Creative Boom

MARCH 8, 2023

Katie Lencheski founded the NYC-based creative agency SMAKK Big creative vision is important to success as a founder, but so too is business acumen and sweating the small stuff. Client services work is different from running a startup or an investment-backed business; honestly, it took a long time to learn how to measure and manage.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Creative's Guide to Starting a Business by Harriet Kelsall Starting a creative business can be scary, so here's a manual to follow. It's particularly tailored for product-based creative businesses and offers a balanced mix of stories, examples and practical worksheets.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 15, 2023

They may be a small mom-and-pop shop that you personally click with and get a deep sense of fulfilment from helping. In which case, we'll start by saying: it gets better. Networking We'll start with the obvious: to find your dream client, you must get out there and meet people. "My Or they might be anything in between.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 19, 2022

After working from home for the last two years, many of us are starting to consider an office again. You don't have to worry about long-term leases, business rates or anything else that adds to having your own office. Located at 111 Gloucester Road, Raw Space started with a mission to bring together local businesses and artists.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock As the year starts to get into its stride, get a jolt of inspiration and fresh ideas to drive your business forward. We're all starting to thaw out, feel the sun on our faces, and worry about the energy bills a little less. Finally, the days are getting longer, and winter is coming to an end.

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Creative Boom

MAY 16, 2022

Branding agency Motto has collaborated with B2B payment platform Hopscotch to create a new bright and friendly identity that communicates how it can help users hop, skip and jump over the various obstacles of running a small business. BS = bulls**t, bad service, boring stuff, and/or business stress.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

So you've launched your freelance creative business: congratulations! A pivot is a tried-and-tested strategy whereby you take a business that just isn't working and turn it in a completely different direction. Often, this involves taking one small aspect of it and making that the focus instead. Then it's time to pivot.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 14, 2024

As a takeaway restaurant, you get such an array of customers, and it's important not to think of only a small section of them," she explains. In our sessions, they admitted that Marco was the more creative half of the business, focusing on brand photography, creative briefs, and social presence," Chloe explained.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 23, 2023

Founded in 2013 by Miranda West, The Do Book Company publishes authors who have spoken at the event to create how-to titles as far-ranging as Do Beekeeping : The Secret to Happy Honeybees, Do Open : How a simple newsletter can transform your business, and Do Design : Why beauty is key to everything. That made them nervous.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The way I calculated it when I first started is by talking to a friend who had been freelancing and sharing his rates, as well as looking at the standards for that position," she recalls. "The Image licensed via Adobe Stock Deciding what to charge is one of the biggest challenges of being a freelancer. And so most of us just muddle through.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Having moved to Leeds from a small Essex town, Khloe says that the city has become her found home. I've always enjoyed drawing people and food, so I knew the combination of the two within a space like a busy food market or a restaurant would generate a lot of inspiration for me," she tells Creative Boom.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 20, 2022

I eventually swapped the sock for a pair of trousers as it was too small and not detailed enough for the horse.". A graduate of Central Saint Martins, she worked in the advertising industry and ran a children's clothing business before becoming a full-time artist. I started doing creative photography on Instagram about six years ago.

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Design Milk

JANUARY 24, 2025

What started as a small family event with servings of tea and biscuits soon became a true happening, complete with a long queue outside. Thats when Obradovic and Basedow realized that they could turn this venture into a business. The starting point is a common object, the neon tube, studied and elevated to art.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They're a fresh, young studio working with top global start-ups, including Accel, Gravity Sketch, Sylvera, Tessian and Bolder Money. This LA-based brand is breaking the monotony of candyland norms by introducing gourmet, small-batch chilli candies targeted mainly at adults. The first bite is with the eye, they say.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

They've become a popular choice for busy individuals and families seeking convenient yet good-quality food options. Originally established in 2008 as a boutique grocery store, Anton&Anton has now started to position itself as a soulful alternative to large supermarket chains.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 27, 2022

There were four full-time people when I started in 2009. That's how our foray into branding started. After that project launched, we started receiving branding inquiries from various industries. Starting this March, our design team works in-person Monday–Wednesday and remotely on Thursday and Friday.

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Graphic Design Junction

APRIL 13, 2022

That you can use for any of your creative projects or business. Kittl – the Design Solution. Are you searching a design solution? Do you want to be an efficient designer? If yes, then the Kittl design website is for you. You can easily design any kind of stuff you need. This website is quite resourceful.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 22, 2024

Start an art journal to unleash your creativity and reflect on your journey. Whether you're a seasoned artist or someone just dabbling in creativity, starting an art journal can be a fulfilling and therapeutic experience. Seemingly powerless and small next to our fear, a journal can transport us to the shores of safety and calm. "By

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 20, 2025

The brand is named after the dairy's hometown, Them, a small town in central Denmark with a population of 2,431, while 1888 references the year of its opening. We knew the Them business already, but we were not aware of their milk powder plans for Southeast Asia," says Simply co-founder and strategy director Rikke Laumann.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 19, 2024

This unofficial holiday is celebrated on 19 March every year, and it's a day for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and businesses to show appreciation to their clients. International Client Day was started in 2010 by Russian and Lithuanian businesspeople and has since spread around the world. Happy International Client Day! You're not alone.

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Creative Boom

MAY 15, 2022

Since launching SDCO Partners in 2009, founders Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson have designed hundreds of brands worldwide – including names like LeCreuset and Soludos – but it's their work with industry-disrupting, women-owned businesses that drives their passion. Did the global economic crisis spur you to start your agency?

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 22, 2023

A few years ago, when I started in the industry, implementing branding was a new, exciting trend for forward-thinking brands to get ahead of the curve and launch themselves over competitors. As journalists, it has to be admitted: one of the failings of our profession is a tendency to focus on the negative.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

We recently hosted a poll on Twitter and asked our followers: "How have you seen social media change since you started using it, engagement-wise? 90% of my business used to come through Instagram until this year," she says. Maybe Facebook is doing better for me because I'm from a small community and locals know my business.".

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

But if you're at the start of your creative career, you can avoid all that! And employers will try to start you on the lowest possible salary that minimum wage legislation allows. In retrospect, then, many long-term creatives regret not doing more to fight for pay, back at the start. If I'd known then, what I know now."

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Graphic Design Junction

OCTOBER 22, 2024

If you are a graphic designer, staying updated with trends is key to staying ahead. Using the latest free fonts and fresh typography styles can instantly improve your work and keep your designs looking modern and creative. One of the best ways to breathe new life into your projects is by experimenting with the new free fonts. The good news?

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As Jens explains: "It starts with the hand and the fingers holding a plastic bag and then extends to the golden ratio-esque text layout on the front side. Can we all just take a moment to appreciate this seriously tasty packaging design for Swedish microbrewery PangPang and its new range of sour beers?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Unlike many other design businesses, it began not in a high-rise office in Shoreditch but in a small artist studio space in Penryn. Overcoming the challenges of starting fresh Like many independent studios, the early days of Kiln were marked by challenges. There wasn't a safety net," Smith explains.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 10, 2022

James left and started his own design studio (Cure Studio), an illustration agency (HigginsonHurst) and a Type Foundry (The Type Foundry). In short, James has worked at some of the highest levels of the design world, starting from the ground up and getting hands-on with client projects along the way. It informed me a lot.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2025

DixonBaxi Simon Dixon and Aporva Baxi's London powerhouse specialises in creating brand strategies and design systems for "brave businesses" that want to challenge convention, including Hulu, Audible, and the Premier League. The studio had an exceptional start to 2025 by collaborating with Roblox on a brand new design system.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Good Daze, one of our top 10 independent jewellery designers of 2023 , teamed up with Hattie to create seven pieces of jewellery inspired by the artist's vibrant and tongue-in-cheek characters and style, as with all Good Daze pieces, they are made in small workshops around London and the collection launches on 4 September. Where to start?

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

To help you out, we've picked eight of the best new courses on business development for creatives available online today. Designed for any creative who needs a pep talk or extra push to get started, it includes five downloadable worksheets to support you along the way. As a creative, you love your work.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 27, 2024

We've spent a lot of time in foundries that were either too trendy or too mass-market, inspiring us to start our own," she explains. We picture our target audience as designers who want to create emotion-driven work," says Lauren Walsh, strategy and new business. And now she's taken that to the next level by launching Type Of Feeling.

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Designer Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The importance of a business card can’t be overestimated as it’s the first thing that introduces potential customers to your brand or services. In this broad collection, we’ve gathered thirty free business card templates in PSD format. Business – Free PSD Business Card Template. Florist – Free PSD Business Card Template.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 21, 2022

We're all starting to realise how damaging 'fast fashion' is to the planet, not to mention its role in developing countries with lax labour laws. These stores and one-person shops are great places to find unique pieces you can wear with pride. McIndoe Design by Maddy McIndoe. Working in a clean, safe and pleasant environment. Aysha Tengiz.

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Creative Boom

JULY 18, 2024

But as a small, independent publisher we can't cover everything, nor would we want to. Multidisciplinary creative Deji Ajetomobi is launching a new magazine focusing on African design talent and partnerships. At Creative Boom, we aim to bring you the best of new creative work from around the world. (You

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Through grit, hard work, determination, and many serious personal and business challenges along the way, I've made it into a global success, both critically and commercially. But I'm so glad I've made a start, and already, the results have been fantastic. Tell yourself the right story Let's start by defining our terms.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 22, 2023

Originally from a small town in southern China, Wei Wu's illustrations have livened up everything from tea brands to magazine editorials and greeting cards. It's far removed from her childhood, where she spent time with her grandparents because her parents were often busy working. And it did." It was a move that clearly paid off.

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