By Dave Birss
I'm on a mission to demystify creativity.
Dave Birss shares some of his favourite music on Track Record, while demystifying creativity and explaining how we can all have better ideas.
An interview with Dave Birss about creativity, education and music on the Slovenian Radio show 'My Life My Music'.
The first few episodes were a bit scrappy and I couldn't fit in everything that I wanted. So I put the leftovers all together in this bonus podcast. It features Rory Sutherland, Mike Nutley and Billy Mawhinney. It's a delicious...
Patrick Collister has had an incredible journey through the industry. From Creative Director of Ogilvy through the world of Direct Marketing to being the creative head of Google Zoo. He's amazingly knowledgeable, has lots of great advice and occasionally treats...
When I started in the industry, Tony Brignull was the top Creative Director in London. No wonder. He's the most awarded copywriter in the history of D&AD. I went to visit him in his lovely home in the countryside, drank...
Rosie was president of D&AD when I interviewed her. She's incredibly inspiring. The only place she's ever worked is BBH, where she rose to the top of the creative department. But she's about so much more than just advertising.
Julian Vizard and Al Young are the Creative Directors of St Lukes. It was a revolutionary agency when it started out and has retained a real maverick spirit of not working the way the rest of the industry does. And...
Jeff Stark was joint Creative Director at Saatchi & Saatchi with Paul Arden. And he's got some tales to tell. Which he shares right here in this slice of audio gold.
One of the reasons I got into advertising was the Orange Tango ad where the fat bloke gave a kid on the street a good slapping. That ad was done by HHCL, voted the agency of the decade in 2000....
Julian Hanford is a former creative director - and now a brilliant photographer and artist. We talked about his project, Assorted Nuts, where he did some brilliant conceptual portraits of advertising legends. Some of these folks will be featuring in...
One of the great benefits of the podcast was that I got to hang out with amazing people. Like Sir John Hegarty. If you want to spend time with brilliant people like him, I highly recommend you start your own...
When you get time with George Lois, you make the most of it. The man has so much talent and wisdom. His generosity with his time gave me enough to fill these 3 episodes. And I even had to cut...
George Lois had so much to tell me during our afternoon together that I couldn't fit it all into one episode. Or even two! This is the middle show of a trilogy.
George Lois is one of the true legends of advertising. He was part of the creative revolution in the late 50s. And went on to start the first ever agency to go public. I spent the afternoon with him at...
We start by announcing a partnership with the School of Communication Arts. And then chat to one of their mentors, the legendary Paul Brazier (big creative bloke at AMV BBDO). This podcast was responsible for several students attending the school....
While wandering around New York with my microphone, I popped into Ogilvy's office overlooking the Hudson to chat with Spencer Osborn, one of their Global MDs. We talked about the difference between the industries on either side of the Atlantic...
During a trip to New York I abandoned my wife for a couple of hours to have a coffee and a natter with Piers Fawkes, the man behind the brilliant PSFK.
There was a bit too much of a break between this one and the podcasts before. So I had to apologise. It seems that I apologise about something every week. That's because I'm not a professional at this. This week...
We're going international for this episode. The entire planet stands between Stanley Johnson and me - but that doesn't stop us. Thanks to Skype. He's a tip top adman in Australia and he's got some wise, wise words for you.
Dave Talks to the legendary Billy Mawhinney and gets some interesting stories about the ad industry of days gone by.
Rory knows how to talk. We spoke for so long that his PA had to come and break us up. But it's all good stuff. If you can forgive my distorting mic. (After the first episode, I invested in new...
The legendary Dave Trott shares his wisdom in the first badly recorded episode. They get slightly better after this. Slightly. Don't get your hopes up.