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The Creativity Diary Entry 9: Paradiso Festival, cenotes swim meets, a found book, and the joy of being lost

The Creativity Diary Entry 8: The insurmountables, Looney Tunes villains, humour, and managing our ’heels’.

Ep 258: WE NEED YOUR ART! Author and creativity coach Amie McNee on art as a pillar of humanity

The Creativity Diary Entry 7: Losing Ken Garland, a time-slip in Preston, and storytelling obsession

AI: The opportunity and the threat with LOVE founder Dave Palmer

Ep 257: LOVE Creative founder Dave Palmer shares decades of creative industry experience

The Creativity Diary Entry 6: Chinese space bras, fear of a word, and innovation in outdoor drinking

Ep 256: Pogus Caesar. The creativity behind the camera!

The Creativity Diary Entry 5: The graveyard rider, a tough week, joining dots in an automation obsessed world, and the clues in the culture we’re draw...

Ep 255: Corporations funding creativity?! Caroline Christie on when it happened

The Creativity Diary Entry 4: Anxiety, a disordered mess, and kids fighting over Haribo

The Creativity Diary Entry 3: Listening properly, a sunrise for one, and ludicrous big Santa slippers

Ep 254: Leonardo Da Vinci... lessons from the ultimate polymath and nature discussed with fly fisher David Ladensohn

The Creativity Diary: Entry 2

Ep 253: Disney’s ex Head of Innovation and Creativity Duncan Wardle

Ep 252: The Dark Night Survival Kit

Ep 251: Synoptic Office, the New York-based design agency bringing art and culture to more people through tech

The Creativity Diary: Entry 1

Ep 250: UK grey! Talking to applied colour psychology expert Justine Fox about colour in the urban environment and its impact on mental health

Ep 249: Why watching The Walking Dead gives me comfort and what it tells us about creativity

Ep 248: The personal brand. Standing out by being yourself to the extreme.

Ep 247: Drawing, neuroscience and big stories with Natalka Design’s Natalia Talkowska

What we learned about creativity from: The New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka

HIGHLIGHTS: Episode 246 with The New Yorker staff writer Kyla Chayka

Ep 246: The New Yorker staff writer and author of ’Filterworld’ Kyle Chayka on the death of creativity by algorithm

Ep 245: Creating your vision. How visualising your creative utopia can create forward motion and flow

What we learned about creativity from: Mentor and artist Joanna Henly

Ep 244: Joanna Henly on change, understanding the self to help others, and balancing mentoring with her art

HIGHLIGHTS of: Joanna Henly on change, understanding the self to help others, and balancing mentoring with her art

What we learned about creativity from: Professor Carlos Moreno

HIGHLIGHTS of: designing creative, community & human first cities with Professor Carlos Moreno

Ep 243: Designing creative, community & human first cities with Professor Carlos Moreno

What we learned about creativity from: Incoming TBWA Global CEO Erin Riley

HIGHLIGHTS of episode 242 with TBWA Incoming global CEO Erin Riley

Ep 242: TBWA incoming Global CEO Erin Riley is Fighting for Creativity!

’The Anatomy of Creativity’ map is here!

What we learned about creativity from: multidisciplinary artist Sara Prinsloo

HIGHLIGHTS of episode 241: Sara Prinsloo on roots, personality, and telling an authentic story

Ep 241: Roots, personality, and telling an authentic story with multidisciplinary artist Sara Prinsloo

Ep 240 part 2: Dirty Energy

Ep 240 part 1: The Power of Naughty

What we learned about creativity from: Historian Professor Carl Chinn (MBE)

Ep 239: Being working class! Historian professor Carl Chinn on the class ceiling in the arts and society

HIGHLIGHTS of ’Being working class!’ Historian Professor Carl Chinn (MBE) on the class ceiling in the arts and society

What we learned about creativity from: Ragged Edge founder Max Ottignon

HIGHLIGHTS of Ragged Edge founder Max Ottignon live at D&AD New Blood Festival

Ep 238: The creative opportunity in the age of convergence! Ragged Edge founder Max Ottignon live at D&AD Festival

What we learned about creativity from chemical engineer in renewable energy Yasmin Ali

Ep 237: Power Up! Innovation, imagination and ideas in renewable energy with chemical engineer Yasmin Ali

HIGHLIGHTS of episode 237 with Power Up! author and chemical engineer in renewable energy Yasmin Ali

What we learned about creativity from: Stephen Bliss

HIGHLIGHTS of episode 236 with former Rockstar Game lead artist Stephen Bliss

Ep 236: Stephen Bliss has a dark new bunny. From Rockstar and GTA art to ’Thumper’ comic via ’Fear City’

HIGHLIGHTS of former Rockstar Games Senior Artist Stephen Bliss in Brooklyn

What we learned about creativity from: Judoka Alex Paske

HIGHLIGHTS of The creativity of Olympic gold with former rugby 7s Fiji and England coach Ben Ryan

HIGHLIGHTS of episode 235, flow states in fight sports and adaptive creativity with judoka Alex Paske

Ep 235: Flow states in fight sports, adaptive creativity, and mastering our art with judoka Alex Paske

What we learned about creativity from: Digital and social media trainer Andrew Miles Davis

HIGHLIGHTS of Episode 234, digital and social media marketing with Andrew Miles Davis

Ep 234: Social media, digital marketing, AI, authenticity and algorithms with trainer Andrew Miles Davis

HIGHLIGHTS of episode 75 with Sir John Hegarty. The power of creativity in the digital age

Ep 233: A very human creative project and why it balanced my AI terror

What we learned about creativity from: Brandon Consultants’ founder Richard Taylor

Ep 232: Commercial Creativity learnings with Brandon Consultants founder Richard Taylor

HIGHLIGHTS of episode 232 with Brandon founder Richard Taylor on commercial creativity learnings

What we learned about creativity from: UNICEF’s Elinor Samuelsson

HIGHLIGHTS of UNICEF Office of Innovation’s Elinor Samuelsson

Ep 231: UNICEF Office of Innovation’s Elinor Samuelsson on the role of creativity, imagination, strategy, empathy, and design in helping the world’s m...

Ep 230: Invisible Hands - trusting instinct and flow when logic says no

AI TERMS EMERGENCY

HIGHLIGHTS of episode 229 with BBC football commentator Alistair Bruce-Ball

5 things we learned about creativity from: BBC 5 Live football commentator Alistair Bruce-Ball

Ep 229: Football commentator Alistair Bruce-Ball on sports broadcasting, responsive creativity, adapting in the moment, and owning your personality

Ep 228: The problem with perfectionism in a creative environment with University of Chicago professor & author of ’Flawed’ Greg Chasson

Ep 227: DRAMA! A conversation with drama teacher Abby Lucas about the untapped mental health & education fuel

Ep 226: Shoplifting Ian Wright. What my Woolworth’s ban taught me about creativity

Ep 225: Collaborate. Don’t gatekeep. Abi Everett (Evergooood) & Steph Martin (Stuff) on collaboration

Ep 224: RISK! And why it’s critical for creative growth and big ideas

Ep 223: Stefan Sagmeister live at OFFF Festival 2024 - Long Term Thinking

Ep 222: Mindful Creative & Creativity for Sale with Radim Malinic

Ep 221: Optimism. Five tips to feel better and create optimally

Ep 220: A guide to publishing a book independently

Ep 219: Who is on your zombie apocalypse team? Professor Athena Aktipis on joy in vulnerability, zombie teams & surviving wild times

Ep 218: The thread - why into the unknown is the only way to success

Ep 217: The patterns that rule us. Taking control with Tye Glover, founder of Think Different Nation

Ep 216: Are graduate and junior job demands damaging creativity? With LOVE Creative’s Eve Warren

Ep 215: Community’s role in the creative process with Birmingham Design Festival’s Dan and Luke

Ep 214: The comedian, psychedelics, mental health, and creativity with Negin Farsad

Ep 213: Gush Mundae, Bulletproof agency founder on violence, adversity, hustling and heart

Creative stories #4: The Hockney Soldier. How art and design books tell our story

Ep 212: Creativity in times of war with Ukrainian design community activist Olha Protasova

Creative Stories #3: Simon Schrödinger. A cat story for overthinkers.

Ep 211: The artist’s way of life with Chris Pyrate, Washington DC-based artist

Ep 210: The creativity checklist part 2 - structure for optimal creativity

Ep 209: Sarah Boris. From the Barbican & Phaidon to setting up her own art & design studio

Ep 208: The creativity checklist part 1 - optimal creativity for the new year

Ep 207: Idling for better creativity & a fulfilling life with ’Idler’ Magazine editor Tom Hodkinson

Question 1: When starting again, how valid is a portfolio full of personal work?

Ep 206: Murugiah, interdimensional artist *not* talking h0rseshit about ever-evolving creativity