Month: April 2013
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From AdGrads to AdMission
I'm a big believer in anything that helps support the young talent in our industry. It's one of the reasons I think Squared is so good. Set up a bunch of young ad folk for no other reason than to provide an independent, practical resource for graduates and others who want to come into our…
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‘Find What You Love and Let It Kill You’
"We seem to have evolved into a society of mourned and misplaced creativity… Charles Bukowski, hero of angsty teenagers the world over, instructs us to 'find what you love and let it kill you'. Suicide by creativity is something perhaps to aspire to in an age where more people know Katie Price better than the Emperor concerto." This piece,…
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On The Future Of Feature Writing
Multi-chapter, multimedia, highly immersive digital features from publishers seem to be becoming quite the thing. The latest is the rather lovely ESPN Grantland story of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which follows on from their similar feature on The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis. Then there was the beautiful Pitchfork cover story on…
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The 3D Printed Building
I've written a couple of times about Enrico Dini, the Italian who has developed a 3D printing machine that is big enough to print houses. At Next Berlin I saw a talk from architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars (from Universe Architecture) whose vision is to take this technology and 3D print not just a small dwelling, but…
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Teams That Ship
I've been known to be something of a cynic about tech conferences but yesterday at NEXT Berlin was rich in thought provoking ideas and different points of view about the stuff that's challenging norms and is likely to make a difference in the future. One of the highlights from a day of sessions dense with…
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Google Firestarters 8: The Agency Innovation Conundrum – The Event
The great and the good from UK planning were at last night's Google Firestarters event to hear 8 rapid fire talks on the subject of agency innovation from 8 of the smartest minds I know: Patricia McDonald, Anjali Ramachandran, Antony Mayfield, Phil Adams, Beeker Northam, Glyn Britton, Graeme Wood and Nadya Powell. I made a…
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Fraggl Update
As you'll know, I'm working with the smart folk at Adaptive Lab to build a Twitter curation app called Fraggl. We've been a little quiet for a couple of weeks but things have been happening. First up, we have a logo (yay!). We've also been working through (and incorporating some of the feedback we've had) for some…
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On Meaning
“Life is without meaning. You bring meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” Joseph Campbell Thanks to Swissmiss
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Google Firestarters 8: The Agency Innovation Conundrum
Google Firestarters is back! A new year for Firestarters and an excellent subject to kick it off. There are few subjects that have elicited quite such debate as the why,what,how of innovation in agencies. Every agency says that they are innovative but what does that really mean? Are agencies innovative at all? Should agencies have…