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Designers are burnt out, disillusioned, and constantly joking that design ruined their life – but underneath the memes lies a deeper reckoning. Our US editor-at-large explores how irony became the industry’s dominant tone, and what it might mean to care again.

In the water before sunrise, surprisingly excellent day 👌

Rather than block web scrapers, Cloudflare invites them to trawl a web of useless ‘AI-generated nonsense.’

Not all borrowing is the same. From public domain illustrations on book covers to AI’s data hoarding, who really owns culture – and who gets away with taking it?