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A product designer's role is to create products that are both eye-catching and easy to use. To do this, they must work with developers, engineers, marketing managers and other parties involved in the project to determine the desired outcomes. They...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Research suggests that creatives only spend around 29% of their day on creative work, and are often preoccupied by administrative processes such as project management, managing review loops, and keeping on top of admin. Office clutter, and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Whereas graphic designers operate solely with stationary media and animators literally like to keep things moving, multimedia designers need to effectively be masters of both trades. Multimedia designing combines different media formats to send...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Are you visually creative, and tempted to work remotely for yourself? And do you have a brain that’s equal parts creative and mathematic? Do you also consider yourself something of a natural touch when it comes to design work? Then you might be...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I’ve been a freelance writer for well over a decade now and have never once felt like a “second best” option. I might have fallen into freelancing, but I did so with open eyes and knew exactly what the drawbacks would be (primarily...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Purpose-driven marketing. Purpose-driven brands. Purpose-driven products. These days, it seems the industry is powered by purpose. Which is hardly a surprise, with poll after poll suggesting customers want to buy from brands that are more socially...
Posted by: Woven Agency
Making it easier to consume more sustainably is far from easy but changing why we consume requires us to unpick and then serve human motivation in new, more sustainable ways. So why do we buy? Obviously, sometimes we buy because we need...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Whether you’re a freelance 3D artist, graphic designer, illustrator or writer - really, no matter your daily occupation, you will sooner or later be forced to measure your performance. Yes, the flexibility and freedom of freelancing are hard...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
‘How I became a six-figure freelancer’. ‘The reality of being a six-figure freelancer’. And perhaps the worst of all: ‘Here’s exactly what I do every day to earn six figures as a freelancer’. You’ve...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The best graphic designers inhabit that space between the creative and the business-minded; the tangible and the intangible. It would be quite easy (and reductive) to simply take the phrase literally and describe a graphic designer simply as...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
“The freelance revolution”, they’re calling it. People all over the western world (especially in Europe and US) are quitting their longstanding, once granted jobs to pursue new opportunities in the freelance scene. It certainly has...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Working for startups is surely exciting. Smaller teams feel more familial, warm and human, without all the hassle of huge hierarchy and escalating an escalation to the higher management team. Unfortunately, some startups are also ruthlessly attentive...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The crest of the Covid redundancies wave may well be a thing of the past, but there is no denying that the impact of a pandemic on such a vast scale will be felt in the job market for years to come. With furloughs and lay-offs spreading across the...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
In 2015, nearly 40% of the UK’s self-employed workforce did not file their taxes by the HMRC deadline. That accounts for over 890,000 freelancers in the UK, who all faced a £100 late fee. The mere thought of taxes is often nightmare fuel...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
As businesses, agencies have the grave burden to make profit with which they can generate growth and help the team thrive. With that in mind, pricing your agency services is arguably the most difficult part of founding and running a successful...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
A guide to writing rates, with tips and advice on how to price your freelance services Writers are masters of words, weavers of stories and often incredible storytelling enthusiasts. When writing freelance and online, structure is their best friend,...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Have you ever heard of a no-waste designer? Creative Director of Misfit Creative Pete Brady might be a first. Pete believes that everything in design must have a purpose. There is no room for wasted space, no way that any part of a design may be...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
So 2020 was the year in which we saw brands moving increasingly closer to their consumers, in an attempt to show an understanding and humanity in the wake of the Coronavirus crisis. However, this was but the culmination of a long path which global...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
And what the self-employed need to know about leaving the EU. That’s right, I used the dreaded ‘B’ word. As you can imagine, Brexit will have a certain impact on freelancers in the UK, and to an extent, to those working from Europe...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Few are struggling right now like freelancers and independent businesses all around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought small local brands to their knees, even forcing some of them to consider how to temporarily cease operations. The folks...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Dreams are funny old things. You’re playing for Scotland and you’ve just scored the winning goal in the dying minutes of the World Cup final - a clear giveaway this is a dream - the referee’s blown the whistle… and you...
Posted by: Ant O'Neill
Welcome to part II of our exploration of the conscious consumer. In part I, we tracked the roots of this demanding new mindset, one that is forcing brands to show us they care about the planet and demonstrate it single-mindedly. We asked: “In...
Posted by: Southpaw
Working as a freelancer in the creative industry is highly rewarding, but it can also be a daunting process to keep on top of your finances being out on your own. There’s lots to think about including whether the rules of operating as a sole...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
TMW Unlimited - Simple The glamorous girls of Little Mix star in the new advertising campaign for Unilever’s skincare brand Simple, created by TMW Unlimited. Part of a tie-up between the award-winning band and Unilever, the activity also...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv - US Open The US Open has rebranded to coincide with the tennis competition’s 50th anniversary, revealing a new logo by Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. One of the four Grand Slam tennis events that take place...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Elon Musk's $500 flamethrower is officially available for pre-order The flamethrower that Elon Musk teased The Boring Company would start selling, which he also tweeted was sentient, has a safe word (“cryptocurrency”) and comes with a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Sebastian Errazuriz vandalises AR version of Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog sculpture Snapchat recently paired up with the artist Jeff Koons to place an augmented reality version of his famous Balloon Dog sculpture in New York's Central Park - but in a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The New England Patriots will clash with the Atlanta Falcons at Super Bowl 51 this coming Sunday, February 5th, but we're not interested in any of that. No. We're only interested in what happens between the plays. As is usually the case, brands are...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
David&Goliath - KIA Kia is wasting no time in teasing its Super Bowl ad this year. After releasing two short teaser spots last week, the automaker has now released another teaser spot starring its celebrity spokesperson, Melissa McCarthy. The latest...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With the post-Brexit pound plummeting faster than Donald Trump's approval rating, Apple have decided to set a terrifying precedent in the tech community by raising the price of all apps in the UK by 25%. In real terms, this means an app that used to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Anyone who has been watching AMC's “Halt and Catch Fire,” which takes place during the computer boom of the mid 1980s (and if you haven't you really should be) will have noticed that online retail transactions between users are actually...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whilst you might all be more than a little sick at this point of hearing about how the Brexit has monumentally screwed us all over, one area we have yet to really touch on is the design industry, which has been thrown into genuine crisis in recent...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
More and more young professionals are going freelance with numbers of graduates increasing and job security after university looking less and less likely. Many new graduates cite control and flexibility as reasons for choosing a path in freelancing...
Posted by: Boox
Translating New Year resolutions for Booking.com Booking.com recently revealed the “Best 2016 Ever” campaign from Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, which encourages people to turn their (most likely) doomed New Year’s resolutions into...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Internet is a prime place to gather people together. Sometimes you don’t necessarily need a group of trolls coming together to slam the Yeezy Boost, or unendingly comment on the blue-black-gold-white dress debate. You might wonder why these...
Posted by: Jade French
Mussel meat A leading discount frozen food company is selling bags of 'mussel meat'. I may be wrong, but I suspect these are the unfortunate shellfish deemed too manky to be sold whole, and are therefore mushed up and flogged in a heaving mass. Good...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw