Creative Bloq

JULY 29, 2025

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Photoshop

Creative Bloq

JULY 23, 2025

Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99 Art director Julia Jeanguenat, said at the time of the refresh that the brand was embracing the wordmarks "modular and flexible qualities", influenced by the freedom and versatility of its system of products.

Brand

Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 5, 2025

Free fonts are a blessing for graphic designers, especially those working on tight budgets or freelance projects. Download Font Dbacks Font Fonts tell stories, shaping words into art. They offer boundless expression, proving art isnt about price but imagination, shared freely with the world.

Fonts

Creative Bloq

JULY 25, 2025

Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99 Sign in here TOPICS Logo logo design Graphic Design Joe Foley Social Links Navigation Freelance journalist and editor Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq.

Entertainment

Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2025

Image licensed via Adobe Stock This year, we launched our own private community, which has quickly evolved into a lively chat platform and an essential learning hub featuring online sessions as well as real-life events across Britain. Feeling alone and isolated as a freelancer? Read on to find out how to get involved.

Networking

We And The Color

JUNE 10, 2025

Trying to decide which Adobe Creative Cloud apps to get? Here’s What Matters: What You Need (and What You Don’t) If you’re just stepping into the world of design, photography, or content creation, Adobe Creative Cloud can feel like both a dream and a maze. And how does Adobe’s new AI integration change the game?

Adobe

Creative Bloq

AUGUST 9, 2025

Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99 Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99 Image credit: Fernanda Suarez) This is the cover art for Laura E.

Illustration

Creative Boom

AUGUST 12, 2025

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We canvased creatives from around the world about ageism… and their responses reveal a pattern that's impossible to ignore. My experience was that there was nobody in the design studio over the age of 50 unless they were a freelancer," he reports. Sometimes it's visible in how audiences engage with art.

Self-employed

We And The Color

MAY 18, 2025

Take this Online Course by Pietari Posti of Studio Posti and Discover the Secrets to Colorful Vector Illustrations in Adobe Illustrator. Or maybe you’re a designer aiming to master a new, powerful skill for creating professional vector illustrations in Adobe Illustrator. The world of vector art is indeed captivating.

Vectors

Creative Bloq

AUGUST 2, 2025

Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99 Sign in here TOPICS logo design Logo Graphic Design Joe Foley Social Links Navigation Freelance journalist and editor Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq.

Internet and Software Development

We And The Color

JUNE 24, 2025

For designers and publishers, finding the perfect Adobe InDesign magazine template can be the key to unlocking a seamless workflow and a stunning final product. Download from Adobe Stock Please note that this template requires Adobe InDesign installed on your computer. What do they all have in common?

Adobe

We And The Color

JULY 10, 2025

A current of both excitement and anxiety runs through every design studio, freelance community, and classroom. When desktop publishing software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop emerged, traditional paste-up artists saw their roles become obsolete. Copyright offices are grappling with whether AI-generated art can be protected.

Arts and Crafts

Inkbot Design

JULY 14, 2025

Whether you’re a freelance illustrator, a brand designer, or a student building a portfolio , these apps turn your iPhone into a pocket-sized creative studio. Ideal For: UI/UX designers on the go Product teams and developers who need precise specs Freelancers in close client work Creative directors with remote oversight 2.

Photoshop

Creative Bloq

JULY 23, 2025

Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99 Make agility your superpower –heres how Im doing it AI "Tools evolve, the eye doesn’t" – why AI art still needs artists AI Afraid of losing your design job to AI?

Graphic Design

We And The Color

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Check out this amazing magazine template for Adobe InDesign. Download at Adobe Stock Please note that thistemplate requires Adobe InDesign installed on your computer. Whether Mac or PC, the latest version is available on the Adobe Creative Cloud websitetakea look here. Think fashion, lifestyle, business, or art.

Templates

We And The Color

JUNE 26, 2025

This is a well-structured 145-page framework for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator. Download from Creative Market Please note that this template requires Adobe InDesign or Illustrator installed on your computer. Whether Mac or PC, the latest versions are available from the Adobe Creative Cloud website—take a look here.

Templates

We And The Color

JULY 31, 2025

This model liberates you to focus purely on the creative aspect of your business—developing unique art that resonates with a specific audience—while the logistical complexities are managed by an expert. Why It Remains a Top Choice Freelancing provides a direct path to monetizing your expertise and building a robust portfolio.

Arts and Crafts

Inkbot Design

JUNE 26, 2025

Why Basic Art Practice Is Important Foundational training often begins with sketching. Classic art skills remain valuable in every step. Tools like Adobe Illustrator , Procreate, or Photoshop allow for fast image building. Looking at art from different places brings new sparks. A trained eye recognises what works.

Graphic Design

Creative Market

JULY 2, 2025

Neptune Watercolor Brushes This versatile set of 56 watercolor brushes brings soft, flowing watercolor effects to your digital art. Kestia Art Nouveau Typeface Capture the elegance of Art Nouveau in your designs with this decorative typeface, including uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, ligatures and multilingual symbols.

Arts and Crafts

Creative Bloq

JULY 28, 2025

Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99 Colour response is excellent too, hitting 100% of sRGB, 91% of Adobe RGB, and 97% of DCI-P3. Why not try a subscription? We take the total time taken to resize the images and divide by 5.

Photo Editing

Its Nice That

JUNE 19, 2025

The “starving artist” is a classic trope, but no one should have to skip dinner to make art. This make-it-work attitude is still going strong, with plenty of young creatives today finding innovative ways to keep making their art on a budget. Reading "You don’t need loads of cash." Not bad for a piece of scrap.

Animation

We And The Color

JUNE 23, 2025

This is where RedGiant’s minimalist business proposal presentation template , designed for Adobe InDesign , becomes an indispensable asset. Download from Adobe Stock Please note that this template requires Adobe InDesign installed on your computer. Minimalism in design is not about emptiness; it is the art of purpose.

Presentation

We And The Color

JUNE 8, 2025

You can purchase the set from these platforms: Creative Market YouWorkForThem Please note that to edit these files, you need professional graphic design software like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. You can get their latest versions from the Adobe Creative Cloud website. Here’s what’s inside: AI Files: For users of Adobe Illustrator.

Templates

Vecteezy

JULY 31, 2025

Whether it’s a stunning stock photo, a high-quality video, or eye-catching vector art, these resources are essential tools of the trade. Adobe Stock Adobe’s stock marketplace is another popular site like Shutterstock. Adobe Stock offers a large collection of high-quality images, videos, music tracks, etc.

Vectors

We And The Color

APRIL 11, 2025

Download from Adobe Stock Please note that this mockup requires Adobe Photoshop. The latest version can be downloaded from the Adobe Creative Cloud websitejust look here. This mockup is designed for Adobe Photoshop and utilizes smart object layers. Help potential buyers visualize your art in a real-world setting.

Photoshop

We And The Color

JUNE 21, 2025

Today’s tools, from Adobe Firefly to the AI features integrated directly into Adobe Creative Cloud , are designed to be collaborative partners. AI tools in the design space, such as Generative Fill in Photoshop or text-to-image generation in Adobe Firefly , are incredible accelerators. They are not here to take your job.

Adobe

Lisa Maltby

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Industry research After I completed my pricing survey in 2019, many Art Directors and commissioners of illustration responded. There are many costs involved with running a freelance business and these will vary for each illustrator. This all needs to be accounted for when calculating what your minimum fee should be.

Illustration

Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Whether you're a freelancer or part of a more prominent design agency, determining the right price for your creativity and design services is an art. Your time spent using tools like Figma , Adobe Illustrator, Sketch or Photoshop will be captured down to the minute. You can do this by tracking your time on tasks.

Client

Creative Boom

JANUARY 19, 2025

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Don't let other people tell you whether you're a success or not. Similarly, for art director Kirsten Murray , "Success is feeling inspired and inspiring others. For freelance illustrator and graphic artist Barney Ibbotson , success simply means "Sustaining an income and keeping my head above water.

Client

Creative Boom

AUGUST 11, 2025

From treasured childhood picture books to teaching art workshops in Copenhagen, the illustrator has built a practice based on observation, gratitude, and the quiet joy of drawing. The rise of AI, the pressure to produce constant content, and the instability of freelance work all began to take a toll between 2023 and early 2024. "I

Illustration

Creative Bloq

JUNE 8, 2025

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Internet and Software Development

Creative Boom

MARCH 18, 2025

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Fuel your creative fire with these hidden audio gems, which offer practical advice, inspiration and fresh perspectives to inspire the modern professional. This sense of full transparency creates a sense of camaraderie that's especially valuable for freelance illustrators.

Inspiration

Creative Boom

APRIL 22, 2025

Image licensed via Adobe Stock What's it like being a creative freelancer in 2025? For many freelancers, 2025 has brought an amplification of the traditional feast-or-famine cycle, with longer dry spells followed by intense periods of activity. In 30 years of freelancing, I've never known it this bad.

Freelance

Its Nice That

JUNE 12, 2025

Keeping this tradition alive and revitalising the custom for the 21st century is the Guanzhong Mangba Arts Festival, which has expanded the event to include art and craft activities, as well as a folk film festival, all with the aim of keeping the artistic rural culture thriving.

Art

Creative Bloq

JULY 6, 2025

Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99 Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99 What is digital art? Some art inhabits both spheres.

Digital

Creative Bloq

JULY 21, 2025

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Adobe

Creative Bloq

AUGUST 10, 2025

Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99 Ian Evenden Freelance writer Ian Evenden has been a journalist for over 20 years, starting in the days of QuarkXpress 4 and Photoshop 5. Why not try a subscription?

Filmmaking