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Creativity is a wonderful and very personal thing, but it can also cultivate chaos if it’s not properly guided by the right pair of hands. Those hands often belong to the art director. This is the part of the team that guides the creatives and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Born, raised and educated in Wigan (home of Northern Soul and pies), filmmaker and director Martin Swift has spent the last 14 years or so working in commercials, documentaries, music videos and film/TV titles sequences, so he’s truly seen all...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I’ve been a freelance writer for well over a decade now and have never once felt like a “second best” option. I might have fallen into freelancing, but I did so with open eyes and knew exactly what the drawbacks would be (primarily...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
From branding and identity to digital illustration, Gracie Healey is a creative that wears all sorts of creative hats but calls herself a graphic designer an illustrator for the sake of convenience. She’s spent the last decade working in...
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With over 39 years' experience, Peter Knapp, Group Chairman at Landor & Fitch, has an exceptional breadth and depth of industry knowledge. He works with the global executive team to establish Landor & Fitch's creative vision and deliver a truly...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I built my first website in December 1993. Back then, one had to create the HTML using a plain text editor, then view the page in a web browser called "Mosaic". Images were rudimentary... usually a "GIF" format, and they had to be relatively small...
Posted by: Tagmakers
We’ve been hearing a great deal about the Donetsk region of Ukraine in recent months and for all the wrong reasons. The area has been occupied by Russian forces for 8 years now and now represents the first step in Putin’s nefarious scheme...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this week's member spotlight, we're focusing on an up-and-coming designer that's really found her footing as a freelancer in recent months. Leanne Hardacre is a freelance Clothing Designer & the Founder of Hachure Active, an eco-conscious outdoor...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
While we’ve shone our company spotlight on dozens of exceptional design studios here at Creativepool, we very rarely get the chance to speak to in-house studios. That’s we we jumped at the chance when information services company...
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Jo Webb, Creative Director at Merkle B2B, joined the agency last year and has 20 years of experience in the advertising industry. Former Campaign magazine ‘Face to Watch’ and an award-winning copywriter, Jo has had a successful freelance...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
The average brand spends millions of dollars on marketing every year. For the big global brands, it's billions. "Half my advertising spend is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half" - US retail magnate John Wanamaker (1838-1922). These...
Posted by: Matt Batten
Hernán Lindenbaum is a man that, in his own words, “entered the industry sideways.” But whoever said that being a successful creative meant getting in first time through the front door? The Argentinian freelance motion designer has...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We speak to a lot of designers and creative directors here at the Creativepool member spotlight but, for whatever reason, we rarely speak to writers. Luc Benyon, however, is more than just a writer. The Zurich-based Luc is a branding expert, writer...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this week’s Company Spotlight we look beyond the UK and the US to an agency based in Venezuela; a country currently in the midst of a political humanitarian crisis. But they often say the greatest creativity thrives in times of...
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As part of our Getting to Know series interviewing some of the most interesting up-and-coming figures in the creative industries, today we spoke with Darius Dazhi Wang, a multidisciplinary designer living in NYC. Currently working as a Motion...
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“From my earliest days in the crib, I longed for nothing more than to look at pictures and draw them.” These are the words of this week’s Member Spotlight honouree, Izabel Ciesinska, an illustrator who might very well have been born...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Ask anyone my age (yes, I’m a millennial) and they’ll probably tell you the pandemic changed the way they think about work. For me, very little honestly changed. I’ve been a freelance writer for my entire professional life and have...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
If there’s one thing the creative industries should be doing more of, it’s giving opportunities to people who might otherwise feel such a career is beyond their reach. For decades now, there has been an uneasy unspoken rule that only the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Thomas Hammerton is a freelance illustrator from South Wales with a lifetime of artistic experience behind him and a style that is at once familiar and anything but. A compulsive drawer from a young age, Thomas specialises in traditional artworks...
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Jonny Nolan is a music and portrait photographer based in Bristol and Chester. As a music photographer, he as been lucky enough to shoot the likes of Arlo Parks, Royal Blood, Idles, beabadoobee, The Kaiser Chiefs and The Streets among many...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Where would you be if not for your creative career? Whenever someone asks you that, 'border control' is probably pretty further down in your list. And yet, according to Anthony Young's career advisor, that's where he would be now, if not for 3D...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Like many UK animation studios, we’re an SME. We deliberately keep the team small and specialised. It has downfalls of course, capacity and scheduling can be one thing. However the biggest positive is using freelancers. Below are a few reasons...
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"Most people would say to go big or go home. Well, that wasn’t exactly what we did." Alex Safavinia is the CEO and Creative Director of Kasra Design, an award-winning animation company specialising in 3D animation and explainer video...
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Having first started out as a freelancer, Sebastian Whyte's path into the industry wasn't an easy one. But he still managed to work his way up and through the industry, slowly but surely shaping his own style, unique in the way it makes filmmaking...
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Desislava Georgieva is an illustrator based in London who specialises in narrative and book illustration. While her work is generally traditional in terms of medium (ink, watercolour and acrylics) there is nothing conventional or safe about her...
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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...
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We’ve all been talking a lot about the metaverse this month. But whereas most of the content seems to revolve around what it can’t do and questioning its limits, I thought I’d close out metaverse month by looking at one subset of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
What do you see when you look at the image above? The face of the most hated man in the world? Or a subtle protest against censorship? Maybe both. Of all the dirty tricks currently being pulled by Adolf Putin, the blatant and violent censorship of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A freelance illustrator based just outside of London, Louise Billyard has always been inspired by travel. This nomadic nature has led to her work being featured across the creative world and a portfolio which features a vast and eclectic array of...
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Los Angeles-based illustrator Patrick Hruby grew up in a log cabin within an Idaho forest. As a young boy he dreamt of running away to join the circus and become a trapeze artist. Eventually, however, he grew up to pursue a career as an illustrator....
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Never did I once think that in my lifetime we’d be seeing war in Europe and never did I think we’d see a historical figure in our midst that echoed the pure despotic evil of Adolf Hitler. But here we are, two weeks into a completely...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Anderson Silva is a lot of things - a 3D artist, a ‘motion designer’, a teacher and a dedicated coffee enthusiast. He’s also a man with an incredibly diverse portfolio of work. That’s why we’re shining the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The pandemic has highlighted the importance of credible and reliable information. However, the reliance on user-generated content online as a source of truth for news has increased the risk of exposure to bias, misinformation and potentially harmful...
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Ask any freelancers that’s been working for more than a few years and they’ll probably turn their noses up at the very mention of freelance platforms like Upwork and Fiverr. For my sins, I’d probably count myself amongst the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We’re all in agreement that we need to urgently address the big gaps in representation that exist across the creative industries. But what are the fundamental issues that need to be tackled when it comes to creating a diverse workforce?...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial