Navigating career changes can feel overwhelming. In this week’s Creative Career Conundrums, Alex Bec shares insights on finding balance and taking practical steps towards pursuing your passion.

The Goa-based illustrator speaks about their impactful work, which is inspired by sci-fi and speculative fiction and is driven by a desire to centre marginalised people in their native South India.

Taking her inspiration from logos and instruction manuals to scientific papers and infographics, the Brussels-based artists’ work has a “repetitive and methodical character”.

New motion design by Connor Campbell Studio mirrors the actions of focusing, zooming and bulk image imports – a photographer’s everyday.

The creative duo’s branding for the slow beauty brand takes inspiration from classic scripts, hand-addressed envelopes and branded marks on the back of silver charms.

Co-founders Pali Palavathanan and Anoushka Rodda speak about being inspired by their ethnic backgrounds, and designing for causes across human rights, climate change, culture and diversity.