Creative Boom

MAY 11, 2023

How's the economic downturn treating you? But how you market yourself will be the deciding factor for clients when choosing you over your competitors. So how do you get there? What do clients consistently praise or appreciate about my work?' Here's some advice to help you rebound and find new work.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 26, 2023

We speak to a range of creatives to find out how they did it and gather their best advice. And right at the start, you may not even have a single client to your name. So how do you land your first client? My first freelance clients were my old full-time employers," she explains.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

However, graphic designers must maintain their health and well-being as the market constantly grows to fulfill client requests effectively. However, graphic designers must maintain their health and well-being as the market constantly grows to fulfill client requests effectively.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 29, 2022

Although often confusing, terrifying, misunderstood, and forever-changing, SEO is simply a way of making your website rank highly for its chosen keywords to attract people organically. We're all busy, so how do we even get started? Image licensed via Adobe Stock. If IG has become too exhausting, what marketing alternatives are there?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

How do you create a successful illustration portfolio? Most importantly, consider who will look at your portfolio and – crucially – how long they're likely to spend on it. So how you put your portfolio together should recognise that essential fact. But how do you make your portfolio stand out once you've nailed those basics?

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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. Social media might be problematic in many ways. In May 2020, she was searching for work as a designer.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock The worst clients can turn your life into something out of a horror movie. We outline four common types of nightmare clients and explain how to deal with them. We're talking about those clients you simply hate working with. Clients who ended up making your professional life a nightmare.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 24, 2025

To get a sense of how creatives are feeling, the obvious place to pose this question was on LinkedIn itself. Leadership coach Tracy Candido highlights how LinkedIn has transformed into an essential networking tool in the mid-2020s. "I But is it really the right platform for creative networking? We take the temperature of the community.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 27, 2024

These digital tools allow designers to showcase their creations in a realistic setting, making it easier for clients and stakeholders to visualize the final product. This wide range allows you to tailor your presentations to specific client needs, helping you deliver personalized solutions.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The other is that they can consistently deliver their individual drawing styles to their clients. Yvette Earl Based in the North of England, Yvette Earl is loved by many clients for her architectural drawings, but for us, the way she illustrates people is really eye-catching. Or not, as the case may be.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 17, 2024

What they want to see is evidence that you know how to follow a brief, understand the process of creating commercial work and can produce what's needed. Image licensed via Adobe Stock Navigating the transition from student to professional can be daunting, but these lessons from creative pros will help you achieve success.

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Creative Boom

JULY 9, 2024

After one of the studio's long-term clients moved on to managing Sarson's brand, Robot Food was brought on board to reinvigorate the much-loved heritage brand and prepare it for the future. However, Robot Food founder and executive creative director Simon Forster notes how the new generation of consumers is "more nostalgic than ever".

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock With so much talent out there, how do you get noticed as a freelance illustrator? And working as a freelancer means that you can, to a degree, work when you want, how you want, and where you want. But first, you need to attract freelance clients. Struggling to find your distinct style?

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 10, 2023

You've most probably heard of Wolff Olins , but if you're on the younger side, you might not realise just how influential they are. The W of the new logo captures one of Wolff Olins' core pillars: enjoy the ride – inside the business as a team and externally with its clients. "It And we'd argue that's all to the good.

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Creative Boom

JULY 1, 2024

How do you highlight the importance of a hairdressers to its local community while attracting new customers? We even had one client coming to Graham since he opened the shop in 1990, so of course he had to be included." An art mural of its diverse clientele might just do the trick, as we find out.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2024

© Dong Qiu The Chinese artist's distinctive style blends Asian tradition with modern sensibilities, attracting global clients and resonating with audiences worldwide. So, we were keen to chat with her and discover how she's developed such a distinctive and enchanting style. This is why I like to draw with lines."

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Creative Boom

MARCH 16, 2023

Portland-based creative studio Super Dope has brought to life how it feels to pluck up your courage and make a romantic move in its latest animated project, In Love. From there, our curiosity was sparked, and we were eager to see how far we could take those initial experiments. We've all been there. What if they say no?

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Creative Boom

MAY 2, 2022

A well-designed site can help clients grow, attract more visitors and even turn them into happy customers. Get the design wrong, though, and it can spell real trouble for your clients. To get some insights into how to do it right, we approached Matt Konarzewski of Vision Marketing. Real-world example: Code Zero Yachts.

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Just Creative

MARCH 3, 2021

Creation of an Attractive and Responsible Brand by Julieta Tello. Taught by Sagi Haviv, the Logo Design: From Concept to Presentation course shows you the basics of logo design and teaches you how to create and design an attractive logo. The course also elaborates on how to understand clients and sketch logo ideas by hand.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

We chatted with Ed Little, director of the London studio Regular Practice , about putting design at the heart of strategy, how the nature of branding is (fast) evolving, and what agencies need to do to keep up. It's got to come through in how people feel the brand for it to be effective in most cases. Appetite and experimentation.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

With an attractive and super-intuitive interface, Pie makes it a cinch to manage your invoicing, bookkeeping and tax affairs – all in one place. Instead, Pie keeps everything managed and organised, from invoicing your clients to filing your tax returns with HMRC. Struggling to stay on top of your tax affairs? No, you're not stupid.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 14, 2025

This mockup is perfect for presenting corporate identity projects, client presentations, and marketing materials. They are invaluable in client presentations, user testing, and marketing efforts. Whether you’re working on branding projects or showcasing your design skills, having high-quality mockups can make all the difference.

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Creative Boom

MAY 5, 2022

In our exclusive interview, she explains how she goes about it, the different paths to find your niche, and why doing so can be a game-changer for your earning power. In our exclusive interview, she explains how she goes about it, the different paths to find your niche, and why doing so can be a game-changer for your earning power.

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Just Creative

AUGUST 9, 2021

No truer is this mantra than when you want to impress potential clients with your portfolio. That means incorporating the latest design trends so potential clients take notice and pick you over your competitors. It showcases your capabilities and convinces clients-to-be, creative directors, or hiring managers you are the real deal.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 5, 2024

As it celebrates its 18th anniversary, we caught up with founder Cathy Olmedillas to hear about what she's learnt on the way, how she's taking Anorak to new markets, and what creatives should keep in mind when embarking on fresh ventures. They grow up so fast. Just like any publication, Anorak has had to adapt to survive.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 13, 2024

How many people can say that? Times when you're short on sleep because you've been up all night working or worrying about a nightmare client. Image licensed via Shutterstock / Adam McCullough You don't need to be a musician to learn from the rapper's recent adventures at Paris 2024. On paper, at least, you're living the dream.

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HONGKIAT

AUGUST 13, 2024

Who Should Care More About Your Design, You or Your Client? Who Should Care More About Your Design, You or Your Client? You may get a few clients trickling in through social media, especially if you have a substantial following. Read more What Works: Email (And Snail Mail) Marketing You have to go to where your clients are.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Grind culture' is a familiar term in the creative industries, and it's something that's pushing more of us to switch careers or change how we work forever. We sat down with Ash and Miro to talk about how the world is changing for the better and why running an agency doesn't have to involve long hours or personal sacrifice. Miro: Yeah.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2024

© Dong Qiu The Chinese artist's distinctive style blends Asian tradition with modern sensibilities, attracting global clients and resonating with audiences worldwide. So, we were keen to chat with her and discover how she's developed such a distinctive and enchanting style. This is why I like to draw with lines."

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 9, 2024

These templates save time and deliver a professional look, making your designs irresistible to clients and customers. These tools provide realistic visuals, helping you showcase your creativity effectively and attractively, whether you’re pitching designs to clients or showcasing your collection online. Need extra help?

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Creative Boom

JUNE 10, 2024

Whenever you work on a branding project, you're not necessarily looking at the bottom line of your client's business. So it's worth hearing how they went about it. This rebrand for an Italian musical institution fuses sound and visuals and Milan's avant-garde futurism as a way to draw in Generation Z. That's pretty great, right?

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Creative Boom

MARCH 20, 2023

James Olstein chats to us about his love of zines, how web design led to his career as a freelance illustrator, and how his love of screen printing has shaped his work as a digital artist. It's a far cry from how James started as a youngster. I started working on getting my own clients and building an illustration portfolio.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Here's how this game-changing new photo-licensing platform can help bring your work to the next level. Read on to learn how a membership can help you bring your concepts to life and create career-defining work. Read on to learn how a membership can help you bring your concepts to life and create career-defining work.

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Creative Boom

JULY 14, 2024

We share the community's best advice on how to not just survive but thrive over the next decade and a half. It's a great opportunity to reflect on how much has changed for creatives since we launched in 2007. So, how should creatives respond? This month, Creative Boom is celebrating our 15th anniversary. By being creative.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We chat with Josh Kay and Jamie White about how they graduated from the Arts University Bournemouth, founded their own agency and took on the world. We recently profiled Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) and highlighted how its strength of community, forward-thinking and real-world focus puts it at the cutting edge of the creative industry.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 2, 2024

On the other hand, freelancing also brings new responsibilities: the responsibility to find clients, manage your workload, and, crucially, actually get paid on time. On the other hand, freelancing also brings new responsibilities: the responsibility to find clients, manage your workload, and, crucially, actually get paid on time.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 7, 2023

based designer about how he created a cohesive visual identity for a new seasonal flea market. At the same time, the more niche and specialist markets will attract certain people to travel long distances to visit. We speak to the Washington, D.C.-based as long as they know about them, of course. It's in this light that Washington D.C.'s

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