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. Striped patterns add further texture, nodding to both deli counters and campus sports culture.

Brand

Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

Ever since Creative Boom began, illustrators have told us they love getting back to the basicsdrawing and painting hands-on with traditional media. Guests walk away with a one-of-a-kind memento that becomes a talking point, on display in their homes, and shared on social media. For the Mayor of London. It's all about the experience.

Artist

Creative Bloq

JULY 25, 2025

The new Detroit Red Wings logo is a soaring success The simplified design also allowed an extensive library of frames and patterns to derived from the logo’s symmetrical geometry. These serve for everything from on-screen overlays to stage backdrops. Visit our corporate site.

Entertainment

We And The Color

JULY 10, 2025

Stop the Scroll, Start Engaging with William Hansen’s Zelma Animated Social Media Templates Creating social media content that truly captivates an audience is a significant challenge. This is where the Zelma animated social media templates by William Hansen enter the picture. These are not your average static graphics.

Templates

Creative Boom

MARCH 24, 2025

In case you're unfamiliar, Stocksy is an artist-owned stock media cooperative committed to culturally relevant, progressive visuals that elevate industry standards. Best of all, The Curation Paradox offers not just analysis but a rallying cry for designers to reclaim agency in an increasingly algorithmic visual landscape.

Arts and Crafts

We And The Color

JULY 28, 2025

It moves beyond the simple dot patterns of traditional halftones, introducing a dynamic complexity that captures the eye and engages the imagination. This is a significant evolution from standard halftone patterns, offering a more fluid and artistic texture that feels both digital and hand-drawn.

Textures

Creative Market

JUNE 11, 2025

From dreamy Procreate brushes and retro patterns to pitch decks, wireframes, and sticker sets, Drop 41 covers every corner of your creative workflow. The Irena Matiash shop creates a variety of resources, from mockups to patterns, for illustrators and event designers alike. Retro 70s Seamless Patterns Vol. And the best part?

Arts and Crafts

Inkbot Design

JANUARY 8, 2025

Cracking the Code of Social Media Engagement: Tips and Tricks Social media engagement is more than just the likes and shares your posts receive. ” Engagement is the lifeblood of your social media presence. Brand Visibility : Higher engagement levels drive your posts up in social media algorithms. You've got this!

Media

A List Apart

JULY 15, 2021

social-share { @include colSpan(3); } Media queries The second ingredient for responsive design is media queries. Components becoming too small at mobile breakpoints Media queries prevented this by allowing us to add breakpoints where the design could adapt. . <section search { @include colSpan(3); }.social-share

Layout

Design Shack

JULY 14, 2025

Perfect for contemporary projects, its tall and dense letters are particularly suited for digital media, posters, and typography. With its robust, compressed letterforms, it amplifies the appeal of your branding, logos, poster headlines, and social media graphics. Features include uppercase, foreign support, numbers, and punctuation.

Fonts

We And The Color

JUNE 26, 2025

This article will explore why the Massive brand guidelines template is an essential asset for any serious brand designer or creative agency. The wrong colors are used in a social media post. Photography and Brand Elements: Art direction for imagery and guidelines for using icons, patterns, or other graphic elements.

Templates

Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

I use a systematic approach: analysing their social media presence, content strategy, and customer feedback. Monitoring social media conversations provides real-time insights into emerging trends and shifting consumer preferences. I've found that using advanced filters helps identify patterns in customer feedback and preferences.

Brand

We And The Color

JULY 31, 2025

It has dismantled the traditional gatekeepers, moving the power from galleries and agencies directly into the hands of the individual creative. You can teach a specific skill, such as advanced photo manipulation in Photoshop, character animation in After Effects, or the business of surface pattern design. Think beyond simple prints.

Arts and Crafts

Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Ensure your branding is consistently expressed in every layout aspectfrom CTA buttons to social media links. Think of a beautifully designed landing page for a travel agency with stunning images of destinationsthese images can become the focal points that attract attention. Imagery: Using images effectively can create focus points.

Layout

Creative Boom

JUNE 22, 2025

An Adobe Creative Resident alumni, Temi's approach to design centres around representation, using colour, pattern, dimension and texture to depict layers of his Nigerian heritage in ways that are deeply personal and universally appealing. Most recently, we chatted to him about Hyperfocus' work with creative recruitment agency Undiscovered.

Graphic Design

We And The Color

JUNE 29, 2025

This specific training data is what allows Adobe to state that the content you generate is “commercially safe,” a massive advantage for professional designers, marketers, and agencies who need to use their creations without worrying about copyright infringement.

Adobe

Design Beep

JULY 26, 2025

Perfect for music album covers, streetwear brands, and creative agency logos, Londoner font brings an artistic, rebellious spirit to any project while maintaining the sophisticated undertones that London fonts are known for. Glandish London Font Glandish is an adventurous London font designed with travelers and explorers in mind.

Fonts

Inkbot Design

JUNE 25, 2025

They're Memorable (Your Brain is Hardwired for Shapes) Your brain is a pattern-recognition machine. The genius of this geometric mark is that the solid, stable “M” can be filled with any pattern, colour, or video, making it endlessly adaptable and expressive, just like music itself. They work today just as they did then.

Branding

Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Social Media Monitoring : Keep an eye on conversations related to your niche on platforms like Instagram, X, or LinkedIn. A law firm might need professional letterheads, while a creative agency would benefit from quirky brochures. Consistent Imagery : Use similar graphic elements or patterns your brand employs. Listen actively.

Client

Its Nice That

JUNE 17, 2025

Words Paul Moore — Date 17 June 2025 Tags Work Digital Graphic Design Rebrand Web Design Music Branding Share Speaking to Alina Kotlyachkova, programme manager of ESH, a Moscow-based design agency concocted in university, I felt like I was falling down a rabbit hole. POV: Are social media pile-ons stifling the creative industry?

Graphic Design

We And The Color

JULY 14, 2025

When your social media feed shows you one friend’s update but buries another’s, a design choice was made. An interface that uses “dark patterns” to trick you into a subscription creates a feeling of distrust and manipulation. Recognizing this is the first step toward reclaiming your agency.

Digital

Design Beep

JULY 22, 2025

Whether you’re creating cinematic masterpieces, corporate presentations, or social media content, the right transitions can elevate your storytelling and keep viewers engaged. Final Cut Pro Transitions Final Cut Pro transitions are essential tools that can transform your video projects from amateur to professional in seconds.

Arts and Crafts

Creative Boom

MARCH 18, 2025

Topics covered include everything from creating memorable logos and developing brand voice to implementing effective social media strategies and attracting your ideal clients. Over time, this show has grown from Liz's self-described "extrovert who loves chatting" experiment into a cornerstone resource for creative business owners.

Inspiration

Creative Bloq

JUNE 30, 2025

Subtle symbolism leads with traditional motifs (cherry blossoms, pine trees, wave patterns), which are woven subtly into modern layouts. Joohee Lee, Head of Furniture at the London design agency forpeople , calls it out directly: Japandi. Creative Bloq is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher.

Arts and Crafts

Azure Magazine

JUNE 26, 2025

And so I was investigating how we can all, collectively as citizens, become more active participants in that transformation and give agency to people. PHOTO: QL Media House. A wave-patterned pavement embedded with 62 light rings and sensors becomes a joyful exercise in musical collaboration. PHOTO: Martine Doyon.

Publication

Inkbot Design

JUNE 27, 2025

So, whether you're looking to hire a top marketing and design agency or are interested in adopting the DIY approach, here are the best strategies to ensure your website and content resonate with your target audience. Alternatively, hiring a professional design agency to design your website might be a good idea. Let's get into it.

Web Design

Creative Bloq

JULY 24, 2025

But we analyse the patterns, understand the problems and develop solutions that fix problems and create better solutions. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. Visit our corporate site.

Brand

UX Collective

JULY 28, 2025

Social media and user-generated content platforms emerged, and the introduction of the smartphone created the app market. They didn’t follow design tool conventions, UI interaction patterns, or programming guidelines. The dot-comrades lost their agency. We lost our agency. This article aims to create this awareness.

Internet and Software Development

Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Let me explain how a simple Golden Gate Bridge silhouette evolved into one of tech's most recognisable symbols and why it matters more than most executives realise… The Bridge Beginning (1984) Some fancy agencies didn't create Cisco's first logo. Simplification creates adaptability across diverse applications and media.

Brand

UX Collective

APRIL 19, 2025

This framing has been remarkably effective in getting parents , schools, and even mainstream media to see Roblox as more than just another videogame. Ive written about these dark patterns before extensively. Roblox sits at the nexus of many gaming value-ads.

Education

Inkbot Design

JUNE 30, 2025

What patterns emerge? Your social media posts. Examples: “We are the only accounting firm in Manchester that specialises exclusively in tax for creative agencies.” Talk to people who chose your competitor. This takes guts, but it's invaluable. “What was it about them that sealed the deal?” All of them.

Marketing

Creative Bloq

JULY 10, 2025

News of Jaguars colourful (or as some called it, woke) rebrand was derided by everyone from Elon Musk to, er, Nigel Farage – and reportedly led to the brand ditching its ad agency. So what has parent company Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) decided to do next? Why, give its other heritage car brand a new logo, of course.

Branding

Creative Bloq

JULY 30, 2025

With the SNES classic now available for Switch, you can colour in or fill segments with patterns, create original art and animations, test you aim by swatting flies (well, why not?) Just check out some of the reaction from fans on social media. Now, Mario Paint has finally been released on Switch Online. Visit our corporate site.

Digital

Design Beep

JULY 25, 2025

RescueTime Best for: Automatic productivity tracking and digital wellness RescueTime automatically tracks how you spend time on your devices, providing insights into productivity patterns and helping remote workers maintain better work-life balance.

Project Management

Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Global creative agency GUT is celebrating its fifth year in business with a new identity crafted by &Walsh that ensures visual continuity across the brand's international locations. GUT is a full-service independent ad agency headquartered in Florida and with offices in the US, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Europe.

Agency

UX Collective

JULY 1, 2025

Image AI Generated: Midjourney The 2008 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike reshaped media labor, and tech may be on the verge of a similar reckoning. That’s the deal we have today: if someone makes money from a stream showing media you help create, you should get paid — but how much and how often is a quagmire. Patterns fray.

Entertainment

Creative Boom

JUNE 12, 2024

Unless you check the FTSE 250, you might not have heard of Ascential, the British business-to-business media company specialising in exhibitions, festivals and information services. The agency built the new brand positioning around the core idea of the "power of convening" at Ascential's marquee events. "We

Patterns