🎤 Dolly Parton’s iconic ads are worth a rewatch.

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📱 Instagram’s head denies stalling its teen “Take a Break” feature despite a slow rollout.

🍦 Snoop Dogg and Deel are hiring an ice cream taste tester. Yes, really.

• Who gets permission to be experimental?
• The importance of legibility vs. personality
• Logo design in the age of AI slop

…And the public’s tendency to hate design choices they’ll later fight to death to preserve (RIP skeumorphic Instagram camera icon from 2010).

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Grow Therapy is challenging the idea that you need to reach a breaking point before therapy can make a difference.

Created with KDSP, the “Key Change” campaign focuses on the small, everyday moments where therapy can change how people respond to familiar situations. Across four films, characters choose connection over criticism, empathy over frustration, and reflection over old patterns, with original songs shifting alongside each emotional breakthrough.

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