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. The variety within a portfolio shouldn't be stylistic; it needs to come from the application of a style to different topics, concepts and contexts.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The design agency has hit all the right notes with its new branding for the UK domestic abuse and sexual violence charity. Let's be honest: most of the time, graphic design serves the fun and the frivolous. Logo and branding The new Tender logo is one of the most visible transformations in Osch's rebrand.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As 2024 wraps up, we’re on the cusp of entering 2025, a year set to see the immense impact of AI across all computing fields, particularly in web and graphic design. With these advancements, the graphic design trends continues to evolve, driven by new technology, cultural shifts, and bold ideas.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 7, 2025

In the new and improved brand, expect graphics inspired by art books on Cold War propaganda, spy movie posters from the 1950s and '60s, and vintage adventure and educational book covers. FilmNation described the SNAFU brand as "not afraid of the messy mishaps" and, while messiness can be fun, it can be hard to get right.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2023

All photography by Yeshen Venema TYPEONE magazine isn't just a beautifully designed print publication; it's also full of key insights about the evolving interaction between typography and graphic design. Oh, what a time to be a designer. Designers everywhere can thrive in this new-new normal – as long as they stay relevant.

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Creative Boom

JULY 1, 2024

Lilongwe Wildlife Trust partners with UK-based agency sixredsquares to launch a refreshed brand and website to raise global awareness and support for wildlife conservation in Malawi. The revamped brand and website aim to engage a global audience and highlight LWT's crucial work.

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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. The variety within a portfolio shouldn't be stylistic; it needs to come from the application of a style to different topics, concepts and contexts.

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Creative Boom

JULY 13, 2022

The world's largest design consultancy has collaborated with yoga studio Love Supreme Projects to create an identity that finds a new spin on the familiar practice. Made up of bold colours and inky splotches, the brand turns the concepts of yoga into a visual language in a way that contrasts stereotypical aesthetics. © Pentagram.

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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

JUNE 25, 2024

Icons and pictograms are so important to our society, yet even designers don't discuss them all that much. In an increasingly visual world, icons and pictograms have become the universal language of design. Icons are more illustrative, often abstract – creating a visual signifier for a sub-branding within an organisation, for example.

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Creative Boom

JULY 23, 2024

Creative agency Universal Favourite explains the thinking behind the brand. Here's a great example of how thoughtful branding can achieve both these things and help bring the providers of cutting-edge medical tech together with those who need their help. It's incredible what new health services are coming online these days.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

James has created a showreel, website and brand identity to reflect how his direction has evolved. These are interspersed with examples from the Play area of James' portfolio, including looping, kaleidoscopic patterns, and typographic and character-based designs. They were delighted with the result, which was a relief."

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 21, 2024

If you're nearer Lancaster than London, here's a new design event you'll want to check out. We all know about the London Design Festival. But in these days of remote working and regional powerhouses, the days when everything in the design industry necessarily centred around the capital are long behind us. What is it?

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A new protest-inspired brand symbol was designed to compliment Mozilla's custom wordmark and typeface family, helping the brand to stand out in a sea of sameness. JKR's approach to the rebrand involved understanding how the brand exists already in people's minds to unearth what is truly memorable about it.

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Designer Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Web design, at its heart, is a marriage of technology and creativity. More than that, web design is a field expected to keep growing at a healthy pace. Whether you want to build websites for small businesses or create user experiences for innovation companies, an online degree in web design could be just the thing youre looking for.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 31, 2024

Having originally trained as a graphic designer, Joseph Carrington pivoted to illustration seven years ago. Part of what makes Joseph's work so appealing to clients is his clear line work and crisp design choices. I like to help brands and publications communicate with their audience visually."

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Creative Boom

JUNE 23, 2024

A Visible Distance interrogates the last three decades of design and creativity, from the commercialisation of the internet to the advanced technologies and practices of today. But recently, a new type of book by a contemporary author has entered the literary playing field.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 31, 2022

Founded in 2007, Pentawards is the leading global platform and community for packaging design. We're noticing an increase in the number of requests to design bespoke glass bottles," says Ivan Bell, group CEO and managing director at Stranger & Stranger. Sustainability has been a hot topic in packaging for years now.

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Design Milk

MAY 6, 2025

As the premier commercial design fair in North America, NeoCon brings together the best in contract furniture, flooring, lighting, textiles, and more June 9-11, 2025 all under the very busy roof of THE MART in Chicago. Acclaimed architecture and design firm Perkins&Will will transform THE MARTs 2.5-acre

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Creative Boom

JUNE 11, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Creatives share their top tips for building a personal brand, allowing you to unleash your unique creative vision, connect with your tribe, and attract your dream clients. In today's hyper-connected digital landscape, personal branding has become key to success for creative professionals.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 16, 2022

It'd be near-impossible to attend all the individual grad shows at each college and university – but don't worry, you don't need to because New Designers is back! This carnival of creativity gives design graduates a chance to showcase their work, find buyers, and connect with businesses to obtain career guidance and attend portfolio reviews.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Epidemic Sound , the popular provider of royalty-free music, has been at the forefront of helping brands and content creators harness this power. So, we at Creative Boom have partnered with them to bring you a six-part series on the use of music in modern design.

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Creative Boom

MAY 13, 2024

Reworking a sensitive political topic into an engaging, accessible and design-led publication was one of the challenges that design studio Sister Mary encountered during the project. Sister Mary has designed a limited-edition printed publication for an emerging current affairs brand, The Signal.

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Creative Boom

JULY 16, 2023

A new platform for learning environmental system has a slick new branding system courtesy of Pentagram and Mondial Studio. Rather than doing anything too clever, it sticks to the fundamentals of design, and is all the more successful for it. Visual designs The resulting designs, suitably enough, feel very grounding and organic.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 11, 2024

After a turbulent few years for the NHS, Future Docs is on a mission to bolster its workforce by coaching students through competitive med-school applications with an intuitive and accessible brand and website.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The Leeds-based studio has modernised the branding for StepChange , creating a bold new positioning based on the creative platform 'Debt Happens. Looking closely at the brand, Robot Food discovered that StepChange's funding comes from the government and lenders rather than public donations. That's quite the design dilemma.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The Leeds-based studio has modernised the branding for StepChange , creating a bold new positioning based on the creative platform 'Debt Happens. Looking closely at the brand, Robot Food discovered that StepChange's funding comes from the government and lenders rather than public donations. That's quite the design dilemma.

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Designer Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

7 Design Tips for Students for an Outstanding Presentation. Well, designing a presentation is indeed a tricky job, but when equipped with the right knowledge and tools, one can master the task on the brink of time. What would make your design stand apart? Create a Brand Board: Use Consistent Fonts, Colors, and Theme.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

That presents a great opportunity for artists, designers, photographers, writers, and digital dreamers to embark on a journey of self-improvement and skill refinement. From graphic design to photography, creative writing to 3D animation, and UX design to digital marketing, these courses offer a gateway to a new career starting this September.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 21, 2024

From pioneering entrepreneurs to innovative brand leaders and multidisciplinary creative forces, these are the movers and shakers propelling their respective fields forward. To answer that question, we turned to Frontify , our favourite cloud-based, brand-building platform. So, who are the names we need to know? In the U.K.,

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Creative Boom

MAY 12, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We canvass a panel of experts on where the graphic design profession is heading and how agencies might fit into a brave new, AI-driven world. Graphic design is an ever-evolving field, shaped by new technologies, changing consumer behaviours, and broader cultural shifts.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Hamish Smyth discusses the making of the book Classified: Local Ads from America's Small Towns and why it's a must-read for designers in 2023. If you haven't heard of Standards Manual , the Brooklyn-based, independent publishing imprint founded by designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth in 2014, it's about time you did.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 30, 2025

Taking place this May in Lancaster, the second edition of Northern Design Festival brings together studios, strategists and storytellers to tackle the creative industry's hidden barriers, one honest conversation at a time. Now in its second year, the three-day festival is fast becoming a standout moment in the northern design calendar.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 15, 2024

Over 40% of his homeland sits in the Arctic Circle, close enough to the North Pole that we're willing to accept Ilya as an expert on the topic of Santa Claus, a character he's illustrated numerous times. He even designed a set of Santa installations for a Moscow shopping mall back in 2020.

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Just Creative

JANUARY 18, 2020

People are curious by nature and thanks to the internet, anyone curious about a topic or looking to expand their skills or even learn a new skill can take classes online on their time. The 9 Best Courses on Coursera for Designers & Creatives. Graphic Design. Interaction Design. User Experience Research and Design.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2023

Image courtesy of Shillington Graphic design is a mysterious profession to many, but it's easily explained. We team up with Shillington to provide a jargon-free FAQ covering all aspects of graphic design. To many people, the job title 'graphic designer' is mysterious. Have you always been fascinated by art and design?

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Graphic Design Junction

AUGUST 20, 2021

Brand guidelines templates also known as a Brand Manual, Brand Standards & Brand Identity Guidelines. Brand design agencies and branding studios will use brand guidelines templates to present their clients how to implement their new brand. Logo Design Trends and Strategy Guide.

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