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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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Your Brand is Lying: 12 Signs You Need a Rebrand Now

Inkbot Design

Their product was light years ahead of the competition. They were losing six-figure contracts to slicker-looking rivals who had inferior products. Every eco-friendly product uses green and a leaf motif. What looked fresh and modern in 2012 can look tired and dated today. I once worked with a software firm.

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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. Visit our corporate site.

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

Creative Bloq

This costs time and money, but it also costs your brand and teams long term, leading to lower productivity, missed deadlines, and unnecessary waste – 71% of companies in the study say they feel the financial impact of outdated or unused assets. Visit our corporate site. All rights reserved.

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Society drives how we build products, create brands, and design experiences

UX Collective

If a brand is more important than the product, then is the experience more important than the brand? If the products are similar, what makes them unique? What does the user or customer find important — The brand, the product, or the experience? Conversely, can a negative brand image make a great product obsolete?

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

Creative Bloq

Even if awareness of the field has really only come to the fore in recent years in association with digital experiences, UX applies to every product and service. Its a hand-on hands-on specialization, so rather than just study concepts, you actually have to make a video, from pre-production to shooting and post-production.

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

Creative Boom

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Rafael Medeiros moved to LA in 2012 after graduating in Brazil in graphic design. So that stops the development of campaigns for shows that have already wrapped production." So far, I have relied on the general advertising industry, and it's kept me busy," he says.

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