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The 25 creative studios inspiring us the most in 2025

Creative Boom

They also highlighted "Super Futures," their program that encourages employees to think freely and positively about brand challenges and audience desires, aiming to reclaim creative liberation. As we wrote at the time: "Its balance between theatrical grandeur and self-awareness makes the campaign uniquely engaging."

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Graphic Designer Skills: What Design Students Need To Develop

Inkbot Design

Gaining Skills with Digital Programs Today's creators depend on design software. Digital programs also help test styles without losing supplies. What's more valuable: formal design education or self-taught skills? A self-taught designer with 50 completed projects beats a graduate with 5 class assignments every single time.

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The Great Un-Pinning: Why Pinterest Abandoned Publishers and Flipboard Became Their Essential Alternative in 2025

We And The Color

The platform’s ultimate goal has clearly transitioned from fostering discovery across the web to cultivating a self-contained ecosystem designed to maximize in-app engagement. Their self-service publisher initiative provides an accessible pathway for creators to integrate their content seamlessly.

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Shane Laptiste on Reframing Spatial Narratives in Montreal and Beyond

Azure Magazine

An act of spatial resistance, Black people are creating self-sustaining spaces outside of dominant power structures, and these are often female-led spaces. The project explored different ways of creating a vibrant cultural hub, a space for exchange, artistic expression and community support, hosting a range of cultural and community programs.

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Whether she's sad, happy, excited or mad, Katrina Romulo uses design to express her emotions

Creative Boom

This was for two reasons: "I've always been interested in sustainability," she says, and "It was the closest thing I could find to any sort of design program (I'm not very close to graphic design at all, I spent time stressing over ArcGIS and calculating sun angles).". Work for Halia, a period care brand © Katrina Romulo.

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Six recommended courses to help you refine your creative skills this September

Creative Boom

That presents a great opportunity for artists, designers, photographers, writers, and digital dreamers to embark on a journey of self-improvement and skill refinement. It's all part of the University of Illinois Masters of Business Administration degree program (iMBA).

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Xiangni Song follows her instincts to create paintings of the abstract images in her mind

Creative Boom

She subsequently transitioned from illustration to fine art by enrolling in the MFA Fine Arts program at Pratt Institute in 2020. Today, painting, drawing and ceramics are Xiangni's medium of choice, and her art deals with themes of identity, self-observation and the imagination.