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This week, on May 25, data protection rules across Europe will undergo the biggest change in the last two decades. It's a change two years in the making. In April 2016, after years of negotiations and legal tussling, officials agreed upon the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A lot happened since my last post talking about my branding process. I started new projects with clients I already had which made me realise how much they trust me. I met new people willing to start new collaborations. I also received (and declined)...
Posted by: Fernando Ifran
When looking ahead, it's always important to keep one foot firmly rooted in the past, particularly when examining adland, which has been in a state of flux for years now. With agencies and brands alike shifting their allegiances towards digital with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The UK is looking set to join France in banning the sale of all diesel and petrol vehicles from 2040. The ban forms part of the UK Plan for Tackling Roadside Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations, the government's £3 billion vision for improving the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
North - Southbank Centre North has designed a new visual identity for London cultural institution, the Southbank Centre, to give it a more “consistent” and less “complex” brand. Southbank Centre, based in Lambeth, is...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Named after a 1997 album by indie rock-band Pavement, Brighten the Corners have been enlivening the design industry since they founded their studio back in 1999 (with the aforementioned album presumably playing on the office stereo). In the 17 years...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Design at Cheil London has created a series of limited-edition prints that celebrate the diversity of output it produces on behalf of its clients in a rotating exhibition sponsored by LOVEUROPE. The posters and postcards feature brief-rich,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
A crowdfunding campaign to bring a lightning-bolt statue in memory of the sadly departed David Bowie to London is aiming to raise just under £1 million in 28 days. The campaign, which launched on the Crowdfunder website last week, was organised by a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In a digital out of home first, Ocean Outdoor and Posterscope are collaborating with Tate to broadcast artist David Hockney’s iPad paintings across city and roadside out of home screens in seven UK cities. For seven days from today (Thursday,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Nostalgia in a digital age; a longing for local, community values in a culture of globalisation; striving for trust in a world that mistrusts big business; fear; bravery; trend. Whatever the reasons (and there are many), more and more rebrands are...
Posted by: Emily Jeffrey-Barrett
David Bowie's extensive collection of pieces by the Memphis group is set to be auctioned in London. Before his death earlier this year, the musician was an avid collector of works by the Italian designer Ettore Sottsass and the Milan-based Memphis...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“I first started thinking about making a startup simulator around 2012" said Francis Tseng, talking to Creativepool about his inspiration for The Founder - a meta, dystopian simulator that lets you launch and manage your own business. “I was...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Pink Floyd are widely regarded as the god-fathers of progressive rock music and one of the biggest and best bands of all time. The prog rock genre gained the title due to the way it's practitioners tried to push the boundaries of what what until then...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The UK's classic red phone boxes are being repurposed for a more contemporary need: mobile handset repairs. The British company Lovefone, which has repurposed thousands of phone boxes over the last few years, is opening the world's tiniest repair...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Say what you want about Kanye West, but the man knows how to make an impression. Indeed, the rapper, fashion designer, entrepreneur and notorious narcissist is perhaps one of the most recognisable people on the face of the earth, and that kind of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Co-working seems to be something of a hot topic in London at the moment, and considering the ever-escalating cost of living in the city, that's hardly surprising. Just last week I reported on the Collective Old Oak complex, and now, a New York-based...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In my family, I’ve always been referred to as the spiritual one, much like my grandfather whom I unfortunately never had the pleasure of meeting. Maybe because I was quiet and used to stare at people a lot growing up, or perhaps it was the...
Posted by: Huckletree
In my family, I’ve always been referred to as the spiritual one, much like my grandfather whom I unfortunately never had the pleasure of meeting. Maybe because I was quiet and used to stare at people a lot growing up, or perhaps it was the...
Posted by: Huckletree
Celebrity sells. It’s a marketing device that can be traced back to the 1760s when Josiah Wedgewood used Royal endorsements to create an aura around his pottery and make the Wedgewood name famous. Later, author Mark Twain licensed his name to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Hato - Pick Me Up Graphic Art festival Pick Me Up is launching a new identity based around a digital tool allowing anyone to create and submit a letterform to be used in the branding. The new identity has been created by Hato, who also developed the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Fun, it seems, is something we adults are a little short on. These days, the word is something we’ve learned to measure out or schedule in. It’s time to let lose; and we know just the place… Palais de Tokyo is easily the coolest...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
It's October 21st 2015, which any self-respecting 80's cinema fanatic will tell you with no small amount of enthusiasm is the date Marty McFly arrives in the future in Back to the Future 2. Of course, this isn't the first time we've caught up with a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Leo Burnett India Leo Burnett India has appointed Sachin Das Burma as Group Executive Creative Director at its Delhi office. Sachin comes to the team having built his credentials across several marquee brands. Sachin joins from Draft FCB Ulka where...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Depending where you reside in the UK, you may be a listener to XFM. The original home of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, its format has largely been studenty, with a playlist dedicated to indie guitar bands, and a presenter roster of music buffs...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Norwegian designer Magnus Voll Mathiassen (aka. MVM) has been working in design for over ten years. In that time he's amassed an impressive bulk of work. Whether it's sketchy minimalist portraits of pop culture icons like Kanye, or sketching for...
Posted by: Jade French
The UK's first major retrospective exhibition of Yves Saint Lauren opened last week at The Bowes Museum in County Durham (in the town of Barnard Castle). The museum partnered with Fondation Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent to bag the “Style...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Imagine if no artist had ever signed their canvas. What would the art market look like today, how would works be attributed; valued, bought and sold? Artists do identify their work and have access to well organised and established routes to revenues...
Posted by: Creative Barcode
Why do they bother? Politicians, I mean - and specifically their ideas concerning technology. Because each and every time they open their mouths on the subject, they make utter fools of themselves. A shining example of this idiocy appeared last...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The 60 second phone charger Storedot Flash Battery As convenient and powerful as smartphones have become, recharging them can be a monumental hassle. Indeed, there are few smartphones currently on the market that can make it through a day without...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Many of our capital city's most renowned cultural institutions are banding together in order to promote its exceptional upcoming Autumn season of events. Forecasts reveal that more than two million tourists are expected to visit the stellar...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In this article certified Photoshop expert Eric Renno, aka TipSquirrel takes us through some of the functions of a free mobile app, Snapseed. Over to you Eric: Snapseed has been around for a while and many readers may remember it as a desktop...
Posted by: Fotolia
Three days of non-stop events, lectures, and installations can be a sensory-overload for most, but not for the those creative professionals who attended Clerkenwell Design Week. It was impossible to get to everything with over 250 exhibiting brands,...
Posted by: Alexandra Schott
Here’s an odd thing about rock music: the more frightening it tries to be, the more hilariously ludicrous it becomes. Ozzy can bark at the moon till the end of time, but he’ll still be more golden retriever than werewolf. Ronnie James Dio...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
It was announced yesterday that Grey New York has been selected as the global agency of record for the Whitney Museum of American Art. The flagship office of the global creative advertising agency (which was named both ADWEEK's "Global Agency of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
- View Natalie's Creativepool profile here Twitter: @natnicklin Facebook: facebook.com/NatNicklinArt Website: www.natnicklin.co.uk "Natalie Nicklin utilizes a wide range of processes within her work; from found images and photography to modern...
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