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Sky Broadband has launched a 360 degree Lego Batman game experience at its flagship Westfield London store. The interactive experience, which is being delivered by the Wasserman Experience division, will tour the UK until the 5th of March 2017. The...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
My four year old loves Lego. Well, that’s not strictly true, I love Lego and he, by proxy now loves it too. We have two modes of building together, the one where I find the bits and watch as he pieces them together and the one where we...
Posted by: Lark
To celebrate the launch of the new LEGO Disney Castle and honour 100 years of Disney, London based artist Lakwena Maciver has unveiled her latest artwork, Kaleidowaves, a 4.5m tall castle window inspired by the storytelling possibilities of the new...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
OK, I’ll admit that I’m far from an authority on design. I know what I like, and I like what I know is probably how I’d sum up my relationship with it. But one thing I have always enjoyed when it comes to how things are presented to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last month saw the opening of the world’s first experimental LEGO Brick Café, an inspiration space giving adults the opportunity to experience and play with LEGO bricks. This café is unlike any place created to experience LEGO...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Image is everything in the world of branding. Quite literally. Yes, it’s great to have a moral compass and all that but even the most benevolent brand in the world would still be a failure if it didn’t take the time to press the flesh....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week, everyone's favourite building block LEGO launched its first brand campaign in 30 years with an ad which has received 2.5 million views on YouTube and counting. Rebuild the World was thought up by French creative agency BETC Paris and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The LEGO Roomba sweeps your LEGO up for you The Brick Wall has created an automatic vacuum cleaner to tidy up all of those stray LEGO pieces with swift ease. The hackers have called the robot the “LEGO Roomba.” The Brick Wall built the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
McCann London - Mr Kipling Mr Kipling returns to television with its first new commercial in two years to bring a deeper meaning to the famous, much-loved “Exceedingly Good Cakes” slogan. Created by McCann London, this new campaign puts...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The robotic installation lighting up Hull for UK City of Culture 2017 Jason Bruges Studio’s latest kinetic installation opened in Hull last Friday (1 December). “Where Do We Go From Here?” is the last major art commission of the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As a child, Lego is something I never really connected with. It’s only as a young adult, oddly enough, that I really began to understand the appeal. If Algobrix would have been a thing during my formative years, however, as a self-professed...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Lego fans can now build outwards from walls, chair legs, household objects or the backs of other toys using an ingenious new studded tape. The Nimuno Loops tape is the creation of the Cape Town-based designers Anine Kirsten and Max Basler, who...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Comic book movies are big business. Indeed, the genre has evolved from its fringe beginnings (anyone else remember Howard the Duck?) to effectively monopolise mainstream cinema. Even though Marvel has done its best to corner the market over the past...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
When I say the word “Lego,” chances are that your mind is immediately drawn to either one of two things; last year's surprisingly wonderful “Lego Movie” (still not forgiven that Oscar snub) or a childhood spent idly placing...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I may be preaching to the converted here, but you’ve gotta love London. A lot of people - and certainly the majority of Creativepoolers - would say it’s the centre of the creative industry, and not just in the UK. But even leaving the...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Last night during the broadcast of ITV's 'Dancing On Ice', viewers might have been more than a little surprised to see a brace of their favourite adverts reimagined as stop-motion Lego animations. This marks the first time in history that an entire...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We've all played with lego. I love lego, but the extent of my designs are block houses and block cars... anything block really. However, artist Nathan Sawaya, also known as “Brick Artist" has taken LEGO art to a whole new level! His recent...
Posted by: Creativepool
When I was young, the most advanced hand-held computer game on offer was probably Space Invaders. A massive, chunky black device about the size of a hardback novel, requiring six AA batteries and with a dodgy red display which made it virtually...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
by Jessica Hazel. Those of us who have preferred to partake in the Olympics by snuggling down into our armchairs in front of the telly with a pile of nachos might appreciate these Olympic standard feats of LEGO making which have really taken off...
Posted by: Creativepool
Havas London Havas London has appointed former 101 London Partner & Head of Strategy, Clare Hutchinson, as its new Executive Strategy Director. In this new role, which she starts in November, she will report directly into Havas’ European Group...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Jungle Studios, the Soho-based full service audio post production facility that brings together award-winning sound design and music for advertising, promo and broadcast, has announced the appointment of Ben Leeves. Ben, who has over 20 years’...
Posted by: Jungle Studios
Lions Entertainment, the Festival’s two day-specialist event, kicked-off yesterday, bringing the worldwide entertainment industry together with global brands for a programme of speaker sessions, live performances, curated roundtables and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Pablo - MQ Having launched on the 16th January, the “We Swear” campaign from mental health research charity MQ is calling time on the unacceptable lack of progress in tackling young people’s mental health. New figures from the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Every June, the gaming industry converges on the Los Angeles Convention Centre for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, affectionately known to gamers worldwide as E3. The expo has, in parallel to the industry itself, grown from rather humble...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Since their arrival many blue moons ago, the customised Google logos (or 'Google Doodles' to give them their correct adopted name) have become a staple part of using the search engine. From retro arcade games to famous figureheads in science and...
Posted by: Creativepool
Will my work get seen by the "right" people is a key question when deciding on whether or not to enter any award. As a part of our commitment to making The Annual the "Most Award" we make sure that your entries are delivered to, and downloaded by,...
Posted by: Creativepool
Not every brand can be an icon and even those that achieve iconic status are not guaranteed immortality. Of course, changing consumer and economic trends are always going to play an important part in whether a brand sticks around for months, years or...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
By Gaynelle Brautigam, Head of Innovation at Tactical Sometimes, inequality isn’t easy to spot until you experience it first-hand. For example, I never gave much thought to being a second-generation immigrant, until I started applying for my...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Written by the Strategy team at Waste Creative. Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Barbie, Lego… we watch their movies and shows, read their comics, collect their merch and in many cases, play their video games. They’re the epitome of something called...
Posted by: Teodora Miscov
As the year starts to wind down and we take stock of what we achieved (or didn’t achieve) over the last 12 months, it’s only natural to start asking what we’d have done differently if we could do it all over again. Well, thankfully...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
What’s holding the world back from mass AR adoption? Is it the still admittedly rather cumbersome technology itself? The lack of readily available content? According to one company, the answer’s a little simpler - it’s...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Dr Rebecca Rose Stanton, author of ‘The Disneyfication of Animals’ and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, discusses the vilification and celebration of cats in the media and asks why so many of these cats are very...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In today's increasingly competitive marketplace, where consumers are being bombarded with endless products and services from a million directions, capturing attention and driving sales requires a more nuanced approach. The creative industries are in...
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
Exhausted by the relentless bad news and devastation around the world, people are determined to show resilience and optimism in the face of enduring hardship. According to Emma Chiu, Global Director at Wunderman Thompson, the year ahead forecasts...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Solarflare Studio is an award-winning creative technology studio on a mission to "hack the human experience" and connect people through innovative solutions & imaginative experiences. They work with global agencies and brands to create...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial