The Creative Condition podcast

By Ben TallonArts Design

The Creative Condition podcast episodes

March 12, 2025The Creativity Diary Entry 8: The insurmountables, Looney Tunes villains, humour, and managing our ’heels’.
Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
Managing our 'insurmountables'
The joy of childish humour and Looney Tunes villains
'The heels': common creativity villains
World book day – magic or consumerist tosh?
As ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com

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22 min
March 05, 2025 Ep 258: WE NEED YOUR ART! Author and creativity coach Amie McNee on art as a pillar of humanity
Amie McNee is the founder of 'Inspired Collective', where she supports people in becoming their inner artist. Her new book We Need Your Art! Stop Messing Around and Make Something is out on Penguin Books, and she joins The Creative Condition to share her story.
Amie is a huge advocate for artistic expression as a missing pillar of understanding in the human condition, and her work to challenge this tragic oversight is awesome.
We trade viewpoints and stories and marvel over what's possible in a society where creativity is better understood and embraced.
As ever supported by Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462403/we-need-your-art-by-mcnee-amie/9781529937015
https://inspiredcollective.com
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1 hr 30 min
February 26, 2025The Creativity Diary Entry 7: Losing Ken Garland, a time-slip in Preston, and storytelling obsession
Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
A time-slip in Preston
Losing Ken Garland and my time with him
Covering up news headline panels on vulnerable days
The wonder and imagination in boring church services
A growing obsession with storytelling
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27 min
February 20, 2025 AI: The opportunity and the threat with LOVE founder Dave Palmer
A bonus shot following the full interview with LOVE founder Dave Palmer in which he offers balanced thoughts on the opportunity and the threat posed by artificial intelligence.
Hear our full conversation on episode 257.
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9 min
February 19, 2025 Ep 257: LOVE Creative founder Dave Palmer shares decades of creative industry experience
LOVE is a 80+ strong agency that specialises in delivering diverse, but complementary design-led solutions for global brands across brand strategy and design, identity design, packaging design, spaces, comms, immersive and activations.
Its founder, Dave Palmer shares not just the story of LOVE's evolution since its 2001 roots, but a lifetime of leading with creativity, the humanity, the chaos, and the euphoria of it all.
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1 hr 15 min
February 12, 2025The Creativity Diary Entry 6: Chinese space bras, fear of a word, and innovation in outdoor drinking
Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
The unpredictability of a career that leads to drawing on Olympic bras in China
The persisting intimidation attached to the word 'creativity' at all levels
Space litter and a Galactic imagination
A love of antagonists, graphic activism, and Pogus Caesar's photography
A mucky treasure hunt and the value of the weekend self
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24 min
February 05, 2025 Ep 256: Pogus Caesar. The creativity behind the camera!
Pogus Caesar is a national treasure.
His many projects as a photographer, director, artist, and archivist transcend language and defy perfectionism in the way great art should.
The sheer humanity and honesty in his images spoke to me, and I needed to hear his story.
Those iconic images from the 1985 Handsworth riots fired me up through my love of activism through artistic expression. His images of cross-cultural friendships are profound, and we discuss his early experiences of moving from St Kitts to Birmingham in 1953, and his early cultural affections.
Pogus is candid in his vulnerability as a creator, sharing stories of observing people commenting on his work in galleries, and how the best we can do is offer a little piece of ourselves.
As ever, supported by the show's founding sponsor Illustration X https://illustrationx.com
https://www.instagram.com/poguscaesar/?hl=en-gb

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1 hr 35 min
January 29, 2025The Creativity Diary Entry 5: The graveyard rider, a tough week, joining dots in an automation obsessed world, and the clues in the culture we’re draw...
Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
A tough week of financial panic
The personality clues in the culture we're drawn to
The human fundamental of listening and being heard for mental wellbeing
The battle to be trusted with a diverse skillset in a title-based market
Young life and silent death: a motorbike in the graveyard
Musings on joining dots and using the world as our art school in a world obsessed with automation
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28 min
January 22, 2025 Ep 255: Corporations funding creativity?! Caroline Christie on when it happened
Content writer Caroline Christie shares her thoughts on the time a research facility funded by America’s largest telecommunications organisation became a studio of some of New York’s most renowned and avant-garde artists.

We're discussing the need for bigger thinking and cross-pollination of artists with other industries to resolve our collective problems and promote broader creativity.

Caroline wrote an article for Little Atoms on Bell Labs and EAT (Experiments of Art and Technology), and their work with the likes of Andy Warhol and John Cage among many others, and we get into the idea in a big way.

https://littleatoms.com/article/how-att-shaped-modern-art

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1 hr 42 min
January 15, 2025The Creativity Diary Entry 4: Anxiety, a disordered mess, and kids fighting over Haribo
Covered in this week's instalment of 'The Creativity Diary':
Lively children fighting and why it's healthy
An anxiety explosion and what I learned about structures and routines
Boxing Day 1997 and magic in utter boredom and frustration
Energy diversity and why it can help creative businesses
Baby Gorilla: what a silly imaginative character for the kids has done for my own creativity
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39 min

About The Creative Condition podcast

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Welcome to 'The Creative Condition' podcast: a show to help you thrive in creative industry careers, tell your greatest story, and lead a fulfilling life on your terms. Creativity coach, illustrator, and author Ben Tallon and his many guests help you navigate an increasingly automated world with human creativity.