Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This year saw a record-breaking 2,000 submissions across five categories, with the winners revealed in a special ceremony last night. Phillips, who won in the Illustration for Children category, explores themes of Jewish identity, generational divides, and gentrification in his work. Benjamin is truly a deserving winner."

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For this year's show, titled Dream Awake, there were six categories: three recurring sections (Aotearoa, Avant-Garde, and Open) and three sections unique to the year (Natural World, Geometric Abstraction, and Crazy Curiosities of the Creature Carnival).

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Flexible design system A related challenge was finding a design system that can be recognised as Coop throughout the store but allows each category to stand independently and compete with the category leader. These spread across four languages and a wide range of categories, from batteries to frozen fish to freshly squeezed juices.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 14, 2025

Instead, Wedge turned to the food category for inspiration, tapping into a world of flavours to express Clamato's unique portfolio of taste offerings: Spicy, Salty, Savory, Zesty, Peppery, Fiery, Umami, Limey, Tangy, Briny, etc.

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Creative Boom

JULY 6, 2023

Split into ten categories, including Advertising, Editorial and Children's Books, the World Illustration Awards crown 20 category winners, with two overall winners selected by a 30-strong jury in a special ceremony in September. We wish all the contenders good luck and cannot wait to see who comes out on top in each category.

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Creative Boom

MAY 15, 2024

Representing the adult nonfiction, adult fiction, and children's categories, respectively, these three books boast a diverse range of topics for artists to explore. These submissions have been whittled down to 10 in each category, making for a total of 30 covers on the shortlist.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Whether it’s for event flyers, product launches, or website banners, the latest free fonts in this category are guaranteed to stand out. The latest free fonts in the serif category offer a balance of elegance and readability, making them ideal for use in brochures and professional branding materials.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 25, 2024

Founded by dermatologist Dr Alexis Granite, it aims to create a new category called "Affective Wellness", which combines beauty and skincare with emotional and mental wellbeing in body care products such as body wash, lotion, scrubs and serums. Here, Joonbyrd's brief was to inject joy and fun into the beauty and wellness category.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 12, 2023

In its 13th year, categories include Apps, Film & Video, Podcasts, Social, Websites & Mobile Sites, Web3 & XR. Other new categories for this year include Responsible Technology, Best Use of AI or Machine Learning, Sustainability & Environment, Email Newsletter Excellence and more.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

People can use the search tool, or browse our categories by artist, century, style, theme, or tag," Green notes. For those with a specific image in mind, the archive's intuitive navigation system makes pinpointing the right content easier.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 26, 2024

The judges went through over 1,800 submissions this year, choosing one winner for three different categories (children's, adult fiction and adult nonfiction), plus second and third-place awards. The third-prize winners of each category will receive a Wacom Intuos Medium tablet and Penguin Random House design books to the value of £100.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 16, 2024

They've now unveiled playful new branding designed to reinvigorate the category appeal to a younger audience. has a strong field-to-fork family heritage, and we wanted to keep that in play while introducing a wider sense of category excitement and impact," explains Greg Taylor, chief provocation officer at Elmwood London.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 18, 2024

Bath-based brand and packaging design agency Sunhouse has redesigned OG orange juice brand Tropicana, using heritage in a contemporary way to position it as the category leader and aligning with its new campaign, 'THAT juice'. Tropicana's rebrand coincides with a shift in the category, likely due to the turbulent economy of recent years.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

"Flutterwave is such a powerful and dynamic brand that exudes the spirit of African entrepreneurship and so our collaborative approach was critical to this, ensuring the brand remained authentically African while standing out in its category," says Roman Stikkelorum, managing director at Verve.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 27, 2025

Competitor research revealed that negative perceptions, such as streaky finishes, unnatural tones, and complex routines, burdened the self-tanning category. Derek&Eric was drawn to the brand's commitment to challenging industry norms while prioritising health, self-care, and quality.

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Creative Boom

JULY 20, 2022

Book Cover Award category went to Kerry Hyndman for her work on The Rich House by Stella Gibbons. Meanwhile, the winner of the Book Cover Award category went to Kerry Hyndman for her work on The Rich House by Stella Gibbons. Student Illustration category winner is Anglia Ruskin student Kate Rolfe for her work Navigating Dyslexia.

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Creative Boom

MAY 20, 2024

Amid the rising popularity of Japanese whiskeys, LOVE has designed a new brand that combines two cultures while staying true to the category's time-honoured codes. Wildmoor's "chiselled from stone" aesthetic aims to give the enduring, timeless quality currently missing from the category.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 12, 2024

Pet food brand Nutriment was founded in 2013 when raw diets were still a small niche within the category. The studio's account director, Emma Collingswood, highlights Robot Food's work on other brands in the pet food category, such as Harringtons, NAW, Wagg, and YuMove.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

We see this through exciting innovations in categories such as gut health with the launch of Gut Boost drinks in their ever-growing Kefir range." Meanwhile, for the Kefir and Greek recipe products, B&B worked on renaming, re-messaging and more drastic redesigns overall.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 8, 2024

Much like the fashion category, the interior design category operates in trends that recycle over time," says Cara. It applies them to the interior category, visually presenting itself as an exclusive brand whilst boasting an honest and inclusive pricing approach through an easy-to-understand visual design system and tone of voice.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These broadly fell into two categories. Using the Headshot plugin for Character Creator made it easy for Jose to generate fully animated 3D characters from historical portraits and photographs.

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Creative Bloq

MARCH 3, 2025

We've seen plenty of Academy Award-worthy graphic design this year.

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Creative Boom

MAY 15, 2024

The studio's head of design, Meg Jannott, describes the brief as "exciting and ambitious" while stressing the importance of the client's category as parenting is overwhelming enough without having to sift through hundreds of brands that don't resonate with them. So they stuck with the original name.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2025

Standing out in a competitive craft beer market With craft beer shelves becoming increasingly crowded, the challenge was to create an identity that felt distinctive without resorting to the visual chaos seen in much of the category.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A big requirement of the brief was to ensure Panda's branding "reflects and retains its position as the category leader while helping it secure new store listings and dialling up stand out on-shelf," according to the agency.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Red Antler used its expertise working with start-ups to design a category-disrupting dip for New York foodies. Luckily, Brooklyn-based studio Red Antler specialises in working with start-ups and new ventures and was excited to rewrite the rules of the dip category. The new Labneh company hit shelves across NYC this September.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Go back into the archives and find styles that may influence your choices or bend the rules and pinch it from another category or industry. "The clues are in the research: look into what's trending and avoid it," he continues. "Go I love finding small independent type foundries that push the boundaries.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As the judge and design lead at Taxi Studio Clem Halpin puts it: "It was just so beautifully minimal; of course, we have seen so many minimal packs today in any number of categories, but this particular winner within that particular category really stood out. It was like a beacon of simplicity and beautiful forms.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 15, 2023

Badger is strongly positioned to lead the charge within the premium ale category but to do so, we needed a bolder approach", he explains. Nostalgia is a great tool to harness, but you need to maintain relevancy when working in a category traditionally shopped by an older audience," he adds.

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Creative Boom

MAY 15, 2022

Playful in its manner, the extruded type is transformed into repetitive patterns throughout the identity, alluding to the brand's different categories of wine. At its heart, Stompy's new typographic logo is inspired by the art of grape stomping.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 2, 2024

To help keep himself organised, he breaks his work down into three categories: nouns, verbs, and typography. It’s easy to lose perspective when I’m not self-reflecting so I think of the categories as my table of contents, helping to examine the macro view of my work. It enables me to discover the voids I need to fill," he says.

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Creative Boom

JULY 10, 2023

Its Adobe Photoshop mockups cover a wide range of categories, including clothing, devices, OOH, packaging, print, products and retail. Categories include device mockups, out-of-home mockups, print mockups, poster mockups and apparel mockups. Art Directed 9. Mr Mockup Want a resource that's all about mockups and nothing else?

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Influur was already a successful enterprise, hosting a diverse community of over 30,000 creators across various categories for branded events and social media collaborations. But they needed a new identity that fully reflected their role as a disruptor in this fast-evolving space. So they turned to Austrian design agency Studio Herrström.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

With no true category leaders from which to draw inspiration, Otherway instead looked beyond the sector for inspiration. "As Although mortgages are one of life's biggest financial decisions, the category has historically lacked a human touch, so incorporating authenticity and emotion was crucial.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 8, 2024

Larsson describes the beauty category as "a design-intense category featuring a sea of minimalist designs mixed with beautiful flamboyant solutions"." According to Larsson, three things drew the design team to the project: "super-high ambitions, a passionate founder, and exceptionally high-quality products."

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2023

With the recent (conveniently headline-worthy) Sony World Photography Awards 'creative open' category winner Boris Eldagsen admitting his winning "photograph" was in fact "co-created" with AI. AI hasn't been without its controversies, of course.

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Creative Boom

JULY 1, 2024

Featuring 36 athletes within 58 shots, the animation showcases a diverse range of sports and captures the subtleties and nuances in the expressions and movements of each category.

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