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D&AD Awards 2025: who won what?

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In other words, if there was ever a danger that agencies would make work primarily to win awards rather than serve the client, that's now history. In the network categories, Serviceplan took home Independent Network of the Year, while FCB was also named Network of the Year. In 2025, you have to do both.

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Hotlist 2025: the 25 most popular design studios, as voted for by their peers

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Others, meanwhile, would love to shout about what they've created, but their clients frustratingly forbid it. Their bold and fearless approach has earned them collaborations with clients across a variety of industries, from tech to hospitality. Studio DBD 13.

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Rise of the machines: How illustrators can avoid being replaced by AI

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Get real Some clients will be perfectly happy using AI-generated images on their websites, book covers, or annual reports. If quick and cheap are their priorities, then these are not the clients you should be looking for. Seek out clients who value quality illustration and can recognise an AI-generated image when they see one.

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Handcrafting the Future: How Scale Model Studios is blending tradition with innovation in stop-motion animation

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It's since grown into a full studio working from concept to shoot and completion, representing a stable of seven animation directors and boasting a client list ranging from Burberry to Hot Chip, Drumsheds, and Fontaines DC to Deliveroo, Lidl, and the BBC. MA students, in particular in animation, are often seeking assistance," says Kidd.

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How The Studio became an essential place for creatives to network and learn in 2025

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Your creative support network, finally If you've never heard of The Studio, here's what you're missing: it's Creative Boom's private, distraction-free sanctuary designed exclusively for creative professionals who are serious about their craft and their careers. Photography by Michael Godsall IRL Birmingham.

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Design Dept's Ali Martín Filsoof on building brands with substance and simplicity

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Ali Martín Filsoof A department by name, an extension by nature The name Design Dept comes from Ali's vision of a studio that would act as an in-house design partner rather than an external vendor, working within clients' cultures, processes, and ambitions. "We Our clients might change, but our point of view doesn't," Ali says.

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The 20 illustrators inspiring us the most in 2025

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As a result, this article features a global network of illustrators whose work doesn't just look beautiful; it says something, too. He has worked with hundreds of clients, including The New York Times, RCA Records, and Geographic, and has published numerous books with publishers such as teNeues, Walker Books, Comme des Géants, and Hato Press.