Creative Boom

DECEMBER 3, 2024

"I focus on creating what I want instead of what I think the industry expects of me," says the multi-talented Dutch illustrator Robin Raaphorst. Over the last couple of years, Robin Raaphorst's portfolio has transformed in terms of breadth, themes, and quality. A graduate of HKU Utrecht's game art programme, she has mastered areas such as character design, concept, and environmental art and contributed to numerous titles.

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We And The Color

DECEMBER 3, 2024

For creative professionals like artists, photographers, and designers, inspiration and growth are constant pursuits. Reddit, a community-driven platform, offers creative professionals a unique opportunity to connect, share, and learn on a global scale. With thousands of niche communities, Reddit can become your go-to resource for ideas, feedback, and even promotion.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A bespoke font and hand-printed illustrations created using real potatoes take centre stage in the new designs. BrandOpus has refreshed the design of McCain Foods' whole GB and EU packaging portfolio, which now includes a new bespoke typeface and printed brand assets. As the long-term brand agency partner of McCain Foods, BrandOpus had recently worked on the McCain global identity in a bid to make the McCain brand more iconic and build a more consistent visual identity system globally.

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SpeckyBoy

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Getting a viewer’s attention is a big challenge for video content creators. The key is to get them hooked from the first few frames. An effective title sequence can do that. Titles that feature captivating movements are a must. You’ll also want strong visual effects and typography. Each is an ingredient to keeping viewers interested and engaged.

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Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Logos are the visual cornerstone of a brand’s identity, conveying its personality, values, and mission at a glance. In today’s competitive market, having a trendy logo design can make all the difference in standing out and staying memorable. With creativity at its core, a well-crafted logo can communicate more than words ever could. But what defines a trendy logo ?

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 3, 2024

How to Price Your Creativity and Get Paid What You Deserve Pricing your creativity nowadays is almost as controversial as the new Jaguar logo. Like logo design trends, the value of creative work can cause a lot of confusion and debates—especially when setting your rates as a designer. Whether you're a freelancer or part of a more prominent design agency, determining the right price for your creativity and design services is an art.

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We And The Color

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Discover Some Experimental Bold Typography in Anahit Lyudvigian’s Visionary Poster Series Armenian graphic designer Anahit Lyudvigian has created a series of bold, conceptual poster designs as personal design studies. Known for her ability to merge creativity with strategic design, Lyudvigian’s posters showcase a perfect synergy of aesthetics and meaning.

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Creative Bloq

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Richard Williams’ Animator's Survival Kit is coming to streaming.

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Design Beep

DECEMBER 3, 2024

As the world of branding continues to evolve, so does the art of logo design. Logos are the face of a brand, representing its identity and values in a simple, yet powerful, visual form. In 2025, logo design is expected to take on new dimensions, influenced by technological advances, cultural shifts, and a greater focus on sustainability and inclusivity.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 3, 2024

During London Art Week 2024, Italian furniture brand Secolo and fine jewelery brand EÉRA came together to unveil a striking limited edition capsule collection, Through Chrome Reflections. The collaboration, which blurs the lines between furniture and jewelry-inspired aesthetics, drew in curious passersby who got a glimpse of this unexpected fusion of design.

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Brands must create and share impactful content to thrive, but they have less people, tighter budgets, and fewer resources to do so. Learn how to publish and market digital content with the same professionalism as organizations with million-dollar budgets.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The filmmaker always had big ideas, but they didn’t always have the right tools to make those ideas come to life on screen. Things are different now. Most videos today use special effects (VFX), thanks to green screens. It’s not just movies that use green screens and VFX anymore – you’ll see them in TV shows, personal videos, brand ads, product videos, and other marketing videos.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Bang & Olufsen and Ferrari are teaming up once again, following last year’s successful launch of Ferrari-inspired speakers in the brand’s signature red. This time, the collaboration takes a more understated approach, unveiling the second Ferrari Collection featuring Ferrari-edition Bang & Olufsen speakers in the sophisticated Grigio Corsa colorway – a sleek charcoal gray synonymous with Ferrari’s refined style.

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Abduzeedo

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A Mexican Vision Behind the Adobe Photoshop 2025 Illustration abduzeedo 1203—24 Discover Guillermo Flores Pacheco’s creative journey as the first Mexican artist behind Adobe Photoshop 2025’s splash screen. Adobe Photoshop has long been a canvas for innovation and creativity, and its 2025 splash screen continues this tradition with an extraordinary touch by Guillermo Flores Pacheco.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Two new glassware collections have been introduced by NUDE for 2024: Juno and Mars. Based in Istanbul, NUDE continues to charm with home accessories and serveware that blend contemporary aesthetics with timeless utility. Each piece showcases the brand’s commitment to Turkish heritage and artisanal glassmaking, with its signature crystalline glass creations offering both beauty and practicality.

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Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design

Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.

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Abduzeedo

DECEMBER 3, 2024

OFFF Unveils ‘Centre OFFF Gravity’ Branding and Visual Identity for 25th Anniversary abduzeedo 1203—24 Created by COLLINS, the new branding for the festival celebrates its role at the centre of creative culture. OFFF, the International Festival of Creativity, Art and Digital design, has rebranded in celebration ahead of its 25th anniversary in May 2025.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The thought of historic Philadelphia conjures up a mixture of vignettes from America’s collective memory including 19th century brownstones and post-industrial blocks as recent as the 1960s. Gnome Architects adds to that image bank with the design for their Delancy Residence , a contemporary work situated within a modernist neighborhood in close proximity to the waterfront Schuylkill River park and historic Fitler Square.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 3, 2024

What does Jaguar's future look like? Bold, dramatic, and utterly unexpected if today's big reveal is anything to go by. Type 00 is a fearless vision of modern luxury, featuring cutting-edge innovation alongside striking artistry. It gives us more of the new identity in all its glory. When Jaguar launched its new visual identity last month, the reaction was… mixed, to say the least.

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Creative Bloq

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Is this a rugby tournament or a TV news channel from 1990?

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 3, 2024

At November’s Nicer Tuesdays, the street photographer walked the crowd through his somewhat unconventional journey into image making and why he believes street photography is all about the beauty of chance encounters, as well as taking us behind the scenes of his debut photobook, Bearing Witness.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Swathed in patterned coats, overlooking expansive vistas, or reveling the joys of solitude, the characters in Rosanna Tasker ’s illustrations ( previously ) delight in simple pleasures. Emphasizing the potential of color and contrast to create a sense of warmth and depth, figures bask in glowing interiors, and landscapes fade into the blue of distance.

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Design Week

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Theorising about ideas is a pain, it’s having them that’s fun. But every now and again, ideas give you the opportunity to assess a few things about how they came to be and what makes them work. The story of the Paris 2024 Olympic mascots is one of them. Good ideas say no At a […] Source What to read next: “We need to simplify branding to win over SMEs” | “How graphic design ruined a good pint” | “The AI revolution needs designing.

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Its Nice That

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The artist’s first animated film, Another Day, brings the tactile beauty of his cardboard sculptures to a new medium.

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Boris Smelov (1951–1998) was a prominent Russian photographer and one of the key figures of the Soviet underground art scene. His photographs, including still lifes, portraits, and urban landscapes, captured the unique atmosphere of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), evoking profound nostalgia. Smelov began pursuing photography at the age of 10 and, as a young man, became part of a circle of independent artists, collaborating with the Vyborg Palace of Culture’s photo club.

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BP&O

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Since 2019, sales of beauty products labelled ‘clean’ have soared in popularity, and – as with all consumer trends, from interiors to fashion design – parental preferences influence the marketplace for children’s products as much as adults’. Enter Uoga Uoga (which translates to ‘Berry Berry’), a Lithuanian natural beauty and skincare company founded in 2010 that produces mineral-based makeup as The post Uoga Uoga Kids by &Studio appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 3, 2024

1st Place: “Wormhole” by Benjamin Yavar, Chile The fifth annual ViewSonic ColorPro Awards celebrated global visual artistry under the theme “Momentum,” drawing nearly 10,500 entries from over 100 countries. Chilean photographer Benjamin Yavar won first place in the photography category with his captivating work *Wormhole*, exemplifying the competition’s dedication to fostering creativity and visual storytelling.

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FlowingData

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Many hospitals in the United States are for-profit, which itself is not a bad thing, but problems arise when patient care suffers because of profit optimizations. For Bloomberg Businessweek, Caleb Melby and Noah Buhayar turn their attention to HCA Healthcare, the country’s largest hospital chain, and how staffing choices appear to appear to over-prioritize margins.

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Creative Bloq

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Discover the power of colour in this vibrant artwork from a digital artist who's clients include Disney, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In the 2010s, shipping containers were all the rage. Posited as a cheap, stackable and efficient solution to housing crises the world over, the ubiquitous steel boxes became the subject of intrepid architectural ambitions, with designers around the world experimenting in the typology. The reality checks came quickly, ranging from the challenge of insulation and lack of space for utilities to the low structural strength and cramped living quarters, not to mention a dearth of of engagement with lo

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This is Paper

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Kenji Sakai’s latest exhibition, held in an abandoned factory repurposed into a gallery (AUTO VISION) in Hokuto, Japan, transcends the limits of conventional space to evoke an intricate dialogue between collapse and creation.

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The Branding Journal

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Every day, we make around 35.000 decisions, of which nearly 95% are subconscious and around 5% conscious, each guided by how we feel. In branding, emotions play a central role too, just as they do in all our daily activities.

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Speaker: Eden Spivak, Design Expert and Editor at Wix & Nir Horesh, Accessibility Lead and Senior Product Manager at Wix

When we design products or websites for people like ourselves, there are many others who are, as a result, left out. From visually impaired users who rely on assistive technology, to people with a temporary injury such as a broken arm, tech users are forever diverse and beautifully unique. The products we design can, and should, reflect the extremely wide range of human experiences and needs.

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