Top 50 companies and people inspiring the creative sector, according to Working Not Working members
The creative network has ditched its annual list of the top 50 companies to work for, because this year it “didn’t sit right,” opting instead to champion innovators in the field.
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Since 2014, Working Not Working has published an annual list of the Top 50 companies that creatives want to work for, informed by a survey of its international membership. And while audiences were always keen to know which brands had featured, the list had recently become a little predictable, with Google, Nike, Apple, Droga5, Wieden + Kennedy, Netflix and Disney unsurprisingly recurring. So, rather than “releasing last year’s list in a slightly different order,” WNW says wryly in a statement, this year’s survey asked members to instead name the companies who’d most impressed them and individuals who’d most inspired them in the past 12 months. As a result, the list is complete
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The One Club expands One School to Chicago and Atlanta
Due to overwhelming demand, The One Club for Creativity is doubling the scope of its One School free portfolio programme for Black creatives with expansion to Chicago and Atlanta.
In combination with its existing New York and Los Angeles schools, the programme will introduce a minimum of 120 new Black creatives into the industry this year. That will follow the initial 30 NY and LA One School graduates from last Fall.
Applications for all four markets are now being accepted, with a deadline of 7 March 2021.
The new schools will be co-run in Chicago by a pair of top creatives at Burrell Communications Lewis Williams, chief creative officer and Terrence Burrell, VP, creative director and in Atlanta by Sherman Winfield, executive creative director at VMLY&R.
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