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The 20 illustrators inspiring us the most in 2025

Creative Boom

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. Her work is highly accessible and engaging, making complex topics approachable through visual storytelling.

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Karlotta Freier draws with such freedom her imagery seems to float on air

Creative Boom

Perhaps it's this connection with what she creates that makes her so popular with clients—in fashion, beauty, and editorial. Exploring a client's vision is a way of expanding her visual language and toolkit. I like my work the best when I can surprise myself." Karlotta's work for Hermès, celebrating Chinese New Year.

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

Creative Boom

After co-founding design consultancy Atlas and a stint as a Pentagram partner, during which she created identities for clients including Vitra, Tate and Phaidon, Stavro now runs her own practice with a focus on "designing a better world." We can't wait to hear what she has to say about all that.

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50 fonts that will be popular with designers in 2025

Creative Boom

The result of a "happy accident", it emerged from a spark of inspiration that came to the studio while working on one of our client projects. Leiko by Visual Arts Institute Free for personal and commercial use, this display font was created by students at the Media & Design Department of Hungary's Visual Arts Institute.

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The 20 graphic designers inspiring us the most in 2025

Creative Boom

Her work spans major cultural institutions, luxury brands, and editorial clients, always with an approach that prioritises conceptual rigour over surface aesthetics. Together they produce work for clients like Phaidon, Nike, Tinashe, Tribeca Film Festival, and Interscope Records.

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From fine art to Photoshop: Sam Gilbey's illustrious career so far

Creative Boom

If you're a person who knows and follows the world of visual arts, I'd only have to say "painterly pop culture portraits", and your mind would go straight to Sam Gilbey 's work. But before we get to the 'what's next' part, let's get to know the man behind the artwork and how he landed some of these bucket list clients and projects.

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Metals is the design and direction studio shaking up music industry visuals

Its Nice That

Their commonalities lie in their come up, having both gotten their starts in music, visual arts, and worlds adjacent to these pillars. I think that was something that concerned me before starting to work with other designers, internal competition over whose idea gets chosen by the client… it really has never been like that.”