Creative Boom

JULY 6, 2025

The Los Angeles-based studio has quietly carved a space for brand identities that balance radical simplicity with cultural depth, drawing on Ali's own richly layered upbringing and global mindset. What unique brand truth can we claim as our own?" Designing for trust It's clear that Ali doesn't see branding as surface-deep.

Brand

Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 17, 2024

While the popularity of digital communication continues to rise, business cards remain a powerful tool for face-to-face networking and branding. The right business card templates can enhance your brand’s image , reflect your creativity, and leave a lasting impression on potential clients or partners.

Templates

Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Elections in the UK and the US led many big brands to put off their decision-making and budgeting – they want to see the lie of the land economically before investing in creative. Brands are more and more focused on not only telling relevant stories but also on counting on the right people to tell those stories.

Agency

Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

From digital painting to cut-paper stop-motion animation, this award-winning Chinese artist is passionate about creating visual narratives with energy, positivity, and a sense of life. Fast forward to 2024, and she's recently won a World Illustration Award for New Talent in Animation. The London Underground logo animation set.

Illustration

Creative Boom

JUNE 12, 2025

Developer and digital art director Dan Powell explains how he used custom typography and generative tools to design the brand identity for Frontify Futures, an exciting new platform that explores tomorrow's brand-building landscape. Who knows where branding will go in the future?

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Whether you’re working on branding, packaging, or web design, the right Japanese-style font can evoke cultural authenticity, elegance, or contemporary simplicity. This guide explores 70+ Japanese-style fonts , categorized by their design styles, and provides insights into how each category can enhance modern design and branding.

Fonts

Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This approach ensured the typography seamlessly integrated with the film's visual narrative while maintaining a strong, recognisable brand presence across digital and print applications. All elements in the animation were built using Houdini, a 3D software known for its procedural design capabilities.

Print

Creative Boom

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Paula Scher , Michael Bierut, Marina Willer, Samar Maakaroun, Eddie Opara and others have led some of the most iconic branding and design projects of our time, and it's ultimately Pentagram's ability to evolve while maintaining high standards of creativity that's led them to top our list.

Arts and Crafts

Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Elections in the UK and the US led many big brands to put off their decision-making and budgeting – they want to see the lie of the land economically before investing in creative. Brands are more and more focused on not only telling relevant stories but also on counting on the right people to tell those stories.

Agency

Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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. It has also ventured into music, comics, and TV, such as the Emmy-winning Arcane, an animated steampunk series for Netflix.

Media

Creative Boom

JANUARY 8, 2025

The London motion directors at Kitchen have unveiled a gorgeously dazzling and psychedelic animation for The Great Frog Vintage Market. Your eyeballs are in for a wild ride if you happen to land on any of the social accounts promoting The Great Frog a jewellery brand going back to the 1970s, famous for its eclectic rock star collections.

Animation

Creative Boom

JUNE 17, 2025

Lauren Hom Lauren Hom is a designer and lettering artist with a knack for marketing who loves helping creatives and brands get more eyes on their work. Her practice spans editorial illustration and animation, with a particular focus on projects that celebrate diversity and cultural heritage. © Maïté Franchi © Maïté Franchi 9.

Illustration

Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2025

DixonBaxi Simon Dixon and Aporva Baxi's London powerhouse specialises in creating brand strategies and design systems for "brave businesses" that want to challenge convention, including Hulu, Audible, and the Premier League. The studio had an exceptional start to 2025 by collaborating with Roblox on a brand new design system.

Inspiration

Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Retro-futurism reflects a playful yet sophisticated look, making it popular across branding, website design, and digital art. Branded Content and Advertising: Companies like Apple and Nike have incorporated retro-futuristic elements in their marketing, creating ads that nod to vintage designs but with a high-tech edge.

Graphic Design

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. Since its Netflix debut in 2018, Hilda has garnered global acclaim, winning both a BAFTA and an Emmy.

Graphic Design

Designer Daily

JUNE 24, 2025

On top of that, it can add an extra connexion between the customers or brand users and the brand, as the hidden meaning of the logo might be seen only by the most regular and loyal customers. 90 Percent At first, you just see the number 90, which perfectly fits with the name of the brand: Ninety Percent. Brilliant! Well played!

Brand

Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

With a dynamic new identity, DesignStudio's brand refresh for DNEG embraces motion, creativity, and innovation, reinforcing the VFX giant's position as an industry leader. DNEG, the world-renowned visual effects and animation studio with seven Academy Awards to its name, has revealed a brand refresh in collaboration with DesignStudio.

Animation

Creative Boom

JULY 2, 2025

They're all back thanks to a new animated series created by Maga, an animation studio in Italy. When rights owner Sanrio decided to create a new YouTube series featuring 12 of the Mr Men and Little Misses, Maga Animation Studio in Monza, Italy, stepped up to the task. Little Miss Sunshine. Little Miss Brave.

Animation

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.

Education

Creative Boom

MARCH 24, 2025

With offices in Helsinki, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, and soon Paris, Agent Pekka represents a hand-picked group of artists working across various disciplines, from 3D and animation to illustration and typography. Often collaborating with luxury brands, she brings a refined touch to editorial, branding and conceptual projects.

Illustration

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.

Brand

Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Whether you’re a designer, marketer, or brand strategist, staying ahead of these trends is essential to creating relevant, impactful designs. Staying informed on these trends is crucial for designers, marketers, and brands looking to stay ahead in a rapidly changing visual landscape.

Web Design

Creative Boom

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Mexico City and Los Cabos-based branding studio Bala was given this all-important task by Mexican beer brand Cerveza Cru Cru, who wanted a label design for their new beer where grasshopper - or "chapulín" - is the main ingredient. Though this was an exciting project for Bala to work on, the label's readability was challenged.

Patterns

Creative Boom

JULY 27, 2025

From album sleeves to immersive installations, viral hoaxes to iconic branding projects, Mark's portfolio blends humour, subversion and sharp conceptual thinking in a way that's instantly recognisable. DOPs, animators, photographers. Photography by Mary Wycherley @Two Cats In The Yard Under Neon Loneliness. It might never happen.

Freelance

Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2025

Supple Studio and Studio Spilsbury came together to lead a refresh of the brand and packaging system that puts the farm at the heart of the brewery's visual and verbal identity. But the brand's farm-first ethos goes beyond the logo. Expect homegrown textures, characterful illustrations, and evocative beer names. "We

Textures

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."

Brand

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.

Brand

Creative Boom

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Art Director, Brand & Creative—Spotify We asked the creative community about the fonts they're excited to use over the next 12 months… and here they are. Rhythmic Regal by RabenRifaie Studio A contemporary serif with rhythmic and elegant curves, Rhythmic Regal is designed for luxury branding. Sans Serifs 11.

Fonts

Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Their unique approaches often make their work instantly recognizable, allowing them to cater to diverse industries, including book covers , games, films, and social media branding. Artists team up with brands , content creators, and other illustrators, broadening their reach globally.

Digital

Creative Boom

AUGUST 3, 2025

As Iain Worgan, brand development specialist and co-founder of In-Col Studio , says: "I want to understand the thinking behind the work just as much as the output. Tell a story Let's start with the misnomer that a great portfolio is all about polished, eye-candy visuals. It's the story it tells that's the crucial thing.

Portfolio

Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Their elegant, timeless appeal adds sophistication to designs, especially in branding and editorial content. Kinetic Typography Animated or kinetic typography brings motion to text, creating a dynamic user experience. Custom Typography Brands are investing in custom typefaces to stand out in a crowded digital space.

Fonts

Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

James Wignall has curated a new reel to encapsulate his recent animation work and created a fresh visual identity to boot. Mutant Hands – AKA animator and art director James Wignall – burst onto the creative scene back in 2005, one of a new wave of creatives at the vanguard of the noughties motion graphics revolution.

Animation

Creative Boom

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Mark Conlan is an artist whose journey began in Dublin as an animator. The contemplative nature of his work, his style, and what he depicts really do resonate with clients and their audiences, leading to commissions for everything from packaging to travel to pieces for global brands.

Illustration

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.

Photography

Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Creating a logo for a startup is more than just designing a visual mark—it’s about crafting a symbol that reflects the brand’s identity, values, and vision. For startups, a powerful logo is crucial because it establishes the brand’s first impression and helps distinguish it in a crowded market.

Templates

Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

What started as an online hub for Flash animation lovers quickly became a live event that would eventually become a cornerstone of the global design community. Web development, typography, branding, motion and VFX. Pep Salazar. I remember a talk that a speaker (don't remember who) talked about something we now call Social Networks.,"

Digital

Design Beep

DECEMBER 3, 2024

As the world of branding continues to evolve, so does the art of logo design. Logos are the face of a brand, representing its identity and values in a simple, yet powerful, visual form. In 2025, expect to see logos with subtle yet powerful symbolism, allowing brands to communicate their values and story through minimalistic forms.

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