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Leaders

Rebrand Roundup: Burberry's new monogram, The Evernote elephant, Hidden King of Covent Garden and more

Peter Saville - Burberry Burberry reveals new logo and monogram designed by Peter Saville The graphic designer, who was also behind Calvin Klein’s latest rebrand, has given fashion house Burberry a new look, which has been revealed on...

Leaders

WCRS hit the Garden and the Kitchen for B&Q Spring Campaign

This week sees the launch of B&Q’s latest TV spot, part of its fully integrated Spring campaign from WCRS. The campaign sets out to remind customers that whatever their home improvement need or challenge, B&Q always has a brilliant solution,...

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ASA ban Juice Garden promotion for claiming drink “cures disease”

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a menu promotion from health food cafe and online retailer Juice Garden for implying that one of its products prevented, treated or cured disease. The company, which is based in my Birmingham and...

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Meet the man who built a life-sized Star Wars AT-AT in his back garden

Whilst some Star Wars fans (myself included as a matter of fact) might have marked their love of the franchise by buying their tickets to Rogue One weeks ago, others (or one at the very least) have decided to build their very own gigantic Star Wars...

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Nice Shoes Creative Studio transports viewers to a meditative & magical VR Garden

Nice Shoes Creative Studio has entered the exciting world of Virtual Reality, debuting an immersive and interactive meditative experience "Mio Garden" to a delighted audience of marketing leaders at the 2016 ANA Masters of Marketing Conference in...

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Cara Delevingne shows off her Lady Garden for TOPSHOP

TOPSHOP recently hosted a celebrity-studded event in partnership with the Gynaecological Cancer Fund, for the second annual “Lady Garden” campaign, which aims to raise awareness of the symptoms of gynaecological cancer. Organised by...

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Atomic London & Rushes create a VR Garden thanks to 100K Cancer Research contributors

Cancer Research UK will display a virtual reality garden at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show this month. The VR experience has been created by Atomic London and creative studio Rushes, to celebrate and thank over 100,000 people who have left...

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London's Garden Bridge receives £2 million but still faces set backs

UPDATE Since I reported on the Garden Bridge last week, it appears there has been something of a reversal in its potential fortunes. Public opinion has been mixed from the start, but whilst it appeared the £175 million plan was previosuly certain...

Leaders

Step into a new creative Garden

Former Zulu Alpha Kilo executives Shari Walczak and Shane Ogilvie have left their posts as executive planning director and executive creative director respectively, to set up a new agency simply called “The Garden,” which they envision as...

Leaders

Exploring the freedom of hybrid work with Julie Aguilera #GettingToKnow

Julie Aguilera is Associate Director & Head of Consumer at Rooster. Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? I work part time and am in the office once a week. My one day in the office is inevitably filled with...

Workshop

Obsessing over the Story with Wardour #CompanySpotlight

This week, we sat down with Martin MacConnol, Founder and CEO at the Covent Garden-based creative agency Wardour. How was your company born and where are you based? We began life as a content marketing agency on Wardour Street, Soho, in 1996 - the...

Features

Creative Trends That Will Dominate 2024 #YearInReview

We’ve already looked back at the year that was 2023 and what a year it was. But what kind of magazine would we be if we didn’t also cast our sights on the next 12 months? Of course, there are a few trends you can expect to see pop up...

Features

The most creative campaigns of 2023 #YearInReview

2023 has been a lot of things. It’s been a year that saw great divisions widen and a year that seemed to almost revel in chaos, but it was also a year in which creativity continued to shine, even as it stood on the precipice of potential...

Inspiration

How to Brand a City: The Secrets of Successful City Branding

When it comes to branding, there can be few tasks as daunting (besides perhaps being asked to brand a whole country) as being asked to brand a city. Branding a city is no longer limited to creating logos and slogans; it has evolved into a strategic...

Inspiration

9 Reasons Your Brand Should Tell Stories

For CMOs today, options for building your brand are changing before your eyes. These days, leading brands think like publishers, creating editorial calendars, hiring chief content officers, and curating their asses off. This is all good and well, but...

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#GettingToKnow Buttermilk Founder, Jamie Ray

Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? My day is anything but typical. When we founded the business, my time was spent on client-facing activity and project management. Fast forward 7 years, and now that we have scaled...

Inspiration

#MemberSpotlight on Belgian freelance illustrator Steven Van Hasten

How did you get into the industry? As soon as I could hold a pencil I started drawing on every surface. All my studbook, walls of my parental home, tables… nothing was safe. I never wanted to do anything else. They were therefore happy when I...

Inspiration

The Trend to End All Trends

Are trends dying? One of the most traditionally accepted fashion trend cycle theories is that it lasts 20 years and undergoes 5 phases: Introduction Rise Peak Decline Obsolescence This 20-year cycle is still present today for macrotrends,...

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Top 10 ads of 2022 | #YearInReview

Choosing the best ads of the year was once a straightforward process but in the information era, where advertising is so much more than just 30-second TV spots, it’s not quite as simple as taking your ten wittiest short films and putting them...

Industry

The pixel perfect world of Pixel Artworks | #CompanySpotlight

Tom Burch is MD of immersive experience company Pixel Artworks and has been creating wonder with his work for brands since he founded the business in 2005. From creating fire-breathing dragons for Warwick Castle to planting the Garden of Light for...

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Zero to virtual production hero in 14 steps

Virtual production has arrived with a bang. Big name producers - most famously for The Mandalorian - are filming with huge state-of-the-art LED walls as virtual backdrops, instead of going out on location. But you don't have to be Disney to create...

Features

Why neurodiverse entrepreneurs are running the world

Some of the most famous and successful entrepreneurs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have been individuals who consider themselves within one or more neuro identity groups. With this in mind, the team at Business Name Generator have...

Features

Could the Ukraine conflict catalyse an ethical shift in career priorities? | #FutureMonth

Why do we work? That is an existential question many of us undoubtedly ask ourselves on days like today when Kidderminster has the sunny glow of the Mediterranean and all we want to do is retire to a hammock in the back garden and listen to the world...

Features

Six serious celebrity side hustles

Budding entrepreneurs come from all walks of life and that includes famous actors, with many movie stars moving beyond their ‘day jobs’ and investing in their own side hustles. Just like anybody else, some brands and businesses thrive,...

Workshop

Getting intrinsically strategic with design practice The District | #CompanySpotlight

The District is a design practice that works in all aspects of brand strategy and visualisation. They work with, in their own words “interesting people who have an ambition to do interesting things” and specialise in “thoughtful,...

Inspiration

Jackdaw or magpie? Borrowing versus learning

When is someone else's good idea just too good to resist? Bad artists borrow, good artists steal. Or is it the other way around? Or are the best artists the ones who use the right tools or learn to make better ones? Corvids are great. And great...

Inspiration

How brands can leverage the metaverse for more than virtual success | #TechMonth

As the Metaverse continues to evolve and take shape, retail brands and their creative leads, directors, and managers should be embracing early adoption to grab the opportunities this next-level, web3 presents. But as the shapeshifting Metaverse...

Inspiration

A freelance illustrator with almost 40 years of eclectic experience | #MemberSpotlight

For this week’s member spotlight, we’re focusing on a freelance graphic designer and illustrator that’s managed to hold onto one client for almost 40 years. William Webb has worked on everything from mural painting and portraits in...

Features

Can a name change save a bad brand?

I have something of a conflicted personal history with Hermes. My long-suffering other half is a serial online shopper - one of many habits that blossomed over lockdown - so our local delivery driver has become a familiar face over the last two...

Inspiration

Keeping curiosity healthy with illustrator Patrick Hruby | #MemberSpotlight

Los Angeles-based illustrator Patrick Hruby grew up in a log cabin within an Idaho forest. As a young boy he dreamt of running away to join the circus and become a trapeze artist. Eventually, however, he grew up to pursue a career as an illustrator....

Features

How to deliver a successful live event social media strategy

Many industries had to move their entire networks online overnight in March of 2020, however, there is no doubting the impact a well-run live event can have for brands of all shapes and sizes. However, with all COVID restrictions having now lifted,...

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Digital leading ladies - The top women in adtech tell us what to expect in 2022

Just when you thought all of the year’s trends had been discussed, dissected and digested, here’s one final piece of insight from some of the leading female voices in advertising. Pulled from a report by Digital Leading Ladies (the...

Features

Web3 will change the future of personal identity

From Greek philosophy all the way up to The Matrix, people have always been fascinated with the nature of reality, and now the metaverse is creating a brand new one. It’s a concept that’s been building momentum since it was first...

Inspiration

Going it alone - Will 2022 be the year Freelancing finally goes mainstream?

I started freelancing as a writer in 2009. It started as a few side-hustle gigs as a writer for music magazines and, over time, slowly evolved into an actual career. I didn’t really mean for it to happen and I didn’t even realise it could...

Inspiration

Opening the gate and walking through walls | #CompanySpotlight

“Even the smallest of gates is more powerful than the tallest of walls” This is how The Gate introduces themselves and it’s quite the introduction. While they’re technically only 5 years young, they fancy themselves as an...