Creative Boom

MAY 22, 2025

D&AD held its 63rd awards ceremony last night (Thursday 22 May) at London's Southbank Centre and handed out a record-breaking 668 Pencils across all categories. For instance, W Conran Design's 'Designing Paris 2024' was recognised for illustrating how design thinking can transform an entire city's attitude and behaviour.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 7, 2024

Illustration challenges are a great way to reboot your creative brain because they offer structure, motivation and a sense of community to help you out when you can't get motivated by yourself. Official illustration challenges 1. But on the other hand, January can feel very quiet and anti-climatic, so it's natural to feel sluggish.

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Creative Boom

JULY 2, 2024

Intricate illustrations evocative of the wine's flavour and codes of traditional Italian gardens feature in Pinot Grigio Flora Lisa's brand identity. wine category. Flora Lisa's elegant logo and intricate illustrations were designed to mirror the organic provenance of the grapes used at the Terre di Chieti vineyard in Abruzzo, Italy.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 2, 2024

Award-winning children's book illustrator Ian Morris reveals how he broke into the industry, why he prefers older artists, and what he keeps in mind when drawing for young audiences. Ian Morris's career as an illustrator has got off to an explosive start. My love for illustration was there from a young age," he tells Creative Boom.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

New illustrations are a key part of the brand's new identity, designed to help its new Greek and Kefir products stand out on the shelf. For example, illustrative elements have a bit more breathing room, and the messaging and layout of the packaging have been refined.

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Creative Boom

MAY 15, 2024

Whereas its previous iteration, the Student Design Award, required a higher education qualification to enter, the Cover Design Awards are open to designers and illustrators aged 18 and over without significant paid experience. 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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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Though "small" compared to massive repositories, PDIA is still an absolute wonderland with over 10,000 images, spanning everything from medieval manuscripts and early colour photography to 16th-century illustrations of celestial phenomena and Victorian gym equipment. The unifying thread?

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Creative Boom

JUNE 26, 2024

Today, Penguin Books has announced the winners of its popular Cover Design Award , which sees aspiring designers and illustrators reimagine the covers of bestselling Penguin titles. For Adult Fiction, designers and illustrators had the chance to reimagine the cover for Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins-Reid.

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Creative Boom

JULY 18, 2023

Or looking to commission an illustrator for a project? Look no further, as we list the best UK illustration agents around right now and the details you need to know. Looking for more money, better commissions, better clients and generally more respect as an illustrator? Illustrators on their roster include Alex T.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Hoxton Mini Press and Here Design recently scooped the best-illustrated lifestyle book at the British Book Design and Production Awards. Here Design was responsible for managing the illustrations," Martin adds. "We We caught up with the publisher to hear how it crafted a winning design.

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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

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

MAY 15, 2022

The work by Jessica Walsh and her team hopes to challenge the "stuffy" nature of the wine buying experience by championing "doing wine your way" expressed through bold type, bright colours and humorous illustrations. 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

California-based illustrator, artist and letterer Sam Rodriguez specialises in creating portraits that include the "unseen aspects of individuals." I decided to become a professional illustrator when I was 19 where I had worked part-time for a national news wire in San Francisco. But for others, the realisation has been more subtle.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 20, 2025

From soft, retro-inspired illustrations to packaging that demonstrates the product's effects, Them 1888's new milk powder brand is set to stand out among competitors. Since blue, white, and gold seem to be the license to operate in this category, the studio opted for a blue background colour to help customers understand that this is milk.

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Creative Boom

JULY 8, 2024

Little also notes the big masthead logo at the bottom and the inclusion of playful illustrations near the spout of the bottle. The studio also worked with illustration artist Olga Prader to create a range of folklore-inspired illustrations that broadly decorate both the bottle and the brand world. "We

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 11, 2024

The London-based studio collaborates with renowned illustrator Hedof to create upbeat and engaging branding for the Comedy Garden Festival. So we needed to have many illustrated elements and mini-illustrations, so designs could be updated easily if needed." This led them to illustrator Rick Berkelmans, known as Hedof.

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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

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

APRIL 8, 2024

Raw Perfections' identity features a logotype that conveys the rigorous testing process its ingredients undergo, as well as intentionally imperfect illustrations that guide users through the skincare routine. Everland opted for an intentionally imperfect illustration style that resonates with the Raw Perfection brand.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To further help the brand stand out, Ragged Edge realised that the category is dominated by stock photography, so it adopted an illustrative style created in collaboration with artist Rami Niemi , who is renowned for his fun yet simple editorial style and has worked with the likes of The Wall Street Journal to Vanity Fair.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Download font trials from your favourite foundries and create a visual overview using tools like Figma or Illustrator," he recommends. 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. I'm pretty bored with all the digital sans."

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Abduzeedo

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Seoul Illustration Fair: Redefining Logo Design and Visual Identity abduzeedo 1030—24 Discover the Seoul Illustration Fair’s dynamic logo design and visual identity that celebrates creative expression. The updated logo of the Seoul Illustration Fair integrates design and illustration to reflect the fair’s creative roots.

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FlowingData

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

As Hurricane Helene approached Florida, it grew from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane. Amudalat Ajasa, Aaron Steckelberg, and Julie Hoban, reporting for The Washington Post, illustrate the hurricane categories with an animated model that starts peacefully and then suffers through each level. What does that mean?

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 15, 2023

Design agency Robot Food has collaborated with Badger Brewery to create an illustration-led rebrand that balances tradition and character. Badger is strongly positioned to lead the charge within the premium ale category but to do so, we needed a bolder approach", he explains.

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Booooooom

JULY 26, 2024

Calling all artists and illustrators! We’re launching our first-ever Booooooom illustration Awards! There are X award categories to submit to: Everyone is welcome to submit one image to these awards for FREE. Members enjoy unlimited submissions and unlimited images for all award categories.

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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. This flower-like 'revolver' shape acts as a lockup device for the new identity.

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Just Creative

MARCH 3, 2020

They have thousands of classes in many different categories, as shown below. The top Skillshare courses from 2020 are broken down into these categories: Graphic Design, Logos & Branding. Illustration. Illustration. Illustrated Lettering: Drawing Intricate Floral Forms with Gemma O’Brien. Photography.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 3, 2023

Initial research and brief At the start of the process, Robot Food worked with the Goldmine team to analyse the category and take the new brand to the next level. Consequently, Robot Food developed a colourful, illustration-heavy visual language packed with personality, with clear appeal to adults looking for good old-fashioned fun.

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

Self-guided tour operator Inntravel's new identity by SomeOne features a suite of fingerpost sign-inspired graphics and hand-drawn illustrations, helping to convince new hikers that it can show them the way. The personal touches of the script font, illustrations and signposts provide so much character and individuality. "The

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Capturing the brand's nostalgic essence, the agency used a sophisticated, warm, naive style to illustrate home objects on clear glass jars. Unique screen-printed illustrations on the jars, meanwhile, add authenticity and emotion, giving that premium feel. It was like a beacon of simplicity and beautiful forms.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2022

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

While there are many illustration apps available for the iPad, the Procreate App stands alone as one of the most popular for professional and hobbyist illustrators. To help you navigate all of the amazing options out there, we have brought together the top 35 best Procreate brushes for illustration to help you choose.

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