Creative Boom

JANUARY 27, 2025

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. Pizza, the New York Timesbestselling illustrator behind the popular podcast Creative Pep Talk.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 17, 2025

Creative block is a universal experience that affects everyone, from designers and illustrators to writers and photographers. Similarly, illustrator Andra Badea recommends pushing through, and that means taking a step away from perfectionism: "I'd say: draw anyway," she explains. The good news? Get some natural light in the eyes.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 20, 2025

From architecture to illustration and everything in between Roco's path to illustration wasn't straight. These skills would later become invaluable when she pivoted to illustration and graphic design. I don't just illustrate I translate ideas into the language I understand best: images." I don't think so.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 4, 2024

The Chinese illustrator uses a mix of traditional media to express herself and communicate her clients' messages, celebrating the slips and spills along the way. To engage with real, living, breathing people, many clients prefer to work with a real, living, breathing illustrator, and that's where artists like Monjajaja come to the fore.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 15, 2024

Originally from the Russian territory of Sakha – also called Yakutia – Ilya Kazakov is one of the most northerly illustrators we've featured in a while. People can buy packs of five digital character cards to trade and ask for specific artwork from Ilya. Anyone can request or come up with, for example, a character, and I will draw it.

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Designer Daily

MARCH 20, 2022

The name may not sound so familiar outside of France or engravers’ circles, but it should be more widely known by people with a knack for art. Doré is mostly known for his illustrative engraving work, often on biblical topics and displaying a stunning level of craft and an unmatched love for details.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Launched in 2003, the charity was founded by Tamsin Larby, producer of The Vagina Monologues, whose experience in theatre revealed how performance could be used to engage people in the prevention of abuse. Overall, Osch's branding evokes the right atmosphere for the topic by being calm, warm and welcoming.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Alex Skyrme is an illustrator who advocates for the fun side of creativity. Originally from Blaenavon, a small town in Wales, and currently based in London, Alex Skyrme studied a foundation course as CSM before embarking on a BA in Illustration & Virtual Media at LCC. Alex draws whatever brings her happiness.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Putting together samples of your work for art directors, editors, and others might sound straightforward, but many illustrators find it anything but. We share some tips from the Creative Boom community on presenting your illustrations in the best possible light. Quality over quantity."

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Barcelona-based designer and illustrator Alex Foxley creates work infused with the radical spirit of the 1990s. It's all part of his aim to heal his inner child and bring joy and humour to people around him. However, during his second year, he decided to switch focus and dedicate himself to design and illustration.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Madrid-based illustrator Candela Kerze specialises in creating vibrant artworks dealing with themes of mental health and anxiety. She says it's all part of how people are starting to become more aware of mental health, and it's a cause that she feels should be more economically and socially affordable. Garish, edgy, maybe even hostile.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Reference: Patagonia’s environmental campaigns illustrate how color and texture are used to reinforce the brand’s commitment to the environment, combining visuals and values seamlessly. This color scheme not only looks visually engaging but also reduces screen glare, providing a comfortable viewing experience for users.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

© Anna Knopf Germany-based illustrator and storyteller Anna Knopf creates delightfully snug worlds in her atmospheric artwork populated by people, plants, and members of the animal kingdom. Don't worry if you can't do this for real, though, because Anna Knopf's delightful illustrations will take you there.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In Hanneke's world, the illustrator pulls inspiration from the mysteries surrounding us – addressing topics such as "psychology, religion, love, nostalgia, philosophy, absurdism, disconnection and finding your way back", as written in the artist's bio. This enables her to spot gaps and carve out her own path from what's been done.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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. What if things work out for the best and people have a bright, happy future to look forward to? That's Emil Paun's approach in his illustration series Techno Optimism.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 11, 2024

It's much easier to sing other people's praises than that of your own. With that in mind, illustrator and designer Rich Banks recommends: "Don't spend ages working on a fancy logo, business cards, flyers etc. Certainly, that's what illustrator Ollie Hirst has learned over the years. "I So, how should you go about it?

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

So even if you can't get to London, you'll be able to enjoy talks from an impressive line-up of speakers, including design legend Neville Brody, illustrator Jean Jullien and Alicia Martin, the lead designer on Barbie. Other names on the list include Naïma Ben Ayed, Naomi Kent, Bob Richardson, Venessa and Vanice Scott and Dominic Wilcox.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Hoxton Mini Press and Here Design recently scooped the best-illustrated lifestyle book at the British Book Design and Production Awards. In its pages, she introduces readers to the fruits, roots and leaves waiting to be discovered, encouraging people to disconnect from the digital world and eat in tune with nature.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

"One of the key challenges was communicating exactly what StepChange does – people don't immediately understand what a 'debt charity' is," says Jess Cook, Robot Food client director. There's so much stigma around debt that stops people seeking help when they need to. So what to do? And finally, there's the photography.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

They don't want to admit there will be big fallouts and many very unhappy people. Just as Macs replaced typesetters, photo retouchers, and all of those old skills in the past, AI will replace people and have a huge effect." That's certainly the approach that illustrator and designer Isaac LeFever has been taking. "As

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 4, 2022

People take different amounts of time," he reasons. Some people have a clear plan for their creative career from the start, and that's fine. But look at the bigger picture, and it's not always a bad thing, believes illustrator and animator Tintin Lindkvist Nielsen. It will sort itself out. Don't overthink things.

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Creative Boom

JULY 23, 2024

But first, people have to know about them. But this narrow focus has resulted in a category that feels overly clinical and sometimes cold," says Kate, "losing sight of the real people at the heart of it all." Because in failing to talk about it, we're failing to give people the information they need at the right time," explains Kate.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

So the first thing you need to do is get out there and chat with people, whether friends, family, colleagues or clients. Of course, chatting with people who might give you more work kills two birds with one stone. So, illustrator Mark Leary says: "Once the usual panic and thoughts of 'Do I have to get a proper job?'

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Designer Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It already seems to be widely used in all kinds of industries, but some designers and other creative people seem a bit reluctant to use it, as it’s not really a display of their creative skills. The short answer would be: use it as it suits you the best, but that wouldn’t be sufficient for most people in my opinion.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

"One of the key challenges was communicating exactly what StepChange does – people don't immediately understand what a 'debt charity' is," says Jess Cook, Robot Food client director. There's so much stigma around debt that stops people seeking help when they need to. So what to do? And finally, there's the photography.

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Creative Boom

MAY 8, 2022

Slow down, illustrators and digital artists. In a matter of nanoseconds, DALL-E gathers those three separate images and sifts through its library to find pictures of people playing tennis with each other. Many people who enter the Metaverse now are less than impressed with the graphics and visual style of their surroundings.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 29, 2022

Can we even trust Meta to help us target the right people? Although often confusing, terrifying, misunderstood, and forever-changing, SEO is simply a way of making your website rank highly for its chosen keywords to attract people organically. You can write as much as you like and attract people to your brand via endless means.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 19, 2023

London-based illustrator Chiara Xie reflects on the effect of technology in her cyberpunk artwork. This realisation prompted me to enrol in an intensive summer illustration course in New York, where I explored various forms of illustration. Among them, editorial illustration resonated with me the most.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 10, 2023

Bournemouth-based freelance illustrator Julia Jin combines oriental art styles with Western graphics to create unique artworks that tackle topics of nature and womanhood. Originally from Shenzen, China, Julia Jin moved to England to study illustration at Arts University Bournemouth.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2024

The work of Buenos Aires-based illustrator Sol Cotti is instantly recognisable thanks to her bold use of colour, composition and characters. Like most artists, editorial and commercial illustrator Sol Cotti grew up loving to draw. Yet despite all this, she still calls herself a self-taught illustrator who is constantly learning.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 30, 2023

Freelance designer and illustrator Hatiye Garip is part of an ever-growing community of creatives making art more inclusive and accessible for all. When it comes to disabled people, art can often leave them behind by not catering to their needs. Not everyone will be familiar with the term accessible illustration.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 7, 2024

Even if you enjoy meeting new people and chatting about your creative work, networking can often feel inauthentic and superficial. As a result, many have found LinkedIn a place where more productive networking is now taking place, and it's a great place to find people with your interests or specialist niche. "I

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Creative Boom

MARCH 13, 2024

Illustration by Paul Blow , represented by Handsome Frank Are you worried about the impact of AI on an artist's ability to earn money? So was Jon Cockley, a co-founder of illustration agency Handsome Frank. In this insightful piece, he explains why and shares his views on this controversial topic. It's a very human transaction.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 28, 2023

San Francisco-based illustrator Emma Cheng has swapped her stethoscope for sketchbooks by switching from a medical career to a full-time freelance illustrator. But for Taiwanese illustrator Emma Cheng, the two can work together in stunning and surprising ways. When did you know you wanted to be an illustrator?

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

It's a bit like how, these days, the term OCD is now thrown around casually in conversation by people with no medical understanding of what it actually means. In our Threads discussion on this topic, many told the same story. There was a time when perfectionism was my curse," reveals artist and illustrator Magdalena Pankiewicz. "It

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Creative Boom

MARCH 23, 2023

© Lily Lambie-Kiernan Norwich-based illustrator Lily Lambie-Kiernan combines surrealism and expressionism in her colourful artwork centred around food and larger-than-life characters. For some people, food is just fuel. I think, as a topic, it's snowballed from the first food commissions I did."

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Another driver for the rebrand was a desire to empower people to "reclaim the internet from Big Tech's growing control and ethical challenges", says Mozilla's global head of brand, Amy Bebbington. JKR's approach to the rebrand involved understanding how the brand exists already in people's minds to unearth what is truly memorable about it.

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