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Most brands accept that creativity is a positive thing when it comes to promoting their business. But, too often, they focus only on visual design when developing their creative assets - and tend to view it as just pretty pictures. That narrow...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Now that we’re almost a week into the new year, the trend pieces are coming thick and fast. To gather a more agency-wide perspective of what’s in store for us this year, however, we spoke to one agency specifically to gather their...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For most people, fonts are not something to spend a lot of time considering. Yes, most of us have a perfectly rational hatred for comic sans but aside from that, a font is surely little more than an afterthought for a designer, right? Not at...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Trive is a next generation, multi-asset investment platform that partnered with BrandOpus last year to develop a new brand identity system that will “set it apart from peers and facilitate the company’s vision of attracting investors with...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Al Gillies is a creative that doesn’t try to pigeonhole himself. Indeed, he describes himself not only as a photographer but as a content manager and even radio presenter. His photography work itself is just as eclectic as his skillset....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
People use a new year as a fresh start, evaluating the past year with introspection and making goals for a better year ahead. Work-related new year’s resolutions for freelancers and business owners are created in this process. While many...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Genie - the intelligent matchmaking service for creative industries - launched a campaign last year to encourage employers to be more transparent with their budgets. Led by Genie’s female founders Nicky Badneoch and Bonnie Harold and endorsed...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For many agencies, January is a time of maximising budget spend for the first quarter, but it’s also when planning for the year ahead’s growth takes place in earnest. Smaller agencies often struggle with planning for growth, and a key...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This year’s developments in packaging design reflect a world in flux, still evolving from disruption caused by the Covid pandemic, and becoming increasingly aware of its own vulnerability - and responsibility - in the midst of climate...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Victoria's Secret unveiled its brand refresh earlier this year in a desperate bid to keep administrators at bay...but as we delve deeper into a global downturn - which big retailer will be next to rebrand - and more importantly, will it survive the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas as the nights draw in and snow is on its way. Yet this year, the chill in the air isn’t a nostalgic reminder of Christmas past but a stark realisation that this winter is going to be tough. With...
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
OK, I’ll admit that I’m far from an authority on design. I know what I like, and I like what I know is probably how I’d sum up my relationship with it. But one thing I have always enjoyed when it comes to how things are presented to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Choosing the best ads of the year was once a straightforward process but in the information era, where advertising is so much more than just 30-second TV spots, it’s not quite as simple as taking your ten wittiest short films and putting them...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
An Post, Ireland’s national postal service, launched a magical new creative campaign this year to demonstrates the importance of sending love to your nearest and dearest this Christmas. Taking inspiration from ‘The Wonderful Wizard of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
AI writers - which automate the writing of blog posts, articles and website copy - are one of the most cutting-edge, yet controversial, digital tools increasingly employed by SEO specialists, copywriters, advertisers, bloggers and marketeers...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The media industry has undergone massive changes throughout 2022. The current global recession has seen streaming giants struggle to maintain customer revenue and interest, especially with new streamers such as Paramount Plus, entering the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s been the most competitive Christmas ad season ever. People want a reason to smile, and brands have pulled out all the stops to provide it with a series of feelgood festive ads. Advertising effectiveness company System1 have unveiled their...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Cristina Clementel is a freelance artist and architect, living and working between London and Italy. She grew up with a passion for drawing in a small town in the Italian mountains but moved to Venice to pursue a degree in Architecture. But...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Synoptic Office is an award-winning design consultancy working globally with leading cultural, civic, and business organizations to communicate ideas, build experiences, and cultivate new audiences. Designers Caspar Lam and YuJune Park originally...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Digital Out of Home (DOOH) has made outdoor audiences easier to engage with for brands of all sizes. With a variety of screen sizes, and more campaign flexibility, many brands are taking the plunge for the first time. For those looking to take...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As we leave November behind at fully embrace the Christmas season, Josh Pearce, Creative Director at Dark Horses, talks us through the festive ads that stood out among the glut of so-so offerings this year. Like looking in the fridge on December...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For its Christmas appeal this year, UNICEF enlisted the talents of Banjoman’s Dermot Malone to direct ‘Just A Little’, a moving campaign that takes a fresh look at the gift of giving. The spot centres on Hannah, a child struggling...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Last year, consumers spent $8.9billion over the Black Friday weekend while brands advertising budgets surged 168% compared to the rest of November. As consumers and brands gear towards celebrating Black Friday, lesser advertising and product discount...
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This week we’re getting to know Steph Hollett, head of production at RAPP. Tell us a bit about your role! What is one typical day like? As Head of Production at RAPP based in London, I work across all our clients, from Samsung and PayPal to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Black Friday, one of the year's undeniable major retailing occasions, returns on the 25th of November. This occasion encourages businesses to develop new marketing strategies and make better-informed business decisions to remain competitive and deal...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Natasha Kinaru is a Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer and Editor who got her start in oil paintings and drawings before finding her true calling as a director. Today, we discuss how and why she transitioned from the slow and meditative world of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As the holiday season creeps up on us once more, the country braces itself for another round of Christmas adverts, from the humorous to the heart-wrenching. But which brands have got the festive formula down and have helped cement themselves as...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This is a question those in the creative industry have probably asked themselves in the past few years. Hugo Evans, senior designer at We Are Tilt has a decade-long career spanning branding, print and digital. The arrival of artificial intelligence...
Posted by: We Are Tilt
What exactly are the benefits of new technology to the creative team? Productivity, workflows, defined processes - not necessarily something we would automatically associate with creativity. Yet, for Darren Evans, Design Director at The Engine Room...
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Rowdy Studios is a full-service branding agency based in London and Dublin with over a decade of experience in building bespoke brands. A tight-knit team with an enviable client list, Rowdy is an agency that “blends sound strategy with loud...
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Not everyone is perfectly flawless, and neither is every piece of work. Even if the designer, artist, or photographer is a genius, their work will often contain a few sore spots. Indeed, even the supermodels on Instagram and on the billboards we see...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
TikTok is one of today’s fastest growing apps. It dominates the social media sphere. For anyone over the age of 30 (just kidding), it’s an innovative and free-to-use app which lets users produce bite-sized content. Its latest genius...
Posted by: BrandOpus
Following the one year anniversary of Facebook's rebrand to Meta, Thomas Walters, Founder and CEO of leading global creative influencer marketing agency, Billion Dollar Boy, reflects on the year past. Thomas explores how the metaverse has evolved,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The profession of motion graphics design is relatively new on the design front. Technology-enabled design professions are growing. And there are so many different types of designers out there, it’s tricky to keep them all straight! There are...
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Karen Yeomans is an award-winning freelance photographer on a mission to help women be seen and support the rise of women’s sport. Based in North London, her clients include major names in the sporting sphere like Red Bull, Invictus and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial