Scrolled LinkedIn for one minute. 80% AI-generated. Mediocre visuals, mediocre content, posted with full confidence. Pretty sure the content strategy was written by ChatGPT on autopilot. Welcome to the era of mediocre content—where everyone's a thought leader, and no one's thinking.
AI is the new ars poetica: You create a genius machine, ask it 'How do I use you?' — and it teaches you.
Designers not saying 'please' or 'thank you' to ChatGPT isn’t rude...it’s brand consistency.
RIP to the guy who used to hike 6 hours for the perfect Apple background image. Midjourney just did it in 6 seconds.
Waiting for AI to generate your image like it's a 90s dial-up connection. Might as well start knitting.
In a world where AI takes over creative jobs, your taste will be the last thing standing. Don’t stress, there’s a 6-month bootcamp coming to teach you how to have taste.
Show me your prompts, and I’ll tell you who you are.
An image is worth a thousand prompts.
Unlike designers, the nice thing about criticizing AI is it won’t take it personally... Yet.
These days, I don’t trust any image. If it’s too good to be true, it probably skipped the whole 'human effort' part.
Getting real worried designers will start talking to each other like chatgpt prompts.
“design cool thing. no context. deadline yesterday. go.”
Walter Benjamin warned about art losing its aura, but here we are, mass-producing Ghibli-style photos of ourselves like some sort of spiritual fast food.
Looking through some of the most well-known branding design studios in 2025. Apparently, the future of design is just sugary drinks and smoking accessories, with fonts that look like they’ve been to therapy and still haven’t figured it out
1.5-hour second interview. Thought its a good sign...turns out I was just the guest speaker at their ‘Steal New Ideas’ seminar. No job offer, but at least they took notes. Glad I could inspire.
Saving images on Pinterest like they’ll one day change my life, only for them to vanish into the void of forgotten moodboards.
Applied for a visual designer role, passed two interviews, got a home task, then got rejected for not being a motion designer. Guess I’ll apply to be a chef next and see if they need a carpenter.
Love this. Let’s disrupt the ‘PHARMACY’ sign industry with some good old-fashioned design thinking. lol
With all the graphic designers making ceramics now, I guess “design thinking” led us to the real solution: more wobbly cute mugs.
Small tweak: *Life* is a constant reminder that my worst nightmares are other people’s dreams come true. Shoutout to the guy who manifested being a crypto coach in Bali.
Motion design is just time travel, but only in the wrong direction. You work for a full week on a 17-second ad. Shouldn’t the laws of time and physics step in at some point?
I'm noticing subtle design tweaks in WhatsApp. Small typographic shifts that just feel right. The type hierarchy is exquisite, quiet but outstanding. God is in the details, I guess? even when the devil’s running the boardroom, Meta.
Designers and artists deleting and reposting their projects after Instagram changed the grid. It's like their landlord just raised the rent, and they realize their aesthetic empire was built on borrowed land. Spoiler: Instagram will never stop renovating.
The typographical revolution won't be silent after all.
People obsessing over ChatGPT's em dashes while graphic designers have been silently judging everyones dashes since Steve Jobs made fonts a thing.
The craft of creatives used to be like cooking, you had to balance sweet and salty, get the textures just right. Now you're ordering takeaway from AI.
There’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in AI.
Finally, designers can skip the group effort and take all the credit.
Ai is perfect for an individualistic world—now I can finally say: just me, myself, and (A)i… and then get all the praise from people who think I did the work
The only time a designer stops updating their portfolio is when they’re dead. And even then, the tombstone engraver is like, “Can you make the logo bigger?
AI images have the soul of a stock photo and the charm of clip art. A match made in uncanny valley.
Am I the only one who thinks designers in 2025 have more tools than a medieval blacksmith making the world’s first sword…and somehow, we still need more?
