Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In 2020, not-for-profit creative community and mentoring platform The Arena set up in a bid to change this by arming aspiring creatives with the tools, inspiration and confidence they need to kickstart a creative career. Na’im describes being part of the fundraiser as “a full-circle moment”, as she came through The Arena’s mentor programme.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2025

We caught up with Luke Tonge, a Birmingham-based designer and co-founder of the Birmingham Design Festival, to learn more about his journey into the creative industry. The connection to the physical and tactile nature of design would become a defining feature of his career.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

At the start of 2022, Taiwan-based illustrator Poan Pan was at the start of his freelance career a recent graduate of Central Saint Martins, navigating the uncertainties of working independently. Growth and the power of community When Pan first ventured into freelancing, he approached it with little certainty about where it would lead.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 15, 2025

Senior Designer at Nike Global Brand Design Retail Yenny Zhang takes us through her education and career so far, revealing the best bits and the challenges she faced along the way. That's when I discovered the joy of creating three-dimensional spaces and decided to make design my career," she says.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 24, 2025

For Louiza Cookson-Rabouhi, design was never a career she simply fell into. At Magnetic, the creative process is less about jumping to solutions and more about immersing in the problem. It wasn't just about announcing a policy," she says. "It It was about starting a movement rooted in optimism and opportunity."

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Creative Boom

JUNE 1, 2025

Which is lucky, if you think about it, because the former will only numerically only a small portion of us anyway. Barrington Reeves, creative director and founder of Too Gallus , explains: "At the beginning, it was more about revenue; now it's to be recognised as leading and leaving a lasting legacy and impact on the creative industries."

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Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2025

We talked to five illustrators and designers who take on private commissions about the pros, the cons, and what it does for their careers. Let's find out about the experiences of some illustrators and designers working in different media and at varying stages in their careers in this area.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 12, 2025

In this edition, part of our Visibility & Representation theme, we speak with Sarah O'Connell, head of copy at Mr B & Friends, about classism, confidence, and why creativity thrives when we embrace difference. Have you ever felt unseen or underestimated in your career, and how did you overcome it?

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

Studying graphic design here can really kickstart your career in the industry as this list of influential alumni showcases. His career began while still at university when he established himself as a freelance designer and worked on branding, web design, and brand strategy.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2025

There's something utterly magical about being in a room where creativity crackles in the air. And that's precisely the experience awaiting you at All Flows 2025 , the bijou creative industries festival that's rapidly becoming the UK's most talked-about gathering for the design profession. It's a rare treat.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For this Brooklyn artist, creating an illustration is about spending time with it, exploring it, and finding that moment when things fall into place. In the upcoming months, I will create many illustrations for the brand, and having this much deeper, tangible knowledge about it feels so special." A piece for the New York Times.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 22, 2025

When did you last look at your rent and feel positive about what you're getting for your money? Right now, creatives across the UK are asking themselves a fundamental question: what if the best place to build a creative career isn't where everyone says it should be? If you're shaking your head at these questions, you're not alone.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 20, 2025

Credit: Estudio Gagarin Whether she's working with The New York Times, teaching workshops on creative voice, or crafting guides for cinnamon farmers, Roco Ego's career is a celebration of curiosity, culture, and the endless power of images to connect us all. Like many creatively inclined children, her dream was to become an artist.

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Creative Boom

JULY 21, 2022

If you're at the start of your career, though, you'll have a lot in common with us in the early days, when we weren't quite yet steady on our feet and were still working out what we wanted to do and how to achieve it. A creative career is about evolving, so stay open to new ideas. But in reality, it's normal to make mistakes.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 18, 2025

In an age where creatives struggle with imposter syndrome and the paralysing fear of putting themselves out there, Creative Boom's private network, The Studio , continues to provide sanctuary for honest conversations about the realities of creative work. It's usually about timing or fit."

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2025

LinkedIn's latest campaign, created by VCCP, speaks directly to Gen Z professionals facing career restlessness. The campaign, developed by VCCP, features three episodic films in which workers' inner monologuespersonified by their own sock-clad feetvoice their career doubts. We all have doubts about whether we're in the right job.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He chats to us about how he put them together, and why they should be on your Christmas list. We chatted to Radim to learn what the books have to offer, how he went about creating them, and why people should buy them. What they're about First, though, let's establish what we're talking about. So I made them."

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We chat to two successful creatives who started out in a different career, and share their best advice for anyone looking to make a change. Not happy in your career? Countless people wake up every morning, less than enthusiastic about the day ahead. and looked up careers advice on the advertising industry."

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

But if you're at the start of your creative career, you can avoid all that! You'll probably get screwed on pay, so be prepared to push back When you look back on the early days of your career, one of the most maddening things is feeling that you were taken advantage of. It's not necessary to advance your career. I wish I had!

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Creative Boom

JUNE 9, 2025

Since SiegeMag's last print run in 2019, Charles has continued to build an international design career, working with clients ranging from Premier League football clubs to tech startups in East Asia. but first, it is all about the 'to-be' magazine," he says. For Charles, it's about more than glossy spreads or coffee-table cachet.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It's easy to criticise others, but maybe other people are saying the same about you. Firstly, you need to be willing to think about your behaviour and interactions carefully and objectively. From a career point of view, the answer is an unqualified yes. But at the same time, it makes you wonder: are you so perfect yourself?

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 9, 2025

Credit: Logoboom It's not just about movie stars. But while big studios will have insurance, many freelance creatives are uninsured or underinsured and face immense hurdles in rebuilding their careers. Image licensed via Adobe Stock. We chat to ordinary creatives whose lives have been turned upside-down by this evolving disaster.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Feeling grim about your prospects? We help lift your mood by sharing positive stories from creatives about the moments that make life worth living. And it doesn't matter what stage of your career you're at; such moments can make a big difference. On a bit of a downer? Well, that's not surprising.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

We chatted to Alyah about her love of drawing, her creative journey to date, and her plans for the future. I also just liked reading about people and seeing people. In high school, we didn't learn about the creative avenues you can take," she explains. And now I get to do that for a career."

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We caught up with her to learn more about her work, and how a non-linear career has paid off. Speaking to Creative Boom, Haruko reveals that her impressive career can trace its roots back to the early 2000s, where she was raised by the internet and found her home online on digital art platforms such as DeviantArt and Shadowness.

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Creative Boom

JULY 29, 2024

His impressive career includes collaborations with jazz luminaries like Wynton Marsalis and performances with jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in both London and New York. This was the kind of project I'd been hoping for since kicking off my illustration career in earnest last year." And the partnership has been a fruitful one.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Con's early career saw him working at prestigious design studios in London and Bristol, where the rules and structure of commercial design gave him a solid foundation. A turning point in his career came in 2023 when he embarked on a personal project for the Bristol Jazz Festival. To see it take off like that was incredible," he shares.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2025

With a career that's taken her from Bangkok to Toronto and now Tokyo, Choonet's work is a playful collision of cultural influences, personal quirks, and a visual love letter to life's everyday chaos. It's a simple philosophy but one that's shaped the way Choonet approaches her career and creative collaborations.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock If your creative work is causing you to feel down, do something about it. We may believe we love our work and our career. It's about embracing the journey of exploration and growth and sharing your unique perspective with the world. It's about finding a good balance of friends, family, and me-time.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 30, 2025

Here's why thousands of designers are choosing to level up their careers there. We're talking about designers who are out there right now, creating campaigns, building brands, and solving real problems for real clients. In short, these aren't just technical skills courses; they're confidence-building, career-changing experiences.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Photography by Christine Donnier-Valentin The design and branding icon chats to Creative Boom about an extraordinary life and career that have helped define the creative profession and industry we know today. Design seemed to be about how things looked and how people functioned, and that was beginning to fascinate me."

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Creative Boom

JUNE 23, 2024

The creative industries are not short on autobiographies, monographs, and more of the like written by established figures, many of whom started their careers in the 1970s and 80s. Order partner Jesse Reed recalls not being taught much about business or how to start a company in design school.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 18, 2024

This award-winning artist has made her mark across various mediums throughout her career spanning two decades. We chatted with the Derby-based illustrator to learn more about her creative journey to date, how she gets inspired, and where she sees the profession heading. But personally, Elly is feeling pretty positive right now.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 4, 2022

So whether you're a fresh-faced school leaver, a creative taking a new direction mid-career, or a mature student looking to reinvigorate their practice, you'll find great tips here to guide you on your way. And that can lead to frustration about your own lack of progress. But in reality, you never do, at any stage of your career.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Illustration can be a lonely career, but Ashwin Chacko and Clive McFarland are on a mission to change that through a community that connects and supports Northern Ireland's often-overlooked creative talent. Anyone who's gone down the solo career route knows it can be a lonely life.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2023

But even if you're not sure what graphic design is about, you may already have a passion for the kind of things it involves. Maybe you've even considered pursuing a career around art but are unsure where to start. A good place to start is by answering all your questions about what graphic design is and how you get involved in it.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 13, 2024

Times when you're short on sleep because you've been up all night working or worrying about a nightmare client. And while we can't all be global music stars, we can learn many valuable lessons here and apply them to our freelance careers. And this isn't just about feeling like a better person (although that in itself is a good thing).

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