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Creative Lives

Meet the creatives making the industry thrive, covering early beginnings to what a typical working day looks like.

How “trying everything” helped motion designer Nadine Kennedy find her place in industry

“Exposure is my least favourite word”: We meet freelance creative Kayleigh De Sousa

Will Daulphin’s journey from shoe sales assistant to creating content for Reebok

Photographer Hidhir Badaruddin on Asian masculinity and challenging stereotypes in industry

How textile artist Molly Kent weaves mental health into her work

Graphic designer Dominic Lord on finding clients, freelancing and going full-time

DesignOpp’s Grace Enemaku on why there’s no wrong path to creative success

How illustrator Mariam Tafsiri balances her practice with working in economics

Find your pace: Art director Anne Danao on career goals and combining your strengths

Creative Abbey Monteiro on resilience, style and coming up with “fresh, juicy ideas”

“We are here, we deserve to be heard”: Meet Melanated Zine’s Thyra Bankole

Joe Puxley on starting out as a photographer and finding beauty in the ordinary

Community photographer Hark1karan on why you shouldn’t chase likes

Gallery Girl founder and art writer Lizzy Vartanian Collier on covering art from the Middle East

How animator and motion designer Alfie Bogush landed his dream job at Cub Studio

“The power that you hold as a creative is really important”: Meet photographer Shenell Kennedy

Graphic designer Jay Vaz on designing for music and visualising the sounds he loves

Patience, practice and paper: We meet Manchester-based illustrator Hellie Cartledge

Rising photographer Ryan Prince on portraiture, Blackness and battling imposter syndrome

From medicine to words: How Liz Hew launched a career in writing and content production

Sepideh Zolfaghari on becoming a content producer and the art of creating for YouTube

How graphic designer Lorna Harrington went from super-fan to employee at Aardman Animations

Graphic designer Ruben Buffery on landing his first graduate job at The Midnight Club

Multidisciplinary artist Farouk Alao on NFTs, freelance life and finding balance