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#techtuesday: Smart plants, killer robots, the wearable mind reader and other stories
The robotic smart plant/AI pet Japanese multinational tech firm TDK has created the wonderfully named “Bons-AI,” an artificially intelligent and interactive bonsai plant with the ability to “offer emotional support.” It...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
Alpro’s global redesign emphasises flavour #BehindTheBrand
According to research, the dairy alternatives market is worth $24 billion USD globally. With more and more brands to compete with, Alpro - a veteran of the category - has unveiled a global brand refresh from Elmwood London, which places a greater...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
BOL unveils new identity to connect with the lives of busy consumers | #BehindTheBrand
Plant-based pioneer, BOL Foods, recently unveiled a new creative direction for the brand. Its previous slogan “Eat plants, love life” will be replaced with a new lifestyle-centric positioning - “Bring On Life”. The...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
A new plant-based brand rooted in Middle Eastern culture | #BehindTheBrand
In collaboration with IFFCO’s Plant-Based Venture, WMH&I recently created THRYVE; a new plant-based food brand born in the Middle East. The brand sets out to spearhead a movement of change towards healthier and more sustainable eating in the...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialFeatures
The Coronation of King Charles III in Advertising #Top10
Regardless of your opinions on the British Monarchy, it’s undeniable that the coronation of King Charles III was something of a historic event and something that deserved chronicling and (of course) parodying. With that in mind, I’ve...
Posted by: Benjamin HiornsFeatures
Is the only true path to net zero no more products or ads? #SustainabilityMonth
The concept of achieving net zero has become increasingly popular in recent years, as brands, businesses and audiences alike become more aware of the compound impact of human activities on the environment. But is there only one way for ad land to...
Posted by: Benjamin HiornsInspiration
The Heinz/Absolut vodka pasta sauce that isn’t an April Fool | #BehindTheIdea
A year since launching their first ever Pasta Sauce that was ‘Ridiculously Late’ to the market (but ‘Ridiculously Good’), Kraft Heinz New Ventures announces one of the most unexpected partnerships of the year. Household...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
Disrupting the plant-based world with an Annual Gold Winner | #BehindtheBrand
For this week’s behind the brand, we’re focusing on a concept that took home a coveted Gold at last year’s Creativepool Annual Awards. This was a project consisting of a nine-month design sprint from start to finish where Elmwood...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
Enter the tetrachromatic world of Ida Hay | #MemberSpotlight
Ida Hay is aSwedish/Norwegian illustrator and visual designer based in British Columbia, Canada who started drawing as soon as she was old enough to hold a pen. She has always been colour sensitive, already as a young child her family noticed her...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
Opening a gateway to the future | #BehindTheIdea
Global technology brand HONOR recently announced “Gateway to the Future,” an initiative designed to enrich cultural heritage through the power of technology. Launched during its IFA 2022 keynote, the brand challenged two popular artists...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
Making an impact with introverted photographer Elroy Salam | #MemberSpotlight
This week, we shine our member spotlight on photographer Elroy Salam. Elroy describes himself as a creative photographer and content creator that loves to explore and discover through storytelling and visual arts. Specialising in lifestyle,...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
Templates, tropes and other t-shapes
Hanging up on the wall in the office there are a whole bunch of stencils that interior designers and architects used to use daily when setting out plans on paper. There’s everything in these glorious little plastic worlds, from tables to...
Posted by: RichardWorkshop
The RHS help the UK’s gardeners to ‘speak plant’ | #BehindTheIdea
Wunderman Thompson has partnered with the RHS, the UK’s largest gardening charity, to launch a new brand strategy and accompanying integrated campaign, showing how the RHS can help all gardeners to “speak plant.” The RHS boasts...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
Biomimicry and product design: Taking design inspiration from nature
Mimicking nature in man-made product designs has led to some of the greatest and most enduring inventions or products that exist today. In the modern era especially, designers are open to ways they can work together with our environment- rather than...
Posted by: Matter Of FormInspiration
Neurodiversity - Designing offices with everyone in mind | #PurposeMonth
Work environments, like many other spaces, tend to be designed for neurotypical people. This leaves neurodivergent individuals - those with natural variations in the brain - in a compromising position. One of the most significant hurdles that the...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
A window into the stunning world of 3D Artist Marta Caetano | #MemberSpotlight
It is always hugely inspiring to look at the work of a talented 3D artist. Marta Caetano's impressive renders are no different. A freelancer with a broad experience in the 3D field, Marta dreams of a fairer industry where the value of artistry and...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
How a creative director makes a difference with his creative works - With an Annual 2021 Bronze winner | #AnnualSpotlight
The Annual 2021 winners have been revealed over summer, with some of the most exciting professionals in the history of Creativepool. Who are these amazing people and why do they represent the best of the best in the realm of creativity? Freelance...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialWorkshop
5 simple tricks you can learn in 5 minutes to help you fight creative block as a freelancer
Creative block, writer’s block, designer’s block - these nasty mental barriers are way too common in our work life as creatives and often hinder us from completing a project with the peace of mind we desire. If you’ve been a...
Posted by: Antonino LupoFeatures
The 15 workplace innovations that will change your work life forever
The future of work is hybrid - if you’ve been around the Creativepool Magazine for long enough, you’ve read this many times from me now. While remote work is definitely here to stay, there is still a significant percentage of the...
Posted by: Antonino LupoIndustry
The adorable little homemaker of Rothco and Woodie's - #BehindTheIdea
Who remembers the Acts of Homemaking campaign from Woodie's? It was one of the highlights of the 2020 Christmas ads, and a chance for Woodie's and Rothco to tell a lovely story about the kindness of a neighbourhood at Christmas time. Arguably, 2020...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
Bonding through creativity – The award-winning illustrations of Jilipollo - #AnnualSpotlight
We don't jest when we say that Javier Medellin Puyou (also known as Jilipollo) is one of the top illustrators on Creativepool and definitely one of our personal favourites here in the team. Javier's use of perspective, colour and texture is...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialIndustry
The very literal campaign for the green search engine alternative - #BehindTheIdea
The internet has been a pretty spectacular invention but it's not exactly been great for the environment. This is where Ecosia plans to step in and put a very green stamp on the search engine market. The concept behind Ecosia is that it's a search...
Posted by: CreativepoolFeatures
Prince Philip: Patron of the Arts, Pioneer of Sustainability… or was he?
On 9 April last week, the Royal Family gave a public announcement which was bound to shake the British public and most of the world with it: at the age of 99, Prince Philip passed away, two months before his 100th birthday, possibly following his...
Posted by: Antonino LupoIndustry
Connecting back to nature with Air Wick - #BehindTheBrand
Over a year after our first global lockdowns, many are the new lessons we have learned from a global pandemic. One of these is that the best brands are the ones with a powerful identity. In that, Air Wick has very few equals. Darren Morgan, Global...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
The best free apps to boost your creative productivity
I know, I know - it's February already. Where did the first month of the year go? Most likely, in loads of planning for the year to come, and a healthy amount of procrastination too. As usual, the New Year came with its usual amount of hopeful...
Posted by: Antonino LupoInspiration
7 tips to stay creative and inspired in the second lockdown
And how to remain focused at home We’ve seen that coming. With COVID-19 cases spiking all across Europe, it was just a matter of time before most of the continent decided to head towards a second lockdown - to “save Christmas,”...
Posted by: Antonino LupoInspiration
Warmth, art and survival in Ben O'Brien's illustrations
Love for nature, capturing the moment and finding the beauty in how things look. This is the drive that guides Ben O'Brien, freelancer in Somerset, former animator and now a hardened 15-year illustrator. Though it may not seem like it, Ben's...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
The little big joys of Benedict Bannister
It's hard to meet people who find pleasure in little things, nowadays. Freelance film and motion director Benedict Bannister is one of those. Benedict enjoys gardening, exercising, and most of all, he loves taking inspiration from his children for...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialWorkshop
Art Direction in Isolation with Great State
Who said you need a full crew and exotic locations to make a successful social campaign? What started as a bet with Great State's MD quickly turned into one of the funniest and most creative projects we've seen during lockdown. Using nothing but...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
Don't Mind the Gap
If I were to ask you what the determining factor will be in your success or failure as a creator, there’s a good chance you’d say 'the quality of your ideas.' Without a good idea you have nothing. Yet there’s something else even...
Posted by: Richard HolmanFeatures
Member Spotlight: the frail beauty in Begoña True's illustration
It's easy to tell those who have an ardent passion for what they're doing from those who don't. And it is enough to glimpse at one of Begoña True's illustrations to tell which of the two groups she naturally belongs to. We caught up with one of...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
Designers’ Response to Secure Our Future
With “well-being” and “sustainability” being the key focus nowadays, we’ve created a shortlist of new innovative solutions and products showcased at Futurebuild this year where designers and brands across the globe came...
Posted by: Air Design LimitedJob Description: Automotive Designer
Automotive Designers are the minds behind the machines that have to understand not only what looks good aesthetically but how it’s going to work mechanically. It’s a very specific skillset and it’s one that is always going to be in...
Posted by: CreativepoolLeaders
How to create and activate an effective brand strategy
This blog looks at how a good brand strategy can help you change the way people think, feel and act. But you have to embed it across the whole customer and employee experience, not just the brand expression. Branding is, and always has been, about...
Posted by: Creativepool EditorialInspiration
15 things millennials want from the workplace
Millennials seem like a complicated generation through and through. They keep rewriting the way our society works and that can be confusing and tough for the people trying to retain Millenials in the office and give them work. Suddenly, cubicles...
Posted by: Liam Smith