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Ever dreamed of seeing your work up on the big screen in the Palais des Festivals, Cannes? Saatchi & Saatchi has established a reputation for unearthing the new directors of tomorrow with the annual New Directors’ Showcase (NDS) at Cannes Lions...
Posted by: Saatchi & Saatchi London
The Juries for the D&AD Next Awards have been announced, and for the second year running, it’s an impressive line-up of well-known creative leaders. Tasked with selecting this year’s winning entries, the juries will be lead by Laura...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Bringing home a bounty of awards The Blink Productions family have had a truly amazing week when it comes to mantelpiece clobber, with a veritable bounty of awards success. First up, Televisual ranked Blink as the Best Production Company and Dougal...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
We're very happy to announce that Creativepool have come on board as a media partner for the CR Photography Annual this year. The Creative Review Photography Annual 2015 is now open for entries, accepting work from students and independent...
Posted by: Creative Review
Well, that’s the aim, anyway. Japanese-born Shota Kotake is on a mission. Not quite a holy mission, but one that nonetheless involves him painting the portrait of a priest every day for three years. That priest, though, is Father Ted, the...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Whilst we’ve all probably been guilty of exaggeration or telling the odd white lie at one point or another over social media, whether it’s to make ourselves look better or feel better, a new study has found that women (in Australia at least) are...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The other day, I was told to reach out to someone. Reach out. Reach out as if I’m dangling Hollywood-style by my fingertips from a cliff, with Stallone looking all Botoxy-slumpy-faced in front of me, telling me to HANG ON! What I was actually...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
At the Palais des Festivals in Cannes yesterday (Thursday 25 June) as part of this year's Cannes Lions festival, Saatchi & Saatchi celebrated 25 years of the New Directors’ Showcase with a one-off screening of a brand new film. The idea was to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Gyro Gyro London has appointed David Harris as Executive Creative Director. Teamed with the strong leadership of Gyro London Managing Director Kate Howe, Harris will help to intensify gyro’s growing presence as a business-to-business...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I don't get boxing. I'll admit it. The idea of watching two (admittedly skilled and highly athletic) men bash seven shades of shit out of each other for the amusement of a baying crowd is simply not my idea of a good time. I do, however, get...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Pick Me Up Graphic Arts Festival has returned to Somerset House, with a fresh line-up of artists and designers poised to bring the very best in new illustration, graphic design and related disciplines to the idyllic grounds for the sixth year...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Are you a soft mint or a strong mint? In a bizarre, but hilarious new campaign for Trebor by Wieden+Kennedy London, viewers are being encourages to “Choose their Trebor.” The campaign highlights people’s affinity to Trebor’s incredibly minty...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Whilst 3D printing has certainly expanded the horizons when it comes to personal design, one company has taken things a step further by designing a sustainable building material (essentially) from mushrooms. Mushroom Materials is a unique “Grow...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BetVictor has really doubled (or tripled even) down on its loony mascot Maurice in a trio of new spots by VCCP, which feature the zany character played by Paul 'Denis Pennis' Kaye in a variety of guises, each one obsessed with getting the best odds...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
For the second consecutive year, BBDO has been named as the top-rated agency network by the Warc 100; the definitive annual ranking of the world's top marketing campaigns and companies. Results this year were culled from results in 87 major global...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The milkshake brand Frijj, which is owned by the Dairy Crest group (which also owns Cathedral City cheddar, Country Life butter and Clover margarine), recently announced a complete redesign of its packaging. BrandOpus has given the brand's trademark...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Leading global brand agency KBS announced recently that it will be opening regional headquarters in Shanghai early next year, formalising its expansion into the Asia region. Douglas Lin and Jonathan Ip have been chosen to lead the Shanghai office,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
'Solve a problem.' That's what they teach you at advertising school - and it's not a bad lesson. If one can identify, spotlight and fix a problem a consumer is enduring, then you really have a selling point. Really it's the 'What's in it for me?'...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
The late Douglas Adams wrote one of the smartest, most intriguing and funniest books of the 20th century. It was called 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'. For the uninitiated, it features an electronic book (before they were real things), also...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Nobody likes being patronised. Even small infants boil with fury when some dough-faced adult leers into their pushchair and makes 'woo-woo' noises at them. Probably. I think being patronised takes us back to school, when we were bound by the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Taking a primetime advertising spot last Saturday night during Britain’s Got Talent, the new television commercial celebrating John Lewis’ 150th anniversary was revealed. Created by Adam & Eve/DDB, the ad is called Never Standing Still,...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Richards/Lerma, a creative agency based in Dallas, Texas, have recently been selected as the creative agency by Mexican themed fast-food restaurant Pizza Patron. This new relationship will see the agency undertaking all traditional, digital and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
29th May 2013: One of the largest building supplies providers in the UK, Travis Perkins Plc, has appointed Amaze as its lead digital partner. The brief was won following a four-way competitive pitch. As Travis Perkins’ lead digital partner,...
Posted by: AmazeRealise
You may have noticed Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo!, kicking up some dust last month, when she announced a complete ban on working from home. This, she claimed, was to encourage collaborative working and collective thinking. However, there was a...
Posted by: Creativepool
Shotopop Shotopop is the pebble beach pixel playground of Casper Franken, latte guzzling, medium format film collector and Carin Standford, sun seeking seamstress and mocha manic. It is the memory of an old man and the imagination of a little girl...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Ashley Morrison. As a copywriter, a major part of the job revolves around using the right words to convey the right message in the most effective and persuasive way possible. If you're selling a product, you want the customer to read the copy and...
Posted by: Creativepool
The Great Depression aside, there has rarely been a worse time to apply for a job. And yet for anyone leaving college or school, or simply attempting to recover from the cruelty of redundancy, it has never been more essential. So with high hopes and...
Posted by: Creativepool
Unless you're getting on a bit, you probably haven't given much thought to what sort of coffin you'd like to be buried in when the time comes. There's a funeral director in Golders Green that displays one in his window with a picture of a Spitfire...
Posted by: Creativepool