Creative Boom

JANUARY 20, 2025

Come with us on a deep dive into the last twenty years of Sam Gilbey's freelance illustration practice. However, he adds: "I learnt an important lesson about freelancing in those days too, though when one of the magazines I'd been working regularly for went into liquidation without warning, and I was suddenly 5k short."

Fine Art

Guild News Blog

AUGUST 12, 2025

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Freelance

Design Week

AUGUST 6, 2025

He went through various incarnations of his business, Typographics, and later operated as a freelancer. And even in the digital age, he would make sure all line breaks were perfect – be that a presentation, an email, or even a text message.

Agency

Creative Boom

AUGUST 11, 2025

The rise of AI, the pressure to produce constant content, and the instability of freelance work all began to take a toll between 2023 and early 2024. "I A turning point in teaching Like many creatives, Alysha has faced periods of uncertainty about her place in the industry.

Illustration

Its Nice That

JUNE 12, 2025

Gallery Untiled Macao: Guanzhong Mangba Arts Festival (Copyright © Untitled Macao), 2024) The Latest View more from Event Graphic Design Illustration Review of the Year 2023: Top 15 Talks Universal Everything, Anna Fearon, Aysha Tengiz and adam&eveDDB: Tickets available for December’s Nicer Tuesdays!

Art

Creative Bloq

JULY 20, 2025

Roger, who died in 2023, is remembered for several brilliant book covers and movie posters – see the The Empire Strikes Back in our pick of the best Star Wars posters. The original artwork went missing, with Roger speculating that an unknown Hollywood executive may have pilfered it.

Arts and Crafts

Its Nice That

JULY 23, 2025

Hanneke finds inspiration by Push Pin Studios, a fledgling design studio in the 50s that began to drum up creative freelance work for forward thinking individuals. They provide some puzzle pieces to work with so there are slightly less blanks to fill,” says Hanneke. Those are the themes that resonate with me most.”

Illustration

Guild News Blog

JULY 31, 2025

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Education

Creative Bloq

JUNE 10, 2025

Image credit: Procreate) We gave Procreate Dreams a rare five-star review when it was released back in 2023, which quickly earned it a place in our pick of the best animation software. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]);

Animation

Its Nice That

JUNE 25, 2025

After graduating, they both began freelancing and their paths were to converge – they remained online acquaintances. Looking back at his time at a traditional design studio Chase says: “It was a little more corporate and a little more safe in terms of design, so the only way I could truly experiment was to freelance.”

Graphic Design

Creative Bloq

JULY 14, 2025

David Hockney standing in front of his iPad art, during his 2023 exhibition at Manchesters Aviva Studios, Bigger and Closer (Image credit: Aviva Studios/Justin Sutcliff) Picture this: its 2008, and David Hockney —arguably Britains most famous living painter—walks into an Apple Store and emerges with an iPad.

Art

Creative Boom

AUGUST 12, 2025

"My experience was that there was nobody in the design studio over the age of 50 unless they were a freelancer," he reports. After a two-decade career as a graphic designer, I was laid off from my last corporate job in 2023," she explains. "I As Isaac LeFever says: "I turned 40 this year and I'm happy to be freelance these days.

Self-employed

Creative Bloq

JULY 3, 2025

PS5 Pro Technical Seminar at SIE HQ - YouTube Watch On Revealed in a PS5 Pro technical seminar last year, Project Amethyst began in 2023 and focuses on using AI to enhance game visuals and performance. If each console takes around four years to develop and Amethyst began in 2023, we could see a new device as soon as 2027.

Entertainment

Creative Bloq

AUGUST 8, 2025

But according to Enscapes State of Architectural Visualization 2024–2025 , expectations for the integration of real-time rendering jumped by nearly 10 per cent from 2023 to 2024. Sign in here Joe Foley Social Links Navigation Freelance journalist and editor Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq.

Internet and Software Development

Design Week

AUGUST 6, 2025

Crowder says this requirement is most commonly used for freelance roles, which seemingly makes sense. Its team analysed data from 176,000 US job listings between October 2023 and February this year. Some of them clearly take to freelance life well, but for others it’s a precarious necessity. ” But is it that simple?

Freelance

Creative Boom

APRIL 23, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock With the economy looking a little flat, most freelancers must put more work into selling themselves. So how can you survive the next few years as a creative freelancer? Show what you've made It sounds like an obvious point, but it's one that many freelancers ignore. But how do you actually do it?

Freelance

Design Week

AUGUST 4, 2025

“The Small Business Plan is a welcome signal of support for the backbone of the design economy; our SMEs, micro-businesses and freelancers,” says Shamir Hale, senior policy and advocacy manager at the Design Council. “For some hirers, could it put them off using freelancers, rather than sorting out their internal processes?”

Freelance

Creative Boom

JULY 4, 2023

Victors of the 2023 global design awards recently gathered in Tbilisi to receive their gongs. Jesper was awarded Freelancer of the Year. Also being awarded trophies on stage were The Readymag team, who won Digital Design of the Year 2023. The Early Bird Deadline offers a 15% discount on submission fees before 30 September 2023.

Graphic Design

Creative Boom

JUNE 8, 2023

Branding Design of the Year 2023: Campus, Reading International by Socrates Communications The victors of the Indigo Design Award 2023 offer extraordinary examples of real-world design we can all seek to emulate. They've just announced their 2023 winners, and we share the winning work in the seven main categories below.

Inspiration

UX Collective

JULY 1, 2025

Generic One of the designers in my cubicle collective — a soft-spoken guy named George Yoon — once told me about how, on Court TV, a senior manager used to oversee the freelance contractors from an actual raised platform deck, like a lifeguard at a public pool. Guild members picket outside a Burbank studio in 2023. It was a good gig.”

Entertainment

Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Freelancing not going as well as you'd hoped? So you've launched your freelance creative business: congratulations! The freelance guide to pivoting If you're a freelance creative, pivoting is pretty straightforward. Then it's time to pivot. So, how do you go about it? Then don't.

Freelance

Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock With so much talent out there, how do you get noticed as a freelance illustrator? And working as a freelancer means that you can, to a degree, work when you want, how you want, and where you want. But first, you need to attract freelance clients. There are loads of illustrators, yes.

Freelance

Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

For creative freelancers, the start of the year is often a quiet time, with few enquiries coming in. But in 2023, with prices rising and the world economy facing so many challenges, it's easy to get overburdened with stress about where your next paycheck is coming from. As a freelance designer, I struggle with advancing my career.

Freelance

Creative Boom

MAY 11, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Times are tough for a lot of freelancers out there right now. If our recent survey of creative freelancers is anything to go by, you may well be struggling. So that means almost three-quarters of you are failing to thrive in 2023, and that's not a situation any freelancer should be happy with.

Freelance

Creative Boom

OCTOBER 31, 2023

After gaining residency without needing an employer sponsorship, he quit his job and pursued freelance full-time. Then, in 2023, just as the world was getting past Covid-19, Hollywood took a big hit from the writers' and actors' strikes. Despite the strikes, he's still seen some entertainment work published in 2023.

Freelance

Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Best for creative agency, personal portfolio website, creative showcase, web agency portfolio, professional website, designer portfolio, freelancer portfolio, digital agency and much more individual and corporate or personal WordPress Portfolio websites. Clean multipurpose Portfolio WordPress Themes are very easy to use.

Portfolio

Inkbot Design

JULY 24, 2025

If your position is “the simplest accounting software for freelancers,” your brand identity should feel clean, approachable, and minimalist. A recent report showed that “revenue intelligence” adoption has soared, reaching 60% in 2023 [ source ]. Their website proudly listed 47 different services.

Brand

Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

And now we're back for 2023 with another bumper crop of amazing gift ideas from independent artists and shops. The 30mm pin is reasonably priced and was designed by Hattie Clark, a freelance illustrator based in Duke Studios, Leeds. For more of the latter, check out our guide to the UK's top independent shops.)

Arts and Crafts

Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 16, 2022

If you are interested in pursuing a career in web design, read on to find out how to become a successful web designer in 2023. And if you decide to become a freelance web designer, you will also have to communicate with your clients continuously. The post How to Become a Successful Web Designer in 2023? Unlimited Downloads.

Web Design

Creative Boom

JUNE 20, 2022

Lynne McCusker is a senior freelance designer based in Scotland. With 17 years of experience in the design industry and the past nine years spent as a freelancer, she specialises in all aspects of creativity, from branding and print work to web and social design. Her clients include L'Oréal, ?

Brand

Creative Boom

JANUARY 31, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock The Creative Boom 2023 Survey was packed with insights into what the creative profession is thinking at the start of a new year. At the start of 2023, it seems like there's never been a better time to do so. So we were intrigued to see the results of our 2023 survey, and we figured you might be too.

Adobe

Graphic Design Junction

AUGUST 11, 2022

If web designer wants to work well with their freelance clients and maybe with their coworkers in an in-house marketing setting, they will need to be able to communicate well. Tips for Aspiring Web Designers in 2023. On the other hand, this is not at all the case. Time Management Skills.

Web Design

Creative Boom

JUNE 6, 2022

The Indigo Design Awards celebrate "trail-blazers, risk-takers and all those on the cutting edge of the visual design world" across the fields of graphic, digital, mobile design, design for social change, branding and freelance. Freelancer of the Year 2022: BLK HST MNTH 2021 by Gregory St.Fleur-Dubois.

Freelance

Creative Boom

MAY 30, 2023

For a year or two after graduation, Tina worked at various London studios as a graphic designer but took on increasing freelance work in the evenings, largely through word-of-mouth recommendations. It wasn't long before she took the plunge and went freelance full-time, and she's not looked back. "I Adobe x David Bowie Digital Assets.

Freelance

Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2023

In 2023, the UK salary range typically falls between £28,017 and £37,894, according to Reed. Many graphic designers are also freelance, so their earnings are generally kept to themselves. How much does a freelance graphic designer make? For more on this topic, read How to Price Your Services as a Freelance Graphic Designer.

Graphic Design

Creative Bloq

JULY 7, 2025

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Just Creative

MAY 23, 2023

In this article, we’ve compiled a selection of the best books for graphic designers in 2023. 15+ Best Graphic Design Books in 2023 It’s a matter of keeping up with the trends and ensuring you have the skills to stay ahead of the competition. Another book that provides graphic artists with a ton of useful information about freelancing.

Graphic Design