Creative Boom

MARCH 17, 2025

The responses revealed a fascinating mix of approaches, and what emerged was a tapestry of wisdom that acknowledges both the personal nature of creativity and the universal patterns that help us reconnect with our creative flow. I use the GTD (Get Things Done) method to break down projects and tasks.

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Design Milk

JANUARY 6, 2025

These three handmade-to-order collections instill a sense of calm organic, swooping paper forms give way to sturdy wooden bases, accented with charming brass hardware. Two bulbous ends with a slim middle remind one of a cheeky peanut, with a solid wooden base to ground us in reality and elevate the look.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 29, 2023

At Creative Boom, we always like to keep an eye out for emerging illustration talent, and here's an artist everyone should know about. Based in Indianapolis, Shelley Hanmo is a self-taught illustrator specialising in paper collage illustration. She is often drawn to stories about music because she believes music is crucial in life.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 11, 2024

It means we're delighted to see graphic designer Jens Nilsson present us with this fun branding for a vegan junk food joint that offers an entirely different image. So, we were keen to chat more with Jens about how they came about. We absolutely love these designs, which had our mouths drooling at first sight.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

Ever since Creative Boom began, illustrators have told us they love getting back to the basicsdrawing and painting hands-on with traditional media. I mostly use watercolour inks as it's the fastest medium. I love using dagger and sword brushes to add more variety in line work and to add life and movement to the image," says Jacqueline.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Workroom founder Brigid McMullen also throws "strategy" into the bin, claiming that people use it without specifying which kind of strategy they mean (business, creative, digital who knows?!). This word is literally useless until and unless we use it accurately," she says. "We It should be about risk and, yes, possibly failure.

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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. Context shapes us more than we think." I don't think so.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

During his studies in Architecture, Charles Young discovered a love of paper and crafting miniature model buildings featuring the tiniest detail, and even bringing his sculptures to life by animating them to create delightful stop motion shorts. For most of the papercraft work, Young uses an ordinary 200gsm watercolour paper.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 7, 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. After all, ultimately, designers today are still trying to fit a lot in a small rectangle, just one that appears on a screen rather than paper.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 28, 2024

Tiny came about as part of a broad appraisal of my life," Seb explains. Richly colourful, textured paper is juxtaposed against glowing metallic inks, the characters rising from the surface via crafted embossing. "I I always start working very roughly with pencils, paper, and pens.

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Creative Boom

MAY 26, 2022

We still want to see packaging that delights and surprises us – and so we love this environmental identity for Accolade Wines by Banrock Station. It comes in a 100% post-consumer recycled glass cullet, with labels made from 100% recycled paper and closures made from 100% recycled plastic. In total, the pack is made from 95.1%

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Think about it: we spend an awful lot of time at home, whether working or just chilling out. This Los Angeles art gallery has a selection of amazing art prints for sale, all printed on premium matte artist-grade paper and touting gallery-like quality and colour. This keeps paper consumption low and sustainability high.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 14, 2025

I’d say it is a resounding yes, but only if printing on materials other than paper is useful, which sounds obvious. Find out more about how we test. Billed as a business in a box, this printer allows you to print images on just about any material you care to think of, from wood to metal. Why not try a subscription?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

© Bernie Kaminski Most of us delved into the world of Papier-mâché as kids and never looked back, but for US artist Berne Kaminski , it's a creative pursuit that stuck. It's difficult to be precise with Papier-mâché. Papier-mâché can end up looking amusing."

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 30, 2022

We're currently living through the kind of world events many of us have never experienced in our lifetimes and may have thought were confined to the history books. How did this epic project come about? We were engaged to bring a white paper of his to life that he had written about the economy.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The stress goes out as the creativity comes in with Fran Cieslar's oracle deck, which combines anatomical and botanical illustrations to help us see the inner world of our bodies in a different light. The set is presented as an oracle deck and comes on 400gsm matte art paper. How is it feeling?

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Creative Boom

MARCH 6, 2023

But I also think revisiting memories and giving new meanings to things makes us overcome trauma and heal. I create images to make us reconcile." © María Jesús Contreras © María Jesús Contreras © María Jesús Contreras © María Jesús Contreras Perhaps surprisingly, María originally trained as a graphic designer.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The founders both have creative backgrounds: Missy Dempsey is a graphic designer and illustrator while Josh Flowers is an industrial designer and CCO of a Sydney agency called Paper Moose. That’s one of the great things about 3D printing - from an idea, you can have a working prototype in a couple of hours.".

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 14, 2024

You'd be surprised by how many of us feel a massive sense of inertia at this time of year, making it challenging to regain the creative momentum we once had. That might sound counterintuitive if you think creativity is all about spontaneity and going with the flow. So this year, I divided some blank paper into boxes of equal size.

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Creative Boom

MAY 2, 2022

Perhaps this is down to the fact that she's always been interested in putting pen to paper, having drawn since a young age while growing up in Taiwan City. But I always loved to draw," she says, "so I built up a second career as a freelance illustrator." "There was a time when everyone discussed what they disliked the most about meals.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 18, 2024

As the golden days of August fade into memory, many of us find ourselves at a crossroads. For example, you might create a cosy reading nook where phones and tablets are not allowed or set up an art station with traditional materials like paints, pencils and paper. Adopt mindful use of social media There's no getting away from it.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 18, 2023

It seems to me that the world is sometimes as long and unforgiving as the winters in the UK, stripping hope and discolouring us," he tells Creative Boom. The environment I talk about is not just as simple or vague as what I see, but it has become a kind of spiritual sustenance and hope for me." Rasato concludes.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 4, 2022

We chatted to Marcel about how he developed his distinctive style and dealt with the lockdown and the influence of Instagram. What is it about these techniques that you love so much? This means it takes all of your concentration, and you can forget about everything else apart from the painting. © Marcel George. © Marcel George.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 29, 2022

If you think about the typography trends of recent years, one, in particular, stands out. In the meantime, we chatted to Jon Dowling, co-founder of Counterprint, about what inspired the book, some favourite projects, and the increasing richness of modern visual identities. What inspired the book? The book started as a bit of a joke.

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Creative Boom

MAY 2, 2022

We're talking about some of the biggest creative agencies globally, like Pentagram and UsTwo, where we see some decor staples. We want our workspaces to say something about us and what we love. There's just something about this humble plant that appeals to designers everywhere. The best thing about a board on your wall?

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Creative Boom

JULY 7, 2023

All about algorithms Like any new craze, it was fun for a while. But there's certainly nothing new about it any more. And while many of us joined these platforms during their fun, "anything goes" eras, when everything was about the users, now it's all about the algorithms and their use to make venture capitalists vast amounts of money.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 31, 2022

Want to know about the latest packaging trends? The new design was made from 99% paper, fully recyclable, and exactly sculpted to the form of the bottle. Highlighting the bottle's iconic curves, the minimalist paper shell provides a soft touch and finely engraved texture that really gives it a luxury feel. Social conscience.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 22, 2024

There's no better person to explain why creatives should journal than award-winning author, founder and CEO Susie deVille, who wrote about the power of journaling in her book, Buoyant. Seemingly powerless and small next to our fear, a journal can transport us to the shores of safety and calm. "By And be practical too.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2022

Looking at the works of American paper artist Carolyn Beehler , one would assume they are impressionist oil paintings. It's my first journalistic collection," she tells us. My latest series began as a celebration of my hometown," she tells us. For us, we see a resilient spirit during what has been an intense period of history.

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Creative Boom

MAY 22, 2024

It was an approach which evolved out of Ke's university research, where she learnt about artificial languages such as emojis and the Martian language. Its original concept sketches were drawn on paper with a brush and ink, which were then used as references for the art style.

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Graphic Design Junction

AUGUST 9, 2021

The mockup offers great flexibility in terms of customizability, meaning you can change the paper color, background, and a lot more. Free Moodboard Paper Color Pallete Mockup With Dry Palm Branch. Free Single Coffee US Letter Flyer Mockup. Free Kraft Paper Gift Bag Mockup. Free Download. Free Download. Free Download.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 13, 2024

On paper, at least, you're living the dream. Times when you're short on sleep because you've been up all night working or worrying about a nightmare client. And here's one that really hit home with us at Creative Boom. And this isn't just about feeling like a better person (although that in itself is a good thing).

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Design Milk

AUGUST 3, 2021

Every other week we’re inviting one of the Design Milk team to share five personal favorites – an opportunity for each of us to reveal the sort of designs we use and appreciate in our own lives from a more personal perspective. One of his latest pieces, Hull 04 (above) introduces a new material: pulped paper.

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Creative Boom

JULY 11, 2022

Images layer up to bring us waves crashing through hallways and shimmering rooms that appear, even if not always literally, to be submerged in some way. This is your first ever exhibition outside of the US. What is it about Maine that makes for such a good photographic study? © Jeffery C. © Jeffery C. © Jeffery C. © Jeffery C.

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Creative Boom

JULY 21, 2024

There's no point being coy about it. The twin onslaughts of online shopping and remote working mean a lot of people aren't heading into town as often, and local authorities need to think long and hard about how they tackle this. In many cases, our town centres just aren't what they were.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 28, 2023

New York-based illustrator Junjun Chen asks readers to confront and reframe their fears in Tea for Three, a picture book-cum-graphic novel about a little girl in a dreamy world where a giant monster stalks the land. But it is not a bad thing; fear can be transferred into motivation to push us forward. Everyone has a fear.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Available exclusively via its Shop with themes that celebrate humanity and remind us of our place in the world while bringing a little creative joy to our home and studio walls. We'll now share a little more detail about each of the eight artists below and give you an overview of the exclusive print they've created for Creative Boom.

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