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Simply Be has launched a bold rallying cry the summer calling for an end to bad fitting fashion. The campaign by integrated creative agency ODD is called “F-it" and sees the brand expanding beyond the perceptions of being a plus-size only...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
THINK! - Drug Drive Paranoia No-one should underestimate the challenge of creating a decent public information film. Selling your audience tasty ice-cream is a walk in the park when compared with the task of changing people's lifestyle choices....
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
It's hard to meet people who find pleasure in little things, nowadays. Freelance film and motion director Benedict Bannister is one of those. Benedict enjoys gardening, exercising, and most of all, he loves taking inspiration from his children for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As a companion piece to my Creative Opinions feature on GDPR, which comes into effect today (May 25th 2018) across the EU, I interviewed a number of influencers on the new law. The General Data Protection Regulation represents the greatest shake up...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This Christmas is set to be one of the biggest ever, as the world returns from a couple of years in lockdown looking to really enjoy the holidays this time around. Some freelancers have been struggling to find work in the last few months of this...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Millennials seem like a complicated generation through and through. They keep rewriting the way our society works and that can be confusing and tough for the people trying to retain Millenials in the office and give them work. Suddenly, cubicles...
Posted by: Liam Smith
Impero - The Gin Hub The Gin Hub has appointed Impero to launch its newest product - Beefeater Pink. The campaign first launched in Spain (the world’s 2nd largest market for gin) and will roll out to 12 additional markets over the summer....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We are in November. That much is clear. A bit more obscure is where the last few years have been, and how we reached the end of 2021 so quickly. We all deserve some time to wind down while we savour some delightful Christmas meals. November and...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Grey London - McVities In a new purpose-led campaign created by Grey London, McVitie’s shows how the simple act of sharing a biscuit has the power to bring people together. Using a modern day fable of characters who feel disconnected, the spot...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There have been lots of brands and businesses showing their support for Pride Month, and it’s easy to see why. After all, momentum for the month, which was first inspired by the Stonewall riots of June1969, has grown rapidly in recent years. In...
Posted by: Energy PR
There’s been an ever increasing sense of unease around the industry in the past few weeks, as a number of retailers announced that supplies have been slow to come, and there is a labour and stock shortage in the UK expected to last until...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
How do you establish a collaboration-friendly infrastructure in your team, especially in these corona times? Among the many things the pandemic has done for us, losing team meetings and face-to-face interactions was a hard blow to all of us, and few...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Just like comic books and the recent rise of nerd culture, long gone are the days where gaming was seen as something for kids or only limited to games consoles. The normalisation of gaming on various platforms has increased so much that it was only a...
Posted by: SMACK Agency
Amazon's Giant Flying Drone Warehouses (January) In a story that gained a fair amount of traction on social media over the 2016 festive period for obvious reasons, Amazon filed a patent for gigantic flying warehouses back in January that could house...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
While most of us certainly like to think we’re good listeners, we often keep quiet about our own problems according to recent statistics released by the Samaritans show. The stats reveal that nearly two-thirds of UK citizens believe they’re good...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Here at Ubiquitous we like to talk about icons; we truly believe that the black cab is an icon and we go so far as to say so in our strapline, iconsonicons. But what is it we mean by this? What is it that makes something iconic and therefore worthy...
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Question: if a piece of art can literally be mistaken for rubbish, does that make it rubbish? No, not necessarily '“ but it does raise an interesting and valid question about whether art can ever be called 'bad' (or 'good') and whether it...
Posted by: Creativepool
If you're like me then the caffeine hit of a humble cup of tea or coffee just doesn't quite cut the mustard any more. Millions of us now seem to have left behind these disappointingly weak and antiquated beverages in favour of the ultra high caffeine...
Posted by: Creativepool
There’s an inbuilt need in all good creatives to strive for perfection. It’s a blessing that can help great design but it can also be a curse. Our house number plaque was always irritatingly tilted. It poked my obsessive brain every time I saw it winking at me in defiance of the existence of spirit levels. It’s fixed now… and furthermore, I moved it to line up with the surrounding brick pattern. The trouble is that fixing this imperfection simply opened up the top slot to the next irritation, holes from old, long gone doorbells… poke, poke, poke… and so the strive for perfection continues. OK, so I am a little on the obsessive side. How do you draw the line on forever creatively tinkering in the never-ending strive for perfection? After all, we all have deadlines to hit. In our studio, we have a super simple process that allows us to tinker with the worst offenders, tick them off the list and move on. We simply ask… “What’s the worst thing you can see?” * Any piece of creative could be amazing but there’s always something at the top of the “worst thing” list. This simple question forces us to spot and sort out the worst offender. That said, the fix might have knock-on effects but these simply get added to the list. Rinse and repeat and bit by bit we get closer to a fully rounded, cohesive concept with diminishing issues. * It's important to note that spotting the worst offenders is a skill that comes with training, and passion and only gets more refined with experience.
Posted by: Andy Gregory
To an extent, the creative industries have always dealt in smoke and mirrors. Obfuscation is, after all, part of what makes the whole thing so exciting. We live, however, in a world that increasingly values transparency, particularly given the age of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Social doesn't stand still - it’s consistently reinventing itself, shifting and growing to shape itself around trends, cultures, and moments in ‘real-time’. It’s this always-evolving dynamic state that sets it apart from any...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Dare I say, “From the beginning of time,” we’ve told, been told, and spun stories of “us and them.” For the most part, even at their most innocuous, those stories imply “versus.” These are the stories of good...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? I seem to have developed an eclectic skillset, and I’ve been switching back and fore between images and words my whole adult life. At 18 I chose words, bailing out of a foundation course in Art and Design for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Everyone’s (us included) favourite buzzword: innovation. Even the most iconic luxury brands can get it wrong. Whether it’s too safe or trend-chasing, thoughtless innovation can devalue a brand to the point of no return. Ensure that...
Posted by: Matter Of Form
In fashion, money talks. Indeed, there is literally millions to be made if you know the right people or are somebody’s son or daughter. But for the rest of us starting out in a fashion career from the very bottom with no real guidelines to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
What is a brand? It’s far more than just a colour scheme and a few catchy phrases. Indeed, it’s more suitable to think of a brand as an identity - it’s what the company stands for, what it hopes to achieve and how it wants to be...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Consumers want to engage with brands that share their values. They want to be shown that a company cares about the world and the cultural movements that shape lives. But what is it that makes your brand culturally relevant? Andy Kirk, Design Strategy...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For advertising and creative professionals, 2020 was the year that changed everything. The ecommerce boom, driven largely by Covid-19, forced an unprecedented growth in demand for online retail. And with physical shopping unlikely to ever return to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Virtually every advertiser and marketer working with online campaigns is affected by ad fraud, in one form or another. And yet, most advertisers will think that ad fraud does not affect them at all. There are a number of dangerous misconceptions...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s been a year of great recovery for the creative industries, but still not quite one in which everything was as opened up as we hoped. With so many creative professionals left at home with their own imagination, you can bet that the most...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
We’re certainly not short of new trends in creativity as we approach the new year. But now more than ever, as the world turns more sustainable by the minute, packaging is here to impress, innovate and surprise both end consumers and...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
You may have heard some horror stories from around the industry about bad client-freelancer relationships and how disastrous they were for both parties. Clients paying late or not paying at all, sending back work which they’d previously signed...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
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
No matter your field of expertise, unless you have been living under a rock for the past few years, you’ll have noticed that purpose is on the rise. The industry has never been more in love with purpose and storytelling - quite literally...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The best graphic designers inhabit that space between the creative and the business-minded; the tangible and the intangible. It would be quite easy (and reductive) to simply take the phrase literally and describe a graphic designer simply as...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The future of work is hybrid - if you’ve been around the Creativepool Magazine for long enough, you’ve read this many times from me now. While remote work is definitely here to stay, there is still a significant percentage of the...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
