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Lego fans can now build outwards from walls, chair legs, household objects or the backs of other toys using an ingenious new studded tape. The Nimuno Loops tape is the creation of the Cape Town-based designers Anine Kirsten and Max Basler, who...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Was fascinated by a TV programme the other evening, on the possible reasons behind why we’ve been experiencing some oddly ’stuck’ weather patterns in the last couple of decades. And yes, hooked because we really love to talk about the weather...
Posted by: Richard
What value do digital marketing agencies bring to the table? For many years, this has been an easy question to answer. Performance-focused agencies were technical experts who understood digital channels through and through. They knew which buttons to...
Posted by: Precis Digital
Be honest, how many of your creative colleagues and friends do you think are struggling right now with their mental health? If I asked myself that question, I’d probably have to answer more than half, myself included. On paper, that reads like...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
If there is one thing this pandemic has accelerated, it is the rate at which businesses have realised they are in deep pits of dung. Outdated systems, experiences and pipelines have come to the open following the outbreak and it looks like the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Research suggests that creatives only spend around 29% of their day on creative work, and are often preoccupied by administrative processes such as project management, managing review loops, and keeping on top of admin. Office clutter, and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Earlier this year, We Are Pi launched Just Say It, a book of copywriting advice from the best in the game, collected by Creative Director, Taylor Black. To make the book, Taylor reached out to some of the greatest writers in the industry - Creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Last month, Chromatic Brands launched a new online marketplace brand, including name, brand strategy, brand identity and campaign. Created on the promise ‘The exchange you’ll love’ the Onro brand is brought to life using...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As far as musical equipment goes, Teenage Engineering are very much in a field of their own. Where competitors such as Behringer and Korg aim to cut costs wherever possible and deliver something affordable and practical, TE are all about that...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Today’s musing was spurred on from reading an article at the weekend by Alex Hern reviewing a new book (an interesting choice of channel to publish through) by Matthew Ball - The Metaverse: How It Will Revolutionize Everything. You likely know...
Posted by: Richard
For my money, many of the most creative tech concepts of the last decade have been those unofficial projects created by the “fan” community. From the bizarre and wonderful custom synthesisers built by the enigmatic Love Hultén (see...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
One day, robots will inherit the earth. As machine learning and artificial intelligence make bigger leaps forward year on year, product design, UI and UX do so as well, by leveraging the power of machine intelligence to solve the world’s most...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
How do you usually feel on Sunday nights? Well, apart from when there’s a football match which fails to make history. If the answer is ‘awful,’ ‘anxious’ or anything in between, you might be looking at a case of Sunday...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Gaming’s got a strange reputation. It’s not got the respect that film, literature and even television has. However, as an industry its success is staggering. In the UK the gaming market is now worth a record £5.7bn, that’s more...
Posted by: Rob Pratt
We are super excited to announce our most recent signing - Geoffroy de Crécy. Geoffroy is a French director and illustrator, who continuously explores many ways to apply and combine the techniques of traditional animation, stop-motion, 3D and...
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Creativity, code and magic with Kano’s Harry Potter Coding Kit Kano, a company best-known for its build-it-yourself computers and coding kits, has launched a new tool teaching kids and adults to code through the magical world of Harry Potter....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Creative Duo Cabeza Patata (that's Potato Head in Spanish) have recently joined the Jelly Futures family just in time for Craft Month - that was handy wasn't it?! Formed by illustrator and craftswoman Katie Menzies and 3d artist and animator Abel...
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You’ve forgotten what your family looks like. It’s been months of overtime. Leaving the house before they’ve woken up, coming home after they’ve gone to bed. You tell them that ‘it’s expected, and everyone else is doing it’, well aware...
Posted by: Magnopus
Gravity Road - Sainsbury's Sainsbury’s obviously caters for those that love Halloween, but what about those that don’t? Every year there are people who actively avoid having to deal with trick-or-treaters. It’s a fact. 70% of Brits...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Delete - Movember Foundation The Movember Foundation has partnered with digital agency Delete to deliver a branded content campaign to support Movember this autumn. Following a donation of free ad space from WeTransfer, Delete worked in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As a child, Lego is something I never really connected with. It’s only as a young adult, oddly enough, that I really began to understand the appeal. If Algobrix would have been a thing during my formative years, however, as a self-professed...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The ring that turns your hand into a smartphone Dubbed the “world’s first voice-powered smart ring,” the ORII ring enhances bone conduction technology to transform the hand into a smartphone. Unlike previous smart rings, such as...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Jenny Sabin creates robotically knitted canopy for MoMA PS1 Young Architects The New York-based architectural design practice Jenny Sabin Studio has won the MoMA PS1's Young Architecture Program competition with its plans for a shelter made entirely...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Twitter shuts down Vine, but is it seven seconds too late? In hindsight, the death of Vine was already written in the stars. The seven second video app was the talk of the internet a few years ago, with the app even spawning a few online...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Elon Musk sends a Dragon to Mars This week, SpaceX, the aerospace manufacturer founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, announced its plans to send unmanned Dragon spacecrafts to Mars by 2018. These initial missions will reportedly inform them of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Former apprentice star & agency innovators warn brands & agencies to make responsibility a mind-set. Today, Christie H.Kristensen from Creativepool hosted a session at Advertising Week Europe exploring how an innovation mindset helps brands to...
Posted by: The Media Foundry
Technology, eh? Undoubtedly very handy, but full of concepts with funny names and purposes seemingly designed to befuddle and confuse. Take 'offbeat 360° video' for example. Who on earth would have the first idea what that is? Perhaps not you,...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Between the 8th and the 9th of August, visitors to the British Museum will be invited to step a virtual foot inside a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age roundhouse with the launch of the London museum’s first ever virtual reality weekend. By teaming up...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The algorithm that could predict the World Cup winner? Yearly football publication Season Annual co-founders Charlie Sims and Sam T Smith worked on the design and data for the predictor, while the website was designed and coded by Barney Jeffries at...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It gives us great pleasure to announce this year’s Creativepool Annual winners, revealed last night at the Annual Awards Ceremony at Protein Studios. A total of 251 winners were crowned between both the creative Annual categories and the Award...
Posted by: Creativepool
Tesla entrepreneur and all around tech mogul Elon Musk is kicking up quite a fuss about his Hyperloop high-speed transportation system, and with good reason. If the system lives up to its potential, it could revolutionise public transportation, to...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Recently the Adam Leibsohn, COO of Giphy, gave a talk about the importance of communication through GIFs (well, he would, wouldn’t he). But a partisan opinion aside, the tendency to rely on GIFs to communicate our thoughts and feelings online...
Posted by: Jade French