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08/28/2026

The client didn’t read the brochure. He fed it into ChatGPT.
A designer called UK radio this week over it. The tell was in his own words: he “sort of” knew the client’s business. We’ve all been there. The one-pager in this video is how you stop being there.
Wanna learn how to defend your work? Comment BRANDING for the course guide 👇

💾 And save this for the day a client sends you AI’s opinion of your work.

08/27/2026

AI creates the generic. Art direction makes it yours.

Midjourney is brilliant at producing images. But it doesn’t understand the brief, recognise the strongest idea or know when an image feels like everyone else’s.

That’s where the designer comes in.

Our Midjourney course for graphic designers moves beyond disconnected prompts and pretty experiments. You’ll apply what you learn to a real creative brief—developing the concept, establishing a visual direction, building consistent imagery and refining the results into purposeful design.

Because the valuable skill isn’t generating more.

It’s knowing what to ask for, what to keep and what to change.

Comment MIDJOURNEY and we’ll DM you the course guide.

08/26/2026

A mirror of our existence and history. Not a reflection of what we want it to be.

But it can be. That is the part that usually gets left off, and it is the only
part that gives anyone something to do. Cecilia Righini on why marginalised
communities have a shot at shaping this one, in a way they never got with
the internet.

Send this to the designer who keeps getting told inclusion is a phase 2 thing.

08/25/2026

No font fit the brand. So he drew seven letters and built his own.

Comment BRANDING for the full build and the font 👇

08/24/2026

A full brand identity built with AI, and the AI never made one creative decision. Here’s the entire process.

Bruno De Figueredo built this on the AI Branding Masterclass. Brand strategy shipped as a live microsite. A logo that started as his own pencil sketch, explored in Weavy, finished by hand. And a working custom typeface, grown from the seven letterforms of the logo, because the fonts AI offered him didn’t clear his bar.

His rule the whole way through: “Left alone it drifts to generic. So I kept a hand on the wheel.”

Comment BRANDING and I’ll send you the full case study, and course guide.

💾 Save this for your next brand project.

08/19/2026

Free design summit, 26 speakers, and the replays are free for 48 hours.

The Future of Design, 25 to 28 August. Upgrade to the Boss Bundle within 30 minutes of signing up and it’s half price, with lifetime access to every session.

💾 Save this before the price moves. Comment BOSS for the link.

08/19/2026

Free four-day design summit, 26 speakers, and I’m one of them.

The Future of Design runs 25 to 28 August. Chris Do, Debbie Millman, and 24 other people who actually do this for a living. Free ticket, free live Q&A after every session, replays free for 48 hours.

The upgrade is the Boss Bundle: lifetime access plus every speaker’s paid resource. Mine is 3 months of VIP in the Creative Futures Hub, $147 on its own.

💾 Save this. Comment BOSS and I’ll send the link. Affiliate link, and I’d rather tell you.

08/13/2026

Brand process backed by strategy and research - all inside of Figma Weave.

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08/10/2026

AI can’t come up with a bold idea. Correct. That’s not the argument against learning it.

Gustavo Panichi is a design director at SketchDeck, and he was the one leading his company’s AI rollout while privately not buying a word of it. His line on the intake form, before week one:

“I’m skeptical about AI coming up with bold or disruptive ideas.”

Then he built ARC, a gym brand for Lisbon. The research came first: Perplexity mining audience patterns and reviews, a trained GPT pressure-testing the strategy. It found a city stuck between two bad options, party studios with no depth and corporate chains with no soul. So the brand sells neither. It sells The Better State, and every visual call answers that finding. Most of what he generated, deleted. 3 to 4 hours a week for ten weeks.

From his own case study:

“AI doesn’t replace craft — it amplifies it, giving more room for judgment, taste, and refinement.”

Send this to whoever at your company got handed the AI brief.
💾 Save it for the next time someone tells you the tools will do the thinking.

Comment BRANDING and the course guide lands in your DMs 👇

September cohort. Work: Gustavo Panichi, Design Director.

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