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Advertising is host to a burnout epidemic. From the outside, the industry is portrayed as a glamorous home for creatives to turn their skills into a career. But, in reality, newcomers find themselves pouring long hours into menial tasks that no one...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this week’s getting to know feature, we’re sitting down with Graham Sykes, ECD at Landor & Fitch and a man with a storied history in the creatives industries. Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? No...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It's Monday morning. Email hell beckons. I've got my Creativepool blog to write but I do also need to try and whittle down the daily glut of Groupons, StumbleUpons, Voucherclouds, More Groupons, and LinkedIn's “congratulate Billy-Bob on his new...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Earlier this month, Art Fund and Pablo teamed up with creative tech specialists at The Mil Experience to create a new innovative technology that shows off the amazing impact art and culture has on the brain. They used headsets to record...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
This year’s “All In” Census Data revealed that 36% of people (out of almost 19000 people that took part) are hesitant to report sexual harassment due to perceived impact it may have on their careers. This alarming statistic reflects...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
This week, we shine our company spotlight on Paul Crump, Co-founder and Creative Director at Fellow Studio. Fellow is a design studio that believes "effective design builds lasting connections and can tell your story and encapsulates your brand in...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Fiction or reality, the best leaders are the ones who always pursue knowledge. Ambition is but a piece of the puzzle - without passion and determination, you are unlikely to get anywhere without having a really hard time. And having passion and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
One of the essential element of any successful business is well-trained employees. Skills, training, experience and knowledge are always in high demand. Efficiency and safety are the names of the game and the more productive an employee is, the...
Posted by: Liam Smith
Fancy an explorative journey through the brain? Then look no further than IKEA and Sonos’ new immersive experience about to land in London. The Sound Affect is a one-of-a-kind event that will allow you to discover how sound impacts your...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The UK National Cyber Security Warning The UK National Cyber Security Centre is warning us all to remain on guard for another wave of cyberattacks after last Friday’s massive WannaCry ransomware attack. The nation’s NHS was severely...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
All of Us - Greenpeace Greenpeace UK has introduced its first-ever Virtual Reality app, “Virtual Explorer,” giving supporters the chance to experience amazing places like the Amazon and Arctic first-hand, and take action to defend them....
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For those of us who love a good puzzle, but have grown tired of bog-standard brain teasers, a new puzzle from marketing lending platform Funding Circle could be the answer to our prayers. The puzzle takes the form of a boldly colourful collage, which...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We are delighted to announce CE for She (with CE), a new training programme for female ACDs and Creative Directors. The aim of the programme is to give female senior creatives the tools they need to really thrive in the creative industry. Working...
Posted by: Daniele Fiandaca
Member Agency and storytelling studio Nucco Brain created an animation-led internal comms campaign for John Lewis, to educate partners about a new pension scheme. We spoke to Managing Director, Stefano Morrone, about how the agency approached the...
Posted by: Nucco
Creativity is multi-faceted and has many guises. Contrary to conventional belief, it is not only the realm of artists - we all need it in everyday life whether it's at work, figuring out how to frame the perfect pitch, or at home, cooking a...
Posted by: Jugular:Joining The Head and the Heart
by Mark Young, Academy Class. In difficult economic times employers can be forgiven for looking at their expenditure and deciding that some things are easier to do without than others. While utility bills and direct employment costs are unavoidable,...
Posted by: Creativepool
There’s an inbuilt need in all good creatives to strive for perfection. It’s a blessing that can help great design but it can also be a curse. Our house number plaque was always irritatingly tilted. It poked my obsessive brain every time I saw it winking at me in defiance of the existence of spirit levels. It’s fixed now… and furthermore, I moved it to line up with the surrounding brick pattern. The trouble is that fixing this imperfection simply opened up the top slot to the next irritation, holes from old, long gone doorbells… poke, poke, poke… and so the strive for perfection continues. OK, so I am a little on the obsessive side. How do you draw the line on forever creatively tinkering in the never-ending strive for perfection? After all, we all have deadlines to hit. In our studio, we have a super simple process that allows us to tinker with the worst offenders, tick them off the list and move on. We simply ask… “What’s the worst thing you can see?” * Any piece of creative could be amazing but there’s always something at the top of the “worst thing” list. This simple question forces us to spot and sort out the worst offender. That said, the fix might have knock-on effects but these simply get added to the list. Rinse and repeat and bit by bit we get closer to a fully rounded, cohesive concept with diminishing issues. * It's important to note that spotting the worst offenders is a skill that comes with training, and passion and only gets more refined with experience.
Posted by: Andy Gregory
Argggghhhh. AI is coming and it’s going to eat your job and then maybe your head. Have you been hearing this lately? Freelancers have seen less interest and income since the launch of ChatGPT as the FT and Chamath highlighted the other...
Posted by: Multivitamin Studio
Mulenga Agley is on a mission to grow unicorns. As founder and CEO of growth marketing agency Growthcurve, Mulenga and his team employ the latest marketing techniques to help VC-backed startups grow exponentially. After nearly a decade in the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Anxious about artificial intelligence changing everything? Not us... Not much. After a year of experimentation and embracing the new, it's time to celebrate the debut of our first real-world-client-commissioned-AI film for The IVF Network which came...
Posted by: We Are Tilt
It’ll have escaped the attention of nobody that AI has been the chief disruptive trend of 2023. The way things are going, it might end up being the chief disruptive trend of the century. But while there are so many catastrophising the end of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? My day is anything but typical. When we founded the business, my time was spent on client-facing activity and project management. Fast forward 7 years, and now that we have scaled...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Are you visually creative, and tempted to work remotely for yourself? And do you have a brain that’s equal parts creative and mathematic? Do you also consider yourself something of a natural touch when it comes to design work? Then you might be...
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We have all witnessed the digital advancement prevailing in the real world. The near future is supposed to be a lot more technologically advanced. It’s because the technology of the Augmented and Virtual world has been applied to both science...
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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...
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According to a new survey by Nuffield Health, 80% of Brits feel that working from home has negatively impacted their mental health. Over a third (36%) said that not being in the same physical location as their colleagues has left them feeling unable...
Posted by: Hanover
Misplaced romanticism is a common curse in popular culture. There’s the concept of the “troubled genius” creative that, for some, excuses some pretty reprehensible behaviour and puts a rose-coloured lens over mental illness....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In her previous role, Julia Rast helped brands advance in the digital space by harnessing new technological solutions and innovations in the programmatic scene. Her open-mindedness and expertise as a leader in the scene is unquestionable. Julia...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Many would lose hope in the event of a global pandemic hitting the industry. Matter of fact, many did - at least for a bit. That was not the case of Rhapsody. Starting out as an East End print production company, Rhapsody operates in the retail and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We don't often feature voice artists around these parts - but when we do, we make sure they are among the most inspiring creatives out there. There are a lot of misconceptions about performing arts, and freelance voice artist Clare Reeves knows them...
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How often do you open Google to look up a synonym with your Thesaurus of choice? A writer's life is quite challenging as it is, and doing that as a job means that sometimes your brain just won't collaborate. Luckily, researchers all around the world...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Just like comic books and the recent rise of nerd culture, long gone are the days where gaming was seen as something for kids or only limited to games consoles. The normalisation of gaming on various platforms has increased so much that it was only a...
Posted by: SMACK Agency
The wearable device that tracks the performance of aspiring footballers Benjamin Hubert's design studio Layer has created a wearable device that lets aspiring football players and athletes track and improve their performance. The smart device,...
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isobel - Kelly's of Cornwall Top ice-cream brand, Kelly’s of Cornwall, returns to our screens with a new TV ad spoken entirely in Cornish. The quirky ad, by creative agency isobel, aims to show that there’s a Kelly’s flavour for...
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Flippy the robotic burger flipper takes first shift A robot named Flippy is now flipping burgers in the kitchen of a California fast food restaurant called CaliBurger. Flippy uses thermal imaging, as well as 3D and camera vision to sense when to...
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