Creative Boom

MARCH 3, 2024

Looking to commission an illustrator or just seeking fresh visual inspiration for your own work? And you don't have to take our word for it: big-name clients like Apple, Google, Gucci and The New York Times are already drawing on these illustrators to bring their designs to life. Work by Jiawen Chen 5.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Photography by Rick Pushinsky Samar Maakaroun has transitioned from running her own thriving studio to becoming a partner at the iconic design collective Pentagram. In our exclusive interview, she shares the remarkable journey leading her to this career landmark. And the commute, at least, will be familiar to her.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 3, 2024

For Hong Kong-based illustrator Noel Yu, bringing her original cartoon characters to life through animation was a dream that seemed out of reach – until she discovered Cartoon Animator 5 from Reallusion. We chatted with Noel to learn more about her creative journey and how Cartoon Animator 5 helped her take it to the next level.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2025

From potatoes in crisis to fragmented memory installations, Nastia's work blends humour, honesty and high-octane visuals to invite audiences into her weird and wonderful world. Dutch illustrator Nastia Cistakova isn't interested in playing it safe, and that much is obvious from her work.

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Creative Boom

MAY 23, 2022

South Korean visual artist and designer JeeYoung Lee is returning to London's NOW Gallery with her upcoming exhibition, Maiden Voyage. JeeYoung Lee has been touted as one of the rising stars in the Korean artistic world, and with her new installation coming to London, there's never been a better time to see her work in person.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 27, 2024

Renowned designer Jessica Walsh has long been known for her passion for type. I have fallen in love with the power of unique typography and its power to tell stories and create an ownable brand language," enthuses Jessica, who's known for her New York-based creative studio &Walsh.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 18, 2023

Textile designer Yemi Awosile with her son Ezra shot at her East London studio Dunja Opalko's new series of portraits looks to both celebrate mothers in the creative industries and gently highlight the difficulties of juggling a career you're passionate about with the realities of parenthood.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Bundle of Christmas Cards by Gail Myerscough A Manchester-based surface pattern designer and illustrator Gail Myerscough takes her inspiration from mid-century design, the colours and patterns of the 1960s and post-war modernist architecture. As a result, her annual series of festive cards is perfect for anyone who loves the same aesthetics.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We caught up with her to learn more about her work, how she switched from interior architecture design, and why storytelling is so important to her. With her incredible use of colour and a canny eye for details, characters and stories, her artwork effortlessly draws you into a world you won't want to leave.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2023

In their own words: "It's a shoe as beautiful as the story is deep; a verse in the chapter of an ever-evolving story." Novella's debut offering, Chapter 01, takes its cue from spoken-word poet Rudy Francisco, textile artist Katherine Entis and sound artist Marcus Fischer. This new premium sneaker brand is built around stories.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 16, 2022

After heading creative at her own firm for more than a decade, teaching classes in advertising and art directing at Miami Ad School, working for ad giants like TBWA, and producing award-winning creative for F&B in Sweden, Emma Eriksson is a master of the creative process and has a proven track record of work that commands our attention.

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Creative Boom

JULY 3, 2023

Now her latest exhibition explores the power of objects to communicate societal expectations of beauty, representation, and the talismanic qualities of objects we use to empower ourselves. There are so many elements of Simone Brewster's work that make her perfect for our Summer Design exhibition," adds gallery curator Jemima Burrill.

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Creative Boom

MAY 30, 2023

With deliciously gloopy, 3D, liquid moving image; charmingly bloated bespoke lettering; vibrant palettes and Memphis-esque patterning, her work is resolutely multidisciplinary, and that's exactly as she likes it. Her impressive client list includes LinkedIn, Kappa, Converse, The New Yorker, and Tate.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Asser Levy Bathhouse, from the series ‘Bathhouse’, New York, 1975 © Deborah Turbeville Author and curator Nathalie Herschdorfer discusses her new book on Deborah Turbeville and why this trailblazing fashion photographer should no longer remain in the shadows. But don't feel ashamed if you're not familiar with her work.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 22, 2024

Together, they travel to the valley of forgotten friends and venture into the depths of the underworld to face an ex-lover before drifting off into a trance where she revisits her past in order to find the last key. The girl realises what he's doing and starts to do the same; they're creating their own keys from scratch.

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Creative Boom

JULY 19, 2022

Danielle started her career by attending a smaller university in Oklahoma and then going to grad school at Maryland Institute College of Art. She's developed a 'Modern Mish-Mash' style that twists and blends her love for large and bold lettering with cut-up, collaged compositions that bring a dash of futurism to her work.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

London-based artist, writer and publicist Funmi Lijadu tackles issues of identity in her tactile, surreal collages. We caught up with her to learn more about her work and discover how she's worked with the likes of the Barbican and Tate Modern. For Funmi, the pull towards creating collage art was magnetic.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

And you don't have to take our word for it. The animator, graphic designer, writer, and musician started making short and micro-short animations in 2016, and her films, which range from comedies to full dramatic narratives, have since been honoured with awards at film festivals around the world. Well, it's great for that too!

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Creative Boom

JUNE 26, 2024

Charlotte Jennings scooped the top spot for her entry that focused on colour and shape language to convey the protagonist's journey from beginning to end. It's such a strong, graceful cover, and I loved Chompa's expression of serious intent, which encapsulates her character and draws me in."

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 22, 2024

We caught up with her to learn more about her creative approach and how drawing helps to silence her overthinking. As a graduate of SVA's MFA Illustration Visual Essay program, Vyolet Jin has worked hard to hone her style as a fun, energetic and colourful illustrator. Luckily, she was mistaken. "My

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We caught up with her to learn how these expressive pieces break design boundaries. Previously, we've looked at how a love of travel has shaped her art , but in her new collaboration with Lille-based company Babel Brune, she's keeping things closer to home. If I had to sum it up in a word, it was a magical experience.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 1, 2022

Bringing themes of literature, time and stillness to her latest series of figurative paintings, artist Nancy Cadogan 's work represents traditional domestic scenes and reminds us of the often-forgotten joyfulness of solitude. Where The Wild Things Grow II (2021) © Nancy Cadogan. 2021) © Nancy Cadogan. Except for the point, the still point.".

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Creative Boom

MARCH 11, 2024

Designed by Extract Studio, the publication was made to be more than a monotonous manuscript in a bid to inspire creatives to "make more space for words in their practice". She believes that, when used right, words can "express an idea, clarify it, improve it, sell it, and make it real". Swidlicka questions.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Her soft sculptures draw attention to the climate crisis and our broken relationship with nature. Working with experts and using his own first-hand experience, he has developed a tool that makes clearing old nets from beaches easy and fun.

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Creative Boom

MAY 24, 2022

And as such, she's become the first UAL student ever to showcase a non-physical garment as part of her final project. "At Note that by 'digital fashion', she's not talking about avatar costumes on Fortnite or filters on Snapchat; her vision goes far beyond such frippery. You can view her final work in the video below.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Whether it’s a stunning sunset or the soft patterns of dappled light on the ground, these moments are captivating in person but are hard to truly capture in words or even photos. At my own place, I bring the Blossi Portable from the window to the dining table on a daily basis.”

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Simple and Clean Best Word Resume Templates can open doors to potential employers. Professional resume designs, cover letter and portfolio pages easy to edit by Microsoft Word. You can make any kind of adjustments on these templates with or without knowing of Ms-Word. Best Word Resume Templates. Resume / CV Word Template.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 22, 2022

In the summer of 1998, Anne Marie Michel 's recently divorced housewife mother drove her and her sisters across the country to start a new life. Michel's portraits slot her subjects into the unsung history of female migration across the United States. I shot her portrait near a cactus in Arizona.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 11, 2023

The work of Anglo-Japanese multidisciplinary designer, artist and illustrator Miki Lowe is inspired by her multicultural background and love of literature. We caught up with her to learn more about her creative practice and how she finds poetry in everyday life. I find that achieving simplicity and fluidity can be hard too."

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It started with an engagement and ended with the Galliforms furniture collection – that’s the story according to Leah Ring of Another Human and her now husband, artist Adam de Boer. Wood was chosen as the main material, simply because she’s never worked with it before in her product design work and wanted to try something new.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Rich’s It’s Wild Here included a display of painted cutouts on wood, chronicling her signature practice of eavesdropping and observing. Currently residing in Philadelphia, Rich uses words and objects to capture the essence of the City a of Brotherly Love and its people in a very candid way.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Pick the word that interests you the most, and you're offered a simple selection of relevant courses. As a previous student at the university herself, she was keen that the branding and messaging – on which she collaborated with London agency Bond and Coyne – reflected her own experiences.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2023

Photography by Yeshen Venema Photography by Yeshen Venema In other words, by reading TYPEONE, you'll get grounded tips, advice and insights that will directly help you in your work. Industry experts explore the methods, logic, and the creatives behind this exciting niche. Bundles on issues 01, 02, and 03 for TYPEONE magazine.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 19, 2024

Ontario-based writer and illustrator Jess Hannigan is about to release her first picture book, Spider in the Well. We caught up with her to learn how she made it and why lies are the perfect subject for a picture book. Jess used Procreate on her iPad to create the illustrations. Something is rotten in Bad Goodsburg.

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Creative Boom

JULY 19, 2023

Not only is it a beautiful building in its own right, it houses over 80 million items, including specimens collected by Charles Darwin, a huge collection of dinosaur skeletons and one of the largest specimens of blue whales ever displayed. Circular patterns and Word Rings have a strong connection to the symbol.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For those aged 50 and up, the word 'Avon' instantly summons the advertising catchphrase 'Ding-dong, Avon calling!' The result is a new visual identity which celebrates the brand's belief that "every woman is born with her own unique power". We explore how London studio Free The Birds made it happen.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 2, 2024

I used to redraw the characters and develop my own comic narratives for them. The first, illustrated by Chris Riddell, was Captain Underpants because I could relate so much to the characters George and Harold creating their own comics and bringing their creations to life. They are happy, cherished memories."

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