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The Robot ordered to write lines as punishment for a crime not yet committed A robotic arm writes repeated promises not to hurt humans in artist Filipe Vilas-Boas and architect Paul Coudamy's installation The Punishment. The piece was designed to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Some major changes are coming to Apple's software according to CEO Tim Cook, who shared details with the tech community and the world at large this Monday at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference. There are also a few big hardware refreshes on...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With over 1 billion worldwide users and a 70% open rate, WhatsApp is every marketer’s dream. But historically, successful marketing campaigns across the world’s most popular messaging app have been scarce. When WhatsApp changed its...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Jamiroquai and the 3D-printed light-up helmet London designer Moritz Waldemeyer based his headgear he created for the lead singer of Jamiroquai, “Jay Kay,” on an endangered animal. Waldemeyer designed the hat for the Jamiroquai's frontman, who...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Alongside my recent pieces, Tech Trends: AI in 2017 and Creative Opinions on AI, I also conducted a series of interviews with some varied and insightful industry figures about their own experiences, hopes, thoughts, feelings and fears regarding the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Dan Phillips, Head of Digital and Interactive at MPC Advertising Cutting to the core of who we are and evoking primitive human emotion forms the basis of experiences that are talked about, shared and remembered. In advertising, therefore, it is no...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Consumer goods brands are increasingly looking at direct-to-consumer (DTC) opportunities, according to Warc, the global marketing intelligence service. Research suggests that cutting out or minimising the retailer 'middleman' allows brands that...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The idea behind an open-plan creative office is pretty solid. Whilst locking ourselves away in solitude and “Just cracking on with it” might be a tried and tested working method for those in less naturally collaborative industries, but as...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
What does it take to be a Founder of the next best tech company? Or the Director at a top agency? A sensational appetite for learning is definitely one of them. Inside the Mind is a new series of interviews where we jump into the heads of leaders &...
Posted by: Alexandra Schott
As part of my ongoing series of articles focusing on how technology is gradually overtaking humanity in terms of creative prowess, I've decided to this month focus on Artificial Intelligence, with a few recent news pieces that sent my tech-paranoia...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Neuro virtual tailoring system looks to change the face of fashion forever French designer Clement Balavoine has developed a workflow process to virtually design and tailor clothes using a total of three different software programmes. Called...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Analytics firm SocialBakers reported a huge increase from 2014-2015 in the amount of emojis used in social media posts by major brands. This set the groundwork for Domino’s and 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool’s dedicated emoji marketing...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
For the average Jane, the term Big Data is almost impossible to comprehend - or at least, it is to me. I’m well aware that data cloaks and polices every aspect of our lives and that my search histories, numerous email inboxes, online bank...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Your name on your coffee makes your order feel more personal, but what if, in the few moments it took to make your cappuccino, a coffee shop found out everything about you and wrote that on your cup too? That’s exactly what happens in a new...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Last year we started something called TUG LIFE. This year, we’re delighted to have secured a bigger pop-up store, at the end of the iconic Brick Lane at the heart of Shoreditch. How digital media is driving real-life behaviour From cultural...
Posted by: Tug
Nobody enjoys long-haul plane journeys. They're cramped, noisy, either too hot or too cold, and it's almost impossible to get comfortable, even in first class. All this could very well change in the near future, however, if Seymourpowell has anything...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Golden Nintendo As a self-confessed and unashamed nerd with a mean nostalgic streak, I have noticed of late that retro gaming is no longer the affordable pursuit it once was. It depends largely on whether or not you're a player or a collector of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last Saturday (March 12) was World Day Against Cyber Censorship, and in a unique partnership to mark the occasion, Amnesty International and AdBlock combined to deliver 156,789,119 impressions of messages by prominent privacy and free speech...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Nextbit launches the gorgeous, crowd-funded Robin phone Kicking off a rather phone-heavy week in tech news, Nextbit has launched a new crowd-funded Android phone, which uses integrated cloud storage. The Robin was designed by Scott Croyle, former...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
'If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all' - or so the saying goes. Of course, in the age of social media, the chances of anyone saying nothing at all is very slim indeed. One only has to scan the average street for...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
A good laugh can go a long way. Which is why we were not so paitently anticipating some pretty glorious work when we learned that Saatchi & Saatchi London had teamed up with comedian Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson from the criminally underrated Parks &...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With the Syrian refugee crisis seemingly becoming more bleak by the day, and no viable solution to the situation on the horizon, design and tech consultancies are working overtime in order to help. To that end, a new shelter, built entirely from...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Generally speaking, campaigns based around toilets will often utilise pretty broad humour to get the point across, because we all know, toilets (or at least what happens on them) is usually quite funny (come on, admit it). But a sobering new campaign...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The first VR musical instrument is backed by Abbey Road A virtual reality musical instrument has been developed that can potentially mimic thousands of instruments through a unique (and really rather clever) 3D sensor. The design of the boldly named...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Contrary to what Google thinks, I am not interested in dating Christians. No offence to Christians, of course - just that I’m married. So I’m getting a little annoyed that when I log on to various websites, I get more or less harangued...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Facebook has your back! Just when we were all quite content in picturing Facebook as an irredeemable, voyeuristic cess pit, (not that it would stop us using it of course) they’ve only gone and revealed themselves as bastions of the revolution!...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A web author/editor is responsible for the content and images used on a website. They plan, research, write copy and edit the content of a website. They may be involved in providing copy for the internet or for an organisation's internal intranet...
Posted by: Creativepool
The man with the Bionic eyes In yet another case of reality catching up with science fiction, an elderly man in the UK has had his sight partially restored thanks to a cutting-edge, bionic retinal implant which converts images from a miniature...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With a stunning count of mobile app design and development companies promising to deliver you a fantastic app, it's quite obvious to get confused as to which one to choose and which one to skip. While many of these firms are able to keep up their...
Posted by: Xicom Technologies
As technology continues to be a growing part of our lives, we are so quick to register so much information into our smartphones and tablet without reading the small print or even reviews for that matter. We are constantly wary of identity theft. Is...
Posted by: Digital Recruitment Company
Nintendo shoot down Android rumours Whilst all of gadget land might well be salivating at the prospect of today's impending WWDC Apple keynote speech (check back tomorrow for my thoughts on that), it is the Californian tech giants primary rival in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
WPP's Data Alliance and Facebook this week announced that they will be deepening their global partnership in order to give marketers access to new data-driven solutions that deliver personalisation at scale on Facebook. The multi-year partnership is...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Is there anything Richard Branson can't do? Well, besides affordable space flight (too soon?) and soft drinks (anyone who remembers Virgin Cola no doubt still has nightmares about it) of course? It would appear not, as the billionaire Virgin tycoon...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Amnesty International, the human rights charity, recently unveiled a new tool that will allow users to detect government surveillance. The “Detekt” tool, which can be downloaded for free via a bespoke website, detects most well known...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Global programmatic advertising agency VivaKi announced yesterday that it will be working with Publicis Health Media (PHM) to bring programmatic advertising to the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector. PHM will be using a custom version VivaKi's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Looking down my Twitter feed, it seems to me that the 140-character-loving public has forgotten something. They've forgotten how to be interesting. That includes me, incidentally, before you go and tweet something rude @Ashley_Morrison in response. I...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison