23 March 2025 | Issue #86 In this issue: CMO Roles Evolving, Tenure Improving Funny AI Failure Google’s Gemini AI Can Remove Watermarks From Images The Creative Feedback Triangle The Visual Marketer: Digital Version Now Available! Design Quote of the Week Prompt: a business woman is in a conference room speaking to people who are sitting at a table (with an overlay created by) a chart showing growth over time. Multiple colors CMO Roles Evolving, Tenure Improving Chief Marketing Officers tend...
12 days ago • 3 min read
9 March 2025 | Issue #85 In this issue: The 100-Year-Old Design Rule We’re Still Using The Future of Visual Content in the Startup Ecosystem Learn AI-Powered SEO with ChatGPT US Copyright Office Rules on AI-Generated Work The Visual Marketer: Now Available! Design Quote of the Week (and it's a great one!) Midjourney Prompt: a bauhaus geographic design. --ar 16:9 The 100-Year-Old Design Rule We’re Still Using A century later, the Bauhaus still gets treated like the holy grail of design. The...
26 days ago • 4 min read
4 March 2025 | Issue #84 In this issue: The Visual Marketer: Now Available! Design Quote of the Week The Visual Marketer hardcover and paperback About a year and a half ago, I started this newsletter to help designers who were going to be displaced due to AI or DIY tools. With the rise in popularity of tools like Canva, and growth of generative AI tools, I saw warning signs for designers. This is and will be a negative to the number of professional design jobs out there. But then I started to...
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23 February 2025 | Issue #83 In this issue: Create Something New with Old Parts 60 Fonts That Look Great in 2025 Best CRM for Graphic Designers Adobe Celebrates 35 Years of Photoshop The Visual Marketer: March 4th Design Quote of the Week Midjourney Prompt: a lego representation of a SNL sketch --ar 16:9 Use Nostalgia to Create Something New According to my Bluesky feed, many people my age spent last weekend consuming SNL50 content. There was over six hours of new Saturday Night Live content...
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17 February 2025 | Issue #82 In this issue: Gen Z's use of AI Downfalls of Relying on AI too much How to Get Fired Stealing from OpenAI Design Quote of the Week Midjourney prompt: The image shows a young woman with long dark hair and glasses, sitting at a table with a laptop open in front of her. She is wearing a hoodie and appears to be in a dimly lit indoor environment, possibly a café or co-working space. The background is blurred with cool blue tones, giving a moody, introspective feel to...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
9 February 2025 | Issue #81 In this issue: What if Pinterest is the answer? Build confidence in your UX portfolio AI video maker by Descript What's more important, outcomes or quality? Design Quote of the Week Prompt: Marketer using Pinterest --ar 16:9 (multiple variations) What if Pinterest is the answer? The question would be, "What is an underutilized resource for marketing and sales?" At CES a couple of weeks ago, AdExchanger caught up with Pinterest's chief revenue officer, Bill Watkins....
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2 February 2025 | Issue #80 In this issue: Become an alchemist Trying to replace 1000 human jobs with AI fails DeepSeek comparison chart Purposely bad UI Design Quote of the Week Prompt: a steampunk scientist pouring potion --ar 16:9 "Become an alchemist." These were the words that Richard Banfield used to close a recent article he wrote on LinkedIn and it stuck with me. Many of us have a blend of skills from years of doing different jobs. Many of us have a blend of skills from years of doing...
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26 January 2025 | Issue #79 In this issue: The Canva Visual Economy Report Announcing The Visual Marketer Design Quote of the Week Midjourney Prompt: a person is working at a computer. She is happy. The art style should look like a brighter version of Adam Hughes. Use #16203e for the shadows. Use bright colors like Yellow: #fdfcc8, pink: #f86786, and blue: #7ee1ec for the rest. Angled lighting would be great. --ar 16:9 Canva released its Visual Economy Report and the results are a mixed bag....
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20 January 2025 | Issue #78 In this issue: World Economic Forum's 290 page jobs report Perception of AI's impact on jobs, by country [infographic] The future of digital must be cultivating community LinkedIn introduces new job application tools Design Quote of the Week Midjourney Prompt: colorful image with stats and graphs --ar 16:9 A tip before we get started. Whenever I show the prompt for my images, you'll notice "--ar 16:9" at the end of the prompt. This tells Midjourney to create an...
2 months ago • 3 min read