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Where are the female creative directors?
I’ve been art directing for 10 years: early on, with the words ‘art director’ in my actual job title, and for the rest of that time, organically. My experience as a copywriter is that we’re exposed to the strategy of a brief so we get the context. You can’t write copy without that understanding, as […]
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A return
I’m doing a strategy course. Part of that is relearning what an ‘idea’ is. Too often, we confuse thoughts with ideas, or consider linear thinking to be as idea-generating as lateral thinking. Orderly thoughts – linear – concern related things that go together. New ideas come at the point where two unrelated things collide. That’s […]
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Recent Writings
No, I haven’t been completely buried – posts for Yell are still rolling out a few times a month. Not with the regularity I used to manage but I’m doing my best. Lay off, OK? I’ve spent a lot of this year learning new stuff, so my articles have reflected what I’m encountering/researching/rejecting at the […]
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Revolutionary Self-care
There’s a woman in this world called Gala Darling, who exists solely to sell you her concept of glitter-sequin-fluff-woo. Crystals, affirmations and the like. While I could never be a follower of a leader such as she, her blog is where I first saw the words radical self-love. It’s a vile, girls’ mag sort of […]
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Hey, I’m Alive!
Yes, am. Busy but alive. What’s changed (apart from everything)? I started my new job, I moved into my new house and I discovered a new tolerance for dogs. I was spending a lot of time with neighbour-dog during our move and fell in love with her. I also work on a farm now, where dogs […]
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