The Daily Index — Tuesday, February 10, 2026 · TLDR Index

NEWS & TRENDS

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JONY IVE FERRARI INTERIOR MIGHT BE A GLIMPSE OF THE APPLE CAR THAT NEVER WAS

Jony Ive reportedly spent years designing the interior of Apple's cancelled car project, and the new Ferrari Luce—created by his firm LoveFrom—may hint at what that vision looked like. The cockpit features Ive's signature design language of precise circles and “squircles,” extensive use of Gorilla Glass and anodized aluminum, and playful details like an E Ink key that symbolically “transfers life” to the car.

9to5mac.com · 2 min

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CANVA NOW LETS CHATGPT CREATE DESIGNS THAT MATCH YOUR BRAND DESIGN AND LOGO

Canva has integrated with ChatGPT to automatically create designs that match users' brand colors, fonts, and logos through the Canva Brand Kit. The integration includes features like Guided Presentation Builder and Live Design Preview, allowing users to see and edit designs directly within ChatGPT. This eliminates the need for manual editing after AI generation, enabling users to go from idea to branded design without design expertise.

digitaltrends.com · 2 min

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MITO AI RAISES $4.5M TO EMPOWER VIDEO PROFESSIONALS WITH AI TOOLS

Mito AI raised $4.5 million in funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to develop AI orchestration tools for video professionals. The platform offers browser-based collaborative tools that integrate AI and audio models with professional editing capabilities, allowing filmmakers and creative professionals to work together in real-time. Mito competes with other AI video platforms from companies like Adobe, Google, and various startups by focusing on a directing-style experience rather than simple editing or prompting.

siliconangle.com · 2 min

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THE CONTENT IS KING

There's no single correct portfolio format—PDFs, websites, Figma links, and even Instagram can all work—because agencies care most about the quality of the projects, not the platform. Designers should choose the format that best showcases their work (especially motion), keep layouts simple and accessible, and focus on strong presentation, clear rationale, and polished details rather than overcomplicating the delivery method.

itsnicethat.com · 1 min

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THE OPEN SOURCE DESIGN STACK

Design tooling is dominated by SaaS monopolies like Figma, which force users into expensive subscription models and unwanted AI features. There are open source alternatives that match professional quality standards while avoiding the extractive SaaS ecosystem. However, open source tools aren't perfect solutions and come with their own set of problems and inconsistencies.

piccalil.li · 14 min

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BUILD SITES THAT SCALE WITH WEBFLOW'S AI SITE BUILDER

Webflow has updated its AI site builder to create complete multi-page websites from a single prompt. Featuring structured design systems that scale over time, the tool generates sites with consistent styling, global variables, and reusable components built on Webflow's Flowkit framework for long-term growth, allowing users to build scalable sites quickly without sacrificing structure or consistency. Over 60,000 websites have been published using this feature.

webflow.com · 4 min

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MINIMALIST BRANDING FOR BYFARMERS AGRICULTURAL IDENTITY

The byFarmers project by TMN Studios uses minimalist branding to express trust, stability, and rural dignity through clean geometry, restrained typography, and natural green tones. By creating a grounded visual system that avoids flashy trends, the identity positions agriculture as a disciplined, responsible, and community-centered endeavor built on consistency and long-term reliability.

abduzeedo.com · 2 min

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STANDARD PROJECTS TURNS TEMPORAL LOGIC INTO IDENTITY FOR SINGLESTORE

SingleStore enlisted Standard Projects to reposition its brand from energetic scale-up to institutional infrastructure ahead of its 2025 acquisition by Vector Capital, creating a refined identity built around the idea “The Time Is Now” that embeds temporal precision into the logo, typography, imagery, and motion system. The result balances technical speed with human impact, shifting focus from data performance itself to the real-world moments it enables, and expressing permanence, maturity, and emotional resonance through restrained typography, deeper colours, and time-inspired visual logic.

the-brandidentity.com · 5 min

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CREATIVES REVEAL HOW THEY'RE FEELING ABOUT 2026 SO FAR

Creatives are experiencing mixed emotions about 2026, with some cautiously optimistic about work picking up while questioning if this optimism is real or collective wishful thinking. Many report more projects in January compared to previous years, though uncertainty remains about whether this trend will continue. Political and economic pressures continue to cast shadows over the creative industry, with some professionals feeling exhausted by external forces beyond their control.

creativeboom.com · 6 min

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TURNING ARCHITECTURE SKILLS INTO EPIC BRUTALIST FANTASY ART

Tarmo Juhola is a former architect turned full-time concept artist who, since 2018, has applied his structural design expertise to AAA games and films with studios like Riot Games, Ubisoft, and Axis Animation, creating realistic yet dramatic 3D environments using tools such as Blender, Photoshop, Character Creator, and Rhino.

creativebloq.com · 3 min

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HOW SIGN PAINTING UNDERPINS SEAN THOMAS' APPROACH TO BESPOKE BRANDING PROJECTS

Sean Thomas is a former London-based sign painter whose hand-crafted, typography-led branding for clients like Forza Win, Carhartt WIP, and Hoxton Mini Press blends traditional craft with digital practice, championing human-made design in an AI-driven era.

itsnicethat.com · 2 min

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WHEN BAD UI DESIGN KILLS: CHINA BANS FLUSH DOOR HANDLES - CORE77

China has banned flush electronic door handles on cars after deadly incidents where occupants couldn't escape burning or submerged vehicles when power was lost.

core77.com · 3 min