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Job Description: Textile Designer.
Textile designers create designs for knitted, printed and woven textiles. These designs often feature repeating patterns. Job Description, salaries and benefits Textile designers create designs for knitted, printed and woven textiles. These designs...
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Job Description: Footwear Designer.
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Taxing. What we can learn from the Starbucks fiasco.
by Magnus Shaw. There's only one thing that surprises me about the Starbucks saga, and it isn't their reluctance to pay tax. As large corporations are only really answerable to shareholders, that is to be expected. No, it's the fact they thought...
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How to... Get bigger clients
by Printed.com. Every small business strives to win bigger and bigger clients who have more money to spend, but if you're going to to do this you need to pitch your services in a way that appeals to them and gives them confidence that you can...
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How to... Work from home effectively
by Ashley Morrison. One of the perks of being a freelancer is the ability to work from home. I love it. No arduous daily commute (and related expenses, obviously), no noisy work colleagues, and seriously good coffee on tap when I want it. But in...
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Is there a place for modern apprenticeships in the creative industry?
Ask an employer what he or she would prefer; a candidate with three years real experience, or a graduate straight out of university, and they are likely to say that they would like a degree educated candidate with three years experience. Push them a...
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Opinions - Who cares what you think, Mr. Freelancer?
by Ashley Morrison There are a great many perks to being a freelancer (if you’re regularly employed, obviously). A lot of variety, regular change of scene if you work on site for multiple clients, working days to suit your personal schedule,...
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# Trends. Project Glass. Why Google's new technology is badly flawed.
by Magnus Shaw. Before the introduction of the iPhone and its Android counterparts, mobile phone manufacturers were locked in a frantic competition to produce ever smaller handsets. As soon as a device smaller than a fag packet was launched, another...
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Opinions - Logo no go. What the Olympic brand police tell us about Britain.
by Magnus Shaw In Britain, we love sports. We also adore a bit of patriotic tub thumping. Combine the two and the excitement is almost unbearable. I'm talking about the Olympics, of course. Within a matter of weeks, billions of pounds worth of...
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CP Loves... Eye of the beholder. History's most powerful photography.
by Magnus Shaw The internet is full of hyperbole. Social media in particular. 'The funniest video ever!', 'The best song of all time!' - in a rush to draw attention to their tiny corner of the web, users understandably become overexcited and...
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Opinions - All in the name
by Ashley Morrison In the past, we bloggers at Creativepool have given our opinions, advice and guidance, whether you asked for it or not! Hey, that's blogging for you. The internet is a free-for-all where anyone can purport to be an "expert", but...
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Trailblazers
Colette Alexandratos Illustrator and Vector Artist "I am a self motivated, open minded, creative and hardworking individual who can adapt to a variety of styles, from hand drawn illustrations, to vector based artwork by working as an individual and...
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A postcard from the desert
Last year I wrote a piece and published it from Egypt while the population was engaged in an, ultimately successful, push to overthrow its president. Now I am back and writing this from Dahab, a town on the eastern coast of the Sinai peninsula where...
Posted by: CreativepoolMeet Nick Asbury. Award winning copywriter.
Nick is a writer for branding and design. His work has won two Yellow Pencils in D&AD Writing for Design and appeared in the annual four more times. Personal projects include Corpoetics, a collection of poems made by rearranging corporate copy, and...
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Free pitching is a bit like going to the dentist
Recently I had all four of my wisdom teeth removed. The experience was not dissimilar to the free pitches I've taken part in; horribly painful but unavoidable. And afterwards you feel you've left a little piece of yourself behind... Free pitching,...
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How ethical is your wardrobe?
You can hardly move in an inch in a shop these days without being confronted with fair trade this and that and an ending array of ethical options for your every consumer need. Once an option for dreadlocked hippies and mother earth types, ethical...
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Where now for the idea?
Most professionals provide an easily identifiable service. The lawyer offers his advice and representation, the dentist his drill and pink water. But the stock in trade of the professional creative is a little harder to pin down. Is the designer...
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Souled. How religion uses advertising.
On 21st October 2008 a completely original advertising campaign was launched. Positioned on the sides of buses it carried the simple headline: 'There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life. This was the first time a marketing...
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Meet Andrew Finan
Andrew Finan is a UK entrepreneur who has worked with games most of his life. In the nineties he ran a series of international chess events in the USA, Russia, Germany, France, the UK and Spain. They culminated in the World Chess Championship Final...
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Should Creative Directors be on the Board?
Creativity is typically viewed as a softer skill. Consequently, it’s rarely valued in business as much as it ought to be. When budgets are planned and operations strategised, finance and technology are favoured, with creative roles habitually...
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Enduring Brands vs. Fading Stars: Standing the Test of Time #Brand Month
Not every brand can be an icon and even those that achieve iconic status are not guaranteed immortality. Of course, changing consumer and economic trends are always going to play an important part in whether a brand sticks around for months, years or...
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What’s in a name? The subtle art of naming your brand #BrandMonth
Imagine if Apple was Pear or Coca-Cola was Cola-Coca. Would we still be celebrating them as some of the most popular brands in the world today? Of course, we have no way of knowing definitively but the sheer ubiquity of those names means it’s...
Posted by: Benjamin HiornsIndustry
‘Murder your thirst’ with Liquid Death: The canned water company worth $1.4 billion
Fortune recently published an interview with Liquid Death CEO Mike Cessario, who is described as being ‘like a lot of 41-year-old guys who used to work in advertising. He likes whisky, bourbon, and Italian spirits, and has a sense of humor that...
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What does it take to refresh a 64-year-old heritage brand? #BehindTheBrand
IMG is a global company heralded with founding sports marketing as we know it - founded by pioneering marketer and agent Mark McCormack, it all began with a handshake in 1960 and the world of sports changed forever. Last month, the company unveiled...
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Sorting our Limes from our Lemons #CompanySpotlight
Lime Creative is a boutique communication agency offering large agency experience, specialising in the luxury lifestyle, with offices in London and Beijing and partners around the world. With a team made up of designers, writers, developers and...
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The Principles of Binary Options Marketing: A Closer Look at Broker Strategies
In the world of finance, binary options trading has emerged as a popular, albeit controversial, investment method. At its core, binary options trading involves predicting whether an asset's price will rise or fall within a specified time frame....
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5 Reasons Why a Lateral Move Could Revitalise Your Creative Career in 2024 #PredictionsMonth
The first year of 2024 is almost over; a frightening thought. But before we lapse into February and all those well-meaning resolutions fall by the wayside, we still have a solid week left to reevaluate our careers. I jape, of course, as if you...
Posted by: Benjamin HiornsWorkshop
How to chase unpaid invoices (without sounding desperate) as a creative freelancer
There are so many benefits to the freelance lifestyle; the freedom, the flexibility, and the fact you don’t really have any one to answer to (besides your clients, of course) are all right up there. Ask anybody that’s been freelancing for...
Posted by: Benjamin HiornsInspiration
5 Work Resolutions for Creative Freelancers in 2024 #PredictionsMonth
A new year often brings with it a chance to sweep the slate clean and make healthier choices when it comes to the work we accept and the work we don’t. Indeed, it could be argued that the perpetual curse of the freelancer isn’t so much...
Posted by: Benjamin HiornsFeatures
Why agencies should champion their AI heroes
Matthew Bushby, Head of Customer Success at Scibids UK, on why agencies should champion the ‘AI heroes’ within their business. Matthew argues that those who can act like a ‘dog with a bone’ and scale these internal obstacles...
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Where ‘X’ goes from here after leaving the Twitter name behind #FutureMonth
As Twitter's instantly recognisable blue bird has spread its wings, to make way for the platform's new X logo and branding, Natalia Kaczmarek, Senior Digital Content Creator at Whiteoaks International, asks if Twitter's move to X a smart one and if...
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Did marketing failure lead to the downfall of Wilko?
The recent news that prominent discount high street retailer Wilko has been plunged into administration sparked a flurry of conversations about not only its own misfortune but the future of the UK high street in general. While external pressures...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns