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The Glass Art of Hiromi Takizawa

Uniting glass and emotion, Japanese born Hiromi Takizawa has changed the rules, creating a new paradigm of conduct for heated glass that succumbs to her conscious and her subconscious. Displaying a mastery of the medium, she uses shape, reflection...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Focal Point: Getting back to basics with Leslie David

Leslie David is a very busy lady, but she still managed to have a quick chat with us about her work processes. Whether working for high profile brands like Lancôme or making artwork for musicians like Röyksopp, she’s got a knack for...

Posted by: Jade French
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Feeling the burn: Thomas Mailaender's illustrated people

We’ve heard about suffering for your art, but this takes things to a new level. French artist Thomas Mailaender applied 23 photographic negatives to models skin, searing them with a UV lamp. The result? Some really beautiful effects, that conjure...

Posted by: Jade French
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Leaders

National Trust & DigitasLBi engage with UK history in new app

In their first piece of creative activity since they were appointed as it's strategic agency last year (after a fiercely competitive pitch), DigitasLBi has launched a nifty new app for the National Trust, the independent charity which looks after...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Meet the Judges 2015!

The FRESH AWARDS are back and with a BRAND NEW panel! Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to introduce you to this year's 'In-house design team' judges. We have a 50/50 gender policy to ensure equality and diversity on our panel. All of judges have...

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Account Wins of the Week

Y&R New Zealand – Autotrader After a competitive pitch, the iconic kiwi motoring brand Autotrader has appointed Y&R NZ to handle creative and media accounts. Autotrader is one of the most trusted automotive brands in New Zealand, with online...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel in low-budget YouTube shock

Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel seems to be everywhere at the moment. Most recently (and kind of inexplicably) in a video posted to Snapchat’s official YouTube page yesterday. He’s there to tell the world what it is the app does. Never mind...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Intangibles: Shop For Avatars, Ringtones + Snapchats

In a world where art investment is one of the safest bets you can make, would you start collecting intangible objects? Well that’s the premis of The Walker Art Centre's a new online shop for artwork named Intangibles. The idea is to allow...

Posted by: Jade French
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StrawberryFrog celebrates photogenic dogs

Per food company Nature's Variety, makers of the Instinct brand and official pet food partner of the Best Friends Animal Society, recently announced that its initial goal of 9,000 photos for its Long Live Pets campaign has been overwhelmingly...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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10 Tips For Running A Cheaper Creative Business

As Mr. Osborne will never tire of telling us, between now and May 7th, things are looking up. The economy, which at one point was about as healthy as a pigeon in a bus lane, is really picking up. But make no mistake, this is no time to be frivolous...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Experience the world's first virtual reality birth

Samsung and Leo Burnett recently achieved quite a monumental feat when they allowed an Australian father to witness his child being born from over 4,000 kilometres away using the Samsung Gear VR headset. A world-first live streaming event, Jason...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Whatever happens, I urge you NOT to read this blog post

I'm serious. Quit while you're ahead. Or rather, quit while you're not as far behind as you will be if you keep reading. Apart from its arguable entertainment value, it will not enrich your life, make you cleverer, funnier or wealthier. Or even feel...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison
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MWC 15: the best of the rest

Whilst I already covered the two major players at the 2015 Mobile Web Congress, Samsung and HTC were not the only companies to unveil something of note at this year's mobile electronics trade show. As was expected given the precedent already set by...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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M&C Saatchi finally crack New York

After two unsuccessful attempts to crack the highly competitive New York market, the London-based M&C Saatchi have finally made some headway. It was announced earlier this morning, that the agency had bought a minority stake in the successful New...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Deja Vu as Yahoo take on AOL with new $640 million acquisition

It would appear that Yahoo are looking to beat AOL at their own game (welcome back to the late 90's!) with the $640 million acquisition of programmatic video-advertising platform BrightRoll. The deal, which is expected to close early next year, seeks...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Hacker News: 3D Printed Tattoos

French design company Appropriate Audiences have hacked a 3D printer and combined it with a tattooists' needle to create a unique “Tattoo Printer,” which might take a lot of the guesswork (and some would say artistry) out of future visits...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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New LA global creative agency focus on music

Alan Sartirana, the co-founder of the Filter Creative Group, which announced it would be shutting its doors this summer, recently announced he'd be launching a new full-service global creative agency. Anthemic will specialise in “Strategy,...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Teenagers are bored with Facebook. But why is that such bad news?

MySpace is an astonishing use of new technology, which links people to one another, and allows them to share news, views, photos and comments. It is extraordinarily popular, particularly with younger people, and is growing every day. This makes it...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Christ on a bike! No, Jesus in a marathon

Today I’m on a bit of a high. And not just because I have a rare day off. No, it’s because yesterday I completed my second marathon this year - the 41st BMW Berlin Marathon. For a while there, I didn’t fancy my chances. About six...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison
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Grey Group and the WWF raise endangered animal awareness using Snapchat

Yesterday the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Grey Group ad agencies '41?29! Media Internet' and 'Uncle Grey' (based in Turkey and Denmark respectively) launched a brand new campaign, which aims to raise public awareness regarding endangered...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Space for silicon

Anyone who works around the Silicon Roundabout is familiar with the noise of building work. It’s happening all around and the amount of old buildings coming down and new ones rising up is accelerating fast. One of the reasons for the surge in...

Posted by: Every Interaction
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Leaders

MY Single Band

Following my last post on the ingenious product design of Chris Godfrey, here is something from the other end of the spectrum i.e the absolutely crap end. Welcome to the world of MY Single Band people! For just £6 you can purchase what is...

Posted by: Jessica Hazel
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Go home. Why the Government's ad vans were such a failure.

Our friends at the ASA have announced they are investigating the Government-backed campaign which saw vans driving through London, calling on 'illegal immigrants' to leave the country or face arrest. This follows 60 complaints and, despite some...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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When is the best time to Tweet?

The information superhighway is so jam packed full of tweets it makes your brain hurt just trying to comprehend it. So how do you ensure that your business/company is tweeting in an optimum way to ensure it goes out at the right time and in the right...

Posted by: Jessica Hazel
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Spotlight: Serge Sarkisoff - Photographer & Retoucher

Serge Sarkisoff Fashion Photographer and Retoucher creativepool.com/sergesarkisoff sergesarkisoff.com facebook.com/ssarkisov twitter.com/sergesarkisoff saatchionline.com/sergesarkisoff See more of Serge's projects About you: Serge Sarkisoff...

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Features

Feel the Hepburn. Why the new Galaxy ad is just plain lazy.

We like Galaxy chocolate bars, I think we're all agreed on that. Lovely, creamy, sugary sledges of tooth rotting gorgeousness, all bundled in delightfully gold foil - wonderful stuff. Mind you, we shouldn't be surprised we think this way, because for...

Posted by: Creativepool
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Features

5 Minutes with... Jon Humphreys - The Neighbourhood

Tell us what you do for a living and who you work for? Creative Director and Co-founder of Neighbourhood. How did you get started in the industry? Degree in architecture, decided I didn't want to go into that industry, free-lanced as a graphic...

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Features

Happy birthday, SMS!

by Ashly Morrison. Today marks the 20th birthday of SMS (Short Messaging Service), or the 'text', as it's more commonly known. Last year, we in the UK sent 39.7 billion of them. In a country of roughly 62 million people, that's a pretty...

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Features

The best a man can get: Ten milestone moments in advertising history.

1. 79 A.D. Billboards in Pompeii Ah! The glory of the ancient Roman empire. Olive skinned, muscular men striding the avenues, clad in togas, debating the great issues of the day. Beautiful, raven-haired maidens bearing baskets laden with the...

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Opinions - More than words. What do copywriters know about design?

by Magnus Shaw "Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion." Bob Baxley It's funny. Art directors and copywriters work so closely together, for so much of the time, and...

Posted by: Creativepool
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CP Loves... Farewell The Word Magazine

by John Fountain I've been a subscriber of The Word since 2003. Forget any other music, arts or entertainment magazine, this was the one that I wanted to read. But sadly now this brilliant magazine created by David Hepworth and Mark Ellen has gone...

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Features

5 minutes with... Paul Knott - Creative Director at AMV BBDO

Tell us what you do for a living and who you work for? Creative Director at Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO. What does that involve? Walking across Regents Park each morning into an inspiring, grown up agency. Alongside my creative partner, Tim Vance,...

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Richard Avedon fashion's greatest photographer

If there is one iconic image which sums up all that is glamour and stardom within the realms of fashion and Hollywood then it has to be that over-exposed, stark image of Audrey Hepburn’s eyes, eyebrows and lips from the 1957 musical Funny...

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