Jono Holt, founder of creative agency Otherway, discusses whether anyone still loves the 60-second ad format, and how short-form can be a shortcut for brands that want to get to the heart of culture.

Tim Huelskamp, co-founder and CEO of knowledge company 1440, on using a very old format to build a very modern media brand – and how customer stories helped grow the business from 78 subscribers to millions.

Arin Delaney, co-founder of copywriting studio Fonzie, discusses the magical potential of a great name, including its far-reaching power as a marketing tool and the studio’s ‘spiritual’ and ‘ethereal’ approach to naming brands and products.

Karen Meddour, Global Head of Fondation Chanel, joins design studio Accept & Proceed to discuss what it takes to build a change-making brand, as well as an agency partnership that goes beyond creative collaboration.

Alex Center, founder of Brooklyn-based brand studio Center, shares what he learned from leading the design team of a blue chip business, and his thoughts on building culture and community inside the studio.

Margaret Kerr-Jarrett and Emunah Winer from branding agency Nihilo chat frankly about using creativity as a refuge from everyday life, and the close-knit partnership that underpins everything they do.

“The problem with science is how it’s communicated.” SEED co-founder, Ara Katz, on making next gen probiotics more digestible with carefully considered, approachable design.

Introducing: Merchery co-founder, Simon Polet – on how selling less equals success when it comes to making the corporate customisation market more sustainable.

In this episode, we meet the co-founders of Montreal-based creative studio Wedge: Justin Lortie and Sarah Di Domenico.

Though they already boasted a robust list of international clients, the pandemic has had a silver lining. Being in Montreal, many potential clients previously gave preference to agencies with a presence in major hubs like New York or San Francisco. But, no longer – remote working has opened new doors.

Yet alongside remote work, they have also invested in a new bricks-and-mortar office – this one in the form of a house. A flexible space that will marry the best of their current, loft-style office, with the benefits of working from home — and they also imagine it as a space to show off client collaborations to the public.

In this episode, we meet Emmett Shine, ​​Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder of Pattern, a family of simple, stylish homeware brands that hopes to help us find greater joy in our domestic spaces. Pattern span out of era-defining creative agency Gin Lane, which helped to shepherd in a generation of digital-ready, Millennial-geared brands such as Harry’s, Hims and Sweetgreen.