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And what the self-employed need to know about leaving the EU. That’s right, I used the dreaded ‘B’ word. As you can imagine, Brexit will have a certain impact on freelancers in the UK, and to an extent, to those working from Europe...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The Guardian recently launched a new dedicated series entitled "This is Europe" which pledges its ongoing commitment to Europe in the wake of Brexit. To support This is Europe, the Guardian is running a multi-layered marketing campaign in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The countdown to Brexit is on and while MPs in Parliament continue to dither over the decision to leave the EU, for others the debacle is proving an opportunity to get creative. As the UK hurtles towards 31 October, Boris Johnson’s prospects...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Brexit: the PR disaster that simply won’t go away. Heads have rolled, reputations have been severely tarnished, promises have been made and broken, and all the while the UK public has been left scratching its proverbial head trying to work out...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Advertising icon Sir John Hegarty has expressed his feelings over Brexit by saying Britain’s decision to leave the European Union (EU) is “without question probably the most stupid thing the country has ever done.” Hegarty, the...
Posted by: Ryan Watson
OurCreative - Brexit Wine 52:48 (concept) In 2015 Great Britain held a vote to leave the European Union. The outcome was a 52/48 split in favour of leaving. OurCreative decided to spin the divide into a bittersweet celebration, creating 52:48. The...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
J. Walter Thompson London - HSBC This wonderful new advert for HSBC from J. Walter Thompson London is exactly what we all need in the lead up to Brexit. The narrative, starring British actor-director Richard Ayoade, celebrates the positive benefits...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Amazon is planting deep roots in London soil, with the online retail behemoth recently announcing plans to double its recruitment for research and development roles within the capital as it renews its focus on video and streaming services. The move...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A mural by street artist Banksy recently appeared in the English town of Dover on Sunday last week, showing a worker chipping a star away from the European Union flag. The four-storey artwork, located on the wall of a derelict building beside the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whilst Teresa May attempts to frantically backpedal expectation and one half of the UK prepares to devour the other half in a divisive move of unprecedented (at least in terms of sheer scale) madness, the video game industry in the UK is quietly...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whilst the vast majority of industry leaders have been pretty damning about Brexit and what it means for the manufacturing industries in the UK, vacuum cleaner magnate Sir James Dyson has been bucking the trend since before the referendum result was...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The founder of Advertising Week Europe has warned that the festival could move from London to another city such as Paris or Amsterdam because of Brexit. Matt Scheckner, the founder of Advertising Week Europe, which takes place this week for the fifth...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
So Snapchat is bucking the post-Brexit trend and like a social salmon it has decided to swim against the current view and set up its non-US office in London. An unusual move for an American tech firm where the norm is to establish a home from home...
Posted by: Andy Bolter
With the post-Brexit pound plummeting faster than Donald Trump's approval rating, Apple have decided to set a terrifying precedent in the tech community by raising the price of all apps in the UK by 25%. In real terms, this means an app that used to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Victoria & Albert Musuem has selected the Guardian’s Brexit-themed crackers conceived by mcgarrybowen to be part of its permanent collection. The crackers, created by mcgarrybowen for the Guardian to put a lighthearted, satirical spin on the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Whilst it might seem a little mean spirited for the festive season, we can never say no to a bit of delicious satire, so we were thrilled to hear that mcgarrybowen had created a set of Brexit-themed crackers for the Guardian. Aimed at putting a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Brands, politicians and communicators need to break the anger cycle that fuelled Brexit and brought Trump to the White House to successfully engage the public, BMB’s top team has warned. At the Eurobest festival in Rome yesterday (Wednesday,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Creative Industries Federation has published its official Brexit Report, which features an in-depth analysis of red-line issues for the government as it negotiates leaving the EU. The report includes recommendations, agreed jointly by the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Consider this a devil's advocate piece, as I genuinely believe that the Brexit has been, for the most part, a tremendous blow to the UK's creative industries and the country in general, with spending forecasts set to fall this year and next in the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whilst you might all be more than a little sick at this point of hearing about how the Brexit has monumentally screwed us all over, one area we have yet to really touch on is the design industry, which has been thrown into genuine crisis in recent...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I've waffled on enough already about the unmitigated disaster that has been the Brexit, and it's unlikely that a better advertising campaign could have saved us from the gallows, but it's still fun sometimes to ask ourselves “What If?” In...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As part of the European creative and business community, we at designjunction were disappointed by the UK’s recent decision to leave the European Union, but wish to reassure all our friends, partners and exhibitors around Europe that we remain...
Posted by: designjunction
It's been over a week now and the creative world is still reeling from the effects of Brexit. But the real question going forward, is how this seismic economic shift will affect not only the future of the UK and its creative industries, but the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“The situation can be (in broad terms) broken down as such: Bigots voting for economic isolation, and a grave instability the people who will actually live to see it (for the most part) don't want. Politics is broken. We are not governing...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Brexit is the nonsensical word on the tip of everyone's tongue right now, and with good reason. The EU Referendum is, by quite a wide margin, one of the most important democratic decisions most of us will ever have to make. By this point you probably...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a city where the Underground map is as iconic as Big Ben, any change to the transport network is bound to raise eyebrows. The recent rebranding of the London Overground’s ‘Orange Line’ is no exception. As the old familiar orange...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There’s something quietly Dickensian about the term “cost-of-living crisis” that’s given the news over the last few months a surreal air of uncanniness, at least in the UK. The concept that so many of us, even those such as...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In early 2021, millions of ordinary people across the US started buying shares in the declining video game store GameStop - investing tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Their investments were ridiculed by financial experts, but the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Cancel culture is a funny thing. It’s all well and good to declare yourself a scion of virtue and leap to the gallows with torch in hand whenever a new celebrity is outed as a sexual criminal but what happens when the source of the (in this...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The recent news that prominent discount high street retailer Wilko has been plunged into administration sparked a flurry of conversations about not only its own misfortune but the future of the UK high street in general. While external pressures...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Team GB is the external facing brand owned and managed by the British Olympic Association. 100% commercially funded, its primary role is to unite, organise and prepare athletes from all Olympic sports, disciplines, and governing bodies as they...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? As MD of Studio PI, an artist management and production agency, no day is the same for me. Every day involves managing a number of projects, the content of which varies on a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In a world that seems perpetually on the brink of collapse, “What the fuck is going on?” is a question we all probably ask ourselves daily. I know I do. Saatchi & Saatchi, however, have decided to ask the question on a more practical and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The use of attack ads has become increasingly common in British political campaigns, as both parties seek to gain an advantage over their opponents by highlighting their flaws and weaknesses rather than extolling their own virtues. This is a plague...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A+C are specialists in stop-motion and animation for advertising and social content that can produce anything from paper-craft to motion design. For over 15 years, they’ve been creating award-winning work for some of the world’s...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
By CEO and Co-Founder of leading digital marketing agency Go Up, Edward Coram-James It’s fair to say that the world has been a pretty tumultuous place recently. The pandemic and resulting recession, Brexit and the shockwaves caused by the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial