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Jesus Revuelta - DoubleYou

What do you actually do? Tags: [nike], [nestlé], [team], [concept], [integrated], [digital], [social media], [strategy], [ideas], [trendwatching], [advertising that does not seem advertising]. My time is now - NIKE FOOTBALL SPAIN from...

Posted by: Creativepool
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Leaders

D Double E voices first UK Christmas ad for IKEA

UK grime act D Double E provides the soundtrack to IKEA’s first ever Christmas ad launching today, as he waxes lyrical about being house proud and silencing the critics. The spot, created by Mother, features a couple who become racked with...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Workshop

Beginner's Guide To Double Exposure In Photoshop

For those looking for cool effects in Photoshop, double exposure is a pretty fun one to mess with. Combining two images can elevate the artistic nature of your piece and make beginners look much more professional. I hope it provides you with a new...

Posted by: Kevin Forister
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Leaders

HP double your desktop's design potential

Hewlett Packard is launching a new desktop computer in the UK that aims to help designers move seamlessly between physical and digital platforms by implementing both a vertical touchscreen and a horizontal touchpad. The machine is an interesting...

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Workshop

How To Create a Double Exposure in Photoshop

Using images taken from Fotolia's 30 million strong stock image library our friends over at Phlearn have shared with us one of their awesome video tutorials highlighting how to create a double exposure in Photoshop. The video gives an in-depth but...

Posted by: Fotolia
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Workshop

Making wellness look good with Wondersuff #CompanySpotlight

This week, we spoke to Paul Alderson, Managing and Creative Director at North Eastern wellness branding specialists Wonderstuff. Wonderstuff does not pitch. The team has been expanding solely through referrals and word of mouth, but their plans to...

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Industry

The Implications and Complications of AI Branding #BrandMonth

There will come a time in the not-too-distant future where I officially get sick of writing about AI. Thankfully, however, I’ve not quite crossed the indifference Rubicon yet. Indeed, given the pace the technology is developing, it seems...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Industry

7 Reasons Why You Should Enter Annual 2024

Thinking about taking part in Annual 2024? Here are 7 reasons why it is the creative industry's "Most Award". 1. Most Distributed Giving your work global exposure. One of our big aims each year with The Annual is to get your work noticed. The...

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Inspiration

Rejecting the unconventional with Dave Anderson #MemberSpotlight

Dave Anderson is an animator, illustrator and storyboard artist born in Wales, and currently based in Barcelona, who has for over a decade has been helping even the most uptight organisation find their funny. In recent years he’s directed...

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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...

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Inspiration

Beyond Radio

Throughout my career as a sound designer, I've witnessed rapid changes in the audio landscape. As I reflect on this, I realise that there has never been a better time to work in audio. Radio listenership is currently at an all-time high, podcasts...

Posted by: Chris Turner
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Leaders

#GettingToKnow Nataly Kelly, CMO of Zappi

Tell us a bit about your role! Is there a “typical” day? I’m based in Boston, and I generally start my workday rather early, by checking in with our Zappi teams in Europe. We begin each day with a daily virtual stand-up in our...

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Inspiration

#MemberSpotlight on filmmaker Frederic Tschepp

How did you get into the industry? I started making films when I was quite young, maybe 10 or 11 years old. A neighbour worked at an adult education centre in Peckham and could borrow a VHS camera they had there for me and a few other kids on the...

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Features

How will 2023 be remembered by creatives? #YearInReview

2023 will hardly be remembered as a banner year for may of us as the cost-of-living crisis started digging deeper and the political spectrum on both sides of the atlantic started to devolve into a cynical and hateful mess. For creatives from all...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

Is the ‘Dumb Money’ movement really so dumb?

In early 2021, millions of ordinary people across the US started buying shares in the declining video game store GameStop - investing tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Their investments were ridiculed by financial experts, but the...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

#CompanySpotlight on Ataboy

Ataboy is the design-led content studio behind campaigns for Adidas, Coke, White Castle, Progressive, IKEA, GE and more. Born and raised in Mumbai, Founder and Creative Director Vikkal Parikh trained as an architect before travelling to the US to get...

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Inspiration

Keeping the ball rolling with Continuous #CompanySpotlight

Continuous is a brand agency backed by 25 years of experience from parent company Uniform and it’s on a mission to help clients “adapt, thrive, and create a positive impact in a constantly changing world.” This week, we spoke to MD...

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Inspiration

Campaign to bring back Page 3 proves scars can be sexy #BehindTheIdea

Eleven years on from the start of the No More Page 3 campaign, which saw women’s rights advocates bring an end to the controversial topless pin-up page, feminist and sex positive porn pioneer Erika Lust is leading a campaign called ‘One...

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Features

Disney has a serious brand problem

There are few brands as highly coveted as Disney. This year marks 100 years since Walt Disney first stepped onto the global stage with the iconic Steamboat Willy cartoon and heralded the birth of modern animated cinema and in those ten decades, to...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Features

Did marketing failure lead to the downfall of Wilko?

The recent news that prominent discount high street retailer Wilko has been plunged into administration sparked a flurry of conversations about not only its own misfortune but the future of the UK high street in general. While external pressures...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Features

Pink vs Grey: Barbieheimer is the marketing stunt of the year

In 2023, a meme could quite literally make or break a campaign. Whether or not that’s exciting or profoundly depressing will depend on many things (including, of course, your age) but it can’t be denied the memes generated in the wake of...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Features

The 5 Worst Pop Culture Trends of the 21st Century #HistoryMonth

Pop culture is a funny thing and it’s something that we, as creatives, must unfortunately remain perpetually cognisant of. How else are we meant to tap into the zeitgeist and get that constantly distracted and highly coveted Gen Z market to sit...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

What Brand Believers Know That You Don’t

Long before digital marketing started to suffocate emotional creativity in favor of unnecessarily complex, performance-based blindness, my agency presented a TV spot for a high-end audio brand. We were excited. We had a powerful concept, and we...

Posted by: Lysle Wickersham
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Inspiration

Will AI take my job as a Copywriter? #ManvsMachine

In the first of an ongoing series, I’ll be examining the impact generative artificial intelligence is having on our creative jobs. As a copywriter myself I thought it obvious to start there but will be pitching man vs machine on a range of...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns

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