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Kicking off the first annual World Recycle Week on April 18, the goal of the “Rewear It” campaign, is to collect 1,000 Tons of used clothing at H&M stores worldwide, and keep them out of landfills by recycling them. It's rare indeed for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Back in April, H&M hosted World Recycle Week, an initiative designed to promote sustainability in fashion and to ‘Close The Loop’ on the thousands of items of clothing that are cast aside on landfill every year. But whilst the campaign...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Or is it a creative use of animation, with a serious message behind it? The innovative, animated series ‘The Carton Campaigners’ has hit the mark when it comes to explaining why sustainable packaging is key to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In recent years, there’s been a growing emphasis on sustainability in many advertising campaigns as brands and agencies alike discover the financial and ethical virtues of “going green”. As consumers become increasingly aware of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A chat with the authors of Sustainable Marketing, published by Bloomsbury Business Some time ago, we worked on a piece about greenwashing and the harm it can do to the industry on the short and longer term. Too many organisations are still making...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Plastic Free July encouraged us to reduce single-use plastic waste every day over the course of the month. The world has a packaging problem. Around a quarter of global plastic waste, for instance, is down to packaging, and manufacturing plastic...
Posted by: PA Consulting
Product design and innovation consultancy Morrama in partnership with circular manufacturing company Batch.Works, recently announced the launch of a pair of pretty unique headphones. Kibu headphones have been designed and manufactured so that kids...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There aren’t many studies examining how frequently people lie. It is lunacy to assume that respondents will truthfully answer questions about how truthful they are. Neither is it socially desirable to brand yourself a liar - even in an...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Marketing agencies make unlikely heroes. Let’s face it, they’re hardly renowned for being forces of good. They’ve been the tarter-upper of, and conduit for, some of society’s most harmful products: cigarettes, alcohol....
Posted by: Woven Agency
Packaging is often the first thing any consumer is bound to see when approaching a product for the first time. It is the most important touchpoint between a brand and its target consumers - the place where all conversations about sustainable values...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We’ve all witnessed the push to sustainability in the past decade. What were once talks in the realm of the ‘nice to have’ or some barely formed concerns about the health of our planet have now transformed into sheer fear for some...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Christmas is a time for giving and family celebrations. Yet, it can be a time of excess and over-indulgence - from gifting to greeting cards and glitter - we question if the glamour is worth the garbage. Figures show that the festive season...
Posted by: SGK
The North London Waste Authority has announced the launch of “Save Our Stuff,” a digital TV advertising campaign aimed at getting Millennials to recycle more and “not throw away useful stuff”. Created by advertising and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
5 reasons that the water category is on the rise according to Guy Williams. 1. The trend towards health consciousness. People have a better understanding of the importance of hydration and growing concerns about obesity and other related diseases...
Posted by: bluemarlin
A creative, concept driven animation studio specialising in multimedia motion for all digital mediums, from interactive web to full commercial campaigns. Ticktockrobot is a completely remote operation with bags of potential. We caught up with...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There is no single formula to creating the ultimate in sustainable packaging, and that is because there is no singular metric by which we measure sustainability. Emissions, waste, toxicity - in fact all nine planetary boundaries - these are just...
Posted by: Denomination
Fashion has always been anathema to me. You could diplomatically refer to my wardrobe as “functional” and I’m unlikely to spend more than a few fleeting seconds deciding what to wear in the morning. I do, however, understand the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Channel 4’s in-house creative agency 4creative has launched a striking campaign for Channel 4’s Change Climate season featuring the business and political elite as you’ve never seen them before - in their carbon skid marked...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
French West Indies fruit juice company, Jus de Fruits Caraïbes, has partnered with creative technology studio Appetite Creative and world leading food processing and packaging company Tetra Pak, to build a fun and interactive connected packaging...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The old adage goes that there’s no such thing as bad publicity - but this is a very old saying, and its originators failed to live to see the year 2023. That’s probably a good thing, as the last 12 short months could have spelt the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Two-thirds of businesses in the UK have no kind of plan for sustainable operations. This is hardly a surprising statistic - in the current economic climate, enterprises across all industries are looking to reduce their outgoings and avoid any kind of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this week’s member spotlight, we’re focusing on a freelance graphic designer and illustrator that’s managed to hold onto one client for almost 40 years. William Webb has worked on everything from mural painting and portraits in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Recently Smarties has set out to achieve a much ambitious goal: to have all its packaging be sustainable or reusable by 2021. That may have come with a few compromises - but Smarties was absolutely set on not losing its much colourful identity, which...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Make to Treasure is an attitude. Simply put, the idea any brand-related promotional tool we produce should add value, so we need to make it last. Promotional materials that belong in a brand’s ID should add texture, weight (metaphorically and...
Posted by: Heather Golding
There’s little doubt that the pandemic has fuelled the adoption of virtual experiences across the retail sector. From clothing to eyewear, furniture to beauty, there are few categories that haven’t ventured into AR, VR, 3D, Gaming,...
Posted by: Creativepool
After the release of Hyundai's electric vehicle, IONIQ, the brand wished to make a bold statement to show the power of electric and how it can empower people to become the change they want to see in the world. The result of their partnership with...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
From Tokyo to London and a career in journalism, you can tell that Simeon Paterson has travelled far and wide. Perhaps that's even where his passion for journalism comes from - and we wouldn't be surprised. Journalism is an art, and it can be a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Picture the blank page, staring at you right before a new drawing, story or project. Scary, isn't it? The big blank page can be daunting. It is up to creatives to fill it with all the amazing ideas we are known and paid for, driving change with our...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Being one of the world's largest creative communities, Creativepool is in a unique position to understand how the creative industry is struggling in self-isolation for the Coronavirus lockdown. We had the power to make a difference by asking about...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Being one of the world's largest creative communities, Creativepool is in a unique position to understand how the creative industry is struggling in self-isolation for the Coronavirus lockdown. We had the power to make a difference by asking about...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It's no secret that the planet is suffering. Aside from Brexit, it's been the biggest thing affecting the news agenda for the past few years and coverage is only set to increase. But if the decay and gradual demise of our world is so important, why...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
The Gate - Gay Times Magazine The Gate London has created “The Flag We Shouldn’t Be Proud Of” for Gay Times Magazine and Switchboard to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ youth suicide ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day on the 10th...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
8-bit sushi and the dawn of digitised food Digital food platform Open Meals boasted their ability to 3D-print food whilst revealing some nifty appetite appeasing technology at the SXSW interactive festival recently. Open Meals has created a Pixel...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Elon Musk gets Hyperloop permit and tracks the Starman's space cruise Tech pioneer Elon Musk has received written approval for some preliminary Hyperloop site preparation and excavation work in Washington DC. This means that a Boring Company-built...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With digital arguably superseding traditional TV advertising as the most relevant and cost-effective way-forward for the industry this year, it's surprising that we actually enjoyed such a banner year for great, 30-90 second creative content. Of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
