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The 25 creative studios inspiring us the most in 2025

Creative Boom

They've spent 2025 continuing to push the boundaries of what advertising can achieve. As we wrote at the time: "Its balance between theatrical grandeur and self-awareness makes the campaign uniquely engaging." We're not designers, writers, advertisers or brand strategists," they say, "but all of these and more.

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How The Studio became an essential place for creatives to network and learn in 2025

Creative Boom

What began as a humble experiment has exploded into something far more powerful: a thriving community of over 4,500 members where freelancers find their tribe, employed creatives discover new opportunities, and everyone gets access to the kind of insider knowledge that was once reserved for those with the right connections.

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Richard Turley gives Air’s identity space to breathe through simplicity and parody

Its Nice That

You know the clichés – the self pride, the pompousness, the faux inspirational “here’s to the dreamers” – and so does Richard Turley, the creative director behind some of the most anarchistic and forward thinking visual identities of the 2010s. Reading "Richard Turley gives Air’s."

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Ciaran Birch on crafting custom wordmarks and harbouring a “half-baked” bank of typefaces

Its Nice That

For logomarks, Ciaran is finding versions that “employ some element of intrigue and mystery” to be the most successful in creating an authentic narrative for a brand; a good gauge of whether something works being whether it can sit by itself in monotone and still hold its own. Reading "Ciaran Birch on crafting."

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How to calculate your day rate as an Illustrator

Lisa Maltby

What does 150/day work out at as a yearly self-employed income? However, as we all know the self-employed dont get paid holiday so we need to deduct this time. less time may be spent on self promotion and more on communication once you have a reputation and more enquiries). US rates are usually much higher.

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How creatives are surviving the 2025 slowdown

Creative Boom

And it's the self-employed and small creative businesses who feel the impact first and most acutely. Every person I've spoken to, across a wide range of industries, is saying things are weird: FX, animation, illustration, design, editing, filmmaking, advertising, publishing, even the news business."

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Demystifying the reality of a self-taught designer: a day in the life of Rittsu Kogarasuashi

Creative Bloq

Image credit: Rittsu Kogarasuashi) Rittsu Kogarasuashi is a self-taught communication designer whose nontraditional approach to breaking into the industry was shaped by experimentation, fan art and free tools. Image credit: Rittsu Kogarasuashi) How has being a self-taught creative shaped your career? Here’s how it works.