Brand expert, author, internationally recognized designer, and TEDx speaker Kevin Finn joins the show to talk about Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, Brion James, and Joanna Cassidy. Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, is brought back to an elite unit that hunts and retires rogue Replicants, bioengineered beings virtually identical to humans but often used for slave labor. We also discuss the movies Alien and Aliens, as well as Blade Runner 2049 and Barry Lyndon.

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Kevin Finn is a brand expert, author, internationally recognized branding designer and TEDx speaker. Having begun his career in Dublin, he later moved to Sydney, where he became Joint-Creative Director of Saatchi Design, part of the Saatchi & Saatchi global network. From 2003-2018 he wrote, edited, and published the independent design journal, Open Manifesto, which included interviews, essays, and conversations with some of the most influential designers and global thinkers, including: Michael Bierut, Milton Glaser, Jessica Walsh, Edward de Bono, Noam Chomsky, ex-CIA operative Larry J. Kolb, and Neil Harbisson, a real-life cyborg, among many others. During a time when weblogs and Tumblrs had overtaken the design landscape Open Manifesto's print publication was a refreshing approach. In 2022, Open Manifesto, An Anthology was published by Formist. In 2007, Finn founded his independent design practice, TheSumOf, in remote Australia before moving to Brisbane in 2010, where he now lives and works. His award-winning book Brand Principles: How to be a 21st Century Brand was published in 2022. He is also founder and creator of DESIGNerd, the trivia app where the most influential designers test your knowledge and share theirs. Finn acknowledges Australia's First Peoples as the original knowledge holders of the Country, paying respect to Elders, both past and present.

https://thesumof.com.au/

https://designerd.global/

https://www.instagram.com/just.kevin.finn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-finn-3aa8a33/

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Blade Runner (1982)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/

https://collider.com/blade-runner-tears-in-rain-monologue/

https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_US/inspiration/hong-kong/welcome-ridleyville-hong-kong-inspired-blade-runner.html

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Other movies and shows discussed:

Alien (1979)

Alien: Earth (2025-)

Aliens (1986)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)