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After graduating, Matthew Town’s portrait work was published in the British Journal of Photography, The Guardian and exhibited in Daniel Cooney’s emerging artist exhibition in New York. Impresive. But slowly Matthew's interest was turning...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Arla unveiled a colourful new TV this week ad as part of a new £7 million campaign to launch Arla Best of Both (BOB); the UK’s first fat-free skimmed milk that aims to match the taste of semi-skimmed. BOB is packaged with a distinctive...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
To create a brand for a new building is to take on one of the most challenging projects in the industry. Once the brick dust has settled and the scaffolding rolled away, there's a need to create an identity and personality for a new development....
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If there's one thing you will learn from all of these Member Spotlights of ours, it is that ambition can get you anywhere. No matter where you are coming from, or where you want to go. This was the case of Corry Raymond. Born and raised in a seaside...
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OK, that headline might come across as a little bit clickbaity, but it's a pretty shocking statement that is not only true, but indicative of the way celebrity culture has managed to integrate itself within the advertising industry. Matthew...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Many in adland shuddered at the idea of former romantic comedy stooge turned genuine Hollywood megastar Matthew McConaughey being named as Creative Director for the Wild Turkey Whisky brand. And with good reason. It's a move obviously made more for...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Until this morning, I honestly had no idea that Colonel Sanders didn’t create the now globally ubiquitous KFC brand until he was 65 years old. That’s pretty bloody inspiring if you ask me. My dad’s 63 and his idea of a colossal...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Is there anything Richard Branson can't do? Well, besides affordable space flight (too soon?) and soft drinks (anyone who remembers Virgin Cola no doubt still has nightmares about it) of course? It would appear not, as the billionaire Virgin tycoon...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
‘Have you ever noticed how, in Hollywood movies, all the villains are played by Brits?’ asks a dinner-jacketed Sir Ben Kingsley in the commercial for the new Jaguar F-Type Coupe. Entitled ‘Rendezvous’ and aired at the Super...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
For someone who now has one of his pictures hanging on a wall in the White House, thanks to a much publicised Cameron/Obama gift exchange, Ben Eine appears remarkably unphased by being catapulted into the limelight '“ even though the mass media...
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Until quite recently, Matthew McConaughey was seem as more of a punchline than a legitimate actor. A series of poor career decisions led to the formerly well-regarded actor being side-lined as a slack-jawed, indifferent rom-com schlub to act as the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The world inbetween copyright and 'copyleft' is the focus of Matthew Plummer-Fernandez’s exploration in his first solo show; Hard Copy at NOME, Berlin. Fascinated by the resilience of pop-icon shapes; Plummer-Fernandez has taken iconic images...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
- View Matthew's Creativepool profile here Facebook: facebook.com/artsurge Twitter: @Pingsweetie "After graduating in Fine Art Painting, I retrained as a graphic designer and developed computer aided design skills. I am passionate about illustration,...
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How did you first get into the industry? It has been a really long road. I always wanted to be a graphic designer, ever since I was little. My studies were taking me in this direction, but life has a way of changing your direction. I was an IT...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
You may remember, in the early days of the internet, some very smart cookies enriched themselves considerably by buying up the domain names they figured would be in demand, just as soon as major corporations woke up to the new technology. Smart...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Sibling Rivalry Award-winning production company Sibling Rivalry has bolstered its directorial roster by signing on renowned commercial, documentary and short narrative filmmaker, Sandra Winther. With a style that melds documentary and narrative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“You can’t fast forward design” a quote from Matthew Parkes, Global Marketing Director at jones knowles ritchie. Cannes Lions is kicking off with a bang and the team at Creativepool is excited to announce the launch of the first...
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The Dentsu Aegis Network's Carat agency has officially snatched the £550 million UK Government buying account from GroupM, the media-buying division of WPP, after GroupM filed a claim at the high court in London to challenge the decision. The...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
DesignStudio - UEFA Champions League DesignStudio has given the UEFA Champions League a new brand identity centred around a star-shaped ball, which looks to “illuminate spectacular moments” in football. The UEFA Champions League is an...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Digital marketing firm Quantcast hosted a rather ambitious (and some might say out-of-this-world) event on Wednesday (October 21) this week, which brought together some of the top innovators in the creative industries (growing brands, leading...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Facebook commenced this week’s IAB UK Digital Upfronts on Monday morning (October 19) with a session packed full of insights about today’s mobile world. Ed Couchman, Facebook’s UK head of agency relations kicked-off proceedings at...
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McCann New York McCann New York announced this week that Caprice Yu and Grant Smith have joined the agency as Executive Creative Directors. “We are truly excited to welcome Grant and Caprice,” said Eric Silver, CCO of McCann North...
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How do you make an ad for a demographic that quite famously hates ads? Looking at what Grey London did for Pringles might set you off on the right track. If you've been around Twitch at all lately, you will have seen the new zombie sensation Frank...
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Pentagram - The Old Vic Theatre Pentagram partner Harry Pearce has designed a new visual identity for The Old Vic Theatre in London, basing the design on its pub-like moniker rather than its original name, The Royal Victoria Theatre. Designed to be...
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It gives us great pleasure to announce this year’s Creativepool Annual winners, revealed last night at the Annual Awards Ceremony at Protein Studios. A total of 251 winners were crowned between both the creative Annual categories and the Award...
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Elon Musk - ask one person and he’s only a few steps removed from a “real life Bond villain” but ask somebody else and he’s basically the saviour of free speech. Indeed, according to market research platform Appinio, 2 in 5...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Paddy Power has announced that its controversial ‘sash’ sponsorship of Huddersfield Town was just a prank and revealed the actual shirt the team will wear this season. Earlier this week, the bookie unveiled a shirt featuring oversized...
Posted by: Ryan Watson
Isny is a small German town in a region called Allgäu in Bavaria. It’s a medieval town with colourful parapets set against a stunning mountainous backdrop. In the early 1980s the visual identity for the town was designed by Otl Aicher, but...
Posted by: Stephen ONeill
Just So - DFS DFS UK - Ambassador Adam Peaty DFS launched the second phase of its Rio 2016 Olympic sponsorship campaign this week with profiles of three of Great Britain’s Olympic medal-winning hopefuls; cyclist Laura Trott, swimmer Adam...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
‘Strong roots. Endless possibilities’ is the central message of Woodruff Sweitzer’s award-winning broadcast campaign for Boone County National Bank (BCNB). Bazillion Pictures’ fresh style and compelling visual storytelling...
Posted by: Bazillion Pictures
Matthew Bushby, Head of Customer Success at Scibids UK, on why agencies should champion the ‘AI heroes’ within their business. Matthew argues that those who can act like a ‘dog with a bone’ and scale these internal obstacles...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Hydrafacial, a category-creating brand at the intersection of beauty and aesthetics, partnered with creative agency Free the Birds to refresh its visual identity and brand architecture to support its explosive global growth plans. Beloved by its...
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The written word is a funny thing. It’s something `almost all of us have a basic understanding of and use every day to reply to emails, forward distracting memes to our co-workers and message our significant others about dinner. But how often...
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After two years of lockdowns and entering an unprecedented cost of living crisis, it’s time to make suicide prevention a national priority again, to make the conversation inescapable, ensure action, and prevent suicide. “The Last...
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Until recently alcohol-free beer was seen as something of a joke and there was a definite and unnecessary stigma attached to it. But over the last few years there’s been a genuine concerted effort towards creating decent alcohol-free beers that...
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Great Guns Great Guns has welcomed directing team Kronck to its roster, where they will be represented throughout the US. Jessica Benzing and Maximilian Gerlach, the German duo behind Kronck, began their careers while both studying production and...
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