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The winners of the 9th annual AD STARS awards were announced this weekend on Saturday, 27th August, at a gala ceremony held in Busan, South Korea. The winners were chosen from a shortlist of 1,680 finalists from 42 countries. Overall, AD STARS...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Steve Jobs once said, “Innovation is the only way to win.”. It was only a few weeks ago that one of London’s top agencies, Ogilvy & Mather closed the doors to it’s dedicated innovation department, Ogilvy Labs, headed up by...
Posted by: Alexandra Schott
AKQA AKQA this week announced the promotion of Carlos Matias to International Design Director, effective immediately. In his new role, Carlos will oversee the design and branding practices across AKQA’s offices in the US and Europe. He will be...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
British artist David Shrigley and London mayor Sadiq Khan have launched a series of artist-designed posters for the London underground, which declare that the city will not cut itself off from the rest of the world. Featuring artwork by the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
TMW Unlimited TMW Unlimited has poached SapientNitro Associate Creative director Jamie Coggans to work across its award-winning Unilever account. Coggans joins the agency in the same role and will be partnered with Jeff Bowerman, the Creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Cheil London Cheil London has boosted its creative department with two new hires. Nick Craske joins as Creative Director, working across all the agency's accounts, and Georgia Barretta takes up the new role of Creative Director Design. Craske joins...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Andrei Robu is a designer and artist who focuses on experimental typography. With over 15 years of experience as a brand designer, Robu has worked with many big names including Bloomberg, Nike Jordan, Wired, ESPN, The Golden Globes and Visa. His work...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
RKCR/Y&R RKCR/Y&R has completed its senior management triumvirate by promoting Emily James to the role of Chief Strategy Officer. James, who was previously Head of Strategy, joins CEO Jon Sharpe and newly appointed CCO Jonathan Burley on the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The 63rd Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity officially threw open the doors of the Palais des Festivals on Saturday (June 18), delivering its largest ever content programme, alongside some exciting new initiatives for attendees. Lions...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It's that time of year once again when ad land descends upon the south of France in a tsunami of designer shades and branded belt buckles for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, and those who didn't get an invite are left with...
Posted by: Creativepool
Google’s recent proposal, put forward to Silicon Valley's Unicode Consortium (the body that controls and approves universal software standards for letters and other characters), wants to increase the representation of women in emoji and calls...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Deutsch New York Deutsch New York has hired Maggie O. Connors as EVP, Head of Business Development. Her appointment is the final piece of the NY reinvigoration. Earlier this year, the Agency announced Trevor O’Brien joined as Partner, Chief...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
AMVBBDO awarded Creative Agency of The Year and Gold of Golds for Currys PC World's Spare The Act Laptop spot. The winners of the 2016 Creative Circle Awards were announced last night at the Roundhouse. The event was once again hosted by the...
Posted by: Creative Circle, Creative Foundation & The UK Creative Festival
Keep up to date with what’s going on at this year’s Creative Circle Ball Creative Circle has launched an official app ahead of next week’s Creative Circle Ball. Keeping you up to date with everything in the run up to the biggest...
Posted by: Creative Circle, Creative Foundation & The UK Creative Festival
Wavemaker: Specialist content division By far and away the biggest news for MEC this month has been the launch of its specialist content division; MEC Wavemaker, which consolidates MEC’s content strategy, social, partnerships and experiential,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Gunn Report, the global index of creative excellence in advertising, has published its 2015 Book and Showreel of the Year, a round-up and showcase of the world's best advertising performance in the year January to December 2015 based on the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Leo Burnett Leo Burnett has announced the appointment of Chaka Sobhani to the role of Chief Creative Officer. Chaka, who joins Leo Burnett London from Mother, brings with her 20 years of experience from both the Advertising and Broadcast industries,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Start Group Mac Macdonald, the President and Partner at Sid Lee Amsterdam, has been appointed the Group CEO at Start Group, the independent global network formerly known as Start JudgeGill. Based in London, he will focus initially on developing...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Virtual Reality Microsoft shared new details on its ambitious HoloLens device this week, confirming that the battery of its upcoming augmented reality headset will last up to 5.5 hours. During an event in Tel Aviv, Microsoft Technical Evangelist,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BMF - ALDI Whilst it was once seen as the butt of a not particularly amusing joke, thanks to a significant brand refresh over the last few years, ALDI is now known for everyday groceries, special buys and low prices. However ALDI still isn’t...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As a hirsute gentleman, I can't say I'm particularly keen on the current trend for full beards. Not only does it make my own luxurious, though sensible facial hair seem paltry by comparison, but apparently since 2013, forgetting to shave for a month...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Creative Circle, the longest running advertising awards body in the UK, has launched a social media focused campaign called #namethebrand to mark their call for entries for the 2016 awards. The campaign, created in collaboration with Leo Burnett...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
To kick off the week of anticipation for NewsCred’s sell-out #ThinkContent Tour, we had the chance to meet up with one of their speakers, Global Managing Partner of IBM Social, Andrew Grill. His talk on Thursday will cover “The Power...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BBH New York - Playstation The latest edition of the Star Wars Saga, The Force Awakens, won't hit cinema screens until December 17 in the UK, but the marketing frenzy has begun already. Toys have hit already hit store shelves, and the final official...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I know a lot of freelancers and, by contrast with their permanently employed counterparts, I would say almost all of them are happy. I’m a freelancer too, and it would take a lot for me to go back to permanent employment now. And I don’t...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Nissan has kicked off a campaign fuelled by the call of the open road and people who love adventure, bridging the gap between TV, social and real life experiences to highlight the 2015 Nissan Altima as the ultimate road trip companion. The fully...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We can finally reveal the exciting news that Jelly London’s award winning art & motion studio Plenty have had the honour of creating this year’s Good Books film in conjunction with the 150th Anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s...
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Award-winning design consultant Emma Sexton hosts the first ever UK design event for non-designers at Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf on 22nd September 2015. Unleash The Power is the first design event of it’s kind, on a mission to challenge...
Posted by: Hands Down™
For the first time ever, radio and music lovers will be able to download BBC radio programmes in full, to their smartphone or tablet for free, listen to them offline, and keep them for up to 30 days on the BBC iPlayer Radio app. The update, rolling...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
All Together Now Johnny Hornby’s The&Partnership, which includes CHI in the UK, launched a new content agency All Together Now late last year, headed by former NME editor Conor McNicholas. Now, just 7 months later, ATN has hired its first creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
At the Palais des Festivals in Cannes yesterday (Thursday 25 June) as part of this year's Cannes Lions festival, Saatchi & Saatchi celebrated 25 years of the New Directors’ Showcase with a one-off screening of a brand new film. The idea was to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In April of this year, I quit my part-time job of 15 years (almost to the day). Until then, two days a week, I was one of a number of pairs of hands… (ugh! What an ugly way of putting it! But I’m leaving it in because there’s...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
As an official partner of Digital Shoreditch 2015, Creativepool joined the Ogilvy Labs Live day on Thursday 14 May to celebrate the outstanding achievements in the creative, tech and entrepreneurial communities. Held in East London's Shoreditch Town...
Posted by: Creativepool
Virgin Atlantic recently unveiled a rather glorious new Clubhouse lounge at Los Angeles International Airport, which set them back a cool £2.5 million. The project was undertaken alongside the US practice Slade Architecture, with local and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Hatred exists in many shapes and forms, but no form of hatred grinds my gears quite like bigotry. In such a supposedly enlightened age, despising another person simply because their beliefs or lifestyle don't align with yours should be completely...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Live from the Advertising Week Europe ITV Stage at Princess Anne Advertising Week Europe has 200+ events including more than 180 seminars and workshops. World-class industry thought leaders take the Advertising Week stage to tackle the industry's...
Posted by: Advertising Week