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Richard Norton: Creative A.I, Cultural Provocation and the Future of the Creative Industry

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: How to tackle diversity in the creative industries.

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 reguarding the hurdles to creating this change, and suggest ways that companies and individuals may to change so to work towards this positive change.

Andy Knell: How to tackle diversity in the creative industries.

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: Photojournalism, British Culture & Politics

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...

Thomas Kolster: Goodvertising - Using creativity to do good in the world.

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.

Rory Sutherland: Applying Behavioural Science To Advertising And The Art Of Persuasion

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.

Rory Sutherland: Applying Behavioural Science To Advertising And The Art Of Persuasion

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 - Founder of Double Trouble Gang - Womenswear fashion brand.

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,...

Show Highlights of 2017 - Podcast Of The Year - Awards Submission

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

3 Simple Principles To Apply In Life

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

Naomi Games: The work & philosophies of Abram Games, wartime poster artist.

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 pie...

Imran Amed MBE: How a loyal following can be turned into a thriving subscription based business.

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.

Jack Du Rose: On the state of cryptocurrency, ethereum and decentralised networks with co-founder of Colony.io and decentralisation expert.

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 ow...

Mark Hahnel: On how he built Figshare, an online digital depository for scientific research, by scratching his own itch.

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...

Tom Oldham: How celebrity photographer, Tom Oldham, deals with working under challenging constraints.

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, ...

Simon Gosling: Futurist at Unruly, speaking about the future of home technology.

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: Using natural light to take beautiful portrait photographs.

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.

Andy Donohoe: Using natural light to take beautiful portrait photographs.

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.

Lessons of 2017 with Ricky Richards & Adam Hallows

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.

Factory: Creating iconic sounds and a wildly successful business with Founder and Head of Production at Factory UK.

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 foundi...

Tim Jones & James Cross: Creating a hit Christmas commercial Tim and James, Creative Directors at BBC Creative.

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: Deep dive on how diversify in the creative industries with Jo Wallace, Creative Director at JWT

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 Baily Smith, AKA Doc Brown, on his creative journey from underground rapper to stand up comedian and actor.

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...

Kirk Truman: How to create a successful free publication with Kirk Truman, founder of Journal.

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: On how to build a creative agency and follow your passion.

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 recentl...

Will Hudson: On how he built It's Nice That into an influential creative platform.

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 grea...

Podcast Event Announcement

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: The Future of Virtual Reality with Henry Stuart, CEO of Visualise VR

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: The art of editorial illustration.

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: On his journey to become a stand up comedian

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 ...

Edmund Fraser: On how experiential work can lead to big commercial opportunities.

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.

A Special Announcement

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

Andrew Diprose: The poser of magazines with Wired UK Creative Director

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: On how to get investment & build an App

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: Behavioural Psychologist & Executive Coach

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 mo...

Edward Turner: On how to become famous

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

Alan Kitching - On the art of letterpress design

Alan Kitching

Colophon Type Foundry: How to launch a successful design studio.

Interview with Colophon Type Foundry

Russell Ramsey: How to create a great ad with Russell Ramsey ECD at JWT

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 : Changing perceptions in advertising with head of Art at AMV BBDO and D&AD president

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 o...

Beri Cheetham: Turning round a creative agency with Beri Cheetham, ECD at The Gate London

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: The future of advertising with the CEO of D&AD

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.

Ricky Richards: What is Advertising

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.

Ricky Richards: On how to deal with creative anxiety

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

Ricky Richards: On the pursuit of happiness

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

Ricky Richards: I want to be rich.

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.

Ricky Richards: On the influence of inputs

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.

Piet Grobler: How to become a picture book illustrator.

Piet Grobler: How to become a picture book illustrator.

Edward Turner: Getting drunk and chatting shit.

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