Have you ever noticed how sick running club gear can be? Neither have I until this weekend. This week's Creative Juice features a new collection from Ikea, something to consider adding to your portfolio website, branding, mobile app beauty, and more. Let's start juicing!

Creative Juice is a weekly newsletter published every Monday morning so you can start your week feeling inspired creatively to make cool sh*t and get paid for it. Every Monday I share something gorgeous, a portfolio of the week, three creative finds, one amazing post from social media, and one lesson I learned recently.

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TL:DR

SOMETHING GORGEOUS: Color Block Everything In Your Room

PORTFOLIO OF THE WEEK: A Design Portfolio Website With A Showreel

CREATIVE FIND 01: It's All About The Lighting

CREATIVE FIND 02: Making Learning More Abstract and Creative

CREATIVE FIND 03: Just Take A Deep Breath

ONE GRAM: Showing Off Scrapped Design Work

ONE LESSON: The World of Running and Design

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Something Gorgeous

Color Block Everything In Your Room

TESAMMANS Ikea Collection

I want that storage unit sooooooo bad!

Design duo Raw Color collaborate with Ikea to create the TESAMMANS collection of colorful furniture, textiles, tableware, and decorations. This set reminds me of the Josef Albers color exercises I did in university. Imagine walking into your design studio with that wonderful little storage unit. How excited your eyes would be to pull out a pen or notebook. If they have any leftovers by the time I make it back to the states, I will definitely be making a purchase.

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Portfolio of the Week

A Design Portfolio Website With A Showreel

Good News

Good News is a design studio with offices between Amsterdam and New York. While their portfolio website may not contain in-depth case studies of their projects, I appreciate that they took the time to create a showreel walking through some of their highlighted projects.

There are a few things I think are important to take away from their portfolio website. First, knowing that this is a design studio with decades of experience, a portfolio website is like a formal requirement—it’s something you need to do business. For younger creatives, a portfolio website needs more substance, but Good News can get away with showing images rather than full project pages.

Because Good News is a design studio, much effort goes into client work, networking, and marketing. The portfolio website is a small slice of that.

The showreel is what I liked most. Showreels are no longer just for video editors. With tools like Adobe Express, Screen Studio, Figma, and Loom, anyone can make a showreel to showcase work quickly.

Have you considered adding a showreel to your portfolio website? Let me know with a reply and maybe I can help you out.

Score: 6.7/10

Built with: Readymag

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Creative Finds

It's All About The Lighting

Gantri Design System by Landscape

Design studio Landscape creates a bold yet relatable lifestyle brand for lighting platform, Gantri. The art direction and photography really shine in this system. Also love how Landscape provides statistics about how their work affected Gantri's sales.

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Making Learning More Abstract and Creative

Projector Illustrations by Marta Gozha

Marta has created a beautiful series of illustrations to pair with creative course material to keep students engaged. Attention to detail like this makes learning more immersive.

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Just Take A Deep Breath

Lungy iOS by Pi-A

Lungy is a mobile breathing app that delivers daily breathing exercises. The visuals paired with the exercises are beautiful and enough to make me download and try it out. Happy to say I’ll be keeping this one on my phone for a while.

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One Gram

Showing Off Scrapped Design Work

@carla.palette

What should you do with work that a client doesn't approve? Show it off! Just because the client didn't select it doesn’t mean it should never see the light of day again. Carla does a great job presenting scrapped work as if it were approved.

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One Lesson

The World of Running and Design

Imagine waking up at 6:00 AM for a 6:30 AM race. You signed up "just for fun" and hadn’t run more than a mile in 5–6 years.

Last week I signed up for a 6K race as training. I had no expectations—it was just to see where I was physically. My legs feel like rocks now.

Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised from a design perspective. Running crew gear is sick. Over the years, I’ve seen a variety of apparel and merchandise, but never noticed how visually expressive it can be. Even out of breath, I was inspired by logos, fonts, color palettes, and copywriting across runners.

Get out there and explore something new. You never know what inspiration you'll take away.

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