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A guide to 3D modelling and illustration rates, with tips and advice from experienced professionals in the industry 3D artists shape reality to build the products, characters and worlds for all of us to dive into. Be it a commercial artist, a...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
A guide to freelance illustration rates, with tips and advice from experienced professionals in the industry Illustrators are the makers of dreams. By combining art, design and creative skills, illustrators work to produce original images for a wide...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
If one were to ask how exactly André Felix got to become the Global Creative Director of WhatsApp, the man would probably say that it had nothing to do with himself. We beg to differ. Grown up in a Brazilian favela, André moved to the US...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It's no secret that the industry has seen several mass redundancies being made in the past six months. Add that to a delicate balance made of fresh graduates looking for a job, which reach the order of tens of thousands every year, and you have the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We are physically distant, but emotionally closer. It's no secret that the lockdown and the COVID crisis have had a huge impact on agency work. Some agencies have struggled more than others, but we know that the lockdown was quite a heavy and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We are all designers. This is the sentence you will see at the end of this piece, a consideration that many teams fail to realise. Making creative projects requires going through a process. This process can be more or less specialised across the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A conversation with David Shulman, chief experience officer of VMLY&R on how his recent visit to India shaped his opinions on the significance of customer expereince. The often-ignored subject of customer experience is gradually becoming an...
Posted by: David Shulman
Starting your career can be one of the most exciting times of your life. Many graduates have their hearts set on making their name in a global company, with Google, Facebook and Apple all ranking in the top companies that young professionals want to...
Posted by: Forward Role Recruitment
Having a uniform and positive company culture is very important for success. Company culture refers to the overall personality of your brand, including values, missions, goals, behaviours, environment and more. If people don’t buy into your...
Posted by: Liam Smith
One of our interns had to interview me for school so I went ahead and recorded it. Now, the audio is awful and the video cut out half way through the interview, but hey... screw it. Hope this Q&A provides some insight into the basic job description...
Posted by: Kevin Forister
DDB Worldwide Omnicom Group President and CEO John Wren has announced the appointment of Wendy Clark as President and CEO of DDB Worldwide. Clark succeeds Chuck Brymer who will assume the title of Chairman. Both roles are effective immediately....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Ever since Sadiq Khan was elected as the Mayor of London last year, he's appeared, to me at least, to be the one progressive spark in an otherwise almost oppressively right-wing and regressive current regime. He's not perfect, but he's certainly a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Writing an effective job advert to attract the best candidates to your jobs is a very important part of using any job site. A simple rule as you are going through the process is to think about your target audience - ie. think what would you like to...
Posted by: Creativepool
The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission’s recent finding that top law and accounting firms are shunning talented working class applicants in favour of more privileged candidates made me think hard about diversity in my own industry,...
Posted by: Annette King
Eric Yahnker is all about intricate pencil work, pop culture puns and a serious approach to his work. He doesn’t make it easy to dismiss his work as pastiche, mainly because his finger is superbly on the pulse of contemporary society. Whether...
Posted by: Jade French
How much time do you spend looking at a candidate’s CV? I know when I was a recruiter I usually didn’t spend more than ten seconds scanning through and less if I wasn’t totally engaged. A job seeker probably takes the same amount of...
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As the mornings grow darker and colder and the winter chills creep in, the desire to stay in bed wrapped in the duvet for an extra hour gets stronger. Most of us would love the opportunity to change our working patterns to suit our lifestyle better...
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As the footer of this column will tell you, I’m a copywriter. And a blogger. I also dabble in journalism and podcasting. These are all quite enjoyable and satisfying things - at least from time-to-time - and I’m pretty lucky to do them...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Easter, eh? Not as big as Christmas, and yet more substantial than Pancake Day. Still, a very good time to slow down and kick back. Here's what you'll need: some high-quality family members or friends, and small amounts of chocolate crafted to look...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Congratulations you have a job interview! However, have you given much thought to negotiating your salary compensation package if you get a job offer? Are you honing your negotiation skills, in readiness for a job offer? Don’t fall down at the...
Posted by: Source
"We listen, we create, we engage, we transform, we grow." What do you actually do? I am a creative director with over 10 years' experience of running a successful, digital and marketing agency. I'm someone who thrives on the challenge of a new...
Posted by: Creativepool
Source This month’s CP Career comes from Source - a specialist recruitment business, dedicated to the digital, integrated and traditional creative communications industry. They work to support the needs of advertising, marketing and design...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Michael Tomes. Or the alternative heading "Read this and you might just get the job you want". It has been a while since I have written to the candidates on Creativepool other than when I produce the Hot Jobs bulletin each week, and include a...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Magnus Shaw. I work as a copywriter and blogger. I also do something I call consultancy - advising people on their writing, marketing or branding, really. Sometimes, I produce or present radio programmes too. These are all very enjoyable and...
Posted by: Creativepool
Sometimes my day just feels precisely like this ‘50’s(?) game of ‘Domino - Circus’. Which is basically ‘match the pairs you idiot’. Or rather more romantically ‘ce jeu amusera les tout petits et les plus grandes.’ As the languid...
Posted by: Richard
There are so many benefits to the freelance lifestyle; the freedom, the flexibility, and the fact you don’t really have any one to answer to (besides your clients, of course) are all right up there. Ask anybody that’s been freelancing for...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Online sports brand Wiggle is inspiring consumers to enjoy getting active with a dynamic new identity developed by Manchester creative agency LOVE. Already a much-loved retail platform among cycling enthusiasts, Wiggle picked up further momentum...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s so important to make sure that all UX design is accessible to any users that try and gain access to it, but how do you make sure that your design is as accessible as it can be? Design is only going to be useful if it’s accessible...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
I’m a bit OCD, so I have specific pockets for everything: keys, wallet, phone, gloves, notes, tissues. And I think losing things is a bad omen. Which is why the last time I lost my keys I refused to go on holiday the next day. My wife,...
Posted by: Chris Turner
Ida Hay is aSwedish/Norwegian illustrator and visual designer based in British Columbia, Canada who started drawing as soon as she was old enough to hold a pen. She has always been colour sensitive, already as a young child her family noticed her...
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
As designers and developers increasingly build robust, app-like experiences into their websites, it’s no surprise that JavaScript use has proliferated across the web. It’s a client-side language that allows for many of the rich...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
One of the standout events of last year’s COP26 summit was the landmark inclusion of key players in the luxury industry. Key luxury brands committing themselves to the climate crisis and to achieving net zero by 2050. Global powerhouse LVMH...
Posted by: Matter Of Form
Up till now, Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the world of marketing has largely been centred around using algorithms to make decisions or analyse data. Now, however, we are seeing real breakthroughs in AI successfully performing jobs that humans...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Content sharing is now easier than ever before. On social media like Instagram and others, content can be forwarded in a matter of seconds. But who is paying the consequences of this increased convenience and connectivity online? Of the 3 billion...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial