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Crispin Porter + Bogusky has launched an incubator fund to support its employees’ own creative initiatives. With five staff members across the creative, planning and support teams currently involved in the project, the first employee initiative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The famous advertising agency McCann Erickson's founding motto is 'Truth Well Told'. I've always admired this as much more than a simple corporate strapline, but as a guiding principle for all creative marketing and advertising ventures. I was...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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
After hundreds of thousands of pitches, to hundreds of thousands of clients, you'd the think the creative industry would have the process off pat. Sheer statistics would suggest pitching has now reached critical mass, a point whereby every...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Everybody knows that the creative industry is a hard field to crack into when you are first starting out. Everyone also knows that job offers mostly come about because of who you know, rather than what you know and whatever vast sum your student loan...
Posted by: Creativepool
Perhaps it's the money. Large budgets are often greeted by marketing teams in the same way Keith Richards welcomes a stiff drink. But the fact remains that endless resources are not always guaranteed to produce branding success. Far from it. The...
Posted by: Creativepool
How those in marketing & creative roles in perceived ‘serious’ industries shouldn’t feel confined by industry stereotypes and should embrace stepping out of the box. By Vasco Vaz Rodrigues, Chief Marketing Officer at Aurum...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Creative coach Syreeta Challinger explores how can brands not just survive but thrive in the unknown terrain ahead. We are living through an extraordinary period of global change; pandemic, pending recessions, climate change and political ideology....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
If I were to ask you what the determining factor will be in your success or failure as a creator, there’s a good chance you’d say 'the quality of your ideas.' Without a good idea you have nothing. Yet there’s something else even...
Posted by: Richard Holman
We are all designers. This is the sentence you will see at the end of this piece, a consideration that many teams fail to realise. Making creative projects requires going through a process. This process can be more or less specialised across the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Creatives are already finding the strength to make amazing work from home. It doesn't happen every day to see a global pandemic take people off the streets. Readers and gamers have long awaited this moment to unsheathe their anti-apocalypse barbed...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
To celebrate the return of wildly popular TV show Peaky Blinders in the UK, public broadcaster the BBC launched a hunt for the best fan art to help promote the fifth season. Anyone with a creative mind was invited to submit a one-of-a-kind static...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Over the past years, more and more brands have been using content marketing to produce highly successful marketing campaigns. Yet, despite the concept’s popularity, the term still holds many mysteries for those trying to jump on the...
Posted by: Nucco
Today, jelly London announced the opening of its brand new jelly Kitchen, right in the heart of Fitzrovia. The not-so-creatively named, jelly London Jelly Kitchen, was set to operate 24 hours a day, serving everything from jelly trifles, to jelly...
Posted by: Saturday afternoon was spent lazing about underneath a tree on Hampstead Heath, me and my friends slowly working our way through a gigantic picnic. Whilst doing a bit of cloud watching, we spotted a helicopter pulling a gigantic PKR Poker banner...
Posted by: Creativepool
Peter Capaldi is to be the new Doctor and I couldn't be more delighted. Apart from the fact I consider 'The Thick Of It' to be a television comedy so accomplished is resembles high art, Capaldi just has the face and demeanour of a Time Lord. Yes, I...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Defining an era is always a tricky, and possibly flawed, business. The eighties were only a festival of wealth, champagne and yuppiedom for a privileged few; while the sixties cultural revolution and endless cool applied only to a narrow...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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
We’ve all had to deal with difficult clients or customers in our lifetime. If you’ve ever been through retail or hospitality (and I think most of us will have, to be fair) you know how difficult people can be. Surely not all of us will...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
You can hear horror stories from all over the industry, and unfortunately any agency leader can tell you that they are far too common. Clients leveraging their influence and the power of their wallets to have agencies submit to abusive behaviour,...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Becoming a freelance designer (or any kind of freelance) is not an easy decision to make. It’s pretty tough actually. You give up on things like having a fixed salary, paid vacations and stability in your financial life that some people love. But...
Posted by: Fernando Ifran
The Black Cab Interviews have flown all the way from London to Singapore just in time for Spikes Asia - Singapore’s Festival of Creativity, in collaboration with Cogs Agency with production support by The Flying Kick Asia and Shooting Gallery...
Posted by: Creativepool
By Claire Blyth, host of ‘My Life in Design’ podcast and founder and managing partner of brand design PR specialist Red Setter When I launched the ‘My Life in Design’ podcast last summer, the aim was to speak to some of the...
Posted by: Red Setter
A year or so ago I was invited to do a talk at Shillington. I wasn't sure what to say and wanted to make sure it was actually useful, rather than just showing some pretty pictures. So, I had a think about what would've been useful to me when I first...
Posted by: Mark Richardson
When recruiting Graphic Designers, Web Developers and other Creatives, not everybody understands exactly what they should be looking for and how to go about it. As one of the UK’s top creative recruitment agencies, Brand Recruitment have put...
Posted by: Brand Recruitment
Cannes Lions 2018 was a more reserved affair than perhaps we were used to, but it was no less inspiring. Indeed, many found the atmosphere this year to be a little more relaxed and a little more open. Whether this was by happenstance or design, it...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This week, we’re thrilled to sit down with Bo Bishop, Executive Director of Creative Strategy at Sibling Rivalry, whose approach to blending strategy with storytelling has made waves in the branding world. With a background in narrative fiction...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A multi-skilled, creative-thinking photographer specialising in a wide range of content production. Jack Archer’s primary focus is on automotive photography working with both private and commercial clients. He is also, however, an experienced...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Of all the roles in the creative industries, Creative Director is arguably one of the most coveted. It’s a role that means a thousand different things at once and offers complete creative control. But to be a CD at an agency means you’re...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This Christmas is set to be one of the biggest ever, as the world returns from a couple of years in lockdown looking to really enjoy the holidays this time around. Some freelancers have been struggling to find work in the last few months of this...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
In this era of startups and ‘unicorns’ like Airbnb or Uber, it’s all too easy to get caught up in the allure of the ‘big idea’. While such success stories are few and far between, there’s plenty of room for smart...
Posted by: Despark
by Magnus Shaw Throughout this increasingly insane financial crisis I have worked as a freelance. Disadvantage: I have to find my own work and therefore income. Advantage: I can't be made redundant. However, I have faced the redundancy...
Posted by: Creativepool
Even the coolest of candidates get nervous before a job interview. While we don’t advise having ready-made responses for every question. We do recommend spending some time preparing for what you may be asked. If you’re applying for a role in...
Posted by: Gabriele
Hernán Lindenbaum is a man that, in his own words, “entered the industry sideways.” But whoever said that being a successful creative meant getting in first time through the front door? The Argentinian freelance motion designer has...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How do you usually feel on Sunday nights? Well, apart from when there’s a football match which fails to make history. If the answer is ‘awful,’ ‘anxious’ or anything in between, you might be looking at a case of Sunday...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Spoiler: if you’re reading this, you probably are Like most other sectors, the creative industry is one of deadlines. There’s that deadline to deliver the pitch, that other one to complete a project, that copy to write, that award to...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
