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Latin American hardware store Construrama has launched a new campaign informing consumers about DIY best practices, while at the same time helping to rebuild Puerto Rico following hurricane damage in 2017. Two years ago, the country was hit by the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Whether you like it or not (and that will probably depend very much on which side of 30 you find yourself) TikTok has been moulding consumer behaviour in its own impatient image for years now but for a lot of brands who saw the way the tide was...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
By Gaynelle Brautigam, Head of Innovation at Tactical Sometimes, inequality isn’t easy to spot until you experience it first-hand. For example, I never gave much thought to being a second-generation immigrant, until I started applying for my...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? Hmm, so long ago now… I got into ‘editing stuff on a timeline to manipulate emotions’ from doing music production on an Amiga in my bedroom as a teenager and transferred that idea to video when...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Imagine a world where learning isn't confined to the four walls of a classroom or the pages of a textbook. Where boundless knowledge awaits, just a simple scan away. In today's dynamic educational landscape, QR codes are transforming this vision into...
Posted by: Creativepool Partner
As someone who has been freelancing for the best part of two decades now, I noticed a definite sea change in the weeks and months following the dawn of the pandemic back in 2020. Little by little, friends that had been “company men”...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In the world of finance, binary options trading has emerged as a popular, albeit controversial, investment method. At its core, binary options trading involves predicting whether an asset's price will rise or fall within a specified time frame....
Posted by: Creativepool Partner
How did you get into the industry? After completing my Art & Design studies at the Durban University of Technology, I dived with youthful enthusiasm into my first attempt at illustrating a children’s book, written (dutifully) by my mother back...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Social media has changed the way we live. That might sound like grandstanding for a second, but if you truly take some time to step back and analyse the incestuous way Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have managed to wean their ways into our shared...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Wonder Vision is a creative production studio driven by design and obsessed with detail. Starting with powerful ideas, they solve content production challenges for some of the world’s most ambitious brands. This week, we caught up with...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? A combination of both luck and being in the right place at the right time! Having taught myself HTML and a bit of Photoshop 4 (plus the fact I could draw/illustrate which came in handy - I think that was the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? When I was 18, I was lucky enough to meet someone working in the industry while on vacation in Portugal. We were driving around town and he pointed to a poster he had designed, and I was drawn to the idea of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A senior motion and digital designer with over 10 years of experience in the industry, Nor Mira Canales is a man loaded with total dedication and passion for what he does. From brief to render, he takes care of every part of the process and is also...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A freelance graphic designer and illustrator with project management and art direction experience, Florentyna Butler (Flo to her friends) has worked with many brands over the years and on projects including packaging, art prints, social media posts...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Natasha Kinaru is a Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer and Editor who got her start in oil paintings and drawings before finding her true calling as a director. Today, we discuss how and why she transitioned from the slow and meditative world of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Virtual production has arrived with a bang. Big name producers - most famously for The Mandalorian - are filming with huge state-of-the-art LED walls as virtual backdrops, instead of going out on location. But you don't have to be Disney to create...
Posted by: We Are Tilt
I built my first website in December 1993. Back then, one had to create the HTML using a plain text editor, then view the page in a web browser called "Mosaic". Images were rudimentary... usually a "GIF" format, and they had to be relatively small...
Posted by: Tagmakers
While we’ve shone our company spotlight on dozens of exceptional design studios here at Creativepool, we very rarely get the chance to speak to in-house studios. That’s we we jumped at the chance when information services company...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
While he is more often than not simply referred to as "That motion guy", George Hurrell is actually a motion and animation specialist with a background in visual communication and design. With over 15 years of studio experience working...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“From my earliest days in the crib, I longed for nothing more than to look at pictures and draw them.” These are the words of this week’s Member Spotlight honouree, Izabel Ciesinska, an illustrator who might very well have been born...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was about 10 years ago when Tom Readdy founded Yes Please Productions with his partner, Lucy. Since then, much has changed - but their joint ambition has remained exactly the same. Both music obsessives and absolutely in love with consuming...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Streams of ink (virtual or otherwise) have been employed to describe the intrinsic potential of packaging as part of the consumer experience with a product and brand. Packaging has a fundamental part in the buying process, even though it stands...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Freelance Art Director, 3D & Motion Designer Csaba Molnár has been in this industry for over 10 years, more than enough to develop a broad range of skills that embraces modelling on a number of levels. It is enough to take a quick glance at the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The best things happen by chance. Jay Forth's story fits this very well. Having started out in a sales environment, Jay's creative spirit soon became interested in the way video games were made. After toying around with a few editors with pre-made...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It doesn't come off as a surprise to us that Rupert Allcock draws his personal inspiration from ordinary people doing unordinary things. Breaking expectations is pretty much what creativity is all about - it is where the award-winning works...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There surely are some stunningly talented artists out there. 3D and VFX Artist Daniel Magyar is without a doubt one of them. A fan of 3D realism and clearly a skilled creative professional, Daniel has been playing around with 3D software since his...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Like many other creative pros, Jake Blackman found love at first sight when exposed with what is now his life career. Choosing life behind a camera rather than in front of it, Jake set out to create and edit on iMovie from a very tender age,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How do you make the jump from a car manufacturer to freelance filmmaking? Will Riddell, freelance director and producer, might know a thing or two about that. Having worked for some years in APA production, Will set up his own company in 2017 to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The third dimension has been enticing artists for decades, but it’s only in relatively recent years that some incredibly talented creatives have been able to truly utilise the flexibility, the depth, the power and the potential of 3D artistry....
Posted by: Creativepool
On World Refugee Day (20th June) UNICEF launched a campaign to encourage people to think differently about refugee and migrant children, to focus on what the adoptive communities gain. Created by VaynerMedia, its team of senior art director Lianne...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It's always surprising to realise how much you can learn about a creative by just looking at their work. When we look at Izabela Ciesinska's illustrations, we see warmth, passion, affection and love for art and family. We see an interest in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Determination can go a long way. Though VCNI junior video editor Sidney Berthier doesn't explicitly say it, he has plenty of determination to spare and his current career path was solely guaranteed by a host of childhood dreams. His path may have...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Panic mode has officially been engaged and no industry is safe from the fallout. The tendrils of COVID-19 have spread with wanton abandon, latching onto every sector; decimating some whilst only wounding others. For freelancers, the sting is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The world has descended into chaos and this can’t be news to anyone who hasn’t been silently meditating in a Californian desert for the last fortnight (Jared Leto truly is the gift that keeps on giving). The creative industries are made...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a multiscreen world, it’s safe to say marketers have their work cut out for them. Capturing and keeping consumers’ notoriously short attention spans is hard enough, but that attention is now becoming increasingly split. Multi-screening has...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
By the time the clock strikes 1 pm, most of 'the Pack' descend on the kitchen to grab a bite and get some much-needed screen rest. But not Henry and Abel, our in-house developers, who over the past four weeks have been sacrificing their sacred lunch...
Posted by: The Flash Pack