Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2025

Molly McCammon They're a good earner and can enhance your creativity. We talked to five illustrators and designers who take on private commissions about the pros, the cons, and what it does for their careers. It's not a new idea. The Renaissance may never have happened without the patronage of private individuals.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Retro-futurism reflects a playful yet sophisticated look, making it popular across branding, website design, and digital art. Retro-futurism reflects a playful yet sophisticated look, making it popular across branding, website design, and digital art.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It was this spirit that inspired the evocative tagline, 'Start With Impossible', developed to encapsulate DNEG's approach to creativity. Di Cola says: "We wanted to visualise how DNEG turns blank slates into boundary-pushing creations. The move aligns with DNEG's evolution from a VFX leader into a broader creative force.

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Creative Boom

JULY 4, 2022

Ofir Mizrahi delivers award-winning websites that clients and visitors love. We chat to him about deep research, trying new things, and how the right tools can help unleash your creativity. We chatted with Ofir about his design journey, what sets his studio apart, and how he creates his award-winning work.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

A deep dive into how design studio TEMPLO reimagined GF Smith's brand identity, balancing heritage with a bold, dynamic vision that embraces colour, movement, and a global creative community. A Meeting of Minds TEMPLO's involvement began with an introduction to GF Smith's brand director, Ben Watkinson, via communications agency Zetteler.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 22, 2024

These fonts are perfect for advertisement posters that need to catch attention, brochures that demand clarity and professionalism, or even websites that need a creative edge. If you are a graphic designer, staying updated with trends is key to staying ahead. The good news? Free Font Tepo Serif 2. Conragon Font 3. Rockdale Font Design 4.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 14, 2025

The entire library of the type foundry is used across the book, highlighting the best and worst musical double acts over the years. If you're a music enthusiast and a type geek, you'll know that finding a book to satisfy those two interests would be quite the challenge. Well, look no further! and Sparks.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 4, 2022

To create great websites, you need to have a passion. Comfy Fitness recently stood out among its client websites, supporting the Wix Partner Spotlight for superior functionality. And that was it, the beginning of my website design business. And so I took the plunge and decided to start my own studio.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 29, 2022

Before we get started, we understand that many of you embrace reels and making videos and still enjoy some success on Instagram. Look at the website you own and turn it into a powerful SEO machine. Your website has huge potential when it comes to organic reach. We're all busy, so how do we even get started?

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This exhibition, which started in September at Salon Design and curated by designer Suchi Reddy , celebrates traditional Indian weaving techniques and it’s stewardship by women, centered in the solidity of an unwavering relationship with its artisans. Fabric tells rich history, and always has a storied provenance.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Stationery mockups provide a realistic, cohesive look at how a brand’s design elements will appear on everyday office items, helping to communicate a company’s visual identity clearly and effectively. In today’s highly competitive business environment, branding is essential for making a memorable impression. Free Stationery Mockup 3.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 18, 2022

You can now create a professional website with minimal effort. It's just that when you're starting, you might not have the budget to employ an expert right away. Its clean design features professional photography and video galleries, and we love how you can choose between 'multipurpose', 'studio', or 'personal' to get started.

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Creative Boom

MAY 1, 2023

Branding agency How&How has created a new identity for the 'street side bar' brand YumBun, rooted in 'progressive optimism'. The studio started working with YumBun founder and CEO Lisa Meyer on the project in November last year. It was so much fun working on the different iterations of this little guy," says How. "We

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Thats why weve put together this list of the 100 best free fonts for 2025 to help you get started. Thats why weve put together this list of the 100 best free fonts for 2025 to help you get started. Whether youre working on a logo, a website, or any graphic design project, these fonts will help you stand out. And the best part?

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 5, 2025

Whether youre crafting a bold advertising campaign , designing an elegant website, or creating a memorable logo, fonts serve as the cornerstone of your design. Whether youre crafting a bold advertising campaign , designing an elegant website, or creating a memorable logo, fonts serve as the cornerstone of your design. Westland Font 4.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 4, 2024

We explain how world-class platform Visual Education can help you do just that. A sculptor, say, might be inspired by how a photographer uses light and shadow and brings this into their own work. But how do you go about learning these new skills? Want to be a successful creative? Enhancing your storytelling.

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Creative Boom

JULY 10, 2023

To help you in this quest, we have compiled a list of 12 websites with excellent mockups that will take your graphic design projects to new heights. By utilising the resources provided by these 12 websites, you can help your graphic design case studies, and portfolios look even better and give yourself an edge over the competition.

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Designer Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It’s no secret that, as creatives, we want to spend more time coming up with fresh ideas and working on interesting projects rather than getting bogged down by administrative tasks like invoicing, keeping track of files, or managing back-and-forth feedback. or “make the logo bigger,” what’s even worse is trying to track feedback from all directions.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2023

Do you find yourself constantly admiring how billboards, magazines, and websites look and feel? Maybe you've even considered pursuing a career around art but are unsure where to start. A good place to start is by answering all your questions about what graphic design is and how you get involved in it.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

This guide explores 70+ Japanese-style fonts , categorized by their design styles, and provides insights into how each category can enhance modern design and branding. This guide explores 70+ Japanese-style fonts , categorized by their design styles, and provides insights into how each category can enhance modern design and branding.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 7, 2024

Here's how to do it and some tips for standing out from the crowd. It would be lovely if I had time to read them all thoroughly, respond intelligently, and chat at length about how we could best cover each project on Creative Boom. But I've crunched the numbers, and to do so, I would need about 47 hours every day.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Based in London and Helsinki, she was approached by Fotonokka earlier last year to help refresh its identity and website. How does a lens refract light? In photography, the process is a bit similar: you need to let the light into your picture to exist, and how that light gets into your camera will determine your final result.

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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

JUNE 11, 2024

So, how should you go about it? A personal brand isn't really about how you share what you do. I really started to hit my stride when I stopped trying to emulate other successful illustrators," he explains. "In In today's hyper-connected digital landscape, personal branding has become key to success for creative professionals.

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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

JUNE 23, 2024

The creative industries are not short on autobiographies, monographs, and more of the like written by established figures, many of whom started their careers in the 1970s and 80s. But recently, a new type of book by a contemporary author has entered the literary playing field.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He chats to us about how he put them together, and why they should be on your Christmas list. We chatted to Radim to learn what the books have to offer, how he went about creating them, and why people should buy them. This title lets creatives take a meaningful pause and reflect on building positive habits, focusing on mindfulness.

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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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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 31, 2023

No one exactly knows how yet because tech is evolving at such a terrifying rate. Then, you'll be pleased to know that, rather than making you trawl through endless, verbose course descriptions, AUB's website does the work for you. Over the next few years, AI will likely change the creative industries beyond all recognition.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

How do you create a successful illustration portfolio? Before we get started, though, it's worth covering a few fundamentals. Before we get started, though, it's worth covering a few fundamentals. Most importantly, consider who will look at your portfolio and – crucially – how long they're likely to spend on it.

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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. But right at the start, we won't lie: it can be pretty darned scary. And right at the start, you may not even have a single client to your name. So how do you land your first client? Now, 16 years later, they are still a client!"

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Creative Boom

MARCH 28, 2022

To see how another illustrator has seamlessly integrated a unique animation style into her brand is hugely aspirational to me.". I've always had a strange fascination with tiny things, and I think it started from that," she reveals. "I She even admits that for as long as she can remember, she has always loved being creative.

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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

MARCH 4, 2024

The bizarre event, which was accompanied by a parody website called Silicon Gables , was basically an inventive way for creative collaboration platform Air to get their message across. As intended, this campaign really caught our attention, and we were keen to chat with Air about how they put it together. What release?

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The quality of Photoshop mockups also plays a significant role in how your designs are perceived. In the graphic design world, presenting your work effectively is crucial. One of the best ways to do this is through Photoshop mockups. This is particularly important in competitive fields where first impressions matter.

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Creative Boom

JULY 27, 2022

From finally getting around to tweaking your website copy to learning a little more about dealing with journalists and getting some free publicity, there are tons of things you could do during the next few weeks. Pick any of the five below and see how you get on. You'd be surprised how much it makes a difference. It adds trust.

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