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With many big brands dipping their toe into the video games industry, we’ve seen a shift towards gamification - the application of typical elements of game playing to the customer experience. Augmented reality (AR) in particular, promises to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Just when you thought all of the year’s trends had been discussed, dissected and digested, here’s one final piece of insight from some of the leading female voices in advertising. Pulled from a report by Digital Leading Ladies (the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The global pandemic has presented the creative industries with a great series of unique challenges. For creative professionals around the UK and beyond, such challenges led to most of the industry envisioning new, innovative creative solutions,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Who would have thought, one year ago, that success in 2020 would be measured by the capacity to survive a pandemic? We know Emma Sexton as the CEO and founder of creative agency MYWW, founder of the Inside Out Awards, creative expert in residence at...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This afternoon, Shutterstock announced its ninth annual Creative Trends Report, which uses the billions of image, video and music searches and downloads made on the platform in the last 12 months to show us what’s trending around the globe. By...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
From Cristiano Ronaldo’s own fashion line CR7 to David Beckham’s now iconic partnership with Calvin Klein, athletes have long occupied a central position in the cultural zeitgeist. The combination of athletic prowess and celebrity status...
Posted by: Brandpie
Direct-to-consumer (D2C) retailers are fast gaining ground in an overcrowded market at a time when high street retail’s woes are only deepening. As iconic brands like Barney’s and Victoria’s Secret struggle in the US and Mothercare...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Ragged Edge - Assembly Most hotels want you to spend time in them. But for millennial travellers, the priority is to get out and experience the city. Assembly is a new hotel brand from Criterion Capital, designed to inspire people to make the most...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Online reviews, blogs and social networks have given everyone with access to the internet a chance to be heard. An easy outlet to connect with people, share experiences and spread ideas. The subsequent rise of bloggers and influencers quickly gained...
Posted by: VAMP
Pi Studios - WeTransfer Pi Studios, the Amsterdam-based premium entertainment company and part of the WE ARE Pi family, has created a brand new global documentary series for WeTransfer. The four-part series explores the creative process of some of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Cake/Havas London Havas UK’s creative agency Havas London and sport and entertainment agency Cake have bolstered their creative, digital and production teams with three significant, senior hires. Patrick Cahill joins Havas London from...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
VML VML has promoted God-is Rivera to the newly created position of Director of Inclusion and Cultural Resonance. Rivera has been a key part of the evolution of VML’s Inclusion & Diversity committee. Being a black woman in the advertising industry...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Discussions about chatbots have been doing the rounds for a while now, they're usually encased within a ‘will they/won’t they?' hit the mainstream-type discussion, in which marketers like to tell us we’re on the cusp of THE next big...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
It was a few short years ago that Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin founded Vrse, their premier platform for Virtual Reality content creation which enables the technologies needed to create the most innovative and immersive forms of human storytelling. At...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Heathrow has launched its first ever television campaign to celebrate 70 years of flight at the airport. “First Flight” is set to David Bowie’s little-known but lovely “When I Live My Dream,” and tells the story of the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BBH Los Angeles, in support of The White House and Civic Nation, has released a star-studded campaign to launch the first United State of Women Summit, which will address critical issues facing women in 2016 and which takes place in Washington DC on...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Three guys got lucky with a nomination for their startup; Fabrik at this year’s Webby Awards next to industry giants Squarespace and Adobe. This short guide explains how they got this far and why you should back the little guys. Help them...
Posted by: Fabrik
Microsoft use the Super Bowl to show off their Hololens Imagining the future for NFL fans Whilst it seems we can't go a week without hearing about similar projects from Sony and Valve, there’s still very little solid information available to the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The temperature may have dropped to a Baltic minus 9, but that didn’t chill the atmosphere in Berlin last week. Since Berlin Fashion Week first opened it’s doors in 2007, the fashionable elite have been flocking to Europe’s creative...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
For the last two years Berlin has been the home of CICLOPE Festival, the only international event fully dedicated to the craft of moving image. Since moving to the heart of Berlin’s über cool Mitte district in 2012, it has become THE place...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Live Stream: 9:00 - Where Video Meets Spectacular Smart Screens At our workshop, you’ll hear how dynamic, full-motion video thrives on iconic, massively scaled digital screens that offer high dwell times at famous destinations like Times...
Posted by: Creativepool
To mark the launch of a new, more sophisticated and calorie conscious lunchtime menu item called the Ricebox, as well as London Fashion Week, KFC challenged British designer Katie Eary, to design a clothing collection in a lunch hour to reflect the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Help the blind to experience a smile for Listerine The team at JWT London have created a rather special film and designed and built a bespoke app that lets blind people know when someone is smiling at them, to launch Listerine’s Advance White...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
AMO, the research branch of the Dutch design studio OMA, recently created a unique runway for the Prada Autumn/Winter menswear show that used clever design trickery to make it appear as though the catwalk stretched on into infinity. At the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey made headlines when he agreed to star in the Netflix original series House of Cards-and then made even more headlines when the critically acclaimed show began winning Emmys and Golden Globes. Spacey was the...
Posted by: Publicis Sapient
Last week Twitter launched the Buy Button which is a new way for users to discover and buy products on Twitter. The new tool will make shopping from mobile devices convenient and easy and provides sellers with a new way to turn the direct...
Posted by: Creativepool
Spring can mean different things for different people but in the design world it's all about the nominees and the winners of Designs Of The Year. Acting as the main event at the Design Museum until the 25th August, the seven different categories...
Posted by: Jessica Hazel
This week we all heard the sad news that fashion designer L'Wren Scott was found hanged in an apparent suicide in her New York apartment on Monday. Although a successful fashion designer in her own right and professional model before this, Scott's...
Posted by: Jessica Hazel
We’ve all had fantasies about various ways of quitting our jobs. In fact, some of you out there may even have turned freelance because you just couldn’t take the permanent life any more - either because of your boss or the work itself....
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Tell us what you do for a living and who you work for? Executive Creative Director at G2 What does that involve? Idea curator and cat herder in equal measure. How did you get started in the industry? A kindly uncle showed me how to make money...
Posted by: Creativepool
As you might have already heard repeatedly from every eager fashionista out there, there are just five weeks left until H&M reveals it's latest in a long line of designer collaborations Versace for H&M on November 19th for the forthcoming winter...
Posted by: Creativepool
Back in 2008 Brit Insurance and the Design Museum teamed up to bring us the Brit Insurance Design Award an international, annual award ceremony and supporting exhibition for up and coming designers in the categories of architecture, fashion,...
Posted by: Creativepool
As I reflect on the recent changes in the fashion industry, I am compelled to write about an issue that has been on my mind for quite some time: Why do holding companies “hate” female creative directors? The idea first occurred to me...
Posted by: Maksimilian Kallhed
Grey London - KOOVS Now this is something truly impressive. Many people balk at the idea of using a music video as advertisement, as they see it as some kind of infringement on artistry. That's largely bollocks though, as I'd argue that any music...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Huw Thomas addressed a capacity crowd at the inaugural RunwaysUK Conference, 'Airport Infrastructure for a Future Britain'. The event was attended by Sir Howard Davies, head of the Government's Airports Commission, and moderated by Newsnight...
Posted by: Foster + Partners