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Inspiration

Focal Point: Consuming creative eye-candy with FOREAL

FOREAL is a young German design studio with a creative focus on illustration and art direction founded by Benjamin Simon and Dirk Schuster. We love their style - it's intense, but super fun and eye catching as the duo strive to transform each of...

Posted by: Kate Lewin
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Leaders

Top 10 Hires of the Week

Ogilvy & Mather Ogilvy & Mather has appointed Gerald Lewis to the role of Worldwide Executive Creative Director for the Dove account. He will join Ogilvy immediately and report to Ogilvy’s Worldwide ECD for Unilever, Andre Laurentino. Lewis...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

TMW Unlimited ask if technology is ruining holiday sex

To test the theory that an addiction to technology (smartphones particularly) is the reason sex on holidays often does't live up to the expectations of modern couples, Durex has launched a social experiment, devised by TMW Unlimited, which tears...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Agency of the Week: Ogilvy & Mather

Ogilvy London & Aardman create Monster Stains Monster Stains: The Art of Stain Removal Ogilvy & Mather London have collaborated with Oscar-winning animation studio Aardman on a new campaign for Unilever’s laundry brand Persil. To demonstrate...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Workshop

What is the future of creative talent?

Creativity in London is in a great place and the output of agencies is now as diverse as ever. Sure; there are still fantastic TV ads, such as this years British Arrows Commercial of the Year by AMV’s Mike Sutherland and Ant Nelson for Currys...

Posted by: Gemini People
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Workshop

The benefits of getting an agent

Getting an agent Agents promote creatives in a number of ways, including, on their websites, by personal one-to-one presentations to commissioning art directors/buyers and direct email-shots. Promotions can take the form of postcards, desktop...

Posted by: Creativepool
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Inspiration

How short films can help you to become a better storyteller

When I first heard the term ‘storyteller’, I hated it. I thought it was way too pretentious and self-important - we’re not novelists; we’re copywriters and art directors. But the more I work on film scripts, copy and even...

Posted by: Southpaw
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Leaders

ADFEST call on designers to create new Lotus trophy

Annual advertising festival ADFEST is calling on designers, art directors and creative professionals to create a new Lotus trophy, which will be unveiled in the lead up to the festival’s 20th anniversary celebrations in 2017. The festival has...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Features

We're Thinking We Need To Build A Better Mousetrap

Visionaries with brains of creative gold often have one thing in common: flurries of ideas but an inability to set one down and bring it to life with a focused mind. Thus begins the business of agencies and creative and producers and art directors...

Posted by: Blair Barnette Ltd
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Leaders

Agency of the Week: DDB Worldwide

DDB Stockholm turn McDonald's Happy Meals in VR experiences! Happy Goggles To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Happy Meal in Sweden, McDonald's has developed the Happy Goggles, an idea developed in collaboration with DDB Stockholm. By...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

The Top Design Stories of 2015

January: Charlie Hebdo cover unites millions against religious fascism For this one, there really are no words that would suffice. It does, however, underline the power that powerful and intelligent creative work still has to bring us together, even...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Getty Images drop the Visual Trends of 2016 list

Getty Images has unveiled its highly anticipated visual trends forecast, an industry-leading publication of the key visual trends Getty Images predicts will influence design, advertising and brand communications in 2016. Forecast by Getty...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Top 10 Hires of the Week

Blue Fountain Media Manhattan-based digital agency Blue Fountain Media is bolstering its executive, strategy and marketing teams with the addition of a new senior leader. Yoni Ben-Yehuda has been announced as the agency's new Chief Marketing...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Royal Mail gets biblical this Christmas

Winter's silver lining is dawning on us once again, and brands are wasting no time getting in on the action, not least Royal Mail, who are arguably as vital a part of the UK Christmas season as lukewarm mulled wine and tangled lights. Every November...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

AWARD increases presence at Semi Permanent in Australia

The Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association (AWARD) will be increasing its presence at the annual Semi Permanent festival of creativity and design from May 2016, in a collaboration that will introduce an annual AWARD showcase to the...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Getty Images expands “Lean In” iStock collection

Getty Images and Lean In, the women’s nonprofit founded by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, have announced the expansion of the Getty Images “Lean In Collection,” which is now available on iStock. An expert curation of images devoted to the...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Job Description: Illustrator

Illustrators combine art, design and creative skills to develop ideas and produce original visual images for a wide range of products. Image: Jean Jullien: Billboard for London Graphic Centre for It’s Nice That Job Description, Salary &...

Posted by: Creativepool
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Job Description: Copywriter

Creative copywriters are employed by agencies both permanently and on a freelance basis to develop advertising concepts. They mainly deliver the words and verbal content that accompanies the visual elements. Agency copywriters usually work in close...

Posted by: Creativepool
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Features

10 things which have disappeared from creative studios

I kicked off my creative career in an advertising agency on Fleet Street, twenty-odd years ago. Apart from the general excitement of actually being paid to write ads, I drew great inspiration from the very particular pieces of equipment around the...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Leaders

Top 10 Hires of the Week

GPY&R Melbourne GPY&R Melbourne has promoted Jake Barrow to the position of creative director. Barrow has been with the agency for four years and has lead multi award winning projects for Schweppes, Public Transport Victoria and the Australian...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

The Awards Roundup

APMA Star finalists announced The Communications Council has announced 61 campaigns from 27 clients and 22 agencies for final stages of the APMA Star awards. Running for ten years, the awards celebrate the finest promotional and experiential...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Awards Roundup

Effie Awards Ogilvy & Mather was recognised with top accolades this week as both O&M North America and the New York office were recognised as the most effective individual office and agency network of the year in their respective categories at the...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

The LIA Announce the new Jury President

Brian Collins, chief creative officer and co-founder of the Collins brand consultancy, has been named as the Design and Package Design Jury President for the 2015 London International Awards (LIA). He joins an esteemed panel, which will consist of a...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Job Description: Art Director

Art Directors in advertising are responsible for what advertisements look like. They are involved in creating a campaign that has an instant, positive impact on the consumer in order to promote the product or brand being advertised. They can be...

Posted by: Creativepool
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Leaders

Awards Roundup

ADC Annual Awards Quad Group announced this week that it has been named ADC Global's “Production Company of the Year.” In addition to Production Company Of The Year, The Quad Group also won a Silver Cube in Special Effects for Cartier...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Hires of the Week

Odysseus Arms Independent ad agency Odysseus Arms welcomed Eric Dunn to the newly created role of Managing Director this week. He will be responsible for expanding the operation, refining client services and steering digital architecture. Dunn is a...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

The Black Cab Interviews presents Billy Faithfull

Billy Faithfull, Executive Creative Director at WCRS, talks with Creativepool founder, Michael Tomes. Hear Billy's thoughts on the book, whether creativity can be learned, and problem solving in advertising. Billy started his career in a design...

Posted by: Creativepool
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Leaders

Step into a new creative Garden

Former Zulu Alpha Kilo executives Shari Walczak and Shane Ogilvie have left their posts as executive planning director and executive creative director respectively, to set up a new agency simply called “The Garden,” which they envision as...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Publicis acquires yet another digital agency, this time in Italy

The Publicis Groupe recently announced they had acquired another digital agency, following hot on the heels of their acquisitions in Germany (Zweimaleins), South Africa (Synergize), Poland (Interactive Solutions) and the UK (Outside Line). As with...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Leaders

McCann HumanCare hires Auge Reichenberg as Executive Creative Director

It was announced on Tuesday this week that Auge Reichenberg, one of the most respected creative executives in healthcare communications, is to join McCann HumanCare, the consumer-focused health and wellness arm of McCann Health. She joins McCann from...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

Six ways in which 'copywriting' differs from 'writing'.

When people ask what I do for a living, I tend to get in a terrible flap. This is largely because I do a variety of things. I pen pieces about music, I blog about advertising and the creative industry (obviously), I present podcasts and radio...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Leaders

Why your brand or marketing agency should be using Vine

In the world of the marketing agency, 2013 won't just be the year of the Snake. It'll be the year the number of mobile devices exceeds the human population. I'm knocking at your proverbial door to spread the word of Vine. Have you heard about the...

Posted by: FindGood
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Features

Whatever happened to proper advertising?

Last week I wrote a piece for Creativepool, suggesting the role of the copywriter had become sidelined to the extent that designers were now the 'creatives'. I also wondered whether this wasn't just an attack of paranoia. Well, it wasn't. The column...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Features

Write offs. Are copywriters being sidelined?

Over the last week, I've very much enjoyed reading a debate, prompted by one of my Creativepool columns, on LinkedIn. It's always particularly satisfying to find creative professionals reacting to a piece I've written and I'm grateful to anyone who...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Leaders

Show me yours. Why the new Creativepool will benefit copywriters.

By Magnus Shaw Well, I'm just having a look around. Being on the new Creativepool is rather like moving into a swanky new apartment, where all the furniture has arrived, your clothes neatly hung in the wardrobe and you've been carefully placed on...

Posted by: Creativepool
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Features

Designers - Do you have the courage to show hand drawn concepts?

by John Fountain. There's an art director that I know who has a pretty impressive portfolio. Plenty of big-name clients, some beautifully designed work and one or two pieces that have appeared in awards annuals. When she shows her work I'm sure that...

Posted by: Creativepool

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