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D&AD Awards 2025: who won what?

Creative Boom

In some years, no Black Pencils are given out at all, making the awarding of three a significant achievement for these winners: Designing Paris 2024 by W Conran Design won in Graphic Design for its innovative approach to sports marketing.

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How The Studio became an essential place for creatives to network and learn in 2025

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Your creative support network, finally If you've never heard of The Studio, here's what you're missing: it's Creative Boom's private, distraction-free sanctuary designed exclusively for creative professionals who are serious about their craft and their careers. Photography by Michael Godsall IRL Birmingham.

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Rise of the machines: How illustrators can avoid being replaced by AI

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It can help us with our email, accounting, and marketing and will become an essential tool for running a small business. "If Nurture these relationships and build a network of repeat clients who can recommend you in the future. Get to know people through real-life networking events or sell your artwork at markets.

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Unique and Modern Business Card Templates to Boost Your Branding

Graphic Design Junction

While the popularity of digital communication continues to rise, business cards remain a powerful tool for face-to-face networking and branding. By selecting unique, modern business card templates , you create not only an aesthetically pleasing design but also a strategic marketing piece that speaks volumes about your brand.

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OFFF Barcelona: 25 Years of creative evolution and community

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I remember a talk that a speaker (don't remember who) talked about something we now call Social Networks.," There is always risk in creating a lineup, always doubts about if it's going to meet expectations but we have a great network of partners and friends that help us to be in first position." Salazar recalls. "It

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Futuristic Free AI-Generated Photos – Free Download

Graphic Design Junction

In the fast-changing world of digital creativity, AI-generated photos are becoming a game-changer for designers, marketers, and content creators. These algorithms, often powered by deep learning and neural networks, analyze vast datasets of images to generate entirely new visuals.

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Is LinkedIn still a useful platform for creatives?

Creative Boom

But is it really the right platform for creative networking? At a time when platforms are rising and falling with alarming regularity, LinkedIn stands as something of an anomaly: a professional networking site that's maintained its relevance for nearly two decades. PR and marketing professionals, too, still see value in LinkedIn. "We