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by Simon Harle, Dynamaic New Alliances. No matter where you look at the moment in the industry, there is a severe shortage of true talent! For the last 18/24 months the lack of digital PM's, AM's, SAM's and AD's has been discussed, questioned and...
Posted by: Creativepool
Had it not been for an internship, I wouldn't be a copywriter. Once I'd completed my training, my tutor arranged for a series of placements at various agencies. It was called 'work experience' then, and each placement lasted a few days. It was a...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
TOMY launches Design Challenge initiative to UK students offering Internship at Britains’ Exeter HQ as prize Introduced into the Britain’s Farm portfolio in 2008, the Big Farm pre-school toy range has fast become a company success story....
Posted by: TOMY Europe
CHI&Partners is launching a new entry-level recruitment scheme called SPARK; which encourages ambitious people from all backgrounds to apply to come and work at the top 20 agency, which was the UK’s most-awarded independent creative agency at this...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I will admit that being a graduate was probably one of the lowest points of life. After graduating, society seems to paint a picture that “life is only complete if you are accepted into a Big 4 graduate scheme”. Trust me I got declined...
Posted by: Robert Stone
This is the first article to be written by Creativepool's writing competition winner, Alan Offord. Over the next few months he'll be looking at various topics including issues like the practice of free-pitching, ways designers stay motivated and more...
Posted by: Creativepool
How did you get into the industry? I never planned to go into copywriting, but I did a few internships in the writing and creative space through university, then after I graduated with a degree in English, I was a bit unsure of what was...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Ian Wharton served as part of the creative leadership for design and innovation agencies in WPP and Publicis Groupe. He is the Founder of health technology startup Aide Health, an advisor at Justified Studio, the author of Spark for the Fire: How...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Storyboard artists play a crucial role in visual storytelling for various creative projects, including films, animations, video games, commercials, and more. Their ability to translate ideas into visual sequences helps directors, writers, and...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
LONDON. February 21, 2023: Global experience agency WRG, the events and experiential division of The Creative Engagement Group, today announced the launch of the second year of its 12-month paid internship scheme ‘Year ONE’. The internship gives...
Posted by: The Creative Engagement Group
Environmental, sovial and governace (ESG) criteria has become hugely important to businesses as well as consumers, with an increased demand for more and more companies to take a closer look at key ethical issues like diversity, equal pay,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Why do we work? That is an existential question many of us undoubtedly ask ourselves on days like today when Kidderminster has the sunny glow of the Mediterranean and all we want to do is retire to a hammock in the back garden and listen to the world...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We’ve been hearing a great deal about the Donetsk region of Ukraine in recent months and for all the wrong reasons. The area has been occupied by Russian forces for 8 years now and now represents the first step in Putin’s nefarious scheme...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
While we’ve shone our company spotlight on dozens of exceptional design studios here at Creativepool, we very rarely get the chance to speak to in-house studios. That’s we we jumped at the chance when information services company...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
If there’s one thing the creative industries should be doing more of, it’s giving opportunities to people who might otherwise feel such a career is beyond their reach. For decades now, there has been an uneasy unspoken rule that only the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Performance metrics for digital advertising have transformed our industry. Transparent, targeted, and accountable campaigns are more impactful than ever. The challenge to brands is wading through the variety of digital advertising options. Choose...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
According to research from PLAY, digital product studio and incubator, almost a quarter (24%) of Gen Z employees would not work at a business that profits from unsustainable practices. It’s a pretty considerable chunk of the up and coming...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
According a snapshot poll of recent graduates from the prestigious Brixton Finishing School, 71% value the diversity of the organisation’s current employees when asked what they value most from a potential employer. The figure even rose to 76%...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In their primary role, digital designers combine their creativity and technical skills to produce digital graphics for computer and electronic games, websites, movie special effects, and more. Some digital designers might create graphics for...
Posted by: Creativepool
Streams of ink (virtual or otherwise) have been employed to describe the intrinsic potential of packaging as part of the consumer experience with a product and brand. Packaging has a fundamental part in the buying process, even though it stands...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Typography is the art of arranging text in a way that makes it not only legible but aesthetically pleasing. It involves font, structure and overall appearance, and works to catalyse a specific emotion in the reader. It brings the text to life and the...
Posted by: Creativepool
Freelancer or not, the dream of working in advertising is real for many creative professionals out there. It gives us a career prospect and a much concrete way to give shape to our dreams. As much as it would be lovely to live off prints and short...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The executive creative director (or ECD) is the head honcho as far as the creative team is concerned. The person behind the curtain engineering the creative identity of a company and facilitating the adoption of that identity throughout all media...
Posted by: Creativepool
Brands are far too quick to jump on the bandwagon when it comes to Pride Month. Sometimes they get it right. Often they get it terribly wrong. As creative professionals and navigators of this industry, we have the responsibility to be the ones...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Creative Team in the advertising, digital or marketing sector is responsible for generating attention-grabbing ideas that will entice the consumer or target audience. Members of the team work together to develop conceptual campaigns designed to...
Posted by: 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. Job description,...
Posted by: Creativepool
The dream weavers at the centre of every creative enterprise, chief creative officers are a unique combination of managerial flair and creative talent. They offer a necessary balance between the CEO and CFO and need to realise that creativity is the...
Posted by: Creativepool
It sounds cliché, but one of the most important recommendations a starting designer should heed is to keep things simple. Easier said than done, of course - and yet some designers, such as Jennifer Swales, make of simplicity the founding stone...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
So the industry isn’t diverse enough. Big surprise, huh? You’ve heard it a lot in the past year, that we’re still “a long way ahead” of where we should be in terms of inclusion for underrepresented talent. Diversity in...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Clearly, an extensive experience doesn't automatically suggest talent. How many stories have you heard of 'bland' seasoned professionals? On the other hand, you can sometimes get the occasional Harry Whatrup rising from the other end of the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Clearly, this has been an interesting year for everyone in the creative industry. Whether you are in the music industry, in live events, production or freelancing (aka: trying to hold onto your clients), 2020 has brought a new, unprecedented range...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
There's no doubting that the COVID-19 crisis is affecting several corners of the industry in more or less similar ways. A lot of professionals, even beyond the actual creative industry, are talking about one of the worst recessions of the past 100...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
What advertising and influencers taught writer-director Rory Ab Forrest, now at Monument and launching a debut novel “Creative math isn’t hard. It’s about understanding what is missing, and nailing that space with something...
Posted by: Hype
Here at Creativepool, we could never be accused of staying in just one lane when it came to the creative industries. That’s why, today, we’ve chosen to shine our illustrious Member Spotlight on April Sharman, a design manager for Style Library...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
“This too shall pass” is a popular saying derived from ancient Persia that reflects rather elegantly and succinctly on the ephemerality of the human condition. It’s a mantra that many of us have undoubtedly been muttering under our...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
It's no secret that the industry has seen several mass redundancies being made in the past six months. Add that to a delicate balance made of fresh graduates looking for a job, which reach the order of tens of thousands every year, and you have the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial