Creative Boom

MARCH 31, 2024

It may be the unlikely title for a coffee table book of unpublished photos of two famous addicts and their new baby, but 'Family Values' offers a snapshot into the life of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love at the peak of Nirvana's incendiary fame. Michael Azerrad adds: "Kurt was still in bed. They tell the story of the shoot.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 19, 2023

© Louis Dazy, courtesy of Stills and the artist Seeking unique, authentic images for your creative project? Stills is here to shake up the way we think about licensing photography within the design world. That's where Stills comes in. © Liz Bretz, courtesy of Stills and the artist What is Stills? So what do you do?

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Creative Boom

APRIL 16, 2024

I've been an artist my whole life and dabbled in everything from illustration to street art growing up," he says. "I I'm now 42 and still play everything from retro games to current-gen, so I'm absolutely a lifelong gamer. I'm keeping it under wraps until it's done, but I've posted some teaser pics on my social media."

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 15, 2024

Is 'home' still there when it's gone for good, and how can people carry non-existent homes with them for the rest of their lives? To enter the Central Academy of Fine Arts, I spent many years of my life learning traditional and academic painting," they reveal. I still prefer working on paper much more than working digitally.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 2, 2024

Tying together all of Sam's disciplines though is his background as a graffiti artist, which he says provided him with the foundation he still uses today. "It Today I’m so much more tame compared to that period but I still implement many habits from then. It was a culture that demanded self-motivated pro-activity," he says. "I

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Social media icons are a necessity for every website. That’s why we went on a search for unique social media icon implementations. Then check out our collection that takes social media icons to another level. This example is different in that it requires the user to hover over the element to reveal a set of social media icons.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 10, 2024

It's something of a surprise then to learn that Danii only truly embraced full-time freelance life fairly recently. From there, she worked as a stylist for photo and film productions plus magazines before realising a few years later that she needed pens, paper and colour in her life. I also love mixing these two sides of my practice.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Are you finding your life and work particularly challenging right now? First, accept your situation As with many problems in life, the first step towards resilience is acceptance. Just imagine the music that will play at this moment in your life and the people that you'll be able to help and inspire when you're out on the other end.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 11, 2022

She credits social media. And I have grown to love this way of recording my thoughts and life through drawing at the same time, which also made me decide to become a commercial illustrator.". The strength of this work and the reach she has acquired with social media have led to Xinyue working with big brand names. © Xinyue Song.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

We help lift your mood by sharing positive stories from creatives about the moments that make life worth living. And even if you're still managing to keep on top of the rent, there's no shame in feeling a little down about your prospects for continuing success as a freelancer. "I I was still running it and making work!

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2024

Packed with intense emotions and humorous Easter eggs that nod to life in the city, these visuals have recently been taken to the next level with four gigantic mural paintings in Williamsburg and Nolita. The mural in Williamsburg has been the perfect opportunity to bring the journey to life on a street level," Bridget adds.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

"The thing about painting alone in a studio all day is that you have too much time to ruminate on the state of the world," says Ces McCully , an Australian artist who has created a series of type-led works inspired by recent lockdowns and how we relied on social media to stay connected to others and combat isolation.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 17, 2022

From ancient cultural connections to canine-themed crypto coins, dogs have had a monumental impact on Japanese life. They are a huge part of my life, and I have been writing about animal-related topics for over a decade.". Owing to this, she says, "dogs are present in every facet of Japanese life, culture and art.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Before long, her work was getting noticed, thanks partly to social media. "I I even created a remake of it a couple of years later because the conversation is still relevant (also, you can see my improvement in technique)." But they did help me lose the fear of failure and of showing up on social media.

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Creative Boom

MAY 23, 2022

Art has been my purpose all my life," she says, having grown up in Winterthur, Switzerland, to an artist father who supported her crafts from an early age. Sabina gets heavily inspired by daily life and the "exchange with other people". She'll also scour the internet, TV and social media for ideas.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

2022 wasn’t the golden year for social media, to say the least. The growth is still solid as the company reports to gain over 1 million users a month, estimating to reach the 100 million mark anytime in 2023 and expanding its current leadership as the world’s largest social fitness app. TikTok’s spying stories. Back to LinkedIn.

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Creative Boom

JULY 19, 2023

In 2022, Studio Kiln was born with the aim of "bringing brands and stories to life". Whilst we still expect high standards at Kiln, we don't over-resource our team and make sure there is space to decompress after a project and talk about how we felt it went. How have you found life since the big change? Initially, great!

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 17, 2023

He quickly gained recognition working for renowned titles such as Volkskrant, GQ, Hollands Diep, PostNL, Hard Gras, Intermediair, Villa Media, Uitkrant and Nieuwe Revu. This new collection of over 20 new, exclusive prints includes work by creatives working in various media, from photography to still-life, illustration and 3D.

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Creative Boom

JULY 11, 2023

Follow our tips to rebalance your working life and feel a great sense of optimism and wellbeing. The effects of burnout can extend beyond the workplace and impact various aspects of a person's life, including their physical health, relationships, and overall wellbeing. Threads will still be there tomorrow, next week, and next month.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In his work, Jaime likes to seek out those little everyday moments that make life worthwhile, whether a hug with his boyfriend or lounging around with his pets. To fight them, Jaime turned to repeatedly drawing images of men, love, and life's funny moments. But then, one day, I decided to share some sketches on social media.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 4, 2024

Step away from socials If you've spent much time on Creative Boom over the last 12 months, you'll know that one of our biggest themes of 2023 was recognising that, for many creatives, social media is over. These may feel a little more like "proper work", but that doesn't mean we should be answering them out of hours as a matter of course.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 18, 2022

If there's one thing for certain in life, it's that we all suffer from the same inner critic. Every month I think, 'Oh wait, everyone has realised I'm actually rubbish', and then something nice happens – I get work or a nice reply or a lovely message or someone in real life says something kind – I've started screenshotting things now.".

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Creative Boom

MAY 4, 2023

Despite a competitive market and longstanding place in the sustainable food conversation, cultivated meat is still waiting to take off. Motion brings brand assets and type to life via social media updates and a newly designed website.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 8, 2023

Design the life you want to lead Katie Lencheski founded the NYC-based creative agency SMAKK in 2011 to give herself more creative freedom. But it's only in the past five or so years that I've realised the real power in having my own agency is that it allows me to design a life I love. Here's what they had to say.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2024

That means the talented individuals who bring the best covers to life are definitely worth talking to. Of course, the book cover still needs to be legible and be visually genre-identifiable to a consumer, but it can also be abstract in a way that is difficult to pull off in branding," she says.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 25, 2024

If you're a parent, you'll probably still be recovering from World Book Day and all the shenanigans around getting your kid a costume for school. But she continued writing for the rest of her life, publishing her last book at age 85. And it's that unbreakable spirit that leads us, ultimately, to breathe life into our artistic visions.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

You meet a few in real life, too. Quite honestly, we'll never understand why some characters choose to make life difficult and miserable for themselves. Be sociable on social media We'll start with a topic that's pretty thorny right now. So, what's the secret to making the best of social media?

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Creative Boom

JUNE 16, 2022

Cuban multi-media artist and designer Javier Fuentes illustrates the mundane and ritualistic aspects of life as an immigrant in his recently launched project, Xtrano. Speaking of how he worked on Xtrano, Javier said: "It's a very mixed media process. Terraza Tropical © Xtrano by Javier Fuentes.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

But I still wasn't getting that much work back then - maybe one commission every three or four months if I was lucky." The internet, particularly the dawn of social media, changed his life from around 2007.

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Techxide

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Evil has the power to violate your life’s significant goals that boost up your creativity to create an immense change. Violation of rules and beautiful things can destroy the individual’s image in life or the market. Still, they cannot last longer by tying out these stupid tactics. No Longer Outcomes.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We only get one life, so there's no point in wasting it doing something you dislike, even if your current job is well paid. It proved to be a life-changing moment. "I At 19, I was still living at home, and my typically Yorkshire parents went ballistic when I brought them up to speed," he explains. "It I broke down in tears.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

You also have to be able to sell yourself, keep up to date with social media, maintain your own website, be your own IT, be your own HR department, network like crazy, and somehow find time to eat and sleep. Find the right balance with social media This doesn't mean you should ignore social media altogether, though.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 26, 2023

But until now, Devís and Rueda have only shared their creations via social media and their website. In an interview with Colosaal , Devís said: "We carefully set the stage in real life using all sorts of everyday objects, colourful papers, matching outfits, and tons of natural light.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For illustrator and comic artist Diana Nguyễn , it's about: "Trying new mediums with no goals in mind, sometimes taking a step back from even looking at art and living my life, and then one day you feel the flicker in your heart again. Then, I'll gradually introduce related media that I find inspiring; books, blogs etc.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 31, 2024

Hand-in-mouth moments We've all had such hand-in-mouth moments: the question is whether we bury them deep in our memory or celebrate them as part of the general absurdity of life. Or how about this from life and business coach Helen Jane Campbell ? "I But there's still a lot we can learn from them. a mistake I never made again!"

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Inspired in part by the situated knowledge theory of Donna Haraway, Candela likes to talk about the things she feels and express how her mental disorder affects her daily life. We still have a lot of work to do, but I think it is important to share this reality and stop normalising living in survivor mode or struggling in silence.

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Creative Boom

JULY 27, 2022

Mention you're 'media friendly'. If you want to impress, create a downloadable media pack, invest in a decent microphone, and mention that you are 'press-ready'. Are you still using apps that are no longer ideal? Alfred : This award-winning app for macOS will change your life. Become media friendly.

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