Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Its cover—a soft-edged, inky interpretation of space—was designed by Helsinki-based artist Aino-Maija Metsola. It's very important to have a good and functioning connection with the designers and art directors in order to create a cover that supports the book." Her illustrations are both captivating but not too obvious.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Selecting the perfect typeface for your design projects couldn't be more important. Graphic designers share their expert insights on how to do so. As anyone who's been a graphic designer for more than a few days will know, selecting the perfect font for a project is crucial.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When you think of zoos, you probably think of somewhere to take the kids when they're off school. How&How also incorporated expressive pattern overlays into the designs. Website design Throughout the two-year collaboration, the team re-designed the entire Chester Zoo website.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Bisel by The Designers Foundry The New Zealand type foundry has been offering quality, accessible and interesting typefaces to designers since 2012. Since then, this New Zealand foundry has carved out its niche in the competitive world of typography through a combination of accessible design and creative merchandising.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Released this week, Expressive Type Today by Counter-Print explores the world of evocative type design and its ability to command our attention, shape perceptions, and spark emotions. It's a visual tribute to the designers and creative studios who use type not only as a communication tool but as a form of expression that defies convention.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Think smiling snakes in perfect blades of grass. Think punk, not junk," says How&How. Cat How and the team then developed the product SKUs and designed packaging, point-of-sale media, launch assets and the website. As Design Director Priyjah Paramasivam explains, "We've created a whole world of playful plant anarchy.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

How the festival became a global movement at the intersection of design, art, and technology plus what's next for its milestone year. What started as an online hub for Flash animation lovers quickly became a live event that would eventually become a cornerstone of the global design community. Pep Salazar. Could be fun."

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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. It was in middle school (that's early secondary school years to us in the UK) that she decided to pursue art and design more seriously.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

I think I'm much better at drawing today than I was back then, so I thought, maybe I can right a few wrongs – things I wasn't happy with when I look back on those early comic strips. So, while I don't really think too much about others being inspired by me, it's always nice to know that people appreciate my work.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

It seems that everywhere we look, there is news on advances in technology and the rise of digital techniques, even in the art and design world. Whatever the method, his goal is always to push the quality and the boundaries of his designs.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Every creative should know about these 25 design studios and learn from their inspiring work. In a world overflowing with creativity and design innovation, there are thousands of outstanding design studios to be inspired by. The studio fuses strategy with design to create dynamic and culturally relevant work.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 4, 2024

At this year's much anticipated Miami Art & Design Week, Lexus has unveiled Liminal Cycles, a multi-sensory and responsive installation created in collaboration with Bratislava-based research and design studio Crafting Plastics. Over the years, the studio has developed a new suite of biomaterials designed for different uses.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Some forward-thinking about how to approach AI could help your career flourish. AI images are also popular for 'filler' online content designed to grab the viewer's attention but not studied too much. I don't think AI will take our jobs, but the creatives using AI will. It's the modern-day equivalent of clip art. Don't panic!

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Alphabet's studio in Manchester The Manchester studio has been making waves since 2016 with its ideas-driven approach and a guiding principle inspired by legendary designer Saul Bass. The new designs looked to simplify and amplify its message "to clearly convey what makes Sova stand out in a saturated market," Mushtaq explains.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 27, 2025

Plymouth-based illustrator and graphic designer Beth Bennett is a fairly new face in the creative industries, having only graduated last year in 2024, but one of her recent projects caught our eye, and we just had to know more. Learning to make a design work with just one colour was an interesting challenge for her.

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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. The PRINT Awards have long stood as a beacon of excellence in design, celebrating bold creatives pushing the boundaries across all mediums.

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Creative Boom

MAY 22, 2025

In some years, no Black Pencils are given out at all, making the awarding of three a significant achievement for these winners: Designing Paris 2024 by W Conran Design won in Graphic Design for its innovative approach to sports marketing. The idea is that innovative ideas must possess both aesthetic appeal and tangible impact."

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 17, 2024

I think the chunkiness helps with that; it makes them look approachable in a way. This only adds to the organic feel of her work, which is balanced, structured, and hierarchical thanks to her background in graphic design, but also infused with positivity and inspired by nature. Created with motion designer Mat Voyce.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 14, 2025

Campbell Hay's design team has worked on everything from the initial marketing suite, placemaking strategy and initiatives to their latest rebrand. "We We understand the brand, where it all started and where to move next," says the studio's design director, Wai Ming Ng.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 14, 2025

If you're not a local, think of this drink as the Canadian Bloody Mary - the cocktail you always saw your parents enjoying growing up at every BBQ, holiday party and brunch special. After multiple rounds of testing, the design team got to the desired result. The Mott's team behind this one deserves a round of applause."

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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. Luke Tonge's journey into design was anything but conventional. By the time he reached his A-Levels, it was clear that design was his calling.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2025

The third edition of the boutique festival showcases the brightest talents in design and creativity this May. 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.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 13, 2024

But first, you need to think about the fundamentals and define your brand's sonic personality. Logo design to musical motifs Elements of your logo design can inspire musical motifs. Here are some reasons they're the perfect fit for designers and brand managers. Defining your brand's sonic personality First things first.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Concept, research and influences People People's principal and founder, Sara Green, explains the thinking behind the redesign. From the midcentury script typography to the playful supporting illustrations and colour palette to the custom plaid and argyle patterns, everything is designed with tongue-in-cheek.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Likewise, illustration agencies are always looking to sign new talent to tap into what creative and art directors currently want in design studios and agencies around the world. By Milagros Pico, Brilliant Artists Animation by Andrei Mallmann, design by Lucas Rampazzo, Norte. It's such an important thing to strive for.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The airline commissioned illustrator and pattern designer Martha Olivia to create a suite of six bespoke illustrations for their High Life magazine. Known for its food, fabrics, monuments, and spiritual culture, India's popularity as a travel destination has only increased over the years. million TikTok posts.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The term illustration didn't even cross his path until sixth form college, where he studied art and design and discovered some books on British illustrator Ralph Steadman and professional cartoonist Gerald Scarfe. Since his parents weren't necessarily what you'd call "arty people", his perception of art was limited to big, grand formats.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2025

In the design world of 2025, typography is becoming increasingly important. In a discussion chaired by Frontify's Digge Zetterberg, design experts Katie Rominger from Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) and Phil Garnham from Monotype peeled back the layers of contemporary typography, and looked to where it's currently heading.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 8, 2025

Among Equals is behind the identity for new UK energy programme STEP, designed to position the brand as ambitious as NASA's Apollo missions. He also notes how many fusion brands rely heavily on sun-related visuals - think sun-based emblems and orange and yellow colour palettes - because fusion is a process happening at the heart of the sun.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 1, 2025

Everything from the rise of AI to the shakeout of agencies means that whatever stage you are in your career, you're probably thinking about your future more carefully than ever. Work by Max Bloom Work by Max Bloom Graduate Max had already been working as a graphic designer for a few years when he applied. "I

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Creative Boom

MARCH 20, 2025

I don't think so. Context shapes us more than we think." These skills would later become invaluable when she pivoted to illustration and graphic design. Architecture gave me the best foundations discipline, an eye for composition, and a deep understanding of design, but illustration gave me freedom," she says.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 14, 2025

Designed by Chris Wu, edited by writer Caren Litherland, and printed by Conti Tipocolor, Florence, Double Acts in Pop is obviously visually stunning, but it is meant to be read as much as admired. Think Wham!, A dream team In Barens and Schwartz's view, Chris Wu at Wkshps was the first and only choice to design the book.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 9, 2025

Tonight, Art Vinyl unveiled the winner of the 20th Best Art Vinyl Award, the annual art prize for the best record cover design of the year, at the Hari in Belgravia, London. You need only to think about 'Brat Summer' to appreciate the huge levels of cultural resonance that some album art has experienced recently.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

That’s exactly what happened when Design Milk visited Roland DG’s headquarters. As Kitt Jones, Business Development and Co-Creation Manager at Roland DGA, aptly put it, “When you think about it, everything is a surface.” For interior designers, the opportunities are even more exciting.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 21, 2024

2024 WOW Show, Crazy Curiosities of Creature Carnival Blending performance art, fashion design, music and contemporary dance, The World of Wearable Art was an intoxicating cocktail of creative disciplines. Elsewhere, the Weta Workshop Emerging Designer Award was won by New Zealander Katherine Bertram for her garment Termite Cathedral.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 24, 2025

Well, just think about how we communicate as humans. Circular movements and fluid transitions weren't just designed for visual appeal. Design for performance. The rise of spatial computing, augmented reality and increasingly sophisticated digital interfaces will create new opportunitiesand challengesfor motion design.

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Design Milk

MARCH 24, 2025

The Tegeta marketing department has unveiled its newly designed office in Tbilisi, Georgia, redefining the modern workspace with a focus on functionality, comfort, and sustainability. Ergonomic design lies at the heart of this workspace transformation. Sustainability was a key consideration throughout the design process.

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