Image licensed via Adobe Stock Members of the Creative Boom community explore when it’s okay to accept an advance payment for future work and offer some tips to make it work. Welcome to the latest… Read More »Is billing your clients in advance ever okay?
Simon McAleese The Sunderland-based menswear illustrator explains why frustration with “vanilla brands” inspired him to go it alone. When you spend your days drawing other people’s clothing designs, you notice things. Every seam, every pocket… Read More »From sketching to stitching: how and why illustrator Simon McAleese founded his own clothing brand
Guess Who Studio won the New Talent award in Explore last year Get yer giddy-up! The awards close for entries on 17 February, and you’ve got to be in it to win it. It’s surprising… Read More »Why you should enter the World Illustration Awards 2026
If Your Collab Pushed Boundaries and Created Buzz, Enter the Branding Collaborations Category in the 2026 PRINT Awards. Branding Collaborations highlight what happens when two creative circles intersect and form something bigger than either could… Read More »The Power of the Overlap: When Great Ideas Become a Venn Diagram
First published in 1905, Lord Dunsany’s The Gods of Pegāna is one of the most important and influential works of modern fantasy literature. The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany’s invented… Read More »The Daily Heller: The Gods are Restless for the Original Fantasy Lit of Lord Dunsany
If Your Book Cover Designs Command Attention at First Glance, Enter the Book Covers/Jackets Category in This Year’s PRINT Awards. The 2026 PRINT Awards Book Covers/Jackets category celebrates the designs that frame a story before… Read More »The Perfect Rectangle: Where Stories Get Their Sharpest Edge