04 May 2026 | Issue #124 In this issue: The Marketing Engineer Project Management for Freelancers and Consultants 8 Tips to Cut Your Claude Token Usage Oscars Addresses New AI Eligibility Rules Institutional AI vs. Individual AI Review of The Visual Marketer Design Quote of the Week Going from T-Shaped to V-Shaped with AI Five years ago, I gave a talk at Keene State College about whether it's better to be a specialist or a generalist. My answer: it depends on where you are in your career and...
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16 March 2025 | Issue #123 In this issue: You Accept From AI What You'd Never Accept From a Person Google Can Recreate Your Landing Pages and Bypass Your Site Three Types of Designers Your Team Needs Marketing Jobs Most at Risk Design Quote of the Week You're Compromising With AI. You Just Don't Know It. Most people push harder on the humans they work with than on the AI they use every day. Think about that for a second. You'll send a design back three times. You'll redline a document,...
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23 February 2025 | Issue #122 In this issue: Why I Hate Carousels The Value of Buying Books Top AI Image Generators for 2026 What Colors Mean Around the World Design Quote of the Week When was the last time you went to a website and waited to see what scrolled across the screen? We all just go to a website, take our hand off the mouse, and wait to see what happens next. Right? Totally normal behavior to sit back and just watch a website. No? You don't do this? That's because nobody does this....
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2 February 2025 | Issue #121 In this issue: Color Meanings from Around the World Top AI Image Generators for 2026 Design Quote of the Week "Blue is the color of trust." "Green is used when you want to look natural." "Red is an aggressive color." At some point, we were taught the meanings behind colors. But what if I told you those meanings aren't universal? Color is never just color. What appears as a simple wavelength of light carries centuries of meaning, shaped by religion, history, and...
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12 January 2025 | Issue #120 In this issue: The Biggest Marketing Campaign of the Year Top AI Image Generators for 2026 Design Quote of the Week Have you been watching the biggest marketing campaign of the year? It’s been running for a couple of weeks and it still has 11 months to go. Did you miss the five-and-a-half-hour livestream that kicked this off back in March of 2025? We’re already 9 months into this promotion, and it hasn’t even really started yet. After a few rocky years, Marvel is...
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29 December 2025 | Issue #119 In this issue: Breaking down the top AI visualization tools: ChatGPT 5.2 Midjourney 7 Firefly 5 Meta AI Gemini 3 (Nano Banana) Stable Diffusion (Base) Canva AI The Visual Marketer Now in Full Color The Visual Marketer is one of the top marketing books of the year Design Quote of the Week AI Image Generators for 2026 With the number of image generators available and the speed at which these models are improving, it's impossible to keep up unless you're using them...
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14 December 2025 | Issue #118 In this issue: Together, Apart: The Quiet Loss of Communal Joy AI Search Ate Marketing OpenAI is in Trouble AI Could do 17% of Jobs Today The Modern Marketing Multitasker [Infographic] The Fisher-Price My First AI The Best Tool I Adopted This Year Canva: Creativity in the Age of AI The Visual Marketer Now in Full Color The Visual Marketer is one of the top marketing books of the year Design Quote of the Week Together, Apart: The Quiet Loss of Communal Joy I’ve...
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01 December 2025 | Issue #117 In this issue: Is ChatGPT the MySpace of AI? Cookie Banners Are Going To Get Less Annoying Don't Let Google AI Determine Your Ads Pinterest is Intentional, Joyful Marketing Skills Designers Need Quibi Was Right! Make Creative QR Codes Need a Free Business Advisor/Strategist? The Visual Marketer is one of the top marketing books of the year Design Quote of the Week Prompt: at end of email Is ChatGPT the MySpace of AI? Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen...
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09 November 2025 | Issue #116 In this issue: Apple TV's New Visual Identity is Real Beyond SEO: How AI Is Changing Content Discoverability in 2025 "Job Creation is Pretty Close to Zero" Godfather of AI Says Tech Giants Can Only Profit from AI if Humans are Replaced AI Layoffs and The Uncertainty Flywheel Godfather of AI Says Tech Giants Can Only Profit from AI if Humans are Replaced Affinity Cheat Sheet Your Data is Being Used to Train ChatGPT, Unless ... Add Claude to Excel Affinity Added 1m...
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