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by John Fountain Ever wondered if you're being paid the market rate for all the long hours you work? Well if you are working every hour God sends then maybe it's time you put your prices up. Today I'm going to have a look at typical day rates for...
Posted by: Creativepool
I love freelance life. Being my own boss, flexible hours, doing random errands during the middle of the day. For many years I worked as much or as little as I liked. I was that parent pitying my employed friends who had to juggle after-school nannies...
Posted by: Red Setter
How did you get into the industry? From watching too many cartoons as a kid, honestly! As a teenager, I saved up for a Wacom tablet and started experimenting with making my own animation in Flash and Photoshop. Later, when I studied animation at the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In case you’ve missed it: the Stanley water bottle is having a cultural moment. It’s almost impossible to get online without seeing the Quencher H2.0 on your feed: pastel-coloured and possibly nestled in a matching carry case. The hashtag...
Posted by: Novagram
Featuring a reinterpretation of Billie Eilish and Finneas’s song "When the Party's Over", WWF and NOMINT launches "Up in Smoke" at COP28, a stop motion film that urgently addresses the global climate crisis driven by fossil fuel...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
We’re three weeks into 2024, which means you have probably settled nicely into the new year and are making good progress with creative endeavours. Whether you’re busy with client work or broadening your horizons with personal projects, It’s...
Posted by: Novagram
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
If Cannes Lions 2022 has a singular united theme, it was “purpose.” Indeed, it’s perhaps been the unifying theme for the last decade. In the ensuing 12 months, however, we’ve all been purposed to death so when it came to the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How did you get into the industry? I seem to have developed an eclectic skillset, and I’ve been switching back and fore between images and words my whole adult life. At 18 I chose words, bailing out of a foundation course in Art and Design for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? I had a fascination with drumming as a child, bought my first kit when I was 14 and formed a local band the following year. I turned professional with The Meteors in ‘87 and spent a couple of years touring...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Avon’s refreshed brand created in partnership with Wunderman Thompson UK showcases ‘Embrace your Power’, a new global platform, visual identity, creative approach and integrated campaign. For over 135 years, Avon has stood for...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There is increasing pressure on the retail sector during the peak holiday season, commencing with Singles Day and Black Friday in November and ending with the January sales. With the busiest time of the year for planning holiday marketing campaigns...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Sometimes, the world needs to be seen in two dimensions to underline just how absurd and surprisingly simple everything really is at its core. This is particularly true in today’s perpetual clown world existence. So, this week we thought...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
A freelance graphic designer and illustrator with project management and art direction experience, Florentyna Butler (Flo to her friends) has worked with many brands over the years and on projects including packaging, art prints, social media posts...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As companies rapidly evolve, it is to be expected that the priorities and expectations of roles within a brand evolve as well. But no position has changed quite as rapidly as the CMO. Once considered the nexus of all things creative, the CMO is now...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
AI writers - which automate the writing of blog posts, articles and website copy - are one of the most cutting-edge, yet controversial, digital tools increasingly employed by SEO specialists, copywriters, advertisers, bloggers and marketeers...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Are you visually creative, and tempted to work remotely for yourself? And do you have a brain that’s equal parts creative and mathematic? Do you also consider yourself something of a natural touch when it comes to design work? Then you might be...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Pitching for work, when/how/should you do it? I recently saw an interesting ad on Facebook asking spot of pitching to be made for a rebranding project. It was for a cultural organisation currently undergoing a refurb and seeking designers to help...
Posted by: Tony Clarkson
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
With so many other emergencies circling us right now it can be unfortunately easy to forget that the most critical existential crisis remains the environment. Thankfully, the design industry hasn’t forgotten. Or at least that’s what...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
For this week’s member spotlight, we’re getting to know an award-winning creative producer with a proven track record in everything from documentaries to music videos, commercials, and everything in between. David Morris, the head of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
I’ve been a freelance writer for well over a decade now and have never once felt like a “second best” option. I might have fallen into freelancing, but I did so with open eyes and knew exactly what the drawbacks would be (primarily...
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
This week, we shine our member spotlight on photographer Elroy Salam. Elroy describes himself as a creative photographer and content creator that loves to explore and discover through storytelling and visual arts. Specialising in lifestyle,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Jo Webb, Creative Director at Merkle B2B, joined the agency last year and has 20 years of experience in the advertising industry. Former Campaign magazine ‘Face to Watch’ and an award-winning copywriter, Jo has had a successful freelance...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Niamh Murphy, Head of Planning and Behavioural Science at In the Company of Huskies, on letting go of logic, rationalising in uncertain times, and the brands that are shaking things up with their pulling power. The difference between changing...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Ask anyone my age (yes, I’m a millennial) and they’ll probably tell you the pandemic changed the way they think about work. For me, very little honestly changed. I’ve been a freelance writer for my entire professional life and have...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Freelancers and independent contractors have a lot to keep track of. Whether you tend to take on lots of fast turnaround jobs or spend months at a time with one single client, it’s likely you have an abundance of files and admin that go along...
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
Thomas Hammerton is a freelance illustrator from South Wales with a lifetime of artistic experience behind him and a style that is at once familiar and anything but. A compulsive drawer from a young age, Thomas specialises in traditional artworks...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Air and Space Operations division of the Royal Air Force doesn't get much drama on a day-to-day basis; but when they do, it's as high-stakes as you could ever imagine. The Royal Air Force needed to recruit the right people to help protect the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
When everything is said and done, the graphic design trends of 2022 are a motley crew. Frasurbane and anti-design, escapism and grunge, doodles and parametric patterns are some of the themes explored. It's difficult to envision any of these diverse...
Posted by: Chris Bicourt
Personalisation and privacy are two of the biggest buzzwords in conversations around customer experience right now. Personalisation allows brands to deliver differentiated and more meaningful experiences, but growing concerns over data privacy have...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There’s a lot of buzz and excitement around the combination of digital marketing and web scraping. Data has always been the driving force behind marketing strategies, so the arrival of something that can gather external data was always going to...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Buzzwords might be a vague irritation in many circles but for creatives, they are a little more important than that. These words are how we contextualise trends and explain to our cohorts what is inspiring us. It’s how we reduce a complex idea...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Dealing with "The Great Resignation" is one thing - but now talent seems to be holding all the aces when it comes to the recruitment process. As agencies recover from the pandemic and work starts to roll in, teams must grow, but hiring has never been...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial