If you’re a creative person, perhaps someone who makes a living from their imagination, then there’s a good chance that you were first inspired to pick up a pen, a camera, or a paintbrush by looking at the some of the best work in your chosen medium. You encountered the…
There is a great deal of mysticism about the creative process. And justifiably so. No one truly knows where great ideas come from. The trouble with this mysticism is that it’s not terribly helpful when you know you have to come up with an idea quickly, say in response to…
I’m not a fan of pitch templates. There is no surer way to deaden the vitality and spark of a creative idea than to compress it awkwardly into a pre-formatted PowerPoint or Keynote document.
The best pitches are those that are as creative as the ideas they’re selling.
Often a…
I’m on a deadline. One of the most important deadlines I’ve ever had. In May I have to deliver my first book. The book is about creative demons. …
For the last few years I’ve immersed myself in the lives of great artists, writers, performers and musicians. I’ve read memoirs and biographies; listened to radio programmes and podcasts; watched documentaries and biopics. …
2020 sucked in so many ways. And yet in spite of all that happened — or maybe in some ways because of all that happened — we saw some great creative work. …
When I design an object and people say, ‘Oh, well done!’, I unfailingly ask myself, ‘Where did I go wrong?’ If everybody likes it, it means I have confirmed the existing reality and this is precisely what I don’t want.
Enzo Mari was not afraid to be considered a contrarian…
On January 29th 1968 the New York Times carried a review of an album by an up and coming musician. Unfortunately for the aspiring artist it was not a positive one. …
This month, as the daylight hours diminish, I’ve found myself making headway on the piles of books which accumulate, quietly over time, like colourful stalagmites, around our house. And there is one in particular which has delighted and appalled me in equal measure.
It is a book about books. If…
Of all the projects I’ve been involved with since my career in design and branding kicked off some twenty years ago, there are few I feel as fondly towards as the Studiocanal cinema ident. I remember the day we received the brief; the rush of excitement cut through with trepidation…
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