I’ve been a stay-at-home dad for nearly four years. And now, I’m happy to be part of a talented team.

Another year, another Houston ADDYs Awards Show. Here are some of my observations.

A random TV commercial just stopped my family in their tracks. How often does that happen?

What’s the catch?

Carlos Gil shares: “‘Graphic designers’ are basically extinct, these days everyone’s a creative director. AI can do in seconds what used to take an agency 10 hours and $5,000.”

One day I hope I will be clever enough to take advantage of an evergreen niche like this

Strategic communications expert Lulu Cheng Meservey compares a blog post you actually want to read with something that makes you want to fall asleep

Did this new AI image editor just change the game?

AI Guru Rory Flynn gives away an incredible resource that will help you write more effective prompts that actually generate images you want.

It’s always great when visual branding suddenly takes on a life of its own

Apparently somebody forgot the UX part of UX/UI?

“AI… make me a website.” Aaaaand it’s done. This is crazy!

Clients (and agencies) are leaning more and more into AI. People on Reddit are sharing their stories of this (alarming?) shift towards AI.

Long-time Houston agency Unleaded Communications is leaning more into strategy and consulting.

Visual creative and AI prompt engineer Ohneis652 has figured out a system to generate brand images that don’t look like typical cheesy AI or corporate stock.

I’m a huge fan of these playful ads that poke fun at their own medium. But are they overdone?

There seems to be curated collections for every design category, except decks. But look what I found!

How long has this trend been going on?

The agency used AI to deepfake a TED Talk and a CNN news report to talk about a campaign that apparently never even existed? Yikes.

Can I say something without people getting mad?