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When discussing female designers’ contribution to the heavily male-dominated creative industries, there’s a specific focus on the heralded historical figures and individuals known to have paved the way, think Margaret Calvert, who...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This week, we sat down with Ghost Robot and it’s far less confusing than it sounds. CEO and Founder and Zach Mortensen and CCO Mark DePace form the creative partnership at the heart of the Brooklen-based content studio that’s won more...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this week’s Getting to Know, we’re talking to Benedict Buckland, the Creative Director at alan. the B2B marketing agency that's a part of Raconteur. Benedict’s career path is far from a conventional, having started at the tail...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Rosy Tsai is a creative director and graphic designer with more than 10 years' experience working both agency and brand side. Specialising in branding, art direction and typography, her work has spanned countless industries and sectors, including...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
You’ve signed up your business on Creativepool and want to make yourself marketable on the platform by being included in the Creative Services Directory. How does it work exactly and what are the benefits to inclusion? By default, companies...
Posted by: Creativepool
When the pandemic hit, Steve Thone was one of the many creative professionals who were forced to move to a freelance life for a living. His resilience serves as a testimony to the strength of the overall industry - as well as a reminder of his own...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
"We are design." This is the statement by which every member of the team at Greco Design lives. Where products, people, projects and content converge; where ideals connect and ideas come true. A great power. And with a great power... Gustavo Greco...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With Adobe Stock, you’ll always find the perfect asset to make something amazing. Built directly into your favourite Creative Cloud apps, it gives you instant access millions of inspiring images, vectors, videos, templates and 3D assets. Plus,...
Posted by: Adobe
Pam Grossman, Director of Visual Trends at Getty Images, explains how, whilst they have made significant progress, brands still have their work cut out for them if they want to champion true diversity. Pam Grossman Technological advances have...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Dan Koren, Head of ADI at Wix.com, on how AI is creating a new market standard for web design. Currently, artificial intelligence is mainly associated with robotics and self-driving cars. Nonetheless, major advances in AI technology have opened the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced Burger King as the Creative Marketer of the Year 2017. The award will honour Burger King for embracing and encouraging creativity across their brand communications and for the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With the BIMA Awards deadline approaching on 29 April, we thought you should meet our judges, so you can pitch your awards entry perfectly. By entering the BIMA Awards, you can get your work in front of judges from MADE.com, British Airways,...
Posted by: BIMA
They say there’s a novel in all of us… so far I’ve found a dozen short stories and a handful of poems, but I’m working on it. With that in mind, I took a trip to my old haunt Manchester Metropolitan University for the...
Posted by: Michelle Collier
We're very happy to announce that Creativepool have come on board as a media partner for the CR Photography Annual this year. The Creative Review Photography Annual 2015 is now open for entries, accepting work from students and independent...
Posted by: Creative Review
Alan Sartirana, the co-founder of the Filter Creative Group, which announced it would be shutting its doors this summer, recently announced he'd be launching a new full-service global creative agency. Anthemic will specialise in “Strategy,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Many Creativepool readers are already well into their career, but it's clear a fair few are just starting out, possibly still seeking their first gig. If that's you, please stay with me. First, let me say that I recognise your wretched luck. You're...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Written by Nathan Mayatt, Workstation - Specialist creative and digital recruiters since 1989. Keeping ahead of the game by making sure your skills are up-to-date is essential to protect yourself over the next couple of years. The market has become...
Posted by: Creativepool
Written by Toby Thwaites, Director, Purple Consultancy - Specialists in creative recruitment Toby Thwaites and Paul Wood founded Purple in June 2000. Purple provides recruitment consultancy to advertising, design, integrated marketing, publishing,...
Posted by: Creativepool
We all do. Let's face it, that's the honest answer. We're all creatives, therefore we're all big, blinking show-offs, therefore we want our work splashed across a ruddy great DPS in the next available issue of CR. And don't say you don't, because you...
Posted by: Creativepool
It’s ok to not be ok. This is an adage that has become something of a silent anthem in recent years, as more of us start to realise we’re “not the only ones struggling.” In the creative industries particularly, which tends to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Lovehoney, the UK’s “leading destination for sexual happiness,” recently unveiled its latest out-of-home campaign, 'Not a Sex Toy', spotlighting the everyday household objects that people in the UK turn to for sexual pleasure....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“Children are the future” is a pretty hollow statement. That being said, in a global economy where creativity is seldom financially rewarded and it’s easier to make a fortune effectively moving numbers around a spreadsheet than...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Aside from my “day job” as a copywriter/journalist/mercenary, I’ve also worked on and off as a semi professional musician for the last 20 years. At one point around 2008, it seemed as if that career might actually blossom into...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Over the past four years, we have adapted together - and now, our ships are coming in. Comparatively, we may go less often, stay closer to home, and spend more time phoning things in … but new days are growing heavy with promise. In our refined...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
When you're passionate about user interface (UI) design, choosing the right college can feel like a crucial step in crafting your future career. But with so many educational institutions offering programs in UI design and related fields, how do you...
Posted by: Creativepool Partner
After 11 year's of running The Annual we've picked up a few key pointers on how to craft a winning awards entry. Below is the Top 10 tips from ourselves, previous judges and winners on how to create the perfect submission. 1. Tell A Story An...
Posted by: Creativepool
The fusion of sustainability and brand identity has been a subtle but crucial pivot point for a while now, but it doesn’t come naturally for everyone. How, for example, is a company that relies on fossil fuels meant to promote itself as a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Creativity is typically viewed as a softer skill. Consequently, it’s rarely valued in business as much as it ought to be. When budgets are planned and operations strategised, finance and technology are favoured, with creative roles habitually...
Posted by: Dawn Creative
Across this month’s full slate of alluring extracurricular activities, everyone open to new experiences has worlds to gain. Current and future leaders spanning all industries are going all in: Curtains will soon draw back and stages will...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
As creatives, we’re always treading a fine line between letting our creative souls run free and pleasing not only our clients but our audiences. Never is this more apparent than when a piece of creative stirs controversy and we’re forced...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? I’m Chief Creative Officer at Saffron, the global branding and design agency. I oversee the work of our global design team split between London, Madrid and Vienna, making...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Gueriilla Communications is a creative integrated agency that enjoys what they do and like to have fun with the people they work with. The clue is very much in the name. To learn more about the defiantly northern agency, we spoke to James Allen,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Warning: Featured happenings in this edition of our global creative calendar are closer than they appear. Over the past several years, these updates have presented thousands of opportunities to advance knowledge, sharpen skills, immerse within...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
Activism is about standing up for your beliefs in a way that could prove detrimental to your own personal or professional life and it’s a stance that has catalysed some of the most important moments and movements in history. Activism has...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There’s an inbuilt need in all good creatives to strive for perfection. It’s a blessing that can help great design but it can also be a curse. Our house number plaque was always irritatingly tilted. It poked my obsessive brain every time I saw it winking at me in defiance of the existence of spirit levels. It’s fixed now… and furthermore, I moved it to line up with the surrounding brick pattern. The trouble is that fixing this imperfection simply opened up the top slot to the next irritation, holes from old, long gone doorbells… poke, poke, poke… and so the strive for perfection continues. OK, so I am a little on the obsessive side. How do you draw the line on forever creatively tinkering in the never-ending strive for perfection? After all, we all have deadlines to hit. In our studio, we have a super simple process that allows us to tinker with the worst offenders, tick them off the list and move on. We simply ask… “What’s the worst thing you can see?” * Any piece of creative could be amazing but there’s always something at the top of the “worst thing” list. This simple question forces us to spot and sort out the worst offender. That said, the fix might have knock-on effects but these simply get added to the list. Rinse and repeat and bit by bit we get closer to a fully rounded, cohesive concept with diminishing issues. * It's important to note that spotting the worst offenders is a skill that comes with training, and passion and only gets more refined with experience.
Posted by: Andy Gregory