Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From mouth-watering burgers to boozy ice creams, he's drawn up a dream menu of delicious foods throughout his career. Despite not pursuing the same career path as his favourite illustrators, he has always favoured the same pen-and-ink, analogue approach and has continued to work like this in different mediums.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2024

We caught up with her to learn how a dinner helped launch her career and why women are a recurrent subject in her work. As for what 2024 holds, Sol teases that she's currently working on a project that promises to be a big highlight in her career. Like most artists, editorial and commercial illustrator Sol Cotti grew up loving to draw.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Read on to learn how a membership can help you bring your concepts to life and create career-defining work. After completing his Doctor of Pharmacy program in 2012 and two years of working in the field of medicine, he took an indefinite hiatus in order to focus on his career as a commercial portrait and lifestyle photographer.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 15, 2025

Senior Designer at Nike Global Brand Design Retail Yenny Zhang takes us through her education and career so far, revealing the best bits and the challenges she faced along the way. That's when I discovered the joy of creating three-dimensional spaces and decided to make design my career," she says.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In 2020, not-for-profit creative community and mentoring platform The Arena set up in a bid to change this by arming aspiring creatives with the tools, inspiration and confidence they need to kickstart a creative career. Na’im describes being part of the fundraiser as “a full-circle moment”, as she came through The Arena’s mentor programme.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 1, 2025

Work by Max Bloom Looking to level up your creativity without putting your career on hold? Falmouth's online MAs offer a world-class creative education that can fit around your existing career and commitments. I realised if I wanted to progress my career and improve as a designer, I'd need to push myself and get a qualification."

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 23, 2024

The AOI has been a huge support throughout my career, and I've learned so much from the events and resources about everything from licensing to contracts and client acquisition.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 24, 2024

It’s a quote I think about a lot and have applied throughout my career. "If you love something you’ve made, move it aside and make another. Something my dad always used to tell me is you’re only as good as your last drawing. I always try my best to take lessons from each project and aim for the next one to be more successful than the last.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 21, 2023

Here's why you should fight the urge and how constructive positivity can boost your career in unexpected ways over the long term. In short, it's nice to be nice, and it will help your career over the long term. Positivity benefits your career As well as being good for the soul, this will also doubtless benefit your career.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

Studying graphic design here can really kickstart your career in the industry as this list of influential alumni showcases. His career began while still at university when he established himself as a freelance designer and worked on branding, web design, and brand strategy.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Illustrator Tom Woolley shows us how to future-proof your career in an evolving industry. As illustration agent James Hughes mentioned in his article, Is AI really coming for your illustration career? Some forward-thinking about how to approach AI could help your career flourish.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

At the start of 2022, Taiwan-based illustrator Poan Pan was at the start of his freelance career a recent graduate of Central Saint Martins, navigating the uncertainties of working independently. A pivotal moment in Pan's career came last year when he participated in an art residency in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2025

We talked to five illustrators and designers who take on private commissions about the pros, the cons, and what it does for their careers. Let's find out about the experiences of some illustrators and designers working in different media and at varying stages in their careers in this area.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 28, 2025

Whether it's financial, geographical, or simply a lack of understanding of what a creative career actually involves, there seems to be a lack of accessible resources out there to help people. At its core, it's a collection of engaging e-books with essential tools for mastering brand creation.

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Creative Boom

JULY 21, 2022

If you're at the start of your career, though, you'll have a lot in common with us in the early days, when we weren't quite yet steady on our feet and were still working out what we wanted to do and how to achieve it. A creative career is about evolving, so stay open to new ideas. But in reality, it's normal to make mistakes.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As professionals from various fields shift careers and venture into the kitchen, we are witnessing a remarkable fusion of aesthetics and flavor elevating the food industry to an even more sophisticated art form. In a world where creativity knows no bounds, the food industry is increasingly becoming a canvas for artistic expression.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We caught up with her to learn more about her work, and how a non-linear career has paid off. Speaking to Creative Boom, Haruko reveals that her impressive career can trace its roots back to the early 2000s, where she was raised by the internet and found her home online on digital art platforms such as DeviantArt and Shadowness.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 20, 2025

Credit: Estudio Gagarin Whether she's working with The New York Times, teaching workshops on creative voice, or crafting guides for cinnamon farmers, Roco Ego's career is a celebration of curiosity, culture, and the endless power of images to connect us all. Like many creatively inclined children, her dream was to become an artist.

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Creative Boom

MAY 6, 2024

The founding partner of Chromatic believes agencies aren't being honest about looming job losses. Are we entering the age of the single-person, full-service agency? In case you haven't noticed, the advertising and creative industries are on the cusp of a seismic shift driven by the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2025

LinkedIn's latest campaign, created by VCCP, speaks directly to Gen Z professionals facing career restlessness. The campaign, developed by VCCP, features three episodic films in which workers' inner monologuespersonified by their own sock-clad feetvoice their career doubts. We all have doubts about whether we're in the right job.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Additionally, this networking can establish valuable connections that will support you throughout your career after graduation. "MA students, in particular in animation, are often seeking assistance," says Kidd. Also, student projects are often submitted to film festivals, which also gets your work out to a much wider audience."

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 31, 2024

That is also where I began my career decorating and designing homes. We have busy lives and our careers require us to be in many different houses daily, therefore, we wanted our home to feel very grand but simple at the same time, with clean lines, open spaces, without being cold.”

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

But if you're at the start of your creative career, you can avoid all that! You'll probably get screwed on pay, so be prepared to push back When you look back on the early days of your career, one of the most maddening things is feeling that you were taken advantage of. It's not necessary to advance your career. I wish I had!

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

For Jamie Hewlett, Tank Girl represented the first step in a career that arguably went on to bigger and better things. In 2023, Jamie Hewlett recreated a 1996 image of Tank Girl for his Warriors series, based on a pre-digital image that was sent to the printers and never came back.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 23, 2024

The creative industries are not short on autobiographies, monographs, and more of the like written by established figures, many of whom started their careers in the 1970s and 80s. But recently, a new type of book by a contemporary author has entered the literary playing field.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A crowdfunding campaign has just launched for Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work, showcasing the career of the iconic British graphic designer. Editor Adrian Shaughnessy explains how it came about and why you should support it. Margaret Calvert is one of the biggest names in British design history.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Creativity For Sale is a how-to guide showing artists, writers, designers and other creatives how to ignite successful creative careers and businesses. Mindful Creative, meanwhile, is a roadmap demonstrating how to analyse and cope with the peaks and troughs of creative life, career and business. So I made them."

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 3, 2023

However, his move to Leeds in 2013 to study illustration marked a pivotal moment in his career. Much of his formative years in Leeds were spent at Duke Studios, a creative hub that served as a launchpad for his career. Growing up in the serene landscapes of Cumbria, at just 16, he enrolled in art college in Carlisle.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2025

With a career that's taken her from Bangkok to Toronto and now Tokyo, Choonet's work is a playful collision of cultural influences, personal quirks, and a visual love letter to life's everyday chaos. "I It's a simple philosophy but one that's shaped the way Choonet approaches her career and creative collaborations.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Help you stand out from the crowd and leave a lasting impression when applying for your dream career. Craft a Strong Professional Summary Replace the default summary text with a few compelling sentences summarizing your experience, key skills, and career goals. We created using elegance with a modern twist and easy to read.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2024

Originally from Guilin, China, Qianhui Yu has travelled around the world and settled in the UK to pursue her career as an animation director and illustrator. I love plant drawings and trying out different handcrafts; they bring me joy and excitement."

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 31, 2024

We caught up with him to learn how this results from a lot of graft and how representation has helped progress his career. It was his work that flicked my brain to the possibility that I could use my talent to create a career where I get to draw every day." However, he says that it is not as straightforward as it appears.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2024

We may believe we love our work and our career. Even if my career stops in the future, I'll always treasure the conversations I've had with readers who've connected and related to my stories." Be honest with yourself When you start out in your career, everyone will tell you to "fake it till you make it". Are we truly happy?

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It began as a way of sharing career advice because she was receiving so many emails on the topic. Since achieving her MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2021, Karlotta has been teaching illustration at various institutions in the US and Europe.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

And it doesn't matter what stage of your career you're at; such moments can make a big difference. One of those was signed by my agency within a couple of years of being with us and had his own flourishing illustration career." Simply take a step back to assess your career progress. Goosebumps moment!"

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 9, 2025

But while big studios will have insurance, many freelance creatives are uninsured or underinsured and face immense hurdles in rebuilding their careers. Galleries, studios and co-working spaces lie in ruins, compounding the financial toll estimated at over $10 billion. This is a wake-up call," says Cat.

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Creative Boom

JULY 29, 2024

His impressive career includes collaborations with jazz luminaries like Wynton Marsalis and performances with jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in both London and New York. This was the kind of project I'd been hoping for since kicking off my illustration career in earnest last year." I was beyond excited.

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