Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It informs the new Mutant Hands brand identity, with the curving top of the lowercase M and H lending a sense of motion to exemplify what the studio creates in a still format.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 11, 2024

Brand design studio Unfound has developed a new identity and website for Future Doc , an educational platform that aims to help future doctors get into and get through medical school. In response, the studio introduced an ownable green hue as the brand's lead colour- an antithesis to the sea of conventional blues in the space.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 30, 2025

Taking place this May in Lancaster, the second edition of Northern Design Festival brings together studios, strategists and storytellers to tackle the creative industry's hidden barriers, one honest conversation at a time. Its an honour to be part of it.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 21, 2024

Smith, Foilco, Nomad, Two Stories, SUN (Studio Up North), Fraser House, EXP, Kellanova and others. A topic to demystify the concept of destructive ai into a design tool that will promote and not hinder creativity. Additionally, 82.6% believe the North does not have enough creative opportunities, and 78.3%

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Creative Boom

JULY 16, 2023

A new platform for learning environmental system has a slick new branding system courtesy of Pentagram and Mondial Studio. The many topics covered on this site, led by teachers from around the world, include biodynamic farming, food forests, river restoration, urban gardening and earth democracy. But how much do you really know?

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Creative Boom

MAY 13, 2024

Reworking a sensitive political topic into an engaging, accessible and design-led publication was one of the challenges that design studio Sister Mary encountered during the project. The Signal's CCO Hywel Mills has been friends with the studio founder and creative director Leigh Chandler since their days as neighbours in Brooklyn.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 17, 2025

Meanwhile, you can read the full discussion on The Studio, Creative Boom's own stress-free social community, here. Sometimes doing something completely off topic of what I am working on brings up lots of new ideas." In the article below, we've compiled the most insightful of their tips and advice. Get some natural light in the eyes.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Netherlands Pavilion prototype - Photo by Lieke Vermeulen, Courtesy of Tellart Through storytelling, technology, and craftsmanship, experience design studio Tellart creates immersive spaces that engage the public on pressing climate issues - shaping perspectives through sensory-driven interactions.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2023

Each issue is designed by Studio Ground Floor and beautifully printed by Pressison Creative Print & Finishers , on paper stock (as of issue 05) from G.F Photography by Yeshen Venema Issue 05 Guest-edited by The Brand Identity, this issue explores the topic of branding and typography. Smith and foil finisher Foilco.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Likewise, illustration agencies are always looking to sign new talent to tap into what creative and art directors currently want in design studios and agencies around the world. The variety within a portfolio shouldn't be stylistic; it needs to come from the application of a style to different topics, concepts and contexts.

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Design Milk

MAY 6, 2025

NeoCon’s CEU program will be both on-site and online , packed with over 60 sessions that feel especially timely, tackling topics like circularity, decarbonization, designing for (and by) Gen Z, neurodivergence, and AI-driven materials. For the full NeoCon 2025 programming, visit neocon.com. See you there!

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 27, 2025

On weekends, Bennett would spend time with her grandad in his home-built studio, learning about watercolours and painting landscapes of dainty trees while he shared stories about his adventures skiing and sailing. Another goal of hers is designing packaging featuring Snakes with Legs.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 23, 2024

A Visible Distance is described as "part memoir, part manual" by its author, Matt Owens, founding partner and chief design and innovation officer at New York-based studio Athletics.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It features hundreds of classified ads from 1960s and 1970s small-town America, collected and archived by Studio Carnley , a creative agency based in Birmingham, Alabama. Classified is the 11th title published by Standards Manual, and it's a topic that's close to Hamish's heart. "As

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Creative Boom

MARCH 20, 2025

Her signature ability to turn complex topics into clear, inviting visuals made her a natural fit for editorial work, but one of her most personal projects The Dyslexic Font, created with Pranav Bhardwaj stands out as a career highlight. But it was the second call that really hit home. Credit: Estudio Gagarin What's next for Roco Ego?

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 4, 2023

WOACA Trailer TIFF 2023, bespoke typeface designed by Studio Frith Morning: wash your face with water only, apply a Vitamin C serum, moisturiser and SPF. Studio Frith was called in to design the titles, posters and overall visual language of the short film. "We Maybe an exfoliant, oil or mask, depending on the day.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 25, 2024

Deep dive As you'd expect from Counter-Print, the book deeply dives into the topic. He points to the Samsung Galaxy S23 launch event by Studio Werk as another brilliant example of an innovative use of icons. It all adds up to a fascinating investigation into an important topic that most designers rarely pay much attention to.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 21, 2024

The minority-owned motion studio BIEN has created a new animation highlighting the talents of wheelchair basketball players for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, which start on 28 August. David Jeffers, a quadriplegic sound designer, played a key role in the project, providing audio expertise and acting as a disability consultant. "Our

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Likewise, illustration agencies are always looking to sign new talent to tap into what creative and art directors currently want in design studios and agencies around the world. The variety within a portfolio shouldn't be stylistic; it needs to come from the application of a style to different topics, concepts and contexts.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As a topic, wild foraging presented Hoxton Mini Press with a unique opportunity. As Creative Director and Co-founder Martin Usborne explains: "We've started to explore some aspects of food, but since it's a saturated market, we want to focus on fairly niche topics that we can do with some style and quirk.

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Creative Boom

JULY 23, 2024

To help create the brand, they approached Sydney-based design studio Universal Favourite. "It It needed to be a brand that balanced credibility and compassion in equal measure," Universal Favourite studio manager Kate Brookes explains. Naming strategy Universal Favourite also helped the company settle on a name for the service.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 16, 2022

This year's collection sees creatives address and reflects on topical subjects from the pandemic and mental health to sustainability issues and celebrations of traditions and handcrafted techniques. Wiggle Chair by Georgia Hatton.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Animation studio Niceshit and craftsman Lobulo have released their fun festive film titled A Holiday Dream, which reminds people to be grateful for the unsung heroes that make Christmas possible. Lobulo built all the puppets in his studio in London, and we shot and built the backgrounds in Barcelona, near Niceshit's studio.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The studio's global executive creative director, Lisa Smith, says: "When we asked people to draw Mozilla's logo, most ended up sketching the Firefox logo. A suite of custom typefaces - Mozilla Semi-Slab, Mozilla Sans, and Mozilla Sans Text - were developed with Studio DRAMA and are also built on the brand's slab serif heritage.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Global branding agency How&How has launched GetEven, a pro-bono, studio-funded initiative designed to support women in the creative industry. So we decided to launch the initiative as a studio-run project where every female in the team would help shape what we did."

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 31, 2023

On the positive side, one respondent felt that "Studios and the brands they work with are prioritising ethics, sustainability and inclusion more in their projects. So you might have expected most of us to have returned to the studio by now. A plurality of respondents (33.9%) replied, "Yes, for the better", while 17.7% didn't know.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The Leeds-based studio has modernised the branding for StepChange , creating a bold new positioning based on the creative platform 'Debt Happens. Empathy and pragmatism are the significant themes behind a revamped identity for StepChange, the national debt charity. The work by Robot Food hopes to break down any stigma around managing money.

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Creative Boom

MAY 21, 2024

A whopping 600 pieces have been created for the online auction, which follows on from a recent exhibition of the work at Glasgow's Saltspace Studios. By using humour in some of our beermat art, we've made the topic of testicular cancer more approachable and less intimidating, allowing for easier engagement and education."

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The Leeds-based studio has modernised the branding for StepChange , creating a bold new positioning based on the creative platform 'Debt Happens. Empathy and pragmatism are the significant themes behind a revamped identity for StepChange, the national debt charity. The work by Robot Food hopes to break down any stigma around managing money.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 2, 2023

Similarly, the final room bookmarks this process with the full-scale reconstruction of Nelson's 2003 studio, an invitation to consider the evolution of the show's concept and its development right through to final execution. It's equally eerie and risky, with large-scale activations that feel incredibly topical. Photo: Matt Greenwood.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 17, 2025

That mindset underpins every aspect of the new identity, which was developed in close collaboration with the Newcastle-based studio. The studio's brief was to give Life Factory a distinctive voice and visual identity in an increasingly crowded space. So we approached the illustration style as a way to free those subjects up.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2023

For more on this topic, read The Complete Graphic Design Salary Breakdown. For more on this topic, read How to Price Your Services as a Freelance Graphic Designer. From there, you may progress to more strategic and executive roles such as art director, creative director or CEO or found your own design studio.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 25, 2022

An important part of Mogwai's development over the years has been the artwork created for the band by designer and founder of Middle Boop studio, Gordon Reid. Bright, bold, and geometrically interesting, the covers are an original take on several familiar topics. Something that would instantly catch your eye.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2023

The creatives behind it, at Semi Permanent Studio , were kind enough to share the design style guide behind it with us, and it made for some fascinating reading. We reckon Semi Permanent Studio has done a great job. But to us design nerds, what's equally as interesting as the event itself is the visual identity crafted for it.

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Creative Boom

JULY 18, 2023

Now brand and digital studio Koto has unveiled a refreshed brand identity for the platform. Brand concept Koto is a brand and digital agency with studios in Berlin, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Sydney.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Leeds International Festival of Ideas covers some tricky topics, so the branding and visual assets needed to be sensitive. Taking place every autumn, it covers topics across science, technology, culture and society and serves as a platform for exchanging ideas, fostering dialogue, and encouraging curiosity.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2024

As Pari Purohit of Studio Glyph advises: "Be brutally honest with yourself. For more on this topic, listen to our podcast interview with Alison Haigh on Why honesty is better for everyone in the creative industries 5. For more on this topic, read our article How creatives can stay positive during darker times.

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