Design
The treasure was found at the London Design Festival
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Last Friday the streets of East London were awash with competitors of the first Creativepool Treasurehunt. The event allowed the teams to take in the very best exhibitions the London Design festival had to
offer whilst competing for an amazing £1,000 cash prize! Check out the all photos and details of the competitors and exhibitions from this awesome design event.
Make your way to the finish line
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Design
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Paul Boag is the co-founder of web design company 'Headscope'. Working woith a broad range of clients, Headscape has worked with multi-millions pound ecommerce sites.
Paul is also an international speaker and writer on web design making this interview a real piece of expert insight.
Get the insight from the international voice
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Design
Win $5,000 in the Autodesk 3DS Max Competitition
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If you have created a great piece of work using Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2012 or Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2012 software then this competition is a real must! You design could win you a $5,000 cash prize, some
amazing gear and the chance toy have your work featured on the next version of 3ds Max Design box cover and splash screen.
Are your Autodesk skills about to payout big?
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Freelance
This week's pick of the very best CP freelance talent
The best current freelancers on the site are right here! Click an image to view their profile.
Did your work make it into this space? No?
If you'd like to get your work in front of over 60,000 readers of the CP newsletter then make sure your profile is up to date and displaying your best work.
Then let Chris know and make sure you keep checking our newsletters to see if you made the grade.
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Recruitment
Pretty vacancies. Are recruitment consultants letting us down?
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The theory's tremendous. The consultant has lots of jobs from which to choose, saving you the stress of job hunting and the employer the randomness of advertising a role. The consultant gets their fee, the post gets filled and you find yourself with the sparkly new gig of your dreams. Only, for some reason, it never seems to work out that way. In fact, all too often, dealing with recruitment consultants is a world of pain. So, what's going wrong? Magnus Shaw explores.
The spanner in the works to you finding your dream job?
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Illustration
Peter Bowen
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Peter Bowen's work has a really contemporary feel and featured some amazing designs he produced for clothing brand, 55DSL. From space age Koala bears to anatomical artwork, Peter's freelance work is at the
forefront and modern illustrative design.
Discover the art of ultra-modern fashion illustration
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Media
Blade Runner, Syd Mead and visual futurism
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The 1982 cyberpunk cinema classic Blade Runner remains one of the most influential science fiction movies of all time.
It was Syd Mead, a "visual futurist" and concept artist who designed the film's dystopian look and feel and, back in the 80’s, his work on the movie had a lasting effect on adlands creative people.
Step back in time to leap into the future
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Media
Showreel of the month
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With more and more amazing showreels being uploaded onto Creativepool we felt those extra special video portfolios deserved a mention of their own. This new newsletter feature focuses on the amazing work of
Miles Bellas. From Titanic to Harry Potter, Miles is a bonafide Hollywood visual effects artist.
Enjoy the show
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Media
Kinsale Awards 2011 - The Results!
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Described as "the glastonbury of awards shows". The winners of the 2011 Kinsale Awards, announed on the 12th September, highlight the very best in the key creative fields including design, digital, media and
print.
From Rice Krispie packaging to a Kung Fu kicking Ricky Gervais, check out all the award winners here.
Uncover the award-winning gems of the media world
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Technology
Stay healthy. Get a tattoo.
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These tattoos aren't ordinary tattoos. They're electronic tattoos and they could revolutionise medical examinations.These ultra-thin postage stamp-sized electronic systems can read the body’s vital signs, replacing the sometimes uncomfortable rigid medical electrodes and monitors which are surgically glued to one’s skin – the ones which mean you have to shave in places you really didn’t want to shave. And they can look quite pretty, too.
Click here to take a closer look under the needle:
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Digital
Blog of the month - Designwoop
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Designwoop is an immaculately kept web design and development blog by David Martin from Kent. Covering all the latest aesthetic trends, from fonts to background designs, David's blog is an invaluable resource for
any web designer out there.
Give your site the expert makeover.
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Digital
2D and 3D artists battle to the death
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The deathmatch returns! Last newsletter we asked you to decide who would survive between a front end developer and a back end developer. With 50% of the votes each they're either both dead or hanging on by the
skin of their teeth. We'll leave it to you to decide. This week, the power is yours once again to determine the fates of a 2D artist and a 3D artist as they lock horns... or keypads, who knows.
Let battle commence
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Digital
The Ultimate 3D experience
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A week or so ago we posed a question on our facebook page that got you clicking away to vote. We are taking the debate onto the site and asking you 'What is the best 3d computer graphics software out there
at the moment?'. Does Maya float your boat or is Blender all you could ever need from a 3D tool? Or do you have a hidden piece of software that hardly anyone knows of?
Fight for your software
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Fashion
Vivienne Westwood at London Fashion Week 2011
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London Fashion Week has become a globally renowned showcase for the next season's trends from the biggest wigs in the world of fashion since it first began in 1984. 27 years on I got my first taste of the
catwalk atmosphere when I went to watch the Vivienne Westwood Spring Summer 2012 Red Label Collection. In 20 glorious minutes it was all over in a flash of backcombed barnets and gliding skinny frames, you
can read all about it here...
Catch the fashion icon here
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Fashion
I’m not with stupid. I am stupid.
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As many of you will know Topman has recently got itself in a bit of trouble with some new T-shirt designs featuring some rather questionable slogans. But given that the emotional responses these novelty slogan
T-shirts usually conjure up range from boredom to disdain, the topman T-shirt debacle isn’t really a fall from grace for the world of ‘edgy’ slogan shirts at all. Rather, just another
example to add to the list of why provocative slogan shirt design is one of the less needed contributors to the area of T-shirt design as a whole.
Will slogan shirts ever be last season?
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5 things we like - photography apps, the blog importing site, an artists marketplace and more!
Got some examples of sites that you can't do without? Something useful or just damn cool! Then send it through to Chris
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