Creative Boom

JULY 1, 2025

Designers were cast not as thinkers or makers of meaning, but as exotic menials—handmaidens to advertising's much louder machinery. Designers, writers, artists, directors, musicians, founders—drifted in and out of conversations that didn't include words like 'brandscape'. Starved of originality. You could think. You could talk.

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Its Nice That

JULY 16, 2025

POV Forward Thinking Review of the Year Editorial Team Jenny Brewer Olivia Hingley Ellis Tree Elizabeth Goodspeed Liz Gorny Extra nice Extra Search Account Social Designer Gabrielle Adam is finding inspiration in everything cheesy, kitsch and fun The more silly something is, the more likely it is the freelance designer is going to be a fan.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 23, 2025

Everyone from big brands and A-list celebrities to emerging artists makes the annual sun-soaked pilgrimage to the French Riviera. The Changing Demographic I first attended the Cannes Lions in 2011 as a PR account manager, working with global advertising agencies and household brands. And it's huge.

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Its Nice That

JUNE 19, 2025

The “starving artist” is a classic trope, but no one should have to skip dinner to make art. But plenty of artists and designers are still breaking boundaries with little more than grit, talent, and a cramped corner to work in. Throughout human history, artists have found clever ways to create without going broke.

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We And The Color

MAY 18, 2025

Do you find yourself wondering how artists achieve such vibrant, scalable graphics? Perhaps you’re an aspiring digital artist ready to learn the secrets. Discovering Pietari Posti: The Artist Behind the Course Before exploring the course details, it’s essential to understand the remarkable instructor.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2025

While a focus on growth dominates the political rhetoric, the reality for freelancers, small studios and creative professionals tells a starkly different story. Three major production companies have gone into liquidation this year alone, while countless freelancers report their worst dry spells in years.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 19, 2025

For freelance illustrator and graphic artist Barney Ibbotson , success simply means "Sustaining an income and keeping my head above water. As artist Gabrielle Malpas explains, "The fact that I get to make art every day as my job makes me feel really successful. That doesn't mean you have to earn a fortune, though.

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Its Nice That

JUNE 10, 2025

Words Harry Bennett — Date 10 June 2025 Work Graphic Design Typography Logo Rebrand Identity Branding Design agency How&How has rebranded Big Cartel and wildly reimagined the independent business-first e-commerce platform, repositioning the company as the new go-to for small businesses, artists and creatives.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 16, 2025

Sign in here TOPICS Colour Tom May Social Links Navigation Freelance journalist and editor Tom May is an award-winning journalist and author specialising in design, photography and technology. His latest book, The 50th Greatest Designers , was released in June 2025. Visit our corporate site. All rights reserved.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 12, 2025

Image credit: Linnea Kataja) Linnea Kataja and Bellamy Luna Brooks are artists in the Japanese anime industry. “The majority of my shelves hold various collectibles from artists I like, but we also have plenty of art and reference books here that are helpful for creating animation. Here’s how it works.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 8, 2025

Image credit: Magnilion via Getty Images) Draw what you see, not what you think what you see, is probably a recommendation that youve heard a lot if youre a beginner artist, but it can be harder than it might sound. In the video above, the artist Ed Cooper shows how to see like an artist by using imaginary lines.

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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.

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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.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 16, 2025

Impressed followers are praising this artists grasp of volumes and even calling her the next James Baxter after she shared a video of a work in progress on Instagram. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]); Visit our corporate site.

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Its Nice That

JUNE 11, 2025

The type family, hardworking in its structure – with Mono Sans, Mono Serif and Proportional styles – grew from a collaboration with artist Katrin Mayer , who initiated the c0da project in which the typeface was designed. Reading "Comma Type’s CMM Coda."

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 9, 2025

t,{A:()=>r})}}]); //# sourceMappingURL=bundle-kiosq-node-modules.js.map TOPICS 3D Animation Joe Foley Social Links Navigation Freelance journalist and editor Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. LATEST ARTICLES 1 3D artist reveals the best new features coming in Blender 4.5 Visit our corporate site.

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Design You Trust

MARCH 13, 2025

Starting as a self-taught artist, she later honed her craft at Dawson College before fearlessly diving into freelance work in 2019a leap that quickly earned her international recognition.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 6, 2025

View Trending Enter Brand Impact Awards Optical illusions Amazon Prime Day Indie games Recommended reading Digital Art Plein air painting goes digital: how artists are using portable tech to paint in the great outdoors Digital Art What is impasto and how can you do it in digital art? And its not necessarily a case of one or the other.

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Its Nice That

JUNE 25, 2025

After graduating, they both began freelancing and their paths were to converge – they remained online acquaintances. Looking back at his time at a traditional design studio Chase says: “It was a little more corporate and a little more safe in terms of design, so the only way I could truly experiment was to freelance.”

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 10, 2025

t,{A:()=>r})}}]); //# sourceMappingURL=bundle-kiosq-node-modules.js.map TOPICS Animation procreate Joe Foley Social Links Navigation Freelance journalist and editor Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]); Visit our corporate site. All rights reserved.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 14, 2025

You may like Plein air painting goes digital: how artists are using portable tech to paint in the great outdoors How to achieve expressive life drawing an an iPad How I use an iPad to paint from life in a museum The problem is, some in the art world still havent moved on. (If In fact, he mischievously may have expected it.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 7, 2025

How to use Unreal Engine 5s procedural tools (Image credit: Jingtian Li) Procedural content generation provides a scalable way to build tools and define rules to populate scenes with assets, allowing artists to create large, complex environments and assets dynamically and efficiently, You may like Want to learn Unreal Engine for free?

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Creative Bloq

JULY 11, 2025

View Deal Trending Enter Brand Impact Awards Optical illusions Amazon Prime Day Indie games Recommended reading Monitors Our favourite affordable monitor for graphic artists has an extra $100 off! Logout Read more Our favourite affordable monitor for graphic artists has an extra $100 off! Visit our corporate site. All rights reserved.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 25, 2025

I feel that this one bit of artistic licence I use really helps the image. TOPICS Painting Samsung Galaxy Dave Neale Social Links Navigation Dave Neale is a freelance illustrator working in games, publishing and advertising, specialising in drawing stylised characters, creatures and environments. Visit our corporate site.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 12, 2025

TOPICS Thunderbolt Ian Evenden Freelance writer Ian Evenden has been a journalist for over 20 years, starting in the days of QuarkXpress 4 and Photoshop 5. Its pricy, but if you can make use of it, it could be indespensible. He now mainly works in Creative Cloud and Google Docs, but can always find a use for a powerful laptop or two.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 19, 2025

Image credit: Decentraland ) Time is running out for artists and curators to apply for Decentraland’s dual open calls for Art Week 2025, with $32,000 in funding up for grabs. Alongside our open call for 3D creators, we’re pairing non-3D artists and curators with top studios experienced in building in Decentraland.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 27, 2025

t,{A:()=>r})}}]); //# sourceMappingURL=bundle-kiosq-node-modules.js.map TOPICS Animation Indie Game Dev Insider Nintendo Alan Wen Social Links Navigation Video games journalist Alan Wen is a freelance journalist writing about video games in the form of features, interview, previews, reviews and op-eds. __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]);

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 30, 2025

t,{A:()=>r})}}]); //# sourceMappingURL=bundle-kiosq-node-modules.js.map TOPICS Unreal Engine Animation Joe Foley Social Links Navigation Freelance journalist and editor Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]); Visit our corporate site. All rights reserved.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 22, 2025

Alida Pintus is an Italian freelance concept artist and character designer. But honestly, I didnt know what it was like to be an illustrator, let alone a concept artist." Thanks to social media, I discovered even more artists sharing their Moleskine flip-throughs. Here’s how it works.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 3, 2025

t,{A:()=>r})}}]); //# sourceMappingURL=bundle-kiosq-node-modules.js.map TOPICS PlayStation Joe Foley Social Links Navigation Freelance journalist and editor Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]); Visit our corporate site. All rights reserved.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 21, 2025

“When a director says you have one theme colour as a colour person, you always think that the complementary colour also has to be there,” says Sophie Li, a colour script artist at Science SARU. Every issue is packed with art and design inspiration Delivered to your IOS or Android device Never miss an issue From £9.99

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 20, 2025

Every option has its advantages, and digital artists working putting in long daily sessions in digital painting software or doing digital plein air painting will have their own needs. Final days to apply for $32,000 in artist grants for Decentraland Art Week 2025 Want a tablet NOT made by Apple? - __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]);

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Creative Bloq

JULY 18, 2025

Image credit: Hexecutable) Jenny Jiao Hsia, the creator behind indie game Consume Me, admits that shes much more of a visual artist because she struggles to express herself in other ways. "I Comments ( 0 ) ( ) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Visit our corporate site.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 13, 2025

Its therefore ideal for freelance architects, 3D visualisers, and product designers, as well as many other related professions. About Us Contact Futures experts Terms and conditions Privacy policy Cookies policy Advertise with us Accessibility Statement Careers © Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 18, 2025

If youre inspired by Yukas art and want to upgrade your kit, check out our guides for the best art supplies and sketchbooks for artists. For a more portable option, take a look at the best drawing tablets for artists on the go. When did you decide that you wanted to be an artist?

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Creative Bloq

JULY 8, 2025

TOPICS Amazon Prime Day MacBook macbook pro Joe Foley Social Links Navigation Freelance journalist and editor Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. Visit our corporate site.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 27, 2025

Ian Evenden Freelance writer Ian Evenden has been a journalist for over 20 years, starting in the days of QuarkXpress 4 and Photoshop 5. About Us Contact Futures experts Terms and conditions Privacy policy Cookies policy Advertise with us Accessibility Statement Careers © Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA.

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