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ZigoPay: a payment app’s logo, icons and animations that match the real result
An animation studio says it designed a UPI app’s logo and icons and animated onboarding, loading and success or failure states in two weeks.
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Zapier’s remote design team: weekly open critique, async notes and shared research
Zapier’s design director describes a weekly open critique, a request tracker and shared note-taking for user research.
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Zapier: connect applications and automate triggered workflows
Zapier presents itself as an automation platform connecting thousands of apps, now with AI agents.
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ZapConnect 2025: an event brand made with AI imagery, automation and human direction
Zapier’s brand team describes building an event identity with Midjourney imagery, automated session assets and personalized badges.
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YETI: one searchable footage library feeding documentaries and social campaigns
Adobe’s Frame.io story says YETI keeps every cut, version and asset in one cloud library and reuses surplus documentary footage.
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Webflow: visual website building, content management and hosting
Webflow presents itself as a web platform for designing, building and optimizing sites, with CMS and hosting.
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WebAIM Contrast Checker: browser-based foreground/background contrast checking
WebAIM’s online contrast checker, which needs no account, tests text and background color pairs against WCAG.
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VELA: redrawing AI logo directions by hand into a brand system
A designer’s fictional fintech brand uses Midjourney and Ideogram for exploration, then redraws the chosen mark point by point in Illustrator.
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Vectorizer.AI: automatic bitmap-to-vector conversion
Vectorizer.AI converts PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP and WebP images to SVG, PDF, EPS and DXF vectors. Previews are free; downloading results needs a subscription.
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US Copyright Office: prompts alone aren't enough for AI output to be protected
The Office's January 2025 report says protection depends on human authorship, including selection, arrangement and modification.
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UNHCR’s World Cup film: footballers shown as children, made with an AI pipeline
Runway says a production team portrayed eleven displaced-background footballers as children without a shoot, then finished the film on 16mm.
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Under Armour: an athlete commercial made from AI stills, archive footage and synthetic voice
Runway says production company Tool made an Anthony Joshua spot in four weeks without the athlete present.
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A TV graphics package: rounds of logo exploration and scope set in the contract
A 2017 Frame.io article walks through a Nickelodeon pilot’s show open, lower thirds, maps and overlays, and the revision deal behind them.
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Trusted Shops: rebuilding 150 design files into one shared design system
Figma says the company recreated more than 150 files in nine weeks and merged two tools while building a design-system family.
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Trek: photoreal digital twins of bikes, reused across models for marketing renders
Adobe’s 2026 story says Trek’s visualization team builds 1:1 bike twins and swaps meshes to reuse approved paint designs.
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Toptal: a structured design workflow, with AI for exploration, for an insurance marketing team
Toptal says an anonymous insurer’s five-person marketing team cleared a backlog using a brief-to-delivery workflow and AI for early exploration.
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From digital drawing to a layered paper shadowbox with Procreate, Illustrator and Cricut
A designer’s portfolio project turns hand-drawn contour lines into cut paper layers stacked into a framed shadowbox.
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Toggl Track: time tracking and reporting
Toggl presents Track as time tracking and capacity planning software, with a free option.
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Natalie Brown and Adobe: colour variations on original lettering with Firefly
Adobe’s 2023 profile covers an artist using generative recolouring alongside her hand-lettering and illustration practice.
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SX3: using AI to fill gaps in archive footage and B-roll
Runway says a creative studio animated reference images to fill missing archive footage for Maison Margiela and B-roll for a Madonna film.
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SVGOMG: browser interface for optimizing SVG markup
SVGOMG is a browser interface for the SVGO tool, used to minify SVG files.
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Sunrise Studio: using AI tools to explore an identity, then refining it by hand
A designer’s 2025 concept exercise combines ChatGPT, Sora and Nano Banana for a studio identity, finished in Illustrator and Photoshop.
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StyleDrop: Google research on copying a visual style from a single reference image
A 2023 research demo shows text-to-image output matched to the style of one reference image, from watercolor to 3D renders.
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Brandsupply’s Still Touch: refining an AI-generated identity (a fictional demo brand)
A seller’s own example: designers refine a generated logo for a fictional wellness brand in three rounds, with a quoted €199 price and 72 hours.
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Stark: design accessibility tooling and checks
Stark presents itself as a suite of integrated accessibility tools for design and development teams.
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Squoosh: browser-based image compression and format comparison
Squoosh is a browser-based image optimizer for compressing and comparing images across formats.
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Spline: browser-based 3D design and interactive experiences
Spline presents itself as a 3D design tool in the browser with real-time collaboration for interactive web experiences, with a free plan and paid plans.
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Sourcing Insights: a five-panel social carousel in a three-hour window
A designer reports producing a five-panel carousel for a fintech client in three hours, with AI exploration and manual refinement in Adobe tools.
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A frog illustration from paper sketches to vector finishing
A 2022 post shows sketching on paper, building shapes in Procreate and finishing in Illustrator for a cut-print look.
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scenta: a packaging system, brand guidelines and an AI photography prompt pack
A designer reports extending a small brand from a Canva logo into 51 packaging designs, guidelines and an AI photo workflow the client reuses.
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Salomon: a real model shot on green screen inside AI-generated environments
Runway says a Paris studio storyboarded 30 shots with AI, cast a model resembling the generated character, and shot two days on green screen.
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Runway: generative video and AI-assisted media production
Runway now describes itself as building “real-world intelligence”, with products built on top.
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Prototyping itinerary concepts with AI for Royal Caribbean
A principal experience designer says AI let him explore dozens of visual directions for personalized itineraries in two weeks.
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Rive: interactive vector animation with state-driven behavior
Rive presents itself as an interactive experience engine to design, animate and code in one place and ship to many platforms.
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Renaming thousands of client PDFs each season with Hazel, Alfred and Automator
A 2022 tutorial from a tax preparer: text snippets name the file, Hazel spots it, and a script adds the client’s name.
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Recraft: image and vector-oriented generative design tools
Recraft presents itself as a text-to-image model and design platform for photorealism, vector generation, custom styles and mockups.
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Rebecca Mills on geometric illustration with QuickShape and balancing agency briefs
A 2019 Procreate interview with an illustrator who uses quick vector-like shapes and mixes open briefs with agency work.
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Readymag: visual publishing for designed web experiences
Readymag presents itself as a design tool for distinctive websites.
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Raw Studio: client portals with live progress instead of weekly sync meetings
Notion says a Sydney design agency invites clients into project pages with a live board, replacing hours of status meetings.
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Ramotion: designers build the marketing sites and clients edit them afterwards
Webflow says the branding agency’s designers build smaller sites themselves, showing clients live progress sooner.
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PureRef: flexible reference-image boards
PureRef presents itself as a simple reference-image viewer.
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Procreate: iPad drawing and painting application
Procreate presents itself as a drawing and illustration app for iPad, sold as a one-time purchase with no subscription.
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Planful: brand guidelines, logos and design files moved into one company hub
Notion says a software company’s creative team built a brand hub alongside the company wiki and project work.
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Plaid and Figma: connecting brand and product design in one workspace
Figma’s story says Plaid brought brand and product work together, including planning and reusable assets like blog graphics.
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Photopea: a browser-based image editor that works locally
Photopea says it edits raster and vector graphics in the browser without uploading files.
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Performance.gov: about 1,500 icons developed from handmade inputs with Midjourney
A design news report says Pentagram trained an illustration style from paint and cut paper, then produced reusable icons for federal agencies.
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Penpot: an open-source design platform you can self-host
Penpot describes itself as an open-source design platform with shared libraries, design tokens and a self-host option.
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OFF+BRAND: animated brand websites built so clients can update them
Webflow says a two-founder branding studio builds modular, animation-led sites that clients maintain without developers.
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Obsidian: a studio mixing live action and AI for brand campaigns
Runway says this 2025 studio uses generative AI on every project, with storyboards drawn by hand and AI used for iteration.
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Nuuly: a year of campaigns planned in one Figma file
Figma says Nuuly’s brand and marketing teams brief, plan and present seasonal campaigns in shared Figma files.
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Notion: documents, databases and collaborative project workspaces
Notion presents itself as an AI workspace for documents, search and automation.
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NASA’s Launch America identity, made by a four-partner remote team
A 2020 Frame.io article describes a new agency making a title sequence, logo and broadcast graphics in two months without meeting.
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n8n: workflow automation with hosted and self-hosted deployment options
n8n presents itself as a workflow-automation platform combining AI with business-process automation for technical teams.
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N4: building an agency around work after launch day
Webflow says this web agency earns over half its revenue from ongoing post-launch work such as testing and personalization.
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Preparing a 100-foot mural: sectioned digital artwork, traced to vector for print
A Toronto mural artist explains splitting a wall into canvases at 300 DPI and having a vector artist trace them for printing.
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Moving Brands: showing clients work in progress in shared files
Figma says the brand studio moved progress reports and client presentations into live files, with feedback as comments.
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Moving a product design studio course online with shared visual boards
Educators from MIT Media Lab and Harvard describe using visual boards so students could prototype, collect research and make thinking visible.
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Milanote: Visual boards for notes, images, links and planning
Milanote positions itself as visual boards for notes, images, links and planning.
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Mattel and Adobe: using Firefly during Barbie packaging exploration
Adobe’s 2024 account says Mattel explored packaging concepts with generated imagery, conventional editing and 3D presentation.
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Planning a usable logo delivery package: variants and exports from Affinity
An October 2026 guide lists which logo variants and file formats to deliver, with caveats. Its author checked it against docs, not by testing.
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Leonardo.Ai: aI image and visual-asset creation tools
Leonardo.Ai presents itself as a generative platform for images and video, with editing and upscaling.
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Krita: free, open-source painting and illustration application
Krita presents itself as free, open-source digital painting software.
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Janice Sung on finding a painterly style and clients through Instagram
A 2018 Procreate interview with a first-year freelance illustrator who tried several styles before one stuck.
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Intercom: rebuilding product animations from Figma for smaller files and faster changes
Rive’s 2024 story says Intercom’s motion designer moved from After Effects and Lottie to Rive and halved file sizes.
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Inkscape: Free, open-source SVG vector editor
Inkscape describes itself as a free, open-source SVG vector editor.
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Ideogram: image generation with emphasis on graphics and text-containing imagery
Ideogram presents its models and apps as image generation and editing with reliable typography in images, plus an API.
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HLabs: lightweight interactive animations for The Economist, reused across layouts
Rive’s 2025 story says an agency replaced heavy video with nested, scroll-triggered animations built from Illustrator artwork.
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Heco: a designer and copywriter shipping client sites without a developer handoff
Webflow says a two-person studio merged prototyping and development, with the copywriter editing text in place.
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Hazel rules that keep Downloads, Desktop and Inbox folders tidy
A 2015 post shows time-based rules that unzip downloads and move untouched desktop and inbox files along automatically.
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Hazel: Mac folder monitoring and file-organization rules
Hazel says it monitors Mac folders and applies file-organization rules, such as sorting exports and renaming files.
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A 60-second product explainer animated from a client’s Figma storyboard
A freelance motion designer took GWI’s storyboard into Rive and delivered a looping 438 KB web animation in under two weeks.
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Gregory Darroll’s six-step illustration process, from rough sketch to texture
A 2019 Dribbble walkthrough: block shapes, refine, ink, add details, flat color on separate layers, then texture and highlights.
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Google Fonts: font discovery and distribution with documented font licenses
Google Fonts is Google’s free font library for web and print.
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Designing a Google BigQuery explainer inside a 61-page brand book
A 2017 Frame.io article shows how a post house kept an explainer on brand when the product had no guidelines of its own.
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GIMP: free, open-source raster editing and compositing
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program, a free and open-source image editor.
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UK High Court largely rules for Stability AI in Getty Images case
In November 2025 the court rejected Getty’s secondary copyright claim; Getty has since been given permission to appeal.
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Fred & Farid: a year of experiments before launching an AI-first studio
Runway says the agency spent a year testing tools with 26 people before opening a 30-person AI studio in four cities.
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Frank Chimero on getting unstuck while designing his own lecture poster
A 2018 essay: a designer stuck on a self-portrait poster found the way through by naming the talk and working once through, cleanly.
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Framer: visual web design, publishing and site production
Framer presents itself as an AI design agent that designs and builds sites on a canvas, with hosting and CMS.
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Frame.io: Media review, comments, collaboration and asset delivery
Frame.io positions itself as media review, commenting and asset delivery for creative work.
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FontForge: open-source font creation and editing
FontForge presents itself as a free and open-source font editor.
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FontBase: desktop font organization and management
FontBase presents itself as a free font manager for Mac, Windows and Linux, made by designers, with an optional paid subscription (Awesome).
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Figma: shared interface, design-system, prototyping and visual-collaboration tools
Figma presents itself as a collaborative canvas where design, code and AI come together.
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Figma's AI content training is on by default for Starter and Professional teams
Figma's help center says content training is on by default for Starter and Professional and off for Organization and Enterprise.
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Evoke Studio’s checklist from AI concept to production-ready brand files
A studio’s published guide covers choosing a traceable concept, hand-tracing, colour specs, a logo family, type licensing and file delivery.
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An editorial designer's client folder, naming and backup system
Hadley Hendrix shares her nested client folders, round-and-date file naming, and end-of-day backup routine.
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Edgar Allan: turning website optimization into a quarter of agency revenue
Webflow says the agency organizes work into brand-to-build projects, support retainers and optimization, which is about 25% of revenue.
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Eagle: Visual asset collection, tagging and search
Eagle positions itself as a visual asset collection tool with tagging and search.
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DaVinci Resolve: editing, color, audio and visual-effects production
Blackmagic presents DaVinci Resolve as editing, color, effects and audio in one application, in free and paid versions.
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Publishing a design and photography portfolio as a Notion page
Notion says a photographer and designer built his portfolio as a published page with a tagged photo gallery.
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Coolors: palette generation and color exploration
Coolors presents itself as a fast generator and browser for color palettes.
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Extracting a design system and generating a landing page and slide deck with Claude Design
Claire Vo reports importing a public site's assets to build a design system, then generating a landing page and deck from it.
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Packaging a brand into a reusable Claude skill so PDFs and decks come out on-brand
Daria Cupareanu describes building a brand skill in Claude so documents match a brand without manual restyling.
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Citrusbyte: sharing unfinished design files with clients through a live link
A 2018 Figma blog post says a 90-person studio shows clients raw work in progress, with a persistent link and in-file comments.
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Chello: living brand files and follow-the-sun delivery for clients
Figma says a Sydney and London agency gives each client a shared workspace and living brand files instead of PDFs.
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Using a ChatGPT table to generate structured image prompts in bulk
A 2023 X thread shows asking ChatGPT for a table of composition variables, then turning each row into an image prompt.
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Cavalry: procedural 2D animation and motion design
Cavalry presents itself as free-to-download 2D animation and motion design software for Mac and Windows.
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Cathy Penton on using visual boards to plan custom pieces and collaborations
A 2023 interview: a soft-furnishings maker uses Milanote boards to keep custom-order details and share pop-up plans with collaborators.
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Casa di Campara: campaign visuals built around real product photos
An agency says it used ChatGPT with the client’s real product photos as reference, then made static and animated visuals in Canva.
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Canva: template-based visual communication, documents and brand production
Canva presents itself as a visual suite for social posts, videos and presentations, with AI tools such as background removal and a Brand Kit.
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Cal.com: availability-based scheduling and calendar coordination
Cal.com presents itself as customizable scheduling software for bookings.
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A Frame.io guide to building editable motion graphics templates (MOGRT)
A 2024 guide explains making After Effects templates with controls so editors can change approved elements without breaking the design.
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Building a brand across sketches, AI images, a custom font and a website
A class project chains several AI tools into a brand system and site; the author records what he had to correct by hand at each stage.
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Blender: free, open-source modeling, rendering and animation suite
Blender presents itself as free and open-source 3D creation software.
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Blender Conference 2024: a hand-made, mixed-media identity built with free tools
Blender Studio’s art director walks through paper doodles, a watercolor mascot, scanned notes and a modeled desk scene.
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Blender Conference 2022: when a concept contradicts the theme, change the concept
Blender Studio describes dropping a tree-ring logo because it implied cutting a tree down, and moving to procedurally grown succulents.
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A barbershop logo: generate in Midjourney, vectorize, then clean up by hand
In a 2023 X thread, Linus Ekenstam describes a barbershop logo built from Midjourney images, vectorized, then tidied in a vector editor.
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Automating exported artwork filenames with Hazel, Shortcuts and a mouse button
A freelancer in 2024 describes opening folders, running exports and auto-naming files with Bunch, Shortcuts and Hazel on a Mac.
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The Animal Breakdown: 104 show graphics generated, approved, then finished in After Effects
Runway says a three-person graphics team made a season of textbook-style animal graphics, keeping producer approval before animating.
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Andrew Joyner on illustrating an unfinished Dr. Seuss manuscript
A 2020 Procreate interview: the illustrator copied Seuss’s drawings to learn the style, then was asked to make it his own.
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A web designer tests Claude, ChatGPT and Claude Design against her own client builds
Rebekah Read reports giving AI tools her real client brief; she found the output functional but short on brand personality.
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Affinity is now one free app, with a Canva account and paid AI features
Reported October 2025: Affinity combines vector, photo and layout tools in one free app; Canva AI tools need Canva Premium.
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Adobe Substance 3D: a family of material, texturing and 3D visualization tools
Adobe presents it as apps for creating, texturing and rendering 3D models and materials.
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Adobe Photoshop: layer-based raster editing, compositing and generative editing
Adobe presents it as a photo-editing and graphic design app.
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Adobe MAX 2025: new Photoshop and Illustrator features for designers
According to Adobe, new releases include Photoshop Harmonize and Generative Upscale and Illustrator snapping and gradient tools.
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Adobe InDesign: multi-page layout, typography and print/digital publishing
Adobe presents it as professional page layout for print and digital publishing.
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Adobe Illustrator: vector drawing, typography, illustration and generative features
Adobe presents it as a vector app for logos, icons and illustrations with precision and AI tools.
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Adobe Firefly: adobe's generative image and media creation tools
Adobe presents it as an AI platform for images, video, audio and designs using Adobe and partner models.
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Adobe Express: template-based branded content creation and editing
Adobe presents it as a design app for social posts, flyers and videos with generative tools.
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Adobe Color: adobe's color-palette and theme resources
Adobe Color now sits within Adobe Express and offers palettes and themes to browse for branding, social and web.
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Adobe After Effects: compositing, animation and motion-graphics production
Adobe presents it as motion graphics and visual effects software.
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Adobe’s June 2024 statement on AI training and customer content
In a June 2024 post Adobe said it has never trained generative AI on customer content and would revise its terms.
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Additive prompting: ordering prompt variables for more consistent interior images
In a 2023 X thread, Nick St. Pierre lays out an ordered prompt structure, camera angle first, for interior and architecture images.
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