Creative Lives

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

Creative Lives
Graphic designer and DR.ME co-founder Mark Edwards on the struggles of setting up a studio and making ends meet
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“Design isn’t magic, it’s a process” shares graphic designer, lecturer and Textbook co-founder Vicky Carr
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Artist and illustrator Paul Hallows: “Your work is an extension of you; if people don’t like it you’re going to feel it”
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Prop maker, set stylist and textile homeware designer Mariel Osborn on the joys of physical making
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Writer and events producer Stephanie Hartman: “I knew by second year I didn’t want to be an illustrator”
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Discovery is not desk-bound for TEMPLO’s intrepid creative director, Pali Palavathanan
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Illustrator Sarah Maycock talks starting out, clients and getting fan mail from Sir David Attenborough
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Jennifer Zheng, junior animator at Moth, talks us through the first nine months of her professional career
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Producer and executive producer Peter Maynard on working your way up from the bottom
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Ifor Ashton, producer at animation studio Moth, discusses the joys and challenges of working with close friends
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Creative director Charlotte Heal on discovering the missing link between graphic design and photography
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Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits, director at animation studio Moth, on how to run a successful collective
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Shu Han Lee, strategist at 18 Feet & Rising, on the benefits of ‘random’ experience
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Toby Roberts, junior creative at 18 Feet & Rising: “Learn how your brain works best, then go for it”
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Ella Rybacki, account manager at 18 Feet & Rising, on “going with the flow”
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Jonathan Trimble, founder and CEO of 18 Feet & Rising, on trusting your heart and testing boundaries
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Chris Chapman, design director at Droga5, on making mistakes and suppressing ego
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Kate Barker, marketing director at 18 Feet & Rising – from cabaret star to new-business specialist
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Lewis O’Brien, assistant producer at 18 Feet & Rising, on being thrown in at the deep end
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We talk to NB Studio’s account manager Hannah Rea about eagerness versus experience
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Freelance copywriter Roshni Goyate discusses the ever-changing work of a ‘writing chameleon’
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Former intern Jamie Breach is now NB Studio’s senior designer, working on projects from start to finish
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NB Studio creative director Nick Finney on ‘creative courage’ and twenty years in the design biz
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Kyle Bean, illustrator and set designer, talks paper, glue and pushing the threshold