Articles

Advice, insight and first-hand accounts of creative career journeys, aimed at helping you find your way in the industry.

Creative Lives
Collaborate, be chilled and emotionally connected: Molly Manning Walker, freelance DOP
First Hand

It’s Freezing in LA! on using magazines as a vehicle for change

Written by Martha Dillon
Creative Lives
How a background in journalism led Jeavon Smith to working in experience design at Amplify
Insight

Money, skills, working culture: What’s the state of creative work in 2019?

Written by Creative Lives in Progress
Creative Lives
Ben Giles’ journey from tree surgeon to freelance collage artist
Parts of the Process
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Welcome to the family: Director Jack Whiteley’s 90s-inspired trailer for RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
Advice

W+K copywriter Ruby Norman-Curran on why it’s time to kill the ‘genius’ myth

Written by Ruby Norman-Curran
First Hand

Artist Steven Chorney on hand-painting posters for some of Hollywood’s most famous film studios

Interview by Marianne Hanoun and
Parts of the Process
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Photographer Elise Dumontet’s Make Book documents a love for imperfections
Creative Lives
Glasgow-based illustrator Oscar Mitchell on rejection, luck, and chasing those “big, juicy dream clients”
Creative Lives
Multidisciplinary creative Daniel Baragwanath on art directing for Dua Lipa and developing 3D code
Parts of the Process
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Make Time! Introducing the 2019–20 Lecture in Progress Year Planner
Creative Lives
Battling imposter syndrome with vintage visuals: Art director and designer Halima Olalemi
Parts of the Process
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Relentless energy, disruptive attitude: The makings of Keith Haring’s first major UK exhibition at Tate Liverpool
Parts of the Process
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How to get Slowthai nude, exposed in a pillory in front of his old home
Creative Lives
Meet Chrystal King, one of the designers behind your Depop experience
Insight

100 creative schemes helping to diversify the industry

Creative Lives
Creative Lives
Illustrator Jack Oliver Coles on freelancing, people-chasing and the power of social media
Parts of the Process
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Ines Alpha on becoming a 3D make-up artist and creating bewitching face filters
In the Studio With
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Meet Amplify, the London-based studio championing young creative talent
Advice
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Contracts and small print: A project manager’s guide to being commissioned
Creative Lives
Never compromise on standards, says illustrator Dominic Kesterton
First Hand

How a five-week course launched photographer Marcella Chan’s career

Creative Lives
Creative Lives
Software engineer Vivian Galinari on how she landed her dream job at the BBC