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'The blinking white guy' is a meme used to express incredulity when responding to social media posts, usually published on Twitter. The gif has become the go-to response for internet users to show they simply cannot believe something and is instantly...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
Generally speaking, the morning after the Oscars means everyone talking about the Oscars, trading opinions on the gaffes, the big musical numbers and the controversial wins. This year, however, I awoke the morning after not to hordes of messages...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For over a year now we’ve been waxing lyrical on this site about the creative potential of AI, but we’ve also never shied away from highlighting the potential pitfalls. One of those pitfalls was underlines quite spectacularly this week...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In today's world of information overload and high competition, creating effective and audience-engaging content becomes a necessity for any business or creative professional. Trends in content creation provide marketers with new ideas and tools to...
Posted by: Taker | Maker
Over the past year, it’s been hard not to notice some pretty spectacular and bizarre advertising-stunts - from Maybelline’s mascara brush on the front of tube trains to Jacquemus bags cruising the streets of Paris. The surge in AI...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In 2023, a meme could quite literally make or break a campaign. Whether or not that’s exciting or profoundly depressing will depend on many things (including, of course, your age) but it can’t be denied the memes generated in the wake of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Life stages and identities are more elastic than ever before. We’re less able to fit into the boxes of old; people are having fewer children, doing it later in life or not at all, living longer and ageing better, changing careers and embracing...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“Apple can do no wrong.” This was a mantra that seemed to permeate the first two decades of the century, when innovation after innovation continued to spill out of Steve Jobs like a golden faucet. Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs. While...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
With design critique, especially within the passionate world of sports, it’s easy to jump in two footed to disparage any new identity. However, the North American World Cup 2026 logo has the potential to become as memorable as Mexico 1968 or...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This week, we’re shining our company spotlight on the London-based Documentary Production company, Candour. We spoke with Co-founder and producer Zachary Crawley on the studio’s humble beginnings and its current status as a defiantly...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Are trends dying? One of the most traditionally accepted fashion trend cycle theories is that it lasts 20 years and undergoes 5 phases: Introduction Rise Peak Decline Obsolescence This 20-year cycle is still present today for macrotrends,...
Posted by: WMH&I
Super Bowl: it’s the annual advertising extravaganza where 30-second slots costing $7m (that’s $233k a second) and audiences top over 200m (or two-thirds of the entire US population). Whilst the Kansas City Chiefs were victorious this...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Design used to feel optional in tech, something to be sprinkled on at the end. Now, leading companies like Apple, Uber and TikTok rely on design and designers to identify new ideas and help users accomplish their goals - whether looking for their...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
After releasing the first non-fungible tokens (so-called NFT) the world of cryptocurrency but also art are not the same. It completely changed how we look at pieces of art, collectibles, and many popular culture assets, like investments or memes on...
Posted by: Creativepool Partner
The written word is a funny thing. It’s something `almost all of us have a basic understanding of and use every day to reply to emails, forward distracting memes to our co-workers and message our significant others about dinner. But how often...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Sparked by a post on a social media thread where you least likely find much that was meme-worthy*, @Rob Estreitinho had a nice graph illustrating the rise and fall of social sites ranked by the volume of the popular shortcut-to-the-heart-of-culture...
Posted by: Richard
Speaking as someone that didn’t even realise they were a millennial until it was already too late (I’d already got heavily into the craft beer scene of my own volition), I honestly can’t say that I spared much thought for the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I have something of a conflicted personal history with Hermes. My long-suffering other half is a serial online shopper - one of many habits that blossomed over lockdown - so our local delivery driver has become a familiar face over the last two...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In 2021, amp predicted a rise in investment in audio branding and audio-focused content. As many brands shifted to more immersive digital storytelling and e-commerce, the role of sound in branding across all industries has significantly changed. New...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Matt Batten, ECD at Momentum Worldwide Australia, describes his country as a "small and insular market." When your agency knows that and still manages to secure, create and produce groundbreaking work, you know there must be something really special...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
If you love kittens and have been around the internet for a while, you know about cryptocurrency and the rise of NFTs. Spelled out as Non-Fungible Tokens, NFTs are a new form of bitcoin that is being discussed extensively in the creative industry and...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
I used to think I would never understand TikTok. It was clearly not for me, made for natural performers and younger people who loved to mess around with silly challenges. But then I saw some friends following influencers who did educational content,...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The internet has been a pretty spectacular invention but it's not exactly been great for the environment. This is where Ecosia plans to step in and put a very green stamp on the search engine market. The concept behind Ecosia is that it's a search...
Posted by: Creativepool
The written word is a funny thing. It’s something `almost all of us have a basic understanding of and use every day to reply to emails, forward distracting memes to our co-workers and message our significant others about dinner. But how often...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Brands owe consumers much more than they usually let transpire. As both their advocates and their fiercest critics, consumers will fight for a brand they believe in and they will be ready to take it down just as easily. Often, a brand’s story...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Of course we are in the list. Any creative professional will need some daily inspiration to overcome the occasional roadblock at work. It’s just the way things are - we need to look at art to remain inspired. Whether you are a designer, an...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
… And breathe! The 2020 US Presidential election is over and former Vice President, Joe Biden, will become US President on January 20th. But what have we learnt from this election? Beyond the value of muting microphones during debates and...
Posted by: Mary Keane Dawson
Nicolas ‘Nico’ Perez is an ambitious, ‘ideas-first’ bilingual Creative Director and Copywriter from Chile with 10 years of experience working in different countries and creating integrated campaigns for major brands like...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How do you fight Holocaust denial to deliver the truth to young people? How do you crack a fantastic campaign for Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events? And just how do you keep your mind fresh and open to an endless stream of new...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We've just wrapped up Mental Health Awareness Month and we've seen some incredible works from all across the creative industry to fight the stigma of talking about your mental health, whoever you are and wherever you are from. With suicide as the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s Summer 2012. The hot Spanish sun is unforgiving as it beats down on the quiet streets of Borja, a medieval town a few hours north east of Madrid. Cecilia Giménez, an elderly resident, pictured below, takes shelter from the heat in...
Posted by: Richard Holman
In a multiscreen world, it’s safe to say marketers have their work cut out for them. Capturing and keeping consumers’ notoriously short attention spans is hard enough, but that attention is now becoming increasingly split. Multi-screening has...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Politics and marketing have never been so closely entwined in an age of 24-hour news and false facts. But after three years of Brexit burnout, the marketing teams behind the parties fighting in today’s historic general election have never had a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
John Lewis has finally launched its Christmas ad for 2019, which tells the story of a little girl and her excitable dragon, Edgar, and unites the brand with partner company Waitrose. The spot, created by adam&eveDDB and directed by Dougal Wilson, is...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
If you’ve watched the video clip for This Is America as many times as we have you probably have a lot of ideas about the lyrics and visual representations throughout the 4-minute long video (and respect for the musical prowess of Donald Glover aka...
Posted by: Lobster