83: Stopping ad agencies becoming the least creative places on earth with Laura Jordan Bambach, Chief Creative Officer at Grey London

This week, we whizzed back to the 90s and stuck out our thumb on the side of the information superhighway, hoping to catch a ride with award-winning creative and digital pioneer, Laura Jordan Bambach. Currently President and Chief Creative Officer at Grey London, Laura is a total ad land powerhouse, dishing out truly creative work for some of the world’s biggest brands. Topics covered in this episode somehow span; zombies, Nine Inch Nails, industrial quantities of chicken breast, fixing tractors, the “Geekgirl” hyperzine, the early days of the net, how we can prevent agencies from becoming the least creative places on earth, an infinite robotic knitting machine, a deep dive into service stations, and why her mum has a pixelated clitoris hung on the wall. Dial-up the World Wide Web and listen. Bee-bee-bee-dsshhhh.///// You can find Laura on Twitter  Check out She Says   Find out more about Grey  Laura will be speaking very soon at TBD Conference   Spot the #SheepMask in the Macmillan Infi-Knit campaign    Read Laura’s article on “Preventing agencies from becoming the least creative places on earth”    And here’s some of the ground-breaking art from Linda Dement      Timestamps (02:00) - Quick fire questions  (04:41) - First ever job  (11:20) - Getting into digital art and the early days of the web   (18:17) - Starting her own agency and living in an art commune (25:37) - Have we relied too much on tech at the expense of creativity?  (31:12) - Preventing agencies from becoming the least creative places on earth (36:00) - Listener questions (including one from Nick Ellis) (44:02) - 4 pertinent posers   Laura’s book recommendations are: Mr. Eternity by Elizabeth Meyers and Roy Williams  Hard Boiled Wonderland by Haruki Murakami   Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami /////