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Jony Ive's design firm 'LoveFrom' acquired by OpenAI for $6.5B. 👀

Apple legend Jony Ive takes control of OpenAI’s design future $6.5B acquisition of Ive’s firm puts him in charge of moving OpenAI “beyond screens.”…

My father started his career as a political cartoonist in NYC. I wish I was mature enough before he passed to had understood and appreciated the complexity and gravity of it all.

The Daily Heller: Cartoonist Walks After WaPo Kills Bezos Satire 🤡

The Washington Post would not have dared kill a piece by its courageous political cartoonist Herbert Block, known to the world as Herblock—and he would not have accepted such behavior if they had. As it happens, Pulitzer Prize–winning Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes is cut from the same cloth.

Last week, editorial page editor David Shipley rejected Telnaes’ cartoon that lampooned media and tech titans for abasing themselves before President-elect Donald Trump, and she summarily quit the newspaper. It was a courageous act.

Read the full story on PRINT: https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-washington-post-editorial-cartoonist-walks-after-satire-of-bezos-is-killed/

Words: Steven Heller
Imagery: Ann Telnaes
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A fun look back! Shoutout to for putting together the evolution of the Photoshop logo. 💙✨

From Aretha Franklin to The Rolling Stones, a new book charts the history of band logo design across the last half century https://ow.ly/MBtq50TLvcz

Your Friday

Download a copy of the first-ever official book of David Ogilvy quotations. https://okt.to/IxDpl4

A review of some great, new powerful tools from Adobe in our latest blog post.

Abobe Releases Several New Tools in Photoshop and Illustrator - 1Brand Design Last week, Adobe dropped a bunch of new, exciting, powerful tools in Photoshop and Illustrator that show us why they are still at the top of the game for creative...

Continuous scrolling search results on desktop was removed yesterday, and will be removed on mobile devices in the coming months.

Google is killing infinite scroll on search results Devoted doomscrollers will have to stick to their favorite social media feeds.

“Adobe trapped customers into year-long subscriptions through hidden early termination fees and numerous cancellation hurdles,”

US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel The DOJ accuses Adobe of trapping users in subscriptions.

Paula Scher’s work is celebrated in a new monograph Paula Scher: Works is a comprehensive guide to the iconic graphic designer’s legacy over the last half a century

Really great work. Took me a minute.🦈

Some movie fans claim they can't spot the hidden shark in this design. Here's a hint, there are two hidden in this poster. Do you see them?

Image credit: Andrew Swainston

They have a point.

Adobe has filed a claim against video game emulator Delta, claiming the new iOS app's logo (right) is too similar to its own (left).