Creative Boom

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Photography by Rick Pushinsky Samar Maakaroun has transitioned from running her own thriving studio to becoming a partner at the iconic design collective Pentagram. And so being invited to be a partner here is the design world's equivalent of being invited to be the new James Bond or Doctor Who. Samar Maakaroun. And no wonder.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The Collected Works, led by partner and creative director Justin Colt and senior designer Christian Townsend, developed a system inspired by biophilia, melding generative vines, blooming flowers, and sculptural rock formations into a strikingly fluid design language.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

For us, Mayda's name was such a strong representation of their creative practice," says partner and creative director at Studio Kiln Charlie Hocking. To express that, we expanded the central Y of the logo into a dynamic portal that leads us in different directions.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When my generation was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, most of us had no choice. And they've partnered with Out of Place Studio – a Bradford-based design agency specialising in arts organisations, charities and the third sector – to create a new visual identity for the scheme. Well, that may be true, but is that really surprising?

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Creative Boom

MAY 4, 2023

Focusing primarily on ground pork – the most consumed animal protein on Earth – Fork & Good mainly partners with food trucks and fast casual establishments, offering tacos, dumplings, gyoza, meatballs, and more universally loved cuisines. Until now, that is. Fork & Good is paving the way for a new industry to thrive.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 27, 2025

The fair-skinned among us myself included know that fake tanning can be a bit laborious, that weekly process of scrub, shave, apply, marinade, rinse. So, Lazy Tan partnered with Derek&Eric to build a stand-out identity to beat all the rest. Fake tan has existed since the 1960s, and tanning beds were introduced in the 1970s.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2025

After co-founding design consultancy Atlas and a stint as a Pentagram partner, during which she created identities for clients including Vitra, Tate and Phaidon, Stavro now runs her own practice with a focus on "designing a better world." We can't wait to hear what she has to say about all that.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 17, 2025

From Paris to La Paz, London to São Paulo, these artists are using their platforms to tackle social issues, celebrate cultural diversity and remind us of the irreplaceable magic of human hands at work. She has become a sought-after creative partner for brands including Nike, Cadbury, Tate, Primark, and Penguin Random House.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2025

It's a space to share the thinking and ethos that drive us. COLLINS Founded by Brian Collins, COLLINS is an independent branding and design consultancy based in the US, celebrated for its playful visual language, expressive storytelling and culturally rich identity systems. As Simon explains: "It's not a shop window.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 8, 2025

We needed an agency partner who could distil the complex science and technology of fusion into a clear, easily comprehensible visual and verbal language that will inspire and excite people in the same way NASA does," Methven adds. Maybe, but it's actually pretty annoying from a science point of view," May adds.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

With its previous experience in the food, drink and retail sector, BAGGI was the perfect partner to help them realise their ambitions. Baxter says: "Adding the tastiness and appeal of consumer food and drink brands inspired us to give a more delicious feel 'Mmmake your Mark'."

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2025

to create an exhibition that celebrates the senses," says Kit Studio creative partner Chris Bounds. It allows us to inspire, educate, and leave a lasting impression on audiences. That's what drives us." We worked closely with the Museum, BBC, and Operation Ouch! Balancing the 2D and 3D design seamlessly was a key focus. "We

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Have you ever partnered with a designer or creative agency in Africa? In this article, Chisom explores the idea that, despite what our instincts may tell us, our growth and success often come from embracing those who are different. Somewhere along the line, the world teaches us that strangers are to be met with suspicion, not smiles.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 16, 2023

To help sell that vision, Hermanos Colombian Coffee Roasters have been partnering with specialist branding agency Fellow since making their debut at London's Victoria Station. Fellow have been excellent brand design and delivery partners," says Santiago Gamboa, cofounder of Hermanos. Strategic, creative and bold.

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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. This is the kind of positive change we want to be a part of, and those shared values helped us connect from the first meeting," he said.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

More recently, the company partnered with London-based design studio Free The Birds to develop a global rebrand as part of a long-term strategic brand refresh. The impactful use of 'power pink' is optimistic, bold and mobilising and also reflects the brand's values, such as the brand's longstanding commitment to fighting breast cancer.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

And if you don't believe us, just take a look at some of the creatives who've emerged from AUB to make their own mark on the world. They partner with some of the biggest brands and agencies worldwide on everything from designing and building exhibition stands to full-scale immersive experiences. So it's a combination of the two."

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Design Milk

JANUARY 24, 2025

Basedow and Draga Obradovic of Draga & Aurel Photo: Valerie van der Werff The partners in work and life established Draga & Aurel , a multidisciplinary studio and workshop for art, collectible design, and furnishings, in 2007. It is a company that believed in us and taught us how to be professional designers.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 24, 2024

Vertical Aerospace, a Bristol-based pioneer in eco-friendly aviation, has partnered with Fiasco to redesign its brand and website. Fiasco digital lead Mike Frost explains: "With public flights on the horizon, Vertical needed a modern brand and website that appealed not only to commercial partners and investors, but the general public, too.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 14, 2025

For the book, Commercial Type co-founders Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz partnered with MTV podcaster and Pitchfork writer Molly Lambert to explore enduring musical duos, fleeting collaborations, and side project partnerships within bands. Think Wham!, Simon & Garfunkel, Lennon and McCartney, and the list goes on. "We and Sparks.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 1, 2025

Which is lucky, if you think about it, because the former will only numerically only a small portion of us anyway. Because we actually did ask fellow creatives this question, using LinkedIn and our own networking platform, The Studio. And why do we know this? That is success to me."

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

While Jaffa's original brief asked for "a close evolution" of its current brand, Earthling Studio creative partner Stephen McDavid says that further conversations unearthed "an appetite to move towards something bolder and more transformational."

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Creative Boom

JUNE 18, 2025

Independent London agency Without has unveiled a major branding project for Sodexo's US college dining offer, now called One&All, championing diversity through flexible design and a collegiate spirit. How do you create a brand that appeals to everyone without becoming generic? It's become a benchmark for how we build brands."

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Creative Boom

MAY 16, 2022

Thankfully, the Hopscotch team understood the value of a brand and saw us as a true partner. They didn't ask us to do the dog and pony show because they knew our reputation as a top branding agency. The promise of bright, sunny days ahead is partnered with softer, monochromatic hues to make the colours stand out. "A

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2022

As a founding partner and CCO of creative agency Area17 in New York, Kemp Attwood is someone who could probably share a lot of wisdom about a satisfying career in design. Kemp joined Area17 as a design director in the Paris studio before becoming a partner and returning Stateside to lead the New York studio today.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 19, 2024

This disruptive company is dedicated to using only real foods and simple ingredients across its growing portfolio of cultured foods. Good Culture is a partner of 1% for the Planet, supporting soil health and regenerative agriculture, and is a certified B Corporation. And the brand was happy for the agency to go down this route.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 16, 2023

Credit: OFFF / Vasava "This year, our approach was to capture the venue's vibe," explained Enric Godes, managing partner at Vasava. It allows us to show, metaphorically, ideas about the artists, the process, the skillsets, the downfalls, and consequently, it gives us a deeper understanding of the creative process."

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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. We partnered with Jonathan, once again, to craft Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail. It's more or less a work of art".

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 6, 2024

As long-time Brightonians, it was an incredible privilege for us at Good Noise to be chosen as the branding and design partner for Theatre Royal Brighton," says managing director Peter Collingridge. The team's boundless enthusiasm is infectious, and we loved that we could meet and work with so many staff members from all departments.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 21, 2024

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. In fact, they made so much noise about the need for an equivalent event up North, that countless design partners and brands have signed on to support the cause.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 18, 2022

Like many of us, Holly has recently taken some time to rest and reflect following two years of a global pandemic. Now that I'm back to working and making art regularly, I feel ready to challenge myself and take creative risks," she tells us. Partner Acceptance, 2022 – The New York Times © Holly Stapleton. How's It Going to End?,

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

GUT is a full-service independent ad agency headquartered in Florida and with offices in the US, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Europe. Global creative agency GUT is celebrating its fifth year in business with a new identity crafted by &Walsh that ensures visual continuity across the brand's international locations.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It's supposed to be the annual colour choice that gives us a sense of collective global mood. We discover more about a shade that reflects how many of us feel. It also marks the 25th anniversary since Pantone began this annual ritual, informing us of its officially chosen colour each year.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Much like its fashion sibling, the beauty industry often feels like it's trying to push us into being something we're not. It offers us images of unattainable attractiveness, urges us to invest in overly expensive products, and subtly hints that our lives will be better if we only look more like an airbrushed model than our real selves.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 10, 2025

To ground the identity in something visually ownable, JKR partnered with Studio DRAMA to develop a custom typeface: Pencil Gothic. It reminds us that while the Pencil may be the symbol of achievement, the journey is where the magic really lives.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

We're now massively excited to continue working with all our partners at Kellogg's and see how the 'Mind Popping' concept grows and evolves across different markets and projects in 2022 and beyond.".

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 28, 2025

If you're going to talk about being brave, show us the bravery! Outside copywriter Elizabeth Lepro argues that empowerment is often used to mask the power that already exists within people. They show what's possible when creators build worlds that readers, customers and partners actually want to explore."

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