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Previous Issues
- AD87: Marvel's Marketing Mastery
30 March 2025 | Issue #87 In this issue: Marvel's Marketing Mastery Google's AI Overviews – How To The Visual Marketer: Now on Amazon! Design Quote of the Week The Men Who Stare at Chairs This was a big week if you're into entertainment distractions. Not only did we have the annual right of passage known as MLB's Opening Day (always a welcome sight for those of us who live in cold weather climates), but we also had the most interesting movie news reveal I've seen. Marvel Studios unveiled a...Read more - AD86: The New CMO Era: Longer Tenure, Bigger Impact
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...Read more
- AD85: The 100-Year-Old Design Rule We’re Still Using
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...Read more
- AD84: The Visual Marketer is Now Available
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...Read more
- AD83: Use Nostalgia to Create Something New
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...Read more
- AD82: Gen Z Is Relying on AI ... To Their Detriment
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...Read more