Creative Boom

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The London agency's designs for diamond specialists Graff masterfully balances its exclusivity with its ethical underpinnings. It was the unique Graff lattice found on the back of most signature pieces which served to inspire the new Graff brand pattern.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Global creative agency GUT is celebrating its fifth year in business with a new identity crafted by &Walsh that ensures visual continuity across the brand's international locations. This sophisticated guidelines system can easily be scaled and implemented across their different agency locations and creative departments worldwide.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 8, 2024

Designed to make play more accessible, the updated look reflects what makes the LEGO brand so important. Its red-brick logo has always been a consistently recognisable design element, but beyond that, the company's identity needed to offer a "fluid and cohesive" brand experience.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The New York/London agency has a new identity that retains familiar visual elements but casts them in a new, forward-thinking light. More recently, they've been applying their design talents to their own branding. And as a result, they've just released a stirring new visual identity for the studio.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Studio Herrström 's work for Sony Music is a model for designers to learn from. Having rebranded Whitney Houston a year prior, Austrian creative agency Studio Herrström was invited by Sony Music to design a new, unified, visual identity for Elvis Presley. How do you make a 20th-century icon relevant to a modern, young audience?

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Creative Boom

JULY 4, 2023

Founded in 1973, The Conran Shop is a world-renowned retailer known for its iconic furniture, lighting and home accessories designs, and boasts stores across London, Paris, Japan and South Korea. Kimberly Lloyd adds: "The Conran Shop is undoubtedly the authority in design and modernism, and unequivocally, this has been the case since 1970.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Studio Herrström 's work for Sony Music is a model for designers to learn from. Having rebranded Whitney Houston a year prior, Austrian creative agency Studio Herrström was invited by Sony Music to design a new, unified, visual identity for Elvis Presley. How do you make a 20th-century icon relevant to a modern, young audience?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

More than just a rebrand, Studio BND wanted the project to reflect the charity's celebration of resilience and community and worked directly with individuals living with dementia to inspire the approach. A priority for Arts for Dementia was an accessible system, achieving an AA rating across the website.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 25, 2023

Brand design agency SomeOne has recently unveiled its new identity for the World of Wedgwood , which draws on the pottery company's rich history and craft-based skills to create a stunning yet respectful new look. Each comes with a wealth of detail; they can be cropped into and rotated to best find a composition that works for any design."

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Creative Boom

APRIL 28, 2024

Koto identified two primary challenges, one relating to design and the other to managing stakeholders. Devising a flexible design system that could adapt to diverse platforms was a must for the brand, as was "ensuring content remained engaging and accessible across different mediums", says Howard.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 8, 2023

Branding Design of the Year 2023: Campus, Reading International by Socrates Communications The victors of the Indigo Design Award 2023 offer extraordinary examples of real-world design we can all seek to emulate. We share the seven main winning designs here. Are you seeking inspiration for your work?

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Creative Boom

JUNE 20, 2023

Type foundry and design studio F37 has created a mature new look for Manchester's underground trance scene, Majefa. Boasting dynamic typography and colours inspired by rave culture, the identity is a celebration of the UK's clubbing aesthetic. As it turns out, F37 had already been working on the perfect design by chance. "On

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Creative Boom

MARCH 21, 2024

The 'less is more' concept is a powerful one in design. Corporate clients, in particular, may end up trying to cram multiple messages into one design; either to please all the competing parts of the business, or because they just lack focus concerning what their business is actully about. "One and 'Healthy skin is beautiful skin'.

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Creative Boom

MAY 17, 2023

Designed by architect Christian de Portzamparc, it's a stunning building boasting excellent acoustics and an iconic frontage, instantly drawing the eye with its 823 facade columns made of white steel. The logo NB's logo design takes its cue from Philharmonie's iconic building, an architectural landmark in Luxembourg.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2023

We love the visual identity for Semi Permanent's forthcoming event, Future State 2023. Read on to discover the main design elements and how they work together. But to us design nerds, what's equally as interesting as the event itself is the visual identity crafted for it. But how was it made?

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Creative Boom

JUNE 13, 2023

We look at Franklyn's new design refresh for the brand and the backstory behind it. There are many great reasons to work in graphic design, but most of the time, feeling a rush of blood to the head and pumping adrenaline isn't one of them. And it was this duality that inspired the company’s new visual identity."

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Creative Boom

APRIL 22, 2024

Since graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 2022, her distinctive illustration style has been recognised by the Society of Illustrators, Creative Quarterly, and the World Illustration Awards. As an illustrator, I am committed to inspiring and engaging in meaningful discussions about art's impact on contemporary culture."

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Visual : Crafting a cohesive and recognisable design system that is relevant, relatable, and appealing both locally and internationally. Its purpose is to inspire, influence, and encourage menstruators to live proudly, determinedly, and sustainably."

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

With its cool dance music soundtrack, groundbreaking futuristic visuals and addictive gameplay, it was like nothing we'd seen before. An anti-gravity playground of visual and audio delight. It's no wonder it gained overnight cult status, not just amongst the gaming community but with graphic designers, too.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 8, 2024

Taking it from corporate and technical to cohesive and approachable, A LINE developed a suite of rounded, dimensional graphic assets, all inspired by Rotate's hero "r" symbol. To differentiate Rotate, the studio sought to design an approachable B2B2C brand that connected with key audiences through "approachability, reliability, and trust".

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 24, 2024

That's where brand and digital studio Fiasco came in, breathing life into the visual identity, experience and platform of a business that has gone from fledgling startup to industry leader in the world of accessible and affordable electronic aviation in a relatively short time. The site is visually led.

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Creative Boom

MAY 23, 2022

Design Bridge has today launched its full rebrand for the leading gardening charity, the RHS. With botanical illustrations by Paul 'Dessy' Desmond and lettering by Rob Clarke, inspired by the labelling of garden plants, it's a visual identity that celebrates the transformative power of gardening in all its forms.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

We explore the thinking behind the designs. The International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) is North America's leading global platform for contemporary furnishing design. To translate this strategy into visual form, the organisers looked to award-winning creative agency forceMAJEURE to develop a new brand identity.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 6, 2023

Belfast design studio Angel & Anchor was tasked with creating a visual identity for the new city nightspot Southside Social. In the case of Southside Social in Belfast, which opened in November 2022, it probably has a lot to do with the carefully crafted visual identity created by the local design studio Angel & Anchor.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 13, 2023

Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) is behind the new brand identity for American department store chain Nordstrom Rack, creating a strategy and branding system that celebrates customers' "confidence and savviness". The new logo is inspired by Nordstrom Rack's past, looking o the logo used in the 1970s and 80s and reimagining it in a modernised form.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Having quickly transitioned from a small startup to a global operator with over 50,000 boats and chartered yachts, they needed a new visual identity to match their ambitions. Nautical graphic elements, technical wave reports and the ocean's bathymetry all inspired this fluid visual language, evoking a sense of escapism and discovery."

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Design Milk

MAY 13, 2024

Rotterdam-based design firm Studio RAP designed a bespoke facade in Amsterdam called the Ceramic House. The design blends with its historic surroundings while exuding a contemporary flair that captivates anyone passing by. The organic, undulating surface appears to morph as viewers look at the design from varying angles.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 10, 2024

As the RSPCA celebrates 200 years of working to help animals live fairer and better lives, it has launched a new purpose, positioning, and brand identity designed by Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR). The design team also went on the road with animal rescue officers, visited local RSPCA shops, and participated in immersive workshops.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 2, 2023

You don't often see fragrance packaging inspired by geographic coordinates. The Boston-based designer explains the intriguing story behind this project. When it comes to the design and packaging of products like this, several obvious visual cliches come to mind. It specialises in luscious and vibrant scents for the home.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Monkey Baa is an Australian theatre company dedicated to inspiring young people. Qualities that Universal Favourite , a design studio based in Sydney, Australia, demonstrated admirably in devising new branding for Monkey Baa Theatre Company. And when it came to inspiration, the team weren't short of sources to draw on.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2023

It is currently undergoing a £13m revamp, which will include a new medieval gallery designed in partnership with the British Museum, along with improved visitor facilities such as a cafe, restaurant and retail offering, and new digital and learning spaces.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Designer Jessica Strelioff and strategist Danielle LaRoy realised they both loved the design world. Like any sector, there is a lot of bad work and, perhaps worse still, work that's okay but simply not inspiring in any way. The ethos was: "One part visual. The design industry is really special," enthuses Jessica.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

More than just a rebrand, Studio BND wanted the project to reflect the charity's celebration of resilience and community and worked directly with individuals living with dementia to inspire the approach. A priority for Arts for Dementia was an accessible system, achieving an AA rating across the website.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2024

Want to use your design skills for social good? On close inspection, they reveal themselves to be meticulously designed miniature models of well-known local buildings, such as Manze's pie and mash shop, The Nag's Head pub, and the Wood Street Indoor Market, embellished with 3D-printed details and solar lighting.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 22, 2022

Created by nonprofit arts organisation Art At A Time Like This in collaboration with SaveArtSpace , 8X5 is a billboard exhibition which aims to provoke a dialogue about America's criminal justice system. A recurring theme of the artwork on display includes statistics unique to the local judicial system in Miami.

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Just Creative

MARCH 23, 2024

The graphic design field is ever-changing, yet the rock stars of the graphic design industry are still, mainly, men. Get inspired by these rockin’ female graphic designers! Get inspired by these rockin’ female graphic designers! Bold words wrap you up and pull you in. You’re hooked!

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ID Identity Design

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

We wanted to echo his process and masterpieces into the content system. The brand’s visual system was created to resonate with the beauty of the various unique artworks while systematizing them into an archive through a new, clean photography style. M — N Associates elsewhere on ID: HiRaw.

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