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  • Maggie Hendrie on Media Design

    Maggie Hendrie provides perspective on creativity in media design from working at the intersection of creative technology, critical frameworks, and studio practice in industry and education. Maggie is the founding chair of Art Center College of Design’s Bachelor of Science in Interaction Design and Chairs their Graduate Media Design Practices MFA. 


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    56 min
  • Cathy Murphy on Acting

    British actress Cathy Murphy provides perspective on her craft of acting and the art of performing in plays, movies, and television productions. From her education at the Sylvia Young Theatre School to working on Allan Clarke’s Made in Britain, Stars of the Roller Skate Disco, Doctor Who, EastEnders, Holby City, Family Affairs, The Phantom of the Opera, Shameless, Extras, About A Boy, Misery, Two Woman, Once A Catholic and many more.

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    37 min
  • Kate Newell on Liberal Arts

    Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Kate Newell provides perspective about the education of liberal arts and why creativity is critical in making innovation happen across the creative arts, history, literature, writing, philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology and more.

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    18 min
  • Iwan Gronow on Music

    Independent musician Iwan Gronow, the bassist in Johnny Marr's band, has toured the world and played at festivals including Glastonbury, Coachella, and Fuji Rock, and appeared on Later with Jools Holland and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.  Iwan provides a perspective on his creative process and musical journey.

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    1 hr 8 min
  • Malcolm Garrett on Design

    Professor Malcolm Garrett MBE RDI is a graphic designer who has mastered the art and science of creativity manifested through a diverse portfolio that spans four decades. Creating landmark designs for musicians and bands including Buzzcocks, Duran Duran, Simple Minds, Boy George, Peter Gabriel, Oasis, and Pulp. Numerous innovative digital projects for clients such as Apple, Virgin, Warner Brothers, Transport for London, Christian Aid, and Design Manchester; and publishing, film, and TV companies to reimagine their businesses through new media platforms and immersive technologies.

    Malcolm provides perspective on how Design influences society by provoking action that changes minds, inspiring new opinions, instilling values, and translating experiences across space and time by enabling people to communicate with each other through images, sounds, and stories. It is an expression of the soul that connects emotionally with a lasting lifetime impact.

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    42 min
  • James Whittaker on Creativity & Storytelling

    Creative leaders are iconoclasts. They walk to the beat of their own drum and influence their innate vision, gifts, and talents. They craft poetry in a world that is content with prose,  and art where there is only architecture. They help us view the world in a new dimension. 

    James Whittaker provides perspective about his quest to save the world from boredom through creativity and storytelling. 

    From academia, startups and tech companies, such as trustworthy computing, Visual Studio and development leader with a big platform on Cortana, before becoming the company's first distinguished technical evangelist at Microsoft.  Engineering Director of. Chrome Maps and Google Plus at Google. He is now the CTO of Biscuit Labs - the most important ambient computing company you've never heard of! He is also the author of eight books. Two of them have been jolt award finalists and to our best sellers.

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    29 min
  • Clive Grinyer on Service Design

    Clive Grinyer is a Design pioneer who provides perspective on the many breakthrough products, services, and experiences that he has invented that have improved people's lives, positively impacted society, and reflected the popular culture. By instilling values and translating experiences across space and time by enabling people from different cultures and times to communicate through feelings, senses, images, sounds, and stories that provide us with purpose and meaning.

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    30 min
  • Iain Mutch on Music

    A dreamer, maker, doer, and lifelong musical journeyman - driven by an insatiable intellectual curiosity, passion, and a thirst for experiential creative pursuits, expanding into disparate topics, experimentation, tinkering, and deepening his subject-matter expertise across time and space. 

    Iain Mutch provides perspective on his music-making process, the Glasgow music scene, how he dreams up and expedites ideas and finds endless joy during the ups and downs of the process of creation – where he's applied various techniques inspired by Dada, William Burroughs and David Bowie where he composes work by carving up the pages as part of his creative process by taking a finished and fully linear text and cutting it in pieces with a few or single words on each piece. Then rearranging the resulting pieces into a new text.

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    55 min
  • Simon Leake on Copywriting

    “I look for a voice and I'm looking for a story. That story might be a very bare bones just kind of a narrative arc, a vague shape or it might be something that feels more like a story. You have to keep your ego in check because you've got to be able to throw things away that you may think are great.”

    After immersing himself in the language and craft of Shakespeare at graduate school in Stratford-upon-Avon, Simon Leake joined Amazon.com in its second year of operation where he was part of the team that built the company’s customer service messaging, before joining the editorial department to create content for the books and DVD divisions. Thereafter, becoming a freelance copywriter, creating video scripts for a wide variety of clients, including Microsoft, Nordstrom, HP, the World Bank, and the Gates Foundation.

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    29 min
  • Cath Brands on Marketing Leadership

    Personality goes a long way - look it up on Wikipedia where Cath Brands is imprinted!

    Italian blood, New Zealander heart, global dreamer. 

    Cath has spent the last 17 years blending the art and science of her craft as a brand and marketing leader by anticipating future trends inspired by industry developments, culture, and aesthetics that connect to emotions and imagination, elegantly composed, and brand-positioned artistic solutions for some of the world's most famous and influential brands: Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Westfield, Jim Beam, Absolut Vodka, Famous Grouse, Amazon, and Microsoft. 

    Cath was part of the specialist venture team that established Amazon Go to provide partially automated stores to enable customers to purchase products without being checked out. She currently leads retail and consumer goods marketing globally at Microsoft, contributing to expanding a $125.8B business by driving market share and subscription based revenue growth.

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    34 min

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