Creative Boom

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We creatives often don't like to take time off: it makes us feel stressed, guilty and like a failure. Leading voices from the community discuss why that's all wrong and what we should do instead. Why creatives don't take breaks We'll start by addressing the crux of the matter.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2024

It's a natural part of life, an impulse that compels us to improve things. When it becomes a problem, though, is when we wallow in unhappiness or let it defeat us. As creative work and process can become very meditative and allow us to explore the inside, it can help us find happiness."

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We examine why creatives are leaving social media, why it's increasingly useless for self-promotion, and some IRL alternatives to get your business up and running again. But the party couldn't last forever, and nearly two decades later, most of us are getting tired of it.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But why the need? And Ragged Edge's work has reminded us of its value and relevance. The rebrand has helped us to evolve visually and strategically and given us an even stronger sense of purpose, authority and momentum as we continue to provide transparency and support for customers across a broad range of complex products."

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Why a raccoon? This industry often sheds its alternative skin when success comes knocking, but Flow helped us embrace ours and double down." "Flip embodies the studio's multifaceted personality, merging a sense of humour and love for mosh pits with northern warmth and friendliness while being cheeky and cool.

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BP&O

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Yet they are also resilient and surprisingly strong – who among us hasn’t enjoyed watching them perform surprisingly well under a hydraulic press compared to substances that much more obviously scream ‘structural integrity’? Perhaps this soft-yet-strong dynamic is why the name works for an insurance company.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 21, 2024

But in these days of remote working and regional powerhouses, the days when everything in the design industry necessarily centred around the capital are long behind us. Why is it needed? If you're wondering why a Northern Design Festival is needed, you probably don't live in Northern England.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Kindness is always abundant around Christmas, but why does it feel especially important right now? It's why Apple stands out as the winner of this year's festive advertising push. The fuzzy and soft-rounded characters are typical of Anna's work , which often takes a humorous look at people and the world around us.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 13, 2024

In this insightful piece, he explains why and shares his views on this controversial topic. But the more I learn about it and think about the role of an artist in art, the more optimistic I feel, and here's why. In my opinion, they won't, and here's why. So was Jon Cockley, a co-founder of illustration agency Handsome Frank.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 21, 2023

Here's why you should fight the urge and how constructive positivity can boost your career in unexpected ways over the long term. But hand on heart, can any of us say we haven't dished it out to others? So why do we so easily get sucked into negativity and short-term thinking instead? Just imagine it. In business, in life.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 8, 2023

Despite the tomato shortage in the UK earlier in the year, the Isle of Wight is fast becoming an ideal destination for tomato cultivation and production, which is why the fruit growers formerly known as The Tomato Stall has rebranded to Isle of Wight Tomatoes – to emphasise this fact. It has helped us focus on embracing positivity in future."

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Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2022

It's my first journalistic collection," she tells us. Much like many of us who grew up in small towns, she was happy to move away and spent much of her twenties moving around the world, living in Shanghai, Italy and Los Angeles along the way. "I My latest series began as a celebration of my hometown," she tells us.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 23, 2024

The themes of guilt and pleasure fascinate art student Irene Chung , whose latest work is influenced by a series of interviews with women working in the food and wine sector who are closer to daily temptations than most of us. And why does the concept of pleasure needing to be accompanied by guilt seem more prevalent in the female psyche?

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SpeckyBoy

APRIL 2, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is coming for us all. We’re using it to help us debug code and generate content. We’re also seeing prompt-based tools that promise to “design” for us. Even so, I don’t believe that AI will replace us. There’s no need for someone to reprogram us.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 28, 2024

“The Power of Yellow: A Showcase of Stunning Yellow Websites” has guided us through a captivating journey, exploring the versatile and impactful nature of the color yellow in web design. In the world of colors, yellow is known for making us feel good, giving us energy, and making us hopeful.

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UX Collective

MARCH 11, 2024

Why your cookie-cutter portfolio doesn’t cut it and how to fix it. Is that why I don’t “get it”? By Kristina Gushcheva-Keippilä Navigating the DesignOps wilderness → How to define a compelling roadmap and build the trust you’ll need. By Jake Geller 90% of designers are un-hirable? → Am I creating too high of a standard?

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Why Midjourney’s images look like Midjourney’s images To get a better sense of AI images’ evolution, I ran a small series of empirical tests with Midjourney. I started with prompts I used for a project last year. Like glitches, hallucinations show us the machine from the inside. But recently the meaning of the word changed.

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Its Nice That

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Rhine-based graphic designer tells us why he loves working within the music industry, always leading with the motto “less is more”.

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SpeckyBoy

APRIL 28, 2024

So, why not respond? Plus, some companies are using chatbots as their first point of contact. The result leaves us stuck in the middle. Meanwhile, we can only rely on what the provider tells us. That leaves us scrambling to figure it out. Clients are asking more from us. That leads us on a wild goose chase.

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Speckyboy Design Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Either it’s the technology that will save us or it’s going to take our jobs. It could help us cure diseases and solve other highly complex problems. Allow me to outline a few reasons why. That’s why a human conversation is necessary to get the details right. For some of us, that may at once sound scary and awesome.

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Its Nice That

JANUARY 9, 2023

The studio talks us through its melodic style, and why it takes inspiration from US and European rock, to the “effervescence” of Latin American music.

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Its Nice That

MAY 3, 2022

From surreal and uncanny to whimsical and pleasant, the Toronto-based artist talks us through his unique work and tells us why reality TV currently serves as his biggest inspiration.

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SpeckyBoy

JUNE 20, 2023

That’s why web designers need to evolve. But what motivates us to start the process? In practice, it could mean using a project management platform. That’s why it’s worth asking yourself if a particular workflow still makes sense. The Tools You Use Are Obsolete Not all tools change with the times.

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Its Nice That

MARCH 8, 2022

The illustrator tells us why she also explores spirituality and celestial bodies throughout her endearing work.

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Its Nice That

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Reflecting on his career thus far, the illustrator tells us why he has no interest in having a ‘style’ and how a change of location has offered a new perspective on both his life and practice.

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Colossal

JUNE 3, 2022

“Why did they do this to us” (2022). All images © Diane Yevtukh, shared with permission. Ukrainian artist Diana Yevtukh draws inspiration from her surroundings by carefully situating cornucopian floral arrangements made of thread in the hollows of trees.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We’ve all encountered those products that seem to hold an irresistible allure, effortlessly keeping us hooked. By Darren Yeo Risk tolerance → Why some countries prefer more complex UIs. By Bas Wallet Why companies kill great design → Sometimes it’s not about the design.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Embracing the paradox teaches us how to think deeper and with more complexity… it moves us away from oversimplifying how systems, organizations, and humans work.” Many people in other fields look at our meandering paths and ask, why would anyone put themselves through that? Yet, this is a paradox, too. You don’t pick it.

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The Basque country TV writer and comedian tells us why he started collecting hundreds of background images from the American golden age animation series.

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SpeckyBoy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Why Use React in 2023 – Explore the magic of React from a designer’s perspective. Why quality and consistency mean more than originality. Stop Lazy Loading Product and Hero Images – Why you’re better off not implementing lazy loading at all than implementing it incorrectly. That’s OK. –

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Its Nice That

MARCH 6, 2023

Working across graphic design and art direction, the Stockholm-based creative tells us why she finds a certain “intimacy” in lo-fi expression.

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SpeckyBoy

JULY 2, 2023

And the right apps help us meet these increased expectations. That’s why we still need manual testing. And what if a design tool could give us this information from the start? And what if a design tool could give us this information from the start? And it might offer to adjust the image for us.

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Design You Trust

MAY 2, 2023

But if you’re wondering why the ice cream harvest only happens at night, it’s probably because it’s too scared of melting in the sun. Thank goodness for AI, keeping us in shape while fooling us with its realistic imagery. Or maybe it’s just a winter crop, who knows?

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Its Nice That

MARCH 20, 2024

The illustrator tells us why she first resisted the idea of making a book due to her love for “quick results”, and the process that got her over the line.

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UX Collective

JUNE 1, 2023

Nonetheless, Ted (and later Ezra Klein ) reminded us of something fundamental — that writing a first draft is neither a waste of time nor a speed bump that gets in the way. Sarcasm-aside, I understand why these companies are pushing in this direction. Why did the pharmacist use that piece of paper to record inventory levels?

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Why do we need design books? You may wonder why design books matter so much for your career. Over the years, this message evolved into something that could be used to communicate almost anything, from politics and religion to science and technology. 6 – How Design Makes Us Think: And Feel and Do Things. $36.49.

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Its Nice That

MARCH 15, 2022

Looking to depict common perceptions of “low and high brow culture”, the London-based artist also tells us why her mum is her biggest creative inspiration.

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