Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Ragged Edge's work for Marshmellow The world of graphic design is constantly evolving, with new trends emerging all the time. Right now, we're living in a rapidly changing sector, with many designers still working from home and others opening up side practices or small studios," he explains. "At The world's in a rocky place right now.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 18, 2024

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? The studio also designed a subtle nod to the signpost into the logo within the crossbar of the 't' in a bid to create an additional layer of personality and ownability.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 10, 2024

Rogue Studio founder Britton Stipetic discusses their unique collaboration with musician Radical Face. At other times, though, you'll get to work a little more closely and collaboratively, maybe even in a way that you're more of a co-creator than just a service provider. Is it an album? A website?

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Creative Boom

MARCH 20, 2024

Ahead of the release of a short film that has been six years in the making, creative studio From Form has exhibited a series of photographs that chart the ever-shifting shape of the Californian desert. Six years is a fair old time to wait for a premiere, though.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 3, 2024

Animation studio Yatta has brought Liverpool illustrator Luke McConkey's work to life in Slam Dunk, a new animated short that blends 2D and 3D techniques. We output key poses from this initial 3D animated sequence and handed them over to Luke, who quickly added his signature playful style," the Bristol-based studio adds.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Yannick zur Strassen explains how his studio developed a new visual identity and strategy. After several years working in London for DesignStudio and Accept&Proceed, German brand designer and strategist Yannick zur Strassen recently returned to his home country and launched his own practice, Studio zur Strassen , in Munich.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Developed by Psygnosis, which later became known as Studio Liverpool, WipEout enjoyed club-land style branding created by Sheffield agency The Designers Republic – work that can be seen throughout the game, extending way beyond the usual packaging and title graphics. "We An anti-gravity playground of visual and audio delight.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The superclub is back in the form of London's Drumsheds, and this time, things are a little different. We chat with Ollie Van Gent of Boxcat Studio on how they've been crafting visuals that give 15,000 clubbers those emotional moments they'll treasure forever. But at the same time, they felt a certain amount of pressure. "So

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2024

How&How Studio helped them develop eye-catching new branding, including some fabulous rainbow trees. The brief The Californian company uses the power of satellite images and LiDAR technology to generate accurate readings on real-time carbon removal. Carbon offsetting has had a bad rep in recent years.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Skateboarding raccoon embraces irreverent company culture while bucking a trend for the games industry Meet 'Flip' – the raccoon at the heart of a different style of rebrand completed by Manchester studio Flow. It's a major challenge to design punk branding for a games studio. Why a raccoon?

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Creative Boom

APRIL 18, 2023

Textile designer Yemi Awosile with her son Ezra shot at her East London studio Dunja Opalko's new series of portraits looks to both celebrate mothers in the creative industries and gently highlight the difficulties of juggling a career you're passionate about with the realities of parenthood.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 23, 2022

Now Royal Mail is marking the special milestone with a set of rainbow-coloured stamps designed by NB Studio and award-winning artist Sofie Birkin. Royal Mail commissioned NB Studio for the occasion which, in turn, art-directed queer British artist Sofie Birkin to encapsulate the idea of 'A March Through Time' with her vibrant designs.

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Creative Boom

JULY 19, 2023

It's been a year since Charlie Hocking left London to set up his own studio with friend and colleague Nathan Smith , seeking an "alternative way to work". With the launch of Studio Kiln's new website and some time to reflect on his adventure, we caught up with Charlie to see whether the great escape is paying off.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

BigFace Coffee packaging by Zenpack, USA – Platinum Winner © Pentawards 2023 It's that glorious time of year again when the very best packaging designs grace our screens once more as we reveal the winners of the prestigious Pentawards for 2023. Prepare yourself for a feast of eye-watering creations from some of the industry's finest.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 28, 2024

Tebo Mpanza of Unfound Studio offers his advice on engaging with Gen Z, Gen Alpha and beyond. At the same time, of course, the principles of branding and design haven't changed. And that's why a branding agency like Unfound Studio is well worth talking to. Next year, we'll see the first members of Gen Beta being born.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

London agency Fellow Studio explain how they collaborated on developing this new brand. But at the same time, travel often remains a crappy experience, with flights and hotels cancelled at the last minute, holiday companies communicating poorly, and just a general sense that many of the big players don't care about the customer.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 13, 2023

All were captured first on film and then brought to life on canvas at my studio. I also wanted to preserve moments I saw in my everyday life on my way home from work, from my studio window. Drying times were critical due to the contrasting tones, and I wanted to replicate the vivid depth of colour radiated by sodium lights.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Manchester-based creative studio Dotto and Brighton's very own Buff Motion explain how they have brought a series of inspirational typographic prints to a new audience with the help of some energetic animation. But the studio has taken things one step further for its latest collaboration with Buff Motion.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 16, 2023

Rotterdam-based film and design studio From Form has unveiled its new cinema-inspired brand identity, aiming to demonstrate the breadth of its projects across film, design, animation and photography. We wanted to create an identity that showcased our love for the analogue and embraced the patina of time.”

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 14, 2023

Brighton-based motion studio Buff has celebrated a decade in business by revealing a new, true-to-self brand refresh. Unveiled to celebrate Buff's tenth birthday, the new brand identity was deliberately designed to be an authentic reflection of where the studio is today. To better reflect who we are as a team and a studio.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Aviva Studios. Photo by Marco Cappelletti, courtesy of OMA and Factory International London design studio North has collaborated with Peter Saville to craft the new visual identity for Factory International – the organisation overseeing Manchester International Festival and managing Aviva Studios, the city's dynamic new cultural space.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 6, 2023

Amsterdam-based Chuck Studios has unveiled a refreshing new identity for the Molson Coors brand Miller Genuine Draft, which draws inspiration from the beats of the high-energy bars and clubs where the drink is served. That is why we joined forces with Chuck Studios," says Rebecca Mutty from Miller. And how is it unique? says Chuck.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2024

Photography has been my obsession from the first time I stepped into a darkroom. It has brought me solace and entangled me at the same time. Her work has previously been exhibited at the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Huxley-Parlour Gallery in London, and ICA Philadelphia.

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Creative Boom

JULY 3, 2023

Well, that's all that happened to plan, other than the name, which has changed from Factory International to Aviva Studios , as part of a sponsorship deal. Installation view from Manchester International Festival 2023 exhibition ‘Yayoi Kusama_ You, Me and the Balloons’ at Aviva Studios. Images © David Levene. Images © David Levene.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2024

But Aussie studio Universal Favourite's new series, Piece of Mind, has a philosophy behind it that stressed-out creatives will warm to. It's an unusual project from a studio that's best known for its client work, ranging from baking brand Color Mill to fintech company x15ventres and theatre company Monkey Baa.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Identity for GlouGlou by &Something The founder of Shrewsbury design studio &Something , Tony Clarkson, opens up about his recent struggles with motivation and offers his advice to others in the same situation. I've felt like a rabbit in headlights for a long time; it's been exhausting." So what can we do? It's helped a bit.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 10, 2023

Design studio Agency of None has recently completed its first phase of D is For Design , an event and exhibition which celebrates the invaluable creative contributions made in Dundee. Dundee-based design studio Agency of None has been working with brands for the past five years to create visual systems bursting with personality.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Take a trip back in time and rediscover a hidden gem from the Gerry Anderson archives with Candy, Andy & The Bearandas , a new book from Four Corners Books which gathers together imagery from Century 21 Productions' most surreal project. If you've not heard of Candy and Andy before, you're not alone.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With all the time we're saving using AI, it's time to get out from behind a screen and see the world," he stresses. "No Well, cautions Ed, it's unlikely to slow down any time soon. After all, the studio environment fosters collaboration and creativity that can be challenging to replicate in a digital network.

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Creative Boom

MAY 2, 2023

Jack Renwick Studio is behind a new identity for Veg NI , a cooperative of growers in Northern Ireland set up by four farmers to promote their produce in the face of narrowing margins and fierce competition from abroad. In Northern Ireland, 'parful' is a good thing," explains the Studio.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2023

This project evolved into 'visible mending' workshops in her open studio at the The Museum of Design and Applied Arts in 2021. It definitely saves some time on making unwanted mistakes." It’s easier to get lost, which is good and bad at the same time." All the pieces are new and fresh out of my studio in Berlin."

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

And this new work by Endless Studio for Hoi Polloi is a great example. They came to Leeds-based creative collective Endless Studio seeking a complete rebrand, one to stand out against the massive plethora of street vendors currently on the scene. How do you lure in hungry people to your food stall?

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2024

The COVID-19 lockdowns gave Sean the time to fully immerse himself in 3D printing, laser cutting and other digital fabrication techniques. In June 2023, he launched The Fixatorium , a multidisciplinary studio in nearby Leyton. And Sean is putting these words into action, one innovative installation at a time.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 8, 2024

London design studio Nomad are no strangers to designing football kits: we previously covered the strip they created for East London women's community football club Hackney Laces. Modern yet not 'of the moment', the logo needed to last a lifetime, with the design around it clever enough to move with the times. "We

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2024

And so, every year, they put a lot of time, effort, and money into developing a unique art installation that conveys their vision of the automotive future. This year, we got not one but two such exhibits under the joint heading of 'Time'. Time is not something that simply passes; it's the starting point of all special experiences.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

So they teamed up to create a new kind of studio. But that doesn't mean you have to be overwhelmingly positive all the time. So earlier this year, they left their jobs and founded their own branding studio, Goodside , in San Francisco. but felt it could do better. In our exclusive interview, they discuss the thinking behind it.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 9, 2023

Creative Agency/Design Studio: &Walsh &Walsh founder Jessica Walsh shares what drives her as an agency founder, why imposter syndrome is unavoidable, and her best advice for aspiring female founders. Creative Agency/Design Studio: &Walsh If you could go back to the beginning of your business, what advice would you give yourself?

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