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People often assume creativity is inherent and that you are ‘born creative’. However, Cavell Ord-Shrimpton, Head of the School of Design at Arden University would disagree. Touching on how the creative mind is built upon confidence,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Armadillo is an independent CRM agency that combines data, insight, and strategy with talent, personality, and craft to deliver fantastic work and unrivalled ROI for global brands such as McDonald’s, Carnival UK and Disney. This week, we spoke...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There has been much focus on attention in the digital ad industry in the past few years, ever since advertisers realised that viewability wasn’t up to scratch as a metric. While the preoccupation with attention has definitely helped to drive an...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
What exactly are the benefits of new technology to the creative team? Productivity, workflows, defined processes - not necessarily something we would automatically associate with creativity. Yet, for Darren Evans, Design Director at The Engine Room...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Over the last week or so we have seen the return of the London Design Festival for its 20th Anniversary. Amongst some visually stunning designs and installations, were some critical and important messages. It was not only inspirational, it was...
Posted by: Creative Bears Ltd.
As more mainstream agencies have been putting out campaigns for non-health brands, Guy Swimer, ECD at McCann Health London, ponders the creative world of healthcare. He discusses how the creative and competitive bar in healthcare is being raised and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Brand storytelling expert Dr SMA Moin is an interdisciplinary researcher exploring how our imagination and creativity drive innovation. Before moving into academia, Dr Moin worked in industries ranging from the military and financial services to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The creative industries ‘most’ awards celebrates its lucky seventh edition this year. And what a year it’s been, with the new work from home environment brining with it a disruption and uncertainty that couldn’t be overstated....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As a special offer to our Creativepool followers we are offering the first 50 people that email us directly on [email protected] a discount code that reduces the full delagate pass from £450pp to £150pp. This years line up of speakers on...
Posted by: Creative Circle, Creative Foundation & The UK Creative Festival
Back in April, the V&A Museum launched a campaign created by adam&eveDDB to champion the belief that creativity is what makes us human. The campaign promoted the V&A’s permanent collection and encouraged the public to explore the abundance of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How often have you found yourself being briefed ‘we want an attention-grabbing ad’? Clearly, advertisers want to catch the consumer’s attention, but surely they want to do more than just grab it? Just because an ad is seen, it...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Data is everywhere. Indeed, we are currently living through the golden age of data where information is more valuable than… well… gold. But here at Creativepool, we are, above all else, creatives. We operate with the right sides of our...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
What do you see when you look at the image above? The face of the most hated man in the world? Or a subtle protest against censorship? Maybe both. Of all the dirty tricks currently being pulled by Adolf Putin, the blatant and violent censorship of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
After working in the corporate world for a few years, Virgile Loisance saw how difficult it was to engage employees around different themes. So, he started Emeraude Escape to bring a little joy into the corporate world and gamify company...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When news broke yesterday of Microsoft’s staggering bid to buy Activision Blizzard for a shade over £50 billion, three thoughts immediately ran through my head. Awesome, more games for me to enjoy on Game Pass. Wait a minute, isn’t...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The automation of specific functions has been met with two dominant barriers: one being the perception that only humans can do ‘creative’ tasks, and the other is the fear of humans being replaced by machines in a cost-saving exercise. If...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In geological terms, time moves rather slowly. For the first 4 billion years, life on Earth evolved at a subdued, glacial pace. Until, during a relatively short period of accelerated development about 500 million years ago, an unparalleled variety of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The one between creativity and mental health is a love/hate relationship. On the one hand, you have the one thing that makes you happy and drives you forward - on the other hand, as a creative professional, your creativity is a double-edged sword....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Annual 2021 winners have been revealed over summer, with some of the most exciting companies in the history of Creativepool. With stunning Gold and Silver awards won in 2020, it was not the first time that ITV Creative entered the competition,...
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Giacomo Leopardi was an Italian philosopher, poet, writer and philologist from the early Nineteenth Century. His poetry is as evocative as it is tangible, imbued with the pessimism and existential dread of its author. Leopardi is one of the most...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Ben Mottershead is the Founder and Creative Director of design agency Studio BND. Ben's agency works with brands, companies and platforms to help them humanise their audience, harnessing the power of communication to deliver standout creative on a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
To date, discussions about the ‘cookieless future’ have mostly looked at the issue from a technology and data perspective. The decision by the world’s major web browsers to no longer support third-party cookies - including...
Posted by: Dentsu Creative UK
Many decades ago, Bill Bernbach said: “It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed, to take over our competitors.” In 2016, the World Economic Forum placed creativity as one of the top three skills...
Posted by: Andreas Krasser
"There is nothing new under the sun." This ancient expression from the Book of Ecclesiastes made it through to us to this day, and it is especially relevant to the world of creativity: there isn't really anything new and original, just remakes and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Production and creative content agency Junction Eleven is a master of simplicity and creativity. The team's approach to creative production is a pleasant breeze of fresh air in an industry much too focused on growth at all costs - a beacon of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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 Editorial
Creative Partner at BBD Perfect Storm Cory Eisentraut loves social projects. Work and cases in which communities and fans interact straight with the brands, building meaningful moments and connections that are meant to leave a lasting impression...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With ‘distance’ becoming the defining word of the COVID era, creative agencies had to find new ways of connecting - with clients and each other - and many turned to the gift that is social media to stay in touch. But how saturated has...
Posted by: Red Setter
How can creatives change the world? We are just about coming out of a society-shattering pandemic, one that brought a cataclysmic series of changes into our daily habits. With the gap between consumers and brands now shrinking by the day, the...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Despite being a relatively young brand, Ace & Tate has an incredibly strong and established identity which shines through each and every aspect of the brand. Currently operating in 10 markets with over 70 stores, the eye-wear brand balances...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Karen Burbano tries to find inspiration everywhere around her, especially in the stories of other successful graphic designers and artists from all around the world. A talented art director and designer, Karen has been living in London since 2015,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Whoever has been in the industry for a long time knows that there is no fixed way to perform tasks or achieve effective results. The story and creative process of Motion Graphics Designer Jonathan Chen demonstrate that quite well. No matter the kind...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Martha Markovsky isn't one to stay put. Though she only claims to be a Senior Art Director on her Creativepool profile, the truth is that Martha is so much more and has so many interests ranging across a number of sectors in the creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
If there is one kind of creative professionals out there who could talk endlessly about flow, that is the pros in production. Filmmakers like David Cerqueiro focus entire careers about the beauty of flowing images, and that's what makes their style...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Sure, technology and digital have revolutionised the industry in thousands of positive ways. But according to Maciek Michalski, they have also taken away a bit of the human element that makes the creative industries so special. Maciek, founder of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It takes guts to find the courage to start from scratch. It can go either way. Too many have fallen under the weight of poor planning, but those who have succeeded give us hope that we can do the same. Cheddar Creative is a prime example of that. In...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial