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Hotlist 2025: the 25 most popular design studios, as voted for by their peers

Creative Boom

Ragged Edge Ragged Edge, founded in London in 2007, has fast earned a reputation for rebranding and strategic design. Hey Studio Based in Barcelona and founded by Verònica Fuerte in 2007, Hey Studio is known for both its all-female team and its clean, bold designs, characterised by vibrant colours and geometric shapes.

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Introducing Our Color of the Season: Piña Colada

Creative Market

You can also layer it with patterns: botanical linework, tropical doodles, or abstract shapes to create light, playful backgrounds. Bold sans serifs with a rustic twist, vintage-inspired serif types, or anything that feels tactile will shine against Piña Colada’s creamy lightness.

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Pauline Mauruschat creates watercolour murals for motherhood and loneliness

Its Nice That

Nature, ornaments and patterns are a motif in Pauline’s work, they are acts of meditation in their swirling complexions, or as Pauline puts it: “A reason not to think for once.” I love to draw animals, people and plants and the connection between them,” says Pauline. “It

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Kinetics is king in Max Manavi-Huber’s blistering sports photography

Its Nice That

As a student of graphic design at university, Max became attuned to white space, movement patterns and human geometry – all of which are experimented with in these breathtaking campaigns. “I

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Liquid glass, fragile UX, and why I wanted 2 weeks before writing about it

UX Collective

Are there new, adoptable UI patterns beneath the gloss? Time and again, we’ve seen rivals eventually adopting similar patterns and overall style. It felt futuristic in 2007, but it also became infamous for draining battery life and overburdening underpowered hardware. What lessons can designers take from this shift?

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ESH’s enigmatic rebrand for an orchestra invites you to a secret society of music

Its Nice That

We deliberately designed the website as a space with its own internal logic – one that doesn’t follow everyday user patterns but instead reflects the character of the brand itself,” says Alina. If you feel like you’re part of a secret society, then that’s the point. “We

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19 artists created gig-style posters for every home match of Ipswich Town’s last season

Its Nice That

instagram.com/callmeteditfc About the Author Ellis Tree — Ellis Tree (she/her) is a staff writer at It’s Nice That and a researcher on Insights.

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