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On Thursday 23rd June, Salford based company Bearded Fellows Creative Studio won Best Micro Enterprise at The Big Chip Awards. The accolade marks the company’s third award win in six months, following wins at The Prolific North Awards in May...
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The debut campaign for the Harry’s shaving company has launched in the UK and will run across TV, digital and OOH for four weeks. The idea behind the work is “Shaving’s other guys,” which allows Harry’s to talk about itself as an...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This weekend, budget airline easyJet teamed up with the Netherlands Board of Tourism and Schiphol Airport to create an immersive theatre experience, which brought the sights and delights of Holland to London. The stunt, which is part of the brand's...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Stormy Studio is an award-winning business-focused animation studio in the UK that produces high-quality 2D and 3D business explainers and marketing animation for global brands and businesses. To learn more, we spoke to company founder and creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Nearly all of us can identify a very specific point in time when we started being interested in art and creativity. For our editor, it was when a school assignment brought him to write his first ever fiction story. For graphic designer Neville...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Photographer Joseph Ford’s subjects include dynamite fishing, butterflies flying out of people's mouths, a railway line merging into a zipper and a crocodile attacking Lacoste sneakers, but a series that also stands out is his Knitted...
Posted by: Ryan Watson
SomeOne - Funeralbooker (Beyond) Studio SomeOne has rebranded and renamed funeral price comparison website Funeralbooker, with a “charming” and “radical” identity that aims to stand out from a “sea of sameness” in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Partizan Emma Westenberg is a Dutch director, born in California and based in Amsterdam who has justed been named as the latest addition to the Partizan roster. Her work can be described as a confident mix of classic visual tropes, fashion and fine...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Graphic design is a complex and ever evolving industry. That means that as a designer, you're always looking to keep up with what's happening. Internet technology has made finding tools that will actually help you stay ahead of the curve easier, too....
Posted by: Mary Walton
Public opinion on the Kardashian family is almost as polarising as the public opinion on the Trump family, so it was always going to be a risky move to hire one of the notoriously fame-hungry siblings to front a national advertising campaign. The...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
AB - Exeter University Leading South West digital marketing agency, AB, has formed a new partnership with Exeter University, which will see the agency help to deliver two digital marketing courses to the next generation of marketers. A total of 130...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Coding is something that, until recently, was seen as the sole reserve of the neck-bearded loner. Thanks to advances in technology and social attitudes, however, it's now seen as a pretty cool skill that could amount to everything from a neat hobby...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Jimmy’s Iced Coffee, the family-owned range of ready-to-drink iced coffees, have just dropped their second full-length coffee-themed rap, titled ‘Who Got The Beans’. Starring the face of Jimmy’s brand, Jim Cregan, this summer...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
This year’s winners of the world’s longest-running global student competition, the RSA Student Design Awards, were announced last week, and include a kettle that collects grip data to measure frailty, a new insulation material made from...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
J. Walter Thompson London - KitKat As the countdown to the festive season began in earnest, millions of Brits had one worried eye on the exhausting side of Christmas. On top of this, they had to contend with more and more banal Christmas ads,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Taking horses skiing for Canon The latest instalment of the “Come and See” campaign for Canon from JWT took a range of Canon cameras and some intrepid bearded crew members to Argentina’s mountains to film Franco Moro, the 55-year...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
First sentences are difficult. As they go, that one wasn’t particularly memorable. I went to journalism school where they drummed it into you that if it was longer than 25 words and didn’t summarise the story in a compelling way,...
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I'll be honest here, I never got Gavin and Stacey, and furthermore, I never got James Corden. Granted he comes across as an affable enough bloke in interviews, and as a stockier gentleman myself, it's nice to see a man with a little more junk in the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
M and M Direct - Start Saving Quite how a catalogue clothes company manages to use that name, without falling foul of the chocolate people (whose ad we reviewed last week), I'm not sure. Perhaps it's because their ad is so anodyne and dull, the...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
There was some big news coming out of M&C Saatchi yesterday. Firstly, Public Health England (PHE) awarded its consumer engagement PR brief to the agency, with Freuds, which currently holds the contract, but was unable to pitch directly, as a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Right now, the SXSW music festival is in full flow in Austin Texas. What's more, I believe Creativepool's glorious leader Mike Tomes is there, doing his funky thing. Anyway, following the event on Twitter, I noticed someone reporting a bearded fellow...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
What's the story behind you joining WCRS? Ross Neil and I got our break at HHCL in the last days of a truly great and innovative agency. A collection of original people who didn't quite fit in elsewhere in the industry. We’ve always been...
Posted by: House 337
by Magnus Shaw. Perhaps surprisingly, I've only ever worked on a couple of campaigns which have attracted public complaints. One was a press piece for a now defunct cable TV network. At the time, it was the only service carrying the Disney Channel...
Posted by: Creativepool
In the eighties and nineties I lived in London and throughout that time, London Underground put buskers on a par with the small, grey, dusty mice running between the rails. That is, vermin ripe for extermination. Okay, maybe not extermination, but...
Posted by: Creativepool
As things currently stand, wealthy business men are far more likely to face a mob brandishing flaming torches than the accolade 'national treasure'. Even Alan Sugar is, at best, a rather grouchy figure of fun. But if there's one glaring exception,...
Posted by: Creativepool
Post-truth is, when taken on its own terms, is a pretty terrifying concept. Without the truth, the objective becomes subjective, and facts can be acknowledged or ignored based on personal bias. What you’re left with is the cultural and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Flying Duck Studio Lab is an ethical and inclusive creative studio whose goal is to share positive and inspiring story-telling by bringing top-notch productions to the world and working towards changing the industry for the better. They specialise...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Every work of art is like a child to its author. If you're creating a game, writing a book or spending time on an illustration, it is natural to feel attached to it. But how are you going to learn if you don't stay detached from your works? Digital...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
4D-printing allows flat-pack furniture to be assembled with heat alone Researchers have created a series of 4D-printed plastic objects that fold themselves into predetermined shapes when heated, which they believe could be scaled up to create...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.” No other photographer captured the struggles, emotions and consequences of the great depression era than...
Posted by: Lobster
Saatchi & Saatchi - HomeAway In what is easily my ad of the week, given my love for all things Nick Offerman, the former Parks and Recreation star (and carpenter) urges people to “Get HomeAway from it all” as part of the holiday rental...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Co-op officially launched its Summer TV campaign this week, and it's a bit of a corker! “Be as unpredictable as the Summer” from Leo Burnett is kicking off with a 40-second commercial, accompanied by four 10 second ads, which together...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
BMB - New Balance You Are Your Toughest Opponent In this inspiring new campaign for New Balance, the running shoes and apparel brand, BMB delves inside the mind of top athletes. “You Are Your Toughest Opponent” looks at the battles we...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
#BR2016 life-changing hackathon theme for 2016: How Can Technology Help Solve World Homelessness? Business Rocks 2016 will host a global hackathon in a bid to help solve the ever-growing problem of homelessness through technology. From...
Posted by: Business Rocks
The Super Bowl isn't just the biggest day of the year for the NFL, it's by and large the biggest day of the year for ad land too, as countless millions from across the globe tune in to watch armies of heavily armoured blokes bash seven shades out of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whilst male beauty products and classic novels might not appear to be perfect bedfellows on paper, the award winning Bulldog Skincare For Men brand have put together a genuinely unique gift concept that brings together the worlds of skincare and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial