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I love this poem. Sums up the confidence of true creativity.
Albums of the year 2014
In no particular order the ten albums I kept coming back to in 2014. Most of these got a lot of attention, but the Tokimonsta one requires a bit more love from the world.
Little Dragon — Nabuma Rubberband
Dean Blunt — Black Metal
Caribou — Our Love
Wild Beasts — Present Tense
Banks — Goddess
Martyn — The Air Between Words
Damon Albarn — Everyday Robots
Clark — Clark
SBTRKT — Wonder Where We Land
Tokimonsta — Desiderium
No big rap release makes it this year, though the Schoolboy Q album has some very strong moments.
The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than those that are
Niccolo Machiavelli — quoted in the excellent The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt.
Three rules for a happy designer
1. It’s all bollocks and none of it really matters. Yes really. That stress about the thing that went really wrong, your burning desire to make this your best design ever that in turn makes you miserable, the argument about the late print, graphic design, none of this is what really really matters in life. Release yourself from that stress. No one is dying. It’s pixels, type and colour. Work hard, but enjoy it and relax.
2. Be with the people you love. don’t work with dicks. Life is short, enjoy it, treat your colleagues well. Be part of and build a team, laugh a lot, have fun doing everything. You’re lucky, seriously.
3. Empathy and understanding should be in your every day. Put yourself in their shoes, stand where the junior stands, stand where the CD stands. If you are senior then stay at the coal face, put out the rubbish and load the dishwasher. Don’t sit in big ivory towers of status and pomp. Understand people and why they are who they are.
Oh and smile you miserable trendy glasses wearing twats.

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The end of a race is just a temporary marker without significance. It's the same with our lives. Just because there's an end doesn't mean existence has meaning. An end point is simply set up as a temporary marker, or perhaps as an indirect metaphor for the fleeting nature of existence"
Haruki Murakami. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life — and for me, for writing as well.
Haruki Murakami. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
Mad Men
I’m rather late to the Mad Men party, but season 4 has some incredible moments to it. One scene really stands out in episode 8, not for the visuals (which are great), but for the voice over from Don Draper.
"When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him. He has a million reasons for being anywhere, just ask him. If you listen, he’ll tell you how he got there. How he forgot where he was going, and that he woke up. If you listen, he’ll tell you about the time he thought he was an angel or dreamt of being perfect. And then he’ll smile with wisdom, content that he realized the world isn’t perfect. We’re flawed, because we want so much more. We’re ruined, because we get these things, and wish for what we had."
Life, lust and want summed up in one beautifully written scene.
This video from Reebok is perfect. Love its future facing thinking and script. Lovely work so well executed. Instantly makes me want to go out and buy some new Classics.
Decay
Life is essentially our fight against decay. Both in ourselves and our environments. Nature rusts, washes and frays at the edges of the perfect worlds we strive to create. A fresh lick of paint, an intense jogging pattern or a freshly mowed lawn. Temporary barriers against the inevitable demise and disappearance of everything as a new season starts and the memory fades.
There’s an evolutionary hypothesis called The Red Queen which states that we have to constantly run just to survive, organisms must constantly adapt, evolve and proliferate in our ever changing environment. The phenomenon’s name is derived from a statement that the Red Queen made to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass in her explanation of the nature of Looking-Glass Land:
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place”
As designers we’re at the forefront of this fight and in a way I see it as our driving force, we have to run to stay relevant. We work with companies, individuals and organisations to create, rebrand and engage. We love fresh ink, new bold colours, disruptive thinking, digital platforms and that which interrupts and delights. We have blogs full of new work, people playing with century old pallets an ideas, twisting them to make new in the process, celebrated by our peers and looked on a new, by the public audiences we work for.
Where this is most interesting is at the intersection of heritage and novelty. We love brands that stand for something, heritage is seen as a marque of trust, yet we still lust after that new feeling of new, that relevance for the digital generation, even in the nostalgia soaked age we live in. Every day the business pages are full of articles about the company that didn’t move with the times. Kodak, invented the digital camera and then left it to others to push it forward whilst the grass grew around them. Creative, invented the MP3 player and then watched Apple sell it as a lifestyle to the tune of 350million units and counting.
For me it’s in my make up to help companies see this decay and work on it before it’s too late, regardless of whenever they come to our studio in their rust cycle. Branding has been recently criticised in some parts by some well respected designers. They see the post it notes and thinking systems on websites and mistake it for a replacement for good design. A very wrong assumption. It’s the ideas, the thinking, the pictures, these take the people we work with on the journey they need to understand the nuances of the often abstract design process. It’s no different than the much celebrated Paul Rand Steve Jobs NeXT logo collaboration. Just Paul used his voice, power of personality and charisma to convince. Plus all those photos are for the next client as the current one if on the bus already.
Those that reject this as a stand point? This is their decay, their inability to change, their rusting and they can’t see it. They are stood in knee length grass looking in the distance, when looking at their feet would show a very different picture. It’s my belief that design is essentially a game for the young, that magic moment balance between novelty and heritage, the sweet spot brands look for where they know they need to reinvent or get washed away. As a Creative Director I like to think I am there right now, seen enough to know, but not enough to jade, but I imagine I’ve had my best days already.
So ultimately everything ends and fades and if we are lucky we will have the odd bit of digital litter to be remembered by, the best logo we did, that poster, that Flash toy, but tomorrow belongs to someone else and that should be embraced. To stay relevant for as long as possible our industry needs to look beyond their egos, fonts and paper stocks. There’s too much ignorance about the businesses we work with, waiting for the arrival of content we should be making ourselves. Too much celebrating of a modernism that never really delivered as it forgot people, mess and decay are the day to day.
My advice? Go outside, brush that rust off, hire some new people, change what your doing. Or moan about it all on Twitter, that thing you initially hated, as the anger speeds your decay. Here’s to the new, to youth culture, to change, to me being gone and someone else taking my place, fuck knows the world needs change.
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Thanks to Josh Baker for filling the gaps in this post over breakfast one day.

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There's a popular misconception that we've had the best of culture and everything is recycling in poorer versions of the past. Tracks like this prove the opposite. Forwards, better, new, always better.
Great quote from Creativity Inc
Really interesting quote from this month's Wired UK. Max Levchin talking about his ideal people to hire as those who are 'aware'. I know what he means and have seen it in people before. Imagine a room full of 'aware' people could be quite full on.
How long till politics gets the disruption it needs?
Right now Uber is changing the face of taxis through innovative smartphone use. Recently Netflix began changing the way we watch TV and films through on demand all you can eat video. Facebook has changed the way we gossip about those we know through self projected personal brands. You can’t open a business blog, magazine or watch a documentary without seeing that magic word ‘disruption’. It’s how business evolves and arguably always has, the industrial revolution changed the way we produced mass goods and was it’s own disruption 250 years ago.
The one area this hasn’t be felt yet is politics. There’s small plays with social activation (see Obama campaigns) and the leveraging of new media, but in the UK the faces are always the same. Ex-Oxbridge career politician’s versus class warriors. Power hungry, once the head of the debating society, ran the union for years, argued their way through their stint at that think tank, treats it all as a game. Always want to be in the spotlight. Look stupid in a pub with a pint of beer, can’t dress themselves, talk in quasi political slang, generally smug. Think Cameron, Prescott, Gove or the younger Kinnocks, Blair’s and Straw’s. They’ve grown up this way as their Dad was MP for Walford for 40 years.
Whoever makes the play, takes the best from the world of business. That CFO who cleaned up the balance sheet and turned that ailing brand into a powerhouse, Chancellor. The editor who re-imagined media and created an alternative brand thats thriving, Minister for Culture. The Head who created that school that students excel at, Education Minister. The Brand Consultant taking the real things that people get pissed off about and turns them into a manifesto. Easy to remember, core values we strive for as a nation, collective thinking we can all buy. You get the idea.
All these people working together as people do every day to ensure their business, institution or charity thrives. Sat bang in the middle, a centrist party that knows its history. Saw the road New Labour began down, Britain’s vote up for grabs in the middle, the death of old party politics based on a world that died at the millennium.
That team would wipe the floor at the next election, rising above the braying of Westminster, working as a team that’s thrived and built the companies they come from. Leave the boring old world squabbles and scandal behind, they know there is a nation to build. Politics needs disrupting and soon otherwise its sub 30% turn out and the long walk to apathetic oblivion. Whose with me?
I’ve got my eye on Minister for Stories*
*joke.
Damon Albarn
Now and again I let my Damon Albarn obsession creep onto this blog. If you're not interested look away now, but for those that are I recommend the Culture Show special on his new solo album.
The show discusses his new album taking him back to his childhood of East London and Essex and how this has influenced his new songs. Including a song about where I go running Hollow Ponds, yep well boring.
Hear the new songs here, here and here.

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I am never sure how good this is as a sportswear advert, but as a piece of film making and soundtrack art I love it. Stands up to the test of time very well.
The best fiction strikes at our heart, reminding us that we are flawed and fabulous, unique and much the same as everyone else, and that ultimately our duty is to live well and leave a residue of goodness with those we love, not squander time fretting about the perceptions and slights of others.
Mariella Fostrup on the power of good writing. Love the phrase a "residue of goodness".