Creative Boom

DECEMBER 18, 2024

New beginnings can be a fantastic source of ideas and creative energy for an illustrator. Nine years in Melbourne saw him morph into an illustrator, where he truly discovered his creative voice. One of the five illustrations for A Better City. Mark Conlan is an artist whose journey began in Dublin as an animator.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The airline commissioned illustrator and pattern designer Martha Olivia to create a suite of six bespoke illustrations for their High Life magazine. While the article focuses on the 25 most unmissable wonders of India, Olivia was able to select six of her favourite sights to illustrate. million TikTok posts.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

And, if you're good at it, there are clients out there who will pay handsomely for your live illustration talents. Ever since Creative Boom began, illustrators have told us they love getting back to the basicsdrawing and painting hands-on with traditional media. Most live event illustrators work in fashion and beauty.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Three years on from our last conversation, Taiwanese illustrator Poan Pan reflects on his evolving creative journey, the power of community, and his ever-expanding artistic practice. Good news I'm still freelancing as an illustrator! He asks, "Can illustration also embrace nuance, ambiguity, and a broader spectrum of emotions?

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Creative Boom

APRIL 8, 2025

Enter Ben Duchesne, the emerging English illustrator who would very much like to push AI back into the shadows ones meticulously cross-hatched by hand in his highly detailed, beautifully gothic pen-and-ink style. "My My work is proudly and boldly traditional, and I am determined to stay that way," says Ben. "Art

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Creative Boom

JULY 15, 2025

An Egg-cellent Card Game: Can You Find the Missing by Paperface (Design Product & Packaging) The AOI has unveiled those in the running for this year's World Illustration Awards, featuring 200 standout projects from over 4,700 entries worldwide. Illustrators are leveraging technology not just for efficiency but to push visual boundaries."

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We met Aino-Maija Metsola to discuss her signature style and creative approach to illustrating book covers. She is known for her use of watercolour to ink, collage, markers, and gouache to craft paintings, patterns, and illustrations. Since then, Metsola has occasionally illustrated book covers published by Vintage/Penguin.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 13, 2024

There's a sense of childlike wonder in the work of this Japanese illustrator, who's committed to challenging social norms through his art with wit and humour. Japanese artist Ryohei Kadokura stands out as a fresh and innovative voice in the world of modern illustration.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 20, 2025

From architecture to illustration and everything in between Roco's path to illustration wasn't straight. These skills would later become invaluable when she pivoted to illustration and graphic design. I don't just illustrate I translate ideas into the language I understand best: images." I don't think so.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 24, 2025

Merjin Hos Get a burst of visual inspiration from our selection of top illustration talent drawn from global representation agency Agent Pekka. One of the great things about illustration is that there's always a ton of raw talent coming up, with new and imaginative styles by which to be inspired. Macarena Luzi 4. Merijn Hos 9.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 1, 2025

The Folio Society has brought together two of the UKs greatest talents author George Orwell and illustrator Quentin Blake with a high-quality slipcase edition of Animal Farm. At 92, Quentin Blake has illustrated over 300 books and continues to champion the discipline as patron of the UKs Society of Illustrators.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Illustration can be a lonely career, but Ashwin Chacko and Clive McFarland are on a mission to change that through a community that connects and supports Northern Ireland's often-overlooked creative talent. As illustrators and authors themselves, they know first-hand how isolating it can be. The mission?

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Creative Boom

JUNE 18, 2025

The way Patricia Shea has combined her textile design skills with print-on-demand services is simply mesmerising, offering plenty of inspiration for aspiring illustrators and designers. You'll have to forgive our headline. Blue Denim Paisley. Painted and digitally arranged patterns become products in Patricia's store. "I

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Vast outdoor settings, bold forms, and unexpected colours combine to give French illustrator Agathe Meunier a style entirely her own. Trained at the Duperré school in Paris and then the Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg, she has remained in eastern France, working as a freelance illustrator while pursuing her own individual projects.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 29, 2025

And those who prefer to (say) juggle illustration, web design, photography and a bit of copy on the side might just be built for this new era. Illustrator Annie McGee explains how being multi-disciplinary actually enables sustainability. I've just tried a bit of everything, and it's always been an advantage.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Piper Nigrum, 2020 © Dafi Kühne Typographic Disillusion, 2023 © Dafi Kühne Poster Cult includes the thoughtful presentation of 60 selected posters, as well as black and white images shot by Zurich-based photographer Peter Hauser that illustrate the artist's interconnected digital and analogue working process.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2025

A farm-first approach, real-world textures, and playful illustrations bring an authentic, handcrafted charm to the Bath-based brewery's new look. Expect homegrown textures, characterful illustrations, and evocative beer names. Somer Valley Brewing isn't your typical craft brewery.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 29, 2024

From the midcentury script typography to the playful supporting illustrations and colour palette to the custom plaid and argyle patterns, everything is designed with tongue-in-cheek. It's pickleball, after all."

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For this Brooklyn artist, creating an illustration is about spending time with it, exploring it, and finding that moment when things fall into place. In the upcoming months, I will create many illustrations for the brand, and having this much deeper, tangible knowledge about it feels so special." Personal works.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 1, 2024

As a delightful quirk, the typeface includes eight Dinamo pig illustrations, some drawn by the designers' children. Its italics break from traditional flowery styles, offering a bubbly, understated design with a dynamic rhythm. Accompanying the font is an actual storybook—also called Otto—written and designed by de Groot.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These sessions revealed the need for nuance and flexibility in online readability and accessibility and how disabled people should be depicted in photography, and they influenced the studio's approach to typography, iconography, and illustration.

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Designer Daily

JULY 9, 2025

Use photos, illustrations, or icons that reflect your brand and stick in memory. Pro tip: Work with a professional designer to avoid post-print regrets. Select a Striking Visu Your image is the poster’s backbone. Test it: Remove text and logo—if the message still reads, you’ve nailed it.

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Designer Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2024

It works seamlessly with popular graphic design software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDRAW, and Clip Studio Paint. Compatibility and Software The Kamvas 16 is compatible with major operating systems including Windows, macOS, and even Linux.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2025

With a focus on branding, illustration, editorial design, and typography, they combine joy with craft to explore issues with heart and purpose. The results are visually striking, with black backgrounds prominently featured (a rarity in the health drink aisle), punctuated by vibrant fruit illustrations and flavour-coded colours.

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We And The Color

JUNE 20, 2025

You see three titans of the Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. This guide on Photoshop vs. Illustrator vs. InDesign is here to give you clarity. What Is Adobe Illustrator Best For? The Vector Virtuoso Now, let’s talk about Illustrator. Unlike Photoshop, Illustrator is a vector-based program.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2025

The example of graphic designer and illustrator Nvard Yerkanian is a good one to follow. "I Illustrator and animator Falko Grentrup notes that "Clients not respecting boundaries was much more common earlier in my career, and looking back, it was usually a red flag for the type of client I was dealing with." work/life balance)."

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

Best of all, this is a flexible degree that can be tailored to your interestsfor example, in app development, animation, visual identity and branding, illustration, photography, typography and publishing, or graphic design in general. He has also shared his expertise through Guardian Masterclasses.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 5, 2025

Through its new identity, HALFDAY is serving up bold colours, playful illustrations, and a healthy dose of '90s nostalgia, proving that prebiotic tea can still have a rebellious streak. We chose an unashamedly bodacious mix of contrasting colours," Bruce says, "a visual shorthand for the kind of fun and flavour HALFDAY brings."

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Creative Boom

MARCH 17, 2025

Creative block is a universal experience that affects everyone, from designers and illustrators to writers and photographers. Similarly, illustrator Andra Badea recommends pushing through, and that means taking a step away from perfectionism: "I'd say: draw anyway," she explains. The good news?

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 14, 2024

GOSE required an identity as unique as its product, which Bala delivered through semi-abstract illustrations and an acidic colour palette that reflects the beer's salty flavour. Since this is the first beer made with grasshopper, Reguera says that the team wanted the design to be "as radical as the recipe". "We

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Creative Bloq

MAY 26, 2025

A step-by-step guide to nailing your typography every time.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2025

We talked to five illustrators and designers who take on private commissions about the pros, the cons, and what it does for their careers. But in today's world, it's something illustrators and designers are increasingly turning to. Molly McCammon They're a good earner and can enhance your creativity. It's not a new idea.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 8, 2025

The team drew on emerging design trends like expressive abstract patterns, playful illustrations, and vibrant colour cues to build a system that feels premium yet personal. Marks' approach was rooted in local consumer insight and cultural semiotics.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The second month of 2025 brings us a rich harvest of new typefaces that perfectly illustrate typography's dual nature: serving designers' practical needs while pushing creative boundaries. This month's selection is particularly notable for how it spans the full spectrum of contemporary type design.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 1, 2025

To discover why, I spoke to Bryan Clark, head of graphic design at Falmouth University, and Jasmine Hortop and Max Bloom, who took online MAs in Illustration and Graphic Design respectively. Jasmine, meanwhile, had been working as an illustrator for around eight years, both in-house and freelance.

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Booooooom

JULY 8, 2025

All words and illustrations by Andrew Fairclough. That scrappy little Wacom Cintiq 13HD immediately paid for itself and was a straight-up game-changer for my illustration process and, by extension, my career. Adobe Illustrator – Kinda Like Photoshop, it’s not a full version. Do I need to travel with my device? What’s my budget?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Though "small" compared to massive repositories, PDIA is still an absolute wonderland with over 10,000 images, spanning everything from medieval manuscripts and early colour photography to 16th-century illustrations of celestial phenomena and Victorian gym equipment. The unifying thread?

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