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You are a creative young receptionist working for a small advertising agency. And you have a dream. Ever since you were little you’ve had an ardent passion for creativity. You remember playing with your mother with cardboard and colours,...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
You could get lost in the sheer amount of skills Muneebah Waheed has cultivated over time. Starting with nothing but the dream of becoming a creative, Muneebah set out on a journey of constant learning and fascination, from graphic design to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This blog looks at how a good brand strategy can help you change the way people think, feel and act. But you have to embed it across the whole customer and employee experience, not just the brand expression. Branding is, and always has been, about...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This afternoon, Shutterstock announced its ninth annual Creative Trends Report, which uses the billions of image, video and music searches and downloads made on the platform in the last 12 months to show us what’s trending around the globe. By...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Humans need storytelling. Starting with the first cave paintings and carvings that told the stories of hunting and gathering; myths and legends that united people into societies; the invention of the written word, manuscripts and the printing press....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Last week, everyone's favourite building block LEGO launched its first brand campaign in 30 years with an ad which has received 2.5 million views on YouTube and counting. Rebuild the World was thought up by French creative agency BETC Paris and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Throughout history, athletes have operated in the sphere of public good. From Mohammad Ali resisting the Vietnam War draft, Billie Jean King playing the now infamous 'Battle of the Sexes' match to promote women’s equality, or Colin Kaepernick...
Posted by: Brandpie
Freelance illustrator Rebecca Hayter lasted just three months in her role at a design company before following her heart and going it alone. While the structure, salary and guaranteed workflow were nice for a while, her personal beliefs and stance on...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It may surprise some of you to learn that the job of creating new business opportunities within an agency, or any company for that matter, is the most difficult, misunderstood and vital. Here are three reasons why. Winning new business is...
Posted by: David Alexander
gyro is the first full-service global creative B2B agency. The company employees 700 people across 21 international offices with a shared mission to create ideas that are humanly relevant. Cat Davis, chief marketing officer, is one of those...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Barbie - The Dream Gap Project Starting at the age of five, many girls begin to develop limiting self-beliefs. They stop believing their gender can do or be anything. This is the Dream Gap and this is the year toy brand Barbie begins working to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For many, the royal wedding between Harry and Meghan brings inspiration for those looking to find their perfect partner - filling consumers with a lot of love and joy. Brands, publications and consumers alike have all been speculating about the...
Posted by: Oath
For the last fifteen years, we’ve been helping brands use creativity to change things for the better. When it comes to our creative ethos, we keep it simple. Just four beliefs drive our work: Make things that are beautiful. Make things that are...
Posted by: Simon Dixon
Colin Rudicil had no idea when he filmed a friendly bet, it would become an internet sensation. Right before the video starts, Colin, his friend Lakeem, and a few of his other high school buddies were walking to their local Family Dollar store. As...
Posted by: Jukin Media
Adam&Eve/DDB - John Lewis It's that time of year again. John Lewis has unveiled its hotly anticipated Christmas spot with new star Moz the Monster, who lives under a boy's bed. The ad tells the story of a boy called Joe who is kept awake by the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Gravity Road - Sainsbury's Sainsbury’s obviously caters for those that love Halloween, but what about those that don’t? Every year there are people who actively avoid having to deal with trick-or-treaters. It’s a fact. 70% of Brits...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Last week, there was a great deal of smoke being blown surrounding the memo released by Google employee James Damore, which inferred that women were biologically inferior to their male counterparts when it came to computer science and coding. These...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Socially enterprising star Halle Berry crowned the winners of Chivas Venture’s $1 million prize fund last week at an exclusive event in Los Angeles. Berry, a judge on the night, and Josh Gad, the evening’s host, were both secured by...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Pam Grossman, Director of Visual Trends at Getty Images, explains how, whilst they have made significant progress, brands still have their work cut out for them if they want to champion true diversity. Pam Grossman Technological advances have...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I'm going to go out on a limb here and presume that at least 75% of the people reading this piece have an active Facebook account. Such is the all-encompassing ubiquity of the great social media titan, that it's not unrealistic of me to make this...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Ever wondered what the face of advertising looks like? The picture above is the result of MEC’s initiative at Advertising Week Europe yesterday, which used photographs of attendees and a bespoke facial merging tool to capture this image. The...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
DUKE - Foxy Bingo and Casino Foxy Bingo and Casino recently launched a series of six tongue-in-cheek ads for its new above-the-line (ATL) campaign. Created by London based creative agency DUKE, the first ad, “Dance Moves,” premiered last...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Oscars are, whilst almost as large a televisual draw as that 'other' big event in February, largely free from the burden of expectation when it comes to advertising. The fact is that nobody really talks about the ad breaks of the Academy Awards,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
James Louis Hedley is a VR director & producer at immersive content specialist Surround Vision. In this month’s Visions in VR article, he tells us why pitting ‘True’ VR against ‘Passive’ VR divides a burgeoning...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
The Full Service creative agency and its founder, the legendary photographer Rankin, have teamed up with Baywatch actress and 90s icon Pamela Anderson and luxury lingerie brand Coco de Mer in an effort to empower women to take back control of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A new free, postgraduate design university programme has been established by the design consultancy Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios, which hopes to attract young designers excited by politics and social activism. With classes split between London’s...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
1. You will get your work on the desks of the industry’s leading directors from around the world. The Annual physically gets your work in front of those people who have achieved ‘epicness’ throughout their career. As well as 165...
Posted by: Creativepool
Corke Wallis - Ambition School Leadership Corke Wallis has created a new brand name, logo and launch campaign for the education charity formed by the merger of Teaching Leaders and The Future Leaders Trust; Ambition School Leadership. The...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Getty Images, a world leader in visual communications, today unveiled its highly anticipated visual trend forecast. The ground-breaking forecast sets out the macro and micro trends that will influence design, advertising and brand communications...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
An alternative democracy app is being launched ahead of the US Presidential Election. “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner” says James Bovard. How many of us agree? With over...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Faster Horses - Somerset House Faster Horses and Somerset House, the centre for contemporary culture in the heart of London, have released a film to launch Somerset House Studios. Somerset House Studios is a new experimental workspace for artists,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Fidelity International, a provider of world class investment solutions and retirement expertise, has selected MEC as its media agency following a pitch process. MEC, which won the business following a review handled through Oystercatchers, will...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BMB - Hilton Hotels The BMB agency has been appointed by Hilton Worldwide to lead its social and content strategy across the EMEA region. The agency was appointed to the £9 million account without a pitch and has been tasked with assessing,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Here’s a brand with bold ambition and a clear vision: to become the world’s first global brand with local roots. And arguably, this is what it has achieved. At a time when the term ‘craft’ immediately caused people to switch...
Posted by: Jones Knowles Ritchie
In my family, I’ve always been referred to as the spiritual one, much like my grandfather whom I unfortunately never had the pleasure of meeting. Maybe because I was quiet and used to stare at people a lot growing up, or perhaps it was the...
Posted by: Huckletree
In my family, I’ve always been referred to as the spiritual one, much like my grandfather whom I unfortunately never had the pleasure of meeting. Maybe because I was quiet and used to stare at people a lot growing up, or perhaps it was the...
Posted by: Huckletree
