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In 2015, nearly 40% of the UK’s self-employed workforce did not file their taxes by the HMRC deadline. That accounts for over 890,000 freelancers in the UK, who all faced a £100 late fee. The mere thought of taxes is often nightmare fuel...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Sir Jonathan Paul Ive is one of those figures who will always be remembered for leaving an everlasting mark in the history of design, technology and creativity. Save for the late Steve Jobs, there is no one who had more relevance in the history of...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Customers are enjoying more and more digital experiences - touching everything from banking, shopping, subscription services and entertainment, the list goes on. Research shows that on average, a smartphone is installed with 80+ apps, and those...
Posted by: Sophia Charters
As we ease back into a new normal and things start opening up again, there are new avenues of profits for brands and advertisers worldwide that simply can't be ignored. Our favourred social media platforms have turned into proper digital...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Freelancer or not, the dream of working in advertising is real for many creative professionals out there. It gives us a career prospect and a much concrete way to give shape to our dreams. As much as it would be lovely to live off prints and short...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
You can hear horror stories from all over the industry, and unfortunately any agency leader can tell you that they are far too common. Clients leveraging their influence and the power of their wallets to have agencies submit to abusive behaviour,...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
A few months ago, and sort of by accident, I coined the phrase ‘Make to Treasure’. It was in the process of writing our first update on sustainable production at the end of a steep learning curve of a year. A year we’d started out...
Posted by: Heather Golding
The executive creative director (or ECD) is the head honcho as far as the creative team is concerned. The person behind the curtain engineering the creative identity of a company and facilitating the adoption of that identity throughout all media...
Posted by: Creativepool
The global pandemic has presented the creative industries with a great series of unique challenges. For creative professionals around the UK and beyond, such challenges led to most of the industry envisioning new, innovative creative solutions,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Based in Surrey, Andy Martin is a creative director/senior graphic designer who has been in the industry for over 22 years. After so long, you'd think anyone would start to lose their passion. Not Andy. Passionate as ever, developing his skills and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When I was a kid, I used to consume a whole lot of animation. Disney was my favoured choice to fill a boring evening, but I would not disdain Looney Tunes, Pingu (big one for me) or the occasional Matt Groening stuff. To me, animation was a given....
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Few people in the industry are as positive and forthcoming as Alexander Mikhaylov, a talented illustrator currently based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Alexander lives life at face value and his unique personality spreads positivity from every word of the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
While many of the creative arts have been shaped and moulded by the passage of time and the gentle thrum of technology, illustration is, at its core, still the same art form that it was hundreds of years ago. It’s also an incredibly...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Nicole Kidman and Film Director Baz Luhrmann have always had their own “thing.” By good Baz’s own admittance in an old Vanity Fair interview, him and the movie star have worked together since they were much younger and there has...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Events always have been and always will be an incredibly important part of the creative industries and Events Designers are the ones working behind the scenes to bring events to life. If you’ve ever found yourself at an event where you were...
Posted by: Creativepool
“Heavy is the head that wears the crown.” That’s the well-worn cliche that continues to hold billions back from greatness every single day but for some, the crown seems to fit pretty naturally. Such is the case with all the best...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Another edition of The Annual is ongoing. The Creative Industry’s ‘Most’ Award has evolved much in the past ~6 years, but the core values of the competition have remained the same: to drive positive change in the industry, to lead...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
As the Technical Director at Digitas UK, Kerry Dawes must always be on top of the new innovations and technology to ensure the organisation is moving with the times. No two days are the same in Kerry's role - which admittedly is something you can...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Born and "raised" in Toronto, Zulu Alpha Kilo has a pretty beautiful history here on Creativepool. Multi-award winners since 2018, pluri-featured in the community and our #3 Ranked Advertising Agency on the platform, the team at ZAK is relentlessly...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A design manager is employed to lead numerous design-related tasks. These may include web design, product development, advertising or general creative roles. These individuals can be employed in construction, in graphic design firms, in the...
Posted by: Creativepool
How do you usually feel on Sunday nights? Well, apart from when there’s a football match which fails to make history. If the answer is ‘awful,’ ‘anxious’ or anything in between, you might be looking at a case of Sunday...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
I was asked recently - 'What brands make you happy?' Almost every day my colleagues and I are asked to help organisations find their deeper purpose, unravel their values and promote a part of life they can slot into to make the most profitable...
Posted by: Simon Manchipp
Rolling Stone has always been a brand ready to stand up for social causes. For too long our society has been used to the myth of "super-moms", by which family sacrifice and struggles were not shared but cherished for the female figure, thus leaving...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Many decades ago, Bill Bernbach said: “It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed, to take over our competitors.” In 2016, the World Economic Forum placed creativity as one of the top three skills...
Posted by: Andreas Krasser
A Design director bridges the link between creative employees and management. A senior role for leaders with a proven track record of effective communication, innovation, and high-level design problem-solving, design directors ensure that all...
Posted by: Creativepool
When Dot Creative Studio was born in 2011, the business had to find its place in a market stippled with some sort of ignorance about the creative arts. But if you ever wondered about whether creativity does indeed thrive in restraints and challenges,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Working at the intersection of different timezones, John Brash is a brilliant entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of Brash agency. But few will know and realise how important his early steps were in the overall development of his career. According to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Just the other day I saw a freelance job ad looking for a freelancer who would rewrite 10 articles of 3,000 words each… at the price of $25. $25, for about 30,000 words. It is over half of a medium-sized novel - which are usually paid by...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Richard Hill defines himself as a down-to-earth Creative Director, and we can definitely see where that sentiment comes from. As an extremely passionate creative professional, Richard can find inspiration wherever he goes, but makes it his own...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s no secret that female creatives have been overlooked, under employed and under utilised in the film, music, and media industries for decades. Even with the onslaught of rising female creators and content being driven towards the female...
Posted by: Bopper
When the results for the Q1/FY 2021 were released a few months ago, tales of recovery and hope started spreading across the industry, as optimistic figures of growth and recouped losses started popping up from the industry giants and beyond....
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
As businesses, agencies have the grave burden to make profit with which they can generate growth and help the team thrive. With that in mind, pricing your agency services is arguably the most difficult part of founding and running a successful...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Coming from a background in typography, Iain Smith Dwight has an incredibly peculiar style that loves to blend type and illustrations in bold new ways. Iain graduated in Northampton with a degree in Graphic Communication and defines himself as a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Spoiler: if you’re reading this, you probably are Like most other sectors, the creative industry is one of deadlines. There’s that deadline to deliver the pitch, that other one to complete a project, that copy to write, that award to...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
If there is one designer in this industry with which delicacy of style and quality of craft meet, that must be freelance graphic designer and surface pattern illustrator Camilla Blom. As one of our certified studiopro, Camilla is one of our Top 50...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Your work has to be like a question mark. If there is one piece of insight you can gain from McCann Paris Associate Creative Director Joseph Dubruque, it is this one for sure. Joseph, who was chosen to judge the Covid-19 category for Annual 2021...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial