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The 20 illustrators inspiring us the most in 2025

Creative Boom

The consensus from industry leaders is that to survive as a freelancer , illustrators need to double down on what makes them unique and carve out a distinctive style to set them apart. It's a tough time to be an illustrator right now. The twin threats of generative AI and an ongoing financial squeeze make earning a living a real challenge.

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The best ambigram logos (and two controversial designs that didn't work)

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Id say that the 2011 rebrand was a downgrade, opting for a much more generic-looking all caps serif font. Sign in here TOPICS Logo logo design font Graphic Design Joe Foley Social Links Navigation Freelance journalist and editor Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq.

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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. Yet until now, options for freelancers, agencies, and small studios in the city have been limited and are often uninspiring, inflexible, or detached from any real sense of community.

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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. I met independent branding and media agency owners, freelance photographers, emerging talent and solo creatives. This year, I wasn't just running into big agency peers.

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Anyone who thinks the iPad isn't a serious art tool hasn't been paying attention

Creative Bloq

Take The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 – a work that could only have been created on an iPad. This has been a serious artist discovering that technology could actually expand his creative possibilities, not limit them. The portability meant he could work outdoors in ways impossible with traditional painting.

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Adobe claims its AI tools are 'commercially safe', but does that stack up?

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Sign in here TOPICS Adobe Tom May Social Links Navigation Freelance journalist and editor Tom May is an award-winning journalist and author specialising in design, photography and technology. His latest book, The 50th Greatest Designers , was released in June 2025.

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A comic book just grounded planes and decimated tourism in Japan – for real

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It was a compilation of what Tatsuki describes as “precognitive dreams”, one of which is claimed to have eerily predicted the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: the devastating real-life disaster that killed nearly 20,000 people. Object.setPrototypeOf.bind():function(e,t){return e.__proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]);