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Cannes Lions 2025: Why it's no longer just for big creative agencies

Creative Boom

The Changing Demographic I first attended the Cannes Lions in 2011 as a PR account manager, working with global advertising agencies and household brands. When I launched my own boutique agency in 2014, I didn't think Cannes was for smaller players like me. This year, I wasn't just running into big agency peers.

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'Start Yesterday': 7 female founders share their tips for success in the creative industry

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock In honour of International Women's Day , Creative Boom invited female founders from seven creative agencies across the US and UK to share their experiences and advice on what it takes to build an agency from the ground up. Here's what they had to say.

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ORCA crafts an immersive identity for family-owned Cornish brewery

Creative Boom

The Bristol agency put their design skills to work, developing a visual identity for craft brewery St Austells that can scale as it grows. To help create this new brand, they turned to ORCA , a Bristol-based brand agency with whom they'd already worked on a previous project. ORCA was founded by two friends, James and Joel, in 2011.

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Amazing Illustations Art By Samy Halim

Graphic Design Junction

He worked as graphic designer and art director in Paris based studios and agencies for 15 years, before starting his own studio in 2011, specializing in illustration , lettering and 3D pack shot visualization.

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From sacred to shared: Bath's Trinity Church reopens as a creative coworking hub

Creative Boom

Once the beating heart of the city's Afro-Caribbean community, the church had been left derelict since its closure in 2011. This Bristol-based initiative was founded by Ben Steers and Jason Smith, the duo behind creative agency Fiasco Design. Ultimately, Trinity aims to flip that script.

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Ekow Eshun curates an exhibition inspired by activism and agency

Creative Review

The post Ekow Eshun curates an exhibition inspired by activism and agency appeared first on Creative Review.

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F5: Fabrice Juan Talks Unexpected Architecture, a Favorite Italian Museum + More

Design Milk

Fabrice Juan first stepped out to found his own agency in 2011 following extensive work experience as Jean-Louis Deniot’s project manager – and a supportive push from his wife.