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Technology has made us faster, more productive, more efficient. As the most used pieces of software integrate with each other, we have gained a lot in terms of speed, comfort and accuracy. But that comfort comes at a cost.
Freelance graphic designer...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Industry
The fifth Creativepool Annual celebrates the best in the industry from 2019
The Annual 2020 winners have been announced, featuring people and companies who have achieved creative excellence in the past year. Now in its fifth running year, the...
Posted by: Creativepool
Industry
The shortlist for this year’s Creativepool Annual has been announced, featuring a diverse pool of talented individuals, creative companies and brands who strived for excellence in 2019.
Agencies on this year’s list include AKQA, Iris,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Industry
We are exactly one week away from the Annual 2020 final submissions deadline. As you are starting to put the finishing touches on your entries, you might be wondering who will actually see the work you submit.
Aside from being scored by our esteemed...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Industry
We’re little more than one week away from the final submissions deadline for the creative industry's 'most' award, and as the last round of entries starts to flow in, we are also getting a lot of questions on how Annual 2020 works.
There are...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Industry
There is only one week left to the Annual 2020 late deadline. It is time to get your works ready for submission.
Numerous factors go into crafting the winning entry. If you're wondering where to start, here's our 7-steps guide to a perfect Annual...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Industry
It's awards season. Right. Don't panic. If you don't know where to start, you're not alone. Winning awards isn't a walk in the park, yet all it takes is a pinch of dedication, care, planning and just about the right quality of work. With little more...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
With just under a fortnight left until late submissions close, we thought we’d take a few moments to toot our own horn (so to speak) and underline a few of the reasons why you seriously don’t want to miss out on entering your work for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Industry
We’ve roped in an enviable roll call of top tier creatives and marketers to cast their considered critical eyes over the work that lit up Creativepool in 2019.
Pulled from every corner of the industry, with representatives from some of the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Inspiration
As part of our series shining a spotlight on Creativepool Annual winners from last year, we sat down with Andrew Almendras, creative director at IMAX Creative, to discuss the company’s Brand Team of the Year gold award win.
Andrew offered up...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Inspiration
As part of our series shining a spotlight on Creativepool Annual winners from last year, we sat down with post-production specialists Big Buoy, the studio that claimed two top places in last year’s annual.
Their big win was for post-production...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Features
As part of our series catching up with Creativepool Annual winners from last year, we recently caught up with Simon Manchipp, the Executive Strategic Creative Director and Founder of SomeOne.
A world-class London design practice that launches,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Features
Hype is a boutique creative communications agency with a distinctly hands-on approach that has been a valued member of the Creativepool community for many years now The agency’s commitment to collaboration and innovative storytelling was...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Features
Simon Waloszek is something of a Creativepool legend. In the 6 years since he first joined the site, his work has been nominated for the Annual four times and last year, he received two silver People’s Choice awards for his insanely colourful...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Industry
With the gluttony of Christmas behind us, it’s time to cast our gaze once again towards the opportunities that await us in not only a new year but a new decade. It’s also the time, however, to look back at what an exceptional year 2019...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Inspiration
Freelancing is one thing but being a one-man design studio is another entirely. Enter Mark Richardson; the man who founded Superfried in a London bedroom back in 2007. Now based in the centre of Manchester, Mark has managed to build up an incredible...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Inspiration
10 of the most talented art directors to look out for in 2021.
Being in charge of how things are supposed to look is no mean feat. Imagine having to come up with the full aesthetics of a project in tandem with a copywriter, under heavily strict...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Inspiration
10 of the most exciting and talented graphic designers to keep an eye on in 2021
Good graphic design is easy to spot. But excellent graphic design? You need to have a specific kind of eye, taste and interest to understand what that is all about. The...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Inspiration
10 of the most promising and talented photographers this year.
This year has been quite interesting for photographers, forced for the most part to remain stuck at home and without the usual inputs they could get from the outside world. In all...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Inspiration
Whether you’re looking for talent or inspiration, take a look at these amazing illustrators to get you on the right track.
Nothing like a good 10 months stuck at home to get creative. Right? Well, if you’re like me, by now you realised...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Industry
Here at Creativepool we're always proud to support creative awards that strive to make a difference. While we all eagerly wait for the deadline of our prestigious Annual 2020 awards, our partners at Creative Circle have forged ahead with their own...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Industry
Feifei Ruan is a freelance illustrator based in New York with a keen eye for mixing the traditional and the exotic with the modern and the counter-cultural. Combining the aesthetics of eastern classic with the drama and vision of science fiction and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Features
With less than a month left until late submissions close for the Creativepool Annual 2020, we’ve decided to focus a spotlight on some of the individual winners from last year.
Katja Alissa Mueller is an award-winning creative designer, art...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Inspiration
With just one month left until late submissions close for the Creativepool Annual 2020, we’ve decided to focus a spotlight on some of the individual winners from last year.
Paul Jamie Kidd is a freelance creative designer with 12 years of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Industry
A talented animator with a unique style and vision we caught up with Chris Shaw recently to discuss his award-winning project “The Crossing,” which claimed the People’s Choice award for Animation in last year’s Creativepool...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Industry
BBD Perfect Storm is a modern agency for a modern world; an agency that understands culture needs to be shaped not by reflection and appropriation but by setting the agenda. Since opening in 2013 (the same year as Creativepool, as a matter of fact),...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Industry
AKQA has been a big part of the Creativepool community in one form or another since its initial inception. The agency has been a Creativepool member since 2013 and has been behind dozens of featured projects and award-winning Annual entries over the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Industry
Having begun life almost 30 years ago with just three incredibly creative individuals sat around a table, Mother has blossomed in the last few decades into one of the most beloved agencies not only in London but the creative world at large.
Mother...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Inspiration
The top 7 animated campaigns this year.
If anything, 2020 has been a wonderful year for animation. With all of us stuck at home for most of the year, animators have had quite some more time on their hands and this was not a weak year for the craft...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Industry
For the past two years, Indigo Award has brought global talent to top-notch locations around the world so that our honorees could accept their hard-earned awards in style.
This year, the venue does not disappoint as the participants of our upcoming...
Posted by: Indigo Design Award
Industry
SXSW launched 33 years ago in Austin, Texas, USA. Next month, over 150,000 people will convene there once again to redefine the cutting-edge in interactive, film, music and culture, focusing on trends like: AI; Academic Assessment and Accountability;...
Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
Industry
On April 15-17 in Minsk (the geographical centre of Europe), the most relevant trends of the new creative season will be officially revealed. The XIIth International advertising and marketing festival White Square is one of the largest creative...
Posted by: White Square
Inspiration
Digital marketing is constantly evolving, and with the new year bringing many more advancements, you must be aware of the changes we expect to see this year. Here, Marc Swann, Search Director at Glass Digital discusses the top digital marketing...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Inspiration
The human experience is growing increasingly complex. We know more and care more about our world and our impact upon it, and our changing priorities are filtering through to all areas of business and design. Changing mindsets, accelerated by rising...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Inspiration
It’s that time of year again when we start to cast off the shackles of what has been a rather turbulent year and look ahead at the beacon of hope that is the new year. In the first of our annual trend pieces for 2019, Michele Arnese, Global CEO...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Inspiration
2020 sucked in so many ways. And yet in spite of all that happened – or maybe in some ways because of all that happened – we saw some great creative work. Here’s my round up of some of the best advertising to come out of one of the most...
Posted by: Richard Holman
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