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3 Essential Design Trends, August 2023

There’s an overall movement in website design right now where there are no dominant hero image or video on the homepage. Look at some of your most visited websites, and you might see this trend in action. You’ll surely see it among the three other trends we explore in website design here.

Twitter’s rebrand to X is destined to fail, critics say

Tech companies can’t compel people to change what they call platforms. Ask Facebook.

Generative AI Experiments with Midjourney

One of our recent favorites is a series of experiments utilizing a generative AI tool called Midjourney. With the uncanny ability to turn imagination into reality, this tool interprets prompts based on popular movies such as The Warriors or iconic video games like Final Fight, generating detailed, vivid images that exceed expectations.

Does X mark the spot? How the creative industry feels about Twitter’s rebrand

As we say goodbye to Twitter and its famous blue bird today, how does the design industry feel about the rebrand? Is it the final nail in the coffin for the social network? A colossal branding disaster? Or the start of a much-needed new chapter? We asked the creative community for their thoughts.  

Musk’s Twitter Rebranding as X Is Off to a Confusing, Haphazard Start

Over the weekend, Elon Musk issued the unexpected fiat via late-night/early-morning tweetstorm (x-storm?) that Twitter would now be known as X — complete with a new X logo that has replaced the bonny blue birdie on the service’s website.

Figma isn’t making you a bad designer

You like pen and paper, I like Figma. We’re both great designers.

‘Designed by Apple in California’

Book design documenting past and current Apple products through 450 photographs.

Collective #774

Quirky, vibrant, and full of delightful surprises, Lief Amsterdam is our website of the week! With its stunning color palette, unconventional layouts, and smooth effects, it offers a truly unique browsing experience.

The strange reason why Apple’s logo has a bite taken out of it, revealed

Plenty of theories have emerged about how the now-famous logo came to be…. But the genius behind the original design has shared the real reason behind it

From topography to typography: How a graphic designer’s love of Aptos inspired the next ubiquitous commercial typeface

Steven Matteson’s font Aptos, named for an area of Santa Cruz County he came to appreciate deeply as an escape during a stint over the hill, will be the default for the hundreds of millions who use Microsoft products such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

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