Icon Design in 2025: The Key Trends

Icons might be one of the most important – and underrated – examples of design in your portfolio. Here’s a look at icon design with some inspiring examples. Icon elements are shown almost everywhere, but sometimes get produced as an afterthought. That shouldn’t be the case. Great icon design can be distinctive and add finesse…

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Hotlist 2025: the 25 most popular design studios, as voted for by their peers

Photograph by DixonBaxi Looking for a little motivation today? Every creative should know about these 25 design studios and learn from their inspiring work. In a world overflowing with creativity and design innovation, there are thousands of outstanding design studios to be inspired by. Some of these make a lot of effort to publicise their…

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Hotlist 2025: the best graphic design books, as voted for by designers

Palette Perfect by Sara Caldas. Image courtesy of Counter-Print Want to know which graphic design books are most useful? We asked the creative community to vote, and here are the results. In the world of graphic design, you never stop learning and staying up-to-date with the latest trends and techniques is crucial. But it’s also…

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Rabbithole on the sensitivity challenges of branding Leeds’ big ideas festival

Leeds International Festival of Ideas covers some tricky topics, so the branding and visual assets needed to be sensitive. Rabbithole explains how it developed it. Leeds International Festival of Ideas (LIFI) is an annual event that brings together leading thinkers, innovators, and creatives to explore some of the most pressing issues of our time. Taking…

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Raw Materials on winning D&AD’s Design Studio of the Year by being unusual

John Roescher, Pablo Marques and Jennifer Allen of Raw Materials How do you win one of the design industry’s biggest awards within only a year of being founded? We chatted with John Roescher, Pablo Marques, and Jennifer Allen to learn the secrets of their distinctive approach. Each year, D&AD, the global association of creative advertising…

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