Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

I think I'm much better at drawing today than I was back then, so I thought, maybe I can right a few wrongs – things I wasn't happy with when I look back on those early comic strips. So, while I don't really think too much about others being inspired by me, it's always nice to know that people appreciate my work.

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Creative Boom

MAY 26, 2024

Glasgow-based illustrator and animator Lesley Barnes invites you to mix and match outfits in a playful manner in her new interactive book, Fashion Play. If so, the latest book by Lesley Barnes is for you. I wanted the possibilities to feel endless when you flick through the book!" Lesley adds. "I I hope not!

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Creative Boom

MARCH 29, 2022

If you think about the typography trends of recent years, one, in particular, stands out. Big, bold type can be seen everywhere, from billboards to websites, motion design to motion pictures. So it's great to see a new book from Counterprint devoted to this very subject. What inspired the book?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Some forward-thinking about how to approach AI could help your career flourish. AI images are also popular for 'filler' online content designed to grab the viewer's attention but not studied too much. I don't think AI will take our jobs, but the creatives using AI will. It's the modern-day equivalent of clip art. Don't panic!

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 17, 2024

I think the chunkiness helps with that; it makes them look approachable in a way. This only adds to the organic feel of her work, which is balanced, structured, and hierarchical thanks to her background in graphic design, but also infused with positivity and inspired by nature. Created with motion designer Mat Voyce.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 27, 2025

Plymouth-based illustrator and graphic designer Beth Bennett is a fairly new face in the creative industries, having only graduated last year in 2024, but one of her recent projects caught our eye, and we just had to know more. Learning to make a design work with just one colour was an interesting challenge for her.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 17, 2024

When it comes to creating powerful and memorable advertising posters, flyer and logo designs, fonts are essential elements that can make or break your project. Whether you’re designing for posters , flyers, or logos, selecting an impactful font is key to ensuring your message reaches your audience. Beachy Display Summer Font 2.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2025

The third edition of the boutique festival showcases the brightest talents in design and creativity this May. And that's precisely the experience awaiting you at All Flows 2025 , the bijou creative industries festival that's rapidly becoming the UK's most talked-about gathering for the design profession.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Colours are a fundamental part of graphic design, but even using them in a seemingly 'incorrect' way can produce striking, eye-catching results. And it's these colour schemes that rip up the rule book, which is the focus of a new book recently released by Counterprint.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 17, 2022

In a new book by Manami Okazaki, the bond between the two is explored via quirky imagery and 'visually driven' design. Released by independent publisher Prestel, Japan's Best Friend is a fun and stunning photography book that takes readers on a tour of what makes dogs so important to Japan. I am not producing novels or manuals.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Counter Print's latest book, Three Dimensional Type, is a thing of beauty that will teach you a lot about this ever-evolving discipline. Three-dimensional typography has held a special allure in the design world for many years now. It has an uncanny power to captivate and engage viewers and lift your designs beyond the normal 2D type.

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Creative Boom

MAY 15, 2023

It's been 30 years since Neville Brody last published a monograph, and it's safe to say a hell of a lot's changed in that time – in his career, in the design industry, and in creativity more widely. The traditional design industry was anathema to me at the time – I evolved from a radical, counter-cultural place.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 23, 2023

The Do Book collection holds a special place in many creatives' hearts. The Do Book Company is an independent publishing house in London that grew out of the Do Lectures, which has been gathering together the world's doers, disruptors and pioneers to share their stories since 2007. But to be honest, it made me nervous too.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Hamish Smyth discusses the making of the book Classified: Local Ads from America's Small Towns and why it's a must-read for designers in 2023. If you haven't heard of Standards Manual , the Brooklyn-based, independent publishing imprint founded by designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth in 2014, it's about time you did.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 1, 2025

Everything from the rise of AI to the shakeout of agencies means that whatever stage you are in your career, you're probably thinking about your future more carefully than ever. Work by Max Bloom Work by Max Bloom Graduate Max had already been working as a graphic designer for a few years when he applied. "I

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Popular Instagram account Books About Food has amassed a following of thousands by carefully curating the best food books you may have missed. If you're after some creative culinary inspiration, you need to follow Books About Food. Sadly, the book was quite hefty, meaning Jamin could not fit it into his hand luggage.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 25, 2024

Icons and pictograms are so important to our society, yet even designers don't discuss them all that much. A new book explores their evolution and impact in our increasingly visual digital world. In an increasingly visual world, icons and pictograms have become the universal language of design. Iconic' was one such book.

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Creative Boom

MAY 15, 2024

Louis Martin, Cover Design Award 2024 Shortlist – Fiction Over 1,800 submissions were entered into the Cover Design Awards 2024 hosted by Penguin Books, and the shortlist of 30 hopefuls has just been announced. Everyone likes to think they don't judge a book by its cover, but in reality, we all do to an extent.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 17, 2023

London design and publishing legend Radim Malinic has released not one but two new books helping creatives achieve their potential. London creative director and graphic designer Radim Malinic has a long history in publishing, and we last covered his book Pause, Breathe and Grow: Notes on mindful creative life back in 2020.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The term illustration didn't even cross his path until sixth form college, where he studied art and design and discovered some books on British illustrator Ralph Steadman and professional cartoonist Gerald Scarfe. Even with some newfound inspiration, Hovey was still unsure where his passion for drawing could take him.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 7, 2025

In the new and improved brand, expect graphics inspired by art books on Cold War propaganda, spy movie posters from the 1950s and '60s, and vintage adventure and educational book covers. It should also feel timeless, like an artefact you could pull from a vault of government secrets," explains Fresneda.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

And here's one that almost every freelancer can anticipate in their future: that serendipitous moment of seeing your designs on products, posters, or publications in a public space. Similarly, for artist and illustrator Magdalena Pankiewicz , the turning point was seeing her cover design appeared on Wired IT last year. "I

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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. In terms of picture books, though, it was a copy of The Last of the Sky Pirates illustrated by Chris Riddell, which caught his eye at first. "If

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Creative Boom

APRIL 10, 2023

This new book reflects on two decades of creativity, but it's also about looking forward to the future, as the Sydney-based platform explains. The release of its new anniversary book, Semi Permanent 20 years Forward & Back puts the record straight, in beautiful fashion. And Semi Permanent, too, is firmly facing forwards.

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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. We caught up with the publisher to hear how it crafted a winning design. In an increasingly digital world, the value of a beautiful, well-designed book can't be underestimated.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Malin's journey began in Sweden, where she initially studied animation at the Royal College of Art Craft & Design before embarking on an MA in animation and illustration at HSLU in Luzern, Switzerland, in 2010. Otherwise, the artist draws inspiration from a variety of cultural forms, including books and music.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 23, 2025

Free fonts are essential in design, as typography shapes the overall look and feel of any project. Fortunately, there are plenty of free fonts for designers that cater to different styles and themes, helping creatives achieve professional-quality results without any cost. Vertiger Font Opening 2025 with a new free font.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 19, 2022

Illustrator, designer and author Aura Lewis creates joyful, colourful worlds where the personal is political. An MFA graduate from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, her lush, almost textural illustrations have appeared on murals, in the pages of books she's written, and in the titles of hit TV dramas.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 19, 2023

Paper engineer, graphic designer and illustrator Julia Yus recaptures the magic she felt when she first opened a pop-up book in her delightfully colourful and child-like creations. Do you remember opening a pop-up book for the first time? And she's not wrong. My process is based on experimentation and trial and error," she says.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Love design books? But in his spare time, he's been working on an intriguing project with design writer Jim K Davies. It's a book with the self-explanatory title of Logo Rhythm – Band Logos That Rocked The World. It's a book with the self-explanatory title of Logo Rhythm – Band Logos That Rocked The World.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Even if you love what you do, it's easy to get stuck in your own little bubble - something that Ashwin Chacko and Clive McFarland think is especially true for illustrators. Anyone who's gone down the solo career route knows it can be a lonely life. As illustrators and authors themselves, they know first-hand how isolating it can be.

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Creative Boom

JULY 10, 2024

Leicester-based designer Jess Wojcicki is recharging her creativity by entering the world of children’s illustration. She is launching her first book on Crowdfunder, with part of the print run going to children’s charities. The Very Long String is the book’s title, and it actually began as a self-directed student project.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I like to think that theme is to raise a smile or some kind of intangible intrinsic quality, like umami. These are interspersed with examples from the Play area of James' portfolio, including looping, kaleidoscopic patterns, and typographic and character-based designs. The website and reel are a letter of intent."

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This thinking is perhaps best evidence in his recently outfitted brand-new Kimpton BEM hotel in Budapest, Hungarys historically-entrenched capital. Though Dutch Design can sometimes be thought of as kitschy or gimmicky, those qualities are always backed by some degree of ironic irreverence or innovative conceptual ideation.

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Creative Boom

MAY 25, 2023

Want to get into font design but feel confused by the craft? French type design foundry Blaze Type has put together a straightforward guide to demystify typography and make the practice accessible to everyone. For Matthieu, How to Design Fonts is a realisation of the sort of book he always wanted. "I

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Creative Boom

APRIL 3, 2023

Ryan Moore, partner at the Brooklyn-based branding, strategy and design studio Gretel, described Redzepi as "warm, disarming, and candid", recalling how refreshing it was to meet a leader so invested in celebrating creativity and teamwork. And most recently, the agency partnered with Noma on a lushly designed art book, Noma 2.0:

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

London-based graphic designer Kieron Lewis has designed a new take on W.E.B. Du Bois' 1920s magazine for black children titled The New Brownies' Book. Named The Brownies' Book, the publication was filled with empowering stories of black role models and inspirational art, stories, letters and activities.

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