Creative Boom

OCTOBER 7, 2024

These books can explain how to approach everything differently and achieve all your goals while still having time to rest and relax. This week is National Work Life Week 2024, and the perfect opportunity to reflect on how we manage our time, creativity, and mental health. Do you feel like work is taking over your life?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

It's one of the most maddening things about freelancing: how do you set your rates? But at least it will help give you a baseline to think about your freelance rates and how you can get there over time. Ultimately, it's about market value: how much people need your services (demand) and how many others offer the same services (supply).

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock As the year starts to get into its stride, get a jolt of inspiration and fresh ideas to drive your business forward. We're all starting to thaw out, feel the sun on our faces, and worry about the energy bills a little less. Finally, the days are getting longer, and winter is coming to an end.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 15, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock It's all very well offering advice in theory, but how do freelancers and studios actually find their dream clients in practice? They may be a small mom-and-pop shop that you personally click with and get a deep sense of fulfilment from helping. In which case, we'll start by saying: it gets better.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2024

She explains the challenges involved and how she met them. So, we were keen to chat with her and find out how she went about it. As a takeaway restaurant, you get such an array of customers, and it's important not to think of only a small section of them," she explains. "As

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 22, 2024

If you are a graphic designer, staying updated with trends is key to staying ahead. Using the latest free fonts and fresh typography styles can instantly improve your work and keep your designs looking modern and creative. One of the best ways to breathe new life into your projects is by experimenting with the new free fonts. The good news?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Having moved to Leeds from a small Essex town, Khloe says that the city has become her found home. I've always enjoyed drawing people and food, so I knew the combination of the two within a space like a busy food market or a restaurant would generate a lot of inspiration for me," she tells Creative Boom.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

They've become a popular choice for busy individuals and families seeking convenient yet good-quality food options. Originally established in 2008 as a boutique grocery store, Anton&Anton has now started to position itself as a soulful alternative to large supermarket chains.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

We explain how to shift your work and clients in a new direction and give yourself the dream life and career you always hoped for. So you've launched your freelance creative business: congratulations! Often, this involves taking one small aspect of it and making that the focus instead. So, how do you go about it?

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Design Milk

JANUARY 24, 2025

What started as a small family event with servings of tea and biscuits soon became a true happening, complete with a long queue outside. Thats when Obradovic and Basedow realized that they could turn this venture into a business. It is a company that believed in us and taught us how to be professional designers.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We explore how London studio New Genre brought the brand to life. So it takes some design smarts to tempt people into indulging, and here's a great example of how to do it in practice. They're a fresh, young studio working with top global start-ups, including Accel, Gravity Sketch, Sylvera, Tessian and Bolder Money.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 27, 2024

The New York designer explains how she's blending artistic expression with functional design to create the kind of typefaces agencies will love to use in their work. We've spent a lot of time in foundries that were either too trendy or too mass-market, inspiring us to start our own," she explains.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 20, 2022

It took me a while to develop the idea further and work out how to make the horse's body. I eventually swapped the sock for a pair of trousers as it was too small and not detailed enough for the horse.". I started doing creative photography on Instagram about six years ago. Smoothie © Helga Stentzel. Happy Home © Helga Stentzel.

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Creative Boom

MAY 16, 2022

Branding agency Motto has collaborated with B2B payment platform Hopscotch to create a new bright and friendly identity that communicates how it can help users hop, skip and jump over the various obstacles of running a small business. And among these many concerns, money is a top priority.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Have you noticed how different social media feels at the moment? It's been well documented how most major social channels have recently downgraded traditional posts in favour of the Stories format pioneered by Instagram and short-form, portrait videos reminiscent of TikTok's. "I So, how widespread are these experiences?

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Creative Boom

JUNE 10, 2022

James left and started his own design studio (Cure Studio), an illustration agency (HigginsonHurst) and a Type Foundry (The Type Foundry). In short, James has worked at some of the highest levels of the design world, starting from the ground up and getting hands-on with client projects along the way. Where did you grow up?

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Creative Boom

JUNE 27, 2022

In our exclusive interview, Dylan chats about the process that leads to world-class results and how he got here in the first place. There were four full-time people when I started in 2009. That's how our foray into branding started. As such, we were looking forward to getting design insights from a true master.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As someone once said to me, 'How many recessions have you been through now, Mike?'" But how do you keep going when everything seems so dire? You need to accept this is how things are, however much you'd like them to be different. The Creative Boom community share their top tips. You're by no means alone. It's not you!"

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Creative Boom

APRIL 23, 2023

But how do you actually do it? So how can you survive the next few years as a creative freelancer? It simply means leaning into your value and effectively communicating what makes you unique, what differentiates you from your competition, and how you can prove to clients in a crowded field that you're the best option above anyone else.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 20, 2025

The brand is named after the dairy's hometown, Them, a small town in central Denmark with a population of 2,431, while 1888 references the year of its opening. The brand is named after the dairy's hometown, Them, a small town in central Denmark with a population of 2,431, while 1888 references the year of its opening.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In our exclusive interview, he shares his views on the positive influence of social media, how the pandemic broke down barriers, and the need to design sustainably. Designer Ferran Feixas has worked with some of the industry's most iconic agencies, from Pentagram to Interbrand, Wolff Olins to Mother Design.

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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! And employers will try to start you on the lowest possible salary that minimum wage legislation allows. In retrospect, then, many long-term creatives regret not doing more to fight for pay, back at the start. "If I'd known then, what I know now."

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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? Image licensed via Adobe Stock Times are tough for a lot of freelancers out there right now. Here's some advice to help you rebound and find new work.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Photography by James Rees Rosie Greener of Good Daze discusses how she worked with popular artist Hattie Stewart to make some of the coolest jewellery designs we've seen in a while. We loved these fun pieces so much that we wanted to sit down with Rosie and discover how they came about. Where to start?

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Creative Boom

JULY 18, 2024

But as a small, independent publisher we can't cover everything, nor would we want to. So, we were keen to chat with Deji about his plans for the platform and how both African and non-African designers can get involved. At Creative Boom, we aim to bring you the best of new creative work from around the world.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 22, 2024

Start an art journal to unleash your creativity and reflect on your journey. Whether you're a seasoned artist or someone just dabbling in creativity, starting an art journal can be a fulfilling and therapeutic experience. In this article, we'll share pro tips on how to do so. Before we get into that, though. Why journal?

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As 2024 wraps up, we’re on the cusp of entering 2025, a year set to see the immense impact of AI across all computing fields, particularly in web and graphic design. With these advancements, the graphic design trends continues to evolve, driven by new technology, cultural shifts, and bold ideas.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 19, 2024

This unofficial holiday is celebrated on 19 March every year, and it's a day for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and businesses to show appreciation to their clients. International Client Day was started in 2010 by Russian and Lithuanian businesspeople and has since spread around the world. Happy International Client Day! You're not alone.

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Graphic Design Junction

APRIL 13, 2022

That you can use for any of your creative projects or business. As you need and it takes a few seconds to check how the color looks on your design and then you are good to go with your design. Kittl – the Design Solution. Are you searching a design solution? Do you want to be an efficient designer?

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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. Yes, it's natural to want to dive into the creative process and start producing work. Happy birthday to us!

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Here's why it's so important and how to develop it for yourself. Through grit, hard work, determination, and many serious personal and business challenges along the way, I've made it into a global success, both critically and commercially. But I'm so glad I've made a start, and already, the results have been fantastic.

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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

MAY 15, 2022

Since launching SDCO Partners in 2009, founders Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson have designed hundreds of brands worldwide – including names like LeCreuset and Soludos – but it's their work with industry-disrupting, women-owned businesses that drives their passion. Did the global economic crisis spur you to start your agency?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It doesn't matter how talented you are in your chosen creative discipline; that's only half of the work of being a successful freelancer. Ask yourself: how many hours a week could you save if you started using better tools? And then think about how much extra money you could make. It's probably a lot.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

To help you out, we've picked eight of the best new courses on business development for creatives available online today. And they all come with a video introduction that's free to watch, so you can get a feel for the teacher, the course, and how much it's likely to benefit you. As a creative, you love your work.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 7, 2024

We gathered advice from the creative community on how to do this. To move beyond exchanging business cards and making shallow connections, instead focus on building meaningful relationships that fuel personal growth and career advancement. So, how do you actually go about this in practice?

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Creative Boom

MARCH 21, 2022

But how, exactly, do you become a professional graphic designer from home? People who don't work in graphic design often think it's just about knowing how to use particular software – you'll hear throwaway comments like, "Sharon can do the brochure, she knows Photoshop.". Image licensed via Adobe Stock. Study the fundamentals.

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