Photo by Kaboompics .com on Pexels.com Over the last couple of decades, the design industry – if such a neatly defined thing even still exists - has seen more change than at almost any time since the advertising boom in the 1950s; when many people, emerging optimistically from post-WW2 austerity, finally had some money to …
Leon Aronofsky | 03:00
Leon Aronofsky jolted awake, twitching and confused in what seemed to him in that moment to be the centre of a huge but rapidly receding explosion. Although, as he hadn’t really spent much time with explosions living in north-west London, he couldn’t be entirely sure: he struggled to make sense of such an extraordinary crashing …
Running on Empty
So a couple of years back, in the old days, when we were still allowed to mix with other human beings, I had the somewhat unsettling experience of sitting in a giant former gas cylinder, repurposed as a public stage and events venue in Amsterdam. In this case, turned over to a mixed crowd of …
What’s With All the Rocks?
"...and when someone throws a rock at a Jew, who is going to pick it up and ask: “Hold on, can we just be a clear? Was this an anti-Zionist rock or an antisemitic rock?" – Daniel Finkelstein, “Anti-semitism hasn’t been an issue for me. Now it is“,The Times, August 21st 2014 [this piece was originally …
Some words – and a picture
Oliver is a Creative Director for a global Digital Consultancy. He's spent quite a lot of his working life designing human-centred products, services and experiences for some of the world's leading retail and financial services brands. In the non-work bits of his life life, Oliver rattles around north London trying to keep up with the …
Words & Pictures 