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Previous Issues
- AD77: CMOs Cautiously Optimistic About 2025
12 January 2025 | Issue #77 In this issue: The CMO Survey: Results are Mostly Positive How to Craft a Visual Marketing Strategy That Sells 2025 Salary Guide for Marketing and Creative Professionals The Illustration Trends Set to Take Shape in 2025 Why Community Will Make or Break Creators and Brands in 2025 Design Quote of the Week Prompt: an illustration of a person holding a clipboard. She is standing on a busy street in a city. Bright colors. --ar 16:9 Over the break, I was reading through...Read more - AD76: 2025 Marketing/Design Trends Compilation—It’s More Than AI
5 January 2025 | Issue #76 In this issue: Most Popular 2025 Predictions The Things Nobody Else Is Talking About What This Means for Marketers and Designers (this is the good part) Design Quote of the Week Prompt: a cartoon illustration of a wizard. He is precariously holding a pile of crystal balls. A couple of the balls are falling down out of his hands. --ar 16:9 If your inbox is anything like mine, you've been flooded with year-end recaps and predictions for 2025. All of the predictions...Read more
- AD75: How Things Evolved in 2024
29 December 2024 | Issue #75 In this issue: Top-clicked articles from the past year of After Design Midjourney Prompt: A marketer looking at statistics. Illustrated style --ar 16:9 Looking back on a full year of After Design, reviewing the links you clicked on the most is interesting. Earlier in the year, you tended to be more interested in AI and its impact to your job and career. As the year went on, you tended to click on articles focused on design and marketing. I use Bitly to track the...Read more
- AD73: PowerPoint: Love it or Hate it, it's Here to Stay
22 November 2024 | Issue #74 In this issue: PowerPoint is Here to Stay The Design Community Has Turned a Corner 9 Branding Tools To Use When Marketing Your Business AI Adoption Gap Found Between Executives and Entry-Level Marketers Design Quote of the Week Prompt: a designer using PowerPoint. --ar 16:9 Business Insider recently published an article lamenting the overuse of PowerPoint and how some high-powered individuals are trying to do away with it. (for the duration of this post, if you...Read more
- AD73: The Index of Aesthetics: Aligning Your Creative Vision
8 November 2024 | Issue #73 In this issue: An Index of Aesthetics In Defense of Jaguar Achieve Your Creative Goals in 2025 Shopify / Canva Integration AI Literacy is the Key to ROI Design Quote of the Week How many times have you found yourself in a conversation, and the person you're talking with just doesn't grasp what you're trying to say? Or worse, you leave the meeting in alignment, but it turns out you were both talking about different things. This happens far too often and there isn't...Read more
- AD72: Do We Need Websites Anymore?
24 November 2024 | Issue #72 In this issue: Do We Need Websites Anymore? Canva Design Trends 2025 25% of Google's Code is Generated by AI Coca-Cola's AI-Generated Ad Sparks Discussion How Many Colors Can You Name? New Survey: Designers' Views on Using AI Design Quote of the Week Prompt: a cartoon illustration. A hipster man with a beard and black-rim glasses is facing the camera, but his eyes are looking to the right side. Behind him is a robot. --ar 16:9, then modified in Adobe Illustrator...Read more