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After 20 Years, You Stop Chasing Ideas and Start Recognising Them.

Early in my career, I thought creativity was about generating ideas. More ideas meant…

The Portfolio Shows What You Made. It Doesn’t Show How You Think.

A portfolio can show a beautiful campaign. It can show a website.A film.A logo.A…

What 20 Years of Creative Work Changes About the Way You See Ideas

Twenty years doesn’t make ideas easier to find. It changes how you recognise them.…

Why Working Across Disciplines Made Me a Better Creative

I started in animation. Then came multimedia.Web.Interactive experiences.Digital products.Advertising.Brand communication.Creative leadership. From the outside,…

What Animation Taught Me About Advertising

Animation taught me something advertising still needs to remember: Every frame has a job.…

The Real Creative Advantage Is Pattern Recognition.

Ideas rarely arrive from nowhere. More often, they come from noticing something that other…

Taste Develops Before Skill.

You can learn software. You can learn typography.You can learn composition.You can learn how…

Nothing You Learn Creatively Is Ever Wasted.

A skill can look irrelevant until the moment it becomes useful. Animation teaches you…