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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/...

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-...

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/...

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/...

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...

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/...

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/...

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/...

Kinesiologist to Manchester motion designer 👀 Kent Wood on changing careers, and why telling that story online paid off: www.creativeboom.com/insight/meet...

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/...

"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/...

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/...

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...

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/...

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-...

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...

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...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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-...

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/...

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...

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...

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/...

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...

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...

"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-...

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 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/...

'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...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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...

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/...

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-...

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...

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-...

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...

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...

Myriam Wares swapped Montreal for Turin and turned the homesick strangeness of starting again into a surreal series called Winter 👀 www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...

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/...

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/...

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/...

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-...

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-...

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...

Fei Meng learned the old-master fundamentals first – anatomy, form, light – then brought that craft into editorial and ad illustration 👀 www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/...