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by Jessica Hazel. As London Fashion Week SS2013 reaches its climax, the last few glasses of free champagne will be downed and fashion's most committed followers will have to pack away their outrageous outfits for another six months. Fashion Week is...
Posted by: Creativepool
For over a year now we’ve been waxing lyrical on this site about the creative potential of AI, but we’ve also never shied away from highlighting the potential pitfalls. One of those pitfalls was underlines quite spectacularly this week...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
There are few words as cutting and divisive in 2024 as “cancelled.” It’s a term you’d once only have heard in relation to your favourite TV series or perhaps an unwise Amazon order but today, it’s something that happens...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Valentine’s Day is a holiday beloved by few. For many of us, it’s little more than a cynical stopping gap between Christmas and Easter to claw at our pockets. There appears to be a disconnect, however, between how much we care about...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Loab has set the internet alight in recent months. The haunting, AI-generated woman isn’t the first piece of art created by artificial intelligence, but she might be the scariest. Supercomposite, the musician who ‘discovered’ her...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Some creative professionals enjoy chaos - they embrace it, in fact. Quite proudly, this is what Freelance 3D Artist BrokenDoodle admits about their own style and creative process. BrokenDoodle is "a bit of a gearhead" and clearly excited about...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We need to talk about recruitment. If our industry is going to hire, nurture and retain talent, things need to change. And there’s one place we really need to start. It’s not the awful ‘hybrid’ role manifestation, where an...
Posted by: Rickie Marsden
Politics and marketing have never been so closely entwined in an age of 24-hour news and false facts. But after three years of Brexit burnout, the marketing teams behind the parties fighting in today’s historic general election have never had a...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last week, Instagram’s CEO, Adam Mosseri, announced the global expansion to test the removal of public likes; a move that has been praised for its potential mental health benefits, particularly for young people. However, whilst this has been...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Something struck me as I watched the Doom Eternal showcase during Bethesda’s E3 conference. For a gritty game about violently blowing up demons, Doom Eternal is incredibly vibrant and bursting with colour. Even compared to the previous Doom...
Posted by: Rob Pratt
If you spend a bit too much time sitting in back-to-back meetings, planning rollout dates, looking at demographics and campaign performance analytics you can sometimes be in danger of forgetting what ‘it’ feels like. What is it exactly?...
Posted by: Crush
With the 2018 FIFA World Cup kicking off this very afternoon, we've scoured the internet to bring you the best ads, campaigns, brand activations and more that have sprung up in the last few weeks in honour of the tournament known to those who...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Four years ago this November, I was on a date with a lovely Japanese businesswoman in downtown Shibuya, Tokyo. Desperate to impress, and wary about breaking some sort of cultural taboo, I started chatting about humour in different languages. I tried...
Posted by: Textappeal
Last week, there was a great deal of smoke being blown surrounding the memo released by Google employee James Damore, which inferred that women were biologically inferior to their male counterparts when it came to computer science and coding. These...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Last night at Cannes Lions, the winners of the Creative Data, Cyber, Direct, Mobile and Innovation Lions were announced, with big wins for DigitasLBi, David Miami, Dentsu and more prizes for the “meet Graham” campaign by Clemenger BBDO...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Leith Agency - Irn Bru Xtra Musical comedian Brett Domino? Talking Squirrels? Seb Cardinal (of Cardinal Burns) directing? Sounds like the perfect ingredients for a new IRN-BRU commercial. Working through The Leith Agency, Seb stepped behind the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Matt Phelan, CEO of 4Ps part of NetBooster Group, on how Eurovision uses YouTube to elevate the event to a new global audience. On Saturday, the 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) was held in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, with the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Recognising the dynamic between hard-pressed designers and their indecisive art directors, ACHTUNG! mcgarrybowen and Adobe are launching a competition to win the Hovering Art Director action figure. This highly recognisable character promotes the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As a result of two, bloody revolutions, Russian tensions, and a never-ending series of crises, many of us overlook Kiev as a creative destination. But amongst the bloodshed and upheaval, a peaceful, creative core has emerged at the heart of the...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Courtesy of The Beautiful Meme, the D&AD Festival 2017 creative was unveiled this week - with an explosion of colours, textures and shapes representing the ever shifting nature of our category, thinking and work. This year, the iconic D&AD Pencils...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Oscars are, whilst almost as large a televisual draw as that 'other' big event in February, largely free from the burden of expectation when it comes to advertising. The fact is that nobody really talks about the ad breaks of the Academy Awards,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Virgin Trains are going full steam ahead with a risqué campaign created by TMW Unlimited that will encourage the public to trade the inconveniences of domestic air travel (check-in, luggage allowance, landing far from city centres) and road use...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
RKCY/Y&R - M&S Food RKCR/Y&R is launching the latest instalment of its award-winning M&S Food campaign with an ad that showcases the “Taste Asia” range. The TV campaign, which will be supported by press, OOH and digital activity,...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Ogilvy & Mather/DAVID - Unilever Unilever has launched a new campaign that brings together the collective power of consumers and brands to show people in how the everyday brands they love can help to make the world a better place. With consumers...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Location-based marketing is at something of a tipping point right now where it could honestly go either way, but the outrageous success of the recently released Pokémon Go AR smartphone game seems to suggest it could be about to really kick off...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
McCann HumanCare - Docusol How could I not begin this week's run of creative excellence with a spot involving a singing nappy? The online film, by McCann HumanCare, is part of children's constipation brand Docusol's “Make a Nappy Happy”...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Having seen his outrageous speeches and horrific haircut, you might well think having Donald Trump in just one location is one too many. However, maybe you should brace yourself, because soon Trump (and many other less upsetting politicians) will be...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
By now you will almost certainly have seen the front cover of today's landmark edition of Charlie Hebdo. Indeed, it might even be your Facebook profile picture by this point. But whilst the image in question might seem a little tame given the events...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In a unique and impressive new ad from the Brazilian agency F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi for the beer brand Skol's new “Beats Senses” product, ravers are seen dancing, drinking and cavorting, whilst completely submerged in an underwater...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As a kid, I was very fond of the word 'wacky' - largely because it featured in the title of my favourite TV shows 'Wacky Races' (if you're too young to remember it - find it on the web, you'll be glad you did). As an adult, I'm less keen. It has some...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
They do things differently in Russia. Almost like it's another country or something. If their government isn't enthusiastically installing homophobic laws they've borrowed from some particularly intolerant 19th century fruitcakes, their president is...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
by Ashley Morrison It's a wet Sunday afternoon (no, not in summer 2013, obviously; that would be a sweltering Sunday afternoon), and there isn't much to keep the family occupied. Well, apart from the 200-odd TV channels now available. Or a DVD. Or...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
By Jessica Hazel Despite the dodgy Savile parodies, Jim'll Paint It is the most exciting new thing on Tumblr. A couple of weeks ago, Jim came up with a novel way of filling up his lunch breaks, he asked friends for requests for things to draw and...
Posted by: Creativepool
by Jessica Hazel. Damien Hirst is one of Britain's richest people. In 1992 his pickled shark entitled 'The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living' was commissioned by Charles Saatchi for £50,000 and then sold in 2005 for...
Posted by: Creativepool
BrewDog, a brewery with a difference, is the brainchild of 25-year old James Watt and his business partner and best mate Martin Dickie. Today it is Scotland's largest independently owned brewery producing about 120,000 bottles per month. But that...
Posted by: Creativepool
Whether you like it or not (and that will probably depend very much on which side of 30 you find yourself) TikTok has been moulding consumer behaviour in its own impatient image for years now but for a lot of brands who saw the way the tide was...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
