Most designers are failures. They don’t read your copy
Design can make or break a piece of work. In this highly visual, information soaked world, there are almost as many designers as writers. Everyone and anyone can claim to be one. But there are more bad ones than good ones. Translation: most designers are failures....
Who filled my creative well with rocks?
Life seems to have got a little out of control. Go-slow lanes have disappeared, there’s no fallow time in the year, fruit and veges are always in season, our homes and lives are never-endingly lit (by the eerie pixel light of small and large screens), our...
Are you maker, a user or a destroyer?
I come from a long line of makers. My Nana knitted like an angel. My Mum is a brilliant crafter – creating magical dolls, clothes and quilts, knitting and sewing her way through her life; a journey that to this day has yet to stop. My Dad was also...
3 phases of acceptance of a brilliant new idea: Revelation, resistance, religion
Are great ideas engineered, accepted or adopted? Great ideas aren’t uncommon. It’s their execution that matters. But who ultimately decides their success and what’s the progression from unknown to becoming ‘it’? Some people would say that Mark Zuckerberg, the...
