Graphic Mama

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Here’s a fresh look at what’s coming up in design for 2025! We’ll go on a hunt for bold, abstract, and naturalist designs, cutting-edge AI tools, and so much more, all pushing boundaries and rethinking what we already know about design. Here are the Top 10 Graphic Design Trends in 2025: 1.

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JULY 15, 2025

Words Paul Moore — Date 15 July 2025 Work Creative Industry Graphic Design Book Typography Logo Rebrand Branding After designing Inclusive Sans , a research-driven typeface focused on accessibility and readability, the designer Olivia King revealed a gap in available typefaces that were both accessible and suitable for branding.

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JUNE 19, 2025

POV Forward Thinking Review of the Year Editorial Team Jenny Brewer Olivia Hingley Ellis Tree Elizabeth Goodspeed Liz Gorny Extra nice Extra Search Account Social Geometric mischief: Elya Akateva’s posters prove how much you can do with the default Challenging system settings, these forward-thinking graphics show a refusal of control.

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Inkbot Design

JUNE 26, 2025

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] Graphic Designer Skills: What Design Students Need To Develop Design learners often look for ways to sharpen their talent. Graphic designer skills include layout knowledge, colour use, and typography principles.

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JUNE 16, 2025

Words Sponsored Content — Date 16 June 2025 Sponsored Content Work Graphic Design Illustration Exhibition Sustainability This summer, New Designers returns to London for its 40th anniversary – it’s a milestone that feels as much about celebrating the future as it is about honouring the past.

Arts and Crafts

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JULY 15, 2025

Words Paul Moore — Date 16 July 2025 Work Creative Industry Product Design Web Design Identity App Branding We can all sniff out a pretentious rebrand. So, we returned to the idea they had previously decided against (and where we had initially started), but with a fresh perspective,” says Richard. It was a truer one.

Self-employed

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JULY 16, 2025

Reading "Designer Gabrielle Adam is." Words Ellis Tree — Date 16 July 2025 Work Graphic Design Typography Packaging Logo Rebrand Identity Branding Process The inspiration behind Gabrielle Adam’s bold branding work is usually anything “cheesy, kitsch or fun”, she says.

Inspiration

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JUNE 12, 2025

Words Ellis Tree — Date 12 June 2025 Work Art Graphic Design Print Poster Exhibition Sport Community If you’re an Ipswich Town fan you’ll probably be more than familiar with the fan song Call Me Ted – an anthem that’s belted across the stands on match day weekends.

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JULY 10, 2025

Riya is inspired by a community built around the London Alternative Photography Collective, who encourage experimentation in the form. One project that encapsulates this is Germination , which reflects on the idea of growth, literally and metaphorically. I am part of that nature, just as you are,” says Riya.

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Design Week

JULY 17, 2025

We’ve sourced them from showcases like D&AD’s New Blood and New Designers, but we also asked our community to nominate people and projects they spotted at degree shows up and down the country. A worthy winner of the Design Council/Kearney Design for Planet prize.

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AUGUST 7, 2025

Words Sudi Jama — Date 7 August 2025 Work Graphic Design Typography Logo Art Direction Food & Drink Branding Bouquet, a collection of infused flavoured syrups for cocktails, coffees and more, is the brainchild of food scientist and innovator Caroline Lafleur.

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JULY 8, 2025

POV Forward Thinking Review of the Year Editorial Team Jenny Brewer Olivia Hingley Ellis Tree Elizabeth Goodspeed Liz Gorny Extra nice Extra Search Account Social How small studios stay independent in Korea Our Seoul correspondent finds links between small business and design innovation. Words James Chae — Date 8 July 2025 Tags The View From.

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JULY 30, 2025

Words Ellis Tree — Date 30 July 2025 Work Graphic Design Typography Font Logo Identity Process The London-based designer Ciaran Birch has moved into the freelance life since we last caught up with him way back in 2019.

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JUNE 23, 2025

Words Ellis Tree — Date 23 June 2025 Work Graphic Design Print Risograph Poster Politics Environmentalism Community When you grow up in West Cumbria, where “there’s more sheep than there are human beings”, and you’re into art, punk and anarchy, you have to quite actively create a different kind of cultural scene to countryside monotony.

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JUNE 19, 2025

To mark the occasion, we’re publishing a series of articles exploring what it means to be a creative starting out today. It can be a major barrier to entry for many creatives, stifling their ideas and confidence. But it doesn’t have to be pricey to make good ideas come to life.

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JULY 2, 2025

Now, his latest triumph is a chaotic intro sequence, in collaboration with Studio Soi for Cartoon Network, for the highly anticipated upcoming season of the Gumball franchise, now retitled The Wonderfully Weird World Of Gumball, with a new logo designed by the man himself. For those who don’t know, Gumball is an artist’s heaven.

Animation

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JULY 29, 2025

Alfie Wheatley turns Brighton & Hove Albion’s 2024/25 season into a series of typographic experiments The London-based designer turned a mixed run for his life-long club into a “rewarding” creative outlet. For Alfie, the spreads that work best are the ones that take direct inspiration from the rival team.

Sports

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JUNE 25, 2025

Attempting to encapsulate this sprawling project, Belfast-based Joel Seawright, fine artist and founder of Rotten Books, and graphic designer Lucy Jackson, lift the lid on how the book came together. Elliott Smith’s song Strung Out Again , which gave us the title, was a big influence,” says Lucy.

Photography

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JULY 21, 2025

Words Olivia Hingley — Date 21 July 2025 Work Graphic Design Print Typography Font Logo Identity Food & Drink Branding Process Trobar is a new bar-cum-cultural-space in sunny Mallorca. It’s a path that gradually forms, solid and coherent, allowing ideas and processes to unfold through design.”

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JUNE 30, 2025

I start each painting with a drawing or an idea, then I work it out with oil pastel studies,” says Michael. I tried to unpack the idea of hybrids and intrusion, the distinctions between inside and outside,” says Michael. Finally I make a digital collage that informs my composition as well as textural references.”

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JULY 3, 2025

This is why more and more people are embracing the clunky analogue with all of its strange defects and clumsy designs, the limitations of it, the personality. Sculptor and painter Seth Steinman may have an idea: at the beginning of all technology, stones and wood. But where does this regression end?

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AUGUST 4, 2025

Words Ellis Tree — Date 4 August 2025 Work Graphic Design Typography Font Funny Sport Process Like a lot of the best design projects, the idea for creative duo Los Crises’ Slide Tackle Font was completely incidental.

Fonts

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JUNE 30, 2025

POV Forward Thinking Review of the Year Editorial Team Jenny Brewer Olivia Hingley Ellis Tree Elizabeth Goodspeed Liz Gorny Extra nice Extra Search Account Social Rave along with Maxxing’s dizzying visuals Nightlife collective Maxxing is dedicated to bringing design to the forefront of the dance music experience.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

30 Free Minimalist Fonts: Less is More in Design The difference between a 10,000 and 100,000 brand often comes from a single font choice. While most designers waste thousands on premium typefaces, I will show you 30 free fonts that instantly elevate your designs from amateur to professional. The best part? It's a mindset.

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JUNE 11, 2025

His highly designed videos appear more like set pieces than the typical archival page, with a ton of thought put into the construction of the image and the relation between the presented media. For many, the 80s and 90s won’t be their idea of childhood. It’s like Where’s Wally, but one that involves your own childhood.

Photography

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JUNE 16, 2025

Unlike the aforementioned Crash, Lycien’s work isn’t tied to the idea of fetish or masochism, but celebration and storytelling. The photos in Cracks And Dents inspire openness and light interpretation, allowing meaning to be dictated whenever and wherever. Actually, it’s the imperfections that give things character and presence.”

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JUNE 26, 2025

POV Forward Thinking Review of the Year Editorial Team Jenny Brewer Olivia Hingley Ellis Tree Elizabeth Goodspeed Liz Gorny Extra nice Extra Search Account Social These Dirt Shoes grant you the mystical power of Mother Nature This wearable art object is made completely out of soil, spreading wildflower seeds by design with every step you take.

Arts and Crafts

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JULY 16, 2025

I like the idea that my images remain a little-open ended,” he ends “that it’s not immediately clear whether they’re comforting or unsettling [.] She joined as a junior writer in April 2024 after graduating from Kingston School of Art with a degree in Graphic Design. I believe each viewer brings their own reading to the work.”

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JULY 24, 2025

Words Paul Moore — Date 24 July 2025 Work Graphic Design Photography Logo Rebrand Society Branding History Good design looks good, maybe even feels good. Returning to the idea of vintage branding, the design of the custom logotype was inspired by Nebiolo, an “old style” hand-drawn typeface previously lost to time.

Brand

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JUNE 9, 2025

Words Olivia Hingley — Date 9 June 2025 Work Graphic Design Illustration Typography Drawing Music Process Over the past few years, Anna Mills has carved herself a bit of a niche creating bespoke lettering for musicians – the likes of Wolf Alice, Mel C, Biig Piig and Orla Gartland, to name just a few. “I ends Anna. “I

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Creative Bloq

JULY 27, 2025

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Artist

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AUGUST 6, 2025

Above One of Us/Netflix (Copyright © One of Us / Netflix, 2024) “I believe that we are in service of the idea, whether that’s characters, story, or the concept.” Their masterful weaving of narrative through innovative design choices affirms their talent; their attitude to their craft is dedicated, nonetheless, curating a distinct tone.

Arts and Crafts

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JULY 8, 2025

Words Sponsored Content — Date 8 July 2025 Sponsored Content Work Creative Industry Graphic Design Rebrand Art Direction Process Twelve years into their journey, Map Project Office found themselves at a turning point. We design through making,” says creative director Jake Weir. “So But their identity hadn’t quite kept pace. “It

Industrial Design

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JUNE 17, 2025

There were strong, often unspoken ideas about how girls should act and what they should be interested in – expectations that never quite fit.” pcm@itsnicethat.com View more from Illustration New Designers at 40: celebrating four decades of emerging creative talent 20 hours ago Sponsored Content Work.

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JUNE 12, 2025

Words Harry Bennett — Date 12 June 2025 Tags Work Event Graphic Design Illustration Festival Identity Share In Guanzhong, within the Chinese province of Shaanxi, there’s a traditional custom called Mangba Hui, which entails rural farmers inviting friends, family, and opera troupes together to celebrate the summer harvest.

Art

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JUNE 11, 2025

POV Forward Thinking Review of the Year Editorial Team Jenny Brewer Olivia Hingley Ellis Tree Elizabeth Goodspeed Liz Gorny Extra nice Extra Search Account Social Comma Type’s CMM Coda epitomises the influence of women in code From designer Anna Cairns, the workhorse monospace typeface is rooted in feminist theory.

Coding

Creative Bloq

JULY 21, 2025

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