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  1. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    The shape of creative AI systems (opens the original)

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    Most of the creative AI systems we’ve built can be understood as three interacting kinds of logic.Creative logic is the expressive intent: brand guidelines, visual references, tone, aesthetic rules, examples, constraints, and all the domain-specific judgments about what good looks like.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="e

  2. Issue · Sep 16, 2026

    Machine writable brands (opens the original)

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    Back in 2022, we participated in an “ad Turing test” run at an early AI marketing conference. The challenge was to build an AI system that could produce finished ads entirely on its own. Most of the contestants created HTML templates in ChatGPT that they slotted copy and images into with LLMs and image models. We attempted to take a different approach, interpreting the contest’s “fully generative” rule to mean that even the layout needed to be generated at inference time by a model. We set up ou

  3. Issue · Jul 23, 2026

    The Cannes Rift: Why We're Not Picking a Side (opens the original)

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    Every year, Cannes becomes the forum for debates that have been stirring long before attendees hit the fiery hot Croisette. This year it was AI versus craft. Technology-heavy, AI-forward work on one side. Traditional, human-driven creative on the other. It showed up in the sessions, in the parties, in the presentations — and honestly, it showed up in a lot of the work itself, which tended to fall cleanly into one camp or the other.We spent the week increasingly convinced that this is the wrong d

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