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Richard Norton is a senior Creative Director who recently decided to leave his job to enter the freelance market place and become a creative A.I specialist. In this episode we discuss everything creativity as well as debating what the future of the creative industy may hold.

Andy Knell is the founder of JOLT diversity program, which every year, helps 30+ students from a variety of backgrounds onto an extensive paid work placement program and professional training initiative intended to help diversify the industry. In this episode, we discuss a number of topics regarding the hurdles to creating this change and suggest ways that companies and individuals may change so to work towards a better and fairer future for the creative industry.

Peter Dench, Peter is a videographer, presented, writer, author and creator. But is best known for his insightful photojournalism of culture, here in the UK and abroad. He’s the author of several solo books that contain both his commentary and pictures, those books include, The Dench Dozen, Dench does Dallas, The British abroad, A&E alcohol and England, and finally, England uncensored. His work has been commissioned by countless publications including the likes of The New Yorker and the Telegraph to name just a few.

In this episode myself and Thomas talk about how you can use creativity to do good in the world, and we also discuss many of the challenges that face creatives whose aspiration is to do good. We also discuss how to create lasting change in people.

In this episode Rory shares countless examples where behavioural science affects our behaviours and how we may question our assumptions to be more persuasive and affect our own personal decisions.

Zoe Miller is the founder and director of Double Trouble Gang, a womenswear label that started in October 2015 as a direct to consumer brand, that has since gone on to have over 100 stockists worldwide. With such success, the brand has been part of a number of prestigious collaborations, as well as being featured in many publications including The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Vouge, Who What Wear, Harpers Bazaar and Cosmopolitan to name just a few. To share with us the origin story, and the secret behind the brands incredible growth, we welcome Zoe to the show.

In this episode I share my submission to the British podcasting awards, which contains 5 snippets from episodes from throughout last year.

In this episode, I share three short principles that, if applied, could really help with career progression and getting your creative endeavours made.

Abram Games, who was born in Whitechapel in London, on the 29th of July 1914, and passed away in 1996. He was most well known for his huge body of iconic posters. Most notable of which, were created when Abram was appointed by the British government as the ‘official war poster artist of WW2’ where he created over 100 posters, with many going down in design history. On top of this, he also worked for some the biggest brands in the world, as well as creating many uncommission pieces that looked to provoke and inform the masses about meaningful causes. His work has inspired people like me, and no doubt many others to pursue the art of design and aspire to the principles to which legends like Abram upheld. To talk us through her father’s amazing story and to answer many of the questions I have about this great man, I welcome his daughter Naomi Games.

I talk to Imran Amed MBE about how he turned the Business of Fashion (BOF) from a blog on his couch, into a thriving business sustaining over 70 employees and attracting some of the biggest names in the fashion industry.

I talk with Jack du Rose about the digital currency landscape and what we can expect from this disruptive technology. We also talk about the benefits of decentralised systems and how we can use these new technologies to facilitate innovation. Jack du Rose is a creative polymath like no other. From studying a degree in English literature, he went on to become a world class jeweller including the making of notable projects like 'For The Love of God' by Damien Hirst, as well as his own Danger collection inspired by his hobby of collecting exotic animals. Jack has subsequently gone on to found two Ethereum based starts ups, Colony.io, a platform for setting up internet based organisations and Ownage.io which aids in the distribution, collection and trading of digital game content.

Mark Hahnel is the founder of Fig Share, an online digital repository where researchers can preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasheets, images, videos and more. Having just completed his PHD in stem cell biology at Imperial Collage London, Mark started Figshare inorder to promote open science, giving everyone the ability to freely access research papers from academics all over the world, in order to encourage breakthroughs and revolutionize the research community. Mark joins us to us about how he built the company, and some of the challenges he’s faced along the way.

Tom Oldham is a London based portrait photographer who’s shot portraits of musicians, sports stars and everyone in between. His work has appeared in the National portrait gallery and to name-drop just a few of his subjects, he’s photographed the likes of The Foo Fighters, Richard Branson, Usain Bolt, Alicia Keys, Mario Balotelli, Bradley Wiggins, Tinie Tempah, Arctic Monkeys, Dizzie Rascal, Professor Green, Gilbert & George, Jose Mourinho, Ed Sheeran, Elizabeth Troy, Henric Larson, Liam Howlett, Ces Fabrigas, Thierry Henry, and King Krule amoung others, as well as occasionally doing self initiated projects which has taken him to the mountains of Africa and beyond.

Simon Gosling is a Futurist at Unruly. In this episode we talk about all the future technologies that are expected to disrupt our world and the next phase of home automation technology.

Andy Donohoe is London based portrait photographer who's speciality is the use of natural light. His clients include: Hole and Corner, Telegraph Magazine, The Spaces, Betty Magazine, Another Escape, Oh Comely, Spindle Magazine, Virgin EMI, Urban Walkabout, Tyba, Mr Blacks, Michaelis Boyd Architects among many others.

In this episode producer, Adam Hallows, turns the tables and asks me questions regarding the lessons of 2017 after nearly 50 podcast interviews. We talk the best of business, creativity and technological innovation as well as suggesting some great resources to check out.

Established in 1997, Factory is a multi award winning sound design and audio facility based in London, whose highly skilled team of sound design specialists have created some of the most revered and award winning commercial work of the last two decades. Their work in commercials, online video, radio, film, Dolby surround, VR and experiential audio, have resulted in a tsunami of awards for seemingly every project that leaves the building. I’m joined by Lisette Nice who is the founding partner and Managing Director who started the company 20 years ago this year, and Lou Allen, who is Head of Production and the executive producer at Factory.

Tim Jones & James Cross are Creative Directors at BBC Creative, the multi award winning in house creative studio for the BBC. In this episode we talk about the studios hit Christmas commercial, The Supporting Act, as well as their journey from multi award wining creatives to Creative Directors of the UK's most historic and publicly supported TV channel.

Jo Wallace is a creative director at JWT, in this episode we talk through a piece that Jo has recently released for the drum which addresses a number of things the creative industry could be doing to address the lack of diversity in the workplace.

Ben Bailey Smith AKA Doc Brown. Doc’s achievements are vast and varied. Starting out as a British Rapper at the dawn of the British rap and grime scene, Doc went on to do stand up comedy where he performed at world famous venues like Live at The Apollo, as well as appearing in the Inbetweeners and working with Ricky Gervais on classic sketches like Equality street and the film Derek. Doc also has a successful acting career appearing in a number of hit TV shows including Mid Summer Murders, Law and order and Brief encounters among others. As if that wasn’t enough, this polymath of epic proportions has also casually hosted the Bafta’s, written and performed in a number of cult classic children’s shows and has somehow also managed to raise two, no doubt wonderful, girls, which have been the catalyst for a number of Doc’s more charitable endeavors including being the face for ‘Great Men’, a charity which looks to educate young men about the negative effects of gender stereotyping. Finally, in a bid to return to his routes and solidify his position of one of the greats of UK rap. Doc recently released a new album, called Stemma. A success among hardcore rap fans of today and yesteryear, doc coincided the release of the album with a UK tour that has been packing out arenas ever since. Doc, Ben, Welcome to the show, how are you?

Kirk Truman is the founder and editor of Fitzrovia Journal, a beautiful, free, magazine that has built a loyal following for providing insightful journalism about the residents residing in some of Londons bustling regions. In this interview I talk to Kirk about his journey to starting the publication, as well as how he obtained his infectious confidence at such a young age.

Dave Buonaguidi has worked in the advertising industry for over thirty years, in which time he’s cofounded three agencies, St Lukes, Karmarama, and most recently his new venture UN LTD Inc. He’s also worked at several great agencies, been a creative director at Channel Four and continues to this day to be an artist. On top of this, Dave’s also been a powerful voice and has spoken openly about all aspects of the industry from creative excellence, diversity, education and most recently, copyright and originality.

Its Nice That Founder, Will Hudson, joins us to talk about the highly popular creative inspiration and showcase site he created. Born out of a university project, the site went from just 100 views in it’s first month back in 2007 and has since organically grown to a over a million visits per month. This growth has resulted in a number of creative offshoots including the editorial publication, printed pages as well as a creative agency. We welcome will to tell us more about this great journey over the last 10 years.

Join me and 10 prior guests at The Hoxton, Holborn on the 20th of November in London. Connect and be inspired as we talk all things create and technology.

Henry Stuart is the Co-founder and CEO of Visualise VR, a, cutting edge, multi award winning virtual reality production company that has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world. I've got him on to talk about his predictions for the development of VR and what we are to suspect in this technology space, as well fining out how people can start to enter the VR space.

Dom McKenzie is a editorial illustrator who's worked for the likes of The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, The Observer, The Sunday Times, Boston Globe and TED among others.

Jacob Hawley started his stand up comedy career at the tender age of 21 and has gone on to perform hundreds of gigs all across the country. Finalist in the BBC New Comedy Awards of 2017, from a field of roughly 700 hopefuls to the final 6, which in the past has been the achievement of many well known British greats such as Peter Kay, Alan Carr and Lee Mack among others. Jacob has also won the King Gong award at The Comedy Store here in London and at just 25, has proven he’s well on his way to establishing himself as a regular face of comedy here in the city.

Edmund Fraser is a self reliant experimental photographer who has worked for the likes of Nowness, Adidas, iD, Dazed, Vice and Google among others. His work is constantly challenging the status quo and questioning the perception of perfectionism that is represented in our culture.

You may have noticed we haven't released any episodes for the last two weeks. And this announcement explains why.

My guest today is Andrew Diprose, the UK Creative director of Wired magazine, a globally distributed magazine that has a monthly distribution of roughly 50,000 issues and a readership of over quarter of a million people worldwide. Andrew has just won the designer of the year award at the Professional Publishers Association, or PPA for short so I wanted to talk to Andrew about his journey into the industry as well as his instrumental role in the shaping of Wired.

Melanie Mercier, CEO, of Loop and prior CEO of Nattr. In this episode we talk about what should be in your start up pitch deck as well as discussing all the insights Mell gained from her prior company.

Charlotte Austin is a behavioural psychologist and executive coach, working with organisations and individuals to design and deliver coaching and training to help clients create and work at their best. she is a practitioner for the Association of Business Psychologists. She's accredited by the International Coach Federation and The Coaching Academy. She's also a certified Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and as such, helps clients to deconstruct thoughts and behaviours and to build more successful ways of thinking and working. Charlotte has worked for a huge roster of clients including AKQA, Boots, BP, EDF, Channel 4, BBC, Innocent Drinks, Marks and Spencer, River Island, JP Morgan Chase & Co, HSBC, We Are Social and many more.

Roundtable discussion with Edward Turner, Digital Marketer @ Lingvist, a simple, addictive and fast way of learning languages.

Alan Kitching

Interview with Colophon Type Foundry

Russell was named in Campaign’s Top 10 Creative leaders for 2015. During his career he’s won more creative awards than you can shake a memory stick at including the coveted Black pencil at D&AD, six yellow pencils and seven Cannes Gold lions.

Rosie Arnold is a creative partner and Head of Art at AMV BBDO. Which for those that don’t know, is a highly respected advertising agency headquartered in London. Prior to that she was at BBH, where she was the 11th ever employee and remained there for 33 years at a time when BBH was considered by many to be the greatest independent ad agency in the world. BBH founder John Hegarty, has been quoted saying’ Rosie has been one of the stars of BBH’s rise to fame, a creative thinker of outstanding qualities.’ Outside of her day job Rosie also became only the second female to become a D&AD president in the organisations history, and is also a figurehead of equality in the workplace, as well as an educator and supporter of emerging creative talent.    

Beri Cheetham is the Executive Creative Director at The Gate World Wide. Previously at Leo Burnett, Beri is the creative mind behind an eclectic mix of creative work that has amassed more than 150 international awards. Beri talks about his rise in the creative industry as well as his philosophies and plans for turning round the reputation of The Gate London.

Tim Lindsay is the CEO of D&AD, the creative educational charity and prestigious advertising awards organisation. In this episode we talk about the state of Advertising and how it is likely to evolve with influences from technology and trends towards freelancing. We talk about the issues surrounding diversity and breaking into the industry among a host of other topics.

In this episode I discuss the five ways in which advertising influences our decisions. I use snippets from well known brands that we're all familiar with the hope that you to can implement these strategies and approaches in building your own brand.

In this episode I explore creative anxiety and offer suggestions for ways that people may look to tackle the problem

In this episode I attempt to shed light on 10 personal, less conventional, tips that I use to keep my level of happiness consistent.

In this episode I talk through a strategy I've formulated called the three P's, which I believe, can result in a rich and prosperous life.

In this episode I share my theory regarding the importance of choosing our sources of input, and why it's important for our personal development and success in life.

Myself and Edward Turner decide to have a few drinks and talk about numerous issues that have intrigued us over the last few months.

Chrissie & Adam are a creative team who recently attended one of my creative advertising bootcamps. They subsequently worked on a satirical brand ambassador idea that they attempted to seed online on the build up to the Trump election and we explore the process of execution, as well as the struggles they went through in getting the idea off the ground in such a short space of time.

In this episode I talk all aspects of the digital media landscape with David Pugh Jones, the Commercial & Brand Strategy Director at The Smalls film maker network. David is also ex Buzzfeed Brand Strategist and worked as Global Creative Strategy Director for Microsoft for close to ten years.

In this episode I talk about cognitive overload, and the due diligence I perform before taking on any project. I point out the three clear project distinctions, and how I approach each one in order to progress.

I catch up with two of the prior students from the creative advertising bootcamp that I ran early in 2016 and they talk about their progress since the event and they offer advice to other graduates entering the creative industry. Note* Sorry about the audio quality. I set up in a rush and I failed to fix the levels.

In this episode I talk about a long term strategy that people can embrace to become better at having original and more creative ideas in the long term. I also touch on how best to position yourself to bring these ideas into the world, in a society where good ideas are abundant.