Creative Boom

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Illustration by Mia Angioy for Creative Boom In the last of our special six-part series, we explore how sonic branding can elevate your brand's presence by leveraging Epidemic Sound's expansive library of music and sound effects. In 2024, the auditory experience has become crucial to crafting a cohesive and memorable brand presence.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 27, 2024

We just feel it's nice to give praise where praise is due and highlight some top agencies doing outstanding work and inspiring their peers. We share these names not to ruffle feathers or suggest that any studio not on this list is unworthy (that would be crazy!). Hopefully, their work will inspire you too.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

It has a great deal of equity and recognition in Mongolia, but wanted help in growing the brand outside the country. So they turned to global creative agency Mucho. This makes them unique, and it's the story we needed to tell and build the Gobi brand around." To launch the new brand identity, Mucho created a campaign titled 'Go.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The Canadian agency is all about smart, strategic branding that breathes life into real estate, cultural, and hospitality spaces. With a collaborative vibe and a knack for timeless design, its team creates brands that don't just look great—they feel like they truly belong.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Influur helps content creators get work with brands for a decent compensation. Studio Herrström explains how they crafted a fresh visual identity for the agency that can help boost their mission. So they turned to Austrian design agency Studio Herrström. It's a strange world we live in.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 21, 2025

Some elements of the new identity are inspired by the architecture of the brand's new home in Edinburgh's city centre, The Arches. The Glasgow team of international design studio D8 has designed a new brand world for Edinburgh Gin, supporting the redesign of its core range bottles, which happened back in 2023.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 8, 2025

While brands in the fusion space are already falling into stereotypes, STEP is standing out from the crowd with a colour palette inspired by the synthetic image of future plasma. Among Equals is behind the identity for new UK energy programme STEP, designed to position the brand as ambitious as NASA's Apollo missions.

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Creative Boom

JULY 6, 2025

Fed up with bloated processes and predictable design, Mischief Maker launches with a mission to revive brand storytelling through bold, thoughtful mischief. Mischief Maker, founded by Natalie Prout and Vini Vieira, is on a mission to reignite the spark in branding with one dose of carefully honed mischief at a time.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

At the cutting edge of conservation, Chester Zoo wanted a new brand and website to champion these nature-positive efforts. The branding agency soon got to work repositioning Chester Zoo's look and feel in a way that represented both the experience within the zoo gates and its greater purpose of serving nature as a whole.

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Creative Boom

MAY 22, 2025

With the judging process changing dramatically this year, which agencies won big in the D&AD Awards 2025? Spreadbeats by FCB New York won in Digital Marketing for what the agency described as "Innovation through nostalgic technologies." For many, it's the biggest and most nerve-wracking night in the creative calendar.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

To gauge the industry's mood, we've spoken to leading creative directors, agency founders, and industry visionaries about the trends they believe will define 2025. In an article we published in May, Simon Case predicted that AI will destroy jobs and create a movement towards one-person design agencies.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The collection of 50 best logos of 2024 you need to see and spark your creativity showcases innovative designs that are redefining logo concepts and visual branding. From startups to established brands, these logos set the bar for creativity and professionalism. Havalon Brand Identity Logo Design By Gideon Joshua 14.

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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?

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Over the years, Alexis has collaborated with some of the worlds leading brands and agencies, including Nike, PepsiCo, Hewlett Packard, Electronic Arts, BMW, Gatorade, Air Jordan, and The Washington Post, among many others.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Now, it has an identity that competes with global brands without compromising on its roots in the country's culture. Known for its unconventional campaigns and innovative designs over the last nine years, the brand contributes approximately 74% to the company's total revenue, selling millions of pairs globally.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They recently partnered with global creative agency Stink Studios to create an evolved and expanded design system that unifies Riot's growing portfolio of games and media. At the heart of this redesign is a deep dive into player passion, creating a brand experience that resonates across every game and media platform Riot touches.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 15, 2024

From creating captivating miniature worlds for BBC promos and music videos to crafting immersive experiences for brands like Jongga Kimchi, Scale Model Studios has mastered its field, combining the charm of handcrafted details with cutting-edge technology to deliver authentic, emotionally resonant storytelling.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 8, 2025

Starbucks is reintroducing its much-loved Refreshers drink to Chinese consumers with a major glow-up, including an innovative bottle design and bold graphic identity crafted by global design agency Marks. The change aims to carve out fresh space in China's fiercely competitive ready-to-drink (RTD) market.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

In today’s design world, logo badge designs are a popular trend that continues to inspire both designers and brands. Download Lumberjack Badges Elevate your brand, clothing, or designs with the 10 Lumberjack Vintage Badges, perfect for logos, signs, posters, or t-shirts.

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Designer Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In the 1970s, McDonald’s was at a pivotal point in its growth, and the fast-food giant sought to enhance its brand identity. They analyzed various aspects of the restaurants, interviewing employees, managers, and customers to gather insights into the brand’s strengths and weaknesses.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 3, 2024

BrandOpus has refreshed the design of McCain Foods' whole GB and EU packaging portfolio, which now includes a new bespoke typeface and printed brand assets. This latest project has seen the new brand assets introduced on pack across all products, from croquettes and chips to wedges and fries.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 24, 2025

From band rehearsals to brand strategy, principal designer Louiza Cookson-Rabouhi reflects on her creative journey so far and on why empathy, intuition, and curiosity continue to shape her work at Magnetic. Designing from the inside out Louiza's approach to brand strategy and visual identity is firmly rooted in depth over decoration.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Part of her prize was an opportunity to choose one of the illustration agencies sponsoring the awards, and she selected IllustrationX because of the company's history and global reach. Images from The Flying Studio, a book about Eadweard Muybridge. It led Fangfang to win a World Illustration Award in Animation this year.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Creative studio Mayda has unveiled a dynamic brand identity, drawing inspiration from its namesake – a mysterious island that appeared and disappeared from historical maps. Mayda is also the name of a creative agency founded in 2021 and headquartered in Brooklyn, which is built around a multidisciplinary approach.

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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. Every hotel and venue along the Croisette (and beyond) seems to be claimed by a brand, with many attendees clocking up 20,000+ steps a day. This year, I wasn't just running into big agency peers.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 29, 2025

Behind its emotionally intelligent brand is Copenhagen creative agency Studio Morfar, which helped shape Kin from the ground up. Blown up across posters and animated in-app, it acts as a subtle but powerful anchor for the brand. "We We didn't just need a brand – we needed a partner who understood our vision," says Yngvi.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 24, 2025

Studio Up North brings inclusive yet impactful branding to a global initiative empowering everyday athletes to "go the distance" for a meaningful cause. The brand's graphic centrepiece is a dynamic, track-inspired icon that doubles as a bold, abstracted 'C'a symbol of community, change, and commitment. This is a change for all."

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 30, 2024

How can branding help to communicate urgency and the dire state of the planet while still inspiring hope and optimism? WRAP started as a government-funded body that worked with local authorities in the UK and has since scaled to become an international environmental NGO working with brands, citizens, and governments in over 40 countries.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

A deep dive into how design studio TEMPLO reimagined GF Smith's brand identity, balancing heritage with a bold, dynamic vision that embraces colour, movement, and a global creative community. But even the most established brands must evolve. It was static in an era that demands dynamism.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 1, 2025

The traditional markers of success in the creative industries are a high-ranking, well-paid job at a prestigious agency, probably based in London or New York. Senior designer Rose O'Mahony, who's been at Springetts Brand Design for 11 years, exemplifies this shift. "I However, I decided not to become a design director by choice.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

Best of all, this is a flexible degree that can be tailored to your interestsfor example, in app development, animation, visual identity and branding, illustration, photography, typography and publishing, or graphic design in general. She continues to judge major industry awards, including Creative Circle, D&AD and Campaign Big.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 10, 2025

This year, that legacy has been reframed for the future in a new campaign and experience crafted by global brand agency Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR). The campaign is part of a broader push to unify D&AD's brand ecosystem and future-proof its presence across digital and physical touchpoints. We love the creative.

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Design Shack

JULY 14, 2025

Your brand is the key to a successful business. Your brand manual or style guide are the documents you need to help keep it consistent—they’re key to maintaining your brand identity. Whether you’re a small business, agency, or a corporation, you should have a proper document that covers all the details of the brand.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 20, 2025

From soft, retro-inspired illustrations to packaging that demonstrates the product's effects, Them 1888's new milk powder brand is set to stand out among competitors. Danish brand Them 1888 has set out to satisfy this demand with a fresh look for its powdered milk product Grow Up, designed by the Danish agency Simply.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 24, 2025

Merjin Hos Get a burst of visual inspiration from our selection of top illustration talent drawn from global representation agency Agent Pekka. So we turned to Agent Pekka , a global collaboration agency that champions originality, newness and craft. Karlotta Freier 2. Felipe Vargas 10.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 30, 2024

It's often assumed that B2B branding projects are, on the whole, not quite as interesting as their consumer-facing counterparts. And there's no denying that B2C brands have to do more legwork when it comes to standing out – it's the eye-catching stuff that attracts shoppers or prompts them to try something new. We discover more.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 12, 2024

A professional business card is more than just contact informationits a reflection of your brand. These templates are fully customizable, allowing you to tailor every element to fit your brands aesthetic. You can use this item for personal branding,identity,corporate namecard, business card or any marketing purposes.

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