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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 25/09/2026
100 tracks, 100 petri dishes of mould, one album cover 👀 Belfast's Robocobra Quartet grew the fungus at home to illustrate their album – no brief, no budget, no AI: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Robocobra Quartet's Hundred Pieces album cover: red text on a turquoise background scattered with white petri dishes of fungusA petri dish of teal agar with white and beige mould colonies and darker fungal spotsPetri dishes of coloured mould arranged in a stainless steel sink with utensils used in the processSixteen petri dishes in a cardboard box showing yellow, black, pink, blue, teal and brown cultures
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 25/09/2026
Creative block isn't a character flaw, it's just part of the job 👀 Ten honest, practical ways working creatives get themselves unstuck: www.creativeboom.com/tips/how-to-...
Illustration representing creative block, licensed via Adobe Stock, used as the article's lead image.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 24/09/2026
Illustrations that refuse to sit still 👀 Hamburg's Thomke Meyer turns music and cinema into motion – and covers for Die Zeit, Elle and Der Spiegel: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Elle magazine cover by Thomke Meyer: a woman in profile with flowing blonde hair among pink and blue vine-like forms.Illustration titled The Gardener: a woman in a pale green swimsuit among surreal red and orange plants under a pink sky.Illustration of a figure atop a red rocky landscape beneath swirling clouds and a red sun, hair and fabric in the wind.Dynamic illustration of figures amid flowing ribbons and scattered papers on a pale blue background.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 24/09/2026
From a bakery job to London's restaurant menus 👀 Innes Clark on burnout, self-taught design and why wobbly human lines beat AI: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Illustration by Innes Clark of a woman in a blue jumper on a sofa holding a potted plant, houseplant beside her.Two martini glasses outlined in white on a gold background, with text reading 'One for me and one for me'.Three line-drawn palm trees in red, black and cream on a yellow background, text reading 'One of these isn't like the others'.Three white rabbits drawn in profile on a pale green background, with pink text 'These guys follow me everywhere'.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 24/09/2026
Remember when "merch" meant a tote you'd never use? 👀 Counter-Print's new book argues branded stuff is back – as strategy, not landfill: www.creativeboom.com/resources/co...
Cover art for Counter-Print's book Merch, with illustrated items branded 'Merch' and 'We love our customers'.Three baseball caps in blue, black and green, each printed 'WE LOVE OUR CUSTOMERS' with a small heart logo.Spread from the Merch book showing Dirty Vegan branding with vibrant purple packaging designs.Book spread showing the World AeroPress Championships 2023 project with colourful branded merchandise.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 24/09/2026
A drawing that leaves the paper 👀 Danna Gutiérrez turns her sketches into ceramics you can hold, fingerprints in the clay and all: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Four white ceramic vessels by Danna Gutiérrez, hand-painted with black dog silhouettes, red circles and text (El mundo, 2026).White ceramic vessel with a black leaping-horse silhouette, red circle and geometric stars (El mundo, 2026).Collection of black-and-white ceramic cat figurines in striped and spotted patterns (Cool Cats, 2026).Cream-coloured ceramic horse figurine with black hooves, casting a shadow on white (Caballo de fuego, 2026).
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 23/09/2026
A logo hiding in plain sight 👀 Helsinki's old Train Factory turned an old carriage-lifting safety mark into its new 'T'. Lovely heritage-led branding by Hasan & Partners: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Exterior of The Train Factory, a red brick industrial building in Helsinki with large arched windows and a ground-floor restaurant terraceColourful signage for The Train Factory market hall mounted on the brick building facadeYour Next Stop tagline on a light blue background beside a photo of the industrial interior with shopfronts and visitorsA yellow and green tram branded with The Train Factory route number 9 outside a brick building
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 23/09/2026
Luxury houses want what no machine can draw 👀 Sarah Martinon's illustration has escaped the page – onto fabrics, walls and into a Chanel film: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Colourful Hermès window display featuring Sarah Martinon's illustrated garden scene in pink, green and orange, styled with handbags and homewareA figure riding a large marble lion through a starry night sky holding a film camera, from the Chanel filmA figure in black suspended above an illuminated cityscape at night, from the Chanel filmA woman in a vibrant multicoloured patterned dress against a teal background
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 23/09/2026
Kinesiologist to Manchester motion designer 👀 Kent Wood on changing careers, and why telling that story online paid off: www.creativeboom.com/insight/meet...
Kent Wood smiling at the camera in a cream jacket, holding a coffee cup, red brick buildings behind himSketches of four micro-animations for furniture labelled select, open, tactile and friendly, each with simple line drawingsA hand-drawn diagram explaining furniture animation concepts including mass, weight and character movement, with the Belo logoA man carrying a golden retriever in a black backpack while walking through a park
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 23/09/2026
Guinness modernised without touching its logo 👀 Its new 'LoVely' campaign drops the 160-year-old harp straight into the 'v' – simple and very clever: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Guinness LoVely ad: a person in a tan cowboy hat holding two glasses of Guinness against a blue sky, with the word Lovely across the imageClose-up of a person in an olive top beside the word lovely with the Guinness harp replacing the letter vA digital billboard on a city street showing the Lovely campaign with the harp replacing the v, next to a pink storefrontA street-corner billboard with hands holding a glass and the harp integrated into the LoVely typography
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 22/09/2026
"Can you make our logo a bit bigger?" Every designer knows that request 👀 How Form solved British Cycling and Lloyds' two-logo problem in the typography itself: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
A cyclist sprays champagne on a podium, with Lloyds National Championships and British Cycling branding behind her.Three event posters for the Lloyds National Championships and National Series, with bold typography and cycling action imagery.Close cropped circular details of the National Series wordmark showing how the custom typography integrates both brands.Large navy National Championships typography with circular logo details on a light pink background.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 22/09/2026
Wellness branding all looks the same now 👀 Mother Design threw that out for Keen, building a rich folk-art world for the psychic advice platform: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Colourful folk-art scene of whimsical houses, people, animals and nature surrounding the white Keen logo on a green background.Vibrant folk-art illustration by María Jesús Contreras of a busy landscape of people, buildings, nature and symbolic imagery.Keen's rebranded lighthouse logo alongside a smartphone showing an Ace of Cups tarot card from the new design system.Red ochre and burnt umber pigment swatches shown as oval colour samples, inspired by some of the earliest pigments in human art.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 22/09/2026
Dreaming of illustration agency representation? 👀 We asked the agents themselves, from Handsome Frank to Pocko, what actually gets you signed. Their honest advice: www.creativeboom.com/tips/tips-fr...
Halston, an illustration for The New Yorker by Malika Favre, courtesy of the artist and Handsome Frank.Escape, a New Yorker cover illustration by Malika Favre, courtesy of the artist and Handsome Frank.Lettering artwork by Martina Flor, courtesy of the artist and Handsome Frank.A Ramen Comic by Greta Samuel, courtesy of the artist and Oskar Illustration.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 22/09/2026
Whistles turned 50 and skipped the models – fly-posting London for 'open-minded women' 👀 2,000 replied; agency Weirdo shot 50 women aged 19–72 in a day: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
A Whistles 50th-anniversary campaign portrait: a woman in a brown trench coat with a pink collar leaning against a wooden bench, set against a burnt-orange background.A Whistles campaign poster in a London Underground station – a man in an orange shirt wearing headphones, leaning against a doorframe – as a train passes.A woman in a black dress on a London Underground platform beside a Whistles advert with yellow 'WHISTLES' lettering.A Whistles campaign portrait: a woman in a burgundy leather jacket with a sheepskin collar and blue jeans, crouching against a bright yellow wall.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 21/09/2026
New to freelancing? The early mistakes catch almost everyone – going it alone, undervaluing your work, forgetting to save for tax 👀 Here are 11 rookie slip-ups worth dodging when you launch: www.creativeboom.com/tips/rookie-...
Illustration accompanying Creative Boom's guide to the rookie mistakes freelancers make when they launch a business.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 21/09/2026
Feeling like a fraud even when the work's good? You're in good company 👀 Three proven tricks to quiet imposter syndrome: celebrate your wins, stop comparing, take one small action daily. www.creativeboom.com/tips/three-e...
Illustration from Creative Boom's guide to beating imposter syndrome, licensed via Adobe Stock.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 21/09/2026
You'll meet at least one of these eventually 👀 The ego drunk on power, the scammer, the wallet-clutcher – seven difficult client types, and how to handle each with your cool intact: www.creativeboom.com/tips/seven-d...
Illustrated lead image for Creative Boom's guide to seven difficult client types.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 21/09/2026
Most travel ads sell the destination. Interrail sells the bit in between 👀 We Are Pi hid a sentence inside a train route across Europe: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Interrail ad on a station shelter showing a yellow train route with word-labels forming 'Realising the best bit is between here and there', over a map of EuropeThe Interrail launch poster - a yellow train-route line across a stylised map of Europe, its stops spelling out the campaign sentence
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 20/09/2026
A beer mat, not a billboard, might be the best way to get people talking about debt 👀 Lowell got five illustrators to design 25 coasters that open up money chat gently: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Five illustrated coasters with pound-sign designs and debt-related prompts such as 'Need a chat?' and 'Is debt on your mind lately?'Five illustrated debt-message coasters laid on a wooden table with snacks and a beer, part of Lowell's Say It Over a Drink campaignIllustrated coasters showing characters discussing money worries, arranged on a wooden surface with snacks and beerColourful doodle-style coasters with prompts about debt, arranged on a wooden table with snacks and a beer glass
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 20/09/2026
Two sub-brands built so one looks like the echo of the other 👀 Pentagram's twin identities for Doha Design District - Mada and Sada - are a masterclass in brand architecture: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Orange enamel mug with a black skyline design beside a stacked black-and-orange vessel with a red interior lid, on an orange backgroundPentagram's dual DDD logos: Sada in orange and Mada in turquoise, split typographically down the middleBlack carrier bag with orange handles and Sada branding on a white surface under studio lightingMada storefront with turquoise signage on a white-and-black facade, a blurred figure walking past
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 20/09/2026
Working from home can get lonely, and it's not just you 👀 Creatives share how they stay connected - fake commutes, Slack and Discord groups, life drawing and podcasts for company: www.creativeboom.com/tips/how-to-...
Illustration exploring the loneliness of remote working, from Creative Boom's tips feature
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 20/09/2026
How do you rebrand a branding agency? You ask your clients 👀 Thisaway built its new identity on honest client feedback and hand-drawn characters over AI: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Ten black-and-white cartoon 'mythical' characters with red accents, arranged in two rows on a pale pink backgroundBold text reading 'Branding you can believe in' with a small red and black geometric logo beneath, on a pale pink backgroundThe words 'TRUTH & DARE' in bold type - TRUTH in white and &DARE in red on a black backgroundThe Thisaway logo in white text with a red full stop on a black background
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 19/09/2026
Our eyes now follow you around – and they know your time zone 👀 We've brought Creative Boom's mascot fully to life, with a mood for every hour: www.creativeboom.com/news/the-eye...
Creative Boom's cartoon eyes mascot, two big friendly eyes looking to one side.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 19/09/2026
Most packaging fights to win one second on a shelf. But what if your product lives on a restaurant table? 👀 What WeWantMore's BRU redesign teaches us about packaging in 2026: www.creativeboom.com/news/what-we...
BRU sparkling water bottle with blue logo on a white tablecloth beside glasses and a green salad, styled for dining.Redesigned BRU bottle with a blue leaping stag and bold typography against a white background.Bright blue sculptural stag with branching antlers in a leaping pose against a cream background, the redesigned emblem.Three framed vintage-style BRU posters on a wood-panelled wall above a formally set dining table.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 19/09/2026
Not a scrap of empty space – just hundreds of tiny people 👀 Korean illustrator Saehan Parc on her wall-to-wall crowd scenes and one wish: to make you want to draw too: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Overhead illustration of diverse people connected by coloured lines on white hexagonal platforms against grey.Busy illustrated supermarket scene, colourful characters shopping and stocking shelves under a striped awning.Aerial view of a large circular hot-spring bath filled with people relaxing, with Korean text labels.Green crocodile with a long segmented tail made of wooden beads and string, topped with a tiny pink chair.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 19/09/2026
Ghosted by clients and recruiters more than ever? It really isn't just you 👀 Creatives on why it's happening, and the firm closing message that actually gets a reply: www.creativeboom.com/tips/are-you...
A person in a striped jumper working on a laptop surrounded by potted plants on a windowsill.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 18/09/2026
Affinity and Cavalry are staying free 👀 Canva's new ProSuite brings four pro tools together with 100+ new features: www.creativeboom.com/news/canva-l...
Canva ProSuite logo with product icons for design, video, animation and AI tools on a dark background with blue lighting.Affinity Designer showing vibrant 3D numbers 5 and 7 with gradient colours, demonstrating the new Blend Tool.Affinity Photo's RAW editing interface with exposure, contrast and colour panels beside a photo of a runner on a hillside at sunset.Cavalry motion design software displaying a purple pixelated cityscape with a Be moved by design text overlay.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 18/09/2026
"What typeface?" Wrong question 👀 Templo built DeafCity Hub's logo from real hand movements inspired by British Sign Language, captured with motion-tracking: www.creativeboom.com/news/asking-...
Bright magenta billboard on urban buildings advertising DeafCity Hub as a mixed-use cultural space for the deaf community, with circular design elements.Three coloured DeafCity Hub posters with hand-gesture-inspired letterforms set in chains of circles.DeafCity Hub branding installation with oversized hand-gesture shapes, circular elements and neon accents in a wooden-lined space.Two hands reach through overlapping orange and white circular shapes with text labels reading WELCOME and PEOPLE.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 18/09/2026
Stuck in a creative rut? Sometimes the way out is a good book 👀 Our 50 essential reads for graphic designers, from Grid Systems to Women Design: www.creativeboom.com/resources/50...
A shelf of graphic design books, a selection of favourite reads for designers.Cover of Now Try Something Weirder by Michael Johnson.Cover of Book of Branding by Radim Malinic.Cover of Citizen First Designer Second by Rejane Dal Bello.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 18/09/2026
A clay squirrel bakes a cheesecake, gets distracted, and tips the sugar into her tea 👀 Qiaoyu Liao's lovely stop-motion film Suuugar!: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Animator Qiaoyu Liao on set at her multiplane camera rig, wearing headphones at an illuminated desk during production of Suuugar!Overhead view of the clay-animation multiplane set – wooden countertops, yellow clay items and miniature fruit on layered glass plates.The animator's Dragonframe screen showing a colourful clay kitchen sequence from Suuugar!
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 17/09/2026
'Approved with disappointment.' That line still haunts the designer who got it 👀 The seven kinds of client feedback that knock you sideways: www.creativeboom.com/tips/7-lines...
Silhouetted profile of a person against warm golden light and blurred city lights at dusk.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 17/09/2026
Rob Farmer keeps a phone full of 'half-baked' sketches – and some end up as New York Times covers 👀 How the Melbourne motion designer turns rough ideas into finished work: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Pixelated grayscale poster reading 'Dawn Of The AI Drones', a New York Times Magazine cover illustrated by Rob Farmer.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 17/09/2026
Marie-Lou Garcia draws the calm moments most of us walk past – a trip to the sea, a friend by the river 👀 The Paris illustrator on building serene scenes from stored 'mental images': www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Illustration 'Chevaux Sauvages', a white horse in grassland with vibrant red-orange mountains and blue sky.Illustration 'Figolu au Bord du Tarn', a figure in a black swimsuit with orange hair sitting by the sea holding a biscuit.Illustration 'Flamboyant', yellow and orange animals grazing in a green meadow with purple wildflowers and a pink sky.Illustration 'Champ de Maïs', a figure reclining in a dried maize field under an orange sky in soft muted colours.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 09/09/2026
Illustrator Lorena Spurio doesn't decide what she loves – she lets her drawings tell her 👀 The sea, the moon, cats, small imperfect moments; the stuff that keeps recurring is the tell. www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Two figures sit on a black car with glowing red headlights under a large pale moon in a deep blue night skyIllustration of a person in colourful clothing kneeling beside a grey cat, both gazing at each otherWoman in blue holding a basket overflowing with colourful fresh vegetables and fruit against a bright pink backgroundIllustrated rooftop gathering overlooking the sea at night, boats below, in dramatic blue and purple tones
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 09/09/2026
We questioned The Working Assembly's use of AI illustration in a branding project. Founder Jolene Delisle's reply is genuinely worth reading 👀 www.creativeboom.com/insight/i-qu...
Smartphone showing the Untold journalling app with abstract red and orange imagery and the line This isn't just your journal. It's your journey.Five vertical panels of AI-generated painted scenes with coloured circles overlaid, showing Untold's visual styleThe Untold app showing a red fox illustration labelled Weekly Fable with a voice recording promptFour smartphone screens comparing the Untold app before and after the rebrand, with a warmer palette on the right
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 09/09/2026
A £15 eBay iMac, a 25ft crane and a crew of 30: Will Norman remade The Odyssey on a 2009 webcam 👀 Forget AI studios – this is pure joy. www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Film crew operating a crane with a mounted camera over water while shooting the low-budget Odyssey remakeA makeshift film crane with a long black arm over a sandy riverbank, camera on one end and the iMac on the otherA group of filmmakers in a rural farmyard with a crane, tractor and wooden pallets in the backgroundA dark horse figurine on sand in front of a monitor showing an ocean-and-sky seascape, in a domestic kitchen
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 08/09/2026
Just gone freelance and waiting for that first design project to land? It rarely comes from your portfolio alone – it comes from people 👀 Working creatives share how they won their first client: www.creativeboom.com/tips/how-to-...
Illustration accompanying a Creative Boom guide on winning your first freelance graphic design project
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 08/09/2026
An ink sketch of a woman who looked 'wild, like an animal' grew into a whole series 👀 Inside Varya Yakovleva's sketchbooks, led by intuition: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Five colourful figures sit around a table at Cafe Ceramique in animated conversation, painted in bold brushstrokes with pink and blue accents.Pink and red ink sketch of a woman's face in profile on a dark background, from the Les Femmes sauvages series.Sketchbook page of annotated figure studies in pink and black ink, women in various poses with handwritten labels.Pink ink figure studies of contorted forms and hands beside a wheeled suitcase decorated with similar illustrations.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 08/09/2026
Nobody teaches you what to charge 👀 So we asked working freelancers for their real day rates and how they price a job – honest, specific and genuinely useful: www.creativeboom.com/tips/creativ...
Illustration accompanying a Creative Boom article on how freelance creatives price their work
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 08/09/2026
Studio Kiln built an award-winning name from Cornwall, proving design doesn't need London 👀 So why move there? Nathan Smith on the honest reason: a team spread across the UK, missing each other: www.creativeboom.com/insight/why-...
Studio Kiln's London workspace – green and orange branded posters on a brick wall above a desk with laptops and design materials.Blue and cream geometric poster showing the number 25 on a shelf beside design books and an orange speaker.Three framed posters on a brick wall above a desk, showing Studio Kiln's bold typography in black, orange and yellow.Seven members of the Studio Kiln team shown as illustrated character heads on a black background.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 07/09/2026
Want to become a better illustrator? 👀 10 honest, practical steps from working illustrators – on craft, community, adapting to briefs and taking burnout seriously: www.creativeboom.com/tips/10-step...
Illustration-themed lead image for a Creative Boom tips feature (licensed via Adobe Stock).
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 06/09/2026
Alfie Whiteman spent 15 years in goal for Spurs – then swapped his gloves for a camera 👀 His film 'Tottenham Til I Die' is a love letter to N17, from matchday stewards to a 93-year-old fan: www.creativeboom.com/news/alfie-w...
Portrait of actress and Spurs fan Taylor Russell from the Tottenham Til I Die campaign, photographed by Alfie Whiteman.Portrait of actor Himesh Patel, who narrates the film, from the Tottenham Til I Die campaign.Campaign photograph by Alfie Whiteman showing members of Tottenham's N17 community.Photograph of everyday life on Tottenham's High Road, shot by Alfie Whiteman for the campaign.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 06/09/2026
Myriam Wares swapped Montreal for Turin and turned the homesick strangeness of starting again into a surreal series called Winter 👀 www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Lead illustration from Myriam Wares' Winter series – a surreal, sunlit still-life scene.Winter series illustration by Myriam Wares featuring Italian motifs such as clay pots and citrus.Illustration from Myriam Wares' Winter series centred on a recurring sun motif.Surreal garden scene from Myriam Wares' Winter series with a half-dusting of snow.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 06/09/2026
They came for the by-election and missed the better story 👀 StudioDBD's proudly northern place identity for the new Ashton Square: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Ashton Square place identity by StudioDBD – lead imageAshton Square branding applied across the new public squareMade in Makerfield storytelling platform visualsBespoke typography inspired by tools and mechanical forms
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 06/09/2026
Some feelings are easier to draw than to say out loud 👀 Bangkok illustrator Chanida Areewatanasombat turns letting go into surreal, tender visual diaries: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Chanida Areewatanasombat – lead illustration exploring the theme of letting goSurreal illustration by Chubbynida – delicate black linework with nature motifsWhimsical character illustration – Chanida's signature soft colour palettePersonal visual diary artwork – emotion rendered through symbol and atmosphere
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 05/09/2026
Watch a Jelly Baby inch towards a wall of spikes every time the lift doors close 👀 VCCP turns shopping-centre lifts into sweet-based roulette for Maynards Bassetts: www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Maynards Bassetts lift takeover showing a giant Jelly Baby printed on a shopping-centre lift door beside a wall of spikes.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 05/09/2026
Everyone thinks Berghaus is German. It was born in Newcastle in 1966 👀 Bob Neville on the first store, Manchester roots, and why that story makes the gear mean more: www.creativeboom.com/insight/bob-...
Lead image for the Berghaus Manchester store launch feature.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 05/09/2026
The biggest star in the ad might just be someone exactly like you 👀 Why brands from Spotify to Pepsi are ditching A-listers for ordinary people – and what it says about fame in 2026: www.creativeboom.com/insight/why-...
Spotify Fan Life campaign image: devotees of rapper Pitbull in bald caps and formal wear as a concert ritual.Kye O'Hagan, a Geese superfan from Glasgow, wearing a crocheted goose beanie in Spotify's Fan Life campaign.Further imagery from Spotify's Fan Life campaign featuring music fans.Additional imagery from Spotify's Fan Life campaign celebrating fandom.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 05/09/2026
Everyone's still figuring it out – yes, even the people whose work you admire 👀 13 honest lessons on creative progress, from artists and designers who've made the mistakes so you don't have to: www.creativeboom.com/tips/13-less...
Hero illustration for Creative Boom's '13 lessons on creative progress' feature.
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Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · 04/09/2026
Fei Meng learned the old-master fundamentals first – anatomy, form, light – then brought that craft into editorial and ad illustration 👀 www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...
Collage illustration of a woman writing a to-do list, surrounded by dreamlike vignettes, set against a giant clock face.A smiling girl with pigtails holds out cupped hands full of glowing golden fish.A wide-eyed boy in a green jumper looks up at a flock of birds flying across a warm sky.A woman stretches out a colourful printed silk scarf behind her back.
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