Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Elections in the UK and the US led many big brands to put off their decision-making and budgeting – they want to see the lie of the land economically before investing in creative. While 2024 has been pretty morale-sapping for many illustrators, perhaps 2025 will bring new hope and enthusiasm to the sector.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Retro-futurism reflects a playful yet sophisticated look, making it popular across branding, website design, and digital art. Designers in 2025 are using retro-futurism to evoke a sense of nostalgia while offering a fresh and innovative appeal.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Loving Christmas Font Loving Christmas a christmas font duo is made for any professional project branding, such as logotype, watermarks, poster, branding, promotions, product packaging, etc. They come in diverse styles, from classic serif to modern sans-serif, allowing designers to enhance visual appeal.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Elections in the UK and the US led many big brands to put off their decision-making and budgeting – they want to see the lie of the land economically before investing in creative. While 2024 has been pretty morale-sapping for many illustrators, perhaps 2025 will bring new hope and enthusiasm to the sector.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Whether you’re a designer, marketer, or brand strategist, staying ahead of these trends is essential to creating relevant, impactful designs. The world of visual design is constantly evolving, and 2025 promises to deliver some of the most exciting transformations yet. Let’s explore these top visual trends that will dominate the coming year.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 25, 2024

Headquartered in London, Joonbyrd is a company focused on creating skincare, wellness, and lifestyle products that promote emotional wellbeing alongside physical benefits. Instead of impulse buying, they invest in fewer, more luxurious products that offer a more profound emotional experience.

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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. After graduating, Zhang continued working for Nike, leveraging those connections and building on her understanding of the brand.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Whether you’re working on advertisement posters, brand guidelines , or even designing a logo, fonts play a pivotal role in creating visual impact. Why Fonts Matter Fonts are more than just letters on a screen; they help communicate the tone, personality, and message of a brand or project. Free Font Tepo Serif 2. Conragon Font 3.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Logo badge designs have always been a timeless element in branding. These compact, emblematic designs continue to redefine branding by merging aesthetics with storytelling, offering a visually impactful way for businesses to stand out. This trend is particularly popular among artisanal brands seeking to highlight their individuality.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 5, 2025

The Power of Fonts in Modern Design Typography is more than just arranging letters; its about evoking emotions and communicating messages effectively. Modern designers often seek typefaces that combine aesthetic appeal with functionality, ensuring their designs look great on everything from mobile screens to print materials.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Illustration by Mia Angioy for Creative Boom In the fifth of our special six-part series, we look at the cutting-edge developments shaping the future of audiovisual design and how they're set to transform brand experiences by 2025. And this means every brand needs to consider how its audio identity translates into a 3D space.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The right font has the power to set the tone, convey emotion, and make your work stand out. Logos demand versatility, as they represent a brand’s identity and need to be memorable across different mediums and sizes. Beachy Display Summer Font 2. Brushine Collective Font Duo 3. Bold Display Font 32. Neonisans Monoline Font 33.

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Creative Boom

MAY 17, 2023

The iconic concert hall's new branding evokes the emotion and eclecticism of its music by majoring in motion and interactivity. The new system places music at the very heart of the brand, whether it's electro, opera, jazz or classical. Read on to find out how they developed this wide-ranging and radical identity.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 6, 2025

Creating a logo and choosing fonts for logo is a critical step for building a strong brand identity. A well-designed logo can leave a lasting impression on customers and make your brand stand out. The font sets the tone and reflects the personality of your brand, whether its modern, classic, or playful. Bingo Logo Font 3.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 27, 2024

It's a type foundry with a difference, one that's dedicated to creating unique typefaces that convey "distinct and rarely spoken emotions". "I I've always believed that typography can be one of a brand's most distinctive assets," she explains. "In Renowned designer Jessica Walsh has long been known for her passion for type.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Illustration by Mia Angioy for Creative Boom In the second of our special six-part series, we look at how music can elevate your visual storytelling and enhance its emotional power. Yet, as we all know from our favourite movies and Netflix dramas, a well-chosen soundtrack can elevate a narrative, evoke emotions, and create a lasting impact.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Marketing pet food is all about appealing to people's strong emotional connection with their pets. With the pet sector booming, Asda wanted its own-brand pet food ranges – Hero for dogs, Tiger for cats – to discard their budget connotations. You 'own' something like a car, but caring for a pet creates a deeper emotional bond.

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Creative Boom

JULY 9, 2024

Robot Food has partnered with Sarson's on a new omnichannel advertising campaign, brand world toolkit and packaging design coinciding with the vinegar brand's first piece of new product development in 230 years. One strategy the studio used was tapping into popular food trends.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 10, 2024

Whenever you work on a branding project, you're not necessarily looking at the bottom line of your client's business. You're thinking more about conveying the ethos of the brand in a holistic way across multiple touchpoints. Another influence on the new branding was synesthesia. Normally, we'd agree.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 5, 2025

Additionally, their versatility makes them suitable for a wide range of applications, from social media posts to professional branding materials. In the fast-changing world of digital creativity, AI-generated photos are becoming a game-changer for designers, marketers, and content creators. What Are AI-Generated Photos?

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Creative Boom

MARCH 25, 2024

The brief As an iconic, globally recognised building and a jewel in the crown of Liverpool's visitor economy, the cathedral needed a brand to showcase its cultural and historical offerings as well as its religious dimension. It inspires, delights, evokes emotion, and creates pride."

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Creative Boom

JUNE 25, 2024

Working in collaboration with Stuart Gough, Pentagram, JKR, and Impero, the charity launches its refreshed brand and positioning today. Global branding agency Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) brought the brand to life through motion. There's a new tone of voice, too, along with a core brand language. So what has changed?

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 30, 2023

Jin Fujiwara's fun, lively and colourful branding shows the way. To brand their new project, they turned to Jin Fujiwara of local design agency Stamp Works. "Our Japan is full of great bakeries with amazing cakes and pastries, so how do you make a new business stand out from the crowd?

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Creative Boom

MARCH 28, 2024

Photo: Ada Chan for CASETiFY © 2024 Viral animator sensation collaborates with the designer phone accessories brand and unleashes more of his surreal cartoon illustrations. CASETiFY has cornered the market by creating a brand with international youth appeal – they sell over $100 million of products annually in 80+ countries.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Those celebrating today include leading names such as Backbone Branding, Armenia (boasting nine awards), Auge Design in Italy – with six winning titles, along with Agency of The Year – and James Cropper Luxury Packaging scooping six awards in total. And there were many elements that spark purpose and positive actions.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Creative director Dave Rax walks us through his first big project as an independent after leaving Koto: a global brand redesign for SamBoat. Part of the challenge was the need to appeal to both ends of the market spectrum, from experienced skippers and seasoned sailing enthusiasts to novices and first-time day-trippers alike," Dave explains.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 10, 2025

Brands with deep-rooted histories face a unique challenge in preserving their legacy and keeping it alive in a way that resonates with today's audiences. Converse, a brand with over a century of cultural relevance, has approached this conundrum with a creative strategy that looks both backwards and forward. Korea, Taiwan, and beyond.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2024

A taste of 'the good life' at the heart of revitalisation brief for growing Italian food brand. Global brand and digital studio Koto has completed a new identity and built a new e-shop for the Italian food marketplace Gustini.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Creating a brand journey that inspires childlike joy was central to the brief Flings gave to the Blurr Bureau studio. The visual and verbal brand story Blurr created acknowledges both the nutritional and emotional needs of adult snackers. The brief was multi-layered.

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Designer Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

When crafting visually appealing pieces, you’re not merely focusing on aesthetics; you’re communicating a message, evoking emotions, and solving problems. What appeals to them? Navigating the balance between boundless creativity and concrete client expectations is pivotal in graphic design. Who are they?

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Creative Boom

MAY 20, 2024

Amid the rising popularity of Japanese whiskeys, LOVE has designed a new brand that combines two cultures while staying true to the category's time-honoured codes. Manchester-based creative agency LOVE has designed a new luxury whiskey brand from scratch in collaboration with William Grant & Sons (WG&S).

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 18, 2024

Brand studio Robot Food has collaborated with Germany's biggest sports nutrition company ESN to create a new look that refines what had gone before and creates a stronger evolution of its identity. But just like any big-range brand, ESN has lost its way over time. The need for a new identity came at a pivotal time.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A brand’s visual identity encompasses all the elements that represent your business in a visual form. Nowaday building a professional brand visual identity is more critical than ever before. Your brand’s visual identity serves as the face of your company, making it the first point of contact with potential customers.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We're big fans of Amber Day at Creative Boom, having previously explored the psychology of her work and how she tackles the physicality of emotion , so we were excited to hear that she's back with a new project that pairs luxury watches with golf in her inimitable style. It was amazingly fun!" she adds. "I

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Fonts play a pivotal role in web design, and font psychology explores the impact of typefaces on human emotions and perceptions. Fonts silently conveying messages and evoking emotions. They are more than just text; they are a form of visual language that conveys meaning and emotion. Fonts are not created equal.

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Designer Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Therefore, all elements like images, typography, fonts, colors together make up a brand design. Needless to say, graphic designing has the power to alter the perception of a brand. Therefore, any brand- big or small feel the need to hire a graphic designer at some stage for their business.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

If you want, you can share that emotion with your social media circles with one of the 27 moving meteorological moments now available from the UK's Met Office on GIPHY.com. They wanted a set of GIFs that would appeal to a younger demographic," explains Flow cofounder and creative director Karl Doran. We fought hard for the Walrus!"

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