18th May 2011 ⁄ Sparkle magazine is a new innovative freestyle dance magazine taking the West Midlands, and beyond by storm. The magazine launched back at the beginning of March, with a mass dance break out in Birmingham City Centre. Since then, the demand for the magazine has flourished and dancers nationwide are snapping at their heels to get their hands on the ...
30th Mar 2011 ⁄ Debbie Murphy runs her own business Missfit Creations, designing and making sustainable clothing range Recreate and Pop Fashion label Tribute2. All clothing is hand-made from reworked garments and offcut fabrics and each item is individual. We caught up with Debbie to see what she's currently up to...
18th Feb 2011 ⁄ The Nosuch Disco is a Stoke-on-Trent based artist called David Burgess who loves to create colourful characters. Most famously, David is known for his Waldo the Worm character, something that strives to tackle bullying amongst young people. And something that we have proudly displayed on the walls of Creative Boom's offices.
Aside from that Davi...
17th Jan 2011 ⁄ Lisa Doubleyou is a UK based artist and freelance photographer.Born in 1986, she enjoys nothing more than sitting in a cafe with her sketchpad and if you can't find her there then she'll be in her studio getting messy with paint.
Documentary photography and self-portrature also play a big role within her photograp...
12th Jan 2011 ⁄ Jessica Lennox loves to draw. She can usually be found – trusty fineliner in hand - working on her next creation from the comfort of her home-studio in Staffordshire. The twenty-two year old has recently started her own ecclectic gift and homewares shop, inspired by the animals of local beauty hotspot, Cannock Chase.
Jessica graduated from Lou...
15th Dec 2010 ⁄ There’s condensation slowly taking hold of my window panes like Jack Frost suddenly wants the world to know that winter is upon us, fog covers my entire street so all that is visible is a trickling of lights, an image not unlike those which Karen Strunks, founder, enthusiast and global director of the 4am project enjoys capturing in the small hou...
10th Dec 2010 ⁄ It’s late Sunday afternoon, traffic bustles past as snow lightly bounces off the windows, lights fill the streets, as the run up to Christmas well and truly takes grip of the nation. Most are curled up on the sofa with a hot chocolate, yet others are bracing the cold to get their hands on some little gems bought to you by Miss Bits and Bows – S...
7th Dec 2010 ⁄ Stafford Illustrator, Paul Williams recently undertook a creative endurance challenge (Another) 100 Days of Art whereby he uploaded a new full colour artwork to his Tumblr blog every day for 100 days to raise money for Save the Children through donations from friends, f...
4th Dec 2010 ⁄ Jayne Cooper is a product of her environment. Hailing from the faded former industrial heartland of Stoke on Trent, the twenty-eight year old artist has taken inspiration from the disjointed and desolate nature of the city and used it to explore notions of identity throughout her artistic career.
Whilst c...
26th Nov 2010 ⁄ James Walters is one of the main people behind Tomorrow People Design & Marketing Communications in Birmingham. We caught up with him to see what he's currently up to and to find out more about his creative background..
Being the sort of person who is always looking for the n...
14th Nov 2010 ⁄ “Impressing the guy responsible for the Turtles is worth a lot to any child of the eighties.”
I first came across West Midlands ex-native Bones’ work when I saw what I thought was a photo-manipulation of his girlfriend on Facebook and was stunned to realise it was a painting. He also impressed Kevin Eastman (creator of the Teenage...
7th Sep 2010 ⁄ Written by Charlie Oakham from Pinehearst Digital
You may own an online store; you may know someone who sells their wares online, or you may just buy stuff online. Either way you cannot escape the impending avalanche of Christmas: the time of the year when you stick out your elbo...
21st Feb 2012 ⁄ East Midlands ⁄ Due to phenomenal public demand, one of the comedy circuit's fastest rising stars is set to return to Nottingham in May. Canadian Tom Stade first came to prominence on the debut series of BBC One's Mi...
