Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock In our exclusive survey, design leaders reveal their strategies and predictions for the year ahead, from AI integration to dealing with economic pressures. As we approach 2025, the creative industry stands at a fascinating intersection. We won't mince words: the economy is tough, there's a lot of technological change coming our way, and a lot of agencies will lose out as a result.

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Designer Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Copy nothing. #Jaguar pic.twitter.com/BfVhc3l09B — Jaguar (@Jaguar) November 19, 2024 At this point, you must all have seen the Jaguar latest video, as it went viral on almost every social media platform. The car brand went for something totally different from their usual ads, as you can see in the embedded video above. If success is determined by the virality of a video, this was a huge success.

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Just Creative

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Throughout your career as a graphic designer, illustrator, or any other creative role you may have, there are generally three-mile markers during your career. When you’re just starting your career right out of college. The mid-point in your career where you’ve had some success and have some great clients, but you haven’t reached the level of a seasoned pro.

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Booooooom

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

To celebrate the release of Tomorrow's Talent 4, we followed up with some of the contributors and asked them to share who or what inspired their work!

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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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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We met Aino-Maija Metsola to discuss her signature style and creative approach to illustrating book covers. Last week, thousands watched as English writer Samantha Harvey was awarded the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital, one of the shorter winners in the competition's history. Its cover—a soft-edged, inky interpretation of space—was designed by Helsinki-based artist Aino-Maija Metsola.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In an innovative fusion of art, design, and engineering, architect Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY and Porsche created My Two Cars Garage , a geometric pavilion crafted to celebrate the debut of the all-electric Porsche Macan. Showcased during Singapore Art Week, this structure brings together cutting-edge design principles and the shared ethos of both collaborators – performance, precision, and aesthetic excellence.

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UX Collective

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Designers use an unconstrained canvas tool to design for rule-based interactive systems, hoping the devs will perfect everything in production. This causes misalignment between designers and devs. There are two persistent issues that keep plaguing the product design and development worlds. The first one is very much on the surface, and thus — no surprise — gets both a lot of attention and a plethora of sometimes reasonable solutions.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

By her own confession, Monika Jurczyk – AKA Monsie – has bounced between places and jobs like a pinball, but freelance illustration has given her creative soul its voice. "I want my illustrations to be a source of empowerment," says the Edinburgh-based illustrator Monika Monsie. "Beyond being visually appealing, I aim to create work that sparks joy, confidence and a sense of possibility.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Texture and color are two elements we strive to capture through words, photos, and videos. Yet, sometimes, an in-person experience is the only way to truly grasp a product’s potential. That’s exactly what happened when Design Milk visited Roland DG’s headquarters. Familiar with the brand’s reputation for cutting-edge wide-format printing , we arrived expecting innovation – but left completely inspired by the endless possibilities this technology offers.

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Creative Bloq

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Get to grips with making 3D text in Photoshop 2025.

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Graphic Design Junction

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Logo badge designs have always been a timeless element in branding. In past years, they’re taking on new dimensions, blending creativity, minimalism, and nostalgia to captivate audiences. These compact, emblematic designs continue to redefine branding by merging aesthetics with storytelling, offering a visually impactful way for businesses to stand out.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The Strasbourg-based artist uses marker pens, risograph printing and her unique eye for colour to document the great outdoors in locations across France. Vast outdoor settings, bold forms, and unexpected colours combine to give French illustrator Agathe Meunier a style entirely her own. The stillness of the settings juxtaposed with the energy of the palettes she deploys—along with an abundance of speckled textures—give her work a feel that is natural yet unnatural.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

7 Effective Steps to Develop a Strong Brand Identity Identity building is a journey I've mastered through years of experience at Inkbot Design, and I'm here to guide you through it. Creating a distinctive brand identity isn't just important—it's imperative for survival. I've watched countless businesses struggle with brand recognition, so I've developed this comprehensive guide.

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Creative Bloq

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Picked out by some of the best typographers in the industry.

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Booooooom

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A photo series highlighting the Equestrian community in South Africa by photographer and filmmaker Karabo Mooki.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Bisel by The Designers Foundry The New Zealand type foundry has been offering quality, accessible and interesting typefaces to designers since 2012. We chatted with Daniel McQueen about how it all began and how they've carved out a niche in a highly competitive industry. From their humble beginnings as a simple Tumblr-linked store with PayPal buttons to licensing fonts to industry giants like Apple, Nike and Disney, The Designers Foundry (TDF) has come a long way over the last 12 years.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In the heart of Seoul’s historic Dongdaemun district, a design revolution is quietly unfolding. The Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), with its fluid Zaha Hadid -designed architecture, stands as a metallic metaphor for South Korea’s seamless fusion of heritage and innovation. The most recent DDP Design Launching Fair aspires to position Seoul alongside Paris and Milan in the global design constellation.

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Creative Bloq

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Save 50% on an annual subscription to Creative Cloud for access to industry-leading tools Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and more.

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Its Nice That

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Perhaps the oldest and longest-serving photobooth technician in the world, 92-year-old Alan Adler’s 50 years of service to the art of photography has been memorialised in a new book.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

3D artist Jose Andrés García explains how he used Character Creator and iClone to bring the Spanish heroes of American independence back to animated life. The history of North America has largely been written by English-speaking people. As a result, the contribution of the Spanish people has been inevitably given short shrift. One group working to correct that balance is The Legacy: El Legado Español, which is dedicated to promoting Spain's legacy across the continent. 3D artist Jose Andrés Garc

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In a world dominated by mass production, Beautiful City by Sofía Alvarado of Studio Fi stands as a tribute to the lost art of craftsmanship. This collection of 17 meticulously handcrafted pieces is a love letter to architectural detail and an ode to the artisans of yesteryear who brought character and soul to our built environment. Alvarado’s vision channels the beauty of artisanal work into something tangible, emphasizing process over utility.

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Creative Bloq

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Are you a Gen Z Calibri or a Comic Sans boomer, according to Adobe?

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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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Its Nice That

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Supported by the 70:15:40 Project UK, a collaborative initiative led by MPB to challenge the status quo in photography, these projects are telling untold stories.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The airline commissioned illustrator and pattern designer Martha Olivia to create a suite of six bespoke illustrations for their High Life magazine. Known for its food, fabrics, monuments, and spiritual culture, India's popularity as a travel destination has only increased over the years. In fact, it has become the most Instagrammable country in the world, with over 250 million Instagram posts, and the most popular country on TikTok, with 58.3 million TikTok posts.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

There are few straight lines at the new 13-story Populus hotel in downtown Denver, Colorado. Implementing a hyper site-responsive strategy, notable architecture firm Studio Gang designed the distinct structure based on the distilled form and unique growth pattern of the Aspen Tree – otherwise known as the Populus – precinctive to the area. How and where it sheds its bark was translated into a matrix of scalloped windows within the fluted building’s “stacked log” massing, individually denoting th

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Creative Bloq

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Strong typography brings enhanced creativity.

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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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Its Nice That

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Could too close an adherence to design history have an “unintended impact” on your creativity and sense of self? For graphic designer and art director Shamma Buhazza, it certainly did.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Fiasco Design ensured that each theatre could retain its own unique identity while communicating the unified message of the wider group. Bristol-based agency Fiasco Design has partnered with leading West End theatre group Nederlander Theatre to spotlight their own story through a new brand and website. Since February this year, Fiasco has been working with the group to evolve its brand and elevate its UK presence.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Desigers Wendy Maruyama and Tom Loeser exhibit new work for the first time together in New York City in over 30 years in Colorama at Superhouse. This whimsical space is freeing, healing, and shockingly bright. Good designers know that child-like wonder, not the stuffy adult kind, is what touches our souls. Tapping in to that unrestrained joy of creation is somewhat harder as we age, a muscle that must actively be exercised lest it be lost to atrophy. but but but felt stool and Switchback seating

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Creative Bloq

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The platform is proving it doesn’t care about music.

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