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Getting the jump! on Lee Garaghty | #GettingToKnow

Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? I’m a partner in jump! and I head up our UK business. I’m ultimately responsible for the growth of the agency and the team, in our London office. One of the things I...

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Industry

How to hire a great 3D visualiser

Regardless of what type of business you run, there has never been a greater need for top 3D artists. 3D models and renders are vital to an incredibly wide range of different business areas and without a 3D visualiser to lay the foundations for the...

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Features

The Frankie Quiroz Formula of 5 C's: Building a Thriving Clothing Brand

Have you ever stumbled upon a piece of advice or a strategy that just clicked with you and made perfect sense? That's exactly what happened to me when I watched a video where Frankie Quiroz was interviewed about building a successful clothing brand....

Posted by: Peter Stylianou
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Industry

Waking up and shaking with Dawn Creative | #CompanySpotlight

A Manchester-based brand agency that “hates bad design,” Dawn Creative has been building, developing and amplifying brands for over 20 years now. This week, we’re talking to Creative Director and agency Founder David O’Hearns...

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Workshop

How much should I charge as a freelance motion graphics designer?

As creative filmmakers and video producers expand both their imaginations and their budgets for impressive technology and design, skilled motion graphics designers are essential. Motion graphics designers, sometimes just called motion designers,...

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Leaders

Cooking up trouble with an agency born during COVID | #CompanySpotlight

One of the few agencies forged successfully amidst the fires of COVID, Trouble Maker is an end-to-end content, media and distribution agency with four founders that have experience with some of the biggest brands in the world. They came together to...

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Leaders

#GettingToKnow diversity and inclusion expert Nina Goswami

With this year’s International Women’s Day fast approaching, we have recently conducted a series of interviews with global inspirational women from the creative industries. In this exclusive interview, meet the BBC’s former...

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Inspiration

It’s time for boys to get periods

Uniform call on the nation’s boys to help support the effort in menstrual education. 72% of boys have never had a lesson about periods. So, is it any wonder that 1 in 5 women have felt period shame due to comments from a male friend? 21% of...

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Inspiration

10 books that every creative should own

While our lives might be online now, and that’s probably not going to change anytime soon, there is still something quite special about a physical book. When the initial wave of Kindle fever kicked off in the early years of the 21st century, I...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Workshop

Studying the quiet evolution of The Frameworks | #CompanySpotlight

For this week’s company spotlight, we focus on The Frameworks, an independent design consultancy and frequent Creativepool contributors. We caught up with James Trowman, Partner and General Manager, to discuss the origins, challenges and future...

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Inspiration

Using goal-setting to get the right work

I don’t want to sound like a cliché here, but as we start a new year, it’s hard not to think about goal-setting. Of course, it’s important to set and review our business goals at various points in the year, but it feels kind of...

Posted by: Tony Clarkson
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Leaders

Designers can’t work alone - True creative power is collaborative

Most brands accept that creativity is a positive thing when it comes to promoting their business. But, too often, they focus only on visual design when developing their creative assets - and tend to view it as just pretty pictures. That narrow...

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Workshop

How much should I charge as a freelance fashion designer?

In fashion, money talks. Indeed, there is literally millions to be made if you know the right people or are somebody’s son or daughter. But for the rest of us starting out in a fashion career from the very bottom with no real guidelines to...

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Leaders

#GettingToKnow Daniel Collins and his rocket ship to creative glory

Daniel Collins is an award-winning content with other 7 years of experience in the industry. Currently Strategy Director at Rocket (specialist kids, youth and parent business) and Co-Founder of The Howl Creative (content creation for entertainment...

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Inspiration

The top font trends set to take 2023 by storm | #PredictionsMonth

For most people, fonts are not something to spend a lot of time considering. Yes, most of us have a perfectly rational hatred for comic sans but aside from that, a font is surely little more than an afterthought for a designer, right? Not at...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Workshop

How to hire a great UX designer

Making our products and services as easy and natural to use as possible is often easier said than done. In many cases there are hundreds of moving parts and wheels within wheels to negotiate and condense into a cohesive and organic user experience....

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Industry

2023 Resolutions: Top tips from entrepreneurs & agency leaders

People use a new year as a fresh start, evaluating the past year with introspection and making goals for a better year ahead. Work-related new year’s resolutions for freelancers and business owners are created in this process. While many...

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Industry

Packaging design trends for 2023

This year’s developments in packaging design reflect a world in flux, still evolving from disruption caused by the Covid pandemic, and becoming increasingly aware of its own vulnerability - and responsibility - in the midst of climate...

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Features

The most exciting design trends of 2023

While the world falls apart around us there are still so many creatives fighting the good fight and keeping the furnaces of artistry and design stoked with fresh ideas. But while design might be born from the creative mind, trends are shaped by...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

ASDA on top in the tightest Christmas ad race ever

It’s been the most competitive Christmas ad season ever. People want a reason to smile, and brands have pulled out all the stops to provide it with a series of feelgood festive ads. Advertising effectiveness company System1 have unveiled their...

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Leaders

#GettingToKnow the equitable creative processes of Nick Dupey

Nicky Dupey is a creative executive and thought leader with a proven track record of unlocking innovative potential for teams and clients. As a multidisciplinary designer and seasoned professional with over 20 years’ experience, he’s...

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Workshop

How to hire a great packaging designer

When browsing the shelves at a local supermarket, what’s the first thing you generally notice about a product? Maybe the colourful box it comes in or the informative plastic wrapping? The right packaging can boost any product’s appeal and...

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Industry

The pixel perfect world of Pixel Artworks | #CompanySpotlight

Tom Burch is MD of immersive experience company Pixel Artworks and has been creating wonder with his work for brands since he founded the business in 2005. From creating fire-breathing dragons for Warwick Castle to planting the Garden of Light for...

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Inspiration

Branching out: 6 ways to diversify your creative income stream

Artist, pattern designer, entrepreneur and cofounder of the Make It In Design online education platform, Rachael Taylor, discusses the importance of diversifying your income stream as a creative in these trying times. It’s important to not...

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Leaders

Top 10 most exciting retouchers on Creativepool

Not everyone is perfectly flawless, and neither is every piece of work. Even if the designer, artist, or photographer is a genius, their work will often contain a few sore spots. Indeed, even the supermodels on Instagram and on the billboards we see...

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Leaders

Enjoying the thrill of the unexpected with Austin Lane | #GettingToKnow

You might have seen BLVR’s Compton Cowboys campaign for Andis - ‘an unusually tender, insightful work for a barbering campaign’ - ECD Austin Lane led the creative vision on this. Photography, painting, drawing, and filming were all...

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Inspiration

The sports photographer that shoots from the heart | #MemberSpotlight

Karen Yeomans is an award-winning freelance photographer on a mission to help women be seen and support the rise of women’s sport. Based in North London, her clients include major names in the sporting sphere like Red Bull, Invictus and...

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Industry

The Tokyo agency that took on the world and won | #CompanySpotlight

Global design-driven creative agency monopo is an independent creative agency born in Tokyo, with offices in London, New York and Saigon that helps brands be their most inspiring selves. Their goal is to inject personality into digital design and...

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