Along with my colleagues Andy Pemberton and James Lumley, I’m presenting at this top-notch event next week. Our agency Furthr has teamed up with White Light Media to challenge your expectations with a provocative line-up of speakers with backgrounds in business investment, disruptive thinking, brand development… and rock music. It’s an invitation-only, free event for senior […]
The Big Issue has won the prestigious 2015 PPA Cover of The Year award with this powerful image of former Sergeant Rick Clement. The cover was designed by art director Scott Maclean and the photo taken by rock star turned photographer, Bryan Adams.
Here’s a video from WWDC 2015 where Apple introduce their brand new font, San Francisco. It’s similar to Helvetica, but with several key differences that create a warmer, more gender neutral feel. In my opinion it draws heavily on the success of Proxima Nova discussed on this blog at length a few weeks ago.
This is incredible. Really long, but feels really true. What is code? Coca Cola’s marketing boss on the ‘artificial divide between creativity and effectiveness’. It’s a pretty good story. What’s next for publishers and video, decent roundup here. The end of web design as we know it. Great story about trust in content, my favourite subject.
Here’s the June Issue of Australian Elle, which brilliantly demonstrates the value of a split run subscriber cover. According to the editor, this wasn’t planned, it was just that the model needed to breast feed whilst she was on the shoot. So she did!
Last Thursday saw the Gav Aid 2015 Pop Quiz completely fill the Troxy theatre in London’s East End. Over 800 contestants turned out in honour of Gavin Reeve-Daniels, who died of pancreatic cancer in September last year. Gavin did however attend the first Gav Aid event in 2013, having been diagnosed just a few months […]
Most people never read more than 25% of even their favourite magazine. However, many editors are totally blind to this fact, insisting on getting every single word of their deathless prose wedged into the page. Invoking higher authority, this often produces nothing more than a sophisticated internal memo that no one will ever read. As […]
The murder of Charlie Hebdo’s editorial team is just beyond belief. How to respond to such an appalling tragedy is now something every editor, journalist and blogger has had to deal with. This is The Independent‘s front page, which rather than focus on the violence, demonstrates the power of a single cartoon to carry the story. […]
Wyatt is going to be speaking at Magfest 2014, the Scottish PPA’s eagerly awaited conference on September 5th. He’s The New Yorker‘s first ever Creative Director, as well as having a storied CV behind him, with roles at Wired, Vibe, Esquire, Oprah Magazine and TV Guide. Here’s an exclusive podcast interview I did with him […]
This post was first published on The Media Briefing earlier this week. Buzzfeed is now considered one of the world’s most innovative news organisation. It’s value is currently over $1b, getting close to the likes of The New York Times ($1.28b), and dwarfing other digital news sites. So it’s no surprise that more start-ups are […]
