Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The branding agency soon got to work repositioning Chester Zoo's look and feel in a way that represented both the experience within the zoo gates and its greater purpose of serving nature as a whole. The result of this process was a brand idea that How&How called 'Force for Nature'.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Released this week, Expressive Type Today by Counter-Print explores the world of evocative type design and its ability to command our attention, shape perceptions, and spark emotions. For Jon Dowling, one of the book's creators, it was born out of the overwhelming response to a previous project celebrating large-scale typographic works. "A

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Whether it's Coca-Cola, Adidas or BMW, AI is being used by some of the world's richest companies to cut costs and do the work of creatives. AI has even won awards for its illustration work from creative bodies such as Communication Arts and the Colorado State Fair. Add your own unique style to your work so AI can't imitate it.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The tactility of analogue techniques has become somewhat nostalgic; print papers and magazines are becoming fewer and fewer, and most of our marketing comes through a relentless stream of emails. Looking closely at Kühne's work over the last ten years, Poster Cult also evidences his growing interest in creating larger print formats.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A crowdfunding campaign has just launched for Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work, showcasing the career of the iconic British graphic designer. Now 88, she's famed for her groundbreaking work on UK road, rail, airport, and shipping signage. So it's a shock, quite frankly, that no one has ever released a book dedicated to her design work.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

That said, in terms of what work looks and feels like, we're clearly in one of the most transformational shifts in technology since the introduction of the computer. "AI Even so, though, the elephant in the room is that AI will probably put many designers out of work. Work by Bedow 6.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 9, 2025

It's really hard to process that my entire community and the things I worked so hard for were taken away from me so quickly." Losing your life's work The list of similar stories is endless. Abstract painter Daniel Mendel-Black 's home and studio, containing five years of work, was lost to the flames.

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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. We wanted to hunt down some of the most talented illustrators making waves today with fresh and imaginative work. Read our exclusive interview with him to learn more. Lucas Zanotto 7.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Her work lies in culture, fashion, architecture, technology, education, and place across brand, print, motion, digital, and environmental. Let's explore her favourite reads and their powerful impact on her work. What if we completely rethought our physical world? But I did, and it truly blew my mind. MC24 is the next generation.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

For the 2025 edition, PRINT Magazine enlisted The Collected Works to craft a dynamic visual identity and hero film that embodies the theme of "cultivating creativity." Plants symbolise creativity, while our rocky alcove represents the rigid grid from which it breaks free," adds Colt.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 15, 2024

You might not know Scale Model Studios by name, but you've probably seen its work – perhaps through its on-screen promos for the BBC's Winter Olympics coverage or through the music video for Rag'n'Bone Man's 'All You Ever Wanted', which merged reality and meticulously crafted enchanting miniature village scenes.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Its design ethos is described as "simplicity with personality": Studio Mast strives, it says, to create "unique results that our clients feel ownership of and that successfully meet their needs". Our role was to reimagine its identity in a way that felt authentic and aligned with its values.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 9, 2025

Shortlisted artworks L-R: Toshio Saeki for Geordie Geep; Mat Maitland/Tung Walsh for Galantis; Joshua Gordan for New Dad; Hvass & Hannibal for Efterklang; Matt Hansel for Foster The People; Lulu Lin for Fontaines DC The winning artwork explores themes of the divine feminine and features a very particular shade of blue with strong line work.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 17, 2024

From day one of working with EDIT, they got us," said Rachel Miller from Lowry. They understood the challenge of our complexity whilst embracing our achievements over the past 25 years that have been realised through the power of creativity." One of the most noticeable changes is the shift in tone and language.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

And so when there's a film that really floats our boat, we like to share it with the community. The project was spearheaded by aerospace engineer Nathan VonMinden, who converted the upper floor of the family home into a professional animation studio, where he worked alongside his wife Meleice and their teenage children.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 24, 2025

In an age when screens have become our primary window to the world, motion allows us to create meaningful connections with their audiences. In this article, I'll explore how to build motion successfully into your work. We experienced this when working with Canva , to develop a comprehensive motion system built around cursor movements.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

They interviewed employees to understand why they chose to work at Gobi and why some of them had been there for as long as 30 years. Gobi, however, works with herders in Mongolia to harvest raw materials. This resulted in a distinct direction for Gobi while creating guardrails to work within during the design process.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It's impossible to visit the homepage of Welsh illustrator Tom Hovey's website without working up an appetite. The HND gave me a work ethic and base knowledge of storyboarding, which I've used in a few jobs," says Hovey. His early reading of Steadman and Scarfe inspired him to create political illustrations throughout university.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Cheer yourself up by looking at all the cool things coming our way in the creative industries next year. The vast majority of them told us a positive story about how the industry is working to build a future that balances global impact with local relevance. Image licensed via Adobe Stock Down in the dumps? Feeling uninspired?

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

One group working to correct that balance is The Legacy: El Legado Español, which is dedicated to promoting Spain's legacy across the continent. 3D artist Jose Andrés García is a long-time collaborator of The Legacy, and he recently put his 3D skills to work to help promote its exhibition We the Spanish People.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With these findings, the team at Stink Studios worked on developing a master brand that celebrates the games and commitment to its players. What emerged was that, while Riot owns many properties across multiple media, there is a unified brand purpose at the heart of everything it does: making the player experience better.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 29, 2024

To accomplish this, we eschewed exclusivity and pretentiousness and instead aimed to create an identity that feels welcoming, inclusive and fun while tipping our visor to classic athletic club tropes. "So we wanted to flip the idea of a stereotypical country club on its head. "To

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Creative Boom

MARCH 17, 2025

To help gather the best advice, we asked our community of creative professionals to share their go-to techniques for overcoming creative block. Work through the resistance Creativity isn't always about waiting for inspiration; sometimes, it's about creating space for it. Just work through it," he recommends. This reminds me of.'

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The demand for our fonts led me to start an online store." We're currently developing new tools for our website to showcase these even more effectively. Another thing that sets us apart is our unique merch—something I really enjoy creating and that's had good interest over the years. And Daniel knew a good font when he saw one.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This meditative work, which is largely helmed by women, is the backbone of how our society was formed. Crafting Topographies goes beyond wall art, to expose the underbelly of work that women have been silently completing for centuries. Fabric tells rich history, and always has a storied provenance.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

From a digital playground to a global phenomenon OFFF was conceived at a time when the internet was just beginning to reshape creative work. I always try to soak up all of this culture and infuse it into our global event in Barcelona yearly." He says: "OFFF is already responding by inviting the new kids working with AI. "AI

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 19, 2025

For more on how it works, read our article How building a 'secret repertoire' helps you generate original ideas. Dribbble A favourite among UI/UX designers, illustrators, and visual artists, Dribbble is a vibrant community for showcasing and discovering design work that has been running since 2009.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 24, 2025

A Woman In A Dark Swimsuit Is Standing In The Water With Arms Raised, Splashing Water Around by Steven Schultz Discover how Stills' exclusive 2025 trend report is empowering designers to create authentic, impactful work in an era of visual saturation. It brings such a unique contrast to our increasingly digital world."

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 19, 2025

Yes, it's AI, and this technology increases the capability to perform knowledge-based work, including creative tasks traditionally handled by human designers. Most notably, UI and UX design ranks as the eighth fastest-growing job category, indicating a shift in demand rather than an overall decline in design-related work.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The team immediately felt aligned with the great work that the FMJF is doing and the summit's mission, and saw it as "an amazing creative opportunity to represent the spirit of Montreal, through the lens of [the team's] unique black experience," according to Phillips. Its main objective is to encourage the ascent of our ideas."

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Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2025

As creatives, our time and mental energy are our most precious resources. But unless you establish clear boundaries, your mental and physical resources can quickly deplete, leading to burnout, resentment, and declining work. Image licensed via Adobe Stock As creatives, we all know boundaries matter. Here's how to go about it.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 14, 2025

The double act in type design Barens and Schwartz have worked together since 2003, when they were paired up to draw a new set of typefaces for The Guardian. "We It's always been important to us that our type specimens can be read in addition to being looked at," says Schwartz.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

There’s a grounding message there, contrasting with our culture’s obsession with fame.” Her work, spanning murals, installations, and paintings, has been featured internationally and displayed in prominent institutions such as the Tate Modern and the Southbank Centre in London. But it’s also a reminder of the transient nature of fame.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

We've worked with everyone from custom jewellery designers to fancy canned beans, organic cotton undies to chef-made hot sauces and Michelin-starred restaurants." Supporting graphics, type, and colours that will work in the space. And guidelines that give you the tools to truly 'own' the brand beyond our immediate relationship."

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Creative Boom

APRIL 1, 2025

Work by Max Bloom Looking to level up your creativity without putting your career on hold? We chat with staff and alumni to find out how it all works in practice. For some, that might mean pursuing an MA, but with rent and bills to pay, most of us won't have the luxury of taking one or two years out of work.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Crafting Plastics' previous work had been done mostly in the interior design space, making this their debut in automotive. While they started off working with existing materials, they soon realised that these often didn't hit the mark in terms of performance or ecological footprint.

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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. When we last spoke with him, his work was already marked by fluidity and movement, a distinctive visual language that captured the energy of the everyday.

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