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For all its joys and thrills, fun and frolics, 2013 still managed to deposit a substantial quantity of manure into our desperate existence. So, as 2014 crashes unbidden into our lives, let us exorcise the demons which threatened to engulf us this...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
For all its trials, hardships, wars and woes, 2013 still managed to inject some wonderful stuff into our busy, pressured lives. So, with 2014 snapping at our heels, this would be an appropriate moment to celebrate the things which enhanced the human...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
Another Budweiser ad has taken the top spot again in this year's Super Bowl. Also up for the top spot were Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz. The winning ad in this year's battle of the Bowl has already been shared over 450,000 times and has been viewed...
Posted by: Creativepool
Another Budweiser ad has taken the top spot again in this year's Super Bowl. Also up for the top spot were Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz. The winning ad in this year's battle of the Bowl has already been shared over 450,000 times and has been viewed...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Magnus Shaw. Examine the figures and social media boggles the mind. Facebook boasts over one billion users - a seventh of the entire planet; Twitter has more than 100 million users. Even music-streaming app Spotify, carries 18 million...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Magnus Shaw. Very little is certain in this life, but the mad rush of predictions for the year ahead is a rock on which we can depend in the awkward gap between Christmas and New Year. Unfortunately, most of them will be wildly inaccurate - with...
Posted by: Creativepool
We would like to formally announce the release of our Annual! A huge year for the Creativepool team and the members. Inside is a diverse compendium of our favorite companies and individuals that make up this pool of talent. Broken down into the...
Posted by: Creativepool
The online music sharing platform SoundCloud has proven to be one of the great online musical success stories of the last few years, with an average of around 175 million users signing into the site to listen to and share their own music every month....
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Published 18/12/2013 by Campaign Magazine In a year when the importance of creativity and innovation in digital rose further, SapientNitro stood ahead of its peers. And SapientNitro’s creativity extends to trying to make the world a...
Posted by: Publicis Sapient
Yesterday it was announced that Washington Olivetto, the iconic Brazilian creative director and head of WMcCann Brazil, is to be given the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Clio Awards. The award ceremony (which is owned by Guggenheim Digital...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Yesterday, Chime Communications posted pre-tax profits of £25 million for 2013. Operating income at the marketing services company, meanwhile, rose 8% year on year to £169.5 million. Annual operating profits, however, were flat, and the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Leo Burnett Worldwide recently celebrated its fifth year in six as the top creative network in the annual Gunn Report's 'All Gunns Blazing' category. The report outlines the best and most innovative creative agencies in the world, distilling the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Global advertising agency network McCann-Erickson have had a lot to celebrate recently, what with the release of The 2013 Gunn Report, which is an annual publication that details the most successful print, digital and televisual advertising campaigns...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
2013 is nearly over, and hasn't it flown! We have had a great year and thought we would take a moment to showcase our Top 10 companies of the year. These are the companies with the most views and follows. Some award winning, talented and awesome...
Posted by: Creativepool
Christmas is here again, and the advertising has certainly stepped it up a notch. We are seeing many big brands producing more Christmas related advertising to help with your festive season. Some of which pull the heart strings, such as the John...
Posted by: Creativepool
Monday night saw the glitterati of the fashion world descend on the London Coliseum for the annual British Fashion Awards in a lavish ceremony peppered with humour from dashing host Jack Whitehall. The ceremony has become infamous for the highly...
Posted by: Jessica Hazel
The Lovie Awards took place in London's Old Street for it's third year, celebrating incredible tech pioneers from across Europe. Creativepool was there to celebrate with the winners, thoroughly enjoying acceptance speeches from the likes of...
Posted by: Creativepool
You have just under two weeks to get down to the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Kensington Gardens to see this year’s Pavilion, designed by multi award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. Over the years, the Serpentine Gallery has...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
Cannes, France - 22 June 2013 - In a year of firsts at the 60th Anniversary Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2013, Ogilvy & Mather has become the first agency to be awarded over 100 Lions in one year, while also winning its first ever Creative...
Posted by: Ogilvy UK
Creative Corner is a free conference for brand owners, creative agencies and designers. It’s alive with ideas for adding impact to your work, whether you’re creating: Retail branding Visual merchandising In-store promotion and...
Posted by: FESPA
Creativepool teamed up with Clerkenwell Design Week this year to bring you talks, Q&As and portfolio reviews with esteemed interior designer Shaun Clarkson. Clerkenwell Design Week is the UK’s leading independent design festival taking place...
Posted by: Creativepool Taking place over two weeks, with eight distinct design zones and two prestigious Awards Evenings, New Designers is the UK's most important graduate design exhibition, full of innovation and fresh thinking. The show sees over 3,000 of the most...
Posted by: Creativepool
Today sees the opening of the 6th annual Designs Of The Year exhibition and awards at London's Design Museum. Following in the footsteps of previous winners such as Barber Oserby's Olympic Torch and Shepard Fairie's Obama painting, 90 nominees have...
Posted by: Creativepool
Clerkenwell Design Week has firmly established itself as the UK's leading independent design festival and one of the most acclaimed trade events on the international design calendar. Clerkenwell takes place in London, EC1 - The heart and home of...
Posted by: Emma
by Ashley Morrison. It seems clear to me that adverts are getting cleverer. Gone are the days of naive wonder with small children pondering how Mummy gets the dishes so clean, or young teenagers dancing around in waistcoats while sucking on their...
Posted by: Creativepool
Brooklyn-based design agency Team have rebranded nonprofit youth-mentoring program, Empower. The rebrand signals an expansion of the organization’s initial mission, which focused on supporting young women who had experienced mother loss,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The symbiotic relationship between celebrities and brands is a time-honoured tradition that’s been going back hundreds of years. Indeed, as far back as the late 19th century, West End stage actress Lillie Langtry made a name for herself as the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How did you get into the industry? After almost 30 years as a graphic designer and art director I needed a change. I went to Portugal and began working on a photo book about the country; which was subsequently published, kickstarting my photographic...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Stormy Studio is an award-winning business-focused animation studio in the UK that produces high-quality 2D and 3D business explainers and marketing animation for global brands and businesses. To learn more, we spoke to company founder and creative...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was a fact not lost on George Clooney when he and Rande Gerber started Casamigos Tequila: strong brands are worth more. Casamigos, launched in 2013, sold four years later for a cool $1B netting Clooney an easy $233M. Not bad. The financial value...
Posted by: Lysle Wickersham
Through its technology, Bynder is a company that helps all types of brands - including Spotify, Puma, Five Guys, and Icelandair - create timely and culturally-relevant marketing content for its advertising campaigns and branding efforts. Working at...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We are currently living through a period of powerful unrest, with those who are on the side of progress and those who are on the side of conservatism seemingly unable to coexist. For brands that might have a preconceived notion of their target...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Not everyone is perfectly flawless, and neither is every piece of work. Even if the designer, artist, or photographer is a genius, their work will often contain a few sore spots. Indeed, even the supermodels on Instagram and on the billboards we see...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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
In 2004, a Guardian article highlighted a new, innovative medium that stood out through “the intimacy of voice” paired with “interactivity (…) convenience and portability”. The journalist Ben Hammersley was talking about...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial