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It might seem obvious, which way up to hold your camera, but there’s a lot more to orientation and viewpoint than simply not taking too many pictures of your feet. Change where you are in relation to your subject or how you frame them and you...
Posted by: Fotolia
Robert Kendal, Managing Director of Yulio Technologies, on how we can apply what we know about the 2D world in VR and his own experiences with VR design. Finding yourself facing your first leap into VR? Don’t worry, you’ve got this. VR...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
by Ashley Morrison Look, love, just get back in the kitchen where you belong. What on earth are you doing, straying away from the cooker? Leash too long? Oh, mind you, with the leash off, you might as well do the vacuuming when you've finished...
Posted by: Creativepool
Convincing someone that you’re right can feel like climbing Mount Everest in flip-flops. Have you ever given a completely logical explanation, only to be met with a blank stare or, worse, a wall of resistance? This challenge isn’t unique...
Posted by: Cris Hödar-Rasmussen
Creativity is typically viewed as a softer skill. Consequently, it’s rarely valued in business as much as it ought to be. When budgets are planned and operations strategised, finance and technology are favoured, with creative roles habitually...
Posted by: Dawn Creative
Overcoming Confirmation Bias To Improve Business Outcomes Of all the cognitive biases that affect business, confirmation bias might be the most insidious. It’s a challenge for many companies that can negatively impact performance. Smart...
Posted by: Lysle Wickersham
Anyone that’s been working within the creative industries for any significant length of time will probably have a few horror stories to share when it comes to being on the receiving end of an unwarranted torrent of abuse. We don’t like to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Coley Porter Bell has embarked on a major packaging rebrand, telling the stories behind the food, and bringing consistency and clear navigation to over 1000 products for Tesco’s “Finest” range. This incredibly ambitious rebrand has...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Sibling Rivalry recently announced its new visual system reflecting two distinct sides of the company aligned under one holistic brand. Founded in New York in 2011, Sibling Rivalry is part brand studio and part production company. It delivers...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Al Gillies is a creative that doesn’t try to pigeonhole himself. Indeed, he describes himself not only as a photographer but as a content manager and even radio presenter. His photography work itself is just as eclectic as his skillset....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Drew McMillan, Director of Internal Comms & Engagement for Deloitte UK, gives us his ‘top five’ ways to ensure copacetic success with your creative agencies. As a Comms professional of 25+ years, almost always working in-house and...
Posted by: Stocks Taylor Benson
This week, we’ll be getting to know George Wu - a London-based director and creative currently working as Design Director at Mother Design in London. Originally from Manchester and a graduate from Royal College of Art, her work spans across:...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As creatives, we all do it, don’t we? We are naturally curious creatures, and as such, we just can’t help but look around at what other designers are doing. That might mean noticing posters in the train station on the way to work or...
Posted by: Tony Clarkson
This new wave of purpose comes with a caveat: brands are eager to jump on the most popular causes, and sometimes forget about their own, true essence. Purpose should be personal. It should be lived and breathed every day, from the brand's core and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Design is a fundamental pillar of the creative journey. Whether you’re a retail brand looking to stand out from the herd, a startup trying to cultivate some kind of identity or an agency looking for something special to pull your latest...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Trevor Robinson OBE, Founder and ECD of Quiet Storm, started Create Not Hate more than a decade ago. First launched as an initiative, CNH's aim was to give more opportunities in the creative and media industries to young marginalised people in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It isn't hard to imagine that most creatives struggle with overcoming their imposter syndrome. That feeling of being inadequate and just pretending to be creative bugs most of us, pushing us further down when we probably have all the qualities to...
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
Simon Callender isn’t just Creative Planning Director at Initials, he’s also a keen motorcycle enthusiast with an Amazon series under his belt! But we’re not here to talk to him about that today, we’re here to talk all things...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Let’s look at an all-too-familiar scenario. The deadline - which was already tight - got moved up. The brief that you’d agreed to got changed as their client added more aspects to it. But in the interests of professionalism you cut all...
Posted by: Ant O'Neill
Transport for London (TfL) has launched a new campaign encouraging the city's drivers to pay closer attention to their speed. Instead of focusing on the driver and their actions on the road, the new TV spot and print ads out of VCCP London take a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Raconteur A women-led tour de force is in full swing, as Marissa Puget and Olia Ougrik take the mantle of ownership of Raconteur, the Los Angeles and Paris-based consultancy known for their creative storytelling approach to publicity, marketing, and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Acne This week, Acne welcomed Director Laura Borgio to their ranks. A super innovative filmmaker with a passion for storytelling, Laura's rare ability enables her to create engaging, meaningful, and dynamic content across a multitude of different...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Industry leading civil engineering contractor BAM Nuttall, is partnering with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) to bring virtual reality to the Chelsea Flower Show (23rd-27th May) for the very first time this year, creating a virtual experience...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This week saw the launch of a groundbreaking mixed-reality app from Gorillaz, which comes ahead of highly anticipated new album “Humanz,” to be released by Parlophone Records on 28th April. Pushing the boundaries of mobile technology, the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Dan Koren, Head of ADI at Wix.com, on how AI is creating a new market standard for web design. Currently, artificial intelligence is mainly associated with robotics and self-driving cars. Nonetheless, major advances in AI technology have opened the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Extending the beloved campaign beyond the seasonal TV epic, MPC Creative developed a groundbreaking interactive VR experience in collaboration with adam&eveDDB and John Lewis. Launching exclusively in the flagship Oxford Street store, this is the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Regardless if you are working in house or for an agency, most of you can likely identify with having been part of a project team and being the only expert on hand for your area of expertise. You might be the best at what you do, but sharing your...
Posted by: ADLIB
My inspiration from this year’s Festival of Creativity in Cannes came from experiencing people who were the Real Deal. ‘Real Deal’ness was heard in every word of Condé Nast Artistic Director Anna Wintour’s elegant...
Posted by: Ann Wixley
A giant slide designed by Belgian artist Carsten Höller that spirals through the frame of the Anish Kapoor-designed ArcelorMittal Orbit opened to the public over the weekend. Thirty separate sections comprise the Slide's snaking form, which...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BBH London - Audi The very definition of subtle elegance in advertising, this new spot for the Audi R8 sports car from BBH London, is composed of little more than 60 seconds of a car spinning its wheels, but it looks absolutely flawless! Entitled...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Former apprentice star & agency innovators warn brands & agencies to make responsibility a mind-set. Today, Christie H.Kristensen from Creativepool hosted a session at Advertising Week Europe exploring how an innovation mindset helps brands to...
Posted by: The Media Foundry
Nexus has been commissioned to produce an immersive new story for Google Spotlight Stories, a narrative format for 360 degree, interactive stories on mobile platforms. Spotlight Stories, a project within Google’s Advanced Technology and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“Sex sells” is a cliché so run into the ground it's probably as old as advertising itself, but that doesn't make it any less true, and it doesn't mean that there are not still a few creative masterminds out there who are ready to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
MRM//McCann MRM//McCann, the global customer experience marketing agency, announced yesterday that EVP, managing director of MRM//McCann Detroit, Jill Cooley, will be promoted to the global role of EVP, worldwide account director. Also, award...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A Cinemagraph is a looped gif in which only a small part of the image is animated whilst the rest is motionless. They are a great way to add subtle details to what appear to be static images. In fact, they are not images at all but videos manipulated...
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