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Summer 2021 has been an interesting one for the British public. With a Covid foreign travel ban, most of the British people resorted to one in four key holiday destinations across the country, leading to a series of traffic jams all over the United...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Staying in touch with reality is a powerful drive for your creative inspiration. When we ask those wonderful creatives in our community how they stay inspired, most of them reply that having a walk or looking at the world around is their personal...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Carlsberg, the Official Beer of the Barclays Premier League, launched a new global TV commercial this week starring non-other than former Manchester United goalkeeping legend Peter Schmeichel and Sky Sports football presenter Jeff Stelling, to...
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by Ashley Morrison I've been working very hard every single day for the past couple of weeks. Till silly o'clock. Being freelance, when the work comes along, I don't really feel able to say no. After all, in the current economic climate, to trot out...
Posted by: Creativepool
We all love to-do lists and post-it notes. Ticking a box and binning a sticky give us great satisfaction - so why shouldn't we look at the UN's Global Goals like a gigantic to-do list for the world? This was the idea behind one of the latest...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How do you usually feel on Sunday nights? Well, apart from when there’s a football match which fails to make history. If the answer is ‘awful,’ ‘anxious’ or anything in between, you might be looking at a case of Sunday...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Was fascinated by a TV programme the other evening, on the possible reasons behind why we’ve been experiencing some oddly ’stuck’ weather patterns in the last couple of decades. And yes, hooked because we really love to talk about the weather...
Posted by: Richard
As the Head of Design at Whitespace Creative, Ted Vesania identifies having reached an international client base as one of his greatest achievements, but we know that in truth there is much more he should be proud of. A simple look at his works...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Many decades ago, Bill Bernbach said: “It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed, to take over our competitors.” In 2016, the World Economic Forum placed creativity as one of the top three skills...
Posted by: Andreas Krasser
Doomsday may not have befallen us yet, but a few of my acquaintances dare to disagree. Being stuck at home with 18-month-olds (and sometimes with 81-year-olds) makes some of us wish we could just step outside and catch that blessed virus once and for...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The evian babies are back in a new campaign through BETC Paris that sees more cute characters return to revive its Live Young ethos. In a world of constant swiping, notifications and social media updates, the lead ad (bottom) reminds us of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
For this year’s UK General Election, Channel 4 sought to create a campaign that would not only resonate with its audience but encourage people to get out and vote. Whether it worked or not is debatable, given the generally poor voter turnout...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? I knew from when I was around 14 I wanted to be a graphic designer, someone came into my school and did a graphic design class, based on drawing in perspective, after that class I knew that’s what I wanted to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Virtual production has arrived with a bang. Big name producers - most famously for The Mandalorian - are filming with huge state-of-the-art LED walls as virtual backdrops, instead of going out on location. But you don't have to be Disney to create...
Posted by: We Are Tilt
Among other things, the pandemic crisis was a chance to re-ignite the conversation around mental health and rejuvenate the narrative with some much beloved (albeit often understated) themes. The past two years have seen a huge range of brilliant...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
The Annual 2021 winners have been revealed, with some of the most exciting professionals in the history of Creativepool. Who are these amazing people and why do they represent the best of the best in the realm of creativity? Rob Luckins is one of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
What to do when your personality doesn't match the stereotypes required for a successful career? You keep going. Anna Jehan was recently appointed as the Head of Design at Digitas UK, and she admits spending some of her early career struggling with...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Have you ever seen a job ad for the perfect job role? I’m not talking about the role that makes you consider whether leaving your current position would be a good idea. I’m talking about the one that makes your eyes glimmer, and your...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
From digital to 3D, editorial and packaging, a collection of the best and most inspiring illustrations from last year. Nothing like a good year stuck at home to get you inspired. Right? If you’re like me, by now you have realised that being...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
How’s the new year treating you? Feel any different yet? Well, according to some reports, consumer habits have changed quite a bit in the last year and you could arguably speculate that a global pandemic may have helped with that. With people...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Whether you’re looking for talent or inspiration, take a look at these amazing illustrators to get you on the right track. Nothing like a good 10 months stuck at home to get creative. Right? Well, if you’re like me, by now you realised...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Surely you've been there too - stuck in a job you didn't like, feeling like you were wasting time and entire days doing something that will never bring you any good. And then, one day you realise that you've actually learned a lot from that...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Being one of the world’s largest creative communities, Creativepool is in a unique position to understand to what extent the creative industry is recovering from the COVID-19 outbreak. We had the power to make a difference by asking about the...
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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...
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Being one of the world's largest creative communities, Creativepool is in a unique position to understand how the creative industry is struggling in self-isolation for the Coronavirus lockdown. We had the power to make a difference by asking about...
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Grant Hunter was recently promoted to Global Executive Creative Director for iris Worldwide and has been working for the agency from his base in London for 15 years now. A man with creativity in his bones, Grant is an incredibly insightful...
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With digital arguably superseding traditional TV advertising as the most relevant and cost-effective way-forward for the industry this year, it's surprising that we actually enjoyed such a banner year for great, 30-90 second creative content. Of...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Ian Macfarlane is a London-based graphic designer, working with a variety of clients and companies to deliver everything from broadcast to book publishing, corporate reporting to visual identity. Ian has been selected to judge for the D&AD awards and...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Adland has really got stuck in for Pride London this year. We've already covered the wonderful official “Love Happens Here” campaign by WCRS, but that was only the tip of the rainbow. Here, we've gathered a few of the more interesting...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Jody Barton - once of London, and now, for a few years, a resident of Copenhagen - is one of the artists who inspired us to set up Beach. I remember seeing this video, for MC Paul Barman, bloody years ago. His vast portfolio of personal work contains...
Posted by: Beach London
I recently met a girl who worked in marketing at one of the UK’s leading charities. They’d just put out a great ad - simple, emotive, affecting - so I congratulated her on the work. ‘Well’, she said, ‘I don’t see...
Posted by: Emily Jeffrey-Barrett
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
Outdoor advertising company JCDecaux has announced the launch of its London based digital creative hub “JCDecaux Dynamic,” with the appointment of BBH’s Alex Matthews and Rick Burgess as MD and CTO respectively. JCDecaux Dynamic...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It’s now 40 years since weather forecast symbols were introduced on BBC television. You’d think there would only be so many ways one could represent sun and rain, but there have been a huge number of changes since 1975. It was actually...
Posted by: Ashley Morrison
It was announced yesterday that Leo Burnett London has hired the creative team of Matt Collier and Wayne Robinson from DDB Chicago, where they've worked together since 2011. The duo were originally based in London at Mother, but moved onto JWT where...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
In this #MemberSpotlight, we are thrilled to introduce Vahakn Vorperian, a talented Creative Director whose journey into the creative industry is nothing short of inspiring. From aspiring animator to esteemed retouch artist, Vahakn’s story is a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
