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Immersion is Key: 10th anniversary of New Frontier Festival

For the last 10 years, Park City, Utah has been home of New Frontier Festival. A Sundance Institute exhibition of films and new-media art that explores and pushes the boundaries of conventional cinema. New Frontier provides the highest level of...

Posted by: Kate Lewin
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Dutch Docklands: The masters of floating hotels for the future

Ever found yourself on holiday thinking "it's a great hotel, but I wish it was floating"? Then we bring good news. Fixed structures are a thing of yesteryear; the hotels of the future are laying their foundations in watery beds and Amsterdam based...

Posted by: Kate Lewin
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Wieden + Kennedy wants us to give a fuck this Christmas

I've never had a problem with profanity. I believe it was Stephen Fry who said “... “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Step into Damon Albarn's wonder.land at the National Theatre this week

The National Theatre is set to open a dazzling new digital exhibition this week, which will be the biggest interactive installation the theatre has ever done. Enter wonder.land is a free, digital exhibition inspired by the theatre's new musical of...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Top 5 Ads of the Week

McCann London - Bisto As part of the “Bisto Together Project,” which launched last year, McCann London has created a new campaign showing how home-cooked food can bring people together. Launching two new ranges under in the Bisto Made...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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KOREAT 2015 Unveils Korea’s Top 50 Restaurants Ranking

Korea recently saw the inaugural launch of its very own Michelin Guide-style top 50 ‘best’ restaurants ranking guide in the country, KOREAT. With the aim of creating an authoritative ranking of Korea’s top restaurants for locals and...

Posted by: Leo Burnett Asia Pacific
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Focal Point: Eric Yahnker's Pop Culture Pencilling

Eric Yahnker is all about intricate pencil work, pop culture puns and a serious approach to his work. He doesn’t make it easy to dismiss his work as pastiche, mainly because his finger is superbly on the pulse of contemporary society. Whether...

Posted by: Jade French
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Simon Cowell: The master of marketing

What is Simon Cowell? A TV presenter? A music producer? An pop manager? Well, undeniably all these things; but ultimately he's one of the most accomplished marketeers the UK has ever created. Just look at his greatest achievement. He not only...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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The Week in Tech

Windows 10 hits home The internet was awash with praise this weekend after Windows 10 began quietly slipping into the inboxes of eager Windows 7 and 8.1 users across the world. Some of the highly mooted features include the ability to stream Xbox...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Plenty's refreshing and colourful animations for Viacom

jelly's award-winning art and motion studio, Plenty, have created a series of superb animations for American mass media giants, Viacom. The eight animations, which were created to celebrate the start of spring in New York, are an exciting and...

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Spurs score the world's first sliding pitch

The rivalry between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal is one almost as old as the game of football itself, so when The Gunners moved from their home ground of Highbury to the high-tech Emirates Stadium back in 2006, Spurs fans were left feeling more than...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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The Lion Kings: Who dominated Cannes this year?

Ogilvy & Mather own Cannes. Again On the final evening of the Cannes Lions 2015 last week, Ogilvy & Mather was crowned as Network of the Year for the fourth year in a row. Highlights of Ogilvy & Mather's Cannes Lions 2016 included 1 Titanium Lion -...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Bates Y&R design the ultimate modular couch

If sitting was an olympic sport, I'd probably be up there on the podium every four years without fail. As such, finding the perfect couch (or sofa or settee depending on your preference) has always been something of a bucket list goal for me....

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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The Week in Tech

Apple sell out. Again. A big week for Apple saw the company's mega-hyped Apple Watch sell out of its pre-order stock in a matter of hours. US pre-orders for the device kicked off on Friday morning, and by the afternoon, Apple released a statement...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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The Week in Tech

Large Hadron Collider: Round Two Remember a few years ago when they turned the Large Hadron Collider at CERN on for the first time and half the population seemed to fear that a global catastrophe was imminent? We all just, kind of forgot about it...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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AMV BBDO take the playground to the streets

A clever new outdoor campaign from AMV BBDO for the V&A Museum of Childhood reimagines the Tower Hamlets borough in London's east end as one gigantic playground. Running throughout this week, the campaign promotes the museum which houses a vast...

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WPP pencil in a big year

WPP certainly appear to be stepping into 2015 with both feet forward! Firstly, it's been suggested that WPP might be considering a £2 billion purchase of Tesco's Dunnhumby data division. This would mark yet another major technology purchase for...

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The Week in Tech

Sony find new ways to play in China Sony is launching its Playstation 4 console in China early next year on the 11th of January 2015, closely following arch rivals Microsoft, who launched their own Xbox One console in October; the first console to...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Business Roundup

Lida Lida was recently awarded a £5 million direct and digital fundraising account for Oxfam after a competitive pitch against Rapp, Atomic and the incumbent agency, WPB Chameleon. The London-based direct marketing agency will be tasked with...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Why are ads for video games so dishonest?

I don't know about you, but I don't play video games. I'd argue that they're a bit childish, but I like plenty of childish things: Bagpuss, Thunderbirds, The Muppets - I think they're all terrific, so that's not the problem. No, I think it's a...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Publicis acquires a stake in Singaporean agency Arcade

It was announced yesterday that Publicis Worldwide has acquired a minority stake in Arcade, the home grown ad agency based in Singapore. The agency also has offices in Shanghai, Tokyo, Jakarta and Indonesia (the Indonesian office was opened recently...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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ViralGains raise $2.8 million of a $3.3 million round of funding

ViralGains, the viral video marketing firm, announced yesterday that they have raised $2.8 million of what is expected to be a $3.3 million seed round of funding. They will be using these funds to grow the supply and demand sides of its business and...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Under the skin. Why are we so obsessed with tattoos?

Late last year, a picture of Cheryl Cole appeared on the internet and in various newspapers. Nothing particularly odd about that; Ms. Cole is a constant media fixture. Only this picture, which she had released herself, was of her backside, newly...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Wieden + Kennedy take Weight Watchers account from McCann Erickson

Though world renowned weight loss brand Weight Watchers have been with McCann Erickson New York for seven years now, it was announced late last week that their advertising business will now be covered by Widen + Kennedy, the independently owned,...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Use and abuse. Can we really make the internet a safer place?

Yesterday was 'Internet Safety Day'. Which pretty much proves the pointlessness of things having days dedicated to them. Unless the internet was substantially and provably safer for the entirety of 11th February 2014, or yesterday marked the point...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Advertising executives? - Why don't you open your mind?

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...

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Privatised health care? Advertising opportunities galore!

Whether you consider it a good idea or not, thanks to the coalition government, it seems the increased involvement of private companies in the NHS is a racing certainty. And what could possibly go wrong? Just look how affordable and reliable the...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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You're hired! Are brands really taking on celebrities as staff?

When you arrived at work this morning, did you notice a pop star sitting at a flat-screen, typing away? Was there a movie idol in the kitchen fixing some coffees? Or a minor royal handing out the mail? If not, I'm afraid your firm is way behind the...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Should celebrities be plugging advertisers in interviews?

The old adage asserts, 'Word of mouth is the best advertising'. And there's a lot of truth in that. When a satisfied customer recommends a product or service to a potential customer, a form of potent and cost-free advertising has taken place and it's...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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#Trends. Where OCD meets art - Ursus Wehrli

By Jessica Hazel Ursus Wehrli has an insatiable desire to tidy. Nothing is safe. Given half the chance Ursus will compartmentalise and order everything from a park full of sunbathers to the sky at night. Luckily the art world has a lot of time for...

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The shape of things to come. Highly (in)accurate predictions for 2013.

by Magnus Shaw. Very little is certain in this life, but the mad rush of predictions for the year ahead is a rock on which we can depend in the awkward gap between Christmas and New Year. Unfortunately, most of them will be wildly inaccurate - with...

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Spotlight - Dave Legion - Creative

- View Dave's Creativepool profile. ‘I am an award-winning music video director and Animator. Before moving into freelance, I had setup and ran 2 creative business, and a record label. I design like an it's a disease and I hate, HATE...

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CP Loves... Odd things you find on the internet.

by John Fountain. Here's some articles, videos and websites worthy of further exploration... Kirby Ferguson. Embracing the remix. Kirby Ferguson is a film-maker from New York. He has a point of view that I guess many of us believe there is some...

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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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