Creative Boom

AUGUST 23, 2022

Titled Cradle, the exhibition at Reem Gallery in Ham Yard, Soho, will bring the Central Saint Martins fine art graduate's unique body of work to the masses, all centring around the recurring theme of cats in nursery rhymes and folk stories. They're not like anything we've ever seen. Wilburs Whiskers, 2022 © Selby Hurst Inglefield.

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Creative Boom

MAY 22, 2024

Somerset-based illustrator, Charles Bailey channels the likes of Quentin Blake and Spike Milligan in his naive, expressive artwork, which explores complex themes. Its simplicity and innocence make it easier to discuss complex emotions and themes. Regarding subject matter, nature is a recurring theme in Charles's portfolio.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Phillips, who won in the Illustration for Children category, explores themes of Jewish identity, generational divides, and gentrification in his work. This year saw a record-breaking 2,000 submissions, each exploring a diverse array of themes and ideas through the medium of illustration.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The design appears across multiple formats—screens, book covers, and even physical surfaces—immersing us in the theme of content overload in a way that resonates visually and emotionally. "This playful yet purposeful approach highlights the crowded, attention-grabbing nature of the media today," says Dowling.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Variable, a football-themed look at how clients could manipulate exported images thanks to a series of command prompts. Creating a project that resembles a cohesive whole is always a tricky prospect, but with the theme in mind and the technology at hand, it was a fun challenge. "By But what if the same could apply to illustrations?

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Creative Boom

MAY 13, 2024

Red and black were chosen to command attention – though Chandler says they also symbolise "themes of resistance and revolution" – while gold and cream highlights seek to add a premium touch, "softening the contrast of the primary palette and tying back to The Signal's core brand colours", according to the studio.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 8, 2024

But in the current climate they're more likely to respond to themes around value, and that's where Tresi comes in. Key to this effort was an overriding theme of honesty. During a cost of living crisis, people are less receptive to branding messages of glamour, luxury and excess.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 7, 2024

These challenges, ranging from daily sketches to themed projects, are designed not just to help you create consistently but also to explore new ideas, refine your skills, and even step out of your comfort zone. To help you out, we list ten challenges below that can help you practice, improve your skills, and showcase your work.

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Creative Boom

MAY 9, 2023

It's a sad quirk of logic that peace is often accompanied by death, a theme which once again is represented by the image of the seed. Oftentimes, we find common threads connecting our artwork as each one is produced, leading to an overall theme that encompasses them for each exhibition.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 6, 2023

Sense of loss That said, both happy and sad themes are reflected in her work. And there's a theme of nostalgia running throughout all her work. Sometimes I draw, for example, the spirit of a pet and use of plenty of saturated colours," she says.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That's right, this logo runs with the motion picture theme by appearing to rotate, with each word scrolling past like the frame of an old film or a still from an animated wheel. "Both the still and animated version of the contemporary design set an expressively dynamic tone, illustrating the jubilant atmosphere of a true festival."

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Usually, when you see darker-themed art, it's also coloured in a way that it feels dark and almost unnerving with heavy blacks, reds and the like. I wanted my work to have the same darker themes but a more approachable, brighter and inviting palette," says Tom.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2024

The Swiss artist's new installation, Arena For a Tree, encased in a basket-type structure of wooden ribs, not only asks audiences to reflect on themes of nature and sustainability, but delivers a stark warning on climate change. The decision to showcase a bald cypress tree is no coincidence either. Geiger | KBH.G

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 21, 2024

The brief The brief for the Graduation Ceremonies 2024 was to create an engaging, unique, and memorable visual theme to help celebrate the achievements of graduating students across UAL. For instance, we created a brand and guide for CSM's undergraduate open days late last year."

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Creative Boom

MAY 17, 2023

To bring these themes to life visually, The Design Museum worked with Hingston Studio to create a bold and striking identity that celebrates the "craft, form and beauty" of the sari while referencing its new modernity and evolving place in society. "Our

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Creative Boom

JULY 3, 2023

Brooklyn-based illustrator Eva Redamonti specialises in creating highly-intricate illustrations which communicate themes of mental health, science, nature and Futurism. Considering that mental health is a common theme in Eva Redamonti's illustrations, it makes sense that art was a kind of therapy for her growing up. "I

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Creative Boom

JULY 9, 2024

Originally from Singapore but now based in New York, Ethan Sim is a young illustrator whose artwork draws in Eastern and Western influences and often explores personal experiences that resonate – including the big themes of life and death. Other pieces in Ethan's portfolio explore similar themes.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Today, painting, drawing and ceramics are Xiangni's medium of choice, and her art deals with themes of identity, self-observation and the imagination. As for why self-identity is a recurring theme in her work, Xiangni says this is because everyone possesses a singular and distinct voice just waiting to be heard. "In

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Creative Boom

MARCH 26, 2024

Acting as a "portal into a world of emotional intensity and introspection", these paintings also brush up against themes of passion and contemplation. In these paintings, Riley invites viewers on a journey of self-discovery by delving into themes of companionship, regret and resilience. "PJ

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Creative Boom

JUNE 6, 2023

This theme extends to the new Airtm wordmark, which takes advantage of the similarities in terms of shape between the letter A and a typical triangular prism. These images bring a human touch to the themes of prisms and refraction by introducing feelings of warmth to key moments of the product experience.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 18, 2024

When themes of social justice are built into the curriculum, they become embedded into the wider picture, helping us to both imagine and realise more just, sustainable futures. The world-renowned art and design institution integrates themes of sustainability and ethics within its innovative curriculum.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I like slowly exploring a theme and discovering something new in the process. Sometimes, I am confronted with themes I have never thought about, and figuring that out can be challenging. "To me, the main product of my work is not the drawing in the end, but the time I spent with the drawing," says Karlotta. "I

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 1, 2023

These fun and cartoon-like drawings allow her to experiment with bright colours, dynamic patterns and random themes. Food and drink is also a theme in most of my designs, as food is a comfort and satisfying to draw. Katie Smith is an illustrator whose style consists of unique and bold character designs.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Taken from his upcoming debut album project Broken Blue, Memories explores themes of family, love and sustainability. The topic of rising sea levels acted as a natural way to work in themes of climate change, as well as the concept of memories themselves. The drowned world is the world of the past where memories lay," he adds.

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Creative Boom

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Tapping into retro or nostalgic themes, there is always a risk that the result can feel pastiche," notes Chris. Typography and colour palette While water kefir is low in sugar and sophisticated in taste, it is a soda-style drink.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That's right, this logo runs with the motion picture theme by appearing to rotate, with each word scrolling past like the frame of an old film or a still from an animated wheel. "Both the still and animated version of the contemporary design set an expressively dynamic tone, illustrating the jubilant atmosphere of a true festival."

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Designer Daily

MAY 25, 2024

Casino games are a prime example of how different fonts and typefaces can be used to convey a theme. It’s got a nice clean look and conveys the theme of the game perfectly. Font refers to stylistic choices, so bold or italic. Look at the Temple Tumble slot, for example, this uses a bold font with capital letters.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2023

In keeping with the theme of motion, the issue comes with a special lenticular cover created by Giang Nguyen. This special themed issue delves into the world of experimental type, its cultural influence on the design industry, and the new type tools being used to create it. Issue 02 of TYPEONE magazine.

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Creative Boom

JULY 11, 2024

ARK fuses these themes in an ambitious new stage show about fear, disaster, preservation, invention, love, and escape: from the Biblical Flood to current natural disasters and beyond. Weaving between dream and reality, Traplord charts a heroic journey to self-actualisation, exploring raw themes of mental health and masculinity.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Fear is a theme that's a big part of my life, and a lot of other people's too," she continues. What I like about stories for children is the fun you can have with such themes. The dynamic between the anxious little witch and the confident firefly made it easy for me to do so," says Daphne.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This year's Amsterdam Museum Night, to give it its English name, is themed around the idea of DIT, DAT, DARR, which translates as This, That, There. Taking place this year on 4 November, Museumnacht Amsterdam gives an expected 32,000 visitors a unique chance to craft their own evening of nocturnal museum-based merriment.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

So, the selection of images at the exhibition is based on these themes. Chair The Incident in the Forest Morning Shopping "The idea has been in my head for a while," says Andrey. Well, not exactly an idea, more a phrase that I liked: comedy versus tragedy.

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Creative Boom

MAY 14, 2024

The story revolves around a current theme and invites you to spark your own creativity." While these thoughts do need to be kept in check and addressed where necessary, they also speak to a wider theme of curiosity. The film shows puppetry refreshingly and playfully, with meticulous attention to detail.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 14, 2024

Noting that social media algorithms were separating people by craft rather than uniting them by theme, the duo set out to preserve the work of these creatives in a physical artefact in the hope of cross-discipline collaboration and the inspiration of new work.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Looping back to the theme of empowerment, this work challenged societal views and explored an overlooked topic. She's also created beer labels for Collective Arts Brewing, and one of her favourite projects has been with Like the Wind magazine, illustrating the lives of female athletes.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Landor is holding up a mirror to its past by opting for a water-themed rebrand. And given that the business has recently bolstered its consulting capabilities with a rapidly growing Brand Performance practice, not to mention a 2020 merger with Fitch, it seems like an ideal theme.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2023

The challenge was getting Midjourney to move past literal depictions of cocktails onto imagery that visualised the themes behind them," says Magpie designer Lily West. "We For this project, Magpie created a set of prompts inspired by the abstract drink names, ingredients and narratives in the Lyaness cocktail menu.

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