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For all its trials, hardships, wars and woes, 2013 still managed to inject some wonderful stuff into our busy, pressured lives. So, with 2014 snapping at our heels, this would be an appropriate moment to celebrate the things which enhanced the human...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Since a young age, São Paulo-born artist Dalton Ghetti had a knack for tools. For his 9th Birthday, Ghetti received a set of metal tools for children. This is what he believes began his love of carving and hobby for carpentry. At 24, he moved to...
Posted by: Creativepool
Earlier this month, there was widespread consternation and outrage that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is going to exclude the 'crafts' as a category under the banner of 'creative industries'. Having done some work on a...
Posted by: Creativepool
When and why did you join? I joined JWT London in January 2009 after spending the previous six months as a freelancer. My opportunity came about through a digital resource gap within the Shell team. What do you actually do? My time is split 50/50...
Posted by: Creativepool
Stuart Wilson Creative Director, JWT London... Website: jwt.co.uk Twitter: @JWT_London Facebook: facebook.com/JWT-London Twitter: @stuwilson JWT London is an integrated creative agency of international imagination. Our heritage of innovation, our...
Posted by: Creativepool Website: pillarboxpost.com When did you start out blogging? I started blogging just over 3 years ago in the summer of 2009...which happened to be about 3 years after I resolved to start a blog! How did you choose your blog name? One of the (many)...
Posted by: Creativepool - View Tracey's Creativepool profile here Website: traceylong.co.uk "Hi, I’m Tracey, a soon to be enormously wealthy and world famous illustrator. " How long have you been a Freelancer for? Just over two years, give or take a lifetime. Describe...
Posted by: Creativepool "The Chase is a creative consultancy, based in London, Manchester and Preston. We work mainly in branding but have done everything from a football stadium design to stamps. Our strength is the variety or work we produce. It's kept us in the top five...
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"Very Own Studio is a small independent practice specialising in identity and graphic design for print and screen. It was formed by Mark Ferguson in 2009 in Manchester but is currently based in sunny Brighton." What do you actually do? I'm a...
Posted by: Creativepool
- View Dave's Creativepool profile. ‘I am an award-winning music video director and Animator. Before moving into freelance, I had setup and ran 2 creative business, and a record label. I design like an it's a disease and I hate, HATE...
Posted by: Creativepool
by John Fountain. Here's some articles, videos and websites worthy of further exploration... Kirby Ferguson. Embracing the remix. Kirby Ferguson is a film-maker from New York. He has a point of view that I guess many of us believe there is some...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Printed.com. Every small business strives to win bigger and bigger clients who have more money to spend, but if you're going to to do this you need to pitch your services in a way that appeals to them and gives them confidence that you can...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Creativepool. Brad Pitt already has a taste for the creative industry with his collaborative architecture work with the likes of Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas. Gehry was enlisted as one of the designers in his Make It Right Foundation, in an...
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by Ashley Morrison. There are many reasons why, according to a recent poll by Forbes, 74% of people would consider changing jobs. One would like to think that this is just because they want to move onwards and upwards in pursuit of an ever-more...
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 Nick is a writer for branding and design. His work has won two Yellow Pencils in D&AD Writing for Design and appeared in the annual four more times. Personal projects include Corpoetics, a collection of poems made by rearranging corporate copy, and...
Posted by: Creativepool
Unless you're getting on a bit, you probably haven't given much thought to what sort of coffin you'd like to be buried in when the time comes. There's a funeral director in Golders Green that displays one in his window with a picture of a Spitfire...
Posted by: Creativepool
Today we live in a copy and paste world where it's acceptable to take someone else's idea and use it for our own benefit. Some say it's not plagiarism, it's a homage, a way of paying respect to the greats who came before. Others say it's just lazy....
Posted by: Creativepool London Design Festival 2010 has been something of a triumph for writers collective 26. Not content with dreaming up one of the more unusual LDF events in 26 Treasures, they've also teamed up with IVCA film makers to create a series of 26 second...
Posted by: Creativepool
Do you remember the SodaStream? If you were a child back in the '80s, you were either the envy of your friends if you had one or else you were looking longingly at it in your friend's house and pestering your parents for one. Well, it's back...
Posted by: Creativepool
This week, we spoke to longtime Creativepool friend and SomeOne Founder Simon Manchipp, to discuss his agency’s visual identity for a bold new regenerative programme in London. What was the brief? Create a new comprehensive visual and verbal...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As one of the world’s most luxurious car brands unveils a refreshed logo, our Client Relationship Director, Paul, looks at why many in the automotive industry are opting for a pared-back identity. Lamborghini. A brand that’s synonymous with...
Posted by: Better
AI might be a digital beast but it’s not without its carbon footprint. By its very nature, it’s a technology that requires large amounts of processing power and power requires fuel. The environmental cost of AI use in the creative...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In today's digital world, where market competition intensifies every minute, social media marketing is a mandatory tool for attracting and retaining customers. Especially for small and medium-sized enterprises with limited resources, effective use of...
Posted by: Taker | Maker
Overcoming Confirmation Bias To Improve Business Outcomes Of all the cognitive biases that affect business, confirmation bias might be the most insidious. It’s a challenge for many companies that can negatively impact performance. Smart...
Posted by: Lysle Wickersham
In a city where the Underground map is as iconic as Big Ben, any change to the transport network is bound to raise eyebrows. The recent rebranding of the London Overground’s ‘Orange Line’ is no exception. As the old familiar orange...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It should go without saying that the creative industries have the potential and the responsibility to reflect and celebrate the diversity of society, and to challenge and transform the status quo. However, according to a report by the Creative...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How did you get into the industry? I was living the dream of being an indie filmmaker in New York-in other words, struggling to pay the rent and eating a lot of iffy cheeseburgers-when a friend hooked me up with a gig at a SoHo ad agency....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Transport for London (TfL) with the help of agency of record VCCP London and Wavemaker UK, launched an awareness campaign last year for the huge range of improvements TfL is continuing to make across its network. Some of the many improvements that...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As we all know, the creative industries thrive on the principles of diversity, open expression, and global collaboration. These are not principles even the most ardent supporter of former president Donald Trump would ever align him with and with the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
With Artificial intelligence (AI) and its effect on the creative industries at the forefront of current debates, this article aims to take a step back to approach this complex but increasingly pertinent relationship from an angle that hasn’t...
Posted by: SphereTrax
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? I’m based in Boston, and I generally start my workday rather early, by checking in with our Zappi teams in Europe. We begin each day with a daily virtual stand-up in our...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Lime Creative is a boutique communication agency offering large agency experience, specialising in the luxury lifestyle, with offices in London and Beijing and partners around the world. With a team made up of designers, writers, developers and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Seymourpowell has recently collaborated with renowned Swiss chocolate brand, CAILLER, to completely rebrand its heritage chocolate collection. With a particular focus on premiumisation, the rebrand aims to rejuvenate CAILLER’S product range and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Of all the fresh horrors wrought by AI in recent years, few chill the blood quite like the concept of the ‘deepfake’. If the term still means nothing to you then allow me to ruin your day - in essence, it’s the concept of creating...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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