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Why we're looking forward to Birmingham Design Festival 2025

2 days ago | creativebloq.com | Rosie Hilder

There's nothing better than a good design festival to help you feel inspired and motivated, and right now it's design festival season. One festival that may not be on your radar is Birmingham Design Festival, which is now in its seventh year, and this year has a theme of Play. The festival takes place 12-13 June and takes place at Birmingham City University on Thursday 12 and Birmingham Town Hall on Friday 13.
This little tablet is so much more than just an e-reader (but it's not for everyone)

2 days ago | creativebloq.com | Ian Evenden

E-Ink devices have come a long way since the first Amazon Kindle. This tablet from Pocketbook runs Android and comes with a stylus, sports a colour screen and has a battery life that’s measured in weeks rather than hours. It looks like an e-reader, but in fact it’s closer to a tablet in its functionality. It is, however, far from perfect. The slow screen updates make typing passwords a chore, and you have to keep within the device’s limitations.
"Mental health has gone mainstream - but only the safe parts," how one Swiss coffee shop is smashing mental health taboos

2 days ago | creativebloq.com | Rosie Hilder

Video credit: Studio IANUSThis week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and while it's all well and good talking about mental illness this week, it's the work that's being done all year round that really counts. Helping smash the stigma of mental health disorders in Switzerland is the Mental Health Association Switzerland and the Coffee Foundation.
Brussels Airlines gets a new identity, but sticks with its old logo

3 days ago | creativebloq.com | Rosie Hilder

How do you rebrand an airline when you can't touch the existing logo or colour palette? That's the brief the WeWantMore team were tasked with. Brussels Airlines had already rebranded in 2021 with a new logo and colour scheme, but it still felt distant and corporate, which was in contrast to the warm and welcoming experience aboard the aircraft. It also didn't feel distinctive in this crowded space where many airlines have a similar look and feel.
'My artist alter ego gave me a purpose': a day in the life of Carlos Oliveras Colom

3 days ago | creativebloq.com | Natalie Fear

Carlos Oliveras Colom is a visual designer, lettering artist and illustrator hailing from Puerto Rico. Currently based in New York, Carlos is a creative chameleon boasting over ten years of experience in the creative industries, working with big-name brands such as Instagram, Apple, Amazon Music and Adobe.
Rough, tough and really expensive – I tested the fastest possible SSD

3 days ago | creativebloq.com | Ian Evenden

TODAY'S BEST DEALSIf you’re looking for something that can transfer data as quickly as possible to and from that fancy new MacBook of yours, then LaCie has you covered. You’ll need Thunderbolt 5 to get the best out of it, but if you can satisfy its craving for data there's little else that can touch it. Add to this the armoured casing that provides IP68 protection from dust and water, and you have the ideal accessory for anyone making movies in the desert.
A Coca-Cola rival is taking over India – is it all because of branding?

4 days ago | creativebloq.com | Rosie Hilder

Coca-Cola and Pepsi are such huge brands they can be seen the world over. But in India, a challenger brand is disrupting the market by offering a new cola, Campa Cola for half the price of the bigger names. Campa Cola is part of Reliance Industries, headed up by Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani.
"It has more impact, but also far more cohesion,” Frontify’s director of brand on the success of Amazon’s subtle rebrand

5 days ago | creativebloq.com | Rosie Hilder

While some brands are still making a splash with big rebrands, there seems to be a quieter trend building – a trend that eschews giant, showy rebrands for smaller, subtler tweaks to an identity. This week we've seen the likes of Adobe evolve its brand incrementally, and recently it was Amazon that caused a stir by tweaking its brand in a way that many people wouldn't even notice.
Inside the sketchbook of Sergio Mancinelli: the watercolour world of a Netflix and Apple background artist revealed

5 days ago | creativebloq.com | Ian Dean

Sergio Mancinelli is a character designer and visual developer based in Italy. He worked on the Netflix feature film Klaus for Spa Studios in Madrid and as a layout artist for the Oscar-winning short film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. He's currently working on his personal projects and painting on the side. ''As a child I was fond of different things, from the most classic fantasy illustration to Magic: The Gathering.
From LEGO to Nokia: The best print ads of the 2000s are a wild nostalgic ride

5 days ago | creativebloq.com | Antonia Wilson

The first decade of a new millennium saw the internet and social media change the way we consume and engage with brands forever. Although digital advertising increasingly became a part of daily life, print still held on strong. Ads leaned into slick and striking photography, bright and simple graphics, familiar faces and clever copywriting, leading to some of the best print ads of all time. So, let’s take a look at what the industry experts picked as their favourite of the decade.