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APRIL 8, 2024

Taking it from corporate and technical to cohesive and approachable, A LINE developed a suite of rounded, dimensional graphic assets, all inspired by Rotate's hero "r" symbol. Global branding studio A LINE has rebranded the new cyber security platform Rotate – formerly Armoz – ditching its corporate look and feel for a friendly and intelligent identity.

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APRIL 8, 2024

The LEGO Group has unveiled a striking new identity today created in collaboration with brand consultancy Interbrand. Designed to make play more accessible, the updated look reflects what makes the LEGO brand so important. Ever since it was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the LEGO Group has lived up to its name by encouraging generations of children and fans to play well.

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APRIL 7, 2024

Based on a 1979 photography exhibition, Janine Wiedel's book offers an eye-opening look back at the West Midlands industry in the late 1970s. Bluecoat Press has announced the publication of Vulcan's Forge , a groundbreaking documentation of West Midlands industry by renowned photographer Janine Wiedel. And it's been a LONG time in the making. Originally exhibited at The Photographers' Gallery in 1979 to critical acclaim, Vulcan's Forge is considered one of the most important photographic works o

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Creative Boom

APRIL 7, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock If networking isn't working for you, it's time to change things up. We gathered advice from the creative community on how to do this. Are you short of work or just looking for new and more interesting opportunities? We all know part of the answer is to get out there more and network. But for many of us, the very idea fills us with horror.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 19, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We celebrate International Client Day by sharing some tried-and-tested tips for growing and nurturing your relationships with clients. Happy International Client Day! Didn't know that was a thing? You're not alone. This unofficial holiday is celebrated on 19 March every year, and it's a day for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and businesses to show appreciation to their clients.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 19, 2024

Tokyo-based illustrator Yuki Uebo creates messy, densely-packed images that reflect the crowded lifestyle of Japan's capital city. With practically 14 million people calling Tokyo home, the largest city on the planet is also one of the most densely populated. And it's this crowded way of living which has inspired local illustrator Yuki Uebo to fill her drawings with as many people as possible while also capturing the unique essence of Japan in the process.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 19, 2024

The Brooklyn design studio worked with Starchild Astrology LLC to create a unique astrology app targeted at parents. If you're going to launch a digital app, it's going to have competition from a million others, so it's helpful if you can target a unique niche. That's exactly what Starchild Astrology LLC hit upon when they decided to develop an astrology app called Star/Child, which has been developed specifically for parents.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 19, 2024

Ontario-based writer and illustrator Jess Hannigan is about to release her first picture book, Spider in the Well. We caught up with her to learn how she made it and why lies are the perfect subject for a picture book. Something is rotten in Bad Goodsburg. The local wishing well is busted, and the lazy townspeople are furious. To find out what's wrong, the overworked and underappreciated newsboy has been sent to investigate, only to discover that the source of all the trouble is a nefarious, gol

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Creative Boom

MARCH 18, 2024

When themes of social justice are built into the curriculum, they become embedded into the wider picture, helping us to both imagine and realise more just, sustainable futures. Interaction Design student Shihui Li found a beautiful, original way to highlight the decline in biodiversity for her final year project at UAL. One of the best things about the design industry is that, in our experience, it genuinely welcomes all kinds of people.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2024

© Dong Qiu The Chinese artist's distinctive style blends Asian tradition with modern sensibilities, attracting global clients and resonating with audiences worldwide. The moment you clasp eyes on freelance illustrator Dong Qiu 's work, you feel yourself being pulled in multiple directions. Her art is at once subtle yet distinctive, calm yet thrilling, steeped in tradition yet irrepressibly modern.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 18, 2024

New York-based artist Jen Yoon has adapted Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic short story The Yellow Wallpaper for a modern audience in her series of AR illustrations brought to life with Adobe Aero. First written in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story The Yellow Wallpaper is a tale of psychological horror that charts a woman's descent into madness due to patriarchal oppression.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 18, 2024

Self-guided tour operator Inntravel's new identity by SomeOne features a suite of fingerpost sign-inspired graphics and hand-drawn illustrations, helping to convince new hikers that it can show them the way. When visiting a place for the first time – whether it's an idyllic coast in Britain or a hilly landscape in Italy – do you really get the best view from a taxi or bus window?

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Creative Boom

MARCH 18, 2024

We chatted with the founder of People People and learned about the secrets of management, how to achieve work-life balance, and how to maintain an agency culture when working from home. You may have seen People People cropping up a lot on Creative Boom recently. From their rebrand of Washington State Parks to their branding for mixed-use development Kirkland Urban , we've been super-impressed with their work, and it turns out they've been around for quite a while.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Thorntail Hard Argave is somewhere between a seltzer and tequila. Read on to learn how the Seattle branding studio made it all make sense. Ever had a drink that you found difficult to describe to someone? Frustrating, isn't it? Well, that's exactly the challenge that Seattle branding studio People People were faced with recently when they were approached by the company behind Thorntail Hard Agave.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2024

It's one of our nation's biggest cultural treasures, but most people think London's Victoria & Albert Museum "isn't for them". A new campaign led by adam&eveDDB is attempting to change all that. Let's be honest. If you work as a creative professional, you probably like the idea of going to art galleries and museums on a regular basis. It's just that. well, life gets in the way.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2024

Pachama is a company at the forefront of removing carbon and restoring nature to our world. How&How Studio helped them develop eye-catching new branding, including some fabulous rainbow trees. Carbon offsetting has had a bad rep in recent years. Many environmental groups view the practice with scepticism, arguing that it allows polluters to "greenwash" their image without addressing the root causes of their emissions.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2024

Azerbaijan-based artist Cesar Mammadov uses his distinctive, photo-realistic approach to painting to capture the essence of ordinary moments and celebrate life's simple joys, often through the theme of water. Hailed as one of the most prominent young brush masters to emerge from Azerbaijan, Cesar Mammadov has made a name for himself by creating paintings that capture the region's rich culture with a specificity that invites viewers from all over the world to enjoy and relate to them.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2024

Stoke-on-Trent-based illustrator and animator Qianhui Yu is on a mission to highlight social problems and tell stories from new perspectives. She's doing this by creating imaginative illustrations imbued with a healthy dose of feminism. Originally from Guilin, China, Qianhui Yu has travelled around the world and settled in the UK to pursue her career as an animation director and illustrator.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Popular Instagram account Books About Food has amassed a following of thousands by carefully curating the best food books you may have missed. And now it's gone a step further by launching a new site , which aims to be a comprehensive directory of top cookbook releases. If you're after some creative culinary inspiration, you need to follow Books About Food.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The worlds of illustration and variable fonts collide in a new project from creative duo Rob en Robin titled F. C. Variable. In it, the pair explore how users can manipulate exported images to create customisable results. Variable fonts have shaken up the world of typography by making it easier for designers to create custom letterforms. But what if the same could apply to illustrations?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

London-based creative Zhanjiang Liu switched to illustration after ten years of working in the design industry. Despite being a relatively new illustrator, his drawings explode off the page with a chaotic intensity as they capture the highs and lows of everyday life. Having previously worked as an art director for commercials at advertising agencies, Zhanjiang Liu felt it was time for something new.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The latest ad for Cadbury's Creme Egg, led by VCCP London, updates the classic slogan 'How do you eat yours?' for the modern era. The older they get, the more the years start to blur into each other. There can be no better example of this than the message we got from Cadbury saying they're bringing back their classic advertising tagline 'How do you eat yours?'.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

London-based photographer Jack Kenyon unwittingly embarked on a six-week trip to India after failing to attend a camel fair. While he may have missed his original reason for jetting out, he instead found the youthful spirit of India and saw the country in a whole new light in his new series of photos titled Bharat Mata. Jack Kenyon has a knack for seeking out the stranger quirks of everyday English life.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

For the last two years, the volunteer-run charity art project Behind Blue Eyes has shown the value of creativity to Ukrainian children by asking them to capture their lives with disposable film cameras. The resulting photos create a remarkably hopeful portrait of a country ravaged by war and even make dreams come true in the process. The last two years have seen Ukraine change beyond recognition.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Vibrant and optimistic new brand accompanied by renewed call to restore wetlands and unlock their power. Creative agency GOOD has unveiled a new brand and brand purpose for international wetland restoration charity WWT. The UK is losing wetlands at a staggering rate. 87% are gone, and much of what is left is in danger. Through its rebrand, WWT wants to create a movement of one million people taking action for wetlands.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Art on a Postcard returns Bidders can expect high-calibre, limited-edition postcard-sized artworks from eight guest female curators. An art auction from emerging and established female artists will raise funds for the Hepatitis C Trust as part of International Women's Day next month. Spanning two weeks and encompassing International Women's Day on 8 March, each of the Art on a Postcard (AOAP) guest curators will platform a selection of female artists, reimagining their relative disciplines and u

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The concept short '40 Years of Dutch Hip-Hop' gives a taste of what's to come from the documentary. Dutch hip-hop was 40 years old last year, and a collective of the subculture's pioneers are all part of a short film that teases an upcoming docuseries. The Panics Film and irrie teamed up with Patta, co-founder and hip-hop ambassador, Edson Sabajo, to develop a film on the origins of the music genre in the Netherlands.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The national advertising campaign highlights the vital role the charity plays in keeping children safe and offers a realistic alternate reality to the 'perfect Instagram family'. Director Sachini Imbuldeniya has created a 60" TVC called 'Not Letting Go' featuring T'Nia Miller reciting a powerful poem that charts the realities of parenting amid a striking, graphic series of stills and animation from award-winning artist Martina Lang.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 21, 2024

Brooklyn-based brand studio Athletics has collaborated with content collaboration platform ShareFile to create a personable new brand identity that revolves around its users and play. Founded in 2005, ShareFile is a secure cloud collaboration tool that allows people to sign and share digital documents. Since then, it's grown and transformed, with cloud computing company Citrix acquiring it in 2011.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Photography by Georgina Hopwood Tired of your three-hour train journeys to a connection event? Bored of rail replacement buses? If you're nearer Lancaster than London, here's a new design event you'll want to check out. We all know about the London Design Festival. But in these days of remote working and regional powerhouses, the days when everything in the design industry necessarily centred around the capital are long behind us.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Montreal-based artist Hanna Barczyk has unpacked the idea of femininity in her new series of zodiac illustrations for German women's magazine Freundin. We caught up with her to learn more about how they portray women as both powerful yet gentle. Instantly recognisable thanks to her bold yet minimalist style, German-Hungarian artist Hanna Barczyk has previously created illustrations for the likes of The MoMA, The New York Times and the United Nations.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

American photographer Joel Meyerowitz is enjoying exhibitions on both sides of the Atlantic, with both Huxley-Parlour and the Tate Modern showcasing displays exploring his one-of-a-kind approach to light and colour. Titled Joel Meyerowitz: Dialogues, the Huxley-Parlour exhibition opens on 18 January and runs through until March. Representing Joel's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, Dialogues is fittingly named as it coincides with another important display of the photographer's work at Lond

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 16, 2024

Tea isn't necessarily the most fun or youthful category, but this musical commercial by isobel is pushing against the norm. It was arguably John Gilroy, whose posters for Guinness in the 1930s-1960s featured seals, toucans and ostriches, that first alerted the world to the power of cute illustrated animals in selling stuff to others. Since then, animal characters have been widely recognised as advertising staples.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 16, 2024

London isn't just about monuments and department stores: look beyond the tourist hubs, and you'll find a hidden world of cultural quirks. Tinglin Liu draws attention to one such street in her latest illustration project. Many people who visit London for a day trip or short work visit only get to experience the city at a superficial level. The towering skyline.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

© Ben Zank We profile the rising star of American art photography and explore his use of nudes, bizarre scenarios and celebrations of the absurd. Art may hold a mirror up to nature, but sometimes, it's good for that mirror to be a little crooked so that we perceive our surroundings differently. If we continue the metaphor, the work of art photographer Ben Zank might be described as a veritable hall of mirrors.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Andy Warhol exhibition 'Beyond the Brand ' at Halcyon Gallery Think you know Warhol? A new exhibition coming to London challenges you to think again. You can't possibly work in a creative field without hearing people reference the famous American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987). In fact, you've probably done so yourself a few times. But how much do you really know about him and his art?

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 15, 2024

Los Angeles-based artist Amber Vittoria has released a new collection of lovingly crafted abstract, pixelated artworks. Titled Vibes , it features intriguingly imperfect characters that tap into what it means to be human. Amber Vittoria's artwork is instantly recognisable by her bold use of shape and colour. Her style and creative approach have proved massively popular, with Amber amassing 186 thousand followers on Instagram alone.

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