ad: Annual 2024 Now Open For Entries!

Displaying 361 - 396 of 4242 results

*

Inspiration

Putting the POP in pop culture with Hannah Gillingham | #MemberSpotlight

Hannah Gillingham is a UK based freelance digital illustrator and artist. Working with a conceptual approach to illustration, she creates painterly illustrations of her favourite characters from pop culture and design illustrated posters, exploring...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Industry

Under the microscope: Lessons learned from iconic British ads

TV is a huge part of everyday life, with iconic British soaps like Coronation Street and Eastenders still going strong today. Alongside these shows, certain British adverts have made a lasting impression on viewers. We all have memories of particular...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Workshop

Setting fire to brand expectations with Firehaus | #CompanySpotlight

Scaling is hard for creative teams full of right brain thinkers with little in the way of practical business sense. That’s why we need companies like Firehaus. Based in the centre of Bristol, Firehaus is a brand consultancy specialising in...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Industry

Can Twitter clean up its act in the Elon Musk era?

The deal to acquire Twitter is done. Elon Musk has now completed his $44bn takeover of the social media company. But while many of us have been distracted by the ‘will he, won’t he?’ headlines over recent months, perhaps what we...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Inspiration

Bowie: what can creatives learn from Moonage Daydream?

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
*

Inspiration

Samsung and the world’s first folding billboard | #BehindTheIdea

Samsung recently announced the launch of its folding billboard OOH campaign, created by Iris, to drive awareness around the release of its new Galaxy Z Flip4 , and the entire Samsung foldables range. This is the first billboard - used by a...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Workshop

Designhouse open intruiging new doors for Numis | #BehindTheBrand

Designhouse has crafted a bold new identity for leading investment bank Numis, to align with a new phase of strategic growth as Numis shake off legacy perceptions that it was “just a corporate broker”. The identity is centred around a...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Features

Why design is a core battleground in the largest debates in tech

Design used to feel optional in tech, something to be sprinkled on at the end. Now, leading companies like Apple, Uber and TikTok rely on design and designers to identify new ideas and help users accomplish their goals - whether looking for their...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Leaders

Top 10 most exciting branding designers on Creativepool

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
*

Features

The break from ads is over - How to save streaming

Here’s a surprising fact: the CW’s average viewer is 58 years old. If you’ve ever seen any of the network’s content - shows like Arrow or The 100 - you would be forgiven for finding this surprising. Nonetheless, the statistic...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Leaders

Podcaster Holly Moore on how anything is possible | #GettingToKnow

Holly Moore, CEO of the female founded, Manchester based full-service events agency, Make Events, launched a brand new podcast with an impressive line-up of familiar industry faces this summer. After recovering from a 5-year battle with OCD - a...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Inspiration

Just off to Munch & Sippers, can I get you anything?

A while back I had a go at asking a venerable UK retail institution if they thought I could help at all (well, in a very specific way) with what appeared to be a terminal decline in fortunes. Of course, nothing came of that ask and the company shut...

Posted by: Richard
*

Workshop

Cracking Prime Day 2.0 with Creative Ads

For brands looking to make a splash this October during Amazon Prime Day, creative mobile campaigns are key. In this article, Paul Coggins, CEO of Adludio, argues that the ad industry has sat on its creative laurels for too long. If the...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Inspiration

The Kerch Bridge Stamp – An ad campaign for resistance?

When a section of the Kerch Bridge connecting mainland Russia to the Crimea was blown apart last Saturday morning, it wasn’t the definitive strategic blow many assumed it would be. Indeed, the bridge was operational again (at least in part) by...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
*

Leaders

Top 10 most exciting graphic designers on Creativepool

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: Creativepool Editorial
*

Inspiration

Proving that Moonpig is more than just a card company | #BehindTheIdea

Moonpig, the UK’s leading online greeting card and gifting platform has created its latest advert featuring the Moonpiglets and this time they are promoting the wide range of gifts the brand offers. The campaign continues Moonpig's journey...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Features

Three ways mobile marketers can make privacy their hallmark

The launch of Apple’s ATT framework has impacted mobile marketers’ access to user-level data. To navigate this change, they need new tactics and mentalities. Drawing inspiration from brand examples, Gal Ekstein, President and GM at AppsFlyer,...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Leaders

Top 10 most exciting copywriters on Creativepool

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...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Workshop

From sausage maker to meal creator | #BehindTheBrand

Richmond sausages recently announced the launch of its brand-new packaging by brand identity agency Bloom. The new design incorporates top-down, modern photography to inspire shoppers with recipes and show the many ways “the Nation’s...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Inspiration

The design industry declares a climate emergency

With so many other emergencies circling us right now it can be unfortunately easy to forget that the most critical existential crisis remains the environment. Thankfully, the design industry hasn’t forgotten. Or at least that’s what...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
*

Features

Global creative calendar: October 2022

Each year, the Cannes Lions score the global branded communications and marketing industry on Reach, Communication, Craft, Experience, Innovation, Impact, Good, Health, Entertainment, and even more. The latest edition of our Global Creative Calendar...

Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
*

Industry

Why cloud-based tech will help SMEs prepare for a recession

As the United Kingdom enters a recession, SMEs need to look into putting systems into place that get them through the recession. Damian Hanson, Co-Founder & Director of CircleLoop, a business focused on communication systems, explores why cloud-based...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Features

Top 5 pop culture campaign misfires of the 21st century | #MediaMonth

Pop culture and advertising have been walking hand-in-hand with varying degrees of success since ethe 1950s. In the latter half of the 20th century we saw brand and pop culture partnerships like Pepsi and Michael Jackson and Nestle and The Simpsons...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
*

Inspiration

Colour us impressed - Designing for colour blindness

When Transport for London released an infographic highlighting which trains were affected by the rail strike, they’d have been forgiven for thinking most of the discourse around the graphic would be linked to the rail strike itself. However,...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
*

Features

Queen Elizabeth II – Why she was and always will be our media Queen

When Queen Elizabeth II took the throne, even my parents had yet to be born. She was the longest serving monarch in history and it appears unlikely that will ever again be contested so when the news stuck yesterday evening, a definite shockwave was...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
*

Industry

Are we drowning in data?

Ask most marketing experts and they’ll tell you we are currently living through “the age of data” and given the facts and figures, it’s tough to argue. The global big data and business analytics market was valued at 169...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
*

Features

Why one director swapped Miami for Manchester | #MemberSpotlight

For this week’s member spotlight, we’re getting to know an award-winning creative producer with a proven track record in everything from documentaries to music videos, commercials, and everything in between. David Morris, the head of...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial

Back to Magazine

ad: Annual 2024 Now Open For Entries!