Creative Lives

We’re joined by founder and creative director of Studio PSK, Patrick Stevenson-Keating. Patrick explains how his journey evolved from creating parallel universes at university to founding a studio collaborating with glass-blowers and anthropologists.

From finding inspiration in Etsy customers' disgruntlement at losing their ‘cha-ching’ to harnessing the cat as the “spirit animal of the internet”, he talks us through the inventive orbit of PSK’s work.

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This episode of Creative Lives was brought to you by Lecture in Progress. It was presented by Marianne Hanoun and the guest was Patrick Stevenson-Keating, interviewed by Indi Davies. The editor was Ivor Manly.

Lecture in Progress is made possible with the support of a number of brand partners – they include G . F Smith, Google, Sky Creative Agency, Hoefler and Co., Colophon Foundry and The Paul Smith Foundation.

The Creative Lives podcast will be taking a summer break, but we'll be back shortly with a new set of podcasts. Be sure to subscribe so you’re the first to know when the next one is out!

Alongside a great many other impressive pursuits, Amie Snow is a creative at Ogilvy UK. Armed with an incredible amount of energy and an almost infinite number of strings to her bow, her skills range from achieving a degree in Forensic Investigation to being a semi-professional roller skater. She talks us through her unconventional route to advertising.

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This episode of Creative Lives was brought to you by Lecture in Progress. The presenter is Indi Davies and the editor is Ivor Manly.

Lecture in Progress is made possible with the support of a number of brand partners – they include G . F Smith, Google, Sky Creative Agency, Hoefler and Co., Colophon Foundry and The Paul Smith Foundation.

On this week’s podcast we meet multidisciplinary creative Danny Sangra. Based in London but often working all over the world, Danny’s career sees him switching between mediums including illustration, film, animation, design, photography, writing and painting​, all while creating work that is distinctively his own.

We talked to him about his journey since graduating with a degree in graphics, maintaining your own identity within commercial commissions and the nature of working for yourself.

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This episode of Creative Lives was brought to you by Lecture in Progress. The presenter was Indi Davies and the editor was Ivor Manly.

Lecture in Progress is made possible with the support of a number of brand partners – they include G . F Smith, Google, Sky Creative Agency, Hoefler and Co., Colophon Foundry and The Paul Smith Foundation.

This week we meet San Fransisco-based art director Matt Dunn, whocurrently works at renowned ad agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners. Originally from the UK, Matt only began his career in advertising around two years ago. He tells us what he finds most challenging in his work, and shares some of the unlikely but lasting career advice that he picked up as a skateboarder in his teens.

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This episode of Creative Lives was brought to you by Lecture in Progress. The presenter was Indi Davies and the editor was Ivor Manly.

Lecture in Progress is made possible with the support of a number of brand partners – they include G . F Smith, Google, Sky Creative Agency, Hoefler and Co., Colophon Foundry and The Paul Smith Foundation.

On the podcast this week, we are joined by Dan Adeyemi. Currently the lead creative technologist at fashion brand Farfetch, it’s Dan’s job to experiment with how technology can be used to bring various ideas to life.

Having previously been freelance, Dan tells us about the challenges of going from self-employed to full-time, working in the world of fashion, and why it’s important to keep learning.

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This episode of Creative Lives was brought to you by Lecture in Progress. The presenter was Marianne Hanoun and the editor was Ivor Manly.

Lecture in Progress is made possible with the support of a number of brand partners – they include G . F Smith, Google, Sky Creative Agency, Hoefler and Co., Colophon Foundry and The Paul Smith Foundation.

It's another grad edition of the podcast! This time, we catch up with Jyni Ong, an in-house writer for arts and design publication It’s Nice That. Listen in as she tells us all about the journey that took her from the Glasgow School of Art ​​​to reporting on creative work as a full-time writer.​

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This episode of Creative Lives was brought to you by Lecture in Progress. The presenter was Indi Davies and the editor was Ivor Manly.

Lecture in Progress is made possible with the support of a number of brand partners – they include G . F Smith, Google, Sky Creative Agency, Hoefler and Co., Colophon Foundry and The Paul Smith Foundation.

Following the first half of our interview with Paul Smith on the Creative Lives podcast, this week we return to our chat with the British fashion icon to pick up where we left off.

After hearing about Paul’s alternative route into the industry, we spoke to him about longevity in business, design innovation and his advice for budding designers.

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This episode of Creative Lives was brought to you by Lecture in Progress. The presenter was Indi Davies and the editor was Ivor Manly.

Lecture in Progress is made possible with the support of a number of brand partners – they include G . F Smith, Google, Sky Creative Agency, Hoefler and Co., Colophon Foundry and The Paul Smith Foundation.

On this week’s podcast, we welcome a very special guest – icon of British fashion design, Paul Smith. We visited Paul at his company’s UK headquarters in central London last month to record an extended interview that we’ll be sharing across two episodes. In the first half, Paul discusses his alternative route into the fashion world, going from a love of cycling to running his first store, and the most important lessons he’s learnt so far. Watch out for the second episode in next week’s edition!

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This episode of Creative Lives was brought to you by Lecture in Progress. The presenter was Indi Davies and the editor was Ivor Manly.

Lecture in Progress is made possible with the support of a number of brand partners – they include G . F Smith, Google, Sky Creative Agency, Hoefler and Co., Colophon Foundry and The Paul Smith Foundation.

Working across everything from homeware and ceramics to paper products and wall art, Jo Ham is the mastermind behind minimal homeware brand, HAM.

On the podcast this week, she joins us to reflect on her own career-related confusion after graduating from the Ruskin School of Fine Art. We hear the journey that took her from advertising to setting out on her own path and how she built a successful business after her perspective was altered by a particularly challenging period.

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This episode of Creative Lives was brought to you by Lecture in Progress. The guest was Laurie Avon, interviewed by Indi Davies and presented by Marianne Hanoun. The editor was Ivor Manly.

Lecture in Progress is made possible with the support of a number of brand partners – they include G . F Smith, Google, Sky Creative Agency, Hoefler and Co., Colophon Foundry and The Paul Smith Foundation.

With graduate season on the horizon, we’ll be hosting a series of podcasts with a selection of grads at different points in their careers.

To kick things off, we’re speaking to Laurie Avon, a Brighton-based illustrator specialising in Linocut techniques, who graduated from Kingston University almost a year ago. He talks to us about the first steps he took towards gaining commissions, as well as his involvement in self-started initiatives like Crit Club, a supportive collective for sharing work, getting feedback and bolstering portfolios.

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This episode of Creative Lives was brought to you by Lecture in Progress. The guest was Laurie Avon, interviewed by Indi Davies and presented by Marianne Hanoun. The editor was Ivor Manly.

Lecture in Progress is made possible with the support of a number of brand partners – they include G . F Smith, Google, Sky Creative Agency, Hoefler and Co., Colophon Foundry and The Paul Smith Foundation.