Creative Lives

Meet the creatives making the industry thrive, covering early beginnings to what a typical working day looks like.

Creative Lives
“Have patience. There are no shortcuts to building your career”: Twins and business partners, Printed Goods
Creative Lives
Artist Lakwena: “I thought I’d do something I believed in, rather than chasing cash”
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Art buyer and shoot producer Annie Masciavè on commissioning images for Made Thought
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Adult Art Club designer Jonny Costello on making a career from the things you love
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“When you’re writing for a charity you’re selling hope” – meet Oxfam wordsmith Vicky McGarvey
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Breaking out of the ‘art school frame of mind’ with Glasgow-based illustrator, Fran Caballero
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Content manager Bridget McKernan: “Be proud of what you put out in the world”
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Dazed Media Group’s editorial director, Bunny Kinney: “I didn’t want to fit in!”
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How to design for meditation: Designer Anna Charity on developing the Headspace brand
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Be unapologetically brilliant: Amos Eretusi, junior strategy consultant at Clear M&C Saatchi
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Barbican multimedia designer Claudia Toia on mastering multiple disciplines
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Record-breaking tweets and roasting Kanye West: Meet social creative, James Parker
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Framestore digital matte painter Charlotte Tyson talks creating backgrounds for blockbuster films
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Lauren Boniface on creating strategies for some of the world’s biggest brands
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Doug John Miller discusses finding illustration through architecture
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Kyra TV creative director Diogo Lopes: “I had no idea that I could be doing this”
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Kent-based illustrator, Becky Glendining: “You and your work don’t have to be perfect”
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Peter Hope-Parry describes his role as Barbican’s in-house print designer
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Illustrator Venus Libido on using drawing to challenge taboos and build a community
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Reagan Clare gives us a window into the work of an archivist and image researcher
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Emilie Chen on designing for The National Theatre and defining success on her own terms
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gal-dem’s deputy editor Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff: “You become a journalist when you write your first story”
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Experience designer Samuel Mensah on working for the ‘holy grail’ of companies, McKinsey
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Illustrator and animator Yukai Du on moving to London, and finding her style