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Introducing the two-faced smartphone

Russian phone brand Yota, recently launched a daring new smartphone that includes a secondary e-ink screen, designed to work in tandem with a primary AMOLED screen and significantly increase battery life. This is Yota's second stab at the smartphone...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Busy Bees at the BBC this Christmas

The London-based media management company Red Bee Media, which was recently acquired by the Swedish communications firm Ericsson, has been incredibly busy this Christmas season, creating a set of ambitious idents for BBC One. The three idents each...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Design Museum unveils £80 million refresh

The London Design Museum is set to move to Kensington as part of a drastic £80 million revamp, which will see leaving its current home at Shad Thames near Tower Bridge, and setting up shop in its new skin by 2016. The museum will triple in size...

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Cooper Hewitt Museum undergoes 'Oparatic' redesign

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, which is the only museum in the country devoted to historical and contemporary design, will be reopening on the 12th of December following a “Transformational” redesign and a...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Snoozebox redesign is a Tangerine Dream

Snoozebox, the portable hotel chain, recently enjoyed a complete redesign courtesy of Tangerine, the London-based design consultancy. The hotels in question are modelled (in part at least) on the portable hotels found in Japan, only these compact...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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And the winner is...

Oystercatchers Club Awards Marketing consultancy, Oystercatchers, held its annual awards at the Mayfair Hotel in London on Tuesday night (November 25), with winners including Saatchi & Saatchi, W&K, SapientNitro and Iris. Saatchi & Saatchi claimed...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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ClearPeople announce new Senior Leadership dream team

The award-winning independent, creative, digital and technology consultancy ClearPeople, has just announced a new Senior Leadership team that will include Wesley Hogg as digital strategy services director, Luke Smith as cloud services manager, and...

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Razorfish acquires one of the coolest offices ever

It was announced yesterday that select Nurun offices will be joining Razorfish Global, the new Publicis Groupe network ran by Razorfish and Rosetta. The move arrives following the announcement of the Publicis Groupe's recent acquisition of the global...

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Vodafone take on Virgin in broadband and TV wars

Vodafone is set to take on Virgin and Sky, using its business fibre network and BT Openreach infrastructure. The announcement follows a period of significant growth for the telecoms company, who nudged up their full-year core earnings forecast to...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Yellow Pages Rebrand, will they make a comeback?

Chances are, if you grew up in the 1980's and 90's, you're well aware of the Yellow Pages. For those of you too young to remember a time when it took 10 minutes to log onto the internet; the Yellow Pages was a vast tome, delivered free to each...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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How to spot a bad recruiter

Recruiters aren't all bad. There is an unfortunate stigma that has stuck the recruitment industry which have developed from agencies that are poorly run who bombard candidates and clients with irrelevant jobs and pointless calls. There are however...

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Bose goes all in with IPG and WPP

The UK-based audio equipment maker Bose recently consolidated its media agency business between Interpublic Group and WPP shops after a lengthy review, which began in the spring. The review, which was supported by the London-based search consultancy...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Seymourpowell address a serious problem in the e eye-care world

Leading product design consultancy Seymourpowell recently announced a complete re-design for Bausch + Lomb's “Artelec” eye care range, with a shift in packaging that aims to create “A point of difference in both the consumer and eye...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Weber Shandwick claims top honours from The Holmes Report

Leading global PR firm and Interpublic Group agency Weber Shandwick have been named as the “Global Agency of the Year” for 2014 by The Holmes Report; a report conducted by the Holmes Group on the public relations business. The agency beat...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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One Direction officially “beat bullying” at the Clio Awards

Sew Branded, the brand image and marketing consultancy based in New York, has recently been honoured with a Clio Music Award for their “Together Against Bullying” public service announcement, which featured the boy band phenomenon One...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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The Publicis Groupe acquires Nurun for 125 million Canadian dollars

The Publicis Groupe has announced yet another new acquisition, this time in the shape of Nurun, the global technology consultancy based in Montreal, Canada. Publicis acquired the company for 125 million Canadian dollars from Quebecor, who said they...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Rosetta promote five associate partners to the ranks of partner

Rosetta, the Publicis Groupe's customer engagement agency, announced yesterday that it had promoted five associate partners to partner, elevating the total number of partners at the agency to 47, with 14 managing partners. Tom Adamski, who took over...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Steve Libenson joins the Publicis Groupe's Rosetta as Partner

The Publicis Groupe customer engagement agency, Rosetta announced yesterday that Steve Libenson has been hired as Partner at Rosetta Consulting. This is a key hire, which will serve to strengthen the industry-leading practice. Libenson will be based...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Fenella Grey named as UK Managing Director at Porter Novelli

Porter Novelli, one of the leading public relations agencies in the world, named Fenella Grey as managing director of its UK office yesterday in a move which is effective immediately. Grey has 17 years worth of cross-practice agency experience,...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Ogilvy PR take home 13 EAME SABRE Awards at the 10th annual ceremony

At the 10th annual EMEA SABRE Awards, which were held in London on Tuesday night, Ogilvy Public Relations capped off an award filled evening by being officially named the Holmes Report Pan-EMEA Consultancy of the Year 2014. As well as this...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Ais London promote Liz Barnsdale to Managing Director

London-based digital agency Ais has just announced the promotion of Liz Barnsdale to the role of the agency's managing director. She previously served as client services director at the agency. On the management board, Barnsdale will join executive...

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No reply. Are contact forms a waste of time and pixels?

Recently, I spotted something of interest on the site of a firm of creative recruitment consultants. Clicking through to their 'contact us' page, I was pleased to notice a statement declaring their belief in common courtesy, backed with a promise to...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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It's over. Is it ever okay to fire a client?

Firing a client is an unusual notion - counterintuitive even. Business norms suggest an enterprise will always welcome the presence of as many paying customers as possible. So why would anyone ever sack a client? Actually, although it would be a...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Weight Watchers launches Love Fibre, design by bluemarlin

Global brand consultancy bluemarlin has continued its partnership with Weight Watchers to design packaging for Love Fibre, the weight loss organisation’s new venture into the cereal category. The range, created in alliance with Weetabix, the...

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Festive Jumpers Galore

We're in the festive spirit of things and it looks like we're not on our own! Some of our favourite recruiter clients have been enjoying festive moments from Secret Santas, Office Parties to Christmas Jumper Days. Here's some tweets that helped us...

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A freelance copywriter's letter to Santa.

by Magnus Shaw. Dear Santa, I'm not sure if you're aware, but Christmas is coming. Next week, apparently. With this in mind, I thought I'd better drop you a note to outline some of the stuff I'd like you to provide. I suggest you take the Harley...

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Simon Pendry - Blue Marlin

"Blue Marlin is the home of landing big ideas, which are at the heart of everything we do. We pride ourselves on delivering relevant, unique and consistent experiences across brand touch points worldwide. Blue Marlin is an independent integrated...

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Oliver Maltby - The Chase

"The Chase is a creative consultancy, based in London, Manchester and Preston. We work mainly in branding but have done everything from a football stadium design to stamps. Our strength is the variety or work we produce. It's kept us in the top five...

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5 minutes with... Paul Boag - Co founder at Headscape

"I have always been rubbish at elevator pitches! But here goes... Headscape is a web design company that offers development, design and consultancy services. We have a broad client base from large public sector organisations to charities, higher...

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Light at the End of the Tunnel

Written by Toby Thwaites, Director, Purple Consultancy - Specialists in creative recruitment Toby Thwaites and Paul Wood founded Purple in June 2000. Purple provides recruitment consultancy to advertising, design, integrated marketing, publishing,...

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Social Networking as a Recruitment tool

Written by Toby Thwaites, Director, Purple Consultancy - Specialists in creative recruitment Toby Thwaites and Paul Wood founded Purple in June 2000. Purple provides recruitment consultancy to advertising, design, integrated marketing, publishing,...

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Humanising the redundancy process

It would be easy in an economic environment like this to lay the blame for all redundancies on the 'credit crunch' but I believe that there are other reasons why some of these redundancies are taking place. In prosperous times creative businesses are...

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Skill shortages in the creative and digital markets

Written by Toby Thwaites, Director, Purple Consultancy - Specialists in creative recruitment As recruiters for the creative industries, including the digital industry, we are naturally very aware of the constant need for the sourcing of fresh talent...

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Off and On; The twisting tale of the ITV logo.

by Magnus Shaw. Perhaps surprisingly, there's only been an official ITV logo since 1989. Until then, the network was divided into autonomous regions, each with their own brand. If you're in your thirties or forties you'll remember your own - Thames...

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