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Open global competition to attract entries across multiple application-led categories, to be showcased online and at FESPA exhibitions throughout 2014 FESPA hasredeveloped its Awards programme, making it an annual competition and opening it to any...
Posted by: FESPA
In the print advertising world, agencies are constantly working hard to create images that have the public talking. Smart ideas on great visuals attract audience’s attention easily and they become a kind of art in the end. We've looked high...
Posted by: Creativepool
On Tuesday, More! magazine's latest edition hit the shops. With Beyonce as its cover star, it was a notable issue because it was the very last one. Visit the More! website and you'll be met with a downbeat message: more! is a well-loved brand which,...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
At yesterday's Social Media World Forum, Dominic Burch - Head of Communications and Social Media for ASDA - said “Stop thinking about websites - they’re dead - just think about the content and getting that right for mobile. As reported...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Magnus Shaw Yahoo - that other search engine - has announced it is to axe its personalised, digital magazine Livestand, after just seven months of publication. Don't worry if you haven't heard of it, the platform was only launched in the States...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Magnus Shaw Perhaps we shouldn't expect anything more from ITV2 - after all, this is the home of Celebrity Juice, Life On Murrs and The Only Way Is Essex. But while those shows may grate and irritate, they manage to avoid devaluing and...
Posted by: Creativepool
Printers. They are quite often the bane of our lives. With their endless paper-chewing, ink guzzling and baffling flashing lights you could mistake them for being the most inefficient and useless of our office friends. But hold your horses because...
Posted by: Creativepool
Chrissy Levett trained as an illustrator and print maker before studying design + communications at the Royal College of Art, in London. She is an accomplished creative director and founder of Creative Conscience, a global organisation that...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It takes guts to find the courage to start from scratch. It can go either way. Too many have fallen under the weight of poor planning, but those who have succeeded give us hope that we can do the same. Cheddar Creative is a prime example of that. In...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It's no secret that the planet is suffering. Aside from Brexit, it's been the biggest thing affecting the news agenda for the past few years and coverage is only set to increase. But if the decay and gradual demise of our world is so important, why...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Wieden+Kennedy - Nike Nike has released their full “Just Do It” ad featuring Colin Kaepernick. The ad has Kaepernick narrating over a series of inspirational athletes and their stories of struggle: from MLS star Alphonso Davies’...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The first propellor-less drone Royal College of Art graduate Marcus Kung has designed a drone that can fly without propellers, with the aim of reducing injuries. The “Impeller Drone” (Kung's graduate project as part of the RCA's masters...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Brothers and Sisters - Sunny Sunny, the online lender, is launching a new TV ad - the latest instalment in the brand’s on-going “Life Support” campaign. The ad, created by Brothers and Sisters, transports viewers to a faraway place...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Celebrating the beauty and loud/quiet wonder (depending on your preference) of the festive season is something all agencies are essentially required to do, otherwise they'd undoubtedly be labelled as scowling humbug merchants. Still, some agencies...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Ogilvy & Mather/DAVID - Unilever Unilever has launched a new campaign that brings together the collective power of consumers and brands to show people in how the everyday brands they love can help to make the world a better place. With consumers...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Black Cab Interviews have flown all the way from London to Singapore just in time for Spikes Asia - Singapore’s Festival of Creativity, in collaboration with Cogs Agency with production support by The Flying Kick Asia and Shooting Gallery...
Posted by: Creativepool
Halloween is big business in ad land, more so now than ever before, so every brand and agency under the sun is taking advantage of the seasonal madness by bringing a (temporary) spooky edge to their creative advertising work. Here I'll be examining a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
North Yorkshire-based design studio and web management agency Phunky Moo has worked across a range of sectors with brands ranging from BMW to CE Electric. This week, we put Adam Hill, Creative Director, under the spotlight to find out more... Phunky...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Holman + Hunt - AMC UK Launch Even if you're one of the few remaining people who haven't seen Breaking Bad (and if so, get on it, trust me) you're undoubtedly familiar with the work of Bryan Cranston as the now iconic anti-hero Walter White. So it...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Andy Cooke has one hectic schedule – not only has he worked with clients as far ranging as Google, Ace Hotel and Ikea, but he also runs a streetwear shop, is an artist’s agent and (probably most importantly) is about to open a pizza place. With...
Posted by: Jade French
Award-winning design consultant Emma Sexton hosts the first ever UK design event for non-designers at Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf on 22nd September 2015. Unleash The Power is the first design event of it’s kind, on a mission to challenge...
Posted by: Hands Down™
There was a sticky period in the evolution of the World Wide Web. This was the time when developers and advertisers seized on pop-up technology, but before any ad-blocker software was available to mitigate it. If memory serves, it lasted about a year...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Gyro Gyro London has appointed David Harris as Executive Creative Director. Teamed with the strong leadership of Gyro London Managing Director Kate Howe, Harris will help to intensify gyro’s growing presence as a business-to-business...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Hello and happy new diet to you. No? Happy new gym membership, maybe. Not that either? Happy new I’m-only-drinking-alcohol-at-the-weekend. Getting warmer? Or perhaps the number one aim in the Land of You is get a happy new job. If so, good...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Dave Cuzner is the editor of Grain Edit, a blog focused on classic design work from the 1950s-1970s and contemporary designers that draw inspiration from that time period. Grain Edit includes interviews, articles, designers' libraries as well as...
Posted by: Creativepool
If there is one iconic image which sums up all that is glamour and stardom within the realms of fashion and Hollywood then it has to be that over-exposed, stark image of Audrey Hepburn’s eyes, eyebrows and lips from the 1957 musical Funny...
Posted by: Creativepool
There’s a certain logic to the idea that, in a truly sustainable world, out-of-home (OOH) advertising is always going to lag behind its virtual equivalent. However, with the right approach, there’s no reason why OOH can’t set a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Disruption, discomfort and discovery - our Creative Director, John, examines the industry's latest tool: AI. “At present our most dangerous pet is electricity-in the telegraph, the street lamp and the telephone. […] The telephone is the...
Posted by: Better
In the dynamic and inspiring realm of design, the magic lies in the eyes of creatives who can transform ordinary concepts into extraordinary visual experiences. Whether you’re a prominent design agency or a budding design venture, selecting the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
April Fool’s Day has rarely been seen as the bastion of creative excellence. It’s not about pushing the envelope or creating something with emotional resonance though, it’s about giving people a quick belly laughs and reminding them...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In an era dominated by hashtags, emojis, and viral trends, the way we communicate has undergone a seismic shift. Social media platforms have become our digital playgrounds, where words happen instantly but leaving lasting impressions on. For brands,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Pot Noodle, the Unilever snack brand, was positioned as filling a hole and a tongue-in-cheek film that takes that a step further showing the noodles in all sorts of holes such as a pool table pocket, a bird house and a washing machine drum. It also...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This week, we sat down with Martin MacConnol, Founder and CEO at the Covent Garden-based creative agency Wardour. How was your company born and where are you based? We began life as a content marketing agency on Wardour Street, Soho, in 1996 - the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Dave Anderson is an animator, illustrator and storyboard artist born in Wales, and currently based in Barcelona, who has for over a decade has been helping even the most uptight organisation find their funny. In recent years he’s directed...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Pearlfisher, the brand design agency, has unveiled its design for The Pack by KOTEX for tween girls at school in South Africa. The kit goes beyond the traditional functionality of fem-care to transform menstrual education into an engaging, empowering...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? I was living the dream of being an indie filmmaker in New York-in other words, struggling to pay the rent and eating a lot of iffy cheeseburgers-when a friend hooked me up with a gig at a SoHo ad agency....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial