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Clearly, this has been an interesting year for everyone in the creative industry. Whether you are in the music industry, in live events, production or freelancing (aka: trying to hold onto your clients), 2020 has brought a new, unprecedented range...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
Portfolios, love them or hate them, they’re almost always an essential when applying for creative and design jobs. A portfolio is supposed to hold a selection of a designer’s best work, yet we have found that often they are either full of...
Posted by: Brand Recruitment
by Magnus Shaw. I work as a copywriter and blogger. I also do something I call consultancy - advising people on their writing, marketing or branding, really. Sometimes, I produce or present radio programmes too. These are all very enjoyable and...
Posted by: Creativepool
Many Creativepool readers are already well into their career, but it's clear a fair few are just starting out, possibly still seeking their first gig. If that's you, please stay with me. First, let me say that I recognise your wretched luck. You're...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
It was announced today by UK culture minister Lucy Frazer that the UK creative industries will get a 1 million job boost adding £50bn in value to the sector by 2030. For many of us creatives that’s a pretty big deal. But the real question...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Be honest, how many of your creative colleagues and friends do you think are struggling right now with their mental health? If I asked myself that question, I’d probably have to answer more than half, myself included. On paper, that reads like...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The creative industries are very much known for their high-pressure environments. It’s something you thrive on as a creative, yet we all have our limits. Creative work is often solitary in nature, however the pandemic has seen job losses,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Imagine if you could listen to music all day and make a creative career out of that. That is precisely what Karolina Namyslowski's 'typical' day looks like - though making a routine out of creation doesn't come without costs. Having studied...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
It was 2003 when DOTA (Defence of the Ancients), the first true Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA), hit the shelves of PC gaming. Since then, esports have been on a constant and steady rise, leading to widespread popularisation for a new kind of...
Posted by: Antonino Lupo
When recruiting Graphic Designers, Web Developers and other Creatives, not everybody understands exactly what they should be looking for and how to go about it. As one of the UK’s top creative recruitment agencies, Brand Recruitment have put...
Posted by: Brand Recruitment
Whether you’re freelance or full-time, creating the perfect creative space can bring previously unfathomable rewards. Despite this, many people don’t put much thought into their work environment, and - without realising it - they might...
Posted by: Cogs Agency
Creativity in London is in a great place and the output of agencies is now as diverse as ever. Sure; there are still fantastic TV ads, such as this years British Arrows Commercial of the Year by AMV’s Mike Sutherland and Ant Nelson for Currys...
Posted by: Gemini People
More and more young professionals are going freelance with numbers of graduates increasing and job security after university looking less and less likely. Many new graduates cite control and flexibility as reasons for choosing a path in freelancing...
Posted by: Boox
JWT has named former DDB New York chief creative officer Matt Eastwood as worldwide chief creative officer, in a statement released yesterday, a role which has been left vacant since Craig Davis left the agency in 2009. DDB New York appeared to enjoy...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
'The Creative Industries' - it's a phrase we hear all the time, isn't it? But what exactly does it mean? Well, if you're a government statistician, it refers to : public relations and communication activities; advertising agencies ; and media...
Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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...
Posted by: Dawn Creative
FutureBrand - the brand-led business transformation company that has helped transform household names such as American Airlines, Sanofi, McDonald’s, NatWest and Barilla - has appointed Lauren Maynard as its new Global Chief Growth Officer. In...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
There’s something quietly Dickensian about the term “cost-of-living crisis” that’s given the news over the last few months a surreal air of uncanniness, at least in the UK. The concept that so many of us, even those such as...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
As the year starts to wind down and we take stock of what we achieved (or didn’t achieve) over the last 12 months, it’s only natural to start asking what we’d have done differently if we could do it all over again. Well, thankfully...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
We’ve already looked back at the year that was 2023 and what a year it was. But what kind of magazine would we be if we didn’t also cast our sights on the next 12 months? Of course, there are a few trends you can expect to see pop up...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
When needing to see a healthcare professional, we generally feel like we are in safer hands with a ‘specialist’ than our general practitioner. The term denotes expertise in a particular subject, and a high degree of skill. Simon Case,...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Without stories what are we really? Storytelling is at the root of so much of our shared culture and it winds its barbs into everything from the stories we ingest actively (be it through books, TV, games or otherwise) to those we ingest passively...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
“Roko’s Basilisk” is a popular thought experiment. It proposes a hypothetical situation in which an all-knowing, all-powerful. An evil artificial intelligence comes into power in the future. It may want to destroy every human who...
Posted by: Think Design Manchester Ltd
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
“Apple can do no wrong.” This was a mantra that seemed to permeate the first two decades of the century, when innovation after innovation continued to spill out of Steve Jobs like a golden faucet. Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs. While...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
The life of a freelancer is a nomadic one by design. You’re constantly moving from client to client and opportunity to opportunity and if you stop moving for even a second, implosion seems almost a given. That’s why, as freelancers, we...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
How did you get into the industry? Prior to coming to London, I studied Communication Design in Stuttgart, Germany. Before that, I did an apprenticeship and trained as a fine art silkscreen printer. I got into branding and visual identity design...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
As demand for creative roles booms across a variety of industries, The Interaction Design Foundation, the world’s leading online design school, reveals five creative career paths to explore that never existed before. With the introduction of...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Being a freelancer in the creative industries can be equal parts exhilarating and terrifying, particularly with AI now potentially changing the playing field for so many of us. For me, freelancing offers the freedom to only accept the work I...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Artificial Intelligence is changing the way we in the creative industries work at every level. But rather than getting carried away with talk of machines replacing people, we’re finding the technology is taking human creativity to the next...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
How did you get into the industry? I started out as a writer performer. Then when I began writing TV treatments I hustled my way into the creative industries on charm and by cutting my teeth on some tough briefs with some sharp words and very steep...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
The great diversity project is still very much a work in progress. Yes, there are more opportunities than ever before for people who don’t look like Don Draper but still, only 11.4% of industry jobs are filled by BAME individuals. And...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
A seasoned Executive Creative Director with global experience and a demonstrated history of award and pitch winning advertising ideas, Anthony Moss is a freelance ECD with a strong and varied skillset. Last year, he was named as one of the top 100...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
While our lives might be online now, and that’s probably not going to change anytime soon, there is still something quite special about a physical book. When the initial wave of Kindle fever kicked off in the early years of the 21st century, I...
Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
Al Gillies is a creative that doesn’t try to pigeonhole himself. Indeed, he describes himself not only as a photographer but as a content manager and even radio presenter. His photography work itself is just as eclectic as his skillset....
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
Draw is a UK-born architectural interiors and branding agency whose mission is to “bridge the gap between in-house design and creative studios.” From new interior schemes to visual identity and packaging design, it works with leading...
Posted by: Creativepool Editorial