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Inspiration

Creativepool Picks: The 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. If you’ve got all your presents sorted that is. Otherwise it’s the most stressful as you rush to buy thoughtful, fun and imaginative gifts whilst trying to support lesser-known artists,...

Posted by: Kate Lewin
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NBBJ designs a floating ice rink for the Thames

London and New York are perhaps the two most popular cities for tourists on the planet, and there are countless parallels to be drawn between them. From the underground system and the cultural similarities, to the sheer vastness of the cities...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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I should of pacifically mentioned that...

On Saturday night, I was at a party. (Yes, I do get out sometimes; it’s not all tracksuit bottoms in front of Grand Designs, you know.) Anyway, at said party, I was speaking to a guy about the Davis Cup finals - yay, Team GB! - and he said that...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison
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Agency of the Week: J. Walter Thompson

Signalling the first signs of Christmas for Quality Street The First Signs of Christmas J. Walter Thompson London has teamed up with Quality Street to signal the real signs of Christmas by showering a street (and a cinema audience) with a blizzard...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Top 10 Hires of the Week

Blue Fountain Media Manhattan-based digital agency Blue Fountain Media is bolstering its executive, strategy and marketing teams with the addition of a new senior leader. Yoni Ben-Yehuda has been announced as the agency's new Chief Marketing...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Inspiration

Have we become desensitised to Christmas?

So by now you’ll all have seen John Lewis’s #ManOnTheMoon ad. It’s probably also true that you’ve had your say on it - whether on social media, in lunchtime chats with office colleagues, or in heated discussions with family...

Posted by: We Love Digital
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Slack make a big difference with a small change

On August 25th, the corporate group messaging site 'Slack' unveiled a new way for developers to connect to their service: the 'Add to Slack' button. It was the culmination of a great deal of work, but it was a seemingly small detail that proved to be...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Leaders

IAB UK Digital Upfronts: Buzzfeed launches Branded Content

BuzzFeed’s UK general manager, Kate Burns, and the president of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, Ze Frank, who had flown from Hollywood especially for the IAB UK Digital Upfronts, chose Monday (October 19) to announce its launch of branded video...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

A Gold and Grand Prix win for FCB Inferno at the APG Awards

On the 18th October the Account Planning Group Awards took place in the grand setting of the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel. The awards are a bi-yearly event celebrating the crème de la crème of planning strategies that have resulted in...

Posted by: FCB London
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Top 10 Hires of the Week

Leo Burnett India Leo Burnett India has appointed Sachin Das Burma as Group Executive Creative Director at its Delhi office. Sachin comes to the team having built his credentials across several marquee brands. Sachin joins from Draft FCB Ulka where...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Top 5 Account Wins of the Week

McCann London - Picturehouse Cinemas Following a successful partnership in developing the McCann London “Up on the Roof” film festival, Picturehouse Cinemas (a boutique UK cinema chain offering everything from blockbusters to art house...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Industry

Live streaming from AdWeek: Times Center Stage: Thursday

Live Stream: 9:00 - Managing Disruption There’s no question the media and advertising worlds are being turned upside down daily. New technologies enable innovation around business models and distribution, while barriers to entry for new...

Posted by: Creativepool
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London Design Festival 2015: The Highlights

Somerset House At this year’s festival, Somerset House, which is often seen as one of the main hubs of the event, exhibited a range of exciting design innovations. From tree-shaped furniture to a piano played by light and a virtual reality...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Bompas & Parr to curate first Museum of Food for London

Bompas & Parr is set to launch a new London museum based on the art and science of food. Called the British Museum of Food, it will open next month (October 23) in Borough Market for three months, and will be the world’s first cultural...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Ads of the Week

Forsman & Bodenfors – H&M H&M looks set to break all the fashion rules in a new campaign from Forsman & Bodenfors featuring punk icon (and walking leather pin cushion) Iggy Pop. It hinges on a film narrated by the Stooges frontman, which carries a...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Festival of light to hit London next year

London is to be transformed next January by a festival of light, with 20 different installations set to help burn away the post-Christmas blues. The Lumiere light festival began in Durham back in 2009 as a biennial event, and makes its way to the...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Marking 60 years since the first TV Advertisement

TV advertising might have been largely supplanted by online ads and social media in the last few years, but as long as television adheres to the same model (in others words, before Netflix-style streaming on-demand becomes the rule rather than the...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

Focal Point: Ruohan Wang's illustrative GIFs

Ruohan Wang makes beautifully simple illustrations that say more than at first meets the eye. She sometimes turns them into tongue in cheek GIFs, letting her style free from the static page to bring her thoughtful creations to life. Hailing from...

Posted by: Jade French
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Top 5 Account Wins of the Week

BBH London – London Fashion Week ZAG, the branding and venturing division of BBH London, has been appointed by the British Fashion Council (BFC) to be the lead creative agency for London Fashion Week (LFW) after a competitive pitch. Coinciding...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

The September 2015 Apple Event Highlights

Whilst it might seem a little superfluous to harp on about announcements that have been rumoured to the point of presumed authenticity for months now, any Apple event is big news in the tech community, because there really is no other company like...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Inspiration

Focal Point: Eric Yahnker's Pop Culture Pencilling

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
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Inspiration

Focal Point: Catching up with Harvey Dormer

Part of the Focal Point interview series is to shine a spotlight on the best creative work we can find – and often that comes from our very own Creativepool members. Harvey Dormer's distinctive illustrative style has caught our eye a few times in...

Posted by: Jade French
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Burger King launch new interior re-design in Paris

Burger King is giving itself a visual upgrade with a new interior design that features self-service kiosks and more subtle brand detailing. These new-look interiors are being launched at Burger King’s flagship restaurant in Paris, which the is...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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The Week in Tech

This man grew an ear on his arm An Australian performance artist who simply goes by the name “Stelarc” (like “Madonna” or “Adele,” but with zero mainstream appeal) has grown an artificial ear on his arm. He...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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How London responds to a Tube Strike

Impero Nothing strikes fear into the heart of London commuter like the prospect of another tube strike, and last Thursday (August 6) the darkness descended once again, sending the city into mild spasms of chaos! However, if there's one thing...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Experience Bronze Age VR at the British Museum

Between the 8th and the 9th of August, visitors to the British Museum will be invited to step a virtual foot inside a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age roundhouse with the launch of the London museum’s first ever virtual reality weekend. By teaming up...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Cecil the Lion immortalised by Empire State Building

Cecil the Lion became an internet sensation last week, unfortunately for all the wrong reasons. Cecil was gunned down in his prime by a dentist and “Recreational game hunter” from Minnesota, who became just about the most hated man on...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Top Hires of the Week

Havas Media Havas Media has promoted Andrew Mason to the role of Head of Client Leadership with immediate effect. As Head of Client Leadership, Mason will oversee the day-to day management of the Havas Media client teams while ensuring quality and...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Leaders

New design conference set to change perspectives on visual design

Award-winning design consultant Emma Sexton hosts the first ever UK design event for non-designers at Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf on 22nd September 2015. Unleash The Power is the first design event of it’s kind, on a mission to challenge...

Posted by: Hands Down™
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Inspiration

We chat with the man behind Supermundane: Rob Lowe

Rob Lowe, who sometimes goes by alias Supermundane, is an industry veteran who has worked with everyone from *Wallpaper to Sleazenation, and even designed book covers for Penguin. His distinctive use of colour and line make him a go-to guy for...

Posted by: Jade French
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Top Ads of the Week

Coca-Cola get into the spirit of the Rugby World Cup Coca-Cola Great Britain has launched its Rugby World Cup 2015 campaign, which looks to excite the nation ahead of the Tournament later this year. As official soft drink, water and sport drinks...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Workshop

Meet Phil Danter: The Ad executive who became a music star

Tiring of your glittering career as an advertising executive? All those expense account lunches leaving you unfulfilled? Maybe you should become a music star. It can certainly be done, as one high-flyer has proved by making that exact career move....

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Feeling the burn: Thomas Mailaender's illustrated people

We’ve heard about suffering for your art, but this takes things to a new level. French artist Thomas Mailaender applied 23 photographic negatives to models skin, searing them with a UV lamp. The result? Some really beautiful effects, that conjure...

Posted by: Jade French
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How the Google algorithm stole a blogger's domain name.

You may remember, in the early days of the internet, some very smart cookies enriched themselves considerably by buying up the domain names they figured would be in demand, just as soon as major corporations woke up to the new technology. Smart...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Thinkmodo finds the strongest Meter Maid in NYC

Thinkmodo have made yet another viral video (remember their Devil Baby ad?), and this time its not as scary and a bit more believable. Or at least, it’s believable that a New York City taxi driver and Meter Maid could get into a huge argument....

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial

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