Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Are you finding your life and work particularly challenging right now? First, accept your situation As with many problems in life, the first step towards resilience is acceptance. When you're on a downer, looking for inspiration from your social feeds is, of course, natural. My daughter's mum has a memories jar," he explains.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 6, 2023

One day, my mum suggested that I try looking for design degree options," she adds. "I Through her studies, Sudesna discovered the work of Chaaya Prabhat, whose vibrant and expressive use of colour would become one of her biggest artistic inspirations. However, plenty of her influences come from beyond the creative world. "My

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. You need to be in an inspired and determined state to make something good. Like most artists, Chad Grenier feels he's following an inner calling.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2022

As such, it's bursting with insider career tips, honest business advice and incredible stories, offering warmth, wisdom and inspiration to help you in your creative journey. Gush Mundae will chat about his "life's work" as the founder of the London agency Bulletproof.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

As the summer winds down, the leaves start to turn, mums shop for the kids' school uniforms, and large groups of uncertain freshers are making their slow shuffle around the town and its pubs. Take inspiration from Alicia Puig, owner of PxP Contemporary. "A Read on to discover how to achieve this practice. Make reading a regular habit.

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Creative Boom

MAY 24, 2022

Meanwhile, her mum suggested making art – a remedial outlet that soon opened new doors for the budding artist. It's like the subjects are jumping out at you, caught in a moment from everyday life (running, hanging out or smoking with a friend, for example). She had an identity crisis. Subsequently, Chloe's ethos was determined.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 22, 2023

The work of extraordinary comic artists including Seth, Nick Derington, and Jillian Tamaki are huge inspirations both narratively and stylistically." He loaned me Seth's 'It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken', and from that day forward, I felt like a door had opened to a realm I had never known existed.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 29, 2022

I get my inspiration from everywhere," she tells us. I'm one of those people whose interests are pretty vast, and different things inspire me at different points in my life." In other news – though still on the topic of inspiration – she recently watched Everything, Everywhere, All At Once just after therapy. "It

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Just Creative

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

We also discover Kayes inspirational story, her obsession with human decison making and how this helps her in her work + how she keeps a work life balance as a Mum and entrepreneur. Kaye shares her ‘4C Brand Strategy Framework’ which helps to bake psychological principles into brands.

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Design Milk

JUNE 21, 2022

“Ekaabo” means welcome in Yoruba and the collection is inspired by West African hospitality, making contemporary use of heritage materials such as Adire, Aso-oke, and Bronze from Benin. Those mountains set the tone to life and survival, to mythology and craft,” says Daniel.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I think my mum should get the credit – she is a farmer, so is out working in all weathers and regularly catching her clothes on fences and things – she is quite a frugal lady, so will just patch them back up using scrap materials – either from other damaged clothing, or our old school t-shirts and pillow cases.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

My mum let me use her sewing machine all the time, the iron for making wax paintings, and the food processor for recycling paper into pulp. She was a really supportive mum like that – I was and still am really lucky! What inspired this project/product? I only use natural finishing oils that come directly from nature.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

” The piece took form during the COVID-19 pandemic, inspired by the idea of using leftover house paint as part of Ella’s on-going commitment and passion for the circular economy. The piece has since inspired a range of roller blinds. Until I was 18, I mostly lived with my Mum in a community surrounded by creative people.

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Creative Review

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This Mum Runs empowers a global network of over 100,000 women to be happier and healthier. As the world’s largest community of its kind, it shows how running can be a catalyst for mums to reclaim valuable headspace, connect with other women, and develop a more positive attitude towards exercise. She wasn’t alone.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 29, 2022

I'd recently lost someone close to me, my Mum. Fancy and low-key restaurants are another source of inspiration, as he loves the scene of a table after everyone has eaten. And weirdly, I'm inspired by the Fluxus art movement. It's important their vision comes to life just as much as mine," he says.

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Creative Review

JULY 8, 2021

The team’s approach to bringing the new publication to life, however, feels markedly different to their trademark minimalist approach. “Child-focused media often makes ‘mum’ the default reader, which is something we’ve avoided. That wasn’t something we felt needed adding to.

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Shillington

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Originally from Italy, Alessandra Conti left her marketing job at an office furniture dealer to study graphic design at Shillington—to bring creativity back in to her life. I think I’ve never been in a more inspiring and efficient course in my life. I loved studying at Shillington. It was a hard choice to make though.

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UX Collective

JANUARY 2, 2024

Navigating work and life as a neurodivergent designer Illustration by Kristina Gushcheva-Keippilä In 2019, I reached the final year of juggling degree studies and various design jobs. I love RPGs and life simulation games. For the first time in my life, my sleeping patterns improved.

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Creative Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I can also recall being about five years old and pointing out corrections to my mum’s Batman she was drawing for me,” says Ollie Macdonald Oulds, “insisting that his eyes needed to look meaner.” ” His work was originally inspired by a range of sources. Music has trickled into his practice in other ways.

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Spine Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2020

And I would stand there and say, But Mum, I'm ten years old. The Pillars follows the wild life of protagonist Panos, a struggling writer awash in a toxic world of aspiration, consumerism, methamphetamine and other moral gray areas.

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UX Collective

MAY 15, 2022

Dad and Mum had jobs that dealt with numbers. Yes, the backdrop of my design life was evidently filled with doubt and a sense of misfit, similar to the kids in sixth grade. More students in Singapore are exposed to design earlier in life through their primary schools ( PEPS, 2015 ) Yet, it takes a village to raise a child.

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Shillington

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Inspiration can be found through the creatives we admire and the design community at large. The answers we received were broad, ranging from the work of illustrator Malika Favre to Veronica Ditting, Creative Director of The Gentlewoman, to inspiring big sisters and the entire female “village” around them.

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UX Collective

MAY 23, 2022

I’ve done many things in my life; played the piano, toured Myanmar and built my computer from scratch to name but a few, but all of these gratefully received help at some point along the way. I’m registered blind and also suffer from chronic pain. I also had all my tools charged and close at hand.

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Ohn Mar Win

AUGUST 1, 2022

I’d been a stay-at-home mum for eight years, and my Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator skills were very rusty. Teaching on Skillshare was one of many routes I was trying, in order to boost my revenue as a single mum. It fits in with my life purpose to inspire myself and help others do the same.

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Creative Review

MARCH 6, 2020

I’ve been on lots of training courses and seminars through my life to help me ‘get on as a woman in advertising’ Some have been amazing. Where are the bosses inspiring and encouraging their male creatives to take shared parental leave? Spending a year each time out of agency life did wonders for my ideas.

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Feature Shoot

MAY 25, 2022

” Favour Marvanne: “My mum says girls can be whatever they want, so I’m a superhero and also Princess Ivah! ” DeLovie Kwagala was on a photoshoot when they heard Favour, a young aspiring photographer, tell the sitter, “My mum says girls can be whatever they want.” I have muscles too!”

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Eye on Design

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

While Modernism is synonymous with the polished aesthetic of white picket fences and Brylcreem-styled hair, there’s a playfully caricatured side of life depicted by many mid-century designers, often in music and film, that leans seamlessly into the imagination of a wide-eyed child. Someone who I really like is Jim Flora.

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Shillington

JUNE 22, 2021

Read on to meet 6 Winners of our 2020 scholarship, get inspired by their stories and see their winning applications. I dealt with a lot of measurements and logistics, neither of which were my forte, so the thought of doing that for the rest of my life was extremely underwhelming. Thomas, Virgin Islands, to ‘figure my life out.’

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Moo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A holiday gift guide lets you show off your products and inspire shoppers (and save them tons of time, too). Or a new mum might need an indulgent candle to relax at home. Choosing a theme can really bring your gift guide to life visually. The secret to good gifting starts with a great gift guide. The secret to a good gift guide.

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Feature Shoot

AUGUST 18, 2024

To not only show a glimpse of the complexity of Cairo and the lives of the people who live there but also include moments that, even if we come from a completely different background, we can relate to, smile at, empathize with, and appreciate the shared beauty and complexity of life. You see, I, myself, have a life-threatening illness.

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Creative Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

After an initial delay caused by Dutch lockdown restrictions, she is bringing her relationship with her younger brother to life in a riotous solo exhibition in Amsterdam called We Can’t Live – Without Each Other.

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Shillington

JUNE 7, 2020

“ During her time as a lawyer, Ashley took up brush lettering on the side—inspired by her childhood love for calligraphy. ” In other words, it allowed her to be inspired by those around her and fully appreciate her blossoming career as a designer. Everyone (and everything) comes into your life for a reason.”

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Shillington

JULY 28, 2021

Perhaps because my mum was, and that would have been too obvious. How has your life changed after Shillington? TCO will be a home for creatives to connect, learn from one another and be inspired. Great Good has had to take a back seat since launching The Creative Occupation (and becoming a mum!),

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Shillington

MAY 25, 2021

Both have very different backgrounds, different inspirations and, given that the Covid-19 pandemic landed in the middle of Mim’s course, very different Shillington experiences. I found the course a total life changer it opened my eyes to a creative industry that I had always wanted to be involved in.

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Ohn Mar Win

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

What I’m presenting is a candid timeframe of my career from my humble life as stay at home mum to the successful illustrator you see today. I’ve been told this is an incredibly fast transition to go from stay at home mum to earning an income from commissioned illustration projects.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

It is a really playful language, and I have so many memories of being a child and asking my mum and dad to teach me silly rhymes." Gibson's visual approach was heavily inspired by the design sensibilities of the 1950s and 60s. "I My mum adores the book," Crowley shares. Crowley recalls.

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Moo

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Honestly, I think that would be my mum’s kitchen where I worked for two days. It allowed me to think my day through and get some uninterrupted thinking time (unless I’m in my mum’s kitchen). When MOO announced the Work From Anywhere initiative, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to try out the digital nomad life.

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