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State of the industry 2025: are freelancers surviving, or thriving?

Creative Boom

Motion designer and director Joao Raimundo Monteiro offers a particularly bleak assessment: "I reckon it has been the worst 12/15 months since I've started my career back in 2012," he reveals. "I I meet small business owners who regularly use their own mobile phone images for advertising." It is incredibly tough out there now.

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Service design isn't just a buzzword – it makes happier people

Creative Bloq

Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99 They seek to transform services and solve societal problems, often using similar methods and tools to UX design. As a discipline, service design is still relatively new. But thats starting to change.

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8 must-listen creative podcasts to inspire, inform and entertain you

Creative Bloq

Between them, Helen, Katie, and Tania cover advertising, branding, illustrated maps , live illustration, retail murals, and illustration for the likes of the New York Times. The Social Media Marketing Podcast was formed in 2012 and aims to demystify and inform small business owners and marketers alike. __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]);

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How Frontify helps the world’s biggest brands stay consistent and save money

Creative Bloq

Creative Bloq Staff All things Creative Bloq The Creative Bloq team is made up of a group of art and design enthusiasts, and has changed and evolved since Creative Bloq began back in 2012. Creative Bloq is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site. All rights reserved.

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Coursera Plus has thousands of courses for creatives – these are the 6 I'd choose

Creative Bloq

The online learning platform features in our pick of the best apps for learning a new skill , and its subscription programme includes courses in all kinds of creative fields, from graphic design to the cutting-edge creation of 3D worlds in Unreal Engine. The course is estimated to take four weeks assuming you do 10 hours a week.

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Rafael Medeiros on enduring the Hollywood strikes as a freelance graphic designer

Creative Boom

Graphic designer and art director Rafael Medeiros shares his experiences. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Rafael Medeiros moved to LA in 2012 after graduating in Brazil in graphic design. So far, I have relied on the general advertising industry, and it's kept me busy," he says.

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F5: Jiminie Ha’s Book Plans, the Furniture That Changed Her Life + More

Design Milk

” Launching in 2012, with a collective background in fine arts, curation, creative direction, design, publishing, and fashion, With Projects, Inc. Jiminie is also currently the Senior Director of Graphic Design at Solomon R. Neon Green artwork in background © Sandra Mujinga Spectral Keepers, 2020.