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People use a new year as a fresh start, evaluating the past year with introspection and making goals for a better year ahead. Work-related new year’s resolutions for freelancers and business owners are created in this process. While many...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
While Christmas typically offers a brief break from work, whether that's a day off spent with family and friends or a much-needed vacation, the period leading up to the festive holiday can intensify burnout as workers juggle end-of-year...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
While the world falls apart around us there are still so many creatives fighting the good fight and keeping the furnaces of artistry and design stoked with fresh ideas. But while design might be born from the creative mind, trends are shaped by...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The internet is always evolving. Indeed, it’s thought that around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are added to the internet every day. For reference, a terabyte is 1012 bytes, so that means around 2.5 million terabytes of data. Every day. With...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Earlier this year, Leeds Health and Care Partnership, on behalf of NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board released a health campaign to raise awareness around the illegal practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). The campaign aimed to encourage...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
OK, I’ll admit that I’m far from an authority on design. I know what I like, and I like what I know is probably how I’d sum up my relationship with it. But one thing I have always enjoyed when it comes to how things are presented to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
AI writers - which automate the writing of blog posts, articles and website copy - are one of the most cutting-edge, yet controversial, digital tools increasingly employed by SEO specialists, copywriters, advertisers, bloggers and marketeers...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As we leave November behind at fully embrace the Christmas season, Josh Pearce, Creative Director at Dark Horses, talks us through the festive ads that stood out among the glut of so-so offerings this year. Like looking in the fridge on December...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Last year, consumers spent $8.9billion over the Black Friday weekend while brands advertising budgets surged 168% compared to the rest of November. As consumers and brands gear towards celebrating Black Friday, lesser advertising and product discount...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Natasha Kinaru is a Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer and Editor who got her start in oil paintings and drawings before finding her true calling as a director. Today, we discuss how and why she transitioned from the slow and meditative world of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As the holiday season creeps up on us once more, the country braces itself for another round of Christmas adverts, from the humorous to the heart-wrenching. But which brands have got the festive formula down and have helped cement themselves as...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
timeTo is an organisation that focuses on providing regular training for agencies and employees as well as support for sexual harassment in the workplace. Within the training supplied by timeTo there is emphasis on the intention behind the...
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
Not everyone is perfectly flawless, and neither is every piece of work. Even if the designer, artist, or photographer is a genius, their work will often contain a few sore spots. Indeed, even the supermodels on Instagram and on the billboards we see...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Karen Yeomans is an award-winning freelance photographer on a mission to help women be seen and support the rise of women’s sport. Based in North London, her clients include major names in the sporting sphere like Red Bull, Invictus and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Hannah Gillingham is a UK based freelance digital illustrator and artist. Working with a conceptual approach to illustration, she creates painterly illustrations of her favourite characters from pop culture and design illustrated posters, exploring...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Samsung recently announced the launch of its folding billboard OOH campaign, created by Iris, to drive awareness around the release of its new Galaxy Z Flip4 , and the entire Samsung foldables range. This is the first billboard - used by a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In a rapidly competitive environment, every brand looks to set themselves apart. They want to create an unmistakable image to achieve the highest possible brand recognition among consumers. A branding designer or brand manager is responsible not...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The cruelty of killing fox cubs for sport is highlighted in a TV sports show parody created by Engine Creative in one of their first campaigns under their new House 337 banner. The campaign was conceived for Keep The Ban - a non-profit organisation...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
What is a brand? It’s far more than just a colour scheme and a few catchy phrases. Indeed, it’s more suitable to think of a brand as an identity - it’s what the company stands for, what it hopes to achieve and how it wants to be...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In 2004, a Guardian article highlighted a new, innovative medium that stood out through “the intimacy of voice” paired with “interactivity (…) convenience and portability”. The journalist Ben Hammersley was talking about...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Brand expression agency Taxi Studio is an independent design business based in Bristol that’s home to a collective of global talent - without unnecessary hierarchy or inflated titles. Founded in 2002 by three friends, they have grown to work...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The best graphic designers inhabit that space between the creative and the business-minded; the tangible and the intangible. It would be quite easy (and reductive) to simply take the phrase literally and describe a graphic designer simply as...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
One resource the world is not running short of right now is podcasts. Dip into Spotify and you can currently choose between 5.4 million of them. And yet we’re far from ‘Peak Podcast’, with big brands continuing to invest heavily in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The launch of Apple’s ATT framework has impacted mobile marketers’ access to user-level data. To navigate this change, they need new tactics and mentalities. Drawing inspiration from brand examples, Gal Ekstein, President and GM at AppsFlyer,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This week we’re getting to know former Engine Creative Director and current ECD at The Brooklyn Brothers, Orlando Warner. While he’s only been in his ECD role for a few months, Orlando has already been making waves over at Brooklyn...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Design guru. Master mediator. Highly skilled multitasker and delegator. A good Creative Director is all these things and more. They are the calm head on top of the creative shoulders that bring focus and identity to a company. They are, in essence,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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...
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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
In today’s digital era, it’s more important than ever for businesses to manage their core operations electronically. According to Edward Coram-James, Co-founder and CEO of digital marketing agency, Go Up, this is because of one simple...
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"The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart." This is the mantra by which Ken Gerhardt wields his camera and shapes his vision. A commercial and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We are amazed to find so many extraordinary offerings to showcase in this edition of the Global Creative Calendar. Wherever you are, you will recognize many of the social engagements returning to pop culture’s center stage. While we have...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
Born, raised and educated in Wigan (home of Northern Soul and pies), filmmaker and director Martin Swift has spent the last 14 years or so working in commercials, documentaries, music videos and film/TV titles sequences, so he’s truly seen all...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I’ve been a freelance writer for well over a decade now and have never once felt like a “second best” option. I might have fallen into freelancing, but I did so with open eyes and knew exactly what the drawbacks would be (primarily...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Stumbled on the great meme of this thread’s hero image when I was having a particularly difficult time getting my shit together a while back. Somehow things just kept circling the drain and left me with empty spaces which were proving a bit of a...
Posted by: Richard