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Happy Friday!

Welcome back to TWID — the only design newsletter on the internet that was acquired and re-launched this week. 

What… what?

ICYMI, TWID was acquired by the team at Off Menu and is re-launching with the same heat that Aleks previously brought. Over the next few weeks, we’re going to experiment with the format and let things get disco.

We’d love to hear what you think. Just hit reply to this email and let us know how we did.

— Hunter

Grok-2 is here… but for how long?

With AI comes great responsibility. That is unless you are Grok-2, apparently. xAI, Elon’s OpenAI competitor that has raised $6B released their Grok-2 beta this week and it’s truly the Wild West. 

Just look at the image below… I don’t think the House of Mouse is going to like this very much.

We kept it PG but you can seemingly create anything with Grok-2, copyrights and likeness be damned. A quick scroll on Twitter…er X… will show you just how unhinged this can get with very little effort. 

If you’ve ever wanted to create your very own universe where Mickey Mouse and Yogi Bear debate whether you should be naming your layers over a cup of coffee, prompt now or forever hold your peace.

What Else Happened This Week in Design

Google announces Made You Look, a fun feature that hopes to help your squirmy kids smile for your pictures with the help of Pixar characters.

Spline extends to Android, allowing your green chat bubble friends to fully embrace the 3D tool.

Lottielab launches Interactivity, allowing users to create and export interactive Lottie animations easily

How does a font become a font? Apparently it’s not magic (news to me).

Toby is a 15-year old maker who just announced Beem, a new way to use your computer.

Resources

👨‍🍳 Branding Website features the best branding websites on the internet. 

🖼 Figma Thumbnail Kit is a free canvas of 50+ custom thumbnail designs to make your Figma projects pop.

🌎 Public Work is a search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources.

✏️ Isocons are free carefully crafted isometric icons.

🎵 Playlists allows you to discover what your favorite designers are listening to. 

Design Dopamine

Since we’ve already talked about unhinged AI, how about a little unhinged design related to your sacred email inbox?

And now let’s zoom out a little bit. Mac Baconai is in another universe with his AI-powered sci-fi art.

If you come at the king, you best not miss. Youform is going at form kingpin Typeform with this simple pricing comparison experiment that led to 100,000+ impressions.

Design Roulette

We doomscroll the internet so that you don’t have to. Here are the websites that we loved this week.

(Okay, we made this one and want you to tell us it’s pretty 👆)

Until next week…

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Same time next week ✌️

— Hunter