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There are few creative directors in recent history as revered and beloved as Studio Ghibli mastermind Hayao Miyazaki. His name alone conjures dazzling visions of dream-logic wonder and colourful melancholy. He is, to all intents and purposes, the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Susannah Morgan, Deputy Managing Director at PR agency, Energy PR, discusses how Lizzo’s recent lawsuit and surrounding controversy is a sobering reminder to brands not to undermine the reason their audience loves them. Lizzo’s recent...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Establishing a team in New York has been an eye-opening experience in comparative hiring cultures for Manchester-based design recruitment agency Craft. Here, Tommy Castleman, Associate Director at Craft, shares insights and best practices from design...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Super Bowl: it’s the annual advertising extravaganza where 30-second slots costing $7m (that’s $233k a second) and audiences top over 200m (or two-thirds of the entire US population). Whilst the Kansas City Chiefs were victorious this...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
David Bowie was a true renaissance man - a musician, actor, writer, artist, producer and more. His creative influence resonates as much today as it did when he was ‘Ziggy Stardust’. How Bowie approached his creative life, his influences...
Posted by: Red Setter
For years now, Netflix has enjoyed a (largely) uncontested pride of place as far as streaming platforms are concerned. But the crown is slipping. While Netflix was the first mainstream platform to offer up online streaming and access to top-quality...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The easiest way to impress the Gaviscon brand? Show that you can 'get' them and what they do. For years positioned as leaders in the UK health sector, Gaviscon still has plenty of opportunities to pursue more growth and it won't be afraid of doing so...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Creative block, writer’s block, designer’s block - these nasty mental barriers are way too common in our work life as creatives and often hinder us from completing a project with the peace of mind we desire. If you’ve been a...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The Annual 2021 winners have been revealed, with some of the most exciting professionals in the history of Creativepool. Who are these amazing people and why do they represent the best of the best in the realm of creativity? Rob Luckins is one of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The future is inclusive. Anyone denying that is either a bigot or something else that rhymes with the word. Every year we see brands from everywhere in the industry embrace the Pride rainbow in more or less cheesy ways - but there is still so much...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We heard a great deal of talks about mental health, work-life balance and authenticity during the past year, and the push to remote work is certain to leave a long-lasting mark in the workforce - creative industry or otherwise. What was once...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Last year was one of change for many players in the creative industries. From brands to agencies and creative services providers, the entire creative sector was forced to adapt or die, embracing new technologies and adopting solutions to ensure...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
It would be hard to define the AstraZeneca rollout anything other than a small disaster. The pharmaceutical company that was deemed the saviour from the all-mighty Covid blight is now going through a substantial PR crisis, with fake news popping up...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
People love coming together for a number of reasons, and more than anything else. It is one of the many things that this global crisis has taught us - and a positive lesson, for once. There is nothing like a worldwide illness to make people feel...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
As I write, the 2019 election campaign hasn’t even officially got underway, and I’ve already heard the Tories repeating ‘Get Brexit done’ till they’re blue in the face. While it’s not up there with ‘I have...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How often do we walk into a retail space and find the joy and giddy expectation we usually associate with dining out in a restaurant? Not often enough, is probably the answer. There are of course exceptions in the retail sector, but compare flagship...
Posted by: Callum Lumsden
Brexit: the PR disaster that simply won’t go away. Heads have rolled, reputations have been severely tarnished, promises have been made and broken, and all the while the UK public has been left scratching its proverbial head trying to work out...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
- Spoiler Alert - The final episode of HBO’s TV series Chernobyl aired last night. It’s being met with wild applause across the globe and is officially the highest-rated show in HBO history. Chernobyl is a miniseries that documents the...
Posted by: Maksimilian Kallhed
Love Island is back. For the rest of the summer in the UK, our screens will be blessed with the sights of sun-kissed sceneries and troublesome twenty-somethings with enviable physiques. While you can accuse the show of being many things, it’s...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
What do Kanye West and the Queen have in common? Well, by current marketing standards, quite a lot. Both of these cultural icons are wealthy and fall into a complex demographic category: high net worth individuals (HNWI). While marketers tend to...
Posted by: Studio Black Tomato
The closing event in the celebration of 100 years of Advertising - joint Government Communication Services and IPA (England and Scotland) Jan 2018. Chair - James Pais, IPA Scotland Chair & Creative Services Director, Frame Speakers & Panel...
Posted by: Becky
A weekly roundup of the most important news from the advertising awards world Interaction Awards This week, the Interaction Awards announced the winners of its 2017 edition. The Best of Show winner went to “Kinetic” for One Million...
Posted by: TheNextGag
Start-up ventures embrace uncertainty and put the customer first - two skills that digital marketers would do well to mirror. Digital marketing teams and start-ups have more in common than one might think. Both (usually) are understaffed, both need...
Posted by: Andreas Krasser
I was honoured to be asked to share a stage with a rather fabulous line-up: Tamara Ingram, CEO Worldwide, J Walter Thompson, Lauren Connolly, EVP, Executive Creative Director, BBDO New York, Nancy Hill, President and CEO, 4A’s, Kate Stanners,...
Posted by: Becky
Join us at Designer’s Fiesta! The hottest event for anyone into design and digital media is back this September 18th. Now in its 6th year, Designer’s Fiesta is a celebration of design and technology in the world’s creative capital:...
Posted by: Academy Class
This May, jelly London will be launching a series of exciting, interactive animation workshops aimed to inspire, educate and motivate the next generation of producers. Motion Academy will take place at jelly's HQ in the heart of Fitzrovia, giving...
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Following a lengthy process and an awful lot of money, we now know Andy Coulson is guilty of conspiring to intercept voice-mail messages; he is also to be retried on the remaining charges. Rebekah Brooks has been acquitted though - and this is not...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
In the early days of television, a journalist asked the British Prime Minister whether he had anything he wanted to say to the nation. Eden paused for a moment, then said - "No." This exchange has passed into history as an example of a considerably...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
by Magnus Shaw. There's only one thing that surprises me about the Starbucks saga, and it isn't their reluctance to pay tax. As large corporations are only really answerable to shareholders, that is to be expected. No, it's the fact they thought...
Posted by: Creativepool
by John Fountain "Movie making is my business, my profession, it's the way that I support my family. I love the business, I like the people, but I am not what is called a career director. Some men will make a good picture then they will keep trying...
Posted by: Creativepool
How did you first get into the industry? I was born in small village in western ghats of Karnataka India. When I was 10 years old, I used to create collages by cutting out people's photos from newspapers and magazines, mixing and matching them in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Product design and innovation consultancy Morrama in partnership with circular manufacturing company Batch.Works, recently announced the launch of a pair of pretty unique headphones. Kibu headphones have been designed and manufactured so that kids...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Something a little different today! We’re speaking to Chris Trotman, Creative Director at Run for The Hills, about his agency’s work creating the brand identity and interior design for a very unique and very sustainable workplace. COAL...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
GREAT, Pablo, and UNLIMITED recently announced the launch of the latest iteration of the Unicorn Kingdom campaign, with the world’s first ‘Ever-Changing Statue’ - a distinctive, 3D-hologram installation in New York City - to raise...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
GameStop is set to revolutionise the gaming controller market with the launch of CANDY CON, an innovative range of customisable controllers in vibrant colours and patterns. Global branding agency WMH&I, together with its parent company BRANDED,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Carlsberg is launching a new global brand campaign - Do the best things begin with curiosity? Probably - championing that all progress in the world starts with a spark of curiosity. The new campaign from Fold7 follows consumer research that...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial