Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

Ever since Creative Boom began, illustrators have told us they love getting back to the basicsdrawing and painting hands-on with traditional media. But fashion isn't the only market for live event illustrators. I mostly use watercolour inks as it's the fastest medium. Most live event illustrators work in fashion and beauty.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Whether you’re a designer, marketer, or brand strategist, staying ahead of these trends is essential to creating relevant, impactful designs. As we delve into graphic design trends 2025 , web design trends 2025 , and logo design trends 2025 , we’ll also highlight the influence of AI, typography innovations, and sustainable practices.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 17, 2024

With so many fonts for posters available, understanding how each style works can help you choose the right font for the right project. Choosing the right font style for your designs doesn’t just enhance the look of the poster, flyer, or logo; it also influences how people perceive the message.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Illustration by Mia Angioy for Creative Boom Today, we kick off a special six-part series focused on the use of music in modern design. In part one, we look at the importance of music to visual content, share examples of how this works in practice, and share pro tips for picking the right tracks. Yet there's just one problem.

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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. Traditionally, city centre markets didn't really need much in the way of branding other than maybe a sign at the entrance. We speak to the Washington, D.C.-based Today, that's all changed. as long as they know about them, of course.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 30, 2024

Geometric shapes are used across the identity to house imagery and represent the diverse businesses that use Storey. DixonBaxi is behind the new identity for co-working space Storey, which uses overlapping tangrams to represent the diverse businesses that use it.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 11, 2024

Unfortunately, in practice, many of us find it pretty difficult. And so what we end up producing often feels like fake marketing BS, at least to ourselves. So, how should you go about it? A personal brand isn't really about how you share what you do. So, how do you go about doing this? Get known for it.

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Creative Boom

JULY 15, 2024

It's fascinating to compare how illustrators have depicted great works of literature through the ages. For example, Arthur Rackham's plates to accompany The Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti are celebrated examples of work from the Golden Age of Illustration. Without works like these, Laura Ashley would never have existed.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Boost your abilities and raise your earning power with the best art books on the market. Also, there are many different types of illustration, and few of us have mastered them all. So below, we've gathered together the very best books for illustrators on the market today.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Illustration by Mia Angioy for Creative Boom In the fifth of our special six-part series, we look at the cutting-edge developments shaping the future of audiovisual design and how they're set to transform brand experiences by 2025. And this means every brand needs to consider how its audio identity translates into a 3D space.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 7, 2024

Tips for getting your graphic design project featured (one being, send us lots of visual assets/mockups) Mockup via Art Directed Want to see your graphic design work featured in this online magazine? Here's how to do it and some tips for standing out from the crowd. You'll find all the technical details here.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We caught up with her to learn more about her creative approach and how living in two places has shaped her art. Growing up as a single child meant plenty of alone time, which I often turned into creative opportunities, using art as a means of entertainment and self-expression." The illustrations of Celine Lau are impossible to miss.

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Graphic Design Junction

AUGUST 31, 2023

Secrets of digital marketing is the process of using digital channels to reach and engage with your target audience. It includes a wide range of activities, such as search engine optimization (SEO), social media marketing, email marketing , and paid advertising. Content is king in digital marketing.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Illustration by Mia Angioy for Creative Boom In the second of our special six-part series, we look at how music can elevate your visual storytelling and enhance its emotional power. That applies equally to advertising, influencer marketing, and other forms of video content.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 17, 2024

Ahead of the 2024 Euros, creative agency Poke Marketing has rebranded Manchester's National Football Museum to emphasise the importance of football in English culture. They also have very clear growth objectives, along with a team of strong marketers in-house, so it was a dream client to win."

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Design Milk

JANUARY 24, 2025

Basedow are known for their artistic approach to materials and composition , with a range of influences from fashion to traditional craftsmanship. It is a company that believed in us and taught us how to be professional designers. Today, Draga & Aurel join us for Friday Five !

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 8, 2021

For almost a decade now, influencer marketing has been on the rise as more and more social media platforms start utilizing it. Influencer marketing consists of social media personalitie s , or ‘ influencers ’ as they call themselves, advertise different products or services on their social media platforms.

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Just Creative

JULY 20, 2020

In 2020, content plays a central role in your marketing efforts. Whether you achieve your conversions and meet expectations might heavily depend on how useful and valuable your content is for your target audience. This article has been contributed by Anna Pozdeeva. Storytelling is Changing the Game on Social Media Platforms.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 11, 2024

She believes that, when used right, words can "express an idea, clarify it, improve it, sell it, and make it real". This way, everyone will be sure of "what to say and how to say it" without "multiple rounds of amends and related headaches," says Swidlicka. Swidlicka questions.

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Just Creative

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As businesses continue to divert their budgets toward content creation and digital marketing, so does the demand for marketing images, infographics, video content, social media marketing, packaging design and website design. In the age of digital marketing, graphic artists and designers have taken center stage.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 13, 2022

Still using static PDFs. How Corebook solves the problem. It's already being used by well-known agencies, including Accept & Proceed, McCann London, The Partnership and M&C Saatchi. It's already being used by well-known agencies, including Accept & Proceed, McCann London, The Partnership and M&C Saatchi.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Quebec-based illustrator and graphic designer Chad Grenier uses his beautiful illustrations as a means of connecting with other people and the world around him. We caught up with him to learn how he's inspired by everything from Wes Anderson to his grandparents, as well as hearing how he stays focused on his creative ambitions.

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Graphic Design Junction

JULY 4, 2024

The digital marketing landscape is a constantly evolving beast. As we navigate 2024, several key trends are poised to reshape how businesses connect with their target audience and achieve marketing goals. The Rise of AI-Powered Personalization: Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept in marketing.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 12, 2025

It uses humour and a unique creative twist to highlight the platform's job collections feature. leans into this idea, using a literal interpretation of the phrase to create a playful yet insightful take on career dilemmas. LinkedIn's latest campaign, created by VCCP, speaks directly to Gen Z professionals facing career restlessness.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

But either way, you may well be thinking in frustration: "I'm a graphic designer, not a marketing expert!" Laura has over ten years of experience in the creative and marketing realm, working with small businesses, designers and freelancers to boost brand awareness and performance. We've all been there. Laura's advice? Start simple.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

We explore how Wolff Olins partnered with LG to help them visually convey their message that 'Life's Good'. But wallowing in misery doesn't do anyone any good, as we explored in our recent article, How to get your mojo back in the world of 2023. Everyone's down in the dumps right now.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 14, 2023

The artists' first-ever use of AR and their most ambitious and largest yet, it comprises numerous eight-metre-high panels. This project helps us take our maximalist approach to another level as our largest artwork to date, nearly 1.5 In fact, 75% of Londoners reportedly live with insufficient access to green spaces. This displays 1.5

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Creative Boom

JUNE 13, 2022

That's how I got my first client as a character designer.". All images courtesy of the artists. Going it alone as an illustrator is full of challenges, from creative to administrative. So the more advice you can get, the better. Perhaps the biggest challenge of being a freelance illustrator, at least at the start, is getting enough work.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 10, 2024

With these episodes, we want to cover every discipline from graphic design to industrial design, interior design, architecture, fashion design, textile design, and even photography and illustration when it comes to commercial use with clients and creative briefs." So, how did she get the idea? "It Where are the women?

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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. To get some insights, we turned to the Creative Boom community, and you didn't let us down. By being creative.

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Creative Boom

MAY 17, 2022

Read on as we outline the kind of equipment you'll need, what to buy, and – where possible – how to get a second-hand model for a very affordable price. Either way, you can use the free app Camo to link your computer's webcam to your new phone camera and instantly upgrade the quality of your streaming video and Zoom calls.

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Creative Boom

JULY 18, 2022

Fresh, unexpected, and luxurious" is how the studio describes its visual language, which centres around an elegant wordmark, calming photography and paintings representing "dream-like views" of the bedroom. One overlooks some mountains at sunset, another is by the sea, and a third gives us a view of an Italian village.

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 5, 2023

They are more than just text; they are visual elements that influence how users perceive and interact with a website. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the fascinating realm of font psychology and learn how to choose fonts effectively for web projects. Fonts can also influence how we absorb and retain information.

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Creative Boom

JULY 21, 2024

Social media platforms like Instagram have betrayed us , putting their algorithm before our interests, which means that even the people who've chosen to follow us often don't get served our content. Let's move on to the how. How can you set up a newsletter and make it successful in 2024? So that's the 'why'.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 11, 2023

Cambridge Healthcare Research Symbols are a powerful asset in your graphic design toolkit, but you must know how to use them correctly. Just ask Apple, Shell, Pepsi and others how powerful it is to have one global logo that instantly communicates their brand and values wherever you are in the world. What is a symbol?

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Graphic Design Junction

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Marketing on Instagram can be quite effective if you are doing it correctly. But with the constant updates and the changing trends, it can be difficult to keep up with the latest strategies used by marketers on this social media platform. Instagram Marketing Trends. Others are relatively new. 1 “Add Yours”. 3 Live Rooms.

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Graphic Design Junction

JUNE 9, 2022

But how to set up a photography website to get as many orders as possible? How to get started with a photographer promotion? While providing photography services is a highly competitive sphere, you have to use the whole mix of promotion methods to get the desired results. Use Backlink Strategies. Apply Special Triggers.

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