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The 25 creative studios inspiring us the most in 2025

Creative Boom

For instance, their recent bold new identity for the São Paulo art museum MASP nods to Brazilian modernist design traditions while reimagining them for a contemporary audience. As we wrote at the time: "Its balance between theatrical grandeur and self-awareness makes the campaign uniquely engaging." Photo: Sanda Vučković 19.

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Creative minds unite: All Flows Festival returns to Milton Keynes with star-studded lineup

Creative Boom

Photo by Mark Cocksedge Tiziana Alocci Joining him at All Flows will be Astrid Stavro, president of the International Society of Typographic Designers, whose powerful ideas and exceptional craft have made her one of the most influential voices in contemporary design. Your creative future self might thank you for it. Will you be there?

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

Its Nice That

Reading "Ciaran Birch on crafting." For Ciaran, taking the time to craft custom type styles gives a brand “more freedom with tone of voice”, and nailing this as a vital aspect of a project’s visual direction early on helps him to “avoid using superfluous decoration and fodder later on as a distraction”.

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Chris Charlton on life as an in-house illustrator: singular focus, shifting styles, and staying true to the craft

Creative Boom

Family and teachers appreciated his artistic leanings but advised him to take a more stable route, nudging him away from pursuing art exams. Instead, he bunked off to public libraries, devouring books on art, design, and surrealism. "It But people also like to see people with talent showing off their craft."

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The next design trend should start with your hands, not a computer

UX Collective

The Art of Suminagashi Japanese Marbling | Image source: youtube.com I find most design trends irritatingnot because they exist, but because too many designers follow them instead of forging their own. Thats like a sheep teaching wolves how to season meatits the opposite of self-preservation. Im not talking about arts and crafts.

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Humility: An Essential Value

A List Apart

I call it: The Tale of Justin’s Preposterous Pate When I was coming out of art school, a long-haired, goateed neophyte, print was a known quantity to me; design on the web, however, was rife with complexities to navigate and discover, a problem to be solved. It’s a personal one, and I’m going to make myself a bit vulnerable along the way.