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Why is animation so effective for emotional storytelling?

Karl Doran, founder and creative director of Flow Creative - the Manchester based agency behind BBC Children in Need’s 2022 animated video campaign - discusses why video animation is so effective for communicating emotive yet positive and...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Workshop

Why good agencies shouldn’t fear recession

“The marriage of imaginative flair for business creativity and the diligent application of process is a match made in heaven to drive growth.” It’s no secret that the UK economy is in deep trouble. A botched mini-budget, consequent...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Top 10 most exciting art directors on Creativepool

Art Directors are the masters of creativity and the ones responsible for steering the visual and thematic heart of a project. They are responsible for what commercial campaigns look like and guide the hands and imaginations of various creatives to...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Features

A freelancers guide to keeping your data secure

As freelancers, we sometimes have to deal with client data and the issue of cybersecurity often seeps into our consciousness. Because if that data is compromised while in our possession, it’s ultimately our fault, right? And who want to hire a...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Industry

Zero to virtual production hero in 14 steps

Virtual production has arrived with a bang. Big name producers - most famously for The Mandalorian - are filming with huge state-of-the-art LED walls as virtual backdrops, instead of going out on location. But you don't have to be Disney to create...

Posted by: We Are Tilt
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Inspiration

Putting the POP in pop culture with Hannah Gillingham | #MemberSpotlight

Hannah Gillingham is a UK based freelance digital illustrator and artist. Working with a conceptual approach to illustration, she creates painterly illustrations of her favourite characters from pop culture and design illustrated posters, exploring...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Workshop

How to choose a branding agency

For many businesses, choosing a branding agency might be one of the most profound decisions to consider. Not only will this agency help define how the world views your business but how it views itself. They will help transform your business into a...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Setting fire to brand expectations with Firehaus | #CompanySpotlight

Scaling is hard for creative teams full of right brain thinkers with little in the way of practical business sense. That’s why we need companies like Firehaus. Based in the centre of Bristol, Firehaus is a brand consultancy specialising in...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

Samsung and the world’s first folding billboard | #BehindTheIdea

Samsung recently announced the launch of its folding billboard OOH campaign, created by Iris, to drive awareness around the release of its new Galaxy Z Flip4 , and the entire Samsung foldables range. This is the first billboard - used by a...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Features

Is the pitching process broken and how can we fix it?

Unless you find yourself in a particularly enviable position, if you work in the creative industries (particularly in advertising) then at some point you’re going to have to pitch for work. The pitching process, as it once was, doesn’t...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Workshop

Designhouse open intruiging new doors for Numis | #BehindTheBrand

Designhouse has crafted a bold new identity for leading investment bank Numis, to align with a new phase of strategic growth as Numis shake off legacy perceptions that it was “just a corporate broker”. The identity is centred around a...

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Features

Top 5 mental health tips for freelancers | #MentalHealthMonth

There is a lot to be said for the life of the freelancer. The freedom, the flexibility, and the lack of people to answer to (besides your clients, of course) makes it a tempting path for many. I myself was tempted 15 years ago now and I’ve...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

The kinetic visual compositions of VJ Jamie Shaw | #MemberSpotlight

Jamie Shaw is a freelance Motion Designer with a background in Fine Art, specifically abstract painting and drawing but his passion has always been in VJing. Working initially within the events industry, he developed a specialism in projection...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

The Wild aims to crush the crushingly vanilla | #CompanySpotlight

The Wild bills itself as a “social-first” creative agency, which sits alongside social-first publisher Jungle Creations. To learn more, we spoke to Tom McGirr, Executive Strategy Director at The Wild, a man who feels that brands have...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Workshop

How to Enhance Brand Awareness with Digital Marketing

Did you know that 46% of consumers in the US only buy from businesses they can trust? Only after they do research and read reviews to get familiar with the company do they consider buying. The first step in all this is finding out about your brand....

Posted by: Alina Tytarenko
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Leaders

Exploring the inspiring world of Jaeyou Chung | #GettingToKnow

Jaeyou Chung, Associate Designer at COLLINS, is a multidisciplinary designer who gained experience interning for brand design agency Otherward before becoming a graphic designer for brand experience marketing and design partner Plus X. Now at...

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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Leaders

Making brands impossible to ignore with White Bear | #CompanySpotlight

For this week’s company spotlight, we’re talking to Kelly Mackenzie, Founder and CD of White Bear. She founded White Bear seven years ago after working on global Cornetto rebrand at Carter Wong. White Bear was founded based on her passion...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

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...

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Leaders

Podcaster Holly Moore on how anything is possible | #GettingToKnow

Holly Moore, CEO of the female founded, Manchester based full-service events agency, Make Events, launched a brand new podcast with an impressive line-up of familiar industry faces this summer. After recovering from a 5-year battle with OCD - a...

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Workshop

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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Industry

Creating the unforgettable with Taxi Studio | #CompanySpotlight

Brand expression agency Taxi Studio is an independent design business based in Bristol that’s home to a collective of global talent - without unnecessary hierarchy or inflated titles. Founded in 2002 by three friends, they have grown to work...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Top 10 most exciting graphic designers on Creativepool

The best graphic designers inhabit that space between the creative and the business-minded; the tangible and the intangible. It would be quite easy (and reductive) to simply take the phrase literally and describe a graphic designer simply as...

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Leaders

Aimee Luther on having the freedom to be yourself | #GettingToKnow

Aimee Luther is Managing Director at The Liberty Guild, an invitation-only curated association of “the finest communication practitioners in the world.” In this week’s getting to know, we talk to Aimee about her career so far, the...

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Inspiration

How would rate our work today?

Was reading about the release of ‘Bad Reviews’ (Aleksandra Mir and Tim Griffin) who’ve painstakingly brought together 150 artist’s worst reviews, prompting memory-lane moments where my own work was (quite rightly) excoriated by tutors and...

Posted by: Richard
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Workshop

How to choose a production agency

It takes literal seconds for a potential customer to form an opinion of your brand and opinions that are already formed can be almost impossible to change. That’s why advertising remains such a valuable tool and, while what you have to say (the...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Top 10 most exciting copywriters on Creativepool

The written word is a funny thing. It’s something `almost all of us have a basic understanding of and use every day to reply to emails, forward distracting memes to our co-workers and message our significant others about dinner. But how often...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

The design industry declares a climate emergency

With so many other emergencies circling us right now it can be unfortunately easy to forget that the most critical existential crisis remains the environment. Thankfully, the design industry hasn’t forgotten. Or at least that’s what...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Features

Global creative calendar: October 2022

Each year, the Cannes Lions score the global branded communications and marketing industry on Reach, Communication, Craft, Experience, Innovation, Impact, Good, Health, Entertainment, and even more. The latest edition of our Global Creative Calendar...

Posted by: The Darnell Works Agency
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Workshop

How much should I charge as a freelance events designer?

Now that the pandemic has gently receded into the background hum of everyday life, the events sector has finally started to come back to life. Indeed, we recently celebrated a pretty spectacular event ourselves with our 2022 Annual launch earlier...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

Top 10 most exciting creative directors on Creativepool

Design guru. Master mediator. Highly skilled multitasker and delegator. A good Creative Director is all these things and more. They are the calm head on top of the creative shoulders that bring focus and identity to a company. They are, in essence,...

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