Creative Bloq

JULY 23, 2025

Its natural to feel a bit wobbly when your LinkedIn feed is full of posts about ChatGPT designing logos and Midjourney creating campaign visuals. Sign in here Tom May Social Links Navigation Freelance journalist and editor Tom May is an award-winning journalist and author specialising in design, photography and technology.

Graphic Design

Its Nice That

JUNE 30, 2025

With breaks between her freelance work, she’s found that this schedule has given her space to slow down in between client briefs and reflect on her unfolding practice, rather than “sprint from project to project”. Laura Beulens gets locked-in with your brand.”

Brand

Its Nice That

JULY 16, 2025

POV Forward Thinking Review of the Year Editorial Team Jenny Brewer Olivia Hingley Ellis Tree Elizabeth Goodspeed Liz Gorny Extra nice Extra Search Account Social Designer Gabrielle Adam is finding inspiration in everything cheesy, kitsch and fun The more silly something is, the more likely it is the freelance designer is going to be a fan.

Inspiration

Its Nice That

JULY 8, 2025

After the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, many designers struck out on their own and there had been a successful generation of small studios, but few remain active today. Despite a healthy cultural sector, it’s hard for designers to be active outside of Korea’s dominant commercial system.

Arts and Crafts

Its Nice That

JULY 30, 2025

Words Ellis Tree — Date 30 July 2025 Work Graphic Design Typography Font Logo Identity Process The London-based designer Ciaran Birch has moved into the freelance life since we last caught up with him way back in 2019.

Arts and Crafts

Its Nice That

JUNE 19, 2025

Share Words Emma Taggart — Date 19 June 2025 Tags Ones to Watch 2025 Features Creative Industry Advice Process Share Applications are currently open for It’s Nice That’s Ones to Watch – a talent showcase championing the next generation of creatives. In this piece, we share tips and resources for making creative work on a budget.

Animation

Design Shack

AUGUST 12, 2025

Are you working on crafting a content plan to promote your brand and business on social media? Then these social media kits and templates will help you design amazing graphics for your social media campaigns like a pro. But don’t worry. Fashion Sale Instagram Template Kit A perfect tool for creating stylish fashion sale promotions on Instagram.

Templates

Inkbot Design

JUNE 25, 2025

The Chase logo since 1961. They work today just as they did then. A timeless logo saves you the cost and brand-equity loss of a redesign every five years. They're Memorable (Your Brain is Hardwired for Shapes) Your brain is a pattern-recognition machine. It identifies and remembers simple shapes far more easily than complex illustrations.

Brand

Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2025

While a focus on growth dominates the political rhetoric, the reality for freelancers, small studios and creative professionals tells a starkly different story. Three major production companies have gone into liquidation this year alone, while countless freelancers report their worst dry spells in years. Let's not beat around the bush.

Freelance

Inkbot Design

JUNE 11, 2025

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] Must-Have Branding Tools for Freelancers Who Do It All Freelancers wear many hats and juggle client work, outreach, finance, and branding alone. However, not every freelancer has the budget for a full branding agency.

Freelance

Its Nice That

JUNE 23, 2025

Criteria Applicants must comply with one of the below criteria to be considered for It’s Nice That’s Ones to Watch: You must have less than 12 months of professional experience in the creative industry, whether full-time, freelance, or as your primary source of income. Reading "Deadline extended for our."

Freelance

Inkbot Design

JULY 21, 2025

For one, you can try freelancing, sign up for temporary gigs (such as delivery or ride-hailing services), or join Get-Paid-To platforms that pay you for completing tasks online. Publishing a Book for Passive Income Publishing used to be something that only the hand-picked creators had the pleasure of experiencing. What does this mean?

Publishing

Inkbot Design

JULY 31, 2025

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] Apple Pencil vs Wacom Stylus: Review for Creatives The endless debate over Apple Pencil vs. Wacom is mostly noise. It’s a proxy war fought by brand loyalists and YouTubers chasing clicks, completely distracting you from the real issue. Sale Bestseller No.

Adobe

Its Nice That

JUNE 10, 2025

Words Harry Bennett — Date 10 June 2025 Work Graphic Design Typography Logo Rebrand Identity Branding Design agency How&How has rebranded Big Cartel and wildly reimagined the independent business-first e-commerce platform, repositioning the company as the new go-to for small businesses, artists and creatives. 7 days ago POV Work.

Graphic Design

Creative Boom

APRIL 22, 2025

Image licensed via Adobe Stock What's it like being a creative freelancer in 2025? For many freelancers, 2025 has brought an amplification of the traditional feast-or-famine cycle, with longer dry spells followed by intense periods of activity. In 30 years of freelancing, I've never known it this bad.

Freelance

Its Nice That

JUNE 12, 2025

Words Harry Bennett — Date 12 June 2025 Tags Work Event Graphic Design Illustration Festival Identity Share In Guanzhong, within the Chinese province of Shaanxi, there’s a traditional custom called Mangba Hui, which entails rural farmers inviting friends, family, and opera troupes together to celebrate the summer harvest.

Art

Design Week

JULY 16, 2025

But after a year flying solo as a freelance PR and media consultant, I’ve had a proper education. We all know LinkedIn can be a cringe wasteland (“I got married; here’s what it taught me about client services.” That doesn’t mean being provocative for the sake of it, Just be honest. ” NO!!).

Media

Its Nice That

JUNE 11, 2025

“Over time, type design – almost stealthily – became part of my practice as well, and is slowly causing my professional focus to shift,” Ann says. Making typefaces is all about building systems,” she adds (having worked with code from a very young age), “this probably also explains my penchant for monospaced type.”

Coding

Inkbot Design

JULY 15, 2025

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] Your Brand is Lying: 12 Signs You Need a Rebrand Now Nobody wakes up thrilled at the prospect of a rebrand. It sounds expensive, complicated, and risky—a black hole for time and money. ” It’s useless. A rebrand is structural. It’s a costly mistake.

Brand

Its Nice That

JULY 23, 2025

Hanneke finds inspiration by Push Pin Studios, a fledgling design studio in the 50s that began to drum up creative freelance work for forward thinking individuals. They provide some puzzle pieces to work with so there are slightly less blanks to fill,” says Hanneke. Those are the themes that resonate with me most.”

Illustration

Its Nice That

JUNE 25, 2025

After graduating, they both began freelancing and their paths were to converge – they remained online acquaintances. Looking back at his time at a traditional design studio Chase says: “It was a little more corporate and a little more safe in terms of design, so the only way I could truly experiment was to freelance.”

Graphic Design

Its Nice That

JULY 21, 2025

At the same time, I’m unsure what other path might offer both the flexibility to be present for my child and the creativity of actually doing the work I love without going freelance. But maybe freelance is the answer? I keep circling back to freelance, is that the answer? I find myself questioning whether I’ve made a mistake.

Freelance

Inkbot Design

AUGUST 8, 2025

It’s not just a bigger, more expensive freelancer. A proper rebrand, the kind that actually works, is a strategic weapon. It’s fixing the foundation first, then building a new house on top of it. And the architect for that project is a rebranding agency. But their real job is wildly misunderstood. What is a Rebranding Agency?

Agency

Inkbot Design

JUNE 24, 2025

Here’s the first piece of brutally honest advice you’ll get today: The problem isn’t your Facebook ads. It’s not your SEO keyword list. It’s not your email subject lines. Those are symptoms. The disease runs deeper. For most small businesses, the “customer acquisition problem” is a convenient lie they tell themselves. It’s a cliché for a reason.

Marketing

Creative Boom

JULY 2, 2025

Freelancers, artists and small business owners live with the low hum of anxiety that if you're not hustling, you're failing. It says that my value isn't measured in billable hours or LinkedIn updates. Just think about it: history is littered with brilliant artists and thinkers who did nothing spectacular for weeks.

Self-employed

Inkbot Design

JULY 4, 2025

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] Why Your Approach to Branding for Small Businesses is Failing Let’s be honest. Most of what you’ve read about “branding” is probably rubbish. ” None of which helps when you’ve got invoices to send and a business to run. It’s a discipline.

Brand

Inkbot Design

JUNE 30, 2025

📖 Reading Time: 5 minutes 🏷️ Categories: Design, Branding, Marketing 📅 Published: [DATE] Competitive Positioning for Small Business: Beyond “Better and Cheaper” If you vanished tomorrow, would a specific group of customers genuinely miss you? Or would they just shrug and click on the next Google result? A landmark is a destination.

Marketing

Creative Bloq

JULY 11, 2025

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Entertainment

Design Week

AUGUST 6, 2025

Crowder says this requirement is most commonly used for freelance roles, which seemingly makes sense. Leapers, an organisation that promotes freelancers’ mental health estimates that between 25 and 30% of current freelancers didn’t choose this way of working, but were forced into it. ” But is it that simple?

Freelance

Creative Bloq

JUNE 6, 2025

The best fabric simulation ever, some are saying on LinkedIn. Writing on LinkedIn, it says it created the work in around two months using 3ds Max, our own pick as the best 3D modelling software, along with Houdini and Tyflow. For more inspiration, see our collection of the best 3D art. 1),t.lanes=33554432)}else{if(!l)if(null!==(e=Di(u))){if(t.flags|=64,l=!0,null!==(n=e.updateQueue)&&(t.updateQueue=n,t.flags|=4),ol(r,!0),null

Animation

Design Week

AUGUST 4, 2025

“The Small Business Plan is a welcome signal of support for the backbone of the design economy; our SMEs, micro-businesses and freelancers,” says Shamir Hale, senior policy and advocacy manager at the Design Council. “For some hirers, could it put them off using freelancers, rather than sorting out their internal processes?”

Freelance

Creative Boom

JULY 20, 2025

When Katy Cowan, founding editor at Creative Boom, shared her own experiences of workplace bullying on LinkedIn, the response was overwhelming. This guy still posts on LinkedIn, acting like he's God's gift to love and harmony." Instead, it manifests in more insidious ways that can be difficult to identify. I tried to rationalise it.

Freelance

Inkbot Design

JULY 25, 2025

I once worked with a startup founder who built an app for freelance mechanics. It’s a platitude that sounds wise but leads countless entrepreneurs down a rabbit hole of conflicting opinions, useless suggestions, and catastrophic design choices. You build a product for everyone and, therefore, for no one. It’s time for a more honest approach.

Patterns

Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I've given up on Instagram," complains freelance book cover designer Alex Kirby. "I Image licensed via Adobe Stock. No, you're not imagining it. In 2022, social media increasingly sucks for sharing content and finding work. Creatives share their views on the way forward. Have you noticed how different social media feels at the moment?

Media

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? Keep working hard, following the freelancing tips and advice we share on Creative Boom, and having a good attitude, and ultimately you'll end up landing your dream client.

Client

Inkbot Design

JULY 24, 2025

” If you're a law firm, do you want to be “a law firm” or “the law firm that helps tech start-ups navigate their first funding round”? One is a category. The other is a position. The difference is everything. The Big B2B Myth: Are You Selling to a Soulless Corporation? ” It's rubbish. It's born of fear.

Brand

Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2023

Many graphic designers are also freelance, so their earnings are generally kept to themselves. How much does a freelance graphic designer make? Most freelance graphic designers will start with a lower rate and raise their rates over time as they build their portfolio and reputation. But it doesn't need to be that way.

Graphic Design