Creative Boom

ALT A crowded indoor venue at Motion North festival, with attendees seated and standing to watch a presentation, large windows and festive lighting behind

ALT Motion North branding in the centre of colourful spheres and circles on a pale green background

ALT A large crowd under purple and gold light at Motion North at Freight Island, many holding up phones

ALT A speaker at a podium addresses an audience in a dark auditorium, with 'hello!' on the screen behind in pink and red light

ALT Chris Coombes' gouache postcard painting of Dalí's Lobster Telephone – a black rotary phone with a red and yellow lobster on the handset

ALT Chris Coombes' postcard-sized painting of Marcel Duchamp's white porcelain urinal against a black background

ALT Chris Coombes' painting of Richter's Lesende (Reader) – a figure in a green shirt reading a book against a vivid red interior

ALT Chris Coombes' painting of Bridget Riley's Hesitate – a grid of black and grey dots that fade and shift across the composition

ALT Affinity for iPad interface on a tablet, showing a person in black clothing surrounded by colourful 3D abstract shapes, with design tools in the right-hand panel

ALT A designer sketching a 'Workout Meals' logo in Affinity for iPad, with handwritten letterforms beside the finished green and yellow vector version

ALT Affinity on iPad showing a magazine layout about illustrator Isabela Humphrey, with image thumbnails in the left panel

ALT Affinity for iPad showing a vibrant pink and turquoise isometric illustration, with the design tools panel on the right

ALT Abstract textured cover for Koto's report Brand in the Driver's Seat, with small EV-related icons

ALT Typographic graphic showing 78 EV models in 2015 rising to 1,130 by 2027, leaving consumers spoilt for choice yet overwhelmed

ALT Koto report page titled Is It A Car Or A Computer(?) with a dotted outline of a car and playful interface elements on a dark background

ALT Koto's Provocation 02 visual: an electric pickup truck surrounded by a grid of photographs exploring vehicle design and performance

ALT Group of young people posing playfully around a horizontal bar against a turquoise and blue painted brick wall, photographed by Elie N'Guessan

ALT Five young people in black Adidas tracksuits posing together in a doorway between teal and coral walls

ALT Two women inside a car, one in a hot pink beanie holding a gold toy gun to her lips

ALT Woman in red clothing and a fur collar holding a bright yellow megaphone against a dark starry background with neon signage

ALT Moho's The Ice Cream Thieves: close-up of a pale pink face with golden eyeshadow and tiny flowers, holding a swirled pink and green ice cream cone against a blue background, decorated with pearls and sequins

ALT Luminous pale pink and yellow seahorse with pearl studs along its spine rising from a splash of crystalline water against a deep blue sky

ALT A translucent star trails stardust towards a pink coral tree with watchful green eyes under a starry deep blue night

ALT A white swan with a golden beak floats among billowing pink sequinned, pearl-covered fabric beneath hanging star ornaments and a deep blue sky

ALT A large screen shows a scene from The Snowman inside a grand cathedral with ornate stone architecture, as an orchestra performs below and an audience watches.

ALT A conductor and orchestra perform live while a giant animated snowman with an orange carrot nose is projected behind them.

ALT Overhead view of a large audience seated in a cathedral watching The Snowman on a screen, with an illuminated Christmas tree and the orchestra in the centre.

ALT A child soprano sings at a microphone beside the orchestra as The Snowman plays on the screen behind.

ALT Yinka Ilori and five local creatives from Tottenham sit together in front of a vibrant red and gold patterned backdrop, all wearing the new Tottenham Hotspur away shirt and smiling at the camera.

ALT A green chair with a red seat draped with the navy Tottenham Hotspur away shirt and its colourful pattern, surrounded by patterned rugs.

ALT The back of the shirt, with a circular design in purple, yellow and green and the words We Are Tottenham Wherever We Go.

ALT Yinka Ilori sits smiling in a navy Tottenham shirt in front of a backdrop of red, orange and yellow stripes and yellow circles, next to a green chair.

ALT A hand holds a wine bottle from Werf winery next to other bottles with printed labels on a shelf.

ALT A grid of nine Pictoplasma festival posters by Andstudio, with 2026 dates for Berlin, Copenhagen, New York, London and the Balkans.

ALT Large display panels for the Kino Pavasaris film festival showing portraits of two young women.

ALT A person in an orange jumper holds a cream T-shirt with red Mostai Padel Club branding.

ALT Tatiana Egoshina in an orange shirt stands in a sunlit alleyway beside a white wall covered in colourful pixelated typography and stamp-like designs.

ALT Four Fortune Cookie brand shapes carrying the messages Aspeta, The End Is Near, Luck Is Coming and Do Not Panic, in pink, orange, grey, blue, green and red.

ALT Orange IndieLisboa film festival poster with yellow geometric shapes arranged in a cross.

ALT A colourful Fabrica poster on a brutalist concrete wall between white cylindrical pillars.

ALT Performer in a hot pink afro wig and clown make-up, wearing striped trousers and a black jacket, interacts with onlookers indoors. Photo by Hang Yu

ALT Red clown noses and white circular discs laid out on a pale surface, from Hang Yu's series The Show Goes On

ALT Costumed performer in a black and white harlequin dress with dramatic blonde hair stands at a dressing-room mirror. Photo by Hang Yu

ALT A person in a patterned cap stands in a red and gold doorway while another figure photographs them against a bright blue wall. Photo by Hang Yu

ALT A man in a mustard yellow blazer and red tie leans out of a window framed with fairy lights, the hero image for Creative Boom's 2026 Christmas adverts round-up

ALT Two people sit on a bench beneath a Swiss Post billboard showing a man in a green uniform, set in the new Swiss Post Sans typeface

ALT Swiss Post advert with a woman with long white hair on a warm beige background and yellow text reading 'C'è la Posta per te'

ALT Rows of yellow Swiss Post delivery vans seen from above with a 'Moving Forward' text overlay

ALT Collage of Swiss Post branding in Swiss Post Sans across posters, screens, a delivery van and marketing materials

ALT Keeley Hawes walks through a towering maze of stacked printed pages in a dusty, paper-filled corridor, from Isobel's campaign for St. James's Place

ALT A young character with tousled hair sits on the shoulder of a large eagle-like creature against a desert landscape at sunset in Laika's Wildwood

ALT Two figures stand on a road leading towards a bright light between towering cliffs in a blue-toned mystical forest, from Wildwood

ALT Two young characters stand in a lush moss-covered forest with golden sunlight streaming through the canopy in Wildwood

ALT Two animated figures sit at a desk surrounded by tall stacks of papers in a scene from Laika's Wildwood

ALT How+How's new logo, with geometric letterforms resembling an analogue volume dial, on a pale yellow background

ALT Pindy Kaur in a red jacket and black apron in her Barnsley fish and chip shop kitchen, beside her gilt-framed portrait by Nicky Philipps

ALT Kaual Patel in a red shirt standing beside his gilt-framed oil portrait by Nick Bashall, inside his Catford shop

ALT Simon Dafforn-Jones, arms crossed, beside his large gilt-framed oil portrait by Jamie Coreth

ALT Gino Verecchia seated at a table beside his formal oil portrait by Gareth Reid, hung on dark wood panelling