Design Milk

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As professionals from various fields shift careers and venture into the kitchen, we are witnessing a remarkable fusion of aesthetics and flavor elevating the food industry to an even more sophisticated art form. Bakery is the brainchild of Alison Dunlop, who specializes in bespoke cakes and chocolates with a unique, graphic style.

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Creative Boom

MAY 22, 2025

In some years, no Black Pencils are given out at all, making the awarding of three a significant achievement for these winners: Designing Paris 2024 by W Conran Design won in Graphic Design for its innovative approach to sports marketing. The Black Pencil winners perfectly embodied this philosophy.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 1, 2025

Senior designer Rose O'Mahony, who's been at Springetts Brand Design for 11 years, exemplifies this shift. "I I used to success meant being a design director in a big agency in London; my ambition after university," she explains. However, I decided not to become a design director by choice. That is success to me."

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2023

Image courtesy of Shillington Graphic design is a mysterious profession to many, but it's easily explained. We team up with Shillington to provide a jargon-free FAQ covering all aspects of graphic design. To many people, the job title 'graphic designer' is mysterious. What does a graphic designer do?

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Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2025

We talked to five illustrators and designers who take on private commissions about the pros, the cons, and what it does for their careers. But in today's world, it's something illustrators and designers are increasingly turning to. I got into private commissions from the outset of my career," says David.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Discover the best super clean resume templates featuring sleek, minimalistic cover letter designs and portfolio pages. The clean and elegant page designs are easy to tailor, enabling you to customize your resume quickly for any position. Minimalist Cv Resme Design 12. Perfect Elegant Resume Cv Design 15.

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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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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Today, graphic design work continues to be a competitive career path, with over 21,000 job openings projected yearly, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. As digitization and online marketing continue to be essential elements for businesses and brands worldwide, graphic design talent is in demand.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 27, 2022

He explains how he transitioned from graphic designer to full-time artist and what inspires his work today. Coming from a graphic design background, Patrick Nelson has been a full-time collage artist now for a number of years. So how did he transition from graphic design to collage artist? © Patrick Nelson.

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Creative Boom

JULY 21, 2022

If you're at the start of your career, though, you'll have a lot in common with us in the early days, when we weren't quite yet steady on our feet and were still working out what we wanted to do and how to achieve it. says artist and designer June Mineyama-Smithson. "So But fast-forward to 2022, and we're still going strong.

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Designer Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Web design, at its heart, is a marriage of technology and creativity. More than that, web design is a field expected to keep growing at a healthy pace. Whether you want to build websites for small businesses or create user experiences for innovation companies, an online degree in web design could be just the thing youre looking for.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 23, 2024

A Visible Distance interrogates the last three decades of design and creativity, from the commercialisation of the internet to the advanced technologies and practices of today. But recently, a new type of book by a contemporary author has entered the literary playing field.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Canadian graphic designer explains how she harnessed social media to help propel her into a professional career. But many creatives have successfully harnessed it to attract attention to their work and boost their careers. And Canadian graphic designer Janine Heinrichs offers a great example.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 20, 2025

Credit: Estudio Gagarin Whether she's working with The New York Times, teaching workshops on creative voice, or crafting guides for cinnamon farmers, Roco Ego's career is a celebration of curiosity, culture, and the endless power of images to connect us all. Like many creatively inclined children, her dream was to become an artist.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We chat to two successful creatives who started out in a different career, and share their best advice for anyone looking to make a change. Not happy in your career? Well, waking up every morning looking forward to work, and being in the right creative career, is a great start. Right then, I knew I had to try graphics."

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Creative Boom

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to become a graphic designer? In the old days, that would have meant spending three years at university, then moving to a big city and interning at a design agency. It may have seemed a little scary at the time, but graduates of Shillington's courses in 2021 and 2021 are now pursuing successful careers in the industry.

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Creative Boom

JULY 4, 2023

Victors of the 2023 global design awards recently gathered in Tbilisi to receive their gongs. Celebrating "trail-blazers, risk-takers and all those on the cutting edge of the visual design world", the Indigo Design Award is a prestigious global competition that anyone can enter. Check out the highlights in the video below.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 29, 2022

Big, bold type can be seen everywhere, from billboards to websites, motion design to motion pictures. As you'd expect from its title, Big Type explores graphic design and identity work where the emphasis is on, well, big type. (Or It seems to stir something in designers to create and view such work.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 7, 2022

So in this article, we've gathered together a mix of emerging and established women working in their profession, all doing wonderful things to inspire your own career. An Italian independent typeface and graphic designer, Alessia Mazzarella is a specialist in type design and font engineering. Alessia Mazzarella.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 9, 2025

It's the product of years of experience and reflection, shaped by a journey that took him from an early design internship in New York City – where he hosted workshops with legends like Lance Wyman and shared a BBQ with Paula Scher – to founding his own design studio, the CGB (the Contemporary Graphics Bureau), back home in Manchester.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 16, 2022

It'd be near-impossible to attend all the individual grad shows at each college and university – but don't worry, you don't need to because New Designers is back! This carnival of creativity gives design graduates a chance to showcase their work, find buyers, and connect with businesses to obtain career guidance and attend portfolio reviews.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

We chat with an independent designer and art director at YouTube Music about his inspirations, career trajectory, and the importance of learning from setbacks. When asked, 'What first got you interested in design?' That sounds like a bit of a paradox because music is, well, aural, and design is mainly visual.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 18, 2025

Liz Mosley In an eye-opening session for members of The Studio, Liz Mosley revealed how actively seeking rejection transformed her creative practice and why "no" might be the most valuable word in a designer's vocabulary. It was a deliberate pursuit of the very thing most creatives spend their careers trying to avoid.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

But if you're at the start of your creative career, you can avoid all that! You'll probably get screwed on pay, so be prepared to push back When you look back on the early days of your career, one of the most maddening things is feeling that you were taken advantage of. It's not necessary to advance your career. I wish I had!

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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 10, 2024

In her podcast, Women Designers You Should Know, the founder of Nice People explains why she's celebrating the unsung female visionaries who have shaped our creative world. Thumb through most books on the history of design, and you'll find them dominated by the narratives, contributions and stories of men. Where are the women?

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Make your Mark includes an animated smiling logo, playful fonts, bright colours, and bold graphics that reflect the vibrant nature of the food and drinks industry. Brand and design consultancy BAGGI is behind the design of the campaign, and their core aim is to showcase why the UK's food and drink industry is such a vibrant place to work.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 22, 2025

A career in graphic design might be the best option for you if you enjoy creative work. You may have the skills and knowledge as an innovative but considering the effort thats put into graphic design, quality training makes all the difference. Then again, your passion will only get you so far in your journey.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 11, 2023

After graduating from university, Beth became a graphic designer for a London-based football club and put illustration to the side for a while. "I I found I wasn't enjoying it much and was unsure how I could have a career in it at the time," she tells Creative Boom. Design isn't the only thing to inform Beth's work, though.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Larry Booth Shares the Places + Spaces That Captivate Him + More Larry Booths natural flair for design and architectural convictions have garnered him some 50+ years of professional practice where he has significantly contributed to Chicagos cultural landscape in addition to the broader academic arena.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 16, 2024

While not as smooth or sophisticated as today's impressive graphics, pixel art has a charm of its own that captures the spirit of the 1980s and '90s. I went to SUNY New Paltz for Graphic Design as a viable career path into the arts but always wanted to create something more personal."

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Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2024

We may believe we love our work and our career. As a creative designer, researcher and tester Sajad Sergio Sadick puts it: "Happiness as a creative can stem from the process of bringing ideas to life, finding fulfilment in expression, and connecting with others through your creations. But do we love our lives ? Are we truly happy?

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Creative Boom

JULY 23, 2024

With a background in editorial design, Andy Goodman decided to become an illustrator, developing an impactful, graphical style that's sublime and simple and a portfolio full of clever visual wordplay. What at first glance looks like a doodle or even an out-of-control scribble quickly assumes a graphical form that delights the mind.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 31, 2024

We caught up with him to learn how this results from a lot of graft and how representation has helped progress his career. Having originally trained as a graphic designer, Joseph Carrington pivoted to illustration seven years ago. With the backing of Closer&Closer, Joseph has managed to achieve personal career goals.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 2, 2023

Brooklyn-based brand studio Athletics is behind a new website design for Guild , a career and education platform that helps Fortune 1000 companies and America's workforce get ahead. Today, it also connects education to outcomes, with coaching and career support to help millions of working adults advance into meaningful careers.

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Creative Boom

JULY 14, 2024

Creatives like graphic artist Ranjit Sihat. "At At a time when I was feeling invisible in my career, you guys gave me a voice and somewhere to share my experiences," she says. "I Motion designer Thomas Davis agrees. But our mission has been clear from the start, and we've continued to stick to it.

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Graphic Design Junction

APRIL 22, 2023

As the world becomes more visual and technology-driven, the demand for skilled graphic designers continues to grow. Whether you’re just starting your design career or are looking to take your skills to the next level, there are several ways you can become a better graphic designer.

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