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When it comes to the world of design in 2016, many will look back on it as a year where the digital and physical worlds finally began to blend in earnest thanks to the advent of affordable VR and the perpetual advancement of design technology. It's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For centuries, human beings have dreamt of automated companions that to carry out our wants and whims and take care of the jobs we'd rather not do ourselves. From the campy robot helpers of 1950s golden age science fiction through to the more...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Nokia sue Apple over design patents Mere weeks after the tech giant lost out to Samsung in a gigantic patent court case over design, another competing company, Nokia, has now accused Apple of infringing more than 30 of its design patents, filing...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whilst 2016 has been something of a banner year for many horrible things, it's been business as usual in advertising, and business navigating new frontiers. One thing that appears to have come to the forefront this year is the coming together of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A Pentagram partner has created the visual identity for a rather unique organisation set up to lobby the US government on the controversial so-called 'tampon tax' on menstrual products. Paula Scher designed the branding for the Period Equity brand,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Another 12 months and another few hundred ads to sort through, but this year it was actually more of a pleasure than a chore. My only criteria this year was that I vowed to steer clear of any spots that were tied to heavily to a particular pop...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Towards the tail end of 2015, everyone was declaring 2016 as the dawning “Year of VR,” and whilst there have been a number of major developments in the field this year, including the commercial launches of all three major platforms, it's...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Star Wars fans from the 501st UK Garrison & Rebel Legion Elstree Base cosplay group caused an out of this galaxy frenzy as they took to the streets of London on December 15 in full Storm Trooper costume, popping up at the capital’s commuter...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
To say that video game adaptations don't have the best reputation would be a monumental understatement. Running the gamut from the vaguely watchable but brainless Resident Evil films (which bare little more than a passing resemblance to the original...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Whilst some Star Wars fans (myself included as a matter of fact) might have marked their love of the franchise by buying their tickets to Rogue One weeks ago, others (or one at the very least) have decided to build their very own gigantic Star Wars...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I reported last month on the partnership between Nintendo and Universal Studios, which will result in an area of Universal Parks in Japan and the US gaining new Nintendo Land parks, in a similar manner to the existing Harry Potter, Simpsons and...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
With the proliferation of modern distractions like mobile phones, tablets and games consoles demanding the face time of children across the world, the simple, elegant art of the children’s book has been all but lost in the mobile era, which is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
OK, that headline might come across as a little bit clickbaity, but it's a pretty shocking statement that is not only true, but indicative of the way celebrity culture has managed to integrate itself within the advertising industry. Matthew...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
I love gaming and, whilst I'm not particularly keen on Christmas itself, I love Christmas lights, so this latest bold activation by Xbox for their recently released Dead Rising 4 game certainly hit my buttons when it popped up in my news feeds last...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The winner of the ever controversial Turner Prize was announced yesterday (December 5), with 31-year-old painter and sculptor Helen Marten claiming the 2016 prize. The youngest of the four shortlisted artists, Marten, who graduated from...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Hidden Cities: Dublin, the latest immersive project from Visualise for The Financial Times, in collaboration with Google, has launched for December 2016. The 3D 360° documentary, titled ‘Dublin in the Dark: The Story of Emerald...
Posted by: Visualise
Amongst my friends and family members, I've become known as something of a Scrooge when it comes to everything festive. Long gone are the days when the opening chords of “Merry Christmas Everyone” would ignite an ember of longing in my...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
When D&AD announced its New Blood Shift programme back in April this year, they did so with one priority. In their own words, they wished “To test a belief that success shouldn’t be about who you are, where you’re from, or who you...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
BETC Paris - CANAL The French TV networks CANAL+ and CANALSAT recently united their forces in order to become one giant television destination: CANAL. To celebrate this holy union, the new entity asked BETC Paris to create a spectacular commercial...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Video games and theme parks are two of my lifelong passions, so to say that the concept of the two coming together would something of a dream come true for yours truly might actually be an understatement. As if taking a page directly from the dream...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
British Christmas advertising has been given a little Hollywood glamour this year thanks to a spot that might just have supplanted the Waitrose “Robin” advert as my spot of the season. The piece in question, produced by adam&eveDDB for...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
After 11 years in the wilderness, Morrisons is bringing back the Safeway brand as a new wholesale range of groceries to be stocked at independent retailers across the UK from next year. The name itself will be familiar to anyone who grew up in the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Black Friday is a very modern phenomenon. A true triumph of commercialism, it's a perfectly placed date in the cultural calendar that gained so much attention a few years ago that South Park deemed it necessary to construct a feature-length episode...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It's been 2 weeks now since D-Day (Donald Day) and our divided world has grown even more so in the ensuing noise, chaos and horror. The creative industries, however, prove ever resilient, and whilst my previous piece from last week regarding the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As a life long Midlander, I've become accustomed to living a little bit behind the times. Just this weekend, a friend visiting from 'south of the wall' casually remarked that he was genuinely shocked and amused that the street lights in...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In 2016, the lines between many progressive and intolerant ideals are beginning to blur at an unprecedented rate. Consider the marches currently taking place up and down the (somewhat ironically-named at this point) United States right now. These are...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The Christmas campaign continue to fly in thick and fast, with the last few days seeing the launch of two more notable festive spots, each of which approach the season from a similar angle. They go to show just how much ground there is to cover when...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Iv'e always been a Sega fanboy. Whilst all my friends were coveting their NES and SNES consoles, I was always the one with the Master System and the Mega Drive. However, being a Sega fan, and perhaps more pertinently, a Sonic the Hedgehog fan, has...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
And lo the Christmas campaign season trundles ever onwards with what at first promised to be a pretty maudlin little spot from adam&eveDDB for Waitrose; the supermarket chain otherwise known as “The upper class Tesco.” I, and the rest of the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
McCann London - Subway Subway is releasing a new festive campaign to celebrate its limited edition new sub sandwich, the “Festive Feast,” which is packed with turkey, sausage, bacon, and cranberry sauce. The ad, created by McCann London,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Being a creative individual isn't always a picnic. Unreasonable deadlines, the inability to switch off and those constant, nagging feelings that theres always “Something we should be doing right now” can often lead to heightened stress...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
B-Reel help launch the world’s first 'Dimensioning Instrument' Creative agency B-Reel has helped launch the first product from innovation start-up InstruMMents; a company founded by the creators of fitness and lifestyle tracker Misfit Shine....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
No-one would have believed, at the dawn of the 21st century, that within 20 years we would soon witness the election of the first reality TV American President. The cult Mike Judge (of Beavis and Butthead and Office Space fame) film...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yesterday morning, John Lewis officially launched its 2016 Christmas advertising campaign; “Buster The Boxer,” on its official website social media channels. Within hours the internet had voiced its collective opinion. The first...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Karmarama - Kerrygold's Karmarama is launching a gleefully optimistic new TV campaign for Kerrygold’s spreadable butter range, which is set to go live this weekend. The inspiration for the idea came from the fact that the home of Kerrygold is...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A replica landscape of the planet Mars was unveiled this week in London’s Trafalgar Square by the London-based creative PR agency Taylor Herring, as part of an ambitious campaign to promote the upcoming National Geographic docu-drama series...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns