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From watercolours to Snakes with Legs: illustrator Beth Bennett on her work so far

Creative Boom

Plymouth-based illustrator and graphic designer Beth Bennett is a fairly new face in the creative industries, having only graduated last year in 2024, but one of her recent projects caught our eye, and we just had to know more. "I It's endlessly inspiring." Another goal of hers is designing packaging featuring Snakes with Legs.

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Ed Helms' SNAFU podcast embraces 'controlled messiness' in new identity

Creative Boom

In the new and improved brand, expect graphics inspired by art books on Cold War propaganda, spy movie posters from the 1950s and '60s, and vintage adventure and educational book covers. Typography followed a similar logic, inspired by pulp novels, propaganda posters, and newspaper headlines.

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How Hoxton Mini Press and Here Design crafted the best-illustrated lifestyle book

Creative Boom

Split into multiple categories, including best jacket design, best educational book and best graphic novel, the British Book Design and Production Awards have a long and illustrious history of commending landmark editions in the publishing field. As a topic, wild foraging presented Hoxton Mini Press with a unique opportunity.

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Emil Paun's sci-fi illustrations imagine a more hopeful future for humanity

Creative Boom

UK-based illustrator Emil Paun has channelled his childhood love of sci-fi novels into an optimistic series of images that imagine a more hopeful future for humanity. Coming from a graphic design background, I still get impostor syndrome when I see what some talented people can create." But what if everything wasn't all doom and gloom?

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Van Saiyan's incredible retro illustrations draw on special moments from his childhood

Creative Boom

The collaboration involves creating illustrations for a range of club T-shirts, and when he's not drawing away on that, he's also preparing to make his first graphic novel. It will be about a current topic in our modern society." I'm looking forward to working on this in the coming months," he explains. "It

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The Evolution of Desktop Wallpaper Design Over the Years

Designer Daily

Brief Overview of the Topic Desktop wallpapers have evolved significantly over the years, from basic, pixelated images to breathtaking digital art. The introduction of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) marked a significant shift. Minimalist designs Minimalism has taken the world of desktop wallpaper by storm.

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Alex Merto on his less is more approach to book cover design

Creative Review

New York-based designer Alex Merto says he got into graphic design by accident. “I think the first piece of graphic design that I really noticed and impacted me was a book designed by Peter Buchanan-Smith for the band Wilco,” Merto tells CR. “It was the first time I noticed that a book could really be art.