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This afternoon, BrandOpus announced the launch of its rebranded student design awards program; Chrysalis. The rebrand comes as a result of a new partnership with the UK’s most popular beer brand, Carling. The iconic beer brand has set a bespoke,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With Donald J. Trump set to claim the mantle of “World's Most Powerful Man” this afternoon, I thought it was about time to start laughing through the tears. So, instead of pontificating on the dark days ahead when the real estate tycoon,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We already reported on Elton John: The Cut, the competition giving young filmmakers the chance to create the official music videos for iconic Elton John hits, but this afternoon, the judges line-up and official call for entries was finally announced....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For almost 50 years, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been seen as the tech industry's ground zero. This is the show, held annually in Las Vegas, though initially held in New York, that sets the trends for the year to follow. One of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
John Pawson and OMA have completed work on the Design Museum's new £83 million London home, which is set to open to the public tomorrow (November 24) at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington. Dutch architecture practice OMA...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When Nintendo dropped their surprise announcement yesterday afternoon, and finally gave us our first glimpse at the NX (now known as the “Nintendo Switch”), I was in two minds about it. First there was a sense of relief, as this reveal...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As a young man there were no lengths I wouldn't have gone to in order to enter The Crystal Maze. Such was my enthusiasm for the cult Channel 4 gameshow in fact, that I often constructed makeshift games in my back garden and managed to coerce my poor,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Every year, one of the most exciting aspects of a new season of The X Factor (besides those hilarious opening rounds of course) is seeing what TalkTalk and their partners will have come up with for their annual interactive idents. This year, for the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Ocean has launched its Rio 2016 sports coverage across its full motion city and roadside out of home screens with highlights of inspirational performances featuring Team GB competitors. In partnership with Team GB, Ocean Outdoor has scheduled the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The polarising Brad and Dave ads for the Enterprise Rent-A-Car company have been circling the UK for two years. Now, finally, digital agency DARE has decided to upgrade the “UK car hire with US customer service” campaign by rolling out...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Anyone who has ever said, or even intimated that the London ad scene isn’t competitive should have their illusions shattered by a football tournament due to take place later this afternoon. 26 agencies and 182 players are competing in an...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Wieden+Kennedy London has just launched its latest window installation: “Smileless Selfie.” In support of St Joseph’s Hospice, and in memory of the sadly departed Wieden+Kennedy Group Account Director, Cheryl Rogers, who, after...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Four leading florists have created installations transformed numerous areas of the London restaurant Sketch into blooming gardens or woodland glades in order to celebrate the Chelsea Flower Show, which is taking place this week. The Mayfair...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
One of the most important and exciting weeks in the creative calendar is finally here, and whilst things have only really just started to heat up over at the Old Truman Brewery, the first set of D&AD Pencil winners for 2016 have already been...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Innov8 is back for #BR2016 and this year we are taking the PITCH-BATTLE to the next level with a £50,000 cash prize for the winner! 100 global tech start-ups do battle over 2 days 20 world-class tech judges 3 battle stages 1 winner awarded on...
Posted by: Business Rocks
Gravity Road - Mikado Office Workers go WILD With Mikado First off, we have a new TV, VOD and social media campaign that has been created by Gravity Road for Mondelēz International biscuit brand, Mikado, and is the first for the brand to be...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Amsterdam introduces a new identity for Spa The Rain Project J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam has created a new digital campaign for Spa mineral water, which includes an online film called “The Rain Project,” with supplemental video content...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Furthering our partnership with the Dubai Lynx International Festival of Creativity in its 10th year, Creativepool Founder Michael Tomes (trying on his best German accent) sat down with Sapient Nitro's Continental European ECD Christian Waitzinger...
Posted by: Creativepool
In the interest of balance, Iv'e decided to cover the news currently rocking the tech world as more of a think piece taking a thorough look on both sides of the fence. First, however, the facts:- It seems like forever and a day that we’ve been...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
They say there’s a novel in all of us… so far I’ve found a dozen short stories and a handful of poems, but I’m working on it. With that in mind, I took a trip to my old haunt Manchester Metropolitan University for the...
Posted by: Michelle Collier
Australia's fourth largest telco, Amaysim, has revealed the reason behind the recent announcement by American TV acting legend, David Hasselhoff, that he was changing his name to “David Hoff.” The news managed to dupe many major...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I'll happily admit that it's probably been almost a decade since I last purchased a book from a physical retail outlet. Whilst in my teenage years I'd spent the best part of an afternoon every weekend perusing my local book and record stores for my...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The introduction to Grace Weaver’s Skinny Latte at Soy Capitán Berlin, promises to immerse you in the land of ‘milk and honey’. It’s an ominous assurance, there are emojis throughout the text and everything looks candy...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Digital marketing firm Quantcast hosted a rather ambitious (and some might say out-of-this-world) event on Wednesday (October 21) this week, which brought together some of the top innovators in the creative industries (growing brands, leading...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
DigitasLBi kicked off the IAB UK Digital Upfronts last Friday (October 16) with the DigitasLBi UK NewFront, which featured an eclectic array of speakers. The event also saw the unveiling of the “Periscope Periscope,” an interactive...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It felt weird and I couldn’t quite work out why. Something was different. And I don’t just mean it was a warm, sunny day in September rather than brass monkeys “shall we turn on the heating?” weather as we’ve been used...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
DigitasLBi announced this week that 2015 will see the biggest ever UK NewFront; the agency's collaborative thought-leadership programme aimed at stimulating creativity within the branded content marketplace. Now in its second year the DigitasLBi UK...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Sending Eric Cantona across the English Channel for Kronenbourg Heineken has revealed the outcome of the #LeBigSwim digitally-led campaign starring Eric Cantona for its premium lager brand Kronenbourg 1664. The campaign from Ogilvy & Mather London...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Rolling Stones are an anomaly in the world of rock and roll, an anomaly that many (myself included) would have seen put away in a museum around the turn on the 1980's, but have (against all odds and countless fickle trends) managed to survive and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yesterday, when the rest of the world's attention was focused squarely on the (admittedly abhorrent) FIFA scandal, die-hard nerds such as myself has our attention fixed not towards Sep Blatter's crumbling ivory tower, but to San Francisco. Google's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Clerkenwell Design Week unfortunately draws to a close this evening, but there's just enough time left for those interested in design and architecture to explore the marathon of design goodness on streets of EC1 before it's swept up in time for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Wes Anderson, who recently took home a brace of awards for the effortlessly wonderful “Grand Budapest Hotel,” is arguably one of the few remaining cinematic auteurs. His films manage to tap into that same space between the innocent wonder...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Anyone who came of age in the 1990's will probably remember AOL rather fondly as the leading internet service provider of a bygone age. When internet connections required us to ask our parents permission and actually successfully logging on was...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Today (7 May 2015) marks the commencement of the first UK general election in five years, and by necessity, it looks to be perhaps the most closely fought election battle in recent history. With 7 leaders fighting for your vote this time around, it's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Apple sell out. Again. A big week for Apple saw the company's mega-hyped Apple Watch sell out of its pre-order stock in a matter of hours. US pre-orders for the device kicked off on Friday morning, and by the afternoon, Apple released a statement...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Piracy is slowly killing cinema. That isn't an opinion, it's a fact. Torrent sites such as the Pirate Bay have made it so simple to download recent cinematic releases and enjoy them in the comfort of your own home, that even the technologically...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns