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Aleksandra Kingo makes hyper-real photographs that hinge on the surreal. Her influences feel like they take away from the likes of 70s fashion and New Wave cinema, with a generous helping of pop-culture inbetween. Whether its commercial work,...
Posted by: Jade French
Pop culture is a funny thing and it’s something that we, as creatives, must unfortunately remain perpetually cognisant of. How else are we meant to tap into the zeitgeist and get that constantly distracted and highly coveted Gen Z market to sit...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Hannah Gillingham is a UK based freelance digital illustrator and artist. Working with a conceptual approach to illustration, she creates painterly illustrations of her favourite characters from pop culture and design illustrated posters, exploring...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Pop culture and advertising have been walking hand-in-hand with varying degrees of success since ethe 1950s. In the latter half of the 20th century we saw brand and pop culture partnerships like Pepsi and Michael Jackson and Nestle and The Simpsons...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Eric Yahnker is all about intricate pencil work, pop culture puns and a serious approach to his work. He doesn’t make it easy to dismiss his work as pastiche, mainly because his finger is superbly on the pulse of contemporary society. Whether...
Posted by: Jade French
The future is inclusive. Anyone denying that is either a bigot or something else that rhymes with the word. Every year we see brands from everywhere in the industry embrace the Pride rainbow in more or less cheesy ways - but there is still so much...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Sticky, sweet, and golden in colour, Lyle’s Golden Syrup has been used in home-baking since 1883, and the green and gold tin is a common sight in British kitchens. However, anybody who has taken a close look at the tin will likely have been...
Posted by: Novagram
Cancel culture is a funny thing. It’s all well and good to declare yourself a scion of virtue and leap to the gallows with torch in hand whenever a new celebrity is outed as a sexual criminal but what happens when the source of the (in this...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
During the pandemic, the London-based agency Joint created the “Working from Joint Experiment” as the first shot across the bow for what they saw as the evolving landscape of the post pandemic world. As an agency that’s always held...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Iconic San Diego attraction Belmont Park, known for its historic wooden Giant Dipper rollercoaster, has unveiled a new brand positioning and identity that pays homage to its heritage and the vibrant culture of San Diego. Radiating the warmth of the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
In collaboration with IFFCO’s Plant-Based Venture, WMH&I recently created THRYVE; a new plant-based food brand born in the Middle East. The brand sets out to spearhead a movement of change towards healthier and more sustainable eating in the...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Speaking as someone that didn’t even realise they were a millennial until it was already too late (I’d already got heavily into the craft beer scene of my own volition), I honestly can’t say that I spared much thought for the...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The current media landscape has permanently changed because of the pandemic. People are shopping, consuming, listening and conversing differently. Interactions online are more important than ever and play a key role in how we make sense of the world....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was about 10 years ago when Tom Readdy founded Yes Please Productions with his partner, Lucy. Since then, much has changed - but their joint ambition has remained exactly the same. Both music obsessives and absolutely in love with consuming...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Among the many fascinating terms originating from Gen Z and millennials, Cancel Culture is certainly an interesting one. It connects brands and influencers with the direct consequences of their actions, paving the way for an age of brand reputation...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Unconventional, yet remarkably intuitive. This is the philosophy guiding each and every creative strategy, thought and move for BrandOpus, born as a start-up and now boasting offices in London, Melbourne, Chicago and New York. Like many great...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The Jefferson Talent Group have teamed up with Fiona Wilson to look at health and happiness in the marketing industry, running a series of workshops to discuss mental health and wellbeing. Alongside these workshops, we’ll explore the good, bad...
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Today's video is all about the culture within an advertising agency, what it is and how we can effect it. To help me cover the topic, we're going to get a little help from the book "You Little Jerk" by Larry Habatka. It's a great, quick read filled...
Posted by: Kevin Forister
As the agency prepares to turn 50 next year, Southpaw's MD Tom Poynter highlights the creative culture of one of England's best-loved spa towns. Situated in the heart of ‘The Garden of England’, this spa town takes its name from the...
Posted by: Southpaw
Following an influx of newbies to the creative and design teams we wanted to start a ritual for our people to come together socially. This would be a regular calendar event they would look forward to, input into and that would add an insight into the...
Posted by: Proximity London
We’ve all seen the cringey ads for millennial fashion brands like boohoo and Jameson Carter, but there's a hot new name in town. McDonald’s has ‘launched’ a fake fashion brand to promote its limited edition Spicy Chicken...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Having a uniform and positive company culture is very important for success. Company culture refers to the overall personality of your brand, including values, missions, goals, behaviours, environment and more. If people don’t buy into your...
Posted by: Liam Smith
The culture at a company is more important than the talent employed, according to Chris Hirst, European and UK group CEO at Havas. The exec held a session at Creativepool's Connect London festival and shared his thoughts on what makes a great leader...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Shutterstock has launched its eighth annual Creative Trends Report, which predict major trends in 2019 as well as what will be the rising topics and one to watch in the year ahead. The overbearing theme of the findings is that there will be a...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Besides being Twitter’s VP of EMEA, Bruce Daisley is intent on helping creative companies improve their working cultures and hosts the Eat Sleep Work Repeat podcast on the subject. He’s also written a book called The Joy of Work offering...
Posted by: Ryan Watson
You’ve forgotten what your family looks like. It’s been months of overtime. Leaving the house before they’ve woken up, coming home after they’ve gone to bed. You tell them that ‘it’s expected, and everyone else is doing it’, well aware...
Posted by: Magnopus
Barely a day goes by without the word 'culture' featuring heavily in my conversations. It’s become a sort of catch-all phrase and having a ‘great’ one is something lots of agencies can be fiercely proud and protective of - and rightly so. It's...
Posted by: Character Creative
BBC Creative/Ink & Giants - BBC Proms BBC Proms has revealed a new visual identity to mark the 90th anniversary of the BBC running and broadcasting the annual classical music festival. The broadcaster’s in-house design team, BBC Creative, has...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
So as we continue to tell our clients that they need to be agile to thrive, what exactly are agencies doing to build in agility into their own businesses? Is the industry keeping up or is it at risk of falling behind and becoming irrelevant to...
Posted by: Daniele Fiandaca
“You don’t understand a city until you leave...”, said KREWE du optic’s founder, Stirling Barret, speaking about New Orleans to Forbes magazine; “...it always works here." Seeing his hometown through fresh eyes and...
Posted by: Kate Lewin
Technology has played an important role in challenging the traditional concept of ‘work’. The internet, as well as the mobility enabled by laptops and smartphones, has created a nomadic workforce. Partly as a result of this shift, the...
Posted by: Canvas8
Idris Elba is a pretty cool guy. So I’m going to kick off with a quote from the man himself, before telling you why I’m so excited about Monday 11th April. “The Britain I come from is the most successful, diverse, multicultural...
Posted by: FCB London
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...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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
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
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