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Design students from East London have helped create a new advertising campaign that has been launched on board Transport for London’s (TfL’s) new Elizabeth line trains to explain to customers the benefits they will enjoy while...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We all like to think we’re making the world a better place. At very least, we’d like to think we’re not actively making it worse. The same is true of a brand. You want your brand to be a positive influence, not only for the sake of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There’s an inbuilt need in all good creatives to strive for perfection. It’s a blessing that can help great design but it can also be a curse. Our house number plaque was always irritatingly tilted. It poked my obsessive brain every time I saw it winking at me in defiance of the existence of spirit levels. It’s fixed now… and furthermore, I moved it to line up with the surrounding brick pattern. The trouble is that fixing this imperfection simply opened up the top slot to the next irritation, holes from old, long gone doorbells… poke, poke, poke… and so the strive for perfection continues. OK, so I am a little on the obsessive side. How do you draw the line on forever creatively tinkering in the never-ending strive for perfection? After all, we all have deadlines to hit. In our studio, we have a super simple process that allows us to tinker with the worst offenders, tick them off the list and move on. We simply ask… “What’s the worst thing you can see?” * Any piece of creative could be amazing but there’s always something at the top of the “worst thing” list. This simple question forces us to spot and sort out the worst offender. That said, the fix might have knock-on effects but these simply get added to the list. Rinse and repeat and bit by bit we get closer to a fully rounded, cohesive concept with diminishing issues. * It's important to note that spotting the worst offenders is a skill that comes with training, and passion and only gets more refined with experience.
Posted by: Andy Gregory
When needing to see a healthcare professional, we generally feel like we are in safer hands with a ‘specialist’ than our general practitioner. The term denotes expertise in a particular subject, and a high degree of skill. Simon Case,...
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When Queen Elizabeth II took the throne, even my parents had yet to be born. She was the longest serving monarch in history and it appears unlikely that will ever again be contested so when the news stuck yesterday evening, a definite shockwave was...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Proud-Robinson is a small but perfectly formed marketing agency that has worked “above, below and in most cases through the line.” They operate across borders, media channels, traditional networks and communications disciplines to make a...
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Sexual harassment is the kind of thing that, by all rights, should have been weeded out of existence decades ago. As a species, I’d like to think we’ve evolved enough socially since the “boys club” days of the 1960s to be able...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Mark Evans has been with Direct Line Group for nearly 10 years. In all his time working for the brand, he's had the chance to work on a number of campaigns and truly develop the voice of Direct Line - always working with bold, confident agencies from...
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Clearly the last year has been an unprecedented one for many sectors of the industry. We can only imagine what Covid-19 did to Marketing spend, but to leaders such as Mark Evans, Marketing Director at Direct Line Group, even a global pandemic is...
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Some campaigns are about more than just product and pricing. Direct Line Group clearly knows that quite well, and the brand wanted to show a younger audience how much it cared for their needs too. Despite a 'monster challenge' as big as Covid,...
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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...
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What's the soundscape going to be for your brand? In partnership with 90 Seconds, Creativepool caught up with Elizabeth Cherian, UK Director of JWT Innovation and Jeremy Pounder, Futures Director at Mindshare at Havas Cafe in Cannes to discuss the...
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Direct Line has announced the launch of a digital out of home (DOOH) campaign (the first using large scale DOOH roadside formats) in support of its new “Onward Travel” proposition. Tailored to match the conditions that consumers see the...
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As a life long Midlander, I've become accustomed to living a little bit behind the times. Just this weekend, a friend visiting from 'south of the wall' casually remarked that he was genuinely shocked and amused that the street lights in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has released the full content programme which will run from 18-25 June, 2016. Talent from all walks of creativity will take to the stages at the Festival, which includes the specialist events...
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I'm not going to pretend to know much (if anything at all actually) about football or art, but something I do know a lot about is video games, which is why this new exhibition at Manchester’s National Football Museum piqued my interest....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It doesn't take an advertising campaign to convince me that beer is beautiful, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate the effort here. Carlsberg isn't exactly my brand (I'm more of an ale man myself), but it's hard to argue against their creative...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Getty Images Gallery has announced its latest exhibition titled in association with The Elizabeth Taylor Trust and The Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation (ETAF). “Grit and Glamour” is a major photographic exhibition that marks 30 years...
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Travel has become a favourite theme of galleries recently. First we saw KK Outlet get cheeky with their Commute Nice, London show, and now the Barbican are mid-way through their show Station To Station: A 30 Day Happening. Having travelled through...
Posted by: Jade French
The unique online department store Notonthehighstreet.com, launched ‘CHOOSE’ on Monday 15th September, its first non-gifting focused, above the line campaign created by WCRS. Notonthehighstreet.com is bringing together more then 4,000 of...
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by Ashley Morrison. I love comedy. I love the craft of it. I love how a skilled performer can take you one way, only to throw you in a completely opposite direction - which is the one that gets the bigger laugh. Being a successful stand-up comedian...
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Transport for London (TfL) with the help of agency of record VCCP London and Wavemaker UK, launched an awareness campaign last year for the huge range of improvements TfL is continuing to make across its network. Some of the many improvements that...
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At the start of the bank holiday weekend, the Queen’s Jubilee was predicted to give a £6bn boost to the UK’s retail and hospitality sector as Brits used the four day weekend to spend in restaurants, pubs, hotels and shops. But the...
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I consider myself more a realist than a royalist but that doesn’t mean the Platinum Jubilee has completely passed me by. I mean, as a freelancer I’m not getting any time off and the constant TV coverage is started to frustrate me even...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Monotype - Transport for London Monotype, the font and technology specialist, has updated the iconic Transport for London typeface to coincide with its centenary, featuring new hashtag, @ and ampersand signs. The new typeface, called...
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Studio Output create design-savvy logo for the BBC Connected Studio BBC Connected Studio Idents Studio Output has redesigned the visual identity for the BBC Connected Studio, BBC’s digital research arm, in order to make it more...
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Elon Musk - ask one person and he’s only a few steps removed from a “real life Bond villain” but ask somebody else and he’s basically the saviour of free speech. Indeed, according to market research platform Appinio, 2 in 5...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Sure, design is a business. But stories like the one of Rebecca Hayter show us daily that it can also be about something else. To put it simply, Rebecca chooses her own battles. She started saying no to jobs with clients involved in animal cruelty...
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Durable Goods Venice, California-based production company Durable Goods has signed comedy director Greg Bray for US commercial representation. Bray is a character-driven director who intuitively embraces awkward and eccentric moments to deliver a...
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gyro gyro APAC has announced the promotion of two leaders to important new roles: Paul Hutt is now Chief Growth Officer, gyro APAC and Laura Bell is Client Services Director, gyro APAC. As Dentsu Aegis Network continues to invest in the growth of...
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VML VML has rebranded its channel activation team to connections to reflect the department’s role as experts in connecting brands to consumers in a contemporary and relevant way. VML’s retail team will become a connections channel,...
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McCann London - Mr Kipling Mr Kipling returns to television with its first new commercial in two years to bring a deeper meaning to the famous, much-loved “Exceedingly Good Cakes” slogan. Created by McCann London, this new campaign puts...
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Twelve Creative agency Twelve has announced that former Geometry Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Partner, Martin Smith, has been appointed as its new Group Strategy officer. Starting the role in mid-November, Smith will also play a role in...
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North - Southbank Centre North has designed a new visual identity for London cultural institution, the Southbank Centre, to give it a more “consistent” and less “complex” brand. Southbank Centre, based in Lambeth, is...
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Lifestyle brand Equinox has unveiled “LGBTQAlphabet: Six Letters Will Never Be Enough,” a short film that expands the definition of “LGBTQA” into a full alphabet with 26 distinct opportunities to proudly communicate who you...
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Various Agencies - BBC The BBC has announced its new graphic design services roster for 2017, naming five consultancies including Studio Output and Mother London. The consultancies were selected from 11 tender applications in total, and will be...
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