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Creative Lives

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

“When you’re writing for a charity you’re selling hope” – meet Oxfam wordsmith Vicky McGarvey

Breaking out of the ‘art school frame of mind’ with Glasgow-based illustrator, Fran Caballero

Content manager Bridget McKernan: “Be proud of what you put out in the world”

Dazed Media Group’s editorial director, Bunny Kinney: “I didn’t want to fit in!”

How to design for meditation: Designer Anna Charity on developing the Headspace brand

Be unapologetically brilliant: Amos Eretusi, junior strategy consultant at Clear M&C Saatchi

Barbican multimedia designer Claudia Toia on mastering multiple disciplines

Record-breaking tweets and roasting Kanye West: Meet social creative, James Parker

Framestore digital matte painter Charlotte Tyson talks creating backgrounds for blockbuster films

Lauren Boniface on creating strategies for some of the world’s biggest brands

Doug John Miller discusses finding illustration through architecture

Kyra TV creative director Diogo Lopes: “I had no idea that I could be doing this”

Kent-based illustrator, Becky Glendining: “You and your work don’t have to be perfect”

Peter Hope-Parry describes his role as Barbican’s in-house print designer

Illustrator Venus Libido on using drawing to challenge taboos and build a community

Reagan Clare gives us a window into the work of an archivist and image researcher

Emilie Chen on designing for The National Theatre and defining success on her own terms

gal-dem’s deputy editor Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff: “You become a journalist when you write your first story”

Experience designer Samuel Mensah on working for the ‘holy grail’ of companies, McKinsey

Illustrator and animator Yukai Du on moving to London, and finding her style

Illustrator Conner Perry: Don’t ever feel guilty for having to support yourself

We talk portfolios and big breaks with Harrogate-based photographer, Matthew Lloyd

Creating ‘social gold’ with social media creative director David Levin

Mahaneela: “The idea of being good at one thing is redundant now”