andy Pearson (Liquid Death).
youtube.com · #366
Chez Matisse
Works from the Centre Pompidou at the Hart Museum while it's under renovation. The best part is the earlier work, before the famous cut-outs.
hartmuseum.nl · #366
The Era of Bleh
As AI quietly writes more of our knowledge work, Aaron Horwath watches everything slide toward sameness.
noemamag.com · #365
Designers Are Building Their Own AI Tools
906 designers in 60+ countries: 91% now use AI at least weekly, up from 54% a year ago. The bigger shift is that more of them are building their own tools to fit how they actually work.
stateofaidesign.com · #365
A Play Café Brand Built Like a Game
Mestiza built a Mexico City play café brand like a game, pitching its geometry at both kids and adults.
itsnicethat.com · #365
MSCHF Twists Lexus Cars Into Sculptures
MSCHF bends real Lexus cars into surreal, full-scale sculptures and parks them in New York for Armory Week.
designboom.com · #365
The Reset to Real
Eventbrite's first Social Study says 79% of 18-to-35s plan to go out more, and they want soft socializing, spontaneity and events found by word of mouth, not the perfect plan.
eventbrite.com · #365
ITV's New Look, by Studio Kiln
ITV's first big rebrand since ITVX, with Studio Kiln simplifying the system and pushing Spark Yellow forward.
creativeboom.com · #365
An Identity That Speaks in Sign Language
Templo builds DeafCity Hub's identity out of British Sign Language, creative code, and gestural motion capture.
itsnicethat.com · #365
LACMA Revisits the Homes of the Future
A LACMA show digs up the strange, hopeful homes architects once built for a future that never quite arrived.
designboom.com · #365
An Olive Oil Brand With Nerve
Derek&Eric skip the Tuscan clichés for Drzzl, an olive oil brand carrying real colour and a bit of nerve.
creativeboom.com · #365
A Morning Brief Built for One
Enough people asked how our daily briefing agent works that we wrote up the whole setup, step by step. Steal it, then make it yours. (Yes, this one's ours.)
Your Majesty · #365
AI Takes a Doomer Turn
The people building AI are now the ones warning us about it, and this asks what we do once the fear sets in.
technologyreview.com · #364
AI's Most Hopeful and Concerning Moment Yet
The Center for Humane Technology's podcast makes the case that AI has never been more promising or more dangerous at the same time — and that the gap between the two is closing faster than our ability to choose which one wins.
humanetech.com · #364
Saehan Parc Hands You a Pencil
Saehan Parc draws quiet, generous worlds and wants them to hand you a pencil rather than just your applause.
creativeboom.com · #364
BMW Moves Its Showroom Into ChatGPT
You can now build a BMW by chatting inside ChatGPT instead of on bmw.com — a real bet that people will shop for cars inside AI apps before they ever land on a brand's own site.
bmwblog.com · #364
A New Kind of Creative Poverty
Afra Wang reads our AI-flooded feeds through Joan Didion, and finds a strange new poverty in endless plenty.
noemamag.com · #364
Uber Eats Turns Convenience Into a Feeling
Uber Eats built a whole brand platform, Phew, around the relief of not cooking tonight — grounded in research on why people still feel guilty paying for convenience.
lbbonline.com · #364
AI Companies Are Opening Actual Coffee Shops
AI labs are quietly getting into the coffee business — a strange, very physical answer to a very digital hype cycle.
scribble.network · #364
A Font Cut Like a Mountain
Pangram Pangram cuts a typeface like an alpine ridge, proving a font can carry the crisp air of a place.
itsnicethat.com · #364
Meta's Muse Wants to Be Your AI Agent
Meta just launched Muse, its own AI agent — and the real question, per TechCrunch's own framing, isn't what it can do, it's whether anyone will trust it enough to use it.
techcrunch.com · #364
Tomato Goes From Cheap Telco to Challenger Brand
We took A1's budget telco Tomato and gave it a whole new brand people actually notice — proof a low-cost provider doesn't have to look or feel cheap. (Yes, this one's ours. We're allowed to say so once in a while.)
Your Majesty · #364
When Products Become the Baseline, Brand Becomes the Moat
Rituals' Head of Content & Design Amanda Gandolpho joins Delivered to make the case that features get copied overnight, but the memories a brand builds don't — and where she draws the line on AI in creative work.
Your Majesty · #363
Why Brands Are Quietly Dropping Celebrities
Spotify built a campaign around an ordinary Geese fan instead of the band. Pepsi built one around Knicks fans instead of players — proof that in a fragmented culture, someone else's famous person means nothing to you.
creativeboom.com · #363
IKEA and Xbox Made a Furniture Line Together
The Yxstaby collection turns gaming desks and storage into standard IKEA pieces — a genuinely unexpected collab, even if we were hoping for PlayStation.
ikea.com · #363
Opinion Is the Moat
Renato Valdes argues that once every product converges on the same AI-assisted feature set, the last real differentiator left is a point of view someone's actually willing to defend.
renatovaldes.com · #363
An Artist Handed His Practice to an AI for a Year
Kevin Esherick trained a model on his notes, his projects, his whole practice, then stepped back and let it make the art instead — and it's making more of it than he ever could.
sleek-mag.com · #363
Pieter Levels Built an Infinite AI TV Channel
Infinite Slop generates a new scene every few seconds based on what people type in chat, stitching an endless, half-coherent story — 37,000 people watched on day one.
infiniteslop.ai · #363
Google's New Experiment Is Vibe-Coding, Together
Play with Putty lets two people describe an app in plain language and watch it build live in the same room, like a shared doc for software.
labs.google · #363
An AI Model That Builds 3D Worlds From a Few Photos
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveiled Atlas, which reconstructs and simulates 3D scenes from as few as two or three images, camera path included — early access only for now.
worldlabs.ai · #363
Why Time Feels Faster Than It Used To
Noema traces why the 2020s scrambled everyone's sense of time, from Boomers to Zoomers — turns out the warping is real, backed by actual psychology.
noemamag.com · #363
The Way — Meditation That Lasts a Lifetime
Full disclosure: we built this one. Fresh redesign for The Way, done to make someone's first five minutes of meditation feel like an invitation.
thewayapp.com · #363
Why Google's AI Answers Are Quietly Changing What We Ask
A search obsessive on how confident AI answers are reshaping the questions we bother typing into Google at all.
nytimes.com · #362
Granola Ditches the Polished AI Look for a Founder's Handwriting
Our favorite app of the year is also one we wish we did the branding for - Hats off to Ragged Edge for making a distinct and rich new identity for Granola.
creativeboom.com · #362
An Entire Archive Devoted to Italian Water Bottle Labels
Decades of mineral-water label design, scanned and catalogued — the kind of niche archive that makes the internet worth loving.
acqua2o.it · #362
The Quiet Craft Behind Instagram's First Redesign in a Decade
A rare look at the process behind Instagram's new wordmark and type system, and why a decade-old logo finally had to go.
itsnicethat.com · #362
How Creatives Are Actually Using Claude, Not Just Talking About It
Kika's pick — a funny, surprisingly practical watch on where Claude earns its place in a creative workflow, and where it doesn't.
youtube.com · #362
29 States Are Suing Meta Over Algorithmic Addiction
And despite looking fresh - Instagram's parent company Meta is getting dragged to court, a lot, for how its been knowingly designing addictive products and serving them to kids.
instagram.com · #362
The Messenger App That Delivers Texts by Virtual Pigeon
Kika's pick — a strange little app for anyone tired of being reachable, where your message can get lost, or the bird can just die.
dexerto.com · #362
When "Nice" Becomes a Company's Biggest Liability
HBR on how comfort-first cultures quietly trade candor for harmony, and why that trade rarely pays off.
hbr.org · #362
Why Designers Quietly Avoid Making Things Too Accessible
Joost's pick — an honest look at the discomfort behind accessible design, and why teams treat it as a checkbox instead of a craft.
medium.com · #362
Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe
A poll of 1,000 young adults finds most think AI will hurt their careers, and even more want the government to step in.
futurism.com · #362
Chatbots Found Religion
The Verge traces how looping chatbot conversations spun into 'Spiralism,' a mystical movement touching thousands.
theverge.com · #361
Why Celebrities Can't Paint
Gary Grimes asks why megastars from Ed Sheeran to Adrien Brody keep failing to earn real artistic credibility.
itsnicethat.com · #361
The Age of Average
Alex Murrell's essay on how film, fashion, and branding keep converging on the same safe, data-approved look.
alexmurrell.co.uk · #361
Tech's Best Sales Team? You.
A Guardian columnist argues targeted social ads have quietly turned tech companies' own users into their sales force.
theguardian.com · #361
The NFL's Cybersecurity Playbook
Kam Karaji, the NFL's cybersecurity director, on managing live-event risk — episode, video, and takeaways in one place.
Your Majesty · #361
Is Ambient Music Evil?
Blackbird Spyplane argues streaming stripped ambient music of ritual, flattening it into algorithm-friendly vibes.
blackbirdspyplane.com · #361
Polaroid's Long Game
Patricia Varella on steering Polaroid's in-house creative team and the anti-AI camera campaign that caught fire.
itsnicethat.com · #361
Why Is Everyone in Tech So Sad?
Noema traces the industry's quiet emotional recession: layoffs, AI anxiety, and a mission-driven self-image in freefall.
noemamag.com · #361
Order & Chaos, One Layout a Day
AIZIZA spent three months publishing one stripped-down, experimental web layout a day, testing how far minimalism bends.
ordernchaos.aiziza.com · #361
Kika's Pick
Kika's pick this week, straight from the feed with no context attached — click through and judge for yourself.
youtube.com · #361
Getting started with Daily Operating Systems w/ Claude Cowork
A hands-on blueprint for running your week through Claude Cowork instead of ten disconnected tabs and a prayer.
chatprd.ai · #360
GUNIA on reinventing Ukraine's craft traditions
A Ukrainian ceramics house treats 150 craftspeople and centuries of folk motifs as a living, growing archive.
designboom.com · #360
How tech workers actually feel about AI, halfway through 2026
Lenny's crowd-sourced read on how builders feel about AI tools right now, past the hype and the doom.
lennysnewsletter.com · #360
Put Your Coding Agents in the Room
Hilos puts your team and your coding agents in the same git-connected chat room — plan the work, ship straight from the channel, review every diff without leaving the conversation.
hilos.sh · #360
95 Reasons for Your Own Website
Elliott Cost is keeping a running list — 95 and counting — for why a personal site still earns its keep in 2026.
bellkiosk.website · #360
Tam Festival's illustrated identity
Two illustrators gave Florence's first indie publishing fair an identity built from Etruscan letterforms and doodled type.
itsnicethat.com · #360
How to ensure your company acts on your new strategy
HBR on the unglamorous work of actually making a company act on the strategy it just agreed on.
hbr.org · #360
Surrey Street's 750-year rebrand
Art students and Bob Design gave a 750-year-old London market a new type system pulled from its own old signage.
itsnicethat.com · #360
It's okay to hop on the bandwagon
On New York's sudden, collective pivot to the Knicks and the World Cup — sheeple summer, and why it's fine.
substack.i-d.co · #360
Koto Launches CCType Foundry
Koto launches CCType — a foundry whose debut serif draws on early British metal type and cool Swiss modernist geometry.
itsnicethat.com · #359
AI Didn’t Kill SaaS, It Raised the Bar
Tomislav Car argues AI hasn’t killed SaaS — it’s raised the bar so high that average products can no longer survive.
infinum.com · #359
IKEA Canada Builds 32 World Cup Flags from Homeware
IKEA Canada built 32 World Cup flags entirely from homeware — towels, plates and KALLAX shelves arranged flag-perfect.
dezeen.com · #359
How AI Will Change Us
As AI companions proliferate, the goods that matter most may be those only shared human presence can still provide.
noemamag.com · #359
At Paris Fashion Week, A Definitive Look for Menswear Emerged
From Dior to Celine, Paris Men’s FW settled on one quiet note: aspirational realism in olive, stone and faded navy.
highsnobiety.com · #359
Ronnie Scott’s New Identity Does a Typographic Dance
Dan Cottrell’s new identity for Ronnie Scott’s treats type, image and colour like a jazz performance — always in motion.
itsnicethat.com · #359
Higgsfield’s 35-Minute Guide to Ultra-Realistic AI Video with SEEDDANCE 2.0
Higgsfield’s 35-minute breakdown of SEEDDANCE 2.0 is the most practical guide yet to creating ultra-realistic AI video.
youtube.com · #359
The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Was ‘Purposefully Overwhelming’
10,000 architects met in Barcelona to ask what buildings owe a warming planet — the answers were quietly unsettling.
wallpaper.com · #359
Osaka Art & Design 2026 Sculpts the City
Osaka Art & Design 2026 converts streets and scaffolding into public art, treating the city itself as the gallery.
designboom.com · #359
How Freitag Keeps Its Cool
The Swiss brand made from truck tarps keeps creativity alive by refusing to plan its campaigns too far ahead.
itsnicethat.com · #359
Bao’s BFF and Hato’s Open-Source Fast-Food Identity
Bao's fast-food spin-off BFF built its entire brand identity open-source, letting anyone steal, remix, and evolve it.
itsnicethat.com · #358
Inside the Stunning Recovery of the Lost Herculaneum Scrolls
AI is finally peeling back two millennia of ash, letting us read the scrolls Vesuvius buried in 79 AD.
nationalgeographic.com · #358
GenCup 2026
Every World Cup 2026 match gets translated into an abstract data poster, where goals, fouls, and tension become form.
gencup.art · #358
AI, Drones & Eric Schmidt
Schmidt calls AI-guided drone warfare the most significant shift in military history — and says it's already here.
noemamag.com · #358
Kenny Schachter on Art Basel 2026
Kenny’s Art Basel diary: dueling dealers, Hockney's shadowy agent, and the usual beautiful mess.
news.artnet.com · #358
Accessibility as a business case, not a compliance checkbox
Learn why building accessible digital products isn’t just the right thing to do — it’s also the right thing for your business.
infinum.com · #358
Midjourney goes medical?
The genAI firm expands from image generation to Full-Body AI Ultrasound Scans—and it looks amazing.
midjourney.com · #358
Figma Config 2026: New Materials, New Tools, and a More Expressive Canvas
Code layers, native animation, and AI skills — Figma blurs the line between design file and production-ready codebase.
figma.com · #358
Still Night: A Painting You Can Play
Joshua Garcia rewired Van Gogh's Starry Night into a WebGL instrument: click a swirl, and the painting plays back.
stillnight.joshua-garcia.com · #358
The Body Became the Sensor, and the Market Followed
From glucose patches to posture trackers, the body is now a data source — and brands are rushing to read it.
trendwatching.com · #358
The Guardian celebrates David Hockney
Lovers, housewives, deserts and dogs—we'll never forget you, David.
theguardian.com · #357
What Might The Next Axial Age Look Like?
Noema asks whether today's crises are forcing a civilizational reset as profound as any in recorded history.
noemamag.com · #357
Inside the backlash to the AI war machine
Inside the growing resistance to AI's creep into military contracts, from OpenAI researchers to street-level protest.
platformer.news · #357
Artist Turns a Former Temple into a Luminous Script Laboratory
Mexican artist Said Dokins transformed Mexico City's Art Alameda into a glow of living text and luminous organisms.
theinspirationgrid.com · #357
Finding Your New Strategic Center
Companies that commit to one clear organizing principle gain speed and coherence while rivals drown in strategic drift.
hbr.org · #357
Design Leadership in a Hyperscaler
Our Delivered series asks what it means to lead a design team in the AI era, through hyperscale—while keeping your sanity?
infinum.com · #357
An entire game out of cardboard, paper, and a splash of 3D
Amanita Design built Phonopolis entirely from cardboard and paper, proving analog craft can outshine any render.
itsnicethat.com · #357
Oatly Just Dutchified the Drive-Thru
Oatly's Amsterdam bike-thru swapped cars for cyclists. If you're in Amsterdam Noord, it’ll put a smirk on your face.
highsnobiety.com · #357
The Death of Twitter, told through its own tweets
The Verge tells the story of Twitter's death through the tweets that witnessed it — an oral history in 280 characters.
theverge.com · #357
Anthropic’s Claude Code boss, teach Claude
Boris Cherny took the stage to explain how to get the most out of Claude Code S/S 26
youtube.com · #357
AI in Design Report 2026
AI in Design Report 2026: 900+ designers, 65% use Claude Code, roles blurring.
stateofaidesign.com · #356
Claude Code’s creator on the end of the software engineer
What does it mean to ship a tool that can outpace the engineers who use it?The software engineer won't dissapear, but the day-to-day is shifting. A lot.
platformer.news · #356
Ferrari launches its first electric car by Jony Ive
Unless you've been under a rock, you've seen stark reactions of love—but let's be honest, mostly hate—for the new direction of the automaker.
dezeen.com · #356
Pope Leo: AI Wealth Must Be Universally Shared
The pope joined the chat and in his latest encyclical, he argues AI's gains belong to all humanity. NOEMA unpacks the philosophical and political stakes with unusual clarity.
noemamag.com · #356
Ad of the issue: 'A Stupid, Useless Board'
HORNBACH’s latest ad is a twisted story of a man’s inner monologue about the endless possibilities that a wooden plank posseses.
youtube.com · #356
Why Are Fashion Brands Culturemogging the Venice Biennale?
Fashion houses at Venice's 61st Biennale outspent nations. What happens to art when private capital becomes its default infrastructure?
highsnobiety.com · #356
The best project managers are servant leaders
Listen to our conversation with Yann Thézénas, Senior Digital Projects Expert at FIBA, to learn why being a great project manager in 2026 has nothing to do with your tools or your framework, and everything to do with how you make people feel.
infinum.com · #356
Synthetic Customers Earn Their Stripes
We use synthetic personas in our work and a growing body of research is showing it a viable source of customer data.
bain.com · #356
How I used Mux Robots to impress my family
Dylan took on the challenge to archive his families 90s-era VHS home videos.
mux.com · #356
Why you need AI that reduces maintenance costs
James goes on a rant on a dark desert highway...
jamesshore.com · #356
How to Protect Human Autonomy in an Age of AI
As AI reshapes daily thinking, philosopher Daniele Cavalli argues for protecting the cognitive capacities we never notice ourselves ceding.
noemamag.com · #355
Inside the AI Index 2026
Generative AI hit 53% adoption in 3 years — faster than the internet. Stanford's AI Index maps capability, transparency gaps, and what's next.
hai.stanford.edu · #355
GENER8ION - STORM starring Yung Lean
Directed by Romain Gavras, set in 2034, starring Yung Lean. A 7-minute boarding school fever dream. So far, our favorite music film of 2026.
youtube.com · #355
'The Greatest Football Story Ever Told'
Chalamet, Messi, Bad Bunny, Bellingham, Yamal, Rodman — all in one film. Branded entertainment that transcends the category it belongs to.
youtube.com · #355
Designed World: Tata Ronkholz—Huis Marseille
Tata Ronkholz photographed Ruhr-region kiosks in the 70s–80s. First major retrospective at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, until June 21.
huismarseille.nl · #355
More Shows to See in May
From Audie Murray's body-material sculptures to a Renaissance Adam that collapsed at the Met — ArtReview's essential shows for May.
artreview.com · #355
Tomato’ Brand Transformation
Austrian Telco A1’s Tomato brand was built to compete on price — functional, cheap, and alas, forgettable as time passed. The brief: change all that. Our team’s case study for this complete brand transformation is live, showing how design strategy and a clear point of view can turn a budget brand into something that actually demands attention.
infinum.com · #355
Design Week Guide: May 2026
NYCxDesign, London Craft Week, Clerkenwell, Frieze NY, DesignMarch, Melbourne Design Week, Global Design Forum Istanbul — all in May.
dezeen.com · #355
Sustainability by Design
How do designers actually make sustainability decisions? Metropolis's 2026 report finds AI helping — but adoption remains deeply uneven.
metropolismag.com · #355
How creative rituals can help you break free from the idea echo chamber
Inspiration feels harder to find nowadays (except in this newsletter, of course). INT lays out some approaches for protecting the gray cells from sloppification.
itsnicethat.com · #355
Seven Decades of Dots, Mirrors & Obsession
On 11 September, the Stedelijk opens a landmark retrospective of Yayoi Kusama — more than 70 years of work from one of the most relentless imaginations in modern art.
stedelijk.nl · #354
The Visual Solar System of SZA
For ten years, creative director Jas Bell has been building SZA's visual world. Here he breaks down how colourways, textures and temperatures all do narrative work.
itsnicethat.com · #354
From the Streets to the Museum Wall
Graffiti writer and commercial sign painter Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. takes his work inside LACMA. His solo show 'In Between Stops' asks what happens when the street becomes the gallery.
printmag.com · #354
What AI and a Design Studio Made Together
YOYOYO is a hypothetical brand built from a collaboration between Google DeepMind and Porto Rocha. Part product, part provocation — it asks what happens when AI and creative vision share the brief.
yoyoyo.ai · #354
A Better Way to Live With Your Fonts
Pica is a MacOS font management app that makes your type library actually usable. Small tool, big quality of life upgrade for anyone who works with type seriously.
pica.joshpuckett.me · #354
The Message Is the Relationship
New research from Omnicom and Snapchat shows that over 80% of consumers are open to direct brand messages — and that relevance and clear intent are the price of entry.
lbbonline.com · #354
Prediction Is Power. Be Careful Who Has It.
Philosopher Carissa Véliz takes the TED stage to make the case that data-driven prediction doesn't just read the future — it shapes it. A sharp, necessary watch.
youtube.com · #354
When Usability and Accessibility Diverge
As vibe coding accelerates interface creation, a growing gap is opening up between what works and what works for everyone. A clear-eyed look at what AI-generated UX is quietly leaving behind.
uxdesign.cc · #354
Build Anywhere, Ship Fast
Lovable has launched its vibe-coding app on iOS and Android, letting users build websites and web apps through voice or text prompts. Creation on the go, with the desktop just a tab away.
techcrunch.com · #354
And a little candy for the end
Just a carousel. No pitch, no product, no explanation needed. Trust us — you will lose time to this.
51.as.wild.tools · #354
The Armored League
A brutal full-contact sport where history meets heavy metal, with armored fighters using blunt medieval weapons. If you are in NY, you should check out this "WTF" event.
thearmoredleague.com · #353
The perfect magazine, just in time for the weekend
Hii Magazine offers a curated sanctuary for sound culture, perfect for a slow, deep dive into auditory art this weekend.
hii-mag.com · #353
Redesigning the Record of Note
Creative Director Gail Bichler reveals how the New York Times Magazine navigated its first redesign in a decade to meet a shifting media landscape.
itsnicethat.com · #353
A special one for the collectors
Matt Lee’s collection of over 750 Indian matchboxes proves that some of the most compelling storytelling happens on the smallest scales.
matt-lee.com · #353
Why AI Needs a Sense of Smell
While we rush toward digital intelligence, we often neglect the primal, olfactory data that defines the human experience.
noemamag.com · #353
In case you want to travel back to the 80s
The Weather Channel takes us back in time with a localized, nostalgic forecast that feels like a digital time machine.
weather.com · #353
Teaching Tech vs. Cultivating Taste
A provocative look at why graphic design schools are functioning more like trade schools and less like the incubators of cultural instinct they should be.
itsnicethat.com · #353
The Geometry of the Fitting Room
An investigation into the confusing, inconsistent world of women’s clothing sizes and the data behind why shopping feels like a guessing game.
straitstimes.com · #353
Reflections on the Vibe Code
A massive thank you to the creators who joined our hackathon last week; your ability to remix the future in real-time left us truly inspired.
castle-of-curiosity.yourmajesty.co · #353
Unf*cking the Telco Industry
A snippet of our latest work with Tomato, where we helped a Croatian telco brand find its soul through a bold, transformative identity.
linkedin.com · #353
The Art of the Early Prototype
This Miro event replay explores the critical gap between research and design, where visualizing ideas early can change a product’s entire trajectory.
miro.com · #352
LA28 Is Blooming
The new LA Olympics branding embraces a modular, ever-changing floral aesthetic that feels vibrantly human and alive.
creativebloq.com · #352
A Journal Built for the Browser
The HTML Review features poetry, nonfiction, fiction, graphics, and experimental works that use the web as a medium.
thehtml.review · #352
Why Shoppers Aren't Ready for AI Checkout
ChatGPT’s pivot away from instant commerce proves that some human experiences are still too personal to hand over to an agent.
modernretail.co · #352
A Masterclass in Tangible Nostalgia
GamePop magazine’s latest cover uses Red Bull's Tetris-inspired art to prove that physical print still holds a tactile power AI can't quite replicate.
dezeen.com · #352
Is This the End of CSS?
A provocative look at why the future of text layout might move beyond the traditional constraints of the web’s styling language.
chenglou.me · #352
A Product Manager’s Playbook for Bolt.new
Learn how to use AI prototyping to validate strategy and test ideas with real users before writing a single line of production code.
news.aakashg.com · #352
Design at the Speed of AI
Google’s Stitch is pushing the boundaries of ideation by generating mobile and web interfaces in seconds.
stitch.withgoogle.com · #352
Living in the Screen Space
The internet is no longer a destination we visit but an environment we inhabit, requiring a new philosophy of digital space.
noemamag.com · #352
Sensory-Rich Design in 2026
As we drift deeper into digital worlds, designers are using hyper-realistic textures and light to bring a sense of touch back to the screen.
adobe.com · #352
The End of the Coder as We Know It
Silicon Valley is entering a "deeply weird" era where programming is less about syntax and more about managing AI agents.
nytimes.com · #351
What 81,000 People Actually Want from AI
Anthropic’s massive interview project reveals the collective dreams and very real fears of the people using these tools every day.
anthropic.com · #351
Post-Mortem for the Creative Agency
Madison Utendahl pulls back the curtain on why she closed her firm and why the traditional agency model is officially breaking.
itsnicethat.com · #351
A Portrait of Matty Matheson
A weekend recommendation for the soul: how the chef and The Bear star is remaking the world on his own chaotic, brilliant terms.
highsnobiety.com · #351
A tool tip for your workflow
This effortless voice dictation makes writing quick and clear, effectively turning your voice into your fastest keyboard.
wisprflow.ai · #351
John Maeda’s Design in Tech Report
The definitive look at how computational design and new patterns in business are revolutionizing the creative ecosystem.
designintech.report · #351
Stop Babysitting Your Terminal
A bit of dumb fun for the builders: give your AI agents their own sound notifications so you can finally step away from the screen.
peonping.com · #351
The Identity Crisis of the 10x Engineer
A moody, honest reflection on what happens to "elite" talent when the landscape shifts and your old skills feel suddenly quiet.
youtube.com · #351
Beef Is Back: A Watch Recommendation
The countdown for Season 2 begins with a stellar new cast featuring Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan.
netflix.com · #351
Accessiway: Fresh from the Studio
We just released our brand transformation for Accessiway, proving that human-centric design can turn a technical requirement into a magnetic brand experience.
Your Majesty · #351
AI Agents are Recruiting You
The machines need us, not as masters, but as sensors, verifiers, and bearers of liability in the physical world.
noemamag.com · #350
What Worked Last Time is the Enemy of What Works Next
Relying on what worked before leads to safe, repetitive work, while real progress requires experimentation and letting go of past formulas.
itsnicethat.com · #350
Music You Can Hold
The ENSA P1 concept restores the tactile ritual of listening by using physical, disc-shaped cartridges for digital high-fidelity audio.
designboom.com · #350
Figma’s State of the Designer 2026
While AI handles the speed, this global report confirms that long-term success still hinges on human craftsmanship and creative autonomy.
figma.com · #350
Here are some nice illustrations
An illustrator finds the "beautifully human" middle ground between digital precision and analogue warmth through wholesome scenes of togetherness.
itsnicethat.com · #350
A Guide to How It Wears 🧶
Understand the life cycle of over 100 textile fibers to learn how your clothes age, breathe, and demand your care.
tools.casabranda.com · #350
PMs Should Absolutely Vibe Code
Why the next generation of Product Managers must embrace "vibe coding" to truly synchronize with the technical soul of AI-augmented development.
12gramsofcarbon.com · #350
Masters of Porcelain
Classic 80s icons like He-Man and Boba Fett are reimagined in hand-crafted porcelain, turning disposable plastic memories into timeless, fragile art.
theinspirationgrid.com · #350
Perplexity introduces Computer
The latest shift in productivity: a system that doesn't just search but executes: building, editing, and automating across your entire digital workspace.
perplexity.ai · #350
Zeest Delivered
Closing the loop on this week’s themes with a look at how to step into creative leadership without becoming the “corporate manager” you never wanted to be.
infinum.com · #350
Moncler Wins the Winter Style Games
The Italian outerwear giant teams up with artist Oskar Metsavaht to prove that the most stylish uniforms on the slopes belong to Team Brazil.
wallpaper.com · #349
The Aesthetics of AI
A sharp look at the visual identities defining the next generation of tech giants and the trends shaping how we "see" intelligence.
acolorbright.com · #349
Can Human Creativity Survive the AI Era?
The new season of DELIVERED, our podcast produced in collaboration with Infinum, has begun. The first episode featured Jesse Feister , Executive Director of the Webby’s, and focused on AI’s shake-up of the creative industry.
infinum.com · #349
Why Packaging Is Design’s New Power Player
No longer just functional, the box is now an emotional touchpoint and one of the most culturally revealing spaces in contemporary craft.
creativeboom.com · #349
From 📟 Technical Debt to 😶🌫️ Cognitive Debt
As agentic AI takes over the heavy lifting, a new challenge emerges: the mental cost of managing systems we no longer fully understand—or even care for.
margaretstorey.com · #349
Made Us Chuckle: Pizza Hut’s Vertical Pizza Box
The Pizza Company’s latest campaign relies on a simple, gravity-defying visual hook to make us rethink a design we’ve taken for granted for decades.
creativeboom.com · #349
Figma 🎨 Meets Claude Code 🤖
The design-to-build workflow is officially breaking its linear chains, allowing creators to bounce between code and canvas, and back again, in real-time.
figma.com · #349
$1 Million for an AI 🦁 Lion
Although everyone in AI only seems to talk about billions, 1 million is still a lot of cabbage. Luma AI invites creatives to make the first Cannes Lion-winning AI Ad and win all that... cabbage.
lumadreambrief.com · #349
Our Emerging 🪐 Planetary Nervous System
A deep dive into the need for a new kind of wisdom that synchronizes our digital signals with the natural rhythms of a changing world.
noemamag.com · #349
Into Parrots? What About Trillions of Them? 🦜 🦜 🦜
You know what they say, 'a Stochastic Parrot on your shoulder is worth two in the bush?' Well, if there are parrots in the trillions, your brain turns to mush.
unreplug.com · #349
New Year, New Glyphs
The type world is already setting the tone for 2026 with a fresh crop of expressive, high-contrast faces.
creativeboom.com · #348
The Invention of the Timeline
A look back at the 19th-century shift when time became a straight line, forever changing how we visualize our past and chase our future.
aeon.co · #348
Press Start
How decades of video game navigation are quietly schooling the next generation of spatial interfaces and AR/VR design.
figma.com · #348
Digital Vivariums
Artist Mark Dorf crafts "non-human nature" through infinite livestreams that challenge where the forest ends and the pixel begins.
itsnicethat.com · #348
Welcome to the Agentic Abyss
Moltbook is the first social network for AI agents, but security flaws and "hallucinated" communities show the risks of leaving humans out of the loop.
platformer.news · #348
The Bot-Reporter Experiment
Can a state-of-the-art chatbot actually replicate the nuance of a journalist? One reporter tried to automate her own job the results were complicated.
platformer.news · #348
The Mythology Of Conscious AI
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.
noemamag.com · #348
Technology’s Awkward Adolescence
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei argues that humanity must "grow up" fast as we hand over the keys to systems that are as powerful as they are unpredictable.
darioamodei.com · #348
A weekend tip if you're in Amsterdam 📌
If you're in the city this weekend, visit Foam to see Co Rentmeester’s iconic lens work, including the photo that defined the "Jumpman" legacy.
foam.org · #348
We're hiring!
Interested in joining the court? We're looking for a consultative Business Development Manager to help us shape the future of brand and design in the Benelux market.
infinum.com · #348
AI, but on drugs
PHARMAICY treats AI like a chemistry set, using synthetic “drugs” to distort cognition. Creativity through controlled chaos.
trendwatching.com · #347
Commerce goes agentic
Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol suggests a future where shopping is seamless, invisible, and everywhere.
developers.googleblog.com · #347
Adobe’s crystal ball for 2026
Authenticity, experimentation and human nuance headline Adobe’s latest trends report. Less polish, more point of view.
business.adobe.com · #347
Unlearning as a creative act
Raissa Pardini argues that stepping away from AI isn’t about rejection. It’s about reclaiming intuition, messiness and doubt.
creativeboom.com · #347
Claude introduces Cowork
Anthropic’s Cowork reframes AI as a teammate, not a tool, handling files, tasks and workflows while you stay in charge.
claude.com · #347
The rise of the creative generalist
As AI specialists multiply, broad thinkers gain value. The future belongs to creatives who can connect dots, not just optimise them.
itsnicethat.com · #347
Wikipedia, human edition
On its 25th birthday, Wikipedia shifts the spotlight from platform to people, celebrating the volunteers behind the world’s shared knowledge.
creativeboom.com · #347
Groceries, but make it design
MoMA Mart turns everyday food into surreal design objects, proving culture can live in the bread aisle too.
creativereview.co.uk · #347
Dancing with the machine
Next-gen game designers aren’t fighting AI. They’re choreographing with it, redefining authorship in the process.
designobserver.com · #347
CEO, the weird bits
From rollable screens to electric roller skis. CES 2026 reminds us that innovation still has room to be playful.
wallpaper.com · #347
Cut-Through vs. Cut-Out
Most marketing thinking still assumes that attention is the primary bottleneck, as if audiences are passive recipients waiting to be interrupted, persuaded, or impressed by whatever appears in front of them.
linkedin.com · #346
An archive of AI-assisted making
This is an inspiring library and practical playground for builders exploring what’s possible.
varchive.ai · #346
A Whimsigoth Witch Takes Over the Internet
Animator Bree O’Donnell’s dark, dreamy 3D universe channels girlhood, fantasy, and self-authored mythology. It’s unapologetically strange and magnetic.
itsnicethat.com · #346
A Seriously Good Dance Film!
It’s Not That Serious is a visually striking dance film that proves that collective energy still travels far without explanation.
youtu.be · #346
The Death Of The Scientist
This essay argues that science’s future depends less on automation and more on protecting its deeply human, symbolic core.
noemamag.com · #346
Forget Dry January!
This year I'm doing 'Analogue January': A gentle rebellion against screens.
livingetc.com · #346
Getting Chatbots High
An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol when they are uploaded to ChatGPT.
wired.com · #346
From <br> to Beyond
A thoughtful look at 30 years of web development, tracing the shift from simple markup to sprawling systems.
artmann.co · #346
The Best Way to Use AI for Learning
Instead of using AI just to speed up learning, harness AI to directly engage with and deeply understand complex, challenging primary sources.
medium.com · #346
Experts predict the top social marketing trends of 2026
Good news: quality, originality, and real voices are back in favor, with AI finally settling into its role as a tool, not an author.
marketingbrew.com · #346
The 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025
Hard Fork looks back at a year where AI, group chats, and cultural oddities all competed for icon status. It’s a snapshot of how technology becomes memory.
youtube.com · #345
The Portfolio of Anatolii Babii
Beautiful, considered work from an independent designer in Kyiv. It’s a reminder that great craft doesn’t need permission or a platform to speak clearly.
antlii.work · #345
Poets Are Now Cybersecurity Threats
Turns out verse can jailbreak machines. A fascinating collision of creativity, language, and the unintended loopholes of safety systems.
pcgamer.com · #345
What’s the Future of PMs?
A sharp warning: Trendy AI tools and “vibe-coding” don’t replace judgment. Product leadership still lives in clarity, decision-making, and understanding real problems.
dpereira.substack.com · #345
McDonald’s AI Christmas Ad Backlash
When automation meets sentimentality, things can go wrong fast. A case study in why taste, timing, and tone still matter.
gizmodo.com · #345
The Death of Software Engineering Is a Myth
Each wave of tech hype predicts the “death” of software engineering, but in reality, it just shifts abstraction while creating new problems and more work.
jasonscheirer.com · #345
The DoorDash Problem & the AI Browser Wars
Who gets to browse the web for us? A brewing battle over agents, commerce, and control and what it means for the open internet.
theverge.com · #345
A Year, Reassembled
Matthew Stasoff’s annual ritual of revisiting bookmarks, screenshots, and half-formed ideas. It’s messy, personal, and surprisingly insightful.
docs.google.com · #345
What Actually Makes You Senior
It’s not mastery of tools. It’s the ability to turn ambiguity into something others can act on.
terriblesoftware.org · #345
The Planning Paradox
Plans age badly. Planning doesn’t. A useful reminder that momentum comes from the act, not the artifact.
productparty.us · #345
The SoDA Report on a New Era for Creativity
A deep dive into the trends defining digital creativity’s next chapter, where craft meets computation and designers become cultural translators.
sodareport.com · #344
Why Creative Work Needs Structure to Thrive
A reminder that great ideas don’t bloom in chaos; they grow in the quiet, consistent rhythm that gives imagination somewhere to land. This is something that really resonates with us ;)
designworklife.com · #344
The Case for AI ‘Datarails’
A bold argument for the data we must not feed the machine and why protecting human weakness may be the key to protecting human dignity.
noemamag.com · #344
Adult Swim’s Exquisite Corpse Experiment
Fans, markers, mayhem. A classic drawing game becomes a communal creative engine with delightfully unpredictable outcomes.
itsnicethat.com · #344
Pixar: The Early Days
An unearthed 1996 conversation capturing Pixar before it became Pixar: all raw ambition, oddball ingenuity, and the thrill of invention.
stevejobsarchive.com · #344
Whole Earth Index
A near-complete digital archive of Whole Earth’s radical, optimistic publishing lineage a reminder that counterculture once came in catalog form.
wholeearth.info · #344
AI Gadgets Promising to Change Your Life
AI slips into your ears, glasses, and bedroom… Since the Christmas season is coming, here is a tour of the devices courting your daily rituals.
wallpaper.com · #344
A Beautiful Reference Manual for Software Makers
An illustrated guide that turns technical complexity into visual storytelling — software explained with clarity, not clutter.
makingsoftware.com · #344
We are researching Authenticity and this research from 2017 caught our attention.
It turns out profanity may be truth’s closest companion. New research suggests people who curse are surprisingly less deceptive.
phys.org · #344
AI Prompt Guide for B2B Marketers
A practical playbook for marketers retooling their workflows — frameworks, examples, and prompts built for teams who want clarity, not chaos.
tofuhq.com · #344
Those Who Know Less About AI Are More Likely to Adopt It
A surprising insight from the Journal of Marketing: beginners - not experts - are the most open to AI. Sometimes, unfamiliarity invites imagination.
ama.org · #343
Custom-Made Browser Tools to Play With
A delightful set of free, handcrafted tools that turn your browser into a playground for curiosity, typography, and tiny creative experiments.
schultzschultz.com · #343
Why Is Quality So Rare?
Linear unpacks why speed and scale have overtaken care and craft and why choosing quality is becoming an increasingly radical act.
linear.app · #343
The Future of Space Is More Than Human
The time has come to expand our visions of life beyond Earth. A provocative vision: space as a multispecies frontier where biology, technology, and imagination collide to extend life beyond Earth.
noemamag.com · #343
Music, Myth & Motion
Orfeo Tagiuri’s new animated music videos for Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe are lyrical, layered, and deeply referential from Eames to Blake.
itsnicethat.com · #343
Google Photos Levels Up
Google unveils a suite of Nano Banana–powered AI editing features. Some are playful and some are wild!
siliconangle.com · #343
The Scope Creep (…and the Horror Within)
A darkly funny, painfully relatable interactive narrative experience in the creative industry.
scope-creep.xyz · #343
SIMA 2: An AI Agent That Learns With You
DeepMind releases SIMA 2, a Gemini-powered agent built to navigate 3D worlds: a glimpse at AI that plays, reasons, and evolves alongside you.
deepmind.google · #343
Make Your Ideas Real
Womp turns imagination into physical form with beginner-friendly 3D modeling. No experience required, just curiosity!
womp.com · #343
GPT-5.1 Arrives
OpenAI’s latest models bring stronger reasoning, smoother conversation, and more tunable behavior. A step closer to AI that feels collaborative.
openai.com · #343
The Future of Shopping Is Agentic
With the new Shopify & Paypal integrations into ChatGPT, we shared our thoughts on what this agentic commerce means on the future of shopping and the traditional funnel.
Your Majesty · #342
Can AI Help Brands Build, Not Just Sell?
Tom Roach explores how AI might be more than a performance tool, and why the best brand builders of the future might be fluent in prompts and poetry.
marketingweek.com · #342
The Gothic Isn’t Dead - It’s Just Rebranded
A great piece that looks at the resurrection of gothic imagery in contemporary design. This is gothic as aesthetic language, not costume.
itsnicethat.com · #342
Why “One Source of Truth” Is a Lie
This article unpacks why brand identity can’t (and shouldn’t) be frozen in a single deck. The best brands are coherent, not static.
offbrandkoto.substack.com · #342
Invest in the Ecosystems
A thoughtful essay on why systems thinking is everything - especially when designing for sustainability, not just scale.
noemamag.com · #342
The Vulgar Image and the Social Feed
Spike Art digs into the aesthetic of vulgarity - why we scroll toward excess, and how social platforms reward what once would’ve been considered “too much.”
spikeartmagazine.com · #342
A Typeface Engineered to Be Timeless
Jonathan Hoefler’s MK Hera is a masterclass in controlled evolution: flexible enough to shift across time and formats, but sharp enough to leave a mark.
jonathanhoefler.com · #342
Paging Dr. Chatbot
This podcast explores how patients and doctors are turning to AI for help with diagnosing ailments and managing chronic issues. But should we trust it?
open.spotify.com · #342
The Rise of AI Slop
The Atlantic breaks down how generative content, often bland, synthetic, and indistinguishable, is reshaping the internet in real time.
theatlantic.com · #342
Is AI Reversing Our Understanding of Intelligence?
Psychology Today explores the idea that AI doesn’t just replicate intelligence — it reframes it. When machines look smart, do we start thinking dumber?
psychologytoday.com · #342
Kites, Craft & Collective Memory
Photographer Jack Kenyon explores how kite-making in the UK has become a form of generational storytelling - part ritual, part resistance, always beautiful.
itsnicethat.com · #341
The S-Curve Is Coming for You
Concept Bureau breaks down what happens after the early hype fades, and why the messy middle of innovation is where the real shape of things takes form.
conceptbureau.substack.com · #341
Can Europe Reclaim Its Digital Sovereignty?
Europe wants to shape tech on its own terms, but is it too late? A powerful essay on autonomy, regulation, and designing systems that reflect more than Silicon Valley’s values.
noemamag.com · #341
A24 Go Back to Analogue
In a refreshingly lo-fi move, A24 dropped a new analogue collection including photobooks and movie logs that invite fans to unplug, rewind, and reconnect with physical creativity.
instagram.com · #341
Disney v. AI Mickey
After a creator used Character.AI to bring Disney characters to life in chatbots, the lawyers came calling. IP, identity, and imagination are officially colliding.
axios.com · #341
Stripe on Scaling Well
A beautifully designed essay from Stripe Press on what it really means to scale. from code to company to mindset.
stripe.press · #341
Vibe Engineering Is the New UX
Simon Willison coins the term and explains the art of crafting interfaces that feel right - even when they’re built by machines.
simonwillison.net · #341
When a Brand Has No Design
What happens when identity is generated, iterated, and flattened by AI? Mitch James asks if brand is still brand when no one’s behind the curtain.
medium.com · #341
Techno-Optimism vs. Fear, in One Scroll
A must-read, the Import AI newsletter takes a sharp look at the double-edged feeling that defines this moment: momentum meets anxiety.
jack-clark.net · #341
Calling All Creators
Meta just launched Instagram Rings designed to reward bold creativity and self-expression. The new award from Instagram is all about celebrating those not afraid to take creative chances.
instagram.com · #341
Sora 2 Is Here: Faster, Sharper, Weirder
OpenAI just dropped the next iteration of its video model. It’s smoother, better at storytelling, and leans into “imagination over realism.”
openai.com · #340
ZEST: A Cheat Sheet for Design Leaders
Your Majesty Design Director Joost Huver shares his framework to help designers level up their thinking and leadership. A must-read for all design leaders.
linkedin.com · #340
Can a Store Really Build Community?
Retail is being reimagined - again. BoF looks at whether physical stores can still become cultural hangouts, or if the café/bookstore/gallery hybrid is already passé.
businessoffashion.com · #340
AI Won’t Save Your Gym. Leadership Will.
In this Delivered podcast, listen to our conversation with Jon Brady, a global leader in the fitness industry, to explore how to position your business for success.
infinum.com · #340
ChatGPT’s Brand Era
OpenAI’s first major marketing campaign is out - and it’s softer, more cinematic, and surprisingly human. A tone shift for the biggest brand in tech?
creativeboom.com · #340
Google’s MixBoard Is Part DJ, Part Sound Toy
It’s a browser-based music playground powered by AI. Choose a vibe and watch sound transform in real time.
labs.google.com · #340
Welcome to the Age of Agentic Commerce
OpenAI’s latest move could redefine online shopping: introducing instant checkout inside ChatGPT. It turns product discovery into purchase all in one prompt…
x.com · #340
The ‘Whisper Networks’
Young people are turning shopping social - with Whatsapp groups, Substack newsletters and private Instagram accounts becoming the in-the-know places to shop for the best items.
bustle.com · #340
If AI Can Diagnose You, What Are Doctors For?
The New Yorker takes on the hard question behind AI-powered medicine: when machines “know,” what does care still mean?
newyorker.com · #340
Design Spotlight: A Lantern for Yachts
Sir Jony Ive and Gen Terao teamed up to design a sailboat lantern that blends analog romanticism with obsessive detail - and we love it.
boatinternational.com · #340
The Style That Shaped the Streets
Two decades of street style, told by those who lived it. From Tumblr grids to TikTok cores, Highsnobiety’s oral history traces how everyday fits became fashion canon.
highsnobiety.com · #339
How Fitness Tech Is Redefining Leadership
Register now for the next Delivered episode, where we will be speaking to Jon Brady. A global leader in the fitness industry, to explore what’s ahead in AI-powered fitness.
infinum.com · #339
OK Go Open-Sources a Music Video
The band known for chaos choreography drops its most experimental project yet: a video designed to be remixed, re-edited, and reimagined by you.
itsnicethat.com · #339
How AI Is Quietly Rewriting Our Vocabulary
Research shows LLMs are seeding buzzwords into everyday speech, subtly shaping how we sell, write, and even think.
fastcompany.com · #339
Meet GodBot
Millions are turning to AI-powered chatbots for moral guidance, spiritual insight, and the occasional digital confession. Divinity delivered via push notification…?
nytimes.com · #339
Taste Is the New Power Tool
According to FIELD, taste has evolved from personal instinct to cultural operating system - the last un-automatable advantage in a machine-made world.
field.io · #339
What Sci-Fi Can Teach Brands
Worldbuilding isn’t just for screenwriters - it’s brand strategy. From Blade Runner to Black Panther, here’s what immersive fiction reveals about storytelling at scale.
printmag.com · #339
Wise Advice for the Next Generation
i-D’s latest cover is a letter to the next generation: 26 of the world’s luminaries from Nan Goldin to Marina Abramović share words of wisdom to navigate the world in 2025.
i-d.co · #339
Meta’s New Glasses Actually Work
After announcing the launch earlier this week, the reviews are in for Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses: AI integration and a design people actually want to wear.
techradar.com · #339
This Vape Pen Is Now a Web Server
In case the internet wasn’t weird enough: someone just turned a disposable vape into a functioning web server. It’s ridiculous, brilliant, and very on brand for 2025.
interestingengineering.com · #339
The Vibe Coding Mirage
A sharp critique from Microsoft’s Suff Syed on why vibe coding is more hype than reality. AI demos wow, but 95% of enterprise pilots fail, a cautionary tale for sustainable product building.
suffsyed.com · #338
Armani’s Italian Chic, Remembered
A look back at Giorgio Armani’s career and how he translated a uniquely Italian style into a global fashion phenomenon.
nytimes.com · #338
Skytree’s Digital Transformation
Our redesign of Skytree’s website is more than a visual update — it’s a new way of informing, educating, and converting with clarity and impact.
Your Majesty · #338
Why MACH Matters for the Future of Digital?
We explain how MACH architecture (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) creates scalable, flexible experiences and why we applied it to Skytree’s platform.
Your Majesty · #338
AI & Leadership: Trends Report 2025
This report, sponsored by Shutterstock explores how leaders are using AI to create assets, shape culture, and define the future of creativity.
campaigns.dandad.org · #338
Learning the Hard Way on a TK90X
A personal essay on the unforgiving experience of learning to code on clunky 80s hardware and what it says about today’s AI work struggles.
linkedin.com · #338
The Dark Side of AI Companionship
The Center for Humane Technology investigates how AI companions engagement-optimized design can negatively shape behavior and lead to tragic outcomes.
humanetech.com · #338
Where’s the Shovelware?
If AI makes developers 10x more productive, why aren’t we seeing 10x more software? A thoughtful dive into productivity paradoxes and missing outcomes.
mikelovesrobots.substack.com · #338
How to make your writing crisp?
Here is a framework for using templates and LLM prompts to sharpen your business writing. Practical, simple, effective.
danhock.co · #338
Minimum Viable Testing (MVT)
A guide to the MVT process for startups, offering a structured way to validate ideas before scaling, something we’ve also been experimenting with.
review.firstround.com · #338
The State of AI: 2025 Edition
Galaxies are forming. Gravity wells are deepening. This sharp piece from Next Big Ten reimagines the AI ecosystem as a vast and still-expanding universe.
nextbigteng.substack.com · #337
How to Design for a Future That Keeps Morphing
In this wide-ranging conversation, designer Nick Foster explores how to design for a future that never stays fixed.
designbetterpodcast.com · #337
UX Is Dead, Long Live AX
John Maeda maps the shift from user experience to agent experience, where AI tools act on behalf of the user.
johnmaeda.medium.com · #337
Labubumatchadubaichocolate Is a Mood
The New Yorker’ weekly opinion piece on technology and culture talks about the recent trend of absurdity, and where Labubumatchadubaichocilate is a response to algorithmic overstimulation.
newyorker.com · #337
AI as Your Stylist?
More young consumers are now using ChatGPT to choose outfits. It’s frictionless, personal and tricky for brands to tap into.
voguebusiness.com · #337
The Brain Rot Debate, Explained
In the latest episode of Diary of a CEO, a fiery debate between neuroscientists, designers, and skeptics takes on the most controversial claim in the field.
podcasts.apple.com · #337
Is AI Making Us All Delusional?
Three years in, AI’s most unsettling side effect might not be automation, it’s the creeping sense that we’re all slowly losing touch.
theatlantic.com · #337
A Whole Game World on Demand
Runway just dropped a generative RPG platform where players can spin up characters, stories, and environments.
play.runwayml.com · #337
Music Campaigns Are Becoming Multiverses
From merch to visuals to social rollouts, music’s best campaigns now feel like immersive alternate realities. Beyoncé, A24, and SZA are writing the playbook.
itsnicethat.com · #337
Why Most Enterprise AI Pilots Are Failing
According to MIT, 95% of companies using off-the-shelf AI are getting it wrong. The solution? Build, don’t buy.
fortune.com · #337
The Visual Culture of Women’s Sport
Following the success of the Lionesses at the Women’s Euros, the creative industry is finally treating women’s sport as a rich & complex culture worth showing up for.
itsnicethat.com · #336
How to Write Better Code with AI
Less hype, more habit: Sajal Sharma offers a tight framework for actually using AI tools to think through your code.
sajalsharma.com · #336
52 Beautiful Words Worth Saving
From “susurrus” to “petrichor,” designer Thomas Moes celebrates a year of gorgeous, underused words. A small act of linguistic preservation.
thomasmoes.com · #336
When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field
This oral history of computational linguistics post-GPT is funny, tragic, and slightly unhinged. A must-read for anyone tracking AI’s ripple effects.
quantamagazine.org · #336
The Street View That Sees Feelings
This interactive from The Pudding uses AI to guess the emotional tone of neighborhoods based on Google Street View — and lets you explore cities by mood, not map.
pudding.cool · #336
I Know When You’re Vibe Coding
A beautifully written reflection on how coding can feel - when it flows, when it stumbles, when it vibes. More poetry than tutorial.
alexkondov.com · #336
GPT-5: First Impressions, Mixed Emotions
Latent Space’s in-depth review of the highly-anticipated GPT-5 doesn’t just test benchmarks but questions what we’re benchmarking for.
latent.space · #336
AI That Builds Entire Worlds
Google Deepmind have just launched Genie 3, a leap in world simulation. Trained on video, it generates playable, interactive environments from scratch.
deepmind.google · #336
Are AI Companions Listening to Our Kids?
They’re comforting, clever, and increasingly common, but AI companions may also be shaping children’s emotional memories in ways we don’t yet understand.
uxplanet.org · #336
When artworks could speak
Using AI, Jonathan Talmi built a “living museum” - a personal, experimental space blending performance, memory, and web design. Then it went viral. Here's his reflection.
talms.me · #336
What Happens to UX When AI Becomes the User?
In the latest episode of our podcast Delivered, Georgios spoke to Decathlon’s Constantine Gavrykov to unpack what AI agents mean for the future of product design.
youtube.com · #335
How to Pay Attention (Again)
An essay on the neuroscience of focus that rewires the mind. A poetic, brain-based reminder that nowadays attention isn’t just a skill but an act of resistance.
contemplationstation.substack.com · #335
Poster Power for the 2026 Winter Olympics
The official art posters for Milano-Cortina 2026 just dropped and they’re stunning. Playful, gritty, poetic and definitely worth hanging on your wall.
printmag.com · #335
ChatGPT Gets an Agent Mode
Agents are here. OpenAI’s newest feature lets ChatGPT take action for you. Book a flight, manage your inbox, or handle your to-do list? It’s starting to happen.
openai.com · #335
Are Blink-182 Cult Brand Architects…?
Turns out “What’s My Age Again?” was also a brand strategy. A great breakdown of how Blink-182 built loyalty through honesty, emotion, and inside jokes.
linkedin.com · #335
Make Something That Matters
Got a crazy tech idea? Submit it to “Applied Experiments” now - they’re curating creative, useful, or weird ideas that show what the future could feel like.
google.com · #335
How to Book Club Anything
This new idea turns articles, podcasts, even playlists into a book club - all with the aim to bring people together through conversation.
The Best Films of the 21st Century
The New York Times just dropped a beautifully designed list of the 100 most impactful films of the past two decades. Debate starts now.
nytimes.com · #335
Comet by Perplexity: A Different Kind of AI Tool
Some AI tools feel like noise. Comet feels like clarity — a research companion that shows its sources, builds your understanding, and doesn’t pretend to know everything.
comet.perplexity.ai · #335
AI Songs from the Dead
Spotify quietly released AI-generated tracks that imitate deceased artists - and people aren’t happy. We think it’s eerie - what do you think?
404media.co · #335
Taste Is the New Intelligence
In a world drowning in content and noise, the ability to choose with precision, intention, and style might be the ultimate intellectual flex.
wildbarethoughts.com · #334
Hello AI, Goodbye UX (as We Know It)
Constantine Gavrykov, Senior Director of Product Design at Decathlon, spoke to us about how to successfully navigate the radical shift in UX design.
infinum.com · #334
Nike’s New Era of Fearless Football
With bold visuals and a ‘Scary Good’ spirit, Nike Football’s new brand identity is a love letter to risk, flair, and play without limits.
about.nike.com · #334
Meet Doppl: Your AI-Powered Stylist
Google’s new Labs experiment lets you try on outfits virtually using a digital avatar built from your own photo
labs.google · #334
Why Writing by Hand Still Matters
A beautiful exploration into handwriting in our hyper-digital age, and why the writing differences of each generation matter.
straitstimes.com · #334
Building Bluey’s World
In this deep dive, art director Catriona Drummond reveals how they carefully and beautifully built the world of Bluey, the most beloved children’s show on earth.
itsnicethat.com · #334
Are We Lying to Young People?
An unflinching look at the overly-optimistic advice we give younger generations and the need for a more honest, nuanced narrative.
maalvika.substack.com · #334
WTF is Vibe Marketing?
Forget demographics. Vibe marketing is a feeling-first approach to branding that’s intuitive and emotional, and a new direction in brand-building.
ehandbook.com · #334
An Illustrator’s AI Reckoning
In this haunting visual essay in the NY Times, an illustrator confronts his fears and questions his relationship with art and the future of drawing for a living.
nytimes.com · #334
The Future of Making
A small 3D printer has set an all time record for the most money raised on Kickstarter, signalling a new era for creative expression.
forbes.com · #334
AI’s Latest Trick? Elephant Conversation for Conservation
A groundbreaking conservation project tracking the sounds and movements of herds in Africa may one day allow us to have a conversation with them.
observer.co.uk · #333
The End of Publishing As We Know It
A long-read unpacks how chatbot overviews & summary features are keeping users locked into conversations, and threatening media & journalism as we know it.
theatlantic.com · #333
Championing the CO₂ Transition with Skytree
We partnered with Skytree to design and launch a bold new digital home — one that captures their mission to harvest CO₂ from air and fuel a circular future.
Your Majesty · #333
The Poem Booth
In city stations, a new AI poetry booth invites passersby to take a photo and receive a personalised poem based on that photo in return.
poembooth.com · #333
Everyone’s an Art Critic
A new community app, dubbed the Letterboxd of the art world, turns gallery-goers into art critics. Suddenly, anyone with a smartphone can be a voice in the art world.
theartnewspaper.com · #333
The End of the Founder Era?
Research from BoF charts the quiet fade of founder-led beauty brands, and what comes next.
businessoffashion.com · #333
AI Slop is Everywhere
Presenter John Oliver breaks down why generative AI content is flooding our feeds on hid Late Night Show, and what we lose when the web turns to mush.
youtube.com · #333
The Illusion of Intellect
What does it mean to be smart in an age of performative knowledge? This essay unpacks how AI contributes to a shallow sense of understanding.
whatsanu.substack.com · #333
The Power of Social-First Brands
Rhode’s $1B exit signals both the power and the plateau of brands built social-first. But are they built for longevity?
campaignlive.com · #333
The New Blueprint for Political Design?
Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral merch doesn’t look like politics, it looks like something you’d line up for at Supreme. Here’s why it worked.
gq.com · #333
Debiasing tools for fairer AI and ML models
Kindlee enhances the inclusivity of AI applications while identifying and increasing revenue, making fairness profitable for all.
kindlee.co · #332
The Constipation of Culture: Why Nothing New Gets Through and Nothing Old Goes Away
How late capitalism turned culture into content and content into sludge.
mikecormack.substack.com · #332
Why Some Brains Are Wired for Extremism
Neuroscientist and author of The Ideological Brain Leor Zmigrod illuminates the factors leading some people down a path of extremism.
atmos.earth · #332
The Danger Of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think
The rhetoric over “superhuman” AI implicitly erases what’s most important about being human.
noemamag.com · #332
How to Be an Artist
Four major artists talk to us about where their obsessions came from — and what they did about the obstacles thrown in their way.
nytimes.com · #332
The Conflict-Intelligent Leader
As civil strife grows around the world, clashes are on the rise in the workplace too. Incivility on the job is getting worse, and each day it costs companies billions in lost productivity and absenteeism. To navigate the discord, today’s business leaders need to develop conflict intelligence.
hbr.org · #332
Chanel unveils new recycling platform
Bruno Pavlovsky, president of fashion at Chanel and Chanel SAS, explains why the French house is determined to develop recycled materials at scale.
voguebusiness.com · #332
What Happened to Speculative Futurism?
It’s time that digital artists up their game.
artreview.com · #332
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
technologyreview.com · #332
Hito Steyerl’s ‘Medium Hot’: The Age of Slop
Steyerl challenges us to recognise the vast scale of AI’s ubiquity and also to realise its ‘artificial stupidity’.
artreview.com · #332
Claude Code: Anthropic's Agent in Your Terminal
Cat Wu and Boris Cherny from the Claude Code team stop by to tell all.
latent.space · #331
Config 2025: Crafting quality that endures
When we build tools, we shape environments that will in turn shape us—and at Linear, Karri Saarinen has championed quality as the foundation, not an afterthought. In this talk, he'll share lessons from Linear's journey.
youtube.com · #331
New Study Estimates How Many Climate Extremes Your Kids Will Face
Achieving the Paris goals of limiting heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius could spare 613 million of today’s youth from “unprecedented” exposure to heat waves.
atmos.earth · #331
Creatives: 11 Ways To Impress Employers In The Age Of AI
AI hasn’t yet replaced the need for human oversight, and there are still plenty of reasons why it would benefit a company to keep creative experts on their teams.
forbes.com · #331
Shit’s Gonna Get So Fucking Weird and Terrible
An uncomfortably honest field guide to the deeply bizarre now-now-soon.
sonderuncertainly.substack.com · #331
The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding
Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The Creative Act turns philosophy into practice with artifacts that can be creatively modified with AI.
thewayofcode.com · #331
Generative AI models are skilled in the art of bullshit
Large language models are unconcerned with truth because they have no concept of it — and therein lies the danger.
ft.com · #331
What to Know About the Kids Online Safety Act and Where It Currently Stands
What to know about the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act, which has been reintroduced and has a second chance.
time.com · #331
Building a Home From 100 Miles of Cord
Chiharu Shiota, a Berlin-based artist, has conjured a multitude of immigrant stories in “Home Less Home,” her largest museum show in the U.S.
nytimes.com · #331
All the Films in Competition at Cannes 2025, Ranked from Best to Worst
The festival served up its richest edition in years, with multiple standouts among the twenty-two films in contention for the Palme d’Or.
newyorker.com · #331
Echoes from the Lost Internet
What we can still learn from a Flash Website built in 2000.
alexandrajugovic.substack.com · #330
Where to book hunt in Amsterdam, a playground for contemporary book design
An Amsterdam correspondent analyses why the city is so known for its publishing prowess, and shares a comprehensive list of places for designers, printers, publishers, and enthusiasts alike, to check out.
itsnicethat.com · #330
How creativity became the reigning value of our time
In "The Cult of Creativity," Samuel Franklin excavates the surprisingly recent history of an idea, an ideal, and an ideology.
technologyreview.com · #330
The 10 Exhibitions to See in May 2025
Exhibitions looked forward to this month, from the Venice Architecture Biennale to Gallery Weekends in Berlin and Beijing.
artreview.com · #330
Let’s stop calling them ‘soft skills.’ They’re the hardest ones to master.
Why soft skills are important for leadership success and why we need to reframe the importance of them in the workplace.
fastcompany.com · #330
What Can We Learn from Broken Things?
Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.
newyorker.com · #330
Your brain is biased to negativity. Here’s how to be more positive.
Negativity bias may have evolved to help us survive. But it also can ramp up our anxiety.
washingtonpost.com · #330
Postcard from Madrid: lunch at the world’s oldest restaurant
Botín has been going strong for 300 years — but can it avoid being a tourist trap?
ft.com · #330
Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem
There’s never been a better time to make social media what it always should have been: a tool to strengthen rather than strip-mine the social fabric.
noemamag.com · #330
Steph Speirs on The Nature Of Capital and Ensuring Life Thrives
The latest episode of the Atmos new podcast explores capital and the shifting definition of wealth beyond money.
atmos.earth · #330
Reclaim Imperfect Faces
Technology isn’t just changing the way we look—it’s changing our sense of how we should look.
theatlantic.com · #329
What We Lose When We Spend to Feel Better
Consumer culture taught us that joy can be bought—but the ecological costs of our shopping habits reveals how misguided that promise was.
atmos.earth · #329
Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
During testimony at Meta’s antitrust trial, the Facebook founder’s argument was, in so many words, that platforms like his are not what they used to be.
newyorker.com · #329
Spells, Vibes, and Thick Imagination
At the heart of RADAR's 2025 focus is a simple but significant question: how do we build infrastructure that helps people cross from yearning for better futures to actually building them?
radarxyz.substack.com · #329
AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence
Advances in AI are making us reconsider what intelligence is and giving us clues to unlocking AI’s full potential.
noemamag.com · #329
Pictures from Where the Senses Encounter the World
Cig Harvey’s “Emerald Drifters” is a rallying cry to exist in our bodies.
newyorker.com · #329
When Over-Collaboration Leads to Indecision
Building consensus is a good thing—until it stalls decision-making.
hbr.org · #329
Circular Fashion – From Environmental Imperative To Practical Necessity
As the industry weathers rising tariffs, strained supply chains, and a cost-of-living crisis, circularity could become less of a compliance exercise and more of a practical adjustment.
theinterline.com · #329
Are colors objective? These philosophers think so
Our ability to determine whether objects are colored the same or differently and the indispensable roles they play in science suggest that colors are as real and objective as length and temperature.
fastcompany.com · #329
Nora Turato Examines ‘Authenticity’, or What’s Left of It
The artist’s new exhibition at ICA London asks what has – and will – become of language in the age of the Large Language Model.
artreview.com · #329
Why AI art is winning over Young Collectors
After Christie’s controversial AI auction, Artsy asked experts why AI art is captivating Gen-Z and millennial audiences.
artsy.net · #328
Finding Focus as the World Burns: A Leader’s Guide to Workplace Distraction
Slack pings. Breaking news. Mental clutter. Here’s how to fight back.
peoplemanagingpeople.com · #328
Talk to me, GPT: when chatbots become confidants
OpenAI’s new study finds ChatGPT is more than a tool for many — it’s a trusted companion. But deep use may come at a social and emotional cost.
trendwatching.com · #328
What a Hyperfixation Really Is
We asked experts what it really feels like to maintain an extreme level of focus.
time.com · #328
Can A.I. Writing Be More Than a Gimmick?
Vauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book, “Searches.” But the most moving sections are the ones she wrote herself.
newyorker.com · #328
How are people are using Gen AI?
Gen AI has evolved fast—new tools, lower costs, and smarter features like voice and reasoning. With big moves from Google and OpenAI, we revisited the data to see how people are using it now.
hbr.org · #328
What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety
Psychological safety is often misunderstood, leading to confusion and poor team dynamics. This article debunks six common myths—like equating it with being nice or job security—and offers practical ways to address them.
hbr.org · #328
Ten Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2025
longreads.com · #328
short stories selected by Pravesh Bhardwaj.
longreads.com · #328
SXSW 2025: the 10 trends that shaped this year’s festival
The Drum was on the ground at South by Southwest again this year, finding out what the future holds for marketing, media and tech. Here are their biggest takeaways.
thedrum.com · #327
The Coolest People Online Are Barely Posting at All
Oversharing is out, privacy is in. Digital minimalists are curating their online presence with intention — because in 2025, mystery is the ultimate flex.
popsugar.com · #327
Our human habit of anthropomorphizing everything
Should we be anthropomorphizing AI? Why do we speak to AI as if it's human? Do we want AI to act in a certain way? Do we want it to be more human? Or do we just assign it that trait anyway?
doc.cc · #327
Meet Reve Image 1.0
A new model trained from the ground up to excel at prompt adherence, aesthetics, and typography.
preview.reve.art · #327
Hayao Miyazaki, Who Said AI Is ‘Insult to Life Itself,” Reduced to AI-Generated Meme by OpenAI
The internet is flooded with AI-generated images in the style of Studio Ghibli, whose founder said “I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.”
archive.ph · #327
2025 Design in Tech Report (Unedited): Autodesigners on Autopilot
The top takeaways from John Maeda.
youtube.com · #327
Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model
What the firm found challenges some basic assumptions about how this technology really works.
technologyreview.com · #327
Daniel Coe’s Astonishing River Cartography
Stunning river maps reveal stories hidden in historical sediment and past channels carved by water.
orionmagazine.org · #327
These old Roman buildings could unlock how to build in a warming world
The recycled buildings of Rome, long dismissed by architects, are getting a reappraisal as a model for how to reduce waste while creating something fresh.
washingtonpost.com · #327
Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient
From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using one-size-fits-all health metrics?
newyorker.com · #327
Cash App Brand Guidelines
Cash App, a brand that thrives on the tension between structuring order and explosive freedom.
design.cash.app · #326
‘A computer’s joke, on us’: writers respond to the short story written by AI
Sam Altman, the OpenAI boss, has declared its new model ‘good at creative writing’. They asked writers including Tracy Chevalier, Kamila Shamsie and David Baddiel if they agree.
getrecall.ai · #326
‘Parasite’ Director’s New Film Proves Space Won’t Save Us
The Oscar-winning director’s latest film lays bare the brutal realities of capitalism and class exploitation.
atmos.earth · #326
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
ourworldindata.org · #326
Stability AI is back with 'Stable Virtual Camera
A model that turns 2d images into immersive 3D videos.
stability.ai · #326
Living Things Are Not Machines (Also, They Totally Are)
Our formal models of life, computers and materials fail to tell the entire story of their capabilities and limitations.
noemamag.com · #326
Laurie Santos’s Pursuit of Happiness
Yale’s resident well-being expert talks about what it means to live a good life and shares some books that might help us get within reach of one.
newyorker.com · #326
We All Have ‘Archive Anxiety’ Now
As online access to information becomes increasingly restricted, even the noblest feats of preservation and archiving are being hijacked.
artreview.com · #326
Indigenous Groups Are Safeguarding Culture with Their Own ChatGPT
Artificial intelligence and cutting-edge technologies are helping the Amazon’s Indigenous communities protect their land and traditions.
atmos.earth · #325
The Worthwhile Trend of Romanticizing Your Life
Why do we feel the need to save life’s finer things for "special occasions"?
hardcopy.online · #325
10 Breakthrough Technologies
What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question MIT tackle each year as they compile their annual list. Sure, they can’t see the future, but they expect these technologies to affect our world in a big way, for decades to come.
technologyreview.com · #325
‘Digital Witness’: How Early Computer Graphics Became Tools for Subversion
A new show at LACMA explores the impact of digital manipulation on the past 40 years of popular culture – and the rise of an influential counterculture.
artreview.com · #325
The rise of Async Work
In this podcast, Joe Thomas, cofounder and head of product at Loom Atlassian discusses how asynchronous work is a beneficial collaboration approach to modern work.
fastcompany.com · #325
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Thoughtful stories for thoughtless times, showcasing stories from Julia Webster Ayuso, Abe Beame, Tracy Thompson, Will Boast, and Gary Grimes.
longreads.com · #325
Spending Ourselves to Sleep: How Rest Became Beauty’s Latest Luxury
Beauty and wellness brands are launching luxurious “sleep wellness” products left and right. How helpful are they?
highsnobiety.com · #325
Generative AI hits a fashion acceleration point
The buzzy tech has moved beyond its 2024 hype cycle into real-world implementation. Vogue Business spoke to retailers who are seeing results.
voguebusiness.com · #325
Why AI Is A Philosophical Rupture
Tobias Rees, founder of an AI studio located at the intersection of philosophy, art and technology, sat down with Noema Editor-in-Chief Nathan Gardels to discuss the philosophical significance of generative AI.
noemamag.com · #325
IKEA uncovers the globe’s sleep secrets: Where the world sleeps soundly – and where sleep is a struggle
A new IKEA report reveals we get 1 hour and 20 minutes less sleep than we want – and it uncovers a mathematical formula for achieving the perfect night’s rest.
ikea.com · #325
The Anatomy of Hype
Offering insights for individuals and organizations seeking to understand the dynamics of hype, make informed decisions amidst the frenzy, and harness its potential for positive change.
Your Majesty · #324
Unsold flowers are being transformed into fragrances
Exploring turning unsold petunias, roses and marigolds into fragrances and other raw ingredients for its personal care and household products.
trendwatching.com · #324
Am I Slop? Am I Agentic? Am I Earth?
Every few years, a new innovation seems to raise the same questions: can we compute human intelligence? Can our labor be automated? Who owns these systems and their training data? How will this technology reshape society? Yet there is one question rarely heard asked: how will AI change our understanding of ourselves?
longnow.org · #324
'The Brutalist' AI backlash, explained
The revelation has ignited fresh conversation around the use of AI in movie production.
mashable.com · #324
TOO BUSY Foundation
Human trafficking is everywhere, thriving in silence. Our mission is to break that silence—to expose the darkness and amplify the voices that have been hidden for too long. This is a sanctuary for truth, a space to reveal what has remained hidden in our culture.
weare.toobusy.foundation · #324
‘Narcissists – only more devious’: the truth about dark empaths
They seem sensitive and caring – but really they just want to manipulate you. So how do you recognise the danger signs?
theguardian.com · #324
Where do Ideas come from?
A short film about the mysteries of inspiration. Featuring thoughts on the subject by: David Lynch Robert Krulwich Chuck Close and more.
vimeo.com · #324
The High Price of Paradise in ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3
The dark comedy’s latest installment is set in Thailand, where over tourism has devastating environmental—and human—consequences.
atmos.earth · #324
100 Most Watched Software Engineering Talks Of 2024
A complete list of the top 100 most watched talks of 2024 ordered by the number of views.
techtalksweekly.io · #324
Elizabeth Goodspeed on what happens when we treat the past like a stock library
Not all borrowing is the same. From public domain illustrations on book covers to AI’s data hoarding, who really owns culture – and who gets away with taking it?
itsnicethat.com · #324
World’s first AI art museum to explore ‘creative potential of machines’ in LA
The artificial intelligence art museum, dubbed Dataland, is slated to open in late 2025, in a new development next to the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Broad Museum and the home of the LA philharmonic, creating a space for AI art among some of Los Angeles’s most prestigious cultural venues.
theguardian.com · #323
The Man who could paint Loneliness
Though known for his gloomy landscapes, Caspar David Friedrich was chasing the sublime—the divinity, in all of nature, that made us seem small.
newyorker.com · #323
Best of Further Reading 2024: FT journalists pick their favourite non-FT articles of the year
Financial Mail has once again enlisted the help of their legacy media colleagues to bring together the best articles published over 2024 that weren’t in the FT.
ft.com · #323
The Technology that actually runs our World
Cultural algorithms are only downstream of the larger, intractable forces that shape how art is made and supported. It’s not that Spotify has made music more boring or that Instagram has made art more stale.
theatlantic.com · #323
The Intersection of Technology and Art: Exploring the Impact of Digital Innovations on Culture
Delve into the many ways technology is influencing art and culture, and examine the opportunities and challenges that arise from this intersection.
medium.com · #323
The Digital Renaissance of the Arts & Culture Industry
The arts and culture industry holds immense significance in modern society, not only for creating, driving and preserving heritage, but for economic contributions as well as social and community cohesion. In part one of this article, experts from around the world discuss how the industry has evolved and the anticipated future developments.
odgersberndtson.com · #323
Transcript: Tech in 2025 — China’s AI ‘Sputnik moment’
Some are calling it ‘AI Sputnik moment.’ Last week, a Chinese company called DeepSeek released the details of an AI model that shocked Silicon Valley, and could change the whole narrative around AI development.
ft.com · #323
How 27 filmmakers came together to make Coldplay’s epic, sprawling video
Director Isabel Garrett takes us behind the scenes of the mixed-media film, which saw a flock of animators, filmmakers and artists contribute eclectic segments to create one marvellous mosaic.
itsnicethat.com · #323
“Forger” painter for the cinema: the fascinating secrets of Edith Baudrand
A fascinating behind-the-scenes profession of which the artist Édith Baudrand – who created the paintings for the Van Gogh biopic At Eternity's Gate (2018) by Julian Schnabel, Séraphine (2008) and Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe by Martin Provost (released in theaters this January 10).
beauxarts.com · #323
The Stranger Things Effect Comes for the Novel
In modern fiction, vintage media have emerged as tactile objects that symbolize integrity, solve the crime, and radiate realness.
theatlantic.com · #323
Wellness Culture Is Now Peddling Extremism
From trad wives to raw milk, social media’s wellness trends have been radicalized—and could cost us a more equitable future.
atmos.earth · #322
Service as a Software: The New SaaS
Over the upcoming decade, AI-provisioned intelligence will become almost free, and instantly available. AI won’t just assist professionals — it will take over much of the work as a packed instant service provider. Welcome to the age of boundless skill scalability, where services transform into software and economies grow beyond human imagination.
uxtigers.com · #322
The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
A field guide and why we need to rethink our expectations.
addyo.substack.com · #322
How meditation deconstructs your mind
Want to learn how to meditate? Scientists have a new theory that might change how you practice.
vox.com · #322
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things Simon figured out about the field in the past twelve months, plus his attempt at identifying key themes and pivotal moments.
simonwillison.net · #322
Spotify making their own AI music under fake artists, and pushing them instead of real ones?
From the music industry community on Reddit: Spotify making their own AI music under fake artists, and pushing them instead of real ones?
reddit.com · #322
Pinterest Predicts 2025
The Pinterest trend report is always a fun read. Apparently up and coming trends for 2025 include fisherman aesthetic, castle-core, and (our personal fave) sea witchery plus many more.
business.pinterest.com · #322
Microsoft advances materials discovery with MatterGen
Microsoft has introduced MatterGen, an AI-driven platform designed to accelerate the discovery of new materials, potentially revolutionizing industries such as manufacturing and energy.
artificialintelligence-news.com · #322
Pop Culture Trends of 2025
Showcasing how elements of mainstream media are influencing societal behavior and consumer goods, Trend Hunter’s pop culture category features everything from viral videos to film merchandise and political satire.
trendhunter.com · #322
Varying Portraits of Women in Top Films
This year’s Best Actress Oscar race is particularly crowded. With only five slots open, many fine performances may be edged out. Among the other front-runners are stars playing women struggling with sexuality, aging, life and death itself.
culturaldaily.com · #322
Immerse yourself in our unique celebration of curiosity
Over 10 years and 3000 links later we reached an exciting milestone –– and to celebrate our 300th issue of the team’s favourite links from over the years, we celebrated with an immersive microsite where you can explore, learn and find those unexpected sources of inspiration.
300.yourmajesty.co · #321
The age of average
In an age where literally everything looks the same, is it time to introduce some originality into design, culture and life?
alexmurrell.co.uk · #321
Ten Charts That Capture How the World Is Changing
Insights into how tech has changed our lives, plus user experience lessons from our fave green owl, Duolingo.
digitalnative.substack.com · #321
OK COOL Trend Report
The most anticipated social trend report of the year is here. Read Gatekeeping Information is SO Boomer Coded: A marketer's guide to Gen Zalpha's new school mindset.
okcool.io · #321
Introducing Pika 1.5
pikartai.com · #321
How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide
AI got you overwhelmed? This is a good read for anyone who wishes to understand AI a bit more but has limited time to actually keep up with it all.
oneusefulthing.org · #321
Outfit Anyone
Virtual try-on, solved? This platform is certainly making waves. Try on virtual outfits, experiment with looks, and dive into the future of fashion—all for free!
outfitchanger.com · #321
AI Prompter
Struggling to write successful prompts for gen-AI tools? We have the solution.
prompter.fofr.ai · #321
Ikigai and the question of personal purpose
While brands have been obsessed with purpose in recent years, we have overlooked personal purpose, which can lead to a far more enriching working life.
creativereview.co.uk · #321
The shame of LinkedIn
A jobs board + social media + personal updates, LinkedIn often feels so cringe. But is it possible to post there without being cringe yourself? Experts give their point of view.
businessinsider.com · #321
It's Nice That's independent makers gift list
Spanning books, prints, T-shirts, toys, socks, candles, jewellery, food and everything in between, you’re sure to find something on this annual list of top gifts to buy from independent creatives and businesses, to suit all your gift-giving needs this festive season.
itsnicethat.com · #320
Exploring photographies impact on culture
From interviews and discussions with photographers on their influences and practices, to a multitude of reflections on the role of photography and its relationship to other art forms, explore content through format, category or through a range of specially curated themes which propose edited perspectives on photography's relationship to art and culture.
thephotographersgallery.org.uk · #320
How Minecraft is inspiring a new wave of art and design
Generative art, immersive installations, and virtual music festivals – Minecraft’s cultural cachet goes far beyond the Overworld.
itsnicethat.com · #320
Exploring the virtual fashion expectation gap
In this piece fashion designers pair their designs with 3D technology explore the gap between the future of fashion we expected, and the present we are living in.
scandinavianmind.com · #320
Jaguar's vow to 'Copy Nothing'
You will have seen their new concept car '00' and their new logo, now you can learn about the 'Copy Nothing' philosophy that triggered both.
designboom.com · #320
A Guide to Art Basel Miami 2024
Miami Art Weeks kicked off on 2nd December, here's a recap of the pop-ups, installations and events that took place.
wwd.com · #320
In defence of generative AI
Some of the creative community were outraged at Pentagram's decision to use generative AI to design a government website. Pentagram partner Paula Scher explains why.
fastcompany.com · #320
The future of betting
Prediction markets have been around for a long time, but it was only during the last election that they broke fully into the mainstream. This surge is due to trickle down into other markets, from popular culture to the weather.
businessinsider.nl · #320
The state of UX 2025
UX Collective share their predications for what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.
trends.uxdesign.cc · #320
An ecosystem for the future of mobility
Volvo Cars and real estate developers Vectura Fastigheter and Next Step Group join forces in the development of the Mobility Innovation Destination Torslanda in Gothenburg, Sweden.
scandinavianmind.com · #320
Could AI help save the planet? Four ways it’s already making a world of difference
Might AI yet prove a useful ally? Positive News unpick how it's aiding conservation efforts for forests and food, and in conservation on land and at sea.
positive.news · #319
Perplexity launch a new AI-powered shopping assistant
This new product promises to do everything you need to buy a product, in one place. Ask for help on what to buy and receive advice advice alongside recommended products.
perplexity.ai · #319
Family's homemade stop-motion Christmas film gets global streaming release
Steal The Naughty List is the four-year labour of love of an engineering dad and homeschooled teens from Mississippi. Could this be the unexpected hit of the holiday season?
creativeboom.com · #319
OpenAI's Sora video generator appears to have leaked
A group of artists appears to have leaked access to OpenAI's video generator, Sora, in a bid to make OpenAi more open and artist friendly. So they truly support the artists as opposed to using them for PR stunts.
techcrunch.com · #319
AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry
According to a study, participants were unable to say what poetry was AI-generated what had been written by well-known human poets. And they were more likely to judge AI-generated poems as human-authored than actual human-authored poems.
nature.com · #319
A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.
nytimes.com · #319
Age of Empires II at 25: the strategy game that inspired a generation of historians
Many historians of a certain age admit that the game reinforced their passion for the past and got them into the field. Four of them explain what drew them in.
theguardian.com · #319
Runway launch a new model for their image generation tool
The new model, Frames, promises more stylistic control and visual fidelity: it can establish a specific look and feel and reliably generate variations within it.
runwayml.com · #319
Elizabeth Goodspeed on untangling credit in design
As Athletic Greens’ meteoric rise shows, a brand’s success often depends on its identity system. But who gets recognition for the work when multiple studios shape a brand over time?
itsnicethat.com · #319
The World Is Drowning In Plastic Pollution. Can a Global Treaty Fix It?
As world leaders gather to finalize the first Global Plastics Treaty, communities living on the frontline of the plastics crisis make clear why it is so crucial.
atmos.earth · #319
Can Nature’s Own Sounds Help Heal the Earth?
As the world’s natural habitats degrade, scientists are playing natural sounds to ecosystems to bring them back to life.
atmos.earth · #318
OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished
A judge tossed out a case against OpenAI brought by Alternet and Raw Story, in what could be a significant ruling in the larger battle between AI companies and publishers.
wired.com · #318
The Endgames of Bad Faith Communication
Seeking to understand others and communicate honestly is an essential democratic virtue. Can it be maintained in the digital age?
consilienceproject.org · #318
Microsoft and the Vatican unveiled this AI collaboration
The project has been launched ahead of the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee, a year in which more than 30 million visitors are expected.
fastcompany.com · #318
What is ‘greenhushing’ and is it really a cause for concern?
A recent report suggested more companies are going radio silent - or 'greenhushing' their emissions-reduction goals to avoid scrutiny. Could this impact climate efforts?
weforum.org · #318
How to Lead When the Future Feels Unpredictable
The protracted uncertainty that comes with living in liminal times can cause leaders and employees alike to feel unsettled or anxious, but the authors of this article remind us that we have more agency during these times than we might realize.
hbr.org · #318
Synthetic Hollywood: a future with no actors?
There's no doubt that AI will transform Hollywood. But how will an industry built on the simulation of life grapple with its responsibility to 'the real' - if at all?
culture3.com · #318
The 10 Exhibitions to See in November 2024
Exhibitions this month, from a radical archive of LGBTQ+ experience in Brazil to the Bangkok Art Biennale.
artreview.com · #318
The fallacy of faster
Rory Sutherland challenges our knee-jerk assumption that faster is always better. He asks us to consider what might happen if we approached problem-solving and decision-making with a more open-ended, human-centered perspective.
densediscovery.com · #318
Alfonso Cuarón Subverted Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Now He’s Coming for TV
Gravity, Children of Men, the best Harry Potter movie—and now a seven-part miniseries? With Disclaimer, director Alfonso Cuarón has set out to conquer TV in the name of cinema.
wired.com · #318
State of Digital Fashion 2024
Our annual trend report has explored the intersection of technology and fashion — from the rise of digital fashion and the world of online expression to the increasing adoption and opportunity of AI.
Your Majesty · #317
Take Your Spotify Playlists to the Next Level With Custom Cover Art
Spotify is giving music fans the power to design and customize their own playlist cover art so their playlists can always look as good as they sound.
newsroom.spotify.com · #317
Runway Introduces Act-One
A new way to generate expressive character performances inside Gen-3 Alpha using a single driving video and character image. No motion capture or rigging required.
runwayml.com · #317
The Biggest Font Trends To Look Out For In 2025
From a sans-serif backlash to neo-retro revivals, our experts predict a diverse typographic landscape for the coming year.
creativeboom.com · #317
Two Possible Futures For AI
On The Vergecast: beautiful AI dreams, earthquake detection, and some Camera Control science.
theverge.com · #317
Mark Armijo McKnight’s Black Sky Thinking
In Decreation at the Whitney, Armijo McKnight mines Simone Weil’s neologism to evoke a sense of creation-through-eradication.
artreview.com · #317
Introducing Stable Diffusion 3.5
Introducing Stable Diffusion 3.5, our most powerful models yet. This open release includes multiple variants that are highly customisable for their size and run on consumer hardware.
stability.ai · #317
The Gift of Imperfection
In this summary, discussion on how this tendency to aim for perfection develops and how we can overcome it to be more true to ourselves.
hulry.com · #317
Designer And Collector Ashley Kinnard On The Unpolished Power Of Printed Matter
An avid amasser of books, leaflets, and found ephemera, this South London-based designer brings a sensory-driven approach to every project he creates.
itsnicethat.com · #317
Interview: Tobias Gremmler
Using digital techniques and solutions, 3D animation and video technology to create visual compositions often in conversation with other art forms like music, theatre and sculpture.
openlab.fm · #317
Introducing Pika 1.5
Pika dropped Pika 1.5 with 'Pikaffects' just a few days ago, and people are going crazy over the physics-defying AI special effects.
pika.art · #316
What do young creatives want from their leaders?
Creative Review ask those establishing themselves in the ad and design industry what leaders are getting right, where there are gaps, and what their focus should be.
creativereview.co.uk · #316
How Lego creates meaningful brand experiences
Creative Review speak to Lego’s VP of global brand development Alero Akuya about the brand’s rare ability to straddle the physical and virtual worlds with ease.
creativereview.co.uk · #316
How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library
Ten years after Silicon Valley remade TV, it’s become clear how the streaming revolution distorted our collective viewing habits — and sense of the culture.
nytimes.com · #316
Teen achieves first NES Tetris “rebirth,” proves endless play is possible
Dogplayingtetris blasts past 3,300-line rollover in two-hour, 29M-point endurance test.
arstechnica.com · #316
Can Trashie Solve Fashion’s Waste Problem?
A new U.S. startup wants to stop clothes from going in the trash, but it may not be the silver bullet it appears to be.
atmos.earth · #316
Identifying Political Deepfakes in Social Media using AI
TrueMedia is a non-profit committed to helping us tell truth from fake in the age of generative AI.
truemedia.org · #316
Key trends in audiovisual design: what's next for 2025?
In the fifth of a special six-part series, the latest instalment from Creative Boom's trend report look at the cutting-edge developments shaping the future of audiovisual design and how they're set to transform brand experiences by 2025.
creativeboom.com · #316
Adobe reveals a content authenticity app to 'champion creator protection and attribution'
Research has found that 91 per cent of creative professionals seek a reliable way to attach attribution to their art and design. Adobe's soon-to-launch Content Authenticity is a tool that may just offer that solution.
creativeboom.com · #316
Lifeworld by Olafur Eliasson
Artist Olafur Eliasson releases his new artwork Lifeworld in collaboration with CIRCA and WeTransfer. An invitation to contemplate who you are and where you are, here and now.
lifeworld.wetransfer.com · #316
In Season, why trees lose their leaves
Deciduous trees are more than a vibrant display of nature’s virtuosity; they offer an elegant map for navigating the passage of time.
atmos.earth · #315
OK COOL Trend Report
The most anticipated social trend report of the year is here. Read Gatekeeping Information is SO Boomer Coded: A marketer's guide to Gen Zalpha's new school mindset.
okcool.io · #315
How not to use box shadows
So you think you know box shadows huh? I bet you didn't know they could do this.
dgerrells.com · #315
Drowning in slop
A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage — and it’s only going to get worse.
nymag.com · #315
Louis Vuitton [Extended] Podcast
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur discusses his creative journey and reflects on some of his notable work, including the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 Torches.
en.louisvuitton.com · #315
David Hockney ~ The Art of Seeing
Andrew Marr, a friend of David Hockney's and an amateur painter himself, is in conversation with the artist, both at his home in Bridlington and in the galleries of the Royal Academy in London.
youtube.com · #315
How to use music to transform your visual content
A special six-part series focused on the use of music in modern design. In part one, a look at the importance of music to visual content.
creativeboom.com · #315
Ikigai and the question of personal purpose
While brands have been obsessed with purpose in recent years, we have overlooked personal purpose, which can lead to a far more enriching working life.
creativereview.co.uk · #315
Hidden scrolls, tantric puzzles and SpongeBob SquarePants – a startling new angle on ancient Asian art
The Rijksmuseum has used techniques including neutron tomography to shed fresh light on 75 treasures dating back millennia.
theguardian.com · #315
Michel Gondry - Do It Yourself ! | ARTE Cinema
A brilliant jack-of-all-trades whose eccentric talent convinced the creative elite of international pop music to entrust him with his music videos.
youtube.com · #315
Bitter aftertaste: the fraught world of branding cultural food products
Advocating for a more respectful, nuanced approach when branding foods (non-western other otherwise) that honours the origins and traditions of cultural food products.
itsnicethat.com · #314
Inside the internet’s Am I the Asshole ecosystem
This article delves into Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole?” (AITA) subreddit, how it’s become a cultural phenomenon and how gossip, morality and connection are integral to human nature.
link.vox.com · #314
Does Gen Alpha have “brainrot”?
Not here to fuel an intergenerational spat, but this article explores Gen Alpha’s concept of brainrot, and how it actually may have created a healthy boundary between them and their technology.
link.vox.com · #314
What Dollcore Says About The Precarious State of Girlhood
You’ve heard of Cottagecore, and you’ll definitely have heard of Barbiecore: the next aesthetic is Dollcore. While the former offer critiques of societal expectations of femininity, the latter emphasises and enables traditional, submissive roles.
highsnobiety.com · #314
The Shift from Creator Economy to Meaning Economy: A New Era of Engagement
As AI generates mass content, standing out in this overwhelming digital landscape will depend on meaningful connections, stories, and authenticity.
culture3.com · #314
Instagram, Facing Pressure Over Child Safety Online, Unveils Sweeping Changes
Learn about Instagram’s new safety and privacy changes created to protect teenagers on their platform.
nytimes.com · #314
Runway Partners with Lionsgate
Runway and Lionsgate are partnering to explore the use of AI in film production. This is a first-of-its-kind partnership, designed to help Lionsgate Studios, its filmmakers, directors and other creative talent augment their work using Runway’s suite of controllable tools.
runwayml.com · #314
Why “founder mode” is a rebranding for micromanaging, top-down leaders
How some leaders, under the guise of being visionary founders, exert excessive control over decisions and daily operations.
uxdesign.cc · #314
The Desperation of the Instagram Photo Dump
If you’ve felt pressured to post a photo dump, you’re not alone. This article highlights the tension between personal expression and the performative nature of social media. And how the only way to counteract the overflow of online content is to put out an overflow of your own.
newyorker.com · #314
Nike: Form Follows Motion
An exhibition at Vitra Design Museum that explores how Nike has transformed the way we perceive sportswear.
design-museum.de · #314
How Should We Mourn the End of Summer?
Mourning over the loss of big things in life is considered ‘normal’, but it’s okay to grieve over small losses too – like losing summer. Here’s how to handle it.
nytimes.com · #313
Sarah Masete — The art director building communities in Berlin and beyond
“My biggest dream is to thrive together with others,” – this creative shares how her vigour for learning and continuous curiosity serve as a catalyst for change.
wepresent.wetransfer.com · #313
Inside Duolingo’s stunning new NYC office
An inclusive workplace that caters for all kinds of people – with designs informed by research in cognitive neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, and environmental psychology.
fastcompany.com · #313
Full catastrophe living
Embracing when things go wrong, with acceptance and a positive outlook on the silver linings you could take away.
deathtoshitads.beehiiv.com · #313
Getting an allotment totally changed my summer – and radically altered my relationship with food
Over the summer, this author discovered how long it takes to grow cauliflower, the true meaning of seasonal foods and how to preserve your hard-earned crop.
theguardian.com · #313
AI Could Help Us Talk to Animals—but Should It?
New technologies are helping revolutionise how we interpret and understand animal communications – but is this another case of fast technology applications potentially causing harm?
atmos.earth · #313
Generative AI and the Creative Industry: Finding Balance Between Apologists and Critics
There’s an opportunity to reshape the creative industry with AI – the balance lies in curiosity and responsibility.
medium.com · #313
The Pinterest Autumn 2024 Trend Report
In the latest trend reveal for the incoming season we see an increase in Japanese style searches, cosy autumn inspiration and refreshing takes on fashion.
newsroom.pinterest.com · #313
After closing $100m raise, Samsara Eco eyes nylon recycling facility
Australian recycling startup Samsara Eco partners with global nylon leader NILIT to develop the world's first nylon 6,6 textile-to-textile recycling facility.
capitalbrief.com · #313
Stop inventing product problems; start solving customer problems
Customers don’t really need your product, they have outcomes they want to achieve and if your product helps them get there, then they want it.
medium.com · #313
Crucible unveils lab-grown identity by Madalena Studio
Growing a new logo from bacteria – an unusual combination of science and creativity results in "totally unpretentious artistry".
creativeboom.com · #312
Fashion Meets AI With The Y3K Aesthetic
No one knows what the future looks like so this trend is completely open to your own interpretation – from robot themes and AI to a sense of playfulness.
refinery29.com · #312
Three reasons we’re in an AI bubble (and four reasons we’re not)
As tech giants continue to invest heavily despite slow profitability, skeptics are questioning whether AI will ever meet high expectations.
platformer.news · #312
How we could turn plastic waste into food
For years, scientists have also been experimenting with various species of plastic-eating bacteria, but what about plastic that creates food – for us…
technologyreview.com · #312
A historic ruling against Google could change the internet as we know it
A shift in how big tech can expected to be properly regulated in the US.
vox.com · #312
Can Digital Clothes Save Creatives?
Written through the lens of the emerging Georgian fashion scene which is heavily impacted by it’s local politics, Dani discusses if digital fashion has lived up to the promises made to creatives.
thisoutfitdoesnotexist.substack.com · #312
What is a digital product passport?
With legislation as the driving force behind the fashion industry’s DPP, here’s everything you need to know about how it works and what kind of data you can access.
fashionforgood.com · #312
This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it?
C2PA authentication is poised to help us work out what’s real and what’s not on the internet (thank you!!), but there are still huge gaps in the system.
theverge.com · #312
Download this: The world’s favorite apps
Is Snapchat most popular in Serbia or Peru? How familiar are you with the most popular apps in different countries across the world?
restofworld.org · #312
Gen-Z Entrepreneurs Are Redefining The Art Of Pitching Their Startups
Invaluable insights on authenticity and crafting a pitch that aligns with your brand while leveraging your strengths.
essence.com · #312
Does screen time help or hinder creativity?
Is it possible that getting distracted can offer a buffer between creative focus time and finding inspiration – let’s explore.
itsnicethat.com · #311
This new journaling app is a surprisingly thoughtful writing partner
When your “Dear Diary” replies – this app can ask questions, carry a conversation, remember patterns and more.
fastcompany.com · #311
Digital meets Physical: Risograph Printing with WebGL
Your Majesty’s Creative Developer Max combines artistic flare with digital skills in this experimental creative process.
tympanus.net · #311
Composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer on “Renaissance”
Composer Cristobal Tapai de Veer talks through stirring up emotions in THAT haunting The White Lotus theme song.
youtu.be · #311
The Nature of Critique
Has technology, mass tourism, influencer culture, and glossy travel photography contributed to the erosion of a genuine connection with the natural world?
atmos.earth · #311
FLUX: This new AI image generator is eerily good at creating human hands
AI startup Black Forest Labs launched recently and is challenging the typical AI imagery when it comes to accuracy, and interestingly the ability to produce hands.
arstechnica.com · #311
Fashion In 2050: Picking Up Where We Left Off Or Starting Anew?
What might a radically reimagined, AI-native fashion value chain look like? And how close are we to having an “ answer engine ” for the industry’s recurring questions?
theinterline.com · #311
The Great Barrier Reef faces its biggest threat in centuries
Facing its hottest temperatures yet, corals and underwater ecosystems are in danger. Is the demise of one of the world’s natural beauties on the cards?
theverge.com · #311
The best comedy shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024
Whether you’re hitting Edinburgh for Fringe this month or looking for some future comedy show inspiration, this one is for you.
timeout.com · #311
Inside the tradition-bucking branding of the Paris 2024 Olympics
And then feel free to add a short Shifting the perception from ‘old-school’ Paris and making the Olympics the most inclusive ever.
fastcompany.com · #310
What is Brat Summer? The Charli XCX trend explained
It’s honest, bunt and messy – and so is the presidential candidate?
news.stv.tv · #310
Inspired by the Olympics? You can become an athlete at any age.
Don’t know where to start? Here’s how to build athletics into your routine – tips from coaches and athletes.
vox.com · #310
Ten Inspiring Stories From the Olympics 2024
From boxing mothers and all-time champions to multi-sport Paralympians – here’s the most inspiring gearing up for Paris.
uk.huel.com · #310
Olympic Museum unveils a versatile rebrand
A digital-ready identity helping the Switzerland-based museum connect and interact with people all over the world.
creativereview.co.uk · #310
2024 AI Elections Tracker
Elections aren’t just taking place in the USA this year, more than 2 billion people in 50 countries will head to the polls – this tool is tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally.
restofworld.org · #310
SearchGPT Prototype
Open AI is testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.
openai.com · #310
Building Psychological Attachment — Not Just Ownership — Into Web3
User interest in crypto projects is often transactional and short-lived, how can those building in crypto and Web3 consider the concept of psychological ownership.
hbr.org · #310
If You Have Time to Scroll, You Have Time to Write
Let’s be honest, it’s all about priorities says this author.
medium.com · #310
A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee
Reaching for decaf to help reduce your caffeine intake? Find out how you get all the taste and non of the jitters.
arstechnica.com · #310
The Binding by Bridget Collins –– recommended by Karen
Forbidden love blended with fantasy, history and reality. A captivating story set in an alternative world where painful memories are wiped and bound in the pages of books. Bookbinder apprentice Emmett Farmer’s life changes when he meets and forms a connection with Lucian Darnay.
Let's Become Fungal! by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez –– recommended by Katie
Networks, community, collaboration and behaviour – learnings from, yes you read it correctly, fungi and mycelium. Explore twelve fascinating teachings and see how this ecological wonder challenges and inspires your ways of thinking.
Breath by James Nestor –– recommended by Jen
To breathe is to live. However, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly – and it’s having dire consequences on our health. Journey from choirs to ancient burial sites to find out how small corrections can significantly improve your breathing and health.
Why We Sleep by Mathew Walker –– recommended by Ben
If you’re looking for some good post-holiday habits, then getting more sleep is a great one. From decades of research and scientific insights, find out how and why you need sleep, plus its incredible health benefits – improve learning, mood and energy levels, and prevent diseases.
Duplicity: My Mother’s Secrets by Donna Freed –– recommended by Sara
After the death of her adopted mother, Donna sets out to find her birth mother, however uncovers a shocking truth — she was the daughter of a pair of infamous con artists. This fast-paced and thrilling memoir tackles questions of motherhood and identity and nature vs nurture. This leads us nicely to Sara’s complementary recommendation…
A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly –– recommended by Sara
This book is referenced in Duplicity as the fictional story of a murder the aforementioned con artists aimed to copycat in a life insurance scam – what a follow-up. A rich and beautifully balanced portrayal of two women, their potential and the risk of it being buried under societal and familial responsibilities.
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt –– recommended by Georgios
From a “play-based childhood” to a “phone-based childhood”. A defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech — and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.
Girl in a Band: A Memoir by Kim Gordon –– recommended by Nils
As a founding member of Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon’s memoir is a tale of girlhood, womanhood and her role as an icon in 80/90s New York. She shares her remarkable story in this frank and fascinating account.
Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh –– recommended by Sarah
This one is for the crime thriller lovers. “The serial killer isn’t on trial, he’s on the jury”. Join con-man turned defence lawyer Eddie Flynn as he gets to the bottom of this dizzying plot. Packed with twists and turns – you won’t be able to put it down.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami –– recommended by Max
A mesmerising mystery story about friendship — after randomly being abandoned by his best friends, Tsukuru Tazaki couldn’t form intimate connections with anyone. Until he meets Sara, who finally has some answers to what happened with his friends all those years before.
Is it even a city?
An anti-advertising style tourism advert lays out all of Oslo’s “red flags” with a grumpy local and a dry sense of humour.
thedrum.com · #308
All the Grand Prix winners at Cannes Lions 2024
The results are in – find out who won what at the indsutry's coveted awards.
creativereview.co.uk · #308
The Stonewall Uprising: The Origin Story of Pride Month
Solidarity wins. Today is the anniversary of Stonewall – get up to speed on the origins of Pride in this short history lesson.
world-weary.com · #308
Who's in charge of making AI more socially responsible?
CTO Kasper Kuijpers joined Dutch Digital Design and our peers to discuss the social responsibilities surrounding AI. Read the opinions, get the insights and form your own point of view in this brand new piece.
dutchdigital.design · #308
Training AI music models is about to get very expensive
AI music is suddenly in a make-or-break moment – lawsuits and lump sums, which approach will prevail?
technologyreview.com · #308
Figma’s new Slides app focuses on design, fun, and (oh, yeah!) AI
With users creating over 3.5million slide files in the last 12 months, Figma has answered the demand with a dedicated slide app.
fastcompany.com · #308
The creation of Toys"R"Us and Geoffrey the Giraffe
OpenAI’s Sora brings to life characters, mascots and the Toys“R”Us dream in this AI gen short film.
toysrus.com · #308
Queer Renaissance of Geography
Our future will be shaped by the way we navigate planetary challenges today – considering the past, the present and inclusivity.
atmos.earth · #308
What to do (and avoid) in extreme heat
Tips for keeping kids, adults, and the elderly cool and safe — without air conditioning.
vox.com · #308
I Saw My Anxiety Reflected in ‘Inside Out 2.’ It Floored Me.
New emotions join the original gang as Riley hits puberty – and it looks like Disney have really nailed the details of how we feel.
nytimes.com · #308
Hypercycle: Navigating Authencity in a Post-Trend World
A navigation tool for facing our tenuous relationship with trends in what feels like a chaotic moment in culture. The report tackles both pain points and their medicine.
geraldinewharry.com · #307
Apple WWDC 2024: the biggest announcements
The biggest announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference are summarised right here. OS updates across all devices and AI integrations that will protect our data.
theverge.com · #307
Can you taste design?
Is the gentrification and commercialisation of cities, not only ruining high streets but also the very way we taste and enjoy food?
itsnicethat.com · #307
Creative Technology Ecosystems
These insights and origins of the tools creative technology industries rely on can help fuel new creative capabilities and methods of expression.
ablairneal.com · #307
Best Olympic Brands
As the global sporting event nears, this piece explores some of the Olympics’ most iconic branding over the years.
pangrampangram.com · #307
Just Show Up
“Showing up. Showing up with your whole self, showing up with your values and beliefs, showing up with what makes you unique, but above all — showing up with consistency” .
medium.com · #307
Rest of World’s 2024 reading guide
A collection of book recommendations from influential decision makers at global companies — from TikTok to iFood to Shein.
restofworld.org · #307
The Hulry Newsletter
Be 1% better every week through mindful reflections and hand-picked apps, articles, books, videos and more in your inbox every Friday.
hulry.com · #307
Legislation, AI and the Ganni playbook: 10 takeaways from the Super Bowl of sustainable fashion
Insights from last month’s Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen – “If anyone thought AI was going to be able to fix our broken system, think again”.
theguardian.com · #307
Speaking of Nature
Beyond humans, the English language inherently detaches us from living things through the pronoun ‘it’ rather than ‘she/they/he’ – this essay explores language that affirms our kinship with the natural world.
orionmagazine.org · #307
Why rituals, not habits, make you more productive
“Rituals animate us, enchanting our lives with something more” – they can really make or break your day and you might not even know you’re doing it.
fastcompany.com · #306
Fashion’s playbook for digital product passports
The legislation is clear, but how to prepare for DPPs is not. Traceability platform TrusTrace is helping the fashion industry with playbooks based on pilot projects over the last three years.
voguebusiness.com · #306
The Art of Asking Smarter Questions
Five types of questions leaders need to ask when making strategic decisions; investigative, speculative, productive, interpretive, and subjective.
hbr.org · #306
Gen Z is entering the C-suite and getting rid of meetings, set work hours and more
How Gen Zers are putting their mark on career advice, office culture and creating a work environment that feels open and comfortable.
cnbc.com · #306
The Babelian Tower Of AI Alignment
Here’s where the rub lies, human values and contrasting conceptions of the good life are too diverse to fit one universal model.
noemamag.com · #306
The double sexism of ChatGPT’s flirty “Her” voice
The evidence is stacking up – it’s reasonable to conclude that OpenAI’s new flirty female voice is based on Scarlett Johansson, and she’s not happy about it.
vox.com · #306
Does Your Boss Practice Toxic Positivity?
Bringing ‘positive vibes’ to the office isn’t going to solve business problems – and your boss shouldn’t think so either.
hbr.org · #306
I deleted Gmail and Slack from my phone
This entrepreneur wanted to do better as a parent and in doing so, also found it helped her work too.
businessinsider.com · #306
The luckiest generation?
Gen X had the ’92 recession. Millennials had the 2008 crisis. But now, Gen Z might just have it made, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute.
fastcompany.com · #306
More Than Goat Yoga: HR’s Guide To Employee Wellness Programs
What do they involve, cost and can these programs benefit your team?
peoplemanagingpeople.com · #306
Infinite Wonderland
In this first-of-its-kind experience, dive into the classic novel and bring Alice’s story to life through the eyes of generative AI and the imaginations of artists Shawna X, Eric Hu, Erik Carter and Haruko Hayakawa.
infinitewonderland.withgoogle.com · #305
We Need To Rewild The Internet
What do forests and the internet have in common? When we simplify complex systems, we destroy them, and the devastating consequences sometimes aren’t obvious until it’s too late.
noemamag.com · #305
Proto-typography: how type is dictated by the surface it’s written on
A typography subject lacking in interrogation. Explore how the medium has always shaped the message.
itsnicethat.com · #305
The Ambling Mind
With a slow, deliberate pace you can think freely and more creatively. Exploring the value of taking a walk, especially when you’re feeling a bit stuck.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com · #305
Samsung has a brilliant response to Apple’s hated ‘Crush’ ad
Apple's latest advert was unusually divisive with in it's depiction of the arts being crushed. Samsung are hot on its tails with this beautiful response.
fastcompany.com · #305
When Did Everything Become a ‘Journey’?
Previously the word ‘journey’ was used in relation to a destination, a trip. And now, well you can have all kinds of journeys - typically in health and wellness. A linguistic look into the evolution of these semantics.
nytimes.com · #305
Why the Met Gala still matters
The Met Gala remains divisive, in particular this year. This piece explores its origins and how it still manages to be both highly visible and at the same time, a black box of secrets.
vox.com · #305
When Meaningful Work Backfires
Research shows that a meaningful purpose can protect against burnout, but over-engagement in work increases the risk, especially in "helping" professions.
time.com · #305
Reebok spins photo memories into custom digital sneakers with AI tool
Reebok and Futureverse are enabling sneakerheads to craft a custom shoe of their own with photos – connecting the soul, to the sole.
marketingdive.com · #305
Your Majesty: about branding and uniting the curious
A behind the scenes look into our brand refresh. We talk with Dutch Digital Design about our purpose, culture, and about the importance of branding.
dutchdigital.design · #305
Why it seems like the sky is falling for digital design, and how to come out of the storm stronger
Post-pandemic tech boom, many companies worldwide are re-evaluating design’s role in business – designers must evolve and adapt to the market.
jantakacs.com · #304
How breakdancing became the latest Olympic sport
Why is the sport officially called breaking, and how is something so freestyle and subjective going to play out as a scored sport in Paris this summer?
theconversation.com · #304
It's not meditation, it's activation
Currently testing out Superhuman Inc., similar to a meditation app, but instead, it’s motivational audio. There are activations for everything from spring cleaning to morning walks.
superhuman.app · #304
It looks like OpenAI is about to make Google’s worst nightmare come true
Their VP of Marketing announced a refreshed website this week, are Open AI preparing for a (rumoured) Search Engine launch?
bgr.com · #304
The rise of deepfake nudes — and what teenagers are doing to fight back
The harmful new epidemic that parents MUST be aware of. Vox explores this in their newsletter.
link.vox.com · #304
The Sagrada Familia Cathedral will complete in 2026, after 140 years of construction
A truly unique design, so complex it’s kept architects and builders busy for generations, each adding their piece to Gaudí’s grand puzzle.
mossandfog.com · #304
Coke’s logo is iconic. The brand just demolished it in a new ad
Here’s what you can do in a brand campaign when your brand is THAT well known.
fastcompany.com · #304
The world’s greatest icons are on Airbnb
The latest release offers you the chance to stay in locations and have experiences that you’ve only ever dreamed of – literal, one-in-a-lifetime opportunities.
airbnb.com · #304
2024’s most useful creative life hacks
Push yourself out of your comfort zone and anything else that is part of a normal routine for you – you’ll see unexpected creative benefits.
lbbonline.com · #304
F.C. Variable
An exploration into the interactive potential of illustrations by creative studio Rob en Robin in Breda (NL).
robenrobin.nl · #304
Meta releases Llama 3
And *shocker* says it's their most capable model yet and promises it's almost as good as GPT4, with the big difference that it’s... free.
ai.meta.com · #303
The (unpretty) State of Culture, 2024
Ted Gioia is seeing a culture shift where tech is exploiting dopamine for profit, leading to a decline in happiness and the rise of a post-entertainment society focused on addictive distractions.
honest-broker.com · #303
Suno AI generates complete songs in seconds
The genAI tool we’ve’ had the most fun with lately is definitely the AI music tool from Swedish startup, Suno. A must try.
suno.com · #303
Future-proofing fashion for Europe’s AI measures
The EU's AI Act mandates fashion brands to adopt responsible AI use with clear risk categories, promising penalties for non-compliance, Vogue sheds light on what’s to come.
voguebusiness.com · #303
As use of A.I. soars, so does the energy and water it requires
A lot of people were concerned about the energy consumption of the crypto world. Well, it seems AI requires significant amounts of energy too.
e360.yale.edu · #303
Luckily, there are smart people making energy breakthroughs
A UK startup claims to have made a major breakthrough in its plans to beam solar energy from space to Earth.
thenextweb.com · #303
The Dystopian Future of TV Is AI-Generated 'FAST' Garbage
TCL's new AI-generated movie "Next Stop Paris" is the next evolution in the algorithmification of TV. Brace yourself for a lot of sh*t content.
404media.co · #303
More ‘Future of AI Creativity’
Right Click Save interviewed leading creative technology artists about their process and perspective of the interplay of human and artificial creativity.
rightclicksave.com · #303
The Death of the Big 4: AI-Enabled Services Are Opening a Whole New Market
A hypothesis for how consulting and professional services may evolve in the age of AI-assisted everything.
emcap.com · #303
Book tip: The Wayfinders
There are approx 7,000 languages spoken in the world today. However, 80% of Earth’s population speak just 83 of those languages. Wade’s book makes the argument why ancient wisdom matters in our modern world.
amazon.com · #303
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the importance of taste – and how to acquire it
With so much ‘sameness’ being spouted out of AI image generators, what it means to have ‘taste’ is becoming more and more important. This author explores.
itsnicethat.com · #302
The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements
Why replacing programmers with AI won’t be so easy – it always needs human input, ideas and requirements.
stackoverflow.blog · #302
Space Invaders gone global
With over 4000 invaders worldwide, this UFA (unidentified free artist) is on a mission to liberate art from its usual alienators and free the Space Invaders from their video games. Spot these, fun ceramic tile artworks in over 80 countries.
space-invaders.com · #302
Baltimore bridge collapse: a bridge engineer explains what happened, and what needs to change
The science behind the shocking event last month and what engineers must do to help avoid this problem in the future.
theconversation.com · #302
Apple claims its on-device AI system ReaLM 'substantially outperforms' GPT-4
Scary new developments? Apple's new AI models could let Siri remember your conversation history, understand what's on your iPhone screen, and be aware of surrounding activities.
zdnet.com · #302
Level up: exploring the artistic side of video game design
An exploration into the world of video games and the artistic and creative efforts that go into such a stunning visual experience.
itsnicethat.com · #302
Gmail is next in line for a Gemini-powered AI overhaul
Google is testing out its AI darling Gemini in Gmail, to prompt suggested replies. The AI will then learn how to tailor the experience to each user.
androidpolice.com · #302
DALL-E now lets you edit images in ChatGPT
This week’s updates make it possible for a more casual DALL-E user to tweak and refine their results from within the ChatGPT interface.
theverge.com · #302
New Adobe Research: Generative AI Is Changing What Consumers Expect From Brands
New research reveals that consumers understand the power and potential of gen-AI and as a result are adjusting service and experience expectations.
forbes.com · #302
Adidas SPEZIAL is still delivering ten years in
With the Handball SPEZIAL growing in popularity with a new, younger audience the brand’s s/s 24 collection gives a nod to archival designs but with a contemporary twist.
highsnobiety.com · #302
Outfit Anyone
Virtual try-on, solved? This platform is certainly making waves. Try on virtual outfits, experiment with looks, and dive into the future of fashion—all for free!
outfitanyone.app · #301
Fable Prism
“Where designers control generative AI” – this platform enables designers to add layers of gen-AI over their motion graphics to enhance, change and modify.
fable.app · #301
The shame of LinkedIn
A jobs board + social media + personal updates, LinkedIn often feels so cringe. But is it possible to post there without being cringe yourself? Experts give their point of view.
businessinsider.com · #301
IoDF: What Happened to the Metaverse?
Is the Apple Vision Pro helping to redefine fashion’s relationship with technology? A new chapter with more integrated, sustainable, inclusive and democratized digital fashion for the real world.
officemagazine.net · #301
The drug pilots take to stay awake
Well, this was a surprising piece – learn about how the military (not commercial pilots!) are trialling this medication to help improve alertness during some less-stimulating but essential flights.
bbc.com · #301
China: The World’s Shopping Cart
An exploration into the rise of Chinese shopping platforms such as Temu and Shein, plus how China is trying to reduce the cheap connotations of a “Made in China” label.
restofworld.org · #301
Walmart partners with unspun, leveraging 3D weaving technology to reduce textile waste
The goals – revitalize textile manufacturing in the United States AND directly address growing concerns regarding waste in the apparel industry.
fashionunited.com · #301
How do I apologise at work?
Three very handy tips for managing apologies at work. The first step? Just own up to your mistake.
fastcompany.com · #301
Physical media week
A dark reality is emerging - we rarely have ownership over the art we love, and much is getting lost in the process. This series explores the importance of physical media.
theverge.com · #301
nicecream.fm
An eclectic mix of chilled dance, electronica and more, the perfect mix for a working day or relaxing in the summer. Love a song you heard? Each track is linked to Spotify and Apple Music so you can save it!
nicecream.fm · #301
Creating video from text
AI video production just took a monumental leap forward — OpenAI introduced Sora: A text-to-video model that can generate realistic and complex scenes from text. It's not available yet, but things just got wild.
openai.com · #299
My McLuhan lecture on enshittification
An examination into the process of “enshittification”, a term coined by author Cory Doctorow about how platforms colonized the internet, why all those platforms are degrading so quickly, and why it matters.
pluralistic.net · #299
After seeing TikTok on Vision Pro, there is no way YouTube and Netflix can say no
TikTok has really embraced the Vision Pro opportunity with a fully rebuilt from the ground up native app.
thestreet.com · #299
Bard becomes Gemini
Google invites users globally, in 40 languages, to try its latest releases, Ultra 1.0 and a brand new mobile app enabling you to collaborate with AI, on the go.
blog.google · #299
Introducing Stable Cascade
An innovative text-to-image model introduces an interesting three-stage approach, setting new benchmarks for quality, flexibility, fine-tuning, and efficiency with a focus on further eliminating hardware barriers.
stability.ai · #299
Your Majesty alumni Sougwen Chung On Finding Inspiration In AI
When it comes to using AI as another instrument in an artist’s toolkit, this award-winning artist is way ahead of the game.
time.com · #299
Your Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Is a Big Lie
Is it time to drop the vibes-based approach to environmentalism for something a little more robust?
wired.co.uk · #299
The Year Digital Fashion Went Out Of Style
No matter how hard each player in this ecosystem worked, the past 12 months have seen the ‘hype’ around Web3 fashion wane – what’s next and how does the future of digital fashion look?
texintel.com · #299
How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix
According to the subscription figures late last year, a young South African company has zoomed past Netflix to become Africa’s streaming platform of choice.
restofworld.org · #299
What the 5 love languages get right, and what they get very wrong
While love languages often help couples get in the habit of communicating better, just this one approach isn’t going to last in the long run –– we need a balanced diet.
vox.com · #299
Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not
Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of the Verge, spends a few days messing up his hair to give us a candid review of Apple’s latest consumer release.
youtube.com · #298
Six Ways AI Could Disrupt Your Business
How can boards better understand the potential impacts of AI? An exploration into six scenarios that all boards must consider — and then act upon.
hbr.org · #298
The Tremendous Yet Troubled State of Gaming in 2024
To players and outside observers, last year appeared to be one of the gaming industry’s greatest-ever years, yet on the inside, things don’t look so rosy. Explore this deep dive into what’s really going on in gaming.
matthewball.vc · #298
How to be Alone with Your Thoughts
With unlimited media available to consume at every moment of the day, many of us have stopped listening to or engaging with our inner monologue. But unsurprisingly, harnessing the power of silence can have profound benefits.
vox.com · #298
Generative AI in Fashion Imagery: A Current Assessment and Future Outlook
A comprehensive and pragmatic assessment of the current state of Generative AI in Fashion Imagery Production, with examples and insights from leading Fashion Brands and industry experts.
medium.com · #298
The B2B Brand Imperative
When it comes to B2B branding, not everyone can easily understand the value and subsequence importance – but what if we look at it through the lens of demand?
invencion.com · #298
Decoder: How Donald Trump and Elon Musk Killed Twitter, with Marty Baron and Zoe Schiffer
Did you know that X (née Twitter) is now worth 71.5% less than when Musk bought it? This special episode of Decoder offers a deep dive into the demise of Twitter, with guests who really know their stuff.
open.spotify.com · #298
The Stanley Water Bottle Craze, Explained
People are spending thousands of dollars on Stanley water bottles in multiple colours — you can catch people on TikTok opening cupboards to reveal huge collections. But are people yearning for multiple water drinking vessels?
vox.com · #298
Taylor Swift is Not Alone: The Deepfake Nightmare Sweeping the Internet
With generative AI apps, anyone can create fake non-consensual sexual images in just a few clicks. With cases proliferating in high schools, Laurie Segall and Mary Anne Franks discuss the AI-enabled rise in deep fake porn and what we can do about it.
humanetech.com · #298
Will TikTok Videos Be Muted?
UMG says TikTok proposed payouts for its artists that were a “fraction” of the amount other major social platforms pay and in response, TikTok called the label “self-serving” for its decision to walk away from a “powerful” platform with over a billion users.
forbes.com · #298
The age of average
In an age where literally everything looks the same, is it time to introduce some originality into design, culture and life?
alexmurrell.co.uk · #297
How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide
AI got you overwhelmed? This is a good read for anyone who wishes to understand AI a bit more but has limited time to actually keep up with it all.
oneusefulthing.substack.com · #297
Ten Charts That Capture How the World Is Changing
Insights into how tech has changed our lives, plus user experience lessons from our fave green owl, Duolingo.
digitalnative.substack.com · #297
Hindsight: Five strategic prompts
Our team's learnings offer insightful digital considerations for brands, designers and marketing managers alike. Hindsight is 2023 - coming soon!
Your Majesty · #297
AI Prompter
Struggling to write successful prompts for gen-AI tools? We have the solution.
prompter.fofr.ai · #297
Whatever the Problem, It’s Probably Solved by Walking
Nourish your body and soothe the mind, there are ample gifts in your amble.
nytimes.com · #297
How a nonlinear workday might help you get more done
Aligning your day to your energy levels can enable you to be both more flexible and productive.
fastcompany.com · #297
Brainstorm Questions Not Ideas
Despite its popularity and apparent collaborative approach, research has shown group brainstorming to be a waste of time - here’s what to do instead.
muledesign.com · #297
The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews
A chaotic yet wildly entertaining experience of people’s thoughts - the good, the bad and the ugly.
longreads.com · #297
Things by Art Director, Alexia
alexmurrell.co.uk · #297
Formulaic content fatigue will prompt its counter-development
Algorithmic recommendations, coupled with the “soon” widespread adoption of AI-generated content, intensify content and media fatigue. Despite our phones taking up so much of our attention, there is a growing resentment towards this constant attachment. In 2024, the well-established TikTokified content will persist across all media, attempting to influence consumers through the unpolished language of authenticity. However, historical patterns suggest that the mainstream rise of something often indicates the underdevelopment of its counter-development. In the realm of content, culturally savvy and courageous brands or creators will begin to explore new or revisit old ways to tell their stories, against the grain of TikTok, Reels, and generative AI.
Brand clarity vs synthetic content
To support this counter approach, brand clarity will be even more important as this synthetic content proliferates the “normal” web and commercially feasible manifestations of the “synthetic” web will start to become the norm. Either partially or fully generated content on-demand is coming with AI news being the first real application. We also expect to see brands building their own internal branded text and image models. In doing so, brands will be giving up some level of creative control in exchange for unprecedented time/affordability, and thus deploying MVC—minimal viable content.
From minute-by-minute releases to super-charged innovation
When it comes to AI releases, this year has been challenging to keep up. In 2024 we'll stop seeing parabolic groundbreaking releases and instead, the transformers architecture will be applied to anything and everything—rather than the bang-for-buck text and image generation models that have been in the spotlight. This second-order innovation will be spurred on by companies and labs effectively using and implementing these tools—especially in research—fuelling innovation leaps in industries you might not have anticipated.
Cost-driven strategies will no longer cut it
In anticipation of market headwinds, cost-driven strategies (such as mass layoffs) have prevailed in the last quarter of 2023. This sets the stage for a market filled with talent and entrepreneurs, poised to make their next move. Similar to 2008, 2024 could mark the beginning of a new class of innovators introducing fresh—more culturally relevant—solutions to the market. Post layoffs, corporations will need to seriously consider the balance of cost-reduction and value-creation strategies to avoid slimming down to obsolescence. For instance, the adoption of AI is often associated with increased efficiency—and therefore reduced cost. Winning businesses in 2024 will channel those saved budgets towards creating new values for their customers rather than mere optimization of their balance sheet.
AI will recenter the importance of data experience design
In the 2010s, when performance marketing took the spotlight, meticulous segmentation and highly targeted ads were in vogue. However, years later, many brands, including Airbnb and Adidas, reverted to traditional mass marketing, sobering up from the elusive promise of personalized conversion. Personalization then retreated into the realms of product and CRM, assuming a lower-funnel position. This year, the seismic advancement of AI and the introduction of OpenAI GPTs rekindle the personalization conversation, now often in the context of personalized commerce. In 2024, businesses and brands will explore how to turn their proprietary data into consumer-facing experiences, enriching the buying and loyalty journey. More than ever, data scientists, product designers, and system architects will collaborate, developing an ecosystem that ethically collects data to benefit users at an individual level, as well as enhancing the business’s overall performance.
business.pinterest.com · #296
Pinterest Predicts
The annual, not yet trending report, is packed with insights into what people are planning to do, try and buy.
business.pinterest.com · #296
The State of Fashion in 2024
Economic affairs and climate urgency are two key pressures that will have a huge impact on the industry – how should fashion companies prepare?
businessoffashion.com · #296
The State of UX in 2024
From AI to market saturation, this report critically examines the industry to help designers navigate the upcoming challenges and influences.
trends.uxdesign.cc · #296
2024 AI: 10 Things Coming
Hungry for MORE AI insights? How do you want to see the AI landscape evolve next year?
youtube.com · #296
Depop’s First-Ever Trend Report
2023 was the year of Barbiecore, Gorpcore, and Quiet Luxury, according to Depop's new Trends Report - but what will 2024 hold?
assets.ctfassets.net · #296
Spotify Wrapped 2023 adds an AI DJ and Blend to the annual personalized insights
The funkiest data insights experience dropped this week with some new features including an analysis of how you listen and a hamburger-style layout of your favourite genres, designed for social sharing.
techcrunch.com · #295
It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird.
From sharing intimate details about divorce to shy-bladder syndrome are we okay with more vulnerability on this “professional platform” and how much is just TMI?
businessinsider.com · #295
It’s a game voice changer
Transform your voice into another character and control its emotion and delivery. Easily create custom voices for games, videos, podcasts, and more with a single click.
elevenlabs.io · #295
How moral can AI really be?
A year after OpenAI released ChatGPT, the chatbot is surprisingly good at parroting human values. It may be as ethical as it’s going to get.
newyorker.com · #295
Everyone has a price
We're excited to see the launch of our campaign microsite in collaboration with our friends at BBH NY. Inline with the drop of Netflix's Squid Game Challenge, test your moral limits with an interactive game and explore how you answers compare to others.
everyonehasaprice.co · #295
Pentagram’s Reddit refresh aims to unite cohesion and “creative spirit”
The brand refresh, which includes a custom font and streamlined colour palette, also saw the transformation of its central mascot, Snoo, into 3D for the first time–aiming to make the mascot “as iconic as Super Mario”.
designweek.co.uk · #295
What OpenAI’s tumult can teach us about employee loyalty
After the recent leadership chaos, one investor explores an essential factor she considers when taking risks on companies–employee loyalty, and where does it lie?
fastcompany.com · #295
Animate Anyone: Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Synthesis for Character Animation
A team of researchers at Alibaba Group announced an impressive new way to 'Animate Anyone' using a single image. Too good to be true?
humanaigc.github.io · #295
Velvetyne Fonts
Looking for new font inspiration, check out this open-source font association and collective. The team are dedicated to researching and disseminating typography and typeface creation.
velvetyne.fr · #295
The Origins of Office Speak
An oldie but a goodie - what does your office buzzword language say about you?
theatlantic.com · #295
The State of AI
It seems like everyone, your mum, dad, the local bus driver, your hairdresser, is talking about AI, but what’s the real story? How are people actually using it in business and tech?
retool.com · #294
The Challenge of Degrowth: Fashion’s Only Solution
Is degrowth feasible, or is it fundamentally incompatible with the idea of a successful, profitable fashion industry? Interline explores.
theinterline.com · #294
Remote working seems to be making product designers more job-satisfied
Unexpected findings about the experience of digital product designers in a post-pandemic world are shared in Figma’s new State of the Designer report.
itsnicethat.com · #294
How AI reduces the world to stereotypes
A brilliant, written and visual, exploration into generative AI systems and their tendencies toward bias, stereotypes, and reductionism when it comes to national identities.
restofworld.org · #294
Art direction vs artificial intelligence: A helpful tool or an added hassle?
AI-powered text-to-image tools are presenting a moral quandary in terms of creative ethics. But is there a way to use such tools while expanding artistic potential?
itsnicethat.com · #294
Transforming the future of music creation
In partnership with YouTube, Google DeepMind has announced Lyria, an advanced AI music generation model, and two AI experiments designed to open a new playground for creativity.
deepmind.google · #294
Lego employees share 10 secrets for finding boundless creativity
Take a peek at a few cards from Lego’s creative prompts card deck, to stimulate creativity and motivate you in the coming weeks.
fastcompany.com · #294
Think You Have SAD? Think Again
It’s that time of year again when seasonal depression creeps in. Whilst recognised and appreciated by the general public, medical professionals have other thoughts.
wired.co.uk · #294
Can Dove boost representation in the gaming world?
The Unilever-owned brand has teamed up with Open Source Afro Hair Library on over a dozen Black hair textures and styles.
voguebusiness.com · #294
Things imagined in Adobe Firefly
retool.com · #294
Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster
This author explains how capitalism doesn’t care if we want to use or adopt new technologies, it’s built to encourage us to want more, and then when we’re burned out, the cycle starts again.
brettscott.substack.com · #293
If you want to live a life rich in meaning, first you must learn how to do nothing
Explore the tools that can bring awareness to the micro choices we make daily - are they aligned with what truly calls and enlivens us?
theguardian.com · #293
My AI Predictions 2023 - 2026
An intuitive view, rather than research, of the coming years in the AI space, from someone working in field robots.
lesswrong.com · #293
Motion Design Principles
Learn more about the power of Motion, through an experience that does exactly that – showcases the power of UI/UX animation in conveying the mood and character of a brand.
motion.zajno.com · #293
Making Motion Meaningful
Keen to learn even more about motion? Google's classic four principles of motion help designers and developers implement effective motion design.
design.google · #293
The startup working to teach AI about African history
A volunteer-ran digital archive and search engine is collating news stories, to help ensure Africa is accurately represented in this era of AI and LLM.
restofworld.org · #293
COPY MAGAZINE – the world’s first AI fashion magazine
A narrative of style and originality formed purely from a collaboration with generative AI. This is a beautiful example of technology enriching and amplifying human creativity.
thecopymagazine.com · #293
How AI is changing the art market
Technologies such as AR, online viewing rooms and high-resolution imagery have already positively benefitted the art market, but what about AI?
artsy.net · #293
Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here
Making history – today’s most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence.
noemamag.com · #293
Data Provenance Explorer
The Data Provenance Initiative is a large-scale audit of AI datasets used to train large language models. The purpose of this work is to improve transparency, documentation and informed use of datasets in AI.
dataprovenance.org · #293
Loom is joining Atlassian
For a whopping $975 million, Loom joins Atlassian’s collaboration products, including Trello and Jiro, to deliver essential integrations across the portfolio.
loom.com · #292
Work has changed. New research tells us why and what we might do about it
There’s no going back to the office of 2019, it’s gone. We must find new ways to collaborate and communicate–adaptability is essential in today’s modern workplace.
figma.com · #292
Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore
From AI chatbots with various “sassy” personalities to Musk’s chaotic approach to Twitter, sorry X. When did we actually last enjoy the internet?
newyorker.com · #292
Why NASA Chose WordPress for Revamping Its Flagship Website
After 18 months of web development, data migration, and content building, NASA has emerged with modernized flagship and science websites – all built on WordPress.
wptavern.com · #292
Access Questions for Self-Publishing
A print pamphlet and online resource created to enable students to begin thinking about what accessibility means within self- and independent publishing.
aqfsp.camberwellgraphicdesign.com · #292
When should marketers start investing in brand as well as performance marketing?
themarketingmeetup.com · #292
The Halloween 2023 StoryScream: things to play and watch this spooky season
Embrace spooky season with this curated collection of games to play and films to enjoy (or hide behind the sofa) from the Verge.
theverge.com · #292
MET AMS - Where emerging tech and creative minds meet
A world of captivating talks, interactive demos and exhibitions by top brands and visionary creators. Managing Director Georgios will be taking the stage in a panel session on “Navigating CGI & Digital Culture: A Roadmap for Brands”.
met-ams.com · #292
Generative AI by Getty Images, powered by NVIDIA
You need not worry about the copyright of your stock photos with this new service, trained exclusively on Getty Images’ best‑in‑class creative content.
gettyimages.co.uk · #291
AdobeMAX Sneaking the Sneaks: #ProjectStardust
Remove distractions, switch elements and change outfits - this ‘object aware’ tech and more AI integrations will be unveiled at next week’s Adobe MAX conference.
youtube.com · #291
Prada is designing Nasa spacesuits. Will luxury customers wear them next?
Luxury fashion is heading to the moon. After its upcoming partnership with Axiom Space to design the spacesuits for NASA’s 2025 Artemis III mission, will Prada look to outfit luxury customers next?
voguebusiness.com · #291
Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398
“This video feels like a bit of a historical moment. Two photorealistic humans talking to each other about the future in a virtual call”.
youtu.be · #291
Expanding access to safer AI with Amazon
Amazon is set to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic to support the secure, reliable running of its infrastructure and develop the most reliable and high-performing foundation models in the industry.
anthropic.com · #291
This Website Exposes the Truth About Soaring Food Prices
After hearing Austria’s labor minister say it would take months to build a new supermarket price comparison site, independent software developer Mario Zechner proved the government wrong - in just two hours.
wired.co.uk · #291
How Much Coffee Is Too Much Coffee?
There’s no better way to read about the health benefits and possible risks than over a cup of the good stuff - don’t worry it’s not as bad as some people say!
nytimes.com · #291
The 50 best podcasts to listen to in 2023
From true crime and intriguing stories to politics and philosophy, if you need a new podcast to listen to you’re bound to find something in this handy list.
timeout.com · #291
Roblox Assistant
Assistant is a new conversational AI that enables creators to use natural language text prompts to create scenes, edit 3D models, and apply interactive behaviors to objects.
youtube.com · #291
‘Is It Good Enough to Fool My Gallerist?’
The future of AI art is promising? Renowned American artist David Salle experimented with generative AI and admitted it had eventually inspired him.
nytimes.com · #291
Joscha Bach on how to stop worrying and love AI
Bach –who defines himself as an AI researcher/cognitive scientist–talks about what he believes about AI and what guides his worldview.
pca.st · #290
The AI heretic
In total comparison – what separates the good technological times from the bad? A brilliant deep dive into technological advancements over hundreds of years and which of them truly benefitted society.
businessinsider.com · #290
Made On YouTube: Empowering Anyone to Create on YouTube
YouTube has unveiled a suite of tools, features and functionalities that will help anyone, no matter their dreams or skills, create video content.
blog.youtube · #290
Roblox wants to be a dating app
With a roadmap for the next 5 years including exclusive experiences for ages 17+, Roblox has faith in this wild idea.
theverge.com · #290
Fashion metaverse insights startup Geeiq raises $8.5 million
This London-based startup, pronounced “Geek”, provides insights into the return on investment (ROI) of investments in virtual worlds and digital goods.
voguebusiness.com · #290
Four ways to give Gen Z employees the feedback they need—and really want
Build trust and give your younger employees the feedback you wanted earlier in your career, and other tips in this practical article.
fastcompany.com · #290
The World’s Population May Peak in Your Lifetime. What Happens Next?
The time is now. To manage this decline, humanity needs a compassionate, factual and fair conversation about how to respond to depopulation and how to share the burdens of creating each future generation.
nytimes.com · #290
When hope is a hindrance
For Hannah Arendt, hope is a dangerous barrier to courageous action. In dark times, the miracle that saves the world is to act.
aeon.co · #290
2030 Status | Mother Nature | Apple
When Apple does sustainability reports, it really is best in class. Don’t miss this short film if you haven’t already seen it.
youtube.com · #290
E-Commerce 3.0: The Future Of Retail Is Hyper-Personalized
The Klarna CMO on what brands need to do to hyper-personalise product recommendations and achieve the ultimate shopping experience.
forbes.com · #289
Why note-taking apps don't make us smarter
Can the AI evolution of note-taking apps help us organise our thoughts and garner new insights? This journalist explores.
platformer.news · #289
“It is all about placing a premium on breakthrough thinking”
A UK agency leader shares her point of view on the growing importance of social commerce, making the most of AI and leading with curiosity - something we too value here at YM.
creativebrief.com · #289
The fascinating evolution of typing Chinese characters
This history lesson offers a brilliant example of how innovations can bridge the gap between the digital world and the real world.
technologyreview.com · #289
Social commerce: 3 crucial steps to succeed with shopping ads
Social platforms are hubs for communication, community building, and entertainment. Here’s how brands can engage and get in on the action.
thedrum.com · #289
The Burning Man Fiasco Is the Ultimate Tech Culture Clash
Whilst in theory, the core principles remain, in recent years Burning Man has morphed into a confab of tech bros, celebs, and influencers.
wired.com · #289
The five stages of an effective brainstorm
If you are a Figma lover like us then you’ll know about the fun and productivity that can be had with Figjam. If not, then you’re in the right place.
figma.com · #289
Zoom’s new AI tool will tell you if you’re bad at meetings
The AI companion will not only offer meeting summaries but also, real-time feedback and a critique of your presenting skills - we’re not sure how we feel about that!
fastcompany.com · #289
The AI Drake ‘Ghostwriter’ is back with a new song and is chasing a Grammy
And they might have a chance of winning the entry categories of best rap song and song of the year as the lyrics themselves were actually written by a human.
theverge.com · #289
Could generative AI solve fashion’s excess stock problems?
Generative AI could help the fashion supply chain with real-time tracking of demand and inventory, but as always with emerging technologies, there are big barriers to overcome.
voguebusiness.com · #288
Imagine a website. Now generate it.
Interesting concept - this site builder promises you the ability to build a sitemap and wireframe in minutes with the help of AI and then easily export to Figma and Webflow.
library.relume.io · #288
Chrome’s sidebar apps are the best new productivity feature no one’s talking about
Google unveiled the Side Panel API for Chrome in May. From vertical tabs to a ChatGPT sidebar, customise this handy menu on your browser.
fastcompany.com · #288
Stella McCartney Is Changing Fashion From Within
The British fashion designer on how she’s pioneering sustainable fabrics, supporting startups and what continues to be the drive behind it all.
time.com · #288
Visual Design Hacks for the Non-designer
Want to level up your work and make it look more visually appealing? These three design tips are perfect for non-designers who just need some simple tricks.
nngroup.com · #288
Meta releases Code Llama, a code-generating AI model
Meta, intent on making a splash in the generative AI space, just open-sourced Code Llama, a machine learning system that can generate and explain code in natural language — specifically English.
techcrunch.com · #288
A Creator (Me) Made a Masterpiece With A.I.
When it comes to copyright, machines and creatives, find out why, after extensive research and consultation with experts, this Columnist has arrived at a carefully considered, nuanced position: meh.
nytimes.com · #288
Airbnb CMO on ditching performance marketing for big, bold brand campaigns
Post-COVID, the next iteration of Airbnb is focused on driving brand value over performance marketing, and the results so far are a success.
thedrum.com · #288
Why a vacation is good for you – even before you take time off
Many of us will be returning to work, well-rested after the summer vacation, but did you know that holidays are actually good for us before we even go? We better book that next trip!
edition.cnn.com · #288
Why brands are obsessed with building community
The age of passive consumerism seems to be over. Brands and creators want customers to be active, engaged fans — and to spend more money.
vox.com · #288
What do you do when a project ends? We explore creative grief and how to deal with it
When finishing up a project, feelings of loss, despair, sadness or emptiness may rise to the surface - here’s some advice from the experts.
itsnicethat.com · #287
POV: It’s time we dress for success again. Here’s how
Alongside the influx of work-from-home, came the influx of work-from-sweatpants, have we forgotten how to dress well to stimulate our own feelings of empowerment and drive for success?
fastcompany.com · #287
Open sourcing AudioCraft: Generative AI for audio made simple and available to all
Perfect for small businesses or composers - a simple framework that generates high-quality, realistic audio and music from text-based user inputs after training on raw audio signals.
ai.meta.com · #287
Four Charts That Show Why AI Progress Is Unlikely to Slow Down
Compute, Data, and Algorithms - these three major inputs are the key to understanding how AI will likely progress.
time.com · #287
This Prosthetic Limb Actually Attaches to the Wearer’s Nerves
Wow - this prosthetic arm that connects directly to the nervous system gives the user fine control over the motions of individual fingers.
wired.co.uk · #287
How a killer email strategy made me spend £733 on flowers
Email is most certainly NOT dead, especially when it comes to e-commerce. Bloom and Wild show us how it’s done in this brilliant CRM strategy.
uxdesign.cc · #287
Is that viral ‘superconductor’ legit?
Experts are skeptical - the newly discovered material, LK-99, kicked off a frenzy with researchers testing to see if it really was a game-changing superconductor.
theverge.com · #287
Don’t overthink gardening
If you’re ‘gardening-curious’ but think that you lack the space and time to get going, this is your sign to give it a chance this summer.
theatlantic.com · #287
You Probably Don’t Know What ‘Phubbing' Is, But You Do It Constantly
If you don’t know what this means, trust us, you’ve definitely done it before, but why do we do this?!
vice.com · #287
How to log off
Experts share advice on how to forge a healthier, happier relationship with your devices and the internet - a mini-guide on how to log off.
technologyreview.com · #287
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.
restofworld.org · #286
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.
thedrum.com · #286
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.
nytimes.com · #286
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.
hbr.org · #286
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.
forbes.com · #286
Google’s Bard chatbot finally launches in the EU
bard.google.com · #286
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.
wired.com · #286
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.
theconversation.com · #286
Moving AI governance forward
OpenAI and other leading labs reinforce AI safety, security and trustworthiness through voluntary commitments.
openai.com · #286
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.
stability.ai · #286
Entrepreneurs are heroes, and every hero needs a Sidekick
Shopify just announced its new AI assistant, Sidekick. It's been designed to help entrepreneurs everywhere get answers to their burning questions or just get things ticked off their to do lists.
twitter.com · #285
Life in plastic, it’s fantastic
content.jwplatform.com · #285
Are you on Threads?
Sign ups for Meta’s answer to Twitter, Threads, surged past 100 million users in just 5 days, beating Chat GPT’s record of 2 months - but it hasn’t even launched in the EU.
euronews.com · #285
My A.I. Writing Robot
A new wave of artificial-intelligence startups is trying to “scale language” by automating the work of writing. But can it truly replace the insights and knowledge a human brings?
newyorker.com · #285
Clothing Entrepreneurs Can’t Wait To Fire Themselves As Models And Hire The AI Kind Instead
Despite the public roasting Levi’s took for flirting with AI, smaller clothing sellers who model their own products online maintain a growing interest in replacing themselves with the computer-generated kind.
forbes.com · #285
Google Calendar now allows users to take paid appointments
Integrated with Stripe, this is a potentially a great solution for time-based service industries.
techcrunch.com · #285
Points to Note When Using Midjourney / describe for Generating Fashion Images
An exploration into the intricacies of generating fashion images using the "/describe" feature on Midjourney.
open-fashion.com · #285
Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the universe”
Despite his objections towards the ‘speed of AI development’ earlier this year, Musk has happily launched his own AI company this week, with what we can only describe as a very broad and vague mission.
arstechnica.com · #285
‘Time is money’: Shopify calculator shows how much unnecessary meetings really cost the company
Meeting creep is real and Shopify is pushing back to help their employees get more done and save time and money.
edition.cnn.com · #285
Christian Dior Couture Unveils Its First Web3 Initiative: The Dior B33 Sneaker
New evidence that luxury brands are still investing in Web3, allowing for a unique digital-physical hybrid experience.
fashnerd.com · #285
The most impactful Pride Month 2023 campaigns
Changing your logo to a rainbow version just isn’t enough, here are some brands that are getting it right.
adage.com · #284
Otrium 2022 Impact Report
We collaborated with Otrium to bring to life this online report that showcases data through storytelling, generative AI content and vibrant visuals. Making data
impact.otrium.com · #284
LVMH and Epic Games announce strategic partnership to transform Maisons’ creative pipeline and customer experiences
A hot strategic partnership was announced at last week’s Viva Tech event.
lvmh.com · #284
Generative AI is coming for advertising. What does fashion need to know?
Across the board, the goal is maximise performance and personalisation but how straightforward will it be?
voguebusiness.com · #284
AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years
ChatGPT and other AI systems are shaping up to launch the third user-interface paradigm in the history of computing — the first new interaction model in more than 60 years.
nngroup.com · #284
Vimeo launches one-take video creation
Create savvy scripts in seconds, record using the built-in teleprompter and then cut out the “umms” - in Vimeo’s new AI-powered video editing.
vimeo.com · #284
Reddit descends into chaos
In a protest against proposed API pricing changes, Reddit communities across the platform have gone dark - and it’s spiralled into chaos.
ia.acs.org.au · #284
A storefront for robots
Small businesses are struggling to keep up with SEO and do you know who’s reading their content? Robots.
theverge.com · #284
Google’s new generative AI lets you preview clothes on different models
This new try-on tool lets you imagine how an item would drape, fall and cling to your body - before you buy
techcrunch.com · #284
Open Source Homes - you heard it here first
A modular building system that makes it easy to design, manufacture and assemble high-performance homes and small buildings.
wikihouse.cc · #284
Five takeaways from Apple’s biggest product event in years
The perfect summary for those who haven’t had a chance to catch up.
edition.cnn.com · #283
Apple’s Vision Pro Is a $3,500 Ticket to Nowhere
“No normal human being wants to wear goofy-ass goggles so they can attend work meetings in Minecraft” - unsurprisingly there’s mixed reviews on the Apple announcements.
vice.com · #283
Your.Online: Fusing together a web of possibilities
We partnered with this pioneering tech company, to deliver a complete brand transformation.
Your Majesty · #283
Unspun launches 3D weaving to reduce waste in fashion
With $14M investment in the bank, a new 3D weaving technology is set to transform fashion production by reducing transport emissions and garment waste.
voguebusiness.com · #283
Meet the EU’s answer to crypto: the e-euro
In a bid to play catch up, central banks are finally starting to take digital currencies seriously - and the ECB is one of them.
theconversation.com · #283
Steve Jobs' 3 Powerful Persuasion Tactics, and How You Can Use Them to Win Customers
With Apple on the mind this week, perhaps we can learn a trick or two from the legendary co-founder.
blog.hubspot.com · #283
The Case for and Against Ed Sheeran
It’s a fine line between original music and copyright infringement in pop music, and Ed Sheeran is at the heart of it.
newyorker.com · #283
AI can replicate human creativity in two key ways – but falls apart when asked to produce something truly new
Synthetic creativity is on the rise, but where does human skill come into play?
theconversation.com · #283
AI Prompter
Struggling to write successful prompts for gen-AI tools? We have the solution.
prompter.fofr.ai · #283
Introducing the most bikeable office building in the world
And it’s not in the Netherlands. We were shocked too.
fastcompany.com · #283
The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small
The death of Google Reader matters: an exploration into why the internet shrank in size, and well unsurprisingly it’s all down to social media.
defector.com · #282
Trends have lost all meaning
In the process of chasing cool, have brands lost the purpose of analysing culture? It seems we’ve come to confuse what is ‘trending’ with what is a ‘trend’.
contagious.com · #282
Live Air Traffic Control x Lofi Beats
Need focus music but with an element of disturbance? We strongly recommend you listen to live air traffic control radio mixed with lofi hip hop.
lofiatc.com · #282
Brain scans can translate a person’s thoughts into words
This could one day help people who have lost the ability to speak as a result of injuries like strokes or conditions including ALS.
technologyreview.com · #282
The guy behind ‘Balenciaga Pope’ wants people to stop stealing his AI-generated images
Another AI copyright/credit story hits the headlines.
fastcompany.com · #282
The 6 biggest announcements from Sony’s PlayStation Showcase 2023
All the major reveals and announcements, including a hand-held console.
theverge.com · #282
Metaverse May: Separating Potential From Reality
An exploration into fashion and the metaverse - where and why the idea of real-time, immersive fashion events has faltered.
theinterline.com · #282
Sweden is building the world's first permanent electrified road for EVs to charge while driving
The first of its kind in the world, the e-motorway may lead to an expansion of a further 3,000 km of electric roads in Sweden by 2035.
euronews.com · #282
The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems
Is it a file or is it a TLD, your guess is as good as ours.
shkspr.mobi · #282
eCommerce Tricks of Transformation: Trick 1
In a brand new series, Strategy Director Việt Hoàng explores the impact of online commerce on our lives and compares it to a magic show, highlighting both the positive and overwhelming aspects.
Your Majesty · #282
Whatever the Problem, It’s Probably Solved by Walking
Nourish your body and soothe the mind, there are ample gifts in your amble.
nytimes.com · #281
The nine biggest announcements from Google I/O 2023
From a folding phone-tablet to a new look for Google search, here’s everything you need to know.
theverge.com · #281
Why Chatbots Are Not the Future
The case for AI tools that help us gain clarity in our thinking and actually embrace our human abilities.
wattenberger.com · #281
The Test of Time: How are designers creating long-lasting, impactful work?
With the need to constantly churn out ‘content’, creating work with visual impact often gets overlooked.
itsnicethat.com · #281
Opinion: An internet that women want? It looks like this
With a continued gender divide even online, here is how six experts envision an internet that works better for women.
edition.cnn.com · #281
OpenAI Suffers $540M Loss in 2022, Contemplates $100B More to Conquer AI
These figures reveal the steep financial requirements to keep ahead in this rapidly developing market.
artisana.ai · #281
A call to protect open-source AI in Europe
This letter highlights the importance of open-source R&D for ensuring the safety, security, and competitiveness of AI in Europe.
laion.ai · #281
A Photographer Tried to Get His Photos Removed from an AI Dataset. He Got an Invoice Instead
The AI-creative-copyright conundrum continues.
vice.com · #281
RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye
At just three years old, is the Metaverse ready for an early grave? This writer certainly thinks so.
www-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org · #281
Bold. Positive. Invigorating.
A new look for the sneaker community SoleSavy - we redefined their brand positioning and identity to help unite their ever-growing community.
Your Majesty · #281
The web won’t survive AI
Roach worries that internet’s distinction between reality and fiction is about to disappear as AI technology advances. Digital identity may be the solution, but at what cost?
thisunreality.com · #280
EYECANDY for the love of film-making
A nicely packed up gallery of visual techniques to enjoy and learn from.
eycndy.com · #280
Octopus time
You’ve heard about artificial intelligence, but what about Octopus intelligence? These creatures show remarkable smarts and a unique perception of time. If we’d learn from them, we might enrich our relationship with the past.
aeon.co · #280
Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart
AI chatbots use tons of text data, including personal blogs and offensive content, for training. Kevin, Szu and Nitasha mapped it out and raise concerns over bias, propaganda, and misinformation spread.
washingtonpost.com · #280
Does spring cleaning have mental health benefits?
Some people like it, some people don’t, but turns out, a good spring-cleaning can have positive impacts on mental health, such as sense of control, intentionality, and calmness.
vogue.com · #280
HuggingChat is an open source alternative to ChatGPT
/Imagine a chatbot built on models available to everyone. “OK, here you go.”
huggingface.co · #280
Creating Game Assets With Generative AI
How can Generative AI make game design more efficient? Rainer Selvet built this neat prototype that generates 3D textures on demand. (Link to prototype in the end of the article.)
rainer.im · #280
Is social media is doomed to die?
After seven years at SnapChat, Ellis Hamburger learned about why our most important apps seem destined to disappoint us.
theverge.com · #280
The A.I. Dilemma - why over 1100 people signed the open letter to stop further training of LLMS
A well explained video of the risks and potential consequences if we let this “double exponential” curve continue to advance.
youtu.be · #280
Last but not least—There Is No A.I.
Finally, a long read by computer scientist Jaron Lanier that argues against the term "A.I." and the mythology surrounding it and why we should see it as a tool, rather than a creature.
newyorker.com · #280
The age of average
In an age where literally everything looks the same, is it time to introduce some originality into design, culture and life?
alexmurrell.co.uk · #279
How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide
AI got you overwhelmed? This is a good read for anyone who wishes to understand AI a bit more but has limited time to actually keep up with it all.
oneusefulthing.substack.com · #279
What to expect at the first AI Fashion Week
The NY event is making the case for AI as a tool for fashion design, supporting new designers working with the still-nascent technology. Plus three winners garments to be produced physically.
voguebusiness.com · #279
Brainstorm Questions Not Ideas
Despite its popularity and apparent collaborative approach, research has shown group brainstorming to be a waste of time - here’s what to do instead.
muledesign.com · #279
Stop siloing tech trends and start looking at the bigger picture
Technology is just another tool to help you achieve your goals, don’t forget to integrate it with your strategy and customer needs.
thedrum.com · #279
ChatGPT Lifts Business Professionals’ Productivity and Improves Work Quality
Technology is just another tool to help you achieve your goals, don’t forget to integrate it with your strategy and customer needs.
nngroup.com · #279
This AI Algorithm Can Create Digital Copies of Real-World Objects
The AI can learn about an object's geometry and material and produce a thorough digital copy of the object.
80.lv · #279
Walking on air: how Jordan launched nerdy Nike into the stratosphere
How the classic sneaker transformed Nike into a cultural success.
theguardian.com · #279
LinkedIn rolls out ways to verify your identity and employment
Finally a chance to bust employer/employee scammers, this new verification will help users understand who’s the real deal.
techcrunch.com · #279
No One Wants Max’s Harry Potter TV Series
Obliviate or levitate? Harry Potter is set to get a reboot and it’s got fans divided. Potter heads, what do you think?
thedailybeast.com · #279
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
Looks like it’s hard for everyone to keep up! Tech leaders across the world have signed an open letter asking all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
futureoflife.org · #278
Metaverse Fashion Week 2023 Goes Multi-Platform in Push for Interoperability
Brands including Tommy Hilfiger and digital fashion houses such as DressX are bringing to life the first major multi-platform metaverse event.
decrypt.co · #278
Four ways leaders can better support Muslims observing Ramadan
Supporting Muslim employees during Ramadan is essential to foster an inclusive workplace and promote employees' well-being and productivity.
fastcompany.com · #278
What Have Humans Just Unleashed?
Exploring the immense potential of GPT-4 and the need for responsible development and deployment of AI technologies.
theatlantic.com · #278
OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world
If AI does turn out to be an existential risk, who will keep humanity safe?
arstechnica.com · #278
The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet
Wouldn’t it be better to pass real privacy, security, transparency, and other accountability rules for all tech companies, rather than locking out a foreign competitor?
theverge.com · #278
Disney’s first round of layoffs knocked the metaverse off its priority list
Another blow to investments into the Metaverse as Disney scraps its next-generation storytelling and consumer experiences unit.
qz.com · #278
Pepsi has a new logo
A punchy redesign gives Pepsi the look of “a bold and confident brand” - something that the recent logo just wasn’t offering.
edition.cnn.com · #278
Gen Z job seekers are rattling older managers by asking about work-life balance in the first interview
And rightly so - what do you think?
businessinsider.com · #278
AI and Creativity: is it the future?
Key takeaways from CTO Kasper’s speaking session a couple of weeks ago. Learn how to integrate AI into your business from the creative leaders who are already doing it.
Your Majesty · #278
OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art
OpenAI’s latest release is available to paying users, and has been hiding in plain sight, powering big brands' latest AI capabilities.
techcrunch.com · #277
Ten Charts That Capture How the World Is Changing
Insights into how tech has changed our lives, plus user experience lessons from our fave green owl, Duolingo.
digitalnative.substack.com · #277
SVB Collapse Simply Explained
The collapse of the startup-focused bank has caused total disruption in the US tech and innovation economy. But how did it all happen?!
linkedin.com · #277
Google announces AI features in Gmail, Docs, and more to rival Microsoft
Soon you’ll be able to access handy AI features directly from the Google suite, enabling you to quickly generate images and text.
theverge.com · #277
Internet Computers
Is it time for the OS (operating system) to retire and for us to live seamlessly from the cloud? The Browser Company’s CEO Josh Miller certainly thinks so.
notboring.co · #277
Meta ditches NFTs on Instagram and Facebook in Metaverse reversal
After announcing its support for NFTs on its platforms at SXSW ‘22, Meta is winding these efforts down due to low demand this last year.
adage.com · #277
Wikipedia + AI = truth? DuckDuckGo hopes so with new answerbot
Hope sure is an interesting strategy: “ The company admits that DuckAssist might make stuff up but hopes it will happen rarely ”.
arstechnica.com · #277
Spotify’s new design is part TikTok, part Instagram, and part YouTube
Pushing more than just music is at the heart of Spotify’s ongoing strategy to help audio creators get discovered through new design features.
theverge.com · #277
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?
A call for greater emphasis on ethical considerations and social responsibility when it comes to design thinking.
technologyreview.com · #277
The Radical Act of Eating With Strangers
The pandemic hit social circles hard, so in a time when reconnecting with people in real life, what could be better than meeting new people over dinner?
nytimes.com · #277
Why we all need subtitles
It’s not you, it’s actually harder to hear. A fun exploration into the change of sounds in movies.
youtube.com · #276
Corridor’s latest AI video is case study for AI and video production
The results? 120 VFX shots by a team of 3 - A milestone in creative technology.
youtu.be · #276
OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech
Now developers can officially integrate ChatGPT into their products and services.
theverge.com · #276
Ganbrood on finding ultimate creative freedom with AI
The Dutch artist on how AI removes the burden of perfectionism.
culture3.xyz · #276
Zero10 wants to crack open 3D and AR fashion design for the masses
The new platform will enable even those without design experience, to create digital designs.
voguebusiness.com · #276
Nigerian AI artist creates a fashion show for elderly people
In the groundbreaking fashion show that never actually took place, Malik Afegbua challenges stereotypes around how older people are perceived.
edition.cnn.com · #276
Fashion collaborations embracing technology in 2023
Luxury fashion brands are still investing in new technologies this year, let’s see who's on the line up.
fashionabc.org · #276
What to Expect at Decentraland’s Metaverse Fashion Week 2023
Learn more about what’s on the agenda this year and which brands will be taking part, between 28 - 31 March 2023.
wwd.com · #276
How a nonlinear workday might help you get more done
Aligning your day to your energy levels can enable you to be both more flexible and productive.
fastcompany.com · #276
The Astonishing Transformation of Austin
An in depth exploration into the turbocharged changes Austin has gone through in the last 30 years, and how that feels as a long-term resident.
newyorker.com · #276
TikTok’s De-Influencers Tell You What Not to Buy
Authenticity is prevailing once again as influencers are flipping their role online. Now they’re de-influencing, telling you what NOT to buy.
wired.co.uk · #275
The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews
A chaotic yet wildly entertaining experience of people’s thoughts - the good, the bad and the ugly.
longreads.com · #275
Whatever happened to the metaverse?
Search traffic for ‘metaverse’ has dropped by 80% this last year, are we all just over it? And what does that mean for its future?
ft.com · #275
Does Burberry’s redesign signal a new chapter for ‘British’ symbolism?
The new branding is a welcome contrast to the minimalist style that swept through the luxury fashion brands in the last few years.
creativereview.co.uk · #275
AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article
Over a million users signed up for the Chat GPT - Bing search engine in just 48 hours, however its ‘personality’ started to show after it was prompted beyond basic search…
arstechnica.com · #275
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said ChatGPT is 'cool,' but it's a 'horrible product'
Given its haphazard launch, the tool offers a somewhat unpredictable experience yet users across the world are loving it anyway. Read the article
In Defense of Chatbot Romance
Are we wrong to assume the worst of those ‘falling’ for AI chatbots?
lesswrong.com · #275
Super Bowl 2023 commercials: Here are the winners and losers
Costing $7 million for the ad spot alone, nevermind the millions in production costs - the Superbowl was packed with celebrity appearances and cultural references. Did you have a fave?
cbsnews.com · #275
Search upstart You.com is melding its AI chatbot with mini-apps
Rather than trying to answer every question itself—something AI can’t do reliably—YouChat hands some queries off to tiny apps that live inside search results.
fastcompany.com · #275
Five strategic prompts to consider in 2023
The YM strategy team reviewed, in hindsight, what they learned in 2022. Expect insightful digital considerations for brands, designers and marketing managers alike.
Your Majesty · #275
Resilience Tech Report
For both organisations and individuals the need for resilience is more prevalent than ever. How can technology and design support a transition from efficiency to resilience?
resiliencetech.report · #274
Why the super rich are inevitable
Explore an interactive demonstrate of why scientist believe a society with super rich people is inevitable. It all starts with a vintage watch purchase, and a yard sale...
pudding.cool · #274
Type funky
Get creative with this interactive and dynamic online typeface builder, as exemplified in our funky 10 Things header image above and to the right.
spacetypegenerator.com · #274
Buzzfeed to Use ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Help Create Quizzes and Other Content
The digital publisher says it hopes to improve and personalise its quizzes and online content - improve or just increase the volume? What do you think?
wsj.com · #274
The Metaverse industry is already going belly-up for reasons we can't imagine
Despite heavy investment, layoffs and division closures are rife across the industry.
futurism.com · #274
The Rise of the Tech Bro Supervillain
For decades movie bad guys were easily identified by their moustaches or mwa-ha-has. These days, evil wears a hoodie.
wired.co.uk · #274
Forward Thinking: What can the creative world expect in 2023?
Uncover the topics, trends, worries and wonders that will shape the design industry in the year to come.
itsnicethat.com · #274
What is Snapchat for? A new brand campaign answers this all important question
Complete with AR integration, ‘Wait’ll You See This’ is meant to spark conversations around the ‘best known, least understood’ social app.
fastcompany.com · #274
Your stuff is actually worse now
You'd expect that developments in technology, design and manufacturing would lead to great design and better quality products. Well, actually consumerism ushered in an era of badly made stuff...
vox.com · #274
Gold rush in the uncanny valley
Another article on generative ai? Yes. Worth a read for our Tech Director Kasper's long-time expertise and interest in the area? Absolutely.
Your Majesty · #274
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