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Leaders

Headbomz campaign lets children know that talking makes us stronger

This week marks the commencement of a colourful and potentially powerful campaign from Valenstein & Fatt (the creative agency formerly known as Grey London) and Vodafone Ireland. Headbomz is a schools programme aimed at children aged between eight...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

Member Spotlight: Flipping the script with copywriter Vikki Ross

Brand and tone of voice specialist Vikki Ross didn’t take your average route into copywriting but has carved out a successful career by going off script. “I’m from the school of Work Your Arse Off,” she says. “I did...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Grey Mexico's YouTube tutorials kill two birds with one stone

Latin American hardware store Construrama has launched a new campaign informing consumers about DIY best practices, while at the same time helping to rebuild Puerto Rico following hurricane damage in 2017. Two years ago, the country was hit by the...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Features

Recruiter Insight: McCann London with Robert Stone

The Creativepool Recruiter Insight series is a new batch of podcasts we'll be bringing you over the coming weeks, which aim to answer the questions on the lips of every Creativepooler: “What will it take to bag me a job at my dream agency, and...

Posted by: Creativepool
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Leaders

AgencyQuotes, first ever book by Nick Entwistle and Vikki Ross

@AgencyQuotes on Twitter has been alive and kicking since 2012 with over 7,000 worldwide followers tweeting #thingsyouhearinagencies every day. If you’re in advertising, or you want to be, then we’re sure you’ll relate to the...

Posted by: One Minute Briefs
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Annie Leibowitz and the ultimate Rolling Stone magazine cover

It is December 8, 1980. Photographer Annie Leibowitz is greeted by John Lennon at the door of his New York apartment at The Dakota. She is here to take a shot of Lennon for Rolling Stone. 'It'll be great,' she promises the former Beatle 'I'll put...

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Inspiration

The agency founder who became her own client #BehindTheBrand

Sister Mary, a new strategic design agency founded by Leigh Chandler, has unveiled the design for a limited-edition run of intricately designed votive candles. The client? Leigh herself. Leigh, whose 20 year career has seen her design for major...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Features

What Will Adland Look Like in 6 Months? #PredictionsMonth

The world of advertising has always stood on unstable ground, such is always evolving nature of the creative landscape. However, this year promises to be a particularly lively one, as the dynamics of technology, culture, and economics start to...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Features

The Future is Now: 5 Design Trends for 2024 #PredictionsMonth

Can you believe it, we’re almost already two weeks into 2024? The passage of time is a strange and cruel thing and I feel almost nervous that it’s taken me this long to break out a true predictive trends piece. Trend forecasting, you...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

Samsung commit to UK skating with Sky Brown #BehindTheBrand

Iris London has worked with Samsung Electronics UK to launch an impactful campaign supporting the brand’s announcement that they are joining forces with Skateboard GB, the governing body for skateboarding in the UK. The partnership will form a...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Features

Is Kim Kardashian a business genius or just really really famous?

Whether you love her, love to hate her, or are somewhere in the middle, there's no denying that Kim Kardashian is one of the most influential and successful women of our time. With an estimated net worth of over $1 billion, she's built an empire that...

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Workshop

How to Deal with Abusive Clients in 10 Easy Steps #MentalHealthMonth

Anyone that’s been working within the creative industries for any significant length of time will probably have a few horror stories to share when it comes to being on the receiving end of an unwarranted torrent of abuse. We don’t like to...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Features

Global creative calendar: October 2023

Each year, the Cannes Lions score the global branded communications and marketing industry on Reach, Communication, Craft, Experience, Innovation, Impact, Good, Health, and Entertainment. The latest Global creative calendar edition is designed to...

Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
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Inspiration

Art is dead(?) - The dangers of AI in creative spaces

“Roko’s Basilisk” is a popular thought experiment. It proposes a hypothetical situation in which an all-knowing, all-powerful. An evil artificial intelligence comes into power in the future. It may want to destroy every human who...

Posted by: Think Design Manchester Ltd
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Inspiration

Finding the perfect sound with Sonic Lens | #Company Spotlight

Marco Vitali, Managing Partner at Sonic Lens Agency, is something of a renaissance man. A musical prodigy and marketing specialist that has mastered both sides of his brain and cultivated a career as one of the foremost voices in sonic...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

#MemberSpotlight on Obelisk Agency Creative Director, Silvia Bosoiu

A creative director with over a decade of experience, Silvia is a fascinating individual that loves to experiment with ideas and let her mind run wild. As Co-Founder and CD at the Obelisk Agency, she has worked for everyone from tiny startups to...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

Tesco's incredibly ambitious Finest rebrand | #BehindTheBrand

Coley Porter Bell has embarked on a major packaging rebrand, telling the stories behind the food, and bringing consistency and clear navigation to over 1000 products for Tesco’s “Finest” range. This incredibly ambitious rebrand has...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Features

The best beer and band brand joints #MoneyMonth

Beer and music are two things I’d probably struggle to live my life well without. There is also a definite link between the two. I mean, who has ever been to a live gig and not been struck by the sticky floors and the ridiculous queue at the...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

Why we should all be more fish - The rise of #KindTok | #PurposeMonth

Kindness is a virtue that’s seldom celebrated in this world but there’s a trend currently taking over social media that aims to rectify that. Of course, social media is a platform itself rarely accustomed to kindness. More often than not,...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Industry

7 reasons NOT to enter awards

Industry awards. Who needs them, right? Shows assembled by organizations who are building a business on the industry and its professionals. And with each one comes a set of doubts, disappointments, and sometimes misconceptions that tend to undermine...

Posted by: Creativepool
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Inspiration

Falling into jewellery with Tessa Packard | #MemberSpotlight

How did you get into the industry? Abruptly and with no prior experience! I had been working in the commercial art world for some years, but increasingly daydreaming about starting a new career in the creative design industry. Winter approached,...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Industry

Why your "confident and charismatic" CEO still needs media training

You wouldn’t let an employee loose on your core IT systems without training, so should your media outreach be any different? Amy Stone, Senior Communications Consultant at Hard Numbers discusses her surprise and frustration at how many times...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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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...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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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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Features

Christmas 2022: The best of a bad bunch | #HolidayMonth

As we leave November behind at fully embrace the Christmas season, Josh Pearce, Creative Director at Dark Horses, talks us through the festive ads that stood out among the glut of so-so offerings this year. Like looking in the fridge on December...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Workshop

Designhouse open intruiging new doors for Numis | #BehindTheBrand

Designhouse has crafted a bold new identity for leading investment bank Numis, to align with a new phase of strategic growth as Numis shake off legacy perceptions that it was “just a corporate broker”. The identity is centred around a...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Workshop

How much should I charge as a freelance creative director?

Creative directors are amongst the most coveted individuals in the creative industries. They are generally recognised as kings and queens of their respective fields - masters of all trades that can wield relationships as confidently as they wield...

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Workshop

How much should I charge as a freelance copy editor?

“To write is human, to edit is divine.” These are the words of Stephen King, arguably one of the most successful novelists of all time and he certainly has a point. The best copy editors, after all, exist to sharpen the edges, make sense...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Industry

The power of polylingual employees

Daniele Saccardi, Campaign Manager at Preply, uses his expertise to explain why offering language lessons to employees results in improved work ethic. In a world that is becoming more global and accessible by the day, language skills are like gold...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Features

Legends of Advertising: Mary Wells Lawrence | #HistoryMonth

Last history month, we highlighted Sir Martin Sorrell as our 2021 “legend of advertising.” A divisive figure still operating from the sidelines after stepping down from WPP in 2018, Sorrell is very much the kind of person most people...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Industry

How little or how much? The problem with value

A little story: My son is at art school here in Shrewsbury, where they’ve recently had their end-of-year exhibition. During the event, he managed to get a commission and a sale. When asked for a price, he froze for a few seconds and then...

Posted by: Tony Clarkson
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Workshop

Three reasons to reconsider your rebrand | #PurposeMonth

Your brand is your business. It’s not a logo or a colour palette. Which means the rebrand, as we’ve come to understand it, might not be the answer to the question you’re asking. Manfred Abraham, co-CEO at Yonder, discusses why...

Posted by: Yonder Consulting

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