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Is social media for self-promotion over? Creatives reveal their honest thoughts

Creative Boom

I've given up on Instagram," complains freelance book cover designer Alex Kirby. "I Mixing posts with forced advertising has made my feed less tailored to my interests and more about me being a customer for others.". I search 'freelance animator' and filter to posts to find shoutouts. So, how widespread are these experiences?

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The Sustainability Issue is out now!

Creative Review

Creatives have a significant role to play here: we have already seen how design and advertising have helped bring sustainable products into the mainstream, and creative thinking is also showing us the way to a potentially greener future. As we emerge into a so-called new normal, it is vital that sustainable practices are part of this change.

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Women’s History Month–Redefining Their Fields

Thinking Design

S öre Popitz (1896-1993) The Bauhaus’ only known woman graphic designer, Popitz distinguished herself from her male peers, embellishing her designs with blocky characters that depicted a uniquely female experience unseen in commercial advertising at the time.

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50 Best Design Blogs You Have To Read (2023 Update)

Shillington

Creative Review Founded in 1980, Creative Review is the world’s leading monthly magazine for advertising, design and visual culture. I Love Typography I Love Typography covers everything from typography and type history to making fonts, and everything in between, including printmaking to book history and occasionally calligraphy.

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Louise Sandhaus Uplifts the Stories of Graphic Design’s Unsung Makers

Eye on Design

Born in 1955 near Boston, MA to parents who were both creative professionals, Sandhaus grew up in the kind of design-filled home that had a printmaking workshop—which doubled as a ping pong table—in its basement. Even before she studied design formally, Sandhaus had always been surrounded by it.

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Chris Madden on becoming a graphic illustrator, the joys of editorial work, and how to enter the industry

Creative Boom

Combined with an aesthetic from traditional printmaking techniques, he's settled into a new role as a graphic illustrator. I'll finish my design course at Shillington, and then I hope to put the freelance life on the back burner for a while and work as a designer and illustrator at an agency or studio.

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9 Best Design Colleges in Los Angeles (2022 list)

Shillington

Otis Graphic Design students are offered study in UX/UI, typography and type design and other typical graphic design skills, whilst also learning printmaking and traditional letterpress skills. Students are also encouraged to take supporting courses in advertising, marketing and communications which are also on offer at the college.