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Everything you ever needed to know about branding

Freelance content strategist Alicia Rother offers a deep and compelling dive into the world of branding. A strong brand identity plays an important part in the success of a business or organization. Your brand determines how your customers,...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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How to choose a direct marketing agency

Ever wish you could just cut all the middlemen out of marketing and get straight to the point? Direct marketing is your answer. As the name suggests, direct marketing is a means of marketing directly to your customers via multiple channels. Direct...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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The 5 best freelancing tools for creatives in 2023

Being a freelancer often means working alone and working alone means relying on your own wits and the right tools. For a creative freelancer, those tools will, of course, depend on the role you’ve built for yourself. You’ll rarely hear of...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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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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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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How to choose a digital agency

The number of active internet users has increased every year for the last 20 years. The technological advancements of society have had a staggering effect on marketing. Marketing began as a simple job of posting an ad in your newspaper or buying a 30...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

Unlocking human stories with Synoptic Office | #CompanySpotlight

Synoptic Office is an award-winning design consultancy working globally with leading cultural, civic, and business organizations to communicate ideas, build experiences, and cultivate new audiences. Designers Caspar Lam and YuJune Park originally...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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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...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

Bringing the Isle of Man into the digital age | #BehindTheBrand

Branding agency Lantern recently created a new campaign and brand refresh for Digital Isle of Man, showcasing the island as a centre of digital innovation. Brought on to bring the community lifestyle and natural landscape of the island to life,...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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How to hire a great content manager

Content is king. This is an adage we’re probably all sick of by now, but it still rings true in many ways. What is the internet without content, after all? This is why content managers remain one of the most important individuals for many...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

Enter the tetrachromatic world of Ida Hay | #MemberSpotlight

Ida Hay is aSwedish/Norwegian illustrator and visual designer based in British Columbia, Canada who started drawing as soon as she was old enough to hold a pen. She has always been colour sensitive, already as a young child her family noticed her...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Top 10 most exciting branding designers on Creativepool

What is a brand? It’s far more than just a colour scheme and a few catchy phrases. Indeed, it’s more suitable to think of a brand as an identity - it’s what the company stands for, what it hopes to achieve and how it wants to be...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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How to choose a web design agency

While social media might have become an incredibly important tool, nobody is going to take your business seriously without a website. Designing that website is a key task as it needs to find a perfect balance between form and function. It’s a...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

#GettingToKnow the creative conscience of Chrissy Levett

Chrissy Levett trained as an illustrator and print maker before studying design + communications at the Royal Colleg​e of Art, in London. She is an accomplished creative director and founder of Creative Conscience, a global organisation that...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

That’s not writing, that’s typing

For someone who’s supposed to draw for a living, I seem to spend a lot of time typing. Of course some people who type for a living make amazing things. Lines of code are amazing, I wish I could fathom it. And what some call typing others...

Posted by: Richard
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Inspiration

Templates, tropes and other t-shapes

Hanging up on the wall in the office there are a whole bunch of stencils that interior designers and architects used to use daily when setting out plans on paper. There’s everything in these glorious little plastic worlds, from tables to...

Posted by: Richard
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Industry

Shining the #MemberSpotlight on "that motion guy” George Hurrell

While he is more often than not simply referred to as "That motion guy", George Hurrell is actually a motion and animation specialist with a background in visual communication and design. With over 15 years of studio experience working...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Getting smarter with digital ads - How to reduce overspend

For advertising and creative professionals, 2020 was the year that changed everything. The ecommerce boom, driven largely by Covid-19, forced an unprecedented growth in demand for online retail. And with physical shopping unlikely to ever return to...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

Paying down experience debt for luxury and premium brands

There's a saying in marketing: if you want to sell a product, you can charge a hundred pounds. But if you want to sell a story, the sky's the limit. That, in a nutshell, is the power of storytelling. It intrigues and inspires. It connects brand...

Posted by: Woven Agency
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Features

Global creative calendar: May 2022

Two years ago, this forecast of upcoming events became irrelevant, almost overnight. Since then, we have adapted - and now, rejuvenation is on the rise. Comparatively, we may go less often, stay closer to home, and spend more time phoning it in...

Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
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Inspiration

#GettingToKnow one of the fiercest female illustrators in the game

To mark the end of Women’s History Month, we’re getting to know the illustrator, artists and graphic designer Lucie Corbasson, known professionally as Lucie Louxor. Lucie has been working as a freelance designer for just over four years...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Features

Global creative calendar: April 2022

Across this month’s full slate of alluring extracurricular activities, everyone open to new experiences has worlds to gain. Current and future leaders spanning all industries are going all in: Curtains will soon draw back and stages will...

Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
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Inspiration

The next frontier - The rise of NFTs in retail

Great news: according to The Collins Dictionary, NFT was the word of 2021, which means there now exists a go-to way to explain these elusive virtual tokens to your grandparents... Defined as “a unique digital certificate, registered in a...

Posted by: Matter Of Form
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Industry

Weaving a tapestry of diversity for Black Lives Matter | #BehindTheIdea

Black Lives Matter is arguably the most important political movement of the last decade and its echoes have been felt in the ad world for well over a year now. Adding to the ever-building thrum of social rebalancing was a rather unique global...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Workshop

5 easy tips to send the best holiday gifts to your freelance clients

December is a bit like the Valentine’s Day of freelancing - a chance to show appreciation to your significant clients for everything they’ve done for you since you first met. This may involve sending freelance holiday cards, gifts and...

Posted by: Antonino Lupo
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Inspiration

How James Birks moved from engineering to illustration | #MemberSpotlight

You can never predict who is going to be the next portrait subject of Freelance Illustrator James Birks. We've been keeping an eye on his beautiful profile for a while, and each time a new release comes, we are equally amazed and surprised by the...

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Inspiration

Loving life with a talented illustrator | #MemberSpotlight

Few people in the industry are as positive and forthcoming as Alexander Mikhaylov, a talented illustrator currently based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Alexander lives life at face value and his unique personality spreads positivity from every word of the...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial

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