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The 25 creative studios inspiring us the most in 2025

Creative Boom

Recent highlights include their work with Gamma , an AI platform that lets you quickly get ideas out of your head and into a presentation deck or onto a website. Starting out with Mike designing in a tiny apartment while Chara held down a day job, the pair learned the ropes the hard way—and now they're thriving.

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Johnnie Walker Logo Evolution: The Unfiltered Analysis

Inkbot Design

The Digital Era Refinements (2000s-2015) Visual Tweaks The early 2000s saw subtle refinements to improve digital reproduction. Sales weren't negatively impacted, and the recognition value remained intact – proving that consumers connect with the essential character of a logo, not its specific orientation.

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The Instagram Logo: A Necessary Betrayal of Nostalgia

Inkbot Design

By 2015-2016, Instagram was no longer just a retro filter app. Subtle Tweaks and Building a System (2022-Present) The 2016 redesign wasn't the end of the story. The Strategic Problem For its time, the Cole Rise logo was perfect. It was beautifully rendered, instantly recognisable, and communicated the app's core function.

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“A dusting of love”: Matt Stetson creates mini portals to an almost utopian vision of the past

Its Nice That

Most recently, Stranger Things renewed a cultural interest in 80s creature features, neon lights and synthwave soundtracks and vapourwave, a musical subculture sometimes associated with 80s consumer capitalism, became popular in 2015.

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Improving design critiques

UX Collective

Another extremely important characteristic of a well-done critique is that the presenter should not feel compelled to implement feedback. FREQUENCY OF CRITIQUE It can vary, but the sweet spot I’ve landed on over the last 5 years or so is for each crit participant to present at least every other week. O’Reilly publishing.

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This Artist-Run Archive Preserves Endangered Photographic Negatives in a Celebration of Lagos

Colossal

During a trip to Lagos in 2015, Karl Ohiri noticed something alarming. Abi Morocco Photos “The initiatives main aims are to collect, preserve, and present the imagery of a generation of photographers that captured the style, humour, and aspirations of everyday Lagosians,” a statement says.

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Scott C.’s THE BIG SHOW

Juxapoz Magazine

Spoke Art are thrilled to present THE BIG SHOW, a ten year retrospective exhibition from prolific artist, author and video game art director, Scott Campbell, better known simply as Scott C. THE BIG SHOW is Scott C.’s