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A moment with The Creative Condition founder Ben Tallon as he shares creativity-led thoughts, insights, lessons, feelings, and observations for the duration of one brew (hot beverage).
Today, deepfake Steveb Bartlett and the beginning of the end of the internet, Tala Rae Schlossberg, local wilding, council emails, and getting back to tribal enrichment.
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Our cultures and societies are changing at a rate we were not designed to adapt to or comprehend. Our minds can rage from wild optimism to pessimism and nihilism 100s of times a day.
What does this mean for creativity, art, and design?
I'm joined by the VP of Innovation and Strategy at Marks, Jennifer Murtell, fresh off the fantastic work with female healthcare brand MUSA, with an entirely female team. She recently wrote a piece on the topic for The Drum on 'Why we need women designing for women'.
We get deep into our changing times and what it means to use our creativity in a commercial environment.
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Simon Dixon, co-founder of DixonBaxi posted about the importance of designing your own career to avoid someone shaping it in an ill-fitting way.
It blew my mind, succinctly capturing so many universal creativity truths and bringing about a personal revelation that through my coaching, this is exactly what I'm helping my clients to do.
But what does it mean, and why is it so vital to career and life fulfillment?
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The original post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simonsdixon_design-the-career-you-want-to-live-if-you-activity-7315761669303926784-4Ngd?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAU0R0IB77CfZWGalbMufEjVc_KIOl3hdbY
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I don't know much about video games, but the medium intrigues me, so I'm joined by Oddbug Studio's art director and environment artist Martin Reimann fresh off the hugely successful launch of Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter.
I throw a lot of naive questions Martin's way about the role of a video game art director, the origins of both Oddbug and Tails of Iron, and we get into many aspects of creativity, passion, and the trials and tribulations of managing the mind in the creative process.
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Visit Oddbug at https://www.oddbug.co.uk/
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Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
AI rageA loss of mental balanceTala Schlossberg's wonderful comment on beauty in the darkThe need for jeopardy rememberedAs ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
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In our 1000mph lives, it's so hard to listen and be heard, but deep listening is a critical part of the creative process. Being heard makes for unity, healthy relationships, and human value.
I'm joined by the author of the brilliant Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing, Rageshri Dhairyawan. Rageshri felt unheard while suffering extreme endometriosis pain, which planted the seed of the idea that became the book. She wanted to use her position and experience as a doctor, researcher, and consultant in HIV and sexual health medicine to call for better doctor - patient relationships and continuity of care.
We talk creativity, the value of the arts to tell stories, what happens when people are both heard, and unheard in and beyond healthcare and much more.
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Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
The joy of being lostThe inaugural Paradiso FestivalThe Burrills at breakfastA found book impactAs ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
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Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
Managing our 'insurmountables'The joy of childish humour and Looney Tunes villains'The heels': common creativity villainsWorld book day – magic or consumerist tosh?As ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
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Amie McNee is the founder of 'Inspired Collective', where she supports people in becoming their inner artist. Her new book We Need Your Art! Stop Messing Around and Make Something is out on Penguin Books, and she joins The Creative Condition to share her story.
Amie is a huge advocate for artistic expression as a missing pillar of understanding in the human condition, and her work to challenge this tragic oversight is awesome.
We trade viewpoints and stories and marvel over what's possible in a society where creativity is better understood and embraced.
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https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462403/we-need-your-art-by-mcnee-amie/9781529937015
https://inspiredcollective.com
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Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
A time-slip in PrestonLosing Ken Garland and my time with himCovering up news headline panels on vulnerable daysThe wonder and imagination in boring church servicesA growing obsession with storytellingAs ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
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A bonus shot following the full interview with LOVE founder Dave Palmer in which he offers balanced thoughts on the opportunity and the threat posed by artificial intelligence.
Hear our full conversation on episode 257.
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LOVE is a 80+ strong agency that specialises in delivering diverse, but complementary design-led solutions for global brands across brand strategy and design, identity design, packaging design, spaces, comms, immersive and activations.
Its founder, Dave Palmer shares not just the story of LOVE's evolution since its 2001 roots, but a lifetime of leading with creativity, the humanity, the chaos, and the euphoria of it all.
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Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
The unpredictability of a career that leads to drawing on Olympic bras in ChinaThe persisting intimidation attached to the word 'creativity' at all levelsSpace litter and a Galactic imaginationA love of antagonists, graphic activism, and Pogus Caesar's photographyA mucky treasure hunt and the value of the weekend selfAs ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
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Pogus Caesar is a national treasure.
His many projects as a photographer, director, artist, and archivist transcend language and defy perfectionism in the way great art should.
The sheer humanity and honesty in his images spoke to me, and I needed to hear his story.
Those iconic images from the 1985 Handsworth riots fired me up through my love of activism through artistic expression. His images of cross-cultural friendships are profound, and we discuss his early experiences of moving from St Kitts to Birmingham in 1953, and his early cultural affections.
Pogus is candid in his vulnerability as a creator, sharing stories of observing people commenting on his work in galleries, and how the best we can do is offer a little piece of ourselves.
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https://www.instagram.com/poguscaesar/?hl=en-gb
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Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
A tough week of financial panicThe personality clues in the culture we're drawn toThe human fundamental of listening and being heard for mental wellbeingThe battle to be trusted with a diverse skillset in a title-based marketYoung life and silent death: a motorbike in the graveyardMusings on joining dots and using the world as our art school in a world obsessed with automationAs ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
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Content writer Caroline Christie shares her thoughts on the time a research facility funded by America’s largest telecommunications organisation became a studio of some of New York’s most renowned and avant-garde artists.
We're discussing the need for bigger thinking and cross-pollination of artists with other industries to resolve our collective problems and promote broader creativity.
Caroline wrote an article for Little Atoms on Bell Labs and EAT (Experiments of Art and Technology), and their work with the likes of Andy Warhol and John Cage among many others, and we get into the idea in a big way.
https://littleatoms.com/article/how-att-shaped-modern-art
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Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
Lively children fighting and why it's healthyAn anxiety explosion and what I learned about structures and routinesBoxing Day 1997 and magic in utter boredom and frustrationEnergy diversity and why it can help creative businessesBaby Gorilla: what a silly imaginative character for the kids has done for my own creativityAs ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
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In this edition of The Creativity Diary:
Listening properly. Some reflections after reading Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan's Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing.
Reading wide and reading well: why only reading about the topic you're trying to master doesn't work for everyone, and is not conducive to creativity.
I was the only person in the world to see this sunrise and why that reminds us of our value and unique power.
An uncomfortable eccentric in Ryman Stationery and shaking up the peace.
The struggle to title myself, and why living in a big tech world demands flexibility in the application of creativity.
A strange vicarious joy in the idling of a friend at Christmas, and what it tells me.
The wild imaginations of children and what we adults can learn.
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The final episode of The Creative Condition for 2024 is a deep dive into the lessons of the world's greatest-ever polymath Leonardo Da Vinci. And who better to present them than a Fly-fisher of over 40 years and author of the amazing Fly Fishing with Leonardo Da Vinci – David Ladensohn!?
Leonardo saw no boundaries between all of life's wonders and spent his life exploring them to identify the patterns. A man who painted the Mona Lisa, designed bridges centuries ahead of the capabilities to build them, envisioned the helicopter, and, connecting him with David, obsessively studied water's ways.
He's endlessly fascinating to me and teaches us so much about creativity without limits, so David and I see out the year with a mazy discussion about all of this and more.
Merry Christmas to my beloved listeners, and a creative new year! Please tell a friend about the show, and subscribe on your preferred platform!
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The second installment of The Creative Condition podcast's 'The Creativity Diary'.
The maturity trap: why an encounter with a police officer, my dog, and a tennis ball conjured a 14-year-old 'fitting in' mindset.The inarticulable sense of belonging somewhere at the right time.Appearance and perceptionAI bots commenting on posts and the subsequent etiquette dilemma as AI ups its bot game The importance of getting the house in order before trying to createReappraising my relationship with social media and the impact of getting older on deciding where time is spent
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