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We're super excited to announce that Creative Boom is embracing a new era, marking 15 years with a vibrant redesign launched today. Boom! creativeboom.com/news/a-new-… What do you think? 👀👇👇👇
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If it feels like half the industry changed jobs this month, you're not imagining it 👀 Our October round-up: a wave of strategy hires, mergers across the North, and 'craft' as the word of the month. creativeboom.com/booms-shake…
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Harsh flash, awkward crops, blurred-out faces: the accidental beauty of Facebook Marketplace listings 👀 Casey Roarty reworks his finds into art, and makes a case for human-made work over AI polish: creativeboom.com/work/casey-…
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The best part of Fulham FC's new identity was hiding inside the stadium all along 👀 Music built the rebrand around lettering found in Craven Cottage, London's oldest football ground: creativeboom.com/work/fulham…
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Krea 3: an AI model built to edit, not replace, your work 👀 creativeboom.com/tools/meet-…
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In Victorian times, your jelly said more about you than your wallpaper 👀 By day Caroline Tremlett advises law firms. By night she fills antique moulds with crowns, castles and a double-headed sea serpent, for 75k followers. creativeboom.com/work/caroli…
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Collins rebrands payroll platform Remote around one idea: the cube 👀 Flat, isometric, stacked or merged, every edge snaps to a single vanishing point – 'many parts, one system'. The palette? Lifted straight from the world's banknotes: creativeboom.com/work/collin…
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Most bilingual logos stack one language above the other. Pentagram's Design Doha Biennial identity won't 👀 Samar Maakaroun weaves Arabic and English into one composition – same stroke, equal billing, letterforms stretching like a network: creativeboom.com/news/pentag…
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New book In Clubland gathers 35 years of UK rave culture in 550+ photos, from acid house to the superclubs 👀 Mark McNulty didn't shoot it from the outside – he lived it, camera in hand, from Quadrant Park to Cream to the Haçienda: creativeboom.com/books/mark-…
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André Britz draws landscapes that exist nowhere but his own memory 👀 No photos, no plan, just winding paths and looping clouds, gathered in a book held together with a pink elastic band so the pages reshuffle: creativeboom.com/work/andre-…
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A '33% off' sticker slapped across a woman's face, that's the whole point 👀 Pregnant Then Screwed borrows the language of a retail sale to show the UK's gender pension gap: women retire with a third less. Hard to unsee: creativeboom.com/news/pregna…
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Phone, clothes, voice: all surrendered for three and a half hours 👀 Inside KAIHOGYO, the first Waldorf Project show in seven years and billed as the world's most intense immersive art experience. 40 people a night, no talking. creativeboom.com/news/this-i…
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These paintings look like low-res digital images, but every pixel is painted by hand 👀 Lily Bunney on her grid portraits – and the painting of Nigella Lawson that became her studio "guardian angel": creativeboom.com/work/the-ex…
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Four runners. A combined age of 321. And Rankin behind the lens 👀 Altra's Legacy Team, aged 75 to 85, front a campaign built for runners in their 20s and 30s. The stat behind it: the average British runner quits at 39. creativeboom.com/news/britai…
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A developer just rebuilt seven of Adobe's apps as free, open-source clones using AI 👀 Is this design software's Napster moment – and what happens to the people who build the tools? creativeboom.com/news/ai-jus…
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Two designers have spent 17 years in-house at the same company, and might have cracked a new model for a design career 👀 Meet Kanaisasaki, who redesigned Japanese giant Kokuyo's identity themselves and still stay endlessly curious: creativeboom.com/work/kanais…
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A $400k art-school education – or a free studio in exchange for teaching? 👀 MacFadden & Thorpe's identity for Art + Water, Dave Eggers's new SF art space, is built on "flow" and designed to stay unfinished: creativeboom.com/work/macfad…
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"Nothing design-related ever happens here" – so Tony Clarkson built his own event 👀 That Design Thing hits Shrewsbury on 22 Oct: honest talks on "Against All Odds", free tickets, just 50 places: creativeboom.com/news/that-d…
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After 29 years, NB Studio has closed – and Alan Dye couldn't be happier about it 👀 On homogeneous design, needing more joy, and being "a beginner again" at nearly 60: creativeboom.com/insight/nb-…
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That "cross-stitch"? That "pixel art"? All drawn with a pencil 👀 New York artist Danny Ische on illusion, keeping people guessing, and making something "simply beautiful": creativeboom.com/work/danny-…
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He was prepping for medical school – then painting quietly took over 👀 Lakshya Bhargava on trusting paint, his signature warm orange light, and turning quiet rooms into memory: creativeboom.com/work/lakshy…
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