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Whilst technology is all about looking forward, sometimes, it's just as important to keep one foot in the past. With this in mind, designer Paul Cocksedge has unveiled the latest design in his mission to save vintage speakers from the tip with a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Sonic branding. It’s something all creatives are familiar with, and something we can certainly appreciate the importance of. We’re all aware of how great sound can make or break a product, but something rarely talked about is how much of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In a multiscreen world, it’s safe to say marketers have their work cut out for them. Capturing and keeping consumers’ notoriously short attention spans is hard enough, but that attention is now becoming increasingly split. Multi-screening has...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When an eagle-eyed Twitter user noticed an influencer posting images with identical cloud formations, he wasted no time in calling out her ‘spooky’ behaviour. Matt Navarra’s tweet (below) about Martina Saravia got 35k likes....
Posted by: Aaron Brooks
The head of social at one of the world’s largest cereal brands believes advertising agencies are under increasing pressure from a new generation of social influencers. Joseph Harper, who looks after social campaigns in the UK & Ireland at the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Creativepool held its annual Connect: London festival at Boiler House, Old Truman Brewery last week with two days of inspiring talks, workshops and networking events for the creative industry. The packed programme saw the action take place across...
Posted by: Creativepool
Cannes Lions 2018 was a more reserved affair than perhaps we were used to, but it was no less inspiring. Indeed, many found the atmosphere this year to be a little more relaxed and a little more open. Whether this was by happenstance or design, it...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Online reviews, blogs and social networks have given everyone with access to the internet a chance to be heard. An easy outlet to connect with people, share experiences and spread ideas. The subsequent rise of bloggers and influencers quickly gained...
Posted by: VAMP
This week, on May 25, data protection rules across Europe will undergo the biggest change in the last two decades. It's a change two years in the making. In April 2016, after years of negotiations and legal tussling, officials agreed upon the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This week, Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO and Founder of the world's largest advertising agency network, WPP, resigned from his post amidst circling 'personal misconduct' allegations that remain (at the time of writing) unresolved, much to the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
When looking ahead, it's always important to keep one foot firmly rooted in the past, particularly when examining adland, which has been in a state of flux for years now. With agencies and brands alike shifting their allegiances towards digital with...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Taylor Herring - Thorpe Park Taylor Herring has subverted conventional out of home advertising by anchoring the living dead to an ad installation in East London and making commuters wish they were tucked up safely at home. This bizarre experiential...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Getty Images has announced an exclusive global distribution partnership with Jaunt, the industry leader in high quality cinematic virtual reality. The new partnership will enable Getty Images to provide premium cinema-grade VR video to enable...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Named after a 1997 album by indie rock-band Pavement, Brighten the Corners have been enlivening the design industry since they founded their studio back in 1999 (with the aforementioned album presumably playing on the office stereo). In the 17 years...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Google Earth Relaunches With Bold New Look Google has relaunched its exploration platform Google Earth after a two-year redesign project. The new version was launched to coincide with World Earth Day and comprises a range of new features, including...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Sony were not the only major tech company to drop a bombshell yesterday. Never ones to be outdone, Apple chose their September 7 keynote as the launchpad for the highly anticipated iPhone 7. As is often the case with Apple these days (in a pos Steve...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Fresh from Cannes and by popular demand, the Straight 8 industry shootout is set to premier in London next week. The screening will be presented by APA in association with Creature of London and with support from and Kodak, Cinelab London,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Since hitting my mid-twenties and discovering the joys of an (albeit limited) disposable income, I've become something of a gadget fiend. Yes readers, I'm one of those insufferable pricks who just has to have the latest gizmo or pointless upgrade,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The ground-floor of the Old Vinyl Factory in Hayes, West London, which was at the forefront of UK technological development for much of the 20th century, has been reimagined as an incubator space for start-up product design businesses. The site was...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Last night we had the chance to have a peek at the inaugural FUTURE ARTEFACTS showcase at Shoreditch Studios in London. The aim of FUTURE ARTEFACTS is to bring together the world’s most progressive music, arts publishing, fashion and tech...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Generally speaking, staircases are more about the destination than the journey, little more than a convenient way of getting from A to B. London-based designer Paul Cocksedge, however, was inspired by the concept of taking a simple spiral staircase...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
OK, so you won't get to experience the giddy thrills of being chased out of a packed venue by a horde of screaming teenage girls, and you won't suddenly inherit John Lennon's knack for penning bizarrely poetic rhyming couplets, but thanks to Google,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Only four days after it was launched, the Kickstarter page for the Artiphon INSTRUMENT 1 noted that the goal of $75,000 had already been reached. In fact, at the time of writing, with 35 days still left to go, the remarkable looking instrument has...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whilst I already covered the two major players at the 2015 Mobile Web Congress, Samsung and HTC were not the only companies to unveil something of note at this year's mobile electronics trade show. As was expected given the precedent already set by...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The American full-service agency Neathawk Dubuque & Packett announced recently that they will be appointing award winning creative talent Jimmy Ashworth as executive creative director on the 2nd of June. Ashworth previously worked as the lead...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
'Share the love!' says a one and half foot, massive headed, dead-eyed creature in a white jump-suit. Ordinarily the shock of this vision would wake you from your nightmare. You'd slope off for a wee and crawl back into bed. But this isn't a bad...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
This year sees the 150th anniversary of London Underground, and the exhibition at the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden celebrates the event in all its glory with a fantastic poster exhibition. With an archive of over 3,000, 150 have been...
Posted by: Creativepool
Don't know it all - ask questions. Describe your work in one sentence. Design in motion. What's the most important thing you've learnt in your line of work? Everything is temporary, style, fashion, who's hot and who's not. Get paid for...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Magnus Shaw Even readers of my advanced years may struggle to remember The Skids. Formed in Dunfermline in 1977, the band bridged the final days of punk rock and the birth of new wave pop. They were pretty successful too. Singles 'Masquerade',...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Jessica Hazel Online Logo Contests have been popping up all over the internet for quite some time now. They allow businesses and individuals to offer a set fee, or prize, for what they consider to be the best logo design. Hundreds of amazing...
Posted by: Creativepool
Hello dear blog readers. Apologies for posting this so late in the day but I have been out at the V&A Museum all afternoon trying to get my head around just what exactly Postmodernism is. Stupid though this may sound I managed to complete my art...
Posted by: Creativepool
How did you first get into the industry? I was born in small village in western ghats of Karnataka India. When I was 10 years old, I used to create collages by cutting out people's photos from newspapers and magazines, mixing and matching them in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
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
Something a little different today! We’re speaking to Chris Trotman, Creative Director at Run for The Hills, about his agency’s work creating the brand identity and interior design for a very unique and very sustainable workplace. COAL...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial