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Now that the pandemic has gently receded into the background hum of everyday life, the events sector has finally started to come back to life. Indeed, we recently celebrated a pretty spectacular event ourselves with our 2022 Annual launch earlier...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Creative directors are amongst the most coveted individuals in the creative industries. They are generally recognised as kings and queens of their respective fields - masters of all trades that can wield relationships as confidently as they wield...
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Music licensing for ads is notoriously complicated. This is partially due to multiple layers of rights in any song. You have to consider where the music has come from, who wrote it and performed it , where it will end up, and if your license covers...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Creativity is a wonderful and very personal thing, but it can also cultivate chaos if it’s not properly guided by the right pair of hands. Those hands often belong to the art director. This is the part of the team that guides the creatives and...
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“To write is human, to edit is divine.” These are the words of Stephen King, arguably one of the most successful novelists of all time and he certainly has a point. The best copy editors, after all, exist to sharpen the edges, make sense...
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This week, we’re getting to know Dan Mason, Partner and Managing Director at 2LK - the “specialist agency of choice for tomorrow’s brand experience pioneers.” Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical”...
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Robot Food has refreshed the branding for Danish beer brand Tuborg. The Leeds-based strategic branding gave the iconic beer a refreshed design look to emphasise Tuborg as a “proud parent brand,” harmonising the primary packaging around...
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There’s been a bit of a run on yellow in packaging (at least to my eye), with Asda’s own brand ranges leading a hue (apologies) and cry for the bold use of sunshine colour. It left me wondering if this is trend we should be watching for...
Posted by: Richard
I love a good burger. Indeed, if I could choose one meal to repeat day-in and day-out until the end of my days it would probably be a Beefy Boys burger with a side of buffalo wings. So, given that today is National Burger Day (the latest in a long...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
To celebrate how far women’s football has come since it was banned 101 years ago, Dark Horses and England and Arsenal midfielder Jordan Nobbs are kickstarting 101 new women’s football teams in a new campaign encouraging more women and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Bryony Beynon is a senior trainer at timeTo, an initiative set up by NABS, The AA and WACL to tackle sexual harassment in advertising that offers ground breaking interactive training for companies and individuals on how to recognise and tackle sexual...
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Why do we work? That is an existential question many of us undoubtedly ask ourselves on days like today when Kidderminster has the sunny glow of the Mediterranean and all we want to do is retire to a hammock in the back garden and listen to the world...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Funny how we always talk about how important it is to have a point of view. Something singular. Specific. Fixed. When in fact all of our thinking life is a duality. Of a restless, constant combination of two or many things. In this shiftlessness...
Posted by: Richard
As designers and developers increasingly build robust, app-like experiences into their websites, it’s no surprise that JavaScript use has proliferated across the web. It’s a client-side language that allows for many of the rich...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For many businesses, the purse strings have never been tighter. Not only did the pandemic squeeze budgets, but the subsequent cost-of-living crisis which many are now enduring - including rising energy prices, growing wages, and inflationary...
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Paul Mallon is a man who feels he was always a perfect fit for Lucky Generals as it’s an agency, like him, “born with mischief in their blood.” He came to LG after working at Paddy Power, who were the agency’s first client...
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While we’ve shone our company spotlight on dozens of exceptional design studios here at Creativepool, we very rarely get the chance to speak to in-house studios. That’s we we jumped at the chance when information services company...
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Today’s census news that in the UK (and apologies for the country-centricity here, but I can only only write from experience and the UK is where I’m based) there are more over-65’s than under-15’s now. Which is interesting...
Posted by: Richard
When is someone else's good idea just too good to resist? Bad artists borrow, good artists steal. Or is it the other way around? Or are the best artists the ones who use the right tools or learn to make better ones? Corvids are great. And great...
Posted by: Richard
While marketing to diverse groups has always been a successful strategy for some brands in order to sell products, it’s now become a priority for all major brands who want to stay relevant. But how well do brands navigate the difficult...
Posted by: Hanover
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...
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Sexual harassment is the kind of thing that, by all rights, should have been weeded out of existence decades ago. As a species, I’d like to think we’ve evolved enough socially since the “boys club” days of the 1960s to be able...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There’s an adage in online media that you’ve probably all heard a thousand times before - “content is king.” But the thing is, content without context is just words and pictures. If content is king then context is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Nostalgia marketing is taking the world by storm, as millennials and Gen-Z are longing for the past, and brands are taking them on an exciting journey through time. The result? A successful marketing campaign that converts. Today, we explore how...
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The UK is experiencing its worst inflation in forty years. In a perfect storm of price hikes, rising interest rates, and stagnating wages, many of us are facing existential fears about our financial futures. Everyone is talking about the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For this week’s Getting to Know, we’re talking to Benedict Buckland, the Creative Director at alan. the B2B marketing agency that's a part of Raconteur. Benedict’s career path is far from a conventional, having started at the tail...
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Ask anyone my age (yes, I’m a millennial) and they’ll probably tell you the pandemic changed the way they think about work. For me, very little honestly changed. I’ve been a freelance writer for my entire professional life and have...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Every week, we seek to shine our member spotlight on some of the most talented and perhaps undercooked creative individuals that make up our extensive Creativepool roster. But this week, we decided to shine our spotlight not on an individual but on...
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The first work for Virgin Atlantic created by Lucky Generals launched last month introducing the the new endline “See the world differently”, which acknowledges the travel industry is entering a new era. The campaign is headlined by a...
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As a creative professional, you’re probably on the lookout for a career path that is both high-paying and able to bring you some joy. The good news is that you’re not alone in this. Tons of other creative pros are in the same situation as...
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Like many UK animation studios, we’re an SME. We deliberately keep the team small and specialised. It has downfalls of course, capacity and scheduling can be one thing. However the biggest positive is using freelancers. Below are a few reasons...
Posted by: Mighty Giant
It was September 2016 when this article from The Guardian unveiled that millennials want “purpose over paychecks”. Fast forward to 2022, two years after the beginning of a global pandemic, and things are hardly looking any different. If...
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When everything is said and done, the graphic design trends of 2022 are a motley crew. Frasurbane and anti-design, escapism and grunge, doodles and parametric patterns are some of the themes explored. It's difficult to envision any of these diverse...
Posted by: Chris Bicourt
In its first work from Lucky Generals, car selling service carwow aims to “fill the lives of car owners with massive moments of WOW” (delivered by a huge inflatable “WOW”) as they see how much they can sell their car for....
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Measuring success across an entire customer journey has never been more hotly debated than now. Media expert Matt Nesbitt explains how and why. Navigating a fragmented landscape With the lurking third party cookie deprecation and the eradication of...
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Los Angeles-based illustrator Patrick Hruby grew up in a log cabin within an Idaho forest. As a young boy he dreamt of running away to join the circus and become a trapeze artist. Eventually, however, he grew up to pursue a career as an illustrator....
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