Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Alongside this, the team created a custom typeface with the US-based type foundry Sharp Type. In general, the new visual identity is crafted to be flexible for use in various contexts, from presentations and materials to signage and socials. The design intentionally mirrors the content-rich allure of streaming platforms.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 24, 2025

A Woman In A Dark Swimsuit Is Standing In The Water With Arms Raised, Splashing Water Around by Steven Schultz Discover how Stills' exclusive 2025 trend report is empowering designers to create authentic, impactful work in an era of visual saturation. Photography Trends 1.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The world of visual design is constantly evolving, and 2025 promises to deliver some of the most exciting transformations yet. In this article, we explore the top visual trends for 2025 , giving you a glimpse into what will shape the creative landscape across industries. What is Maximalism?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The team behind The Public Domain Review unveils a new visual resource, offering a curated selection of 10,000+ historical images, all free to use and explore. The Public Domain Review (PDR) has long been celebrated for unearthing hidden gems from history, offering an eclectic mix of fascinating stories and stunning visuals.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 21, 2025

With this project, D8's scope was to develop key product visuals that could be applied to many touchpoints, as well as a toolkit of supporting assets, templates and comprehensive guidelines. The whole visual strategy is underpinned by the brand pillar 'Filled with Wonder' and involves 3D-rendered key visuals at its core.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

By reimagining classic elements like vintage typography or retro color schemes with a contemporary, high-tech twist, they create visuals that feel both familiar and forward-thinking. This can include using old-school fonts and neon color palettes in ad visuals for a nostalgic, tech-forward look.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The awards' new visual identity embodies organic growth as a metaphor for creativity, blending generative design and dynamic typography. For the 2025 edition, PRINT Magazine enlisted The Collected Works to craft a dynamic visual identity and hero film that embodies the theme of "cultivating creativity."

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

This year’s collection offers a range of free fonts tailored for every designer’s needs—whether you’re creating festive Christmas designs, sleek advertising posters, bold logos, or compact, impactful layouts with condensed fonts. Easily accessible online, these fonts enable designers to craft compelling visuals at no cost.

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Creative Boom

MAY 15, 2025

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Whether you're a pro designer or an entrepreneur without design skills, Adobe Express can revolutionise your content creation. When she launched a design agency, though, Aseil discovered how Adobe Express could transform her workflow, particularly for clients requiring regular content. "I

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Digital art and illustrations have surged in popularity, with professional artists harnessing creativity, software, and technology to craft captivating visuals. Many digital illustrators create highly detailed works, whether through realistic shading or fantasy elements. Enjoy discovering the magic of these illustrations!

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Studio Curious Circle crafted a visual identity that reflects the brand's ethos: straightforward, gentle and easy to understand. Utilising a soft-edge serif as a subheader brought something completely new to the visuals. Amy turned to White Sky to create the brand's identity. Blume by Grant Blume by Grant Blume by Grant 4.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 5, 2025

Enter Earthling Studio, which was tasked with overhauling HALFDAY's visual identity and brand world. However, according to Earthling Studio's managing partner, Tom Bruce, its visual identity was playing it far too safe and blending into a sea of worthy, functional wellness drinks instead of proudly owning its playful personality.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 20, 2024

"So for me, it's all about finding a typeface that has accessible characters; language considerations – especially for Welsh; extended x height, for ease of reading at smaller font sizes, and a range of weights to help emphasise content where appropriate." That said, the relative importance of readability will vary on the use case.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 5, 2025

In the fast-changing world of digital creativity, AI-generated photos are becoming a game-changer for designers, marketers, and content creators. AI-generated photos are digital images created using artificial intelligence algorithms. AI-generated photos are digital images created using artificial intelligence algorithms.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

In part one, we look at the importance of music to visual content, share examples of how this works in practice, and share pro tips for picking the right tracks. The right soundtrack can transform your visuals, evoke emotions and captivate your audience in ways that visuals alone simply can't achieve.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Leeds International Festival of Ideas covers some tricky topics, so the branding and visual assets needed to be sensitive. Rather than just recycling previous designs, Rabbithole creates fresh art direction for the festival each year, built on a consistent and recognisable brand identity. Overall, they created over 200 versions.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Influur helps content creators get work with brands for a decent compensation. Studio Herrström explains how they crafted a fresh visual identity for the agency that can help boost their mission. At its core is a flexible and dynamic visual system designed to adapt to various contexts while maintaining a consistent and bold presence.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Making video content can be creatively rewarding. And annoyingly, what should be, in theory, the most fun part – finding a soundtrack for your visuals – can, in practice, be a time-consuming and often frustrating activity. These features allow you to fine-tune your audio-visual storytelling with a helpful degree of precision.

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Creative Boom

MAY 19, 2025

These are three principles that underpin the institutions brand identity, which was created to reimagine the visual language of sound while giving the organisation a voice of its own. Visually, we wanted people to see the design and inevitably think of sound and resonance, he says. This gave us time to let things mature.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2025

Created by husband-and-wife duo James and Vicky Wall, Art Around Every Corner offers a deep dive into the stories, processes, and inspirations behind some of Leeds' most iconic murals. However, for filmmakers James and Vicky Wall, these works are far more than just visual embellishments. That was the spark."

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This week, Reddit saw the launch of its new visual identity courtesy of Pentagram. Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website (just in case you need the Wikipedia description). Therefore, Pentagram introduced a conversation bubble as the new cornerstone of the brand's visual identity.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 12, 2023

London and Berlin-based design agency Bureau for Visual Affairs (BfVA) has created a new visual identity for the annual celebration of 'European internet excellence', The Lovie Awards. In creating the new look, BfVA kept the idea of 'work that brings joy' – one of the Lovies' key judging criteria – front of mind.

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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. In the realm of visual storytelling, the power of sound often goes underappreciated.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 15, 2024

This article delves into the latest typography innovations that promise to make digital interfaces more engaging, accessible, and visually appealing. These fonts enable designers to adjust weight, width, and slant in real time, creating seamless adaptability across devices and resolutions. Test Across Devices Consistency is key.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

AI images are also popular for 'filler' online content designed to grab the viewer's attention but not studied too much. Creating personal projects that are close to your heart will help you realise your own unique style. AI is very efficient at producing illustrations where the exact details aren't important.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Karl Taylor We chat with the founder of Visual Education, which offers world-class training in photography, CGI, and design, to discover why this disruptive platform has been turning so many heads. In today's rapidly evolving creative landscape, the lines between different visual arts disciplines are increasingly blurred.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

That's because the course emphasises excellence in visual communication across diverse disciplines, while embedding hard design thinking at its core. Working with KSI, Miniminter, Zerkaa and Behzinga places Sammy at the forefront of digital content creation in the second half of the 2020s.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 24, 2025

In an era of overwhelming visual content, a new report from the artist-owned cooperative Stocksy offers a roadmap to authentic curation and meaningful differentiation. And Stocksy has placed this apparently endless stream of algorithmically-served content at the centre of its latest Culture Report.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

There were big challenges: connecting with the community, being curious about what is going on in digital and visual design, and, of course, management." They are still partners in some multiverse platforms and creating great stuff together. That commitment to evolution is part of what has kept OFFF relevant.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 6, 2024

New tech, changing consumer behaviours, and the rising demand for immersive, engaging content are reshaping how brands communicate, how consumers interact with media, and how stories are told across various platforms. Even traditional video content is increasingly incorporating spatial audio techniques to create more engaging experiences.

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Creative Boom

MAY 8, 2022

The AI can instantly create these images in any artistic style or medium, including photography. The application uses natural language to create works of art, both an impressive and mindblowing feat. Over the years, AI engineering firms like OpenAI have been building machines to identify and short this content. You guessed it.

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Creative Boom

MAY 6, 2025

Ever feel like you're drowning in a visual sea of AI slop? Rather than blurring the lines between classifications, designer Edouard Berard has created two interconnected families that preserve the distinctive characteristics of their respective genresScotch Roman and grotesquewhile sharing the same underlying skeletal structure.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

So, for independent creators, finding the right soundtrack can be a game-changer, transforming good content into unforgettable experiences. Aphmau's animated music video featuring the track has amassed over 49 million views, demonstrating the powerful synergy between visually compelling content and the right musical accompaniment.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 9, 2024

Because, in all likelihood, it will save you a huge amount of time faffing around and make the whole process of gathering visual inspiration a more fun and rewarding experience. You can save all kinds of things there, but it works especially well for visual inspiration. Saving content and then finding it later is just the start.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 25, 2024

A new book explores their evolution and impact in our increasingly visual digital world. In an increasingly visual world, icons and pictograms have become the universal language of design. Iconic: Icons and Pictograms in Design Today offers a comprehensive look at the pivotal role these visual elements play in modern graphic design.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 12, 2025

Creating compelling designs for organic products can be the key to engaging eco-conscious consumers. With growing awareness of sustainability and health, brands that focus on organic products need visuals that communicate these values effectively. When applied to organic posters and flyers, mockups can elevate your design presentation.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 4, 2024

All images courtesy of Visual Education Adding a few strings to your bow helps you stand out and truly achieve your creative potential. We explain how world-class platform Visual Education can help you do just that. The world of visual arts is no longer confined to distinct categories. Want to be a successful creative?

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